Wolverine's Healing Factor

[Loestal]

WOLVERINE #48
THE STORY:
Epilogue to "Vendetta"
Logan’s survived a plane crash, near-decapitation and being burned alive. The question is... HOW? In this special epilogue to the sellout smash Civil War tie-in arc, the answers start to unfold. Think you know everything there is to know about Marvel’s most popular mutant? Think again. Logan’s newest mystery begins here.

I am posting this in regards to the many people who hated Wolverine being burned down to a skeleton and healing back from it. I myself, didn't like it either. But regardless....it wasn't Marvel just exaggerating Wolverine's healing factor to put him over. It appears there is a reason behind it.

In my opinion, it better be a good explination...but I'm willingly to take back what I said about his past...displays of recent power, until this whole thing finally comes together.

[Nstar83]

maybey wolverine is acctually an EXTERNAL wityh a preordained desinty or some such nonsense.Maybe with HOM an the wtiches reality tampering this finally comes to light an cable knows something about it.

::sarcasm:: I would make such a good editor for marvel

[Kevin Vetter]

His ridiculous healing after being burned by nitro was clarified a little in the letters page of one of the last issue. The writer brought up the controversy of him healing from that and and brought up that who noone ever said that everything was incinerated and its possible some brain cells surved. Then he listed a few times in the past when wolverine healed from similar things and a claremont story where he had wolverine regenerate from just one cell.

[Frodo-X]

Honestly the regeneration didn't bother me. I thought it looked cool. Generally I don't let stuff like that bother me because in comic books there will always be something like this that comes along and if you dwell on it it can ruin your enjoyment. I am interested to see the explanation but if they didn't do one I wouldn't have lost any sleep over it.

[Loestal]

Honestly the regeneration didn't bother me. I thought it looked cool. Generally I don't let stuff like that bother me because in comic books there will always be something like this that comes along and if you dwell on it it can ruin your enjoyment. I am interested to see the explanation but if they didn't do one I wouldn't have lost any sleep over it.

I agree, I usually don't let things like this ruin the enjoyment. I mean, if Wolverine sprouted wings and flew away with Nitro...yeah, that actually might REALLY bother me. But still...his regeneration was over the top and strange.

[Omega Alpha]

His ridiculous healing after being burned by nitro was clarified a little in the letters page of one of the last issue. The writer brought up the controversy of him healing from that and and brought up that who noone ever said that everything was incinerated and its possible some brain cells surved. Then he listed a few times in the past when wolverine healed from similar things and a claremont story where he had wolverine regenerate from just one cell.

Wasn't the whole point of Days of Future Past that, if you burn Wolverine's flesh, he dies?
He's just becoming immortal for the Wolverine fanboys drool more and try to compensate for the fact that he is one of the less powerful X-men and is the most useless member in Astonishing.
And this is from a guy who included him in his top ten.

[Firemane]

perhaps by then in that timeline his healing factor was not as powerful as it once was?

[Loestal]

Wasn't the whole point of Days of Future Past that, if you burn Wolverine's flesh, he dies?
He's just becoming immortal for the Wolverine fanboys drool more and try to compensate for the fact that he is one of the less powerful X-men and is the most useless member in Astonishing.
And this is from a guy who included him in his top ten.


Please, I didn't intend on this to be a bash Wolverine and or Wolverine fan thread. God knows there is already enough of that as is.

[wingsofdamnation]

i like how they portray his healing factor the best in the oneshot of wolverine and darkness. it came out i think two weeks ago and even though they dont really show his healing at the end when darkness tells him that his ear is growing back he replied that it took about 3 and half hours to grow his ear back. to me it seems alot more realistic then it just growing back in a few seconds.

[Omega Alpha]

Please, I didn't intend on this to be a bash Wolverine and or Wolverine fan thread. God knows there is already enough of that as is.

Well, you asked about why Wolverine's healing factor is so (over)powered, i gave you the (real) reason.

[Gnarl]

His ridiculous healing after being burned by nitro was clarified a little in the letters page of one of the last issue. The writer brought up the controversy of him healing from that and and brought up that who noone ever said that everything was incinerated and its possible some brain cells surved. Then he listed a few times in the past when wolverine healed from similar things and a claremont story where he had wolverine regenerate from just one cell.

That was under the influence of an artifact whose function was to amplify mutant powers to cosmic levels.

