I’m gonna need you to take that back.
Captain Marvel at Marvel died and stayed dead, he was a prominent 2nd tier character…but he has had a parade of bullsh*t “legacies” running around mucking up his story…and I say this as a fan of two of his off-shots (Hulkling and Noh-Var). For awhile a time-displaced version was running around but he actually turned out to be a deeply brain-washed Skrull who ended preferring to be Mar-Vel and died a hero (IIRC).
So, just out of curiosity, how did they kill him?
Didn’t Ra’s al-Ghul stuff them in a Lazarus pit at one point, to try to get leverage on Bruce?
Yeah, Vashbul, you obviously know nothing about Conan Doyle, he’s well beyond your ken. I know you’re trying to be wry in the early November chill, but that’s beyond you, too. Yeah, you’re gonna take that wry ken back, this fall.
True. She’s supposed to be 16/17, I think? I meant to write “teenage” and for some reason wrote “13 year old”, dumb of me.
He gets coated in liquid adamantium (after he lost his healing factor in a separate story a little while ago). Pretty much the sort of thing that could easily be split open down the line… I mean, we already know that Magneto can manipulate the stuff, so arguably Polaris could as well, and likely others.
Not defending the practice but one of the reasons comics keep resurrecting characters is because of the legal complexity of establishing new NAMED characters. It’s akin to filing for a patent. They have to go through trademark searches and probably other stuff. So it’s not like a writer working on this month’s storyline can say “hey I want a character named XYZ with this power” and instantly write him/her in. They have to propose them and then put them through that creation process.
So it’s often just easier to use already established characters.
So adamantium can melt. You’d think any of the zillion fire heroes could do something with that. I remember the days when the Human Torch could do “near nova” heat. I’m sure they’ve written in a magical catch, though.
I don’t think that’s correct. In the last two years, Marvel alone has debuted more than 100 named characters.
Aren’t they doing this so they can retcon him into an Inhuman so he can be a part of their movie franchise?
This is not true in the slightest.
Again… that is not even remotely true.
How would that even work?
No idea, but its comics. Wouldn’t take much for a writer to say “Well they discovered Wolverine’s DNA really matches the the Inhumans, and oh here’s a file from a Celestial filing cabinet saying they messed with his DNA a few hundred years ago”. One self-discovering journey to the moon later, and BAM! Wolverine’s officially an Inhuman and no longer a mutant.
I doubt the judge in the resulting lawsuit would find that particularly convincing. Fox owns the movie-rights to the Wolverine character, regardless of what imaginary filing cabinets say about his imaginary DNA.
No, it’s synthesized in liquid form and your SHOL when it hardens.
The contracts aren’t written that way. As far as anybody knows, they name one specific character (Spider-Man) or team of characters (The X-Men) and the option to include various villains and secondary characters related to the subject of the contract in any film adaptation.
I didn’t mean “how would that work in the comics”
I meant how would that work with courts and contracts? The answer is that it doesn’t.
Why should they pretend? at this point there can’t possibly be anyone who thinks comic book deaths mean anything.
This.
I recall a 90s’ JLA story in which no one showed up to a super-hero’s funeral because, even in-universe, everybody figured it would be undone within a year. And Wolverine is far too valuable a character and trademark to be abandoned, so no fan can reasonably expect his death to be anything but a stunt. Hell, he’s been dead at least twice before.
Only mostly dead.