My vote goes to Cbishop. I think Organ Grinder has potential. A human trafficker to whom Wolverine is nothing but an object, an endless supply of products to sell.
Maybe the best way to take advantage of the concept would be to have multiple "Organ Grinders". I personally wouldn't make him out to be a legacy-villain, just that a bunch of human traffickers have taken an interest in Wolverine, and hunt him down. The reason why I think multiple "Organ Grinders" would be the way to go, is because that way you could write the concept from multiple viewpoints.
They could all have different moral justifications for what they do, different worldviews.
Some could just be in it for the money, while another one could think that what they do is for, if not a noble purpose, then at least a justified end.
Some of them could be the antagonists in weird shlocky splatter horror-stories, others could be characters in more philosophical stories.
Some of them could be more realistic criminals, some of them could...have gorilla sidekicks and do mad science.
Another good thing about this approach would be that it solves the problem of Wolverine usually killing his baddies. Even if Wolverine kills one "Organ Grinder", another one will just eventually show up. It's a systemic problem, and you can't make a systemic problem go away by killing individual bad actors. The fact that it's a systemic problem can ITSELF be a source for stories, because you could build entire stories on societal commentary.
In my view they shouldn't be part of the same organization. They're just human traffickers. They are actually in competition with each other, sometimes trying to kill other "Organ Grinders" to thin out the competition.
Basically, just normal criminals. But what would make it in to a superhero-thing would be that THESE normal criminals live in a superhero-world, and purposefully make themselves part of a superheroes life.
Anyway, great idea.
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