One of the first creatures you recruit is Saber (named Borongo in Japanese),
a young sabretooth cat, who later rejoins the hero when they are both fully grown... after you tame him, anyway.
Director Hood (Tsotsi) opens strong, with a wickedly crafted opening - credits sequence that shows
young mutant Logan and his more feral half - brother, Victor, aka
Sabretooth (Schreiber), emerging from Canada's Northwest Territories, circa 1845, to fight side by side in the Civil War, both World Wars, and Vietnam (what, Korea wasn't badass enough?).