spetznaz
Senior Fanboy Killer
Originally posted by Silent Master
Ok.That doesn't look like a win to me.
To be honest with you Wolverine should be one of the biggest chumps in comicdom! The only way he gets by is because for a while he literally had Marvel (the company) on his shoulders .....especially when the entire comic industry was struggling to simply keep the lights on (after the slump caused by speculators, who by the way included upper echelon people like money managers, really messing up the industry).
Anyways, for a while Wolverine was one of the biggest draws for Marvel, and hence to satiate the various fanboys that Wolverine had cultured, Marvel would have Wolverine do things that are simply above him.
The reality of the matter is that Wolverine is:
- A mutant
- Has a skeleton LACED (not made of, laced) with adamantium
- Has claws laced with adamantium, and are sharp enough to cut through ALMOST (note: almost) anything.
- Has a very effective healing factor (although not the best by any measure .....for instance the Hulk's healing factor is far better)
- Is an effective fighter (although in most cases he is merely a brawler .....Wolverine, based on his history, should be a very efficient and techinal fighter. However for the most part he just snarls, unsheaths and sheaths his claws in quick succession for no reason whatsoever, and when he fights he is just hacking and slashing. Yet we are to believe that Wolverine has been through Samurai training, is honor bound by Giri, and adheres to Bushido!?! I loved when Elektra was trying to lead Feral Wolverine back to the ways of Bushido - this was after Magneto had removed the adamantium from him - and it seemed as if Marvel was coming to the realization that Wolverine could be far more honed than he is, however all that was quickly forgoten. Although there is hope with the whole Soul-stealer saga)
- Is short
- Is hairy (with a rather ridiculous hair cut)
- Is named after a small furry animal that has a very bad temper and is said to be quite tenacious
- Likes cigars (and since he is quite 'earthy' they are probably quite cheap)
- Like young Japanese women.
- He has finely tuned senses of smell and hearing.
That is Wolverine.
What he is not:
-He SHOULD not be able to beat nearly ALL of the people he tangles with (characters like Spiderman should play with Wolverine like a toy, and Hulk/Namor level characters would liquefy his insides with one punch). Oh, and he is definitely not a match for Superman or WonderWoman (as certain have stated in the past)
- He is SHOULD not even be a high level character. His power mix may be good enough to get him a place in the Morlocks (the mutant outcasts that used to live in the sewer systems underneath New York city), but I am astounded why even the X-men would want the runt!? Well ....unless they want very well sliced slivers of ham on their breakfast toast!
- He is constantly over-estimated. Logan is many things, but he is simply not the best in anything (well, apart from the whole cheap cigar/young Japanese women thing). Think about it:
> His healing factor is not the best
> His fighting abilities are not the best
> He is not the shortest nor the smaller
> Beast has a better 'Wolverine haircut' than Wolverine himself
> His adamantium setup is not the best (Lady Deathstrike has a better adamantium hookup .....as Wolverine himself said when comparing himself to Yuriko Oyama: 'All I got were the claws and the skeleton... she got the entire package'😉
> He is not the longest lived mutant (goodness, even people like Exodus and Sinister have been on earth longer than Wolverine by centuries, and Apocalypse is simply on a different level. All mutants)
> His anger-management problem is not the worst (WildChild has a far worse anger issue)
> His claw set is not the best (X-23 has a more versatile set due to having an additional claw in each foot, meaning that even her kicks would be deadlier ......and as for hand claws Lady Deathstrikes have far more capability)
> He is not the smartest, fastest, bravest, best looking ........I could go on forever!
Wolverine is simply not the best in anything, including the things that supposedly should be his. As I stated even Beast has a better Wolverine-haircut than Wolverine himself!
HOWEVER, there are 2 things that Wolverine can take the top prize for:
1) Being one of the most perpetually over-estimated characters in comicdom.
Now, some people may say that Doom takes the prize. Or Batman. Some may even say Superman.
But at least Doom and Bruce use their minds to reach their objective, and thus epitomize the whole mind over bruteforce/matter/strength ideal that has marked the human race ever since the first cave man killed a wooly Mammoth.
And Superman is ....well .....let's just say that he was so powerful DC had to 'cool him down' a bit, and even then he was still extremely powerful.
BUT Wolverine is just some short dude with ginsu-knives popping out of his ham-fists
2) The second thing Wolverine gets top prize for?
Well, he is the strongest character in Marvel .....bar none!
What!??!
Have I gone mad?????
Well, no. Every single time Wolverine pops his claws he proves, beyond all reasonable doubt, that he is in fact the strongest person in Marvel.
How:
Well, adamantium is supposed to be almost unbreakable. As close to unbreakable as matter can come.
Alright,and it has been shown that Wolverine's claws extend from deep in his forearms to just behind the spaces between his knuckles, and that when he pops them they extend through the spaces between the knuckles.
Ok ......when he is fighting Wolverine has been shown bending his wrists.
Bending his wrists, even when he has several adamantium coated claws (which are so long that they extend about a foot OUTSIDE when he pops them).
The guy bends his wrist at will, with the adamantium apparently being so malleable that it might not be there at all to begin with.
(End Saracasm)
Wolverine is a chump!