Living longer doesn't necessarily mean he has better skills.
And he spent most of those years in canada during the late 1800's and early 1900's living in the wild or in some shack somewhere. He spent the rest of his life being brainwashed and having his past erased by the gov.
He's spends a couple of years in Japan training as a samurai and he suddenly knows every martial arts style in the world?
Batman is barely in the top ten of DC martial artists, and the number of styles you know hardly decided how skilled you are (although those crapy Handbooks do say he knows ever martial art). Captain America knows every martial art and while the two have never actually fought the brief tossels they have (there are two) have them around even in skill (Captain America might have also said Wolverine was better then him when the teamed up to fight a gaint robot) and Wolverine has pawned Shang Chi in three panels (Chi is also one of the few Marvel character's that have been said to be master's of every fighting style) and he has beat Zarana even harder and he even held his own against Stick. There isn't a doubt in my mind that Wolverine is a better fighter the Wolverine but I have no problem letting people think what the want, Bruce could be 10 times the fighter Wolverine is and he would still lose.
Also on the Hulk thunderclap issue, I believe in Incredible Hulk 454, used the clap on the x-men (including Wolverine ) but I dont remember the out come.
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Wolverine Origin ends at him being somewhere around 20-ish i think. Not just by his looks, but also by comparing to Rose.
After that it's a blur, so it could've been anything, really, since Smitty made him curious about the Japanese and he might've decided to head over there as the next location. It's all speculation though, and i agree that it doesn't make much sense.
Where did you get this information that Cap knows every martial art form from? I think it's very very much mistaken
I thought he just knew American Boxing, judo, something else, and his own shield style.
I have post a scan before where he says it. Sadly I can't do it again since I have no clue what issue it's from as I got it off a Captain America respect tread on another forum. It's an old issue mid 70's early 80's, Cap is fighting Baron Zemo who is bragging about his MA skills a judo chopping threw a bunch of stuff. Captain America owns him and says something like "I was a master of every fighting style known to man while you were a child'
And Shang Chi like his father is a master of every martial, and he has a) beat his father and b) beat half a dozen of the monks from the temple his father trained at who also where masters of every fighting style at the same time. Master of Kung-Fu is the name of his comic... not his skill set
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Also, W8888 just because he was around more means very little. he was around during the two world wars and he participated in both, so not a lot of time spent training in martial arts then huh? He was in Canada with Rose till around 20-ish like i said before, he was involved with the Weapon X program, etc. etc.
If anything, his very full schedule would have allowed him INCREDIBLY little time to actually learn many styles, or master a few
Well i don't know about that, but every handbook i have with cap in it says that he's a master of american boxing, judo, something i can't remember and his own style with the shield so........
Not to mention he keeps having his past and memory erased by the gov.
Even if he did learn any of it before he got into weapon X I doubt he would remember any of it.
PIS my friend, not to mention the only reason Wolverine is on the New Avengers (and Astonishing X-men for that matter) is to be the whipping boy and get owned when ever possible.
Also SHIELD operatives are among the best trained in the world. There is an issue of The Pulse where some old SHEILD Agent is talking to Jessica and he is like, "I know you have superpowers, but I'm a level 9 SHIELD Agent and could talk you down in a second."
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