Lmao i didn’t even get past “kills everything she touches” without my adhd brain flying away and imagining how sad and lonely she must be and how on order to have human touch, she’d have to find somebody either incapable of dying or who can realive themselves. Like a living-dead girl. Also I assumed she was gay for some reason.
Damn, that’s a good comic. Dark superhero comics are definitely my thing; Worm/Ward (Parahumans universe by Wildbow, online fiction) are good recommendations if anybody likes this sort of thing
I’m not a big comic fan (I’ve only read small snippits like this), but this is from the “ultimates” storyline, which to my understanding is an alternate universe where things are… much bleaker than normal Marvel
Wolverine? He can die, can’t he? He’s just really really hard to kill, to my knowledge, and just regenerates really really fast. But if she touches somebody and they instantly die… That won’t make much difference. Unless he’s ACTUALLY immortal, rather than just effectively/virtually immortal and just really really hard to kill.
Her touch isn’t instant death, but it’s fast enough that it makes no difference to most people. His regeneration can keep up, but barely. And at the end of the first movie, he does touch her.
Except her power is to take other people’s powers. Theirs stops working shortly after contact is made. His regeneration might help for a few seconds… Until it stops working because she stole it.
It has been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so I looked it up to make sure. Her power is to borrow other people’s powers through physical contact. Essentially, if contact is short and he can regain his power fast enough (which he does), he’s fine. Those few seconds his regeneration helps with are all he needs.
That doesn’t do a whole lot to help with the touch issue this entire thread was about. When people talk about wanting human touch, they don’t mean just a half second tap.
Depends on the author and how “important” he is to the story. In the original civil war comic arc, a Nitro dude exploded him down to the shiny bones. Wolvie came back from that in 5 minutes. On the days of future past comic arc in the 80s, oldverine dies from a sentinel blast that also leaves him as just metal bones.
Ridiculous with it in the 2000s. In the old days it was he just heals faster than most and take a beating but he can still die. I remember one where he was sneaking onto a ship or something and was starving so he cannibalize his own arm which didn’t make sense. Also another one had a story about how he was in a concentration camp in WW2 and kept get incinerated and coming back. Just tons of dumb shit like that that made the character less interesting.
Lmao i didn’t even get past “kills everything she touches” without my adhd brain flying away and imagining how sad and lonely she must be and how on order to have human touch, she’d have to find somebody either incapable of dying or who can realive themselves. Like a living-dead girl. Also I assumed she was gay for some reason.
You should definitely check out this 20 page short comic: https://imgur.com/gallery/wolverines-job-isnt-always-easy-to-do-I71V6
It’s basically that, and Wolverine goes in because his regeneration keeps him alive
(Edit: From Marvel’s Ultimate X-Men Vol. 1 #41)
Sheesh that’s kinda dark.
Damn, that’s a good comic. Dark superhero comics are definitely my thing; Worm/Ward (Parahumans universe by Wildbow, online fiction) are good recommendations if anybody likes this sort of thing
Jesus CHRIST. There was no other solution? I get the pragmatism, but… Fuck. This is like an actual mercy killing.
I’m not a big comic fan (I’ve only read small snippits like this), but this is from the “ultimates” storyline, which to my understanding is an alternate universe where things are… much bleaker than normal Marvel
That’s not even counting the guy that instantly dissolved everyone around him and the X-Men sent Logan to take him out.
Like Logan?
Nah, Wolverine was canonically cishet last I checked 🤷
Wolverine? He can die, can’t he? He’s just really really hard to kill, to my knowledge, and just regenerates really really fast. But if she touches somebody and they instantly die… That won’t make much difference. Unless he’s ACTUALLY immortal, rather than just effectively/virtually immortal and just really really hard to kill.
Her touch isn’t instant death, but it’s fast enough that it makes no difference to most people. His regeneration can keep up, but barely. And at the end of the first movie, he does touch her.
Except her power is to take other people’s powers. Theirs stops working shortly after contact is made. His regeneration might help for a few seconds… Until it stops working because she stole it.
It has been a while since I’ve seen the movie, so I looked it up to make sure. Her power is to borrow other people’s powers through physical contact. Essentially, if contact is short and he can regain his power fast enough (which he does), he’s fine. Those few seconds his regeneration helps with are all he needs.
That doesn’t do a whole lot to help with the touch issue this entire thread was about. When people talk about wanting human touch, they don’t mean just a half second tap.
He’s fine in the source material
Depends on the author and how “important” he is to the story. In the original civil war comic arc, a Nitro dude exploded him down to the shiny bones. Wolvie came back from that in 5 minutes. On the days of future past comic arc in the 80s, oldverine dies from a sentinel blast that also leaves him as just metal bones.
Ridiculous with it in the 2000s. In the old days it was he just heals faster than most and take a beating but he can still die. I remember one where he was sneaking onto a ship or something and was starving so he cannibalize his own arm which didn’t make sense. Also another one had a story about how he was in a concentration camp in WW2 and kept get incinerated and coming back. Just tons of dumb shit like that that made the character less interesting.
Huh? Rogue’s power is that she sucks power/energy out of other people, wolverine regenerates so he’s fine.
This happened in the movies. He survived, but was not “fine”.
He really gave her the gift of life 💦
Regeneration is his power. She takes powers. Regeneration won’t help him for very long.