The Official Stupid Question Thread: Marvel Edition - Part 2

[Anubis]

I don't get it.

 

[KevanG]

Canada has had the Weapon X and whatever other programs running experimenting on mutants for decades and the Neverland Facility among other things.

 

[Anubis]

But while it was based in Canada, wasn't it still an American run Program?

 

[The Morningstar]

Think they run by both the Canadian Government and American.

 

[Anubis]

So basically America.

 

[Hush]

What are these season one releases for?

 

[Anubis]

Gimmick.

 

[Hush]

Thanks Nubs, real answer please?

 

[Scarecrow_King]

I think it's just a way to compete with the Earth One stuff DC is doing. Origin retells. Because you know...there's not enough of those already.

 

[Anubis]

Like I said. Gimmick.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Ok, here's an interesting thing for wolverine that just occurred to me. His claws have no blood grooves. He has no super strength. So when he impales someone how the hell does he get the claws out? I'm not saying he couldn't but basically he'd have a dead body stuck on the ends of his fists till he puts them on the ground then steps on them and pulls up hard. And don't get me started on a block of wood. He'd basically be stuck on that for a long long time.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

sharp claws cut things. you're way over thinking it.

but if you want a legit explanation, I would say that since adamantium is indestructible, it will never go dull. So it would take just the smallest movement on Wolverine's part to slice his way out of a body or a block of wood, just the same as he sliced his way into it.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

Pretty much no bladed weapons in comics have blood grooves, come to think of it. They're really minor details to have to draw onto a sword in every f***ing panel.

 

[moraldeficiency]

I'm only thinking it cause I was splitting wood today.

Dull doesn't matter actually, sharp makes things worse when they stick. Piercing is easy, it's retracting that's the trouble if you impale something deeply especially if they're basically liquid sacks. That's why stabbing weapons for the military have to have blood grooves so you have some air and you can pull them out. If you're thinking he just cuts down once he's impaled someone shearing them in half (which I've never seen him do after stabbing someone) there's still a substantial amount of suction created once impaled that's hard to get around. Or to put it in easier terms, take the sharpest samuari sword in creation that doesn't contain a blood groove, stab it into four inches of wood then try pulling it out. If you can do it in less than thirty seconds without wiggling it or putting your foot to it you're freaking hercules.

 

[Anubis]

What the hell are blood grooves?

 

[TheCorpulent1]

His claws have that reverse "snikt" retraction thing that seems pretty efficient. Maybe he retracts them after he stabs people and we just never see it because he pops 'em back out so quick.

 

[Scarecrow_King]

or maybe they do have blood grooves and the artists just don't draw them. because like Corp said, that would be really ****ing annoying for the artist.

 

[Anubis]

Like those lines on all those new DC costumes. Most artists don't even bother anymore.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

If he didn't have a healing factor, that would be f***ing gross. Imagine other people's blood and other bodily fluids all running down the grooves in the claws into the basically open wounds in Wolverine's hand that the claws pop out of. Blerg to the max.

 

[Anubis]

I wonder if his healing factor could beat AIDS like the Midnighter.

 

[moraldeficiency]

What the hell are blood grooves?

Lines of indents in bladed weapons. They allow air to pass even though they weaken the overall structure and strength of the blade. The problem people found early on with a sword is that when you stab someone the liquids inside them basically make a perfect suction grip on the blade making it pretty impossible to pull it out. So if you're in a battle you stab someone once and you basically lose that sword, but with a blood groove you can pull it out and stab someone else.

Corp: Even with the pull back function it would still be difficult. I don't see it getting around the suction dynamic unless the out and in of them is basically like over a metric ton of force.

King: They're claws, they don't have blood grooves. Nothing biologic has blood groves they're an invention from men for maximum killing power.


It's not the biggest thing about wolverine, just something funny I was thinking about today when I was cutting wood.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

I wonder if his healing factor could beat AIDS like the Midnighter.

Probably. I don't think AIDS is quite as bad as nuclear explosions, after all. Plus, the Midnighter is basically just Wolverine + Batman + gay, so if he can do it, Wolverine should be able to.

 

[moraldeficiency]

Awaits horribly inappropriate AIDS joke.

 

[Anubis]

Yeah, but doesn't DP still have Cancer? And I seen him grow back from ground zero of an explosion too.

 

[TheCorpulent1]

True. His cells grow back, but they're horribly mutated, f***ed up cancer cells.

AIDS attacks the immune system, though, so it's kind of tailor-made to get its viral ass kicked by a healing factor.