Meanwhile, a mob has assembled in record time and is now searching the woods in response to what the 19 th Century forensic investigators of the Canadian frontier have immediately identified as the work of a small child with retractable claws.
Nah, Victor tackles him, and they promise to be BFF murderbuddies forever and always. Someday, he'll be sitting in a support group of former child actors, and he'll mention that he was in this movie, and everyone will scoot away a few inches. Mom rejects James, because that's what the progression of the plot requires, and little James flees into the night, probably to a life of drugs and late-night VH1 retrospectives. Then, he fillets Victor's dad, who it turns out is also James's dad.
The stress of this triggers baby James's mutation, and let me tell you, there is no better moment to establish the tone of this movie than a six-year-old in Wolverine's traditional berserker-rage pose, arms outstretched, claws out, yelling 'NOOOOOOOOOO!' at the sky. The movie opens in the wild Canadas, where sickly kid James and his buddy Victor Creed witness Victor's father murder the man James assumed to be his own dad.
