How to Kill Wolverine

[hippy fascist]

Yes but what I've always loved about comics is the unanswerable questions. I mean like..."who would win in a fight out of the human torch and iceman". There is no clear answer but it results in endless debate. It's like those card games kids play only rather than having "my strength is ten and yours is three so IO win" you have such and such beat whoever and and this bloke beat such and such so he could beat whoever...

See what I mean this is why I love comics so much! Don't take it away from me...

 

[Darthphere]

I'm genuinely surprised that no one (such as Darth) mentioned the key difference between in-world and out-of-world classification. Sure, in real life we know that Spider-Man won't die. He's an icon and a money-maker, and people would go nuts if he did.

IN-world, it's possible he'll die at any turn. Do you see any thought bubbles from Petey saying "Well, I'm gonna go challenge Galactus by myself, because it's obvious Joe Q isn't going to approve my death." No, you don't.

However, the slapstick factor of Wolverine is IN-world. IN-CHARACTER, why would he have any fear? You could seriously see a bubble saying "Well, I can't die, so what is there to lose?" In fact, you almost see that in the issue with Nitro, where he mutters about how painful it's going to be to be blown up.

At this point, Wolverine is almost a parody of himself.

And you know what the major issue here is? People (I'm talking to you, Horrorfan) are tryin to quantify fighting ability and mutant power. This is ridiculous, and it's a constant failing in comic fans.

You can't quantify a healing factor versus the ability to turn into living fire. You can't quantify super strength versus invisibility. In any given situation, one can be more valuable than the other.

There are obvious situations where quantifying can work: if you have an arm-wrestling contest between Thing and Kitty Pride, the result is simple. However, this whole "No Wolverine's fighting ability is much more evolved than Daredevil's" is bull****. They are trained in completely different styles of fighting, and the results of a combat do not have to be identical every time.

You brought up some very excellent points. I probably wouldve gotten to that evetually but excellent post.

 

[Cyclops]

Deactivate his mutant abilty and his Adamantium will poison him, slowlying killing him.

And yet this does not happen to Bullseye, who has an adamantium spine. There's inconsistency I smell in this here Marvel Universe.

 

[KAD]

But HOW do they multiply so fast? Where does all that extra mass come from?

Children start out little, but have to eat food so they can get bigger. You see where I'm going with this?

He is a mutant..

His mutation is cellular regeneration.

Perhaps his cells can draw nurishment from basic elements in the air to full growth.

Who knows it's the comic book world.

 

[Kotagg]

no cuz hiz adamanteum spuine is coated in vibranium and he has the hootu

 

[wobbly]

I just read about the concentration camp thing and all I can say is how utterly stupid I think that is

Why? because having him heal from just about anything (incineration, bullets through the brain etc) makes giving him an unbreakable skeleton later (the purpose of which was to make him tougher and harder to kill), completely pointless: he doesn't need it and never did.

 

[The Cleric]

dumb question with a very...VERY simple answer!
how do u kill Wolv?
tell every comic book writer to never put him in any comic, or mention him in any comic...ever! and there you have it... wolverine gone for good. boy would that be great...

 

[The Cleric]

if that doesnt work... send chuck norris. he always gets it done

 

[Dugath]

Well... just tell the Hulk that Logan called him a pansy. Hulk Rips Logans Arms and legs off (perhaps pops his head off for fun).. bones might be unbreakable.. but can still be pulled from the Joints and ripped off. So unless I am missing something.. Logan can not regrow his Limbs can he? (anyways I dont see him regrowing his head if its pulled off). Just like with that "bomb" if he is reduced to a skelly, there wouldnt be anythign holding his bones together.. they would all fall apart, he can not regenerate if his body is in pieces.

 

[Tropico]

He WAS reduced to a skeleton, thus your theory is all shot to hell. He came back.

 

[mlove73]

There are certainly examples of characters/mutants in the Marvel-verse creating body mass without any discernible "fuel." The Hulk, Mystique, etc. If I can accept that all of the energy-based mutants can create massive blasts without fuel, then I can accept that it can happen for mass as well. And if Wolverines regeneration is cellular, all it means is that some of his cells must survive. And if he has an impenetrable skull, then cells could survive just about anything.

That being said, I think it's stupid and unnecessary in almost every way. You can't tell me Logan has a shortage of character-traits for writers to tap.

Almost forgot: so this means the only way to kill him is to end all cellular life. Maybe some kind of specialized virus, or perhaps sustained extreme cold to slow the cell-growth as the cold freezes them? But then again, if a Nuc' can't cook em out, who knows if you could freeze 'em out?

 

[Kool-Aid]

Wolverine said when Mags ripped his adamantium out he was lucky to survive at all.

 

[Vanguard07]

Yeah but that was a long time ago. He's gotten even more popular and thus even more ridiculously unkillable since. If Mags ripped his skeleton out again he'd probably be healed by the time magneto let go of the metal.

