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It’s likely that the Days of Future Past Wolverine had been living with his mutant power suppressed for quite some time, though. Because all of the mutants had been living with their powers suppressed.
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They were suppressed through collars, though. Wolverine and a few others were free-ranging operatives. Was there any indication in the story that Wolverine had ever been captured and collared? It would seem pretty much impossible to keep a collar on him, seeing as how his claws (at the time the story was written) were bionic.
What all this then about adamantium skeletons? I don’t follow X-men (or any comics, any more) but I distinctly remember reading on this very board that Magneto had stripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s body.
Also, should I take it as a consensus that you can’t grow additional Wolverines just by cutting the existing one up the right way?
[QUOTE=mazinger_z]
Healing Factor, particularly in the Marvel-verse (e.g. Wolverine and Deadpool in particular), has always been up to what story the writer wanted to tell. Healing Factor borders on the ridiculous. For the Hulk, though, I’m willing to make excuses. I’ve read stories where Wolverine miraculously heals from point blank high caliber machine gun fire, bombs that would level buildings, and he once regenerated from a drop of blood that managed to touch some super cosmic crystal or the Cosmic Cube. The only thing that seems to stop Wolverine is if one is able to incinerate him in one fell swoop. Though, in one “What If?” story, the Hulk hit him so hard that he severed his spinal cord (though I’m sure if it were reconnected he would regenerate).
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Now, it’s been a long time since I read his stuff, but I’ve heard people elsewhere talk about how it’s gotten to the point that he literally can’t die unless he wants to die.
And it was “The Crystal of Ultimate Vision” in the Citadel of Light and Shadow.
[QUOTE=Scumpup]
What all this then about adamantium skeletons? I don’t follow X-men (or any comics, any more) but I distinctly remember reading on this very board that Magneto had stripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s body.
The Healing Factor has no specific power limit; it just depends upon the writers. Usually, he can regenerate fairly quickly from most injuries. Superficial wounds heal in seconds, major (would-be fatal) ones in a few minutes.
For those not in the know, they retconned at one point that the Adamantium Skeleton lacing Wolvie’s bones weakened his healing factor, and that previously he could regenerate almost any wound almost instantly. This was rather stupid and the entire episode has been largely forgotten.
[QUOTE=Scumpup]
What all this then about adamantium skeletons? I don’t follow X-men (or any comics, any more) but I distinctly remember reading on this very board that Magneto had stripped the adamantium from Wolverine’s body.
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He got it back. IIRC, he later lost it AGAIN, and got it back again.
[QUOTE=Scumpup]
Also, should I take it as a consensus that you can’t grow additional Wolverines just by cutting the existing one up the right way?
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Not that I’ve heard. Although I’ve heard it suggested that you could solve the energy crisis by using ever-regenerating Wolvie-flesh as fuel for a perpetual motion machine . . .
[QUOTE=bouv]
Nope. In the recent Civil War story arc, he as incinerated by some villain who’s power is similar to the Human Torch’s (I forget his name.) Wolverine was just an adamantium coated-skeleton lying on the ground, and he regenerated from that.
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Was he completely incinerated? If his skeleton was intact, his brain and bone marrow might have survived (albeit badly injured) inside his metal bones.
God knows where he got the energy to grow back from something like that, though. Maybe he just grew back a rudimentary muscle, nerve, and digestive system, and devoured passersby as a gruesome pseudo-zombie until he had enough chemical fuel?
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And, if so, when can we expect a Marvel Legends figure version of that?
There was an issue, somewhere in the 170s, I think, where Mystique fought the X-Men and ended up killing all of them except for Nightcrawler. Wolverine she took out with a slash to the throat, the explanation being that he couldn’t heal fast enough to avert ex-sanguination.
Of course, it turns out she was in a danger-room like exercise after hiring . . . oh, what’sisface, the crazy redheaded carnival guy . . . to provide her with the experience, including X-Men androids.
So, yeah, if there’s one thing the writers and editors haven’t been consistent about, it’s Logan’s healing factor.
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Of course, it turns out she was in a danger-room like exercise after hiring . . . oh, what’sisface, the crazy redheaded carnival guy . . . to provide her with the experience, including X-Men androids.
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Wasn’t Sabretooth’s first “appearance” when he sneaks up on Wolvie from behind (coming out of the water while Wolvie’s leaning against a rail, IIRC) and tears Wolvie’s throat out?
As I remember that story, clamping a hand over his neck headed that little dilemma off at the pass.
Wolverine’s been answered, but just as a little trivia…it WOULD (or would have) worked for Lobo, who is, essentially the Spinal Tap version on Wolverine. Until he was genetically altered by Vril Dox, if Lobo were injured, every drop of blood would regenerate into a complete clone of Lobo. His regeneration is still pretty massively insane, so, who knows how it’d work if he were bifurcated vertically. Obviously, nobody’s stupid enough to try, as two Lobos is a terrifying concept.
