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Wolverine's Healing Factor Explained | Comics Explained

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[comics_explained]

There seems to be a bit of confusion in the comments regarding this video. Just to clear things up, Wolverine isn't real. He's a fictional character. There is such a thing as an actual wolverine but that's an animal.

[JoaoFerreira-fxxp]

I just love the pannel where Deadpool says Wolverine's power isn't regeneration but popularity

[papilucky]

Wolverine's adamantium bones gives him a weight of 300 lbs instead of his normal 195 lbs. I assume with this he would suffer internal tissue damage due to the adamantium weight in his body. So his regeneration power is working constantly clearing the poison and repairing any tissue damage of his internal structure.

[Durakken]

I never liked the added in weakness because it goes against biology and what we're told about mutants in general. Basically, the more you use your power the stronger it becomes. And Wolverine's healing is so good that it pretty much restores to a pristine condition of what it was formerly and so the power should never weaken or age based on everything we know about aging. It seems that the writer/editor just threw it in just to give him a weakness, whether it made sense or not.

[stramyneZZ]

You forget that his healing factor is also slowed because of the constant adamantium poisoning.

[aaron]

I think this video is somewhat inaccurate. He pretty much didn't age at all until after he killed all the x-men, and the implication here was that he was no longer using his healing factor and that is what caused it to degrade, and throughout the story old man logan, it seemed to return to an extent. This means, should he keep being active and stressing his healing factor, he pretty much would not age (see romulus). Another thing not mentioned, is Wolverine is constantly fighting Adamantium poisoning. So even though he is one of Marvel's top healers, with arguably the best healing considering speed and consistency, he is doing all this while fighting that sickness. The point being that without the adamantuim removed he heals almost instantly (as seen in comics when Magneto turned him to a pile of sludge after removing the skeleton). He was able to fully reconstruct his body and in one frame, he was hit by a truck, but by the time the truck had passed over him, he was healed. The bottom line is he will never die of aging, likely he would remain the same age as depicted in old man logan as long as he ''exercised'' his factor ( I actually think he would de- age a bit). It was once shown that he was held captive by a person that tested his ability, and one test was allergic to oxygen.. Which he overcame with his factor. It is alot more powerful than is being given credit for here.

[GoldenWhistle]

i dont think wolverine age. Human doesn't start growing old till they reach their prime, that is when we finished growing our bodies. Wolverine stopped after his body finished developing. His healing factor is connect to his will to survive, in the old man logan story, he doesnt want to live anymore.

[MilkyGlint]

If u cut off woverine arm, and it regenerated, would the adamantium also regenerate as well as the flesh

[Autoinque]

Hey Rob, I was wondering if you'd be willing to a similar video on spideys spider sense. How you think it functions in the MCU and how it's changed and its interpretations. In the early days, he used to use it be able to locate all kinds of dangers, could warn him of a very specific danger, and could even pinpoint villains with it. Sometimes it's just quick second warning. And in the ultimate universe it was just a general warning for danger and was never very specific. I hear that Miles' is a bit different and that it's like precognition.

[kevinbaker]

In the Hulk vs Wolverine comic Nick Fury stated that Wolverine's healing factor is a survival mechanism oppose to just healing

[padd]

portals are way cooler than just having lazers

[AssembleAA]

Fan of Wolverine? Watch his full fight compilation here!

[WlfStride]

I humbly request, Gambit's Powers Explained. Most comics nowdays write Gambit's powers off as "explosive projectiles" which makes people think his powers are useless in most situations and dumb to have as a master thief. There is a lot of misconception about his powers among the community. Nowdays, you ask someone about Gambits powers and they say "oh the guy who can only throw explosive cards?" This makes him seem like a shallow character that can only do one thing. Where as in other (earlier)comics, and more accurately in the marvel database and his wiki, his powers are referred to as Bio-Kinetic Energy Manipulation which really expands on what his powers really are and what he can actually do. For example tapping into the potential energy objects (not just cards and can be organic as well as shown in multiple issues which the writers seem to forget), enhanced/quickened reflexes (blocking bullets shot by Forge), super agility (on par with daredevil), amplifying attacks (charging his bo staff and leveling a house), telepathic resistance, delicate deconstruction of materials he charges windows ect. Most people just don't know these days, and how he has been written recently makes him seem like a very shallow character that is a one trick pony with his cards. There is a reason Gambit is feared and also the King of Thieves. Just think it might make a decent video. Thanks a bunch. Really like your content and also the "Who is Gambit" video you did.

[cophezzeslangin]

Really enjoy the subtitles on your channel. Not everyone turns them on. The miss quotes are amazing.

[okumabear]

"You can't just take a knife and chop his head off"

Yes...yes you can. That's the thing everyone keeps forgetting about with Wolverine. His BONES are made of adamantium, not the connective tissue between them. A strong person, not even mutant strong, but just like bodybuilder strong, could snap his neck. Someone like The Hulk, Juggernaut, Strong Guy, The Thing, or hell even Spiderman can punch Wolverine's head clean off of his shoulders. I'd imagine that his cartilage and other connective tissues are a bit tougher than a normal human's, but they're still there. His neck isn't fused. You don't even need some Macguffin blade to do it, either. You can take just a normal run of the mill kitchen knife that's been sharpened well enough and cut the Canuck's head off...if he can't kill you in the process, at least. You can break his limbs by hyperextending the joints. You don't have to break the bones.

[PhilNEvo]

As far as I've understood it, he can regrow from a single cell, supposedly.

My question is, how does his cells or body parts know which part to grow out on? Like, if you chop his head off, why doesn't it grow a new body, while his body grow a new head?

[thephantazm]

can u do a video on his fighting prowess

[alanrussette]

Have they ever addressed why/how Wolverine heals from brain trauma. If his healing factor is merely a multiplier of a normal human's ability to heal, then he shouldn't be able to recover from multiple concussions (which he would definitely received over the years). By all rights, he should be a vegetable, albeit a vegetable in peak physical condition.

[davidlevy]

What would happen if you cut out cyclops's eyeballs

[TailFox]

Actually, you _can_ cut Wolverine's head off, because there's no Adamantium on his Cervical Vertebrae. When the scientists who coated his bones with Adamantium did it, they left it off those vertebrae, because it would've fused the bones together, and he wouldn't be able to turn his head. There's even an old comic where Charles Xavier is sitting in front of a computer screen with Woverine's body & skeleton showing in x-ray form, and there's a big circle around that part of his body, because that's the only place _on_ Wolverine's skeleton where there's no Adamantium. The only problem is, even if you manage to decapitate Wolverine, if you don't destroy his brain, you can just put his head back on his body, and it'll begin to heal.