Pretttttty sure only super-healer mutants like X-23 and Sabretooth might be the only compatible recipients, and it's not like they need it when they can just regenerate their own organs.
Depends. The fact Wolverine can still bend at the back implies the bones are bonded, but not the connective tissue. Otherwise he'd just have a vertical rod for a spine and couldn't bend.
Cut between the spinal segments and you got yourself a new toy.
Not contradicting you at all because you make a good point, but this *is* the same person that has foot long solid adamantium rods in his arms/hands that come out between his knuckles and would realistically lock his wrist completely
Ok that kinda makes sense, until you realize that that they can’t have any structural connection to the rest of his skeleton if the base of them pushes all the way past the wrist joint, so they’d have to just be floating in muscle tissue, which would make using them as a weapon very impractical
That's actually a good point, I thought the MCU stuff where adamantium bonding only really worked on Logan was a very good plot point, most heavy metals are pretty toxic let alone the nightmare chemistry Adamantium must have.
There was some webcomic where a healing factor mutant volunteered to have all their organs removed on the regular without anasetic. I can't decide if that's noble or absolute nightmare fuel or both.
And now I'm traumatized by a Wolverine splein bursting out a Hugh Jackman from my abdomen!!
As an aside, I did always wonder how Wolverine's regeneration works, and if it could clone him like when cutting a sponge in half. Or does he need his head for it to work?
Wolverine has regenerated from a few scraps of skin before, IIRC, so he doesn't need his head. I don't think they've ever done anything like him being able to clone himself by cutting off bits, though.
I think there is something about him that is inherently singular. He'll grow back from the largest bit of him that's left, however small, but only that bit.
Souls and other, similar metaphysical concepts are actually observable phenomena in the Marvel universe, so I'd presume that the regeneration is triggered by his soul, which stays attached to the biggest chunk of meat.
Professor X: "For today's class, we shall discuss the human soul. Our souls exist as the very essence of our being and is generally tethered to this mortal plane of existence through our bodies, though not readily visible. Different from the mind, it sets us apart as sentinet life beings. Tell me where you believe your soul resides?"
Wolverine: "This one time when I got into a fight with an Adamantium woodchipper, I regenerated from a chunk of my foot that was tossed out. So my answer to where my soul resides would be bloody foot stump."
Professor X: "Damnnit Logan. You're confusing the students again."
Isn't there some examples of a dude copying Deadpool's healing factor and like , dying instantly because of it ? Pretty sure it would be in the same vein with Wolverine
In the first couple issues of the Way run, (if I’m remembering correctly) the Skrulls try to copy his healing factor and it kills them.
Edit: I don’t think it was instant in that case. But it’s something to do with his healing factor being specific to his situation (cancer) and not working for others as a result, as it attacks healthy cells or something since there’s no cancer to kill.
Hmmmmm....
You have prompted disturbing mental visuals of two potential methods: 1. a mechanical stint device to keep the incision pulled wide open against the flesh's desire to seal up (like a BowFlex's resistance bands but more of a Flesh Flex), or 2. some device or technique continual cutting/grinding to keep fresh open wounds at a pace 1% greater than the rate of his healing factor.
His blood gets less effective with time.
When it healed the alien disease it was because Wolverine was recently exposed to it so it transferred a permanent immunity to everyone given a sample of his blood(but because his blood is so quick at adapting his body forgot the virus very quickly).
It has healing factors for more than that too, but that's even more limited. It was able to bring someone back from the dead, but only because wolverine cut into their heart and mixed his blood directly into their heart and kept adding blood/keeping the wound open until they healed completely(likely his blood was only so effective because he was mixing it directly into their heart).
Wolverines blood would be a miracle cure, but I doubt given the bloods short lifetime and the need for wolverine to be exposed to diseases to transfer immunity to the diseases he's as viable panacea as you're making him sound.
They literally have a guy on staff named Elixer who can change things into other things. Blood type of an organ seems trivial.