In order to kill him now you'd probably have to destroy every cell of his body. So you'd have to be able to destroy the Adamantium too.
Throwing him into the sun is a good one to me. Even if he isnt dead he isnt coming back. Maybe throw him into the core of the earth would work too. Crushed, burnt and suffocated all in one neat package and even if he could live through it he couldnt make it back on his own power (untill writers make him even more ridiculous).

Honestly Wolverine pisses me off now. I was still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt as a character but after that Nitro thing i'm completely giving up on him.

 

[Kool-Aid]

Well, he said it in issue 123 so thats not that long ago.

 

[ShadowBoxing]

He is a mutant..

His mutation is cellular regeneration.

Perhaps his cells can draw nurishment from basic elements in the air to full growth.

Who knows it's the comic book world.

You see that is the misconception. Deadpool's power is cellular regeneration, Wolverine's power is accelerated healing, there is a difference.

 

[KAD]

You see that is the misconception. Deadpool's power is cellular regeneration, Wolverine's power is accelerated healing, there is a difference.

It has been stated over and over by Xaviar and others that wolverine heals on a cellular level. His healing factor is in each and every cell. This allows him according to current Marvel mythos to recover from any punishment so long as a single cell survives to split and regenerate.

 

[Zeu]

It has been stated over and over by Xaviar and others that wolverine heals on a cellular level. His healing factor is in each and every cell. This allows him according to current Marvel mythos to recover from any punishment so long as a single cell survives to split and regenerate.

but it doesnt´explain how he is able to retain his memories or where do his cells extract the elements to form a new body.

 

[Exploding Boy]

What about that guy(Agent something or other) that could turn healing factors deadly?

What if they had Wolvy tied down and had Wither work his magic on him and kill every bit of living tissue in his body?

 

[SuGarRush]

lets say wolvie CAN survive when he is reduced down to a mere skeleton (as stupid as that is)
Then couldn't you have Hulk dismember him, then when he grows back from his torso, rip his head off?
Then his bones would regrow but without the adimantium, so the next time you incinerated him, it would take his bones too, no adamantium sheath, wham bam thank you ma'am no living tissue and the job is done.
I mean, that should work shouldn't it?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wonder, since Wolverine's power has gone from accelerated healing to full-blown cellular regeneration, if he lost an arm, would his stump regrow a new arm and his arm regrow a whole new body? Seems to make sense that that'd be the case.

 

[KAD]

but it doesnt´explain how he is able to retain his memories or where do his cells extract the elements to form a new body.

Already answered

 

[KAD]

I wonder, since Wolverine's power has gone from accelerated healing to full-blown cellular regeneration, if he lost an arm, would his stump regrow a new arm and his arm regrow a whole new body? Seems to make sense that that'd be the case.

Smacks of a lobo rip off

 

[TheCorpulent1]

How could Wolverine be a Lobo rip-off when Lobo is a Wolverine rip-off? Besides, Lobo spawned new Lobos from his blood. I'm talking about how Wolverine's cellular regeneration works. It obviously can't be connected to whichever part of his body's got his brain, or whichever part of his body has more mass, since he can regrow his entire body from a single cell. It makes sense to me that every chunk of him that's separated would try to regrow whatever is necessary to make a complete body.

 

[LouFerignoDemon]

How could Wolverine be a Lobo rip-off when Lobo is a Wolverine rip-off? Besides, Lobo spawned new Lobos from his blood. I'm talking about how Wolverine's cellular regeneration works. It obviously can't be connected to whichever part of his body's got his brain, or whichever part of his body has more mass, since he can regrow his entire body from a single cell. It makes sense to me that every chunk of him that's separated would try to regrow whatever is necessary to make a complete body.

Elongated DNA strains that map out the entire body maybe?

 

[Fading]

Not sure if it was said but a few comics back Xavier said himself (during the onslaught thing) when his files were read with how to kill each X-man, that Xavier thought the 'only' way to kill wolverine was to sever the head, then immediately remove it from the vicinity so the body couldn't reconnect with the head.

Since then he's been upped. Lately I've just been ignoring how he could have died in the past since current writers care nothing for continuity. Spiderman growing eyes and 'evolving' (freaking spiderpokemon) and growing claws...err 'stingers', to wolverine surviving something he was killed for in an alternate timeline. I like both characters, and I don't mind change, just they need to come out and say it, or have had Wolverine go through some ordeal upgrading his powers a bit to explain this. Hero's get strong, but atleast make it reasonable and not unexpected just for shock value.

Personally I blame the movies. Wolverine's become even more popular, about to have a solo movie and so on, they needed to boost him. Hulk is known for "Strongest there is", Spidey is well defined, I think since they can't really change the claws their running with his healing factor.