If you've seen Logan, you'll know it comes with quite the gut-punch of an ending.

SPOILERS TO FOLLOW

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Ok so if you're still here, you'll hopefully be aware that at the end of Logan not only Caliban (sob), Charles (sob sob), but also Wolverine himself (sob, sniff, sob sob, sniff) are all dead. It makes absolute narrative sense, and it's a fitting end for Hugh Jackman's nine-movie-strong Wolverine saga.

But perhaps unsurprisingly, Jackman's Wolvie wasn't going down without a fight.

"It was always floated that Logan would possibly die. I said, 'Let's be open, because it may be more powerful for him not to die.'" Jackman told Yahoo!.

He clarified that he had talked with director James Mangold about various influences including Shane (which is referenced in the film), The Wrestler and The Gauntlet.

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But Jackman looked to another classic western when it came to the ending.

In Unforgiven, Clint Eastwood plays William Munny – a former assassin who's become a farmer, but returns to his previous trade for one last lucrative job.

"It's more powerful that Munny doesn't die at the end," said Jackman. "You assume he's going to die, but by taking that final action and shooting everyone down, he embraces all the darkness he's tried to put outside him. Now he's got to live with it, and it's almost more devastating."

Though Mangold's planned conclusion obviously won out in the end.

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"James was always certain of that ending, and he was right. Unlike a human character, what's most poignant for someone who is thought to be indestructible is him dying while saying, 'This is what it feels like'."

Logan is in cinemas now.

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From: Digital Spy