Questions tagged [wolverine]
For questions about Wolverine, a mutant superhero in the Marvel Comics universe and member of the X-Men. Always use in conjunction with the [marvel] tag and add the relevant media tag where appropriate such as [x-men-cinematic-universe] and [comics].
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What year did "Wolverine: Origin" happen in?
I am talking about the comic Wolverine: Origin. I am quite confused on when the story takes place. It looks like 1700s to 1800s but I am almost 100% sure he is not over 200 years old.
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Wolverine teams up with Captain America in WWII
I am looking for a team up comic I had (I looked through all of my boxes and it was suspiciously missing). It has Wolverine and Captain America working together in WWII and I believe it was described ...
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Why does Wolverine, in-universe for the x men movies, have such a high pain tolerance?
Wolverine in the movies is hit with knives, blades, bullets, blunt objects, and even the phoenix force. Wolverine can survive all of these injuries because of his healing factor. However, as he tells ...
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How did Wolverine get his Adamantium back between X-Men Annual Vol. 1 #11 and 12?
In X-Men Annual Vol. 1 Issue 11 from 1987, Wolverine is regenerated from a drop of his blood.
You can see his skeleton on page 37:
Click images to enlarge.
Which means he hasn't got his Adamantium ...
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Has Wolverine's apparent middle-agedness been explained?
Given his recuperative ability, why would he show any signs of age but rather have reached, say, 25 and then looked this way forever?
And given that he aged to apparent middle age, is there any ...
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Story with Wolverine? in wheelchair + Beast being cared for by younger mutant on journey
I'm trying to find a story I read a year or so ago. This is what I recall: Wolverine is basically an invalid and confined to a wheelchair, Beast has been damaged and has the mental capacity of a small ...
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To what extent are Wolverine's claws indestructible?
It's said that Wolverine's Adamantium claws are indestructible. However, when he rubs his claws against each other, it creates sparks. Don't sparks represent damage/chipping?
Are Wolverine's claws ...
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Can Wolverine get exhausted by physical training?
Wolverines (Logan) healing properties are well known. In physical training, there is a condition known as Overtraining:
Overtraining is a result of not properly recovering between workouts on a ...
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Are only the bones in Wolverine's skeleton adamantium?
I was discussing this with a colleague at work, and we couldn't find any definitive answers.
Are, for example, the joints in Wolverine still regular ones, or are they covered in adamantium as well? ...
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Pre-1993 comic in which Wolverine's claws were turned to rubber?
I remember many years ago reading a comic in which a one-appearance (or at any rate, obscure) character with transmutation powers turns Wolverine's claws to wobbly rubber. Wolverine, who had been in ...
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What Marvel paperback did Toad fight Eel and Wolverine in a Madripoor Tournament?
Looking for a paperback that contains the Madripoor Tournament where Toad used his tongue to crush Eel's neck and later fought Wolverine. Can anyone help?
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Who is this sexual fantasy of Wolverine?
I stumbled upon a YouTube video about weird marvel sexual encounters:
Where he shows a panel where Emma Frost discovers Wolverine sexual fantasies:
Correct me if I ...
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How can Wolverine bend his wrists? [duplicate]
Wolverine's claws are clearly longer than his hands. That being the case, shouldn't they retract into his forearms and prevent his wrists from bending?
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What is the first time Wolverine cuts someone with his claws in a real way?
After having read a lot of X-Men and 130-200+ and other spin-offs from that time, I had noticed that Wolverine never uses his claws on anyone if it would do real harm. Cut to modern day, and he is ...
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What makes Victor stronger than pre-adamantium Wolverine?
In Wolverine Origins, Stryker convinces Wolverine that he needs his help to defeat Victor, a.k.a, Sabertooth.
However, we also know that the only reason Victor is not offered adamantium is that his ...
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What is Wolverine's immigration status in the USA?
