Originally posted by Onikirimaru
The whole energy thing sounds kinda lame. I mean, it makes sense, but it seems like an easy way out to describe his damage regeneration. When he fights one person, he heals cuts instantly, but in another fight he gets hit by a truck and has to take a minute. I dont remember Wolverine ever saying "Oh, your lucky I only got two hours of sleep last night, otherwise I would have healed that by now" or "That blow would have KOed me, if I didnt eat my wheaties this morning" If his healing factor is based of the amount of energy he has, then it seems like his healing factor is a cellular process that requires fuel (ATP fueling cellular division at an increased rate?). Which means that he could only heal up to a certain point, in which his cells would begin to run out of fuel and stop healing. It would also mean his body would be ravenously hungry if he had to heal alot quickly, like the Flash's enhanced metabolism.I realize that we are suppose to think of the heroes at their strongest, but Wolverine only appears to fluctuate and be strong enough to give whoever he is fighting at the time a good fight.
The idea that his body adapts and forms a kind of immunity to super strength is a good idea. Its similar to how his mind forgot this past to "heal" his mental scars. But if that was true then his body would be alot different than a normal humans. His body would have adapted with like, extremely hard boney armor, or something like that. Unless he is secretly a saiyan and gets stronger whenever he is almost killed.
Oh, and in regard to his pain threshold, I think he has a normal person's pain threshold, he just doesnt tend to care that it hurts since hes gonna heal it anyway. If I had a healing factor, Id do stuff like jump out of windows for fun. It would hurt, but I wouldnt let it bother me because Id know Ill be ok. All in the mind.
well it's just a theory... it's the best I could come up with to try and explain wolverine's inconsistancy for his healing factor and it makes sense to a certain degree...I do think that his healing factor can get maxed out....just not in a fighting scenario.... in terms of my theory it would convievably take days to wear him down to that point.... also havok as exausted himself by using his mutant power in overdrive... I could definitely see the same thing happening to wolvie..just not very quickly...
as far as his immunity to strong guys....I guess I should have been more clear, sorry... in THAT perticular theory I assumed his BRAIN is what built up an immunity...like extra tissue or something, his body just got adept at healing his internal organs at faster and faster rates...for instance he was gutted by cyber and took the entire night to recover, (while one may blame cyber's drugs for causing this effect there was no indication that the drugs slowed the healing factor down so I assume it did not) however a few years back when he was gutted by puma, he was drugged again and yet his healing factor stiched up the damage before the fight was over.....it's similar to how our bodies are...for instance...if you run a few miles and you get home your legs become horribly fatigued..you continue to run and the time it takes your legs to heal becomes less and less............so IMO his brain's become harder to rattle, and his body faster to heal....
even at a happy medium logan's surely more capable of taking whatever conan dishes out in abundance...and remember he only needs one hit to sufficently de-abilitate conan....