So, I guess they should discard the script suggesting that Logan is one of the Dunedain?
I think that that may have been deliberate on his part. Right from the outset, he was making it clear to the cops that he was the mutant, so as to distract attention from the kids. Then, when he was shot, he deliberately fell, so the cops would figure that the mutant threat there was taken care of, and leave the kids alone. Until Pyro decided to be an idiot.
I read somewhere (though I can’t remember where) that Wolverine’s healing works like a normal human’s, just much quicker. So wounds can close, but lost limbs and organs can’t regrow. Of course, he can still recover from wounds that would kill a normal, since he won’t bleed to death while waiting for his wounds to close, but kill him and he’s dead. Of course this rule isn’t consistently followed, but it probably should be.
So what was the explanation for the alternate future that I saw, I forget the title, where he’s just got metal over the stump of a hand? Were they following that rule there?
45 hit points.
I would make the argument that Wolverine’s mutation goes beyond accelerated healing, because I think if you just healed really really fast, Wolverine would be covered with scar tissue.
Comics are the soap operas of the world, they kill people, they bring them back, they kill them again…I’m still pissed that Magneto yanked out Wolverine’s adamantium skeleton. That’s one of those big HELLO MCFLY, why didn’t he do that a long time ago?
Sanscour
I think you’re talking about Age of Apocalypse, where Cyclops blasted off one of his hands and Wolvie poked out one of Cyke’s eyes.
I don’t remember exactly how that worked, but hey, alternate reality.
Turns out Wolvie still had his claws, too…they just happened to be retracted when Cyke blasted them out.
Nobody’s mentioned, BTW: Wolvie can also apparently survive without white blood cells, since having an adamantium-coated skeleton would prevent his body from getting new ones.
Why? The skeleton is coated and the WBCs are made in the marrow inside the bones as well as in the liver. Can’t see any massive problems gven that he can presumably produce WBCs at a fantastic rate in the liver alone, as well as at a huge enough rate on the marrow that some can get out.
I dont buy that, myself. It looked to me like the bullet stunned him for a few seconds. Rung his bell, as it were.
I believe they would simply have to leave some holes at the vein junctions. And with his regeneration ability he may not even need that.
I think he just didn’t care to. Wolverine was not a major threat to Magneto, for the exact reason that he could do that. And Magneto was never really into killing people. At least usually.
It’s been a long time, and I haven’t been keeping up since, but wasn’t Wolverine still alive in the era of the Guardians of the Galaxy, which was something like 30th or 31st century?
I thought Rancor was his descendant and he showed up in a storyline somewhere.
I don’t know if Wolverine ever showed up in GotG, but…
it DID eventually turn out that Dr. Doom (who, along with several dozen OTHER characters from the 20th century, survived into the 30th) skinned Wolverine, and transplanted his brain into Wolvie’s skeletal remains. He became an adamantium cyborg of sorts, and clashed with Rancor in one of those foil-embossed covers that drove the price of the book up by 2 bucks.
Let it not be said that the Guardians book from the 90s was not a complete and total travesty. I’m sure the Guardians DID, on occasion, appear in their own title…
Well if you buy that he heals very quickly then you can just assume that his scars fade just as fast. As you know, that strawberry on your knee from when youwere six isn’t as big when you’re 16, and even smaller when you’re 26.
Which is all down to skin becoming thicker and more fibrous with age. OTOH a scar I obtained at 16 is just as big and prominent 16 years later as it was 12 months after I got it. Adult scars don’t fade. They become flatter and more skin toned with time, but they remain just as prominent.
If Wolvie’s scars are fading by any scientific mechanism then his skin should now be about 3 feet thick and the same texture as a 6-ply radial.
Besides, we all know that he doens;t get scars. Even seconds after healing his skin is baby smooth. Well maybe not quite.
I will never forgive them for the stupid idea of f’ing bone claws.
grrr
The lead character in the computer game Planescape Torment has an almost identical superpower to Wolverine’s (he heals really really fast) but he scars. It makes for an …interesting look.