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\n!!What happens to bullets inside Wolverine's body when he heals from gunshot wounds? Does his body somehow push them out? Does his healing factor allow his metabolism to process and dissolve them? Do they just encapsulate inside him? The second movie showed a bullet shot at his forehead pushed out, and at the start of Grant Morrison's run Wolverine was digging out bullets he had just taken, but those are the only times I've seen the issue addressed.
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*** It's not that the Muramasa Blade is made from a special metal that gives it its power, it's the fact that the sword was forged ''with a piece of Logan's soul''.
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**There is a sword(not sure if it's still canon) called Muramasa made from a special metal that can override his healing factor. he used it to kill a feral Sabertooth. He gave to Charles Xavier and later Cyclops in case he doesn't return from one of his berserker rages.

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*** Also Wolverine's abilities are excellent for almost any situation. The problem with mutants such as Xavier or Magneto is that they can go against you or they are overspecialized and only useful in certain situations. What would Xavier due when he's surrounded by robots. What would Magneto due if he didn't have any metal around him? What makes wolverine good is that he's useful for all kind of situation and easily adaptable.

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*** Also Wolverine's abilities are excellent for almost any situation. The problem with mutants such as Xavier or Magneto is that they can go against you or they are overspecialized and only useful in certain situations. What would Xavier due when he's surrounded by robots. What would Magneto due if he didn't have any metal around him? What makes wolverine good is that he's useful for all kind of situation and easily adaptable.
adaptable.
*** You certainly could train someone with Xavier's powers to the peak of physical conditioning. In fact, in his youth, Xavier was pretty badass even without his powers...and then, of course, he promptly A. got paralyzed and B. got old. The first (and other injuries) can happen to anyone, and even lesser injuries are going to take him out of action for weeks or months at a time. The latter ''will'' happen to ''every''one.\\\
Unless, of course, you have a super-strong healing factor that lets you survive fatal injuries and recover in minutes. The thing that makes Wolverine the perfect super soldier isn't so much his claws as it is his resilience. While a normal soldier--even one trained to physical perfection--is only good until he takes a severe injury, it's damn near impossible to make sure Logan stays down. It's the difference in investing millions of dollars to get a supersoldier who'll be active for, at most, 20 years, and investing millions of dollars to get a supersoldier who'll be active long after everyone who made him is dead.
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*** Also Wolverine's abilities are excellent for almost any situation. The problem with mutants such as Xavier or Magneto is that they can go against you or they are overspecialized and only useful in certain situations. What would Xavier due when he's surrounded by robots. What would Magneto due if he didn't have any metal around him? What makes wolverine good is that he's useful for all kind of situation and easily adaptable.



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**** There is a modern precedent for this, even if it is in a different taxonomic class. On the actual WolverineClaws page, there is a mention of a frog in the family Arthroleptidae, which is actually ''Trichobatrachus robustus'', which punctures its skin with bone claws.
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\n\n* Think of it like a knight wearing full plate armor. Yes, it's rather heavy (~40lbs for actual combat armor). However the way the mass is distributed means the armor wears ''far'' lighter than it sounds, and actually causes practically no impediment to the wearer's ability to move. With the proper conditioning and training, you can move just as fast and are just as agile in the armor as you are without it.


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** Starvation
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*** However, cats gained their claws via a long series of mutations until they evolved a practical manner of using them. Logan's claws are something that only he and those who're genetically related to him own. He lacks any natural holes for them because he hasn't developed such yet. IF we assume that, in a few thousand years, Logan's descendants also have claws, we can probably guess that they'll probably have natural openings for the claws to come out of due to the way evolution works. For now though, holes in his hands are a RequiredSecondaryPower that he doesn't have.
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*** No. The late 70's/early 80's versions of the ''Offical Handbook'' established that the adamantium is incorporated into the structural parts of his bones, and doesn't interfere with blood cell generation. Anything before this was EarlyInstallmentWeirdness along the same lines of Logan being a super-evolved wolverine or the claws being part of his gloves.
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** That doesn't make sense when they could just give the same training to someone with Xavier's level of powers. And last I checked, they still haven't exactly gotten X-23 back...
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** The original reasoning for this wasn't poisoning -- it was that, with solid adamantium bones, Wolverine's marrow couldn't create blood cells, which, amongst other things, meant he had no immune system. The healing factor compensated for this, as it was a power separate from the body's natural healing and infection-fighting systems.
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** Which wouldn't matter, there's no reason the organic bone wouldn't vaporize along with the rest of Wolverine's flesh leaving nothing but a very sterile set of human-boned shaped Adamantium pieces scattered all over creation after the connecting tissue was also reduced to free-floating atoms. It's just the bad writing that had Wolverine basically truly immortal using the adamantium as the framwork the new body formed around.

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Seriously, the guy bounces around like a razor-blade covered Tazmanian devil.

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Seriously, the guy bounces around like a razor-blade covered Tazmanian devil.devil.
* Simple: While its sometimes depicted as quite heavy, Admantium isn't exactly massively dense. Its bonded to his bones as a thin layer around them, so if it was removed and squished up it would only be about the size of his head, logically, so it wouldn't be that heavy. Secondly, at least 90% of Logan is muscle. He's always drawn as basically a ball of protein. That would give him the strength needed to be a ninja assassin who bounces around like a razor-blade covered Tazmanian devil.



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** Depends on the level of damage. Sabertooth survived getting his brain impaled by Wolverine's claws. It gave him temporarily a personality change but he survived.

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** Depends on the level of damage. Sabertooth survived getting his brain impaled by Wolverine's claws. It gave him temporarily a personality change but he survived.survived.

