Marvel’s Wolverine ESRB Rating Promises ‘a Handful of Sequences’ Featuring ‘Exposed Buttocks’

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Marvel’s Wolverine ESRB Rating Promises ‘a Handful of Sequences’ Featuring ‘Exposed Buttocks’

IGN · 7 hours ago

Marvel's Wolverine, the upcoming PlayStation 5-exclusive from Insomniac Games, has received an M for Mature 17+ rating from the Entertainment Software Rating Board, with the description flagging blood and gore, intense violence, drug references, strong language and partial nudity. Ratings details like this help prospective buyers, and particularly parents, understand what to expect from a game before release, and the specific mention of nudity has drawn attention given Wolverine's on-screen history of similar moments in film.

The ESRB's full description notes that "a handful of sequences briefly depict a character's exposed buttocks," alongside frequent depictions of dismemberment, decapitation and blood-splatter effects as players use Wolverine's claws in melee combat. It also references in-game drug mentions, including a line about fentanyl production, and use of strong language. This continues a pattern for the character, whose actor Hugh Jackman has had similar moments left uncensored in past X-Men films and Deadpool & Wolverine. Marvel's Wolverine is due for release on PS5 on 15 September 2026.

  • Marvel's Wolverine rated M by ESRB for gore, violence, language and nudity
  • Rating notes brief scenes of "exposed buttocks"
  • Game releases exclusively on PS5 on 15 September 2026

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