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine, we find that Wolverine (Logan) is a long-lived Canadian who immigrated to the USA sometime between 1845 (the date of the first scene) and the US Civil War. Wolverine ...
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How sharp are Wolverine's claws? [closed]
Say you have a steel knife cutting through wood. The strength of the steel in the knife means it breaks wood and not the other way around, but it does not guarantee that it will go all the way through....
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Why would Wolverine be needed to greenlight Deadpool movie?
In the opening 4th wall breaking quote of "Deadpool" film, Deadpool tells the audience:
I know right? You're probably thinking, "Whose balls did I have to fondle to get my very own movie"? I can't ...
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How does wolverine function with an adamantium skeleton? [duplicate]
So, in a recent discussion I had there were a few interesting points raised about Wolverine - primarily how contradictory having an adamantium skeleton is.
Firstly; blood. Bone marrow is the source ...
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Did the idea for Wolverine come from Enter the Dragon?
I was watching Enter The Dragon (1973) for the first time and I noticed something.
Was that the first Wolverine? Was the real one copied from Mr.Han?
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Do deposits of Adamantium exist? [duplicate]
In-universe, if someone is willing to make a sword out of Adamantium (for example to fight Wolverine), are there places where they could find it?
Is this a metal that one can mine or purchase? And if ...
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Has Wolverine ever had his claws ripped out?
Wolverine's claws are coated in adamantium just like his skeleton, but there is no direct adamantium connection between the two - the claws are attached to muscle & tendon, not bone. It seems to ...
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Can Wolverine be considered a mutant?
When the first X-Men movie came out in the nineties (or 2000),I went for nostalgic reasons. Since then the MCU has exploded - my question is simply can Wolverine be considered a mutant; and were there ...
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What are the limits of Wolverine's immortality? [duplicate]
We all recognize the regenerative capacities of the countless characters from Marvel and DC, and Wolverine is one the first that comes in my mind when speaking of immortality (or "unkillability"?), ...
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Why is Wolverine the only one able to remember "reality" after M-Day?
After Scarlet Witch changes reality in House of M, Wolverine is seen to be the only person to remember the Earth-616 reality. Why is this so?
Everyone else's memories were changed by Wanda's power, ...
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In what year was it revealed that Wolverine has an adamantium skeleton?
When did readers learn that Wolverine has such feature? Was it known from the very first appearance of Wolverine in 'The Incredible Hulk #180' from October 1974?
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How did this bullet pass through Wolverine's Adamantium-covered skull?
Wolverine's whole body has an Adamantium layer underneath his skin. Adamantium is an indestructible metal, as shown in X-Men: The Last Stand but in X-Men 2 a policeman shoots Wolverine in the face, ...
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Does "Logan" have continuity with X-men movies? Which ones?
So we know the event's of 2013's The Wolverine took place in the original timeline. So just HOW does Logan have the Samurai sword in "Logan"? I guess the events of The Wolverine still could have ended ...
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How were they supposed to have a Wolverine cameo in Spider-Man 2?
I've read that Hugh Jackman almost had a cameo in the Spider-Man 2 movie, but there were some issues with the costume, and he couldn't appear in the movie.
But if they had succeeded in having him in ...
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In which comic did Hulk rip Wolverine in half?
When did this fight happen? In which comic issue did Hulk rip Logan in half?
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Can Hive/Alveus consume Wolverine/Deadpool [closed]
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I am going to call Hive/Alveus Alveus.
When referencing Deadpool/Wolverine, I am actually referencing Mutants with regenerative abilities.
I will use the term Consume to refer to Alveus's ...
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Was Xavier responsible for the Westchester Incident?
If you go to the wiki page for Logan, it states in the plot section that
But there's no citation for this, and from what I remember the movie left it intentionally ambiguous. However, it seems to be ...
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Where does Charles Xavier's seizure power come from? [duplicate]
In Logan, Charles Xavier suffers from dementia. He has seizures which seem to cause shock waves, resulting in headaches, and time slowing down. Does he have this power in the comics?
