Wouldn't be an easy way to kill Logan neutralizing his powers (any of the many devices able to do so or the use of Leach's or Elixir's powers) and then simply shoot him?
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you wanna know what completely doesn't make sense, and what completely takes all credit away from most of these instances? a "healing factor," meant to repair damaged tissue and regenerate lost tissue from a certain "colony," cannot create something out of nothing. and, unless wolverine's healing factor was retconned into a "alchemic matter-altering factor," simply "healing" an arm back onto metallic bones is impossible. every instance of such can be explained away as easily as spider-man beating firelord.
wolverine's gone through an entire issue, one of your favorites in fact, completely covered in shadow. why not an issue or two only half-covered?
and, lastly, there's still no on-panel evidence of wolverine getting his head chopped off; outside of a crazy nazi's journal entries. you can let that part of the argument go any time you want...
regardless of frequency, which often does act as a deciding factor in these events, logan's miraculous recoveries all come from misunderstanding about how his powers function. not even the "housed in every cell" theory can explain the complete regrowth of an arm from a purely metal set of bones. sebastian shaw was made a telepath once. that mistake doesn't stem from him acting outside of his powers' range, but from the writer not knowing their material. maybe it's just coincidence, though i suspect it's idiocy, that makes the same event happen again, and again, and again with logan.
You mean like the invisible woman seeing with invisible retinas? Or spiderman being able to grab a material that holds characters stronger than he, and then just releases it? Or Cyclops being able to fire as beam of concussive light, let alone being able to do this with no kick back? Or winged characters being able to flap hard enough, fast enough, to sustain a hover, let alone actual flight, without super strength or massive mucles? Or how about any energy projecting mutants with no real explination as how they do it? or ones that can turn ionto solid ice, or steel. Or how about radiation giving super powers rather than cancer, and the asame radiation gives different people different powers? Or gaining powers from a spider that was hit by hyper accelerated particles and not disinigrated on contact?
What's with the one sided disention against the frequent events of one character, when so many others have similar if not worse problems?
logan's powers have practical, physical boundaries. as "advanced" as they can be, recuperation cannot include the creation of matter. wolverine's healing power has always had definition, and physical means of working. regardless of the other "mysteries" surrounding any number of characters, wolverine is operating beyond his defined limitations many times. and, unlike certain characters whose very powers derive from "impossible" sources, wolverine's do not. unless there's some kind of retcon that says wolverine's "advanced" healing power has been completely revamped to achieve the same results as his prior factor, but through drastically different means, there's no practical explanation for feats such as regrowing an arm, even in a mutant sense.
Its your DNA, your genes are replicated and identical cells are made. Wolverine's adamantium bone wouldn't have any identical DNA to replicate from. even so organelles like mitochondria have part their own DNA, and a previous one is needed for the replication on another. The only way wolves healing factor would feesibly work is that he regenerates from say the shoulder down to the finger tips... but that didn't happen in the Cassandra nova issue, the whole arm just regenerated... meh I don't care, wolverine is wolverine, hes just wolverine.
I personally don't get why you said that comment, but fair dues.. it ain't my arguement
i don't see hypocrisy or one-sidedness. instead, i see reality versus fantasy, even in a fantastic setting. nobody ever said "spider-man's powers work by reproducing spider-like abilities within a human form, as is what happens in the real world." wolverine's power has ALWAYS been bounded to a simple advancement of a human's own healing capabilities. there's a difference between how the powers are meant to operate, and judging something meant to be advanced realism versus something meant to be purely fantastic requires different sets of rules.
anyway, cyclops' eyes are interdimensional portals, the energy streams through them as if they weren't there. no need for a recoil. sue storm changes how light reflects off of her, causing a distortion affect to make her appear invisible. she's not changing how light impacts on her, so there's no reason she shouldn't be able to see. not only that, but it's pure fantasy. same goes for spider-man's tricks, often stuck into his self-created SvFL category. they may make faux-science in the comics, but it's not real, and can't be compared to a real-world scenario. warren's wings have always had enhanced strength enough to lift and carry him through the skies. they're not limp chickadee wings. various energy producers simply aren't given explanation as they're minor characters. chock that up to "pure fantasy" or lack of explanation, but most "main" energy-producers get explanations that are equally fantastic. iceman's genetic destiny defies human boundaries anyway, and colossus' "energy wave" that converts him to steel is a faux-alchemic property. typical superhumans have an "x-factor" that is NOT genetic, that grants them certain powers once catalyzed. if radiation or gamma rays or cosmic rays act as the catalyst, does that not just move them further into "fantasy"? or what about the supernatural aspect to spidey's powers, as explained by ezekiel?
NONE of the above-mentioned crap is either meant to reflect reality. people don't have wings, people don't have energy beams, and people aren't made of exotic carbon chains. people ARE capable of healing themselves with some degree of speed, which has been the basis of wolverine's powers from the get-go.
enough rambling... the bottom line is wolverine's healing factor is meant to reflect an advanced human ability, whereas your other examples aren't. they can't be held to the same standards, just as varied crimes are held to different folkways and legal restrictions.
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