[scottv]

I thought that it was a little much for him to be competely down to his bones and still come back but I think that people have done a pretty good job explaining why it could be possible and in the end I am just going to except that it is with in his powers

[ocelotrevs]

His ridiculous healing after being burned by nitro was clarified a little in the letters page of one of the last issue. The writer brought up the controversy of him healing from that and and brought up that who noone ever said that everything was incinerated and its possible some brain cells surved. Then he listed a few times in the past when wolverine healed from similar things and a claremont story where he had wolverine regenerate from just one cell.
Wasn't that when it was sitting on some sorta mystical crystal or something.

Either way, this incident really irritated me.

[The Fury]

So i can get this right, did his vital organs get removed from his body?

We have to remember that Wolverine's healing is exactly that, healing, not regeneration. If a part of his muscles or skin was all fine and intact then they can heal back. Even organs that are damaged, as long as they remain fully there within his body he should come back from it.

If he lost an organ, as in the organ is removed from his body, well, he's lost it forever.

[Uncle Nobs]

Ocelotrevs & Gnarl:

Isn't it weird how everyone misses that? They just seem to focus on "regenerate from a single drop of blood" when in fact his healing factor played only a small role. I find myself explaining it very often here on the boards.

Sometimes I think I should just put "Omnipotent magic crystal. Dur." in my sig. :D

[Mikl C]

Ocelotrevs & Gnarl:

Isn't it weird how everyone misses that? They just seem to focus on "regenerate from a single drop of blood" when in fact his healing factor played only a small role. I find myself explaining it very often here on the boards.

Sometimes I think I should just put "Omnipotent magic crystal. Dur." in my sig. :D

That annoys me also.

[DDM]

Ocelotrevs & Gnarl:

Isn't it weird how everyone misses that? They just seem to focus on "regenerate from a single drop of blood" when in fact his healing factor played only a small role. I find myself explaining it very often here on the boards.

Sometimes I think I should just put "Omnipotent magic crystal. Dur." in my sig. :D

co-sign

Yes, the omnipotent crystal is responsible for boosting Wolverine's healing factor a 1,000 fold; without the crystal--from Uncanny X-Men Annual #11--Wolverine would be dead.

Horde tried to stop Wolverine because he was succeeding in the goal. Horde believed the X-Men would follow their hearts' desires rather than locate the crystal.

[Will.S]

I'm guessing Wolverine just took MGH before he took down Nitro to bump up his regenerative levels.

[Loestal]

I'm guessing Wolverine just took MGH before he took down Nitro to bump up his regenerative levels.


That's what I was thinking...and I suppose that would make sense, but wouldn't stop people from complaining.

[Tazirai]

So i can get this right, did his vital organs get removed from his body?

We have to remember that Wolverine's healing is exactly that, healing, not regeneration. If a part of his muscles or skin was all fine and intact then they can heal back. Even organs that are damaged, as long as they remain fully there within his body he should come back from it.

If he lost an organ, as in the organ is removed from his body, well, he's lost it forever.

sounds about right to me.

[Kevin Vetter]

I have no clue about when or how he regenerated from a cell. I don't even remember reading that so don't get on me for that. I'm just saying what the writer of the book said to justify his healing after being incinerated which was claremont had him regenerate from a single cell and mentioned him healing from something similar in morisons run I beleive. Nothing more was said about the claremont story other than it was a claremont story.

[Barnaby]

If he can regenerate lost tissue, why the hell in AoA he didn't have one hand?! It would grow right back after being blown up by Cyclops...

Wolverine´s healing factor is getting ridiculous and ruining an excellent character... :(

[The Sword Is Drawn]

If he can regenerate lost tissue, why the hell in AoA he didn't have one hand?! It would grow right back after being blown up by Cyclops...

Wolverine´s healing factor is getting ridiculous and ruining an excellent character... :(

Oh yes...

Forgot about that.

[Gnarl]

There must be some small regeneration involved. Becuase he does not get scar tissue. If it was completely normal, but accelerated, healing, he'd just be a lump of scar tissue by now.

I could see a physican who was familiar with his power inducing regeneration of something small, like a finger or stuff, by transplanting bone, muscle and nerves and letting the power do the rest.

[The Fury]

There must be some small regeneration involved. Becuase he does not get scar tissue. If it was completely normal, but accelerated, healing, he'd just be a lump of scar tissue by now.

Skin is one giant organ and it is during healing of skin that scars appear, unless. His powers mean that he'll heal from any wound perfectly without worry, probably perfectly so it is in full working order again.

[fishtaco]

That was under the influence of an artifact whose function was to amplify mutant powers to cosmic levels.Thank you. Apparently, whoever was in the letters page ignored this, and therefore the context was lost.