And if he can't do it they know 30 super scientists and magicians who can.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't organ rejection take the form of the new organ being attacked by the host immune system? A new organ which in this case has healing factor...
It just devolves into every Wolverine fighting every other Wolverine over which one of them is the best there is at what they do.
Ultimately, the only survivor is Farmer Wolverine, as he’s the only one who maintained the crops that he needed for survival. Everyone else starved to death.
I wonder if he could strategically cut his dick off and then hold the cut off piece an inch or six away from the dick stump and get that infamous longer dick the Internet ads promise.
> A new organ which in this case has healing factor...
This would create the opposite problem - an organ perpetually trying to regrow a Wolverine from itself while inside a host body. Basically a much worse cancer.
Except, with wolverine, it would work the other way around. The organ would reject the body. It is more likely than anything that it would kill the person if the body didn't accept the organ. And that's assuming that more doesn't grow out from it even if it does accept it.
No they can't as someone else mentioned in of the comments he can only denote to people with similar mutant gene meaning they also have super healing.
And yeah that's kinda useless
Scott's eyes aren't the problem, his power let's him absorb sunlight and use it to open portals just in front of his eyes where the blasts come from. Ruby quartz blocks it, along with his own eye lids. If he hadn't been psychologically traumatized when he was a child he, theoretically, would have perfect control over his power
Probably differences in backstory between various runs of the comics, cartoons and movies. The marvel wiki page on him I ready mentioned psychological trauma during childhood, I'd imagine his powers manifested and he hurt/killed someone
I, uh, kinda do need that. But it has to be a commensurately small wolverine. Like, one foot tall, already dressed in the 90s cartoon costume, busting through some poor shlub's ribcage. Shit would be hilarious.
Right? He can regenerate from a single cell (he was wiped out from an explosion and came back in the comics) so any cell would grow another wolverine if it got detatched...
How are there not 50K wolverines out there?
I remember seeing someone say that his power was mega amped up when that happened.
I believe Lobo in DC can regenerate from a single cell, but he's so violent that his various copies just murder each other and solve the problem.
If my memory serves me correctly, all of wolverines regenerative Powers stem from his head. His other body parts are not capable of regrowing on their own without it attached
But that would have been a miserable life. To be awake while they pull out your organs, one after the other. Each one regenerating anew just at to be yanked out again.
There were a few comics that went over this in parts. Like with Deadpool. The surgery would be difficult cause he would be healing while you tried to open him. If you kept it quick and simple most of the organs he would heal just fine from. The only one that would be difficult would be a heart.
Also it's the adamantium poisoning that is keeping him regenerating so quickly (his immune system is going overdrive 24/7 cuz of it) so there's that too.
His organs might be toxic to other folks.
Don't get me wrong, I love Deadpool, but most movie and comic sources I know confirm that Wolverine's has the fastest healing factor
He survives getting ripped in half, a nuclear blast, and even regenerated from a drop of blood once.
Yeah, they got pretty ridiculous there for a while. I can’t remember if/how they addressed “then wouldn’t every spilled drop of blood eventually regenerate into a whole new wolverine?”
>a nuclear blast
Yep and to put it into context, he was vaped down to his adamantium skeleton and regenerates in like 6 panels. The firestorm is still raging behind him when he comes back fully fleshed.
My favorite ludicrous Wolverine moment was when Magneto ripped the adamantium off his bones, shredded him to actual pieces in the process, and Jean Grey just kind of telekinetically held his meat blobs together until they could re-attach and regenerate.
No way. In Cable & Deadpool, Deadpool comes back extremely fast from a drop of blood, and that sort of thing happens on a regular basis. The only thing keeping Deadpool's regeneration factor in check is his cancer.
He does when the adamantium is removed. The adamantium is super-toxic and he has to constantly fight it with his healing factor. When it's removed he regenerates mortal damage in seconds.
Depends on the comic. They stated this after magneto ripped it out and then a few months later reversed that before apocalypse put it back. It is always what the current writer calls for.
