Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Okay, some things. First of all where are you getting that Wolverine's healing factor was so much slower in WWI? If anything, it would be faster because Logan had not yet undergone the adamantium-bonding which automatically slows his HF down due to the fact that his body is always trying to reject the poison. Also, if you remember Millar had his HF waaaay up during WWII. This means that it hasn't magically gotten stronger over the years as you've suggested.
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There's nothing magical about it.
It's a known fact that Wolverine's HF has gotten stronger over the years.
Aside from the fact that Guggenheim flat out stated it in his own story, it was first discussed upon after the Fatal Attractions storyline in Excalibur when Proffesor X has assessed that wounds which may have proven fatal in the past would now be nothing more than a momentary annoyance. This was further extrapolated upon as Xavier and Mac Hudson discussed that the metal was halting Wolverine from a further mutation, backed up by the concept of mutants going through secondary mutations, and supported once again by several statements from Sabretooth that Wolverine would continue to change until he became like another Sabretooth.
As far as Millars story. Assuming it was Wolverine (as the write-up for the story implied that it may not even have been), that was nothing more than an uncharacterisitcally high showing for him at that point in time.
As there's multitudes of consistency with having a weaker HF.
-Right before WWI he had his eye ripped out by Cyber and it was implied that he was missing it for the duration of their encounter while freaking out, where as he got his eye slashed out by Shingen with the adamantium and it was opened up and healed by the time the fight was over.
- In "My Mutant Heart", Wolverine's gassed unconcious rather quickly during the 1940's. Yet in Return of the Native, with Adamantium, Wolverine's running around killing multitudes of Cape Killers totally uneffected in a cloud of gas that was dropping men instantly upon having their masks removed.
- In his first encounter with Captain America, Wolverine was KOed by a carwreck and a handful of bullets to the torso. Well, I don't think I need to explain how the Adamantiumized Wolverine deals with droves of bullets.
- During his time in WWII he got shot in the head and put down for some time. Since his "downgrade he's been shot in the brain and got up immediately even after Scrambler got ahold of him.
- After WWII Wolverine got manhandled rather easily after his time in Jasmine Falls without taking much damage whatsoever. Adamantiumized Wolverine took six shots from WWH before he stopped fighting back.. Nuff Said.
- Wolverine was later again KOed by bullets during the Cold War and Maverick had to save him. Again, bullets?
- Slightly after the Cold War or at the end of it while Wolverine was on a team X mission with Langram, Wolverine was hit with an ATV which crushed his face and ribs and KOed him.. again.. Immediately after having his adamantium removed, Wolverine was hit with a car that broke almost every bone in his body, and he was already up and nearly healed when he got done rolling from the collision.
- Shortly after that, Wolverine got tranqed by 3 darts and pistol whipped unconscious before they hauled him off to Weapon X. Deadpool had to shoot him with enough tranqs to bring down a T-Rex, and even then he was up and fighting back before they could even secure him in the Administrators facility.
- Hell, there's even examples after Fatal Attractions, where Wolverine didn't heal as quickly up to getting his adamantium back as he has been recently.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Guggenheim made an attempt to say it has but really he probably referring to the past twenty years or so.
Which is when his HF was upgraded most. 😬
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
I mean common, man, back in 82, a single bullet slowed Wolverine down enough to give Shingen an advantage.
Terrible example. It wasn't a single bullet that slowed him down it was poison.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Now Shingen goes down easily to Logan.
Makes sense given that Logan now remembers more of his training and all his experience than he did when he and Shingen fought in issue 4.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Guggenheim tried to something that I wish would happen more - downgrade Logan's healing factor. I'm sick of this Frank Tieri-like take on the character that Logan heals the moment he gets injured. I mean, I would rather see him use his SKILL first, and HF and so forth as a "just in case" rather than just bull-dozing through loads and loads of bullets like he did during Frank Tieri's run. In fact, I would even say I hate seeing Logan like that. I much prefer the take on him during the 84 Kitty Pryde/Wolverine miniseries. That showed that Logan, when Berserk can take an opponent more skilled than him. It also showed that he IS vulnerable and takes time to heal. He's not invincible which in my mind just puts too much cheese on the character. And yes, at the time, Ogun was more skilled that Wolverine. Now, not so sure as Logan has had years to practice more.
Well no offense but I don't much care for your preference on what Wolverine "should be like" according to you as this isn't what the discussion is about so I'm going to ignore this little rant.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Secondly, how much bullets, flamethrowers, or whatever affect Logan has to do with the writer.
And by MAJORITY, most writers have him shrugging them off. Characters on KMC operate at their best based on majority showings.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
I mean, Wolverine barely handled mystique an hour or so after blowing himself up. Or however long it was. The point is, his skin was charred and his muscles ripped to pieces, and Mystique of all people game him problems.
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Another terrible example.
Wolverine had no food or sleep since Cyclops sent him on his mission because if he did he'd lose ground on Mystique.
Wolverine was meandering around in the desert where his healing factor is diminished and has been stated so on panel.
Wolverine had been shot by hundreds of bullets and blown up by enough C4 to fill up a passenger car seat.
Practically charred to a skeleton and he was already on persuit again.
And again, his HF doesn't negate pain, he's already stated that he goes through phantom pains after the wound in question heals.
He was nowhere near 100% while fighting Mystique, experiencing phantom pains, still healing muscle and tendons, and he still beat her ass back even with years of knowing Wolverine and what he's capible of.
Hell, in their last fight, she had to rely on CIS just to draw him in for the brain shot.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
DP blows him up like five times and all it does is get Wolverine angry.
Which again makes sense given that DP was going after a 100% Wolverine while Mystique fought Wolverine who was nowhere near that.... 😐
For someone who wants to be the real Wolverine you sure miss out on a lot of key points about his career. 😕
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
If Daniel Way had an ounce of logic and proper understanding of either character, Wolverine would not have allowed himself to get blown up in the first place, but if he had, he would be injured enough to lose BADLY to DP.
Depends on if he starts at 100% or not.
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
I mean, if Mystique can fair evenly against a wounded Wolverine, what's DP going to do? Not that Mystique should equal Wolverine under ANY circumstances, but the point is that writing plays a huge part in how efficient Logan's healing factor works.
He wasn't just wounded, he had a momumentily deminished healing factor, and was healing from a practical skeleton.. 😬
He suffered nothing like that against DP...
Originally posted by The Real Wolvie
Okay, so I guess on that note, what I was trying to say was that DP would have to use weapons to take Logan down - he's not going to do it H2H and he knows it. He has to cheat, hire people, and use loads and loads of guns and grenades in order to beat Logan and even then he has his hands full because Logan has a habit of dodging all those weapons.
or taking them and laughing them off.