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Is X-24 a cyborg or bionic?
In the movie Logan, a character gets introduced called X-24, a mutant weapon created by Transigen, who is actually
What I'm interested to know is, is X-24 a cyborg or bionic? excluding his "skeleton"...
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Were these three the last surviving natural born mutants?
In Logan we have the following interactions:
While Logan is listening to the radio and a
talk-show host says, "It's 2029, why are still talking about
mutants?"
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What made the Munsons think that Laura was a mutant?
In Logan, the titular Logan along with Professor X and Laura are traveling when they stop to help the Munsons, a family of farmers. Throughout the encounter, Logan and the others keep their true ...
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In Logan, what disease is this character dying of?
In the 2017 movie Logan,
is dying of some disease, which is causing him to age and not regenerate as well. When he is helped by the small town doctor, the doctor offers to run some tests to help ...
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What are the essential films one needs to watch before "Logan"?
My best friend and I are planning to go see Logan soon, but she doesn't have the time to watch eight X-Men movies beforehand.
What are the most important movies to have seen before Logan?
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What are the non-contemporaneous items or design choices in Logan?
This is a follow up to this question
Logan takes place in 2029 in Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma and other wilderness locations.
Besides the obviously sci-fi elements (cybernetic mutants and their weapons, ...
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Why do Wolverine's claws have blades? [duplicate]
Disclaimer: My knowledge of the x-men franchise comes from the films, not comics or cartoons. Sorry if the answer is obvious in a different medium.
Okay, so Wolverine, of the X-men, has claws. They ...
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How did Wolverine get his Adamantium claws back? [duplicate]
In "The Wolverine", during the final battle, the Silver Samurai heats up his sword and cuts off Wolverine's Adamantium claws:
Then, after the Silver Samurai has been ...
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Are there any non-contemporaneous items in the Logan trailers? [duplicate]
Is has been established that Logan takes place in 2029.
And, as can be seen from the trailers 1 and 2, it takes place in desert terrain in Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico. So most things are old and ...
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Since when do X-Men comics exist in X-Men?
In the second Logan trailer, we see that X-Men comics exist in the X-Men universe:
LOGAN: [leafs through X-Men comic] We've got ourselves an X-Men fan ... Maybe ...
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Why is Logan locked in a well at the start of The Wolverine?
The opening scene of The Wolverine shows Logan in a POW camp when the bomb is dropped on Nagasaki. Why is he in a Japanese POW camp and more specifically, why is he locked in a well separate from ...
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Does Logan (Wolverine) get drunk?
It's not difficult to find scenes of Logan drinking.
Here's one (NSFW)
Does Logan get drunk?
If not, why does he drink? If yes, shouldn't his healing factor ...
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What is the track in the Logan (2017) trailer?
Here's the trailer in question:
What is this compelling song?
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If Wolverine broke a bone which protruded his skin, what would happen if he started to heal before it was set and splinted?
In X-Men Origins: Wolverine we see that Wolverine’s bones can be broken in the fight between him and Sabretooth.
So if he was to suffer an injury (let's say a very high fall) and broke his leg and ...
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How fast does Wolverine heal compared to the average human? [closed]
From comic/movie sources, how many times faster could Wolverine heal than the average human? Non-canon counts if you need to use it.
What is his healing time rate compared to the average, healthy ...
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Has Logan aged considerably in the new movie Logan? [duplicate]
In the new trailer we see Logan at the very end holding hands with a girl (sorry I don't know who she is), also throughout the clip we see his beard and there are quite a lot grey hairs in it:
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Why did Wolverine quickly age to about 30, then stop?
In the first scene of X-Men Origins: Wolverine, which is set in 1845, James Howlett (Wolverine) witnesses his father's death and that activates his mutation. Logan runs away with his brother, Victor. ...
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