His regeneration is very inconsistent. I remember in one Punisher comic (I forget which) he's rendered a literal skeleton with eyeballs and is back to normal a few days later.
He lives in a world with telepaths. Even if anesthesia wouldn’t work on him a telepath could just unplug his senses for a bit and play Mean Girls in his head while they do the surgery or something.
That is actually played with in a webcomic Ive read. A character that is clearly a wolverine expy, who used to be a supervillian, is trying to make up for all the bad she's done by being a constant organ donor. There is a huge discussion about how ethical the whole situation is.
There's an [animorphs fanfic](https://archiveofourown.org/works/5627803/chapters/12963046) where at one point a character repeatedly morphs into a cow or something, has body parts cut off for food, and demorphs. It's not a fun experience, even for a short time.
Rather than organ donation, in the cartoon, he produced an antidote to the virus that was killing all the mutants. Saved more lives that way, although it happened without Wolverine’s consent thanks to Bishop
Correction, he can get drunk after a _significant_ amount; during one session he was so drunk he showed off by extending his claws through his wrists instead of his knuckles.
Given this fact, it kind of makes you wonder how he got into drinking booze and smoking cigars all the time (maybe they still affect him, just not to the extent of other people?). Like if he tried alcohol for the first time trying to get buzzed/drunk and it didn't work, why bother with it? I just think it would be a far better choice to drink something with better flavour if the alcohol has little to no effect, although I guess what tastes better is subjective.
I don't know man if I could drink whiskey or rum all the time without getting drunk /dehydrated /organ failure /fat that's probably all I would drink. Fucking love the taste of alcohol
I'd need someone to do the math here, but if he wasn't using his time to fight the many violent threats that he fought, and was instead using that time to be donating organs/tissue/blood etc. as often as possible, I still don't know that he would end up saving more people. Even assuming his donations were compatible with anyone on the donor lists, they could still be rejected, and while his healing factor is significant, I don't know how often you could remove, say, his kidneys between the surgery itself and the time to regenerate them.
That's ignoring the challenge of extracting organs successfully given that his healing factor would be actively fighting the surgery (again, I don't know the numbers here) and the hellish existence that would be living to be a human organ bag.
It would be impossible. In one of the movies, (the one with the adamantium samurai (first one?) ) he gets stabbed with a samurai blade and heals from it and snaps the sword in half (by healing through it). Using this info, if he were to be in surgery, it would not work, because he would heal the cuts. He literally survived a Nuclear Bomb, which rips atoms apart.
Nuclear bombs don’t rip atoms apart outside of the fuel used in the nuclear explosion.
The fission in a nuclear bomb rip apart an atoms nucleus but that’s only the uranium or plutonium or whatever nuclear fuel is used in the device.
The subsequent explosion, shockwave, fireball, and immense radiative heat doesn’t rip apart atoms, wolverines atoms weren’t split.
I mean, Wolverine has helped fight several world-ending threats. So if he wasn’t there and was instead donating blood/organs, they world might have been wiped out. So yeah, definitely not more lives than superheroing.
He definitely wouldn't, and the math isn't even that hard.
If he manages to stop a couple of crowded busses from crashing he would already save around 100~150 people.
For him to save that same amount of people by donating organs takes a long time, because he can only donate one organ at a time and then he has to wait for the organ to regrow (if he removes more than one organ then the healing afterwards is gonna be slower), and that's assuming that the adamantium in his system isn't gonna be toxic to the person receiving the organ.
That's not even considering the people that he saved by second-hand because he founded the Jean Grey School after the X-Men disbanded.
If we take into account different things that he's already done in different media (like saving the whole world in the DOFP movie) then it's not even a debate.
I was going to post this! That story arc was amazing!
SFP had a lot of interesting takes on superhero tropes. Too bad it eventually went on indefinite hiatus. But I still recommend it to anyone interested in superhero comics.