!!How can Wolverine be that agile (and a ninja assassin!) when he's got a honkingly heavy metal skeleton?
Seriously, the guy bounces around like a razor-blade covered Tazmanian devil.
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!!Why cant somone with super strength pull wolverines arms by there socket? Then his arm would grow back without the adamantium

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!!Why cant can't somone with super strength pull wolverines Wolverine's arms by there their socket? Then his arm would grow back without the adamantium




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** There should be permanent holes that he was born with, specifically there for the claw. Cats don't have to slice though their skin every time ''they'' unsheathe their claws, after all.



!! I'm surprised nobody has asked this question already.How can you kill Wolverine? On Wikipedia it said that Professor X has plans on how to kill any of the X Men,for Wolverine it said cut his head off with a powerful laser and keep his head seperated from his body.There has to be a way to kill him

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!! I'm surprised nobody has asked this question already. How can you kill Wolverine? On Wikipedia it said that Professor X has plans on how to kill any of the X Men,for Men, for Wolverine it said cut his head off with a powerful laser and keep his head seperated from his body.There has to be a way to kill him
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** Ah, no...it was revealed in the spin-off series ''Wolverine: Origins'', which takes place in Earth-616. It's the same series where {{Daken}} made his debut.

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** Ah, Um, no...it was revealed in the spin-off series ''Wolverine: Origins'', which takes place in Earth-616. It's the same series where {{Daken}} made his debut.

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A lot of the information that it gives about Logan's backstory seems to contradict this idea (not that it was all that plausible in the first place). It shows Logan living a relatively mundane life before his powers manifest--most mutants experience this, but if he was from a parallel species that evolved from wolves, shouldn't he have had his wolf-like abilities since birth? Also, it establishes that neither of his biological parents have any mutant abilities whatsoever--obviously it's possible for normal humans to carry the X-gene and give birth to mutant children, but how the hell could two people who evolved
from apes give birth to a baby who evolved from wolves?

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A lot of the information that it gives about Logan's backstory seems to contradict this idea (not that it was all that plausible in the first place). It For one thing, it shows Logan living a relatively mundane life before his powers manifest--most manifest. Most mutants experience this, but if he was from a parallel species that evolved from wolves, shouldn't he have had his wolf-like abilities since birth? Also, For another, it establishes that neither of his biological parents have any mutant abilities whatsoever--obviously whatsoever. Obviously it's possible for normal humans to carry the X-gene and give birth to mutant children, but how the hell could two people who evolved
evolved from apes give birth to a baby who evolved from wolves?
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** Ah, no...it was revealed in the spin-off series ''Wolverine: Origins'', which takes place in Earth-616. The same series where {{Daken}} made his debut.

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** Ah, no...it was revealed in the spin-off series ''Wolverine: Origins'', which takes place in Earth-616. The It's the same series where {{Daken}} made his debut.
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** The Lupine thing is from the Earth-X series, which is an alternate universe.

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** * The Lupine thing is from the Earth-X series, which is an alternate universe.
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*** While I can't remember the issue it comes from, someone once noticed that Logan's wrists lock in place as he extends the claws to prevent that from happening. As for thr 'foot long claws', I always took that to just be hyperbole.
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** Ah, no...it was revealed in the spin-off series ''Wolverine: Origins'', which takes place in Earth-616. The same series where {{Daken}} made his debut.
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** It might be also because up the point, they didn't know they were organic so she didn't know to pop them out.
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*** They come through from either part of his hand that happens to be at front at the moment.
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* His healing factor doesn't give him immunity anymore, therefore he can be (presumably) killed by:

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* His healing factor doesn't give him immunity immortality anymore, therefore he can be (presumably) killed by:



** Since the brain controls all function, logically damaging it enough should disable the healing

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** Since the brain controls all function, functions, logically damaging it enough should disable the healing
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* Would Wolvie heal if his brain was destroyed?

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* Would Wolvie heal if his brain was destroyed?destroyed?
** Depends on the level of damage. Sabertooth survived getting his brain impaled by Wolverine's claws. It gave him temporarily a personality change but he survived.
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Why is wolverine treated better then the punisher? Wolverine has killed WAY more people.punisher has reasons for killing but wolverine usually doesn't

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Why is wolverine treated better then the punisher? Wolverine has killed WAY more people.punisher has reasons for killing but wolverine usually doesn't *Would Wolvie heal if his brain was destroyed?
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A lot of the information that it gives about Logan's backstory seems to contradict this idea (not that it was all that plausible in the first place). It shows Logan living a relatively mundane life before his powers manifest--most mutants experience this, but if he was from a parallel species that evolved from wolves, shouldn't he have had his wolf-like abilities since birth? Also, it establishes that neither of his biological parents have any mutant abilities whatsoever--obviously it's possible for normal humans to carry the X-gene and give birth to mutant children, but how the hell could two people who evolved from apes give birth to a baby who evolved from wolves?

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A lot of the information that it gives about Logan's backstory seems to contradict this idea (not that it was all that plausible in the first place). It shows Logan living a relatively mundane life before his powers manifest--most mutants experience this, but if he was from a parallel species that evolved from wolves, shouldn't he have had his wolf-like abilities since birth? Also, it establishes that neither of his biological parents have any mutant abilities whatsoever--obviously it's possible for normal humans to carry the X-gene and give birth to mutant children, but how the hell could two people who evolved evolved
from apes give birth to a baby who evolved from wolves?


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Why is wolverine treated better then the punisher? Wolverine has killed WAY more people.punisher has reasons for killing but wolverine usually doesn't
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** Haven't seen that comic, don't know if the new claws were still adamantium, but the first thing that comes to my mind is that the new bones grew over and around the adamantium bones. Like an onion.

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