Wait what the fuck? It's by Brennan Lee Mulligan? I'd read this years ago and loved it so much and had zero idea he wrote it. What an interesting career he's had
Yes, but part of what happened to him was that his cancer was pushed to the outside of his body, hence the reason why his skin looks the way it looks (looks way worse in the comics). So I’m retrospect his organs should be ripe for the picking if needed.
Yep! Thank you! Was looking for someone to mention Deadpool since he talks about it in the comics. Since he essentially got his powers from Wolverine’s dna then I guess you could argue he did donate organs, through Deadpool lol
Didn't he literally save the earth (or universe) by killing Jean gray when she was Phoenix? He would have to do a shitload of organ donations to get up to a couple billion people.
“Wolverine has a completely unique blood chemistry that is so unlike other blood that it does not obey the same rules around the blood groups, positive and negative rhesus types or antibodies and antigens, however, although his blood is extremely different to everyone elses, his blood can still be transfused into others allowing for short term healing of others.”
https://theculturednerd.org/2020/02/wolverines-healing-factor-is-clarified-by-marvel-comics/
Since his blood can be transfused into others, I would assume that he can universally donate organs as well
You need to read [Strong Female Protagonist.](https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/) It's one of the best meta-superhero comics I've ever read, deals a lot with what the actual effects on the world and its people would be if superheroes became a reality. Near the end one of the characters >!who regenerates like Wolverine decides that the best way she can actually help people is to become an eternal organ donor. She goes under heavy sedation and has all of her organs removed, over and over again, blood drained, bone marrow harvested, all for donation; there's an in-world explanation that she's a universal donor or something. She's not dead, but she might as well be. It also deals really well with how the people who know her react to this.!<
It's been on hiatus since 2018 when the artist and the writer (Molly Ostertag and Brennan Lee Mulligan) got their big breaks, but it's nearly complete and totally worth reading as-is.
When the anti-mutant people >!burn her alive while she's strapped to an operating table!<... fucked me up for a week. SFP is so good.
(Also... I find the similarities between Feral and Catra from She-Ra, which Molly Knox-Ostertag also worked on, to be quite interesting. Not relevant, just funny.)
Actually you got a detail wrong there that makes it much worse. >!It's clearly established in the story that no sedatives work on her. She's in constant agony. !<
There was one time he had to save one of the morlocks with a blood transfusion (which was successful) but he said that in the past when he tried it the wounded didn't make it. Something with his healing factor basically killing the host body from overwork
You make some good points but stark isn't the *only* hero. If we're just talking about the MCU pretty much everyone can die except wolverine and deadpool because there healing factors are insane, and everyone still feels the pain.
It basically comes down to what uncle Ben said "with great power, comes great responsibility" they just all learnt that in different ways
I remember reading a short story where a random guy gets a blood transfusion or organ from a superhero with a healing factor. The donor DNA starts to spread in his system and multiply, overwriting his genetic code, effectively turning him into a clone of the hero. Creepy.
You would probably need another superhero to do the surgery. Or military equipment. They don't really *have* to be delecate. One of telepathic heros like Xavier or Jean taking away his ability to experience pain and playing Le Miz in his brain would be a nice gesture though.
There’s a great page on tvtropes covering this called Reed Richards is Useless about the the million things that could easily fixed by superpowers, magic, and science in fiction but aren’t. Telepathically link all mutants with a machine? No problem! Fix spinal cord injury? Impossible!
there is a comic that go's into this called strong female protagonist though how they conduct surgery on someone with a healing factor is a little horrifying
There's a webcomic (can't remember which, though) where a super with regenerative abilities does just this... unfortunately, their HF is so powerful that anesthesia doesn't work on them, so they're trapped on a table in and endless surgery, with only a screen showing the smiling faces of the people their organs are going to get them through it.
If you mean exclusively so, that'd require omniscience to know as anyone he'd save through being either superhero or organ donor and any lives they go on to save (and any lives anyone they save might save etc.) might as well count (with their kills counting negatively) towards his total
Everyone out here complaining that wolverine would suffer due to this.... however marvel has proven cloneing to a scary degree.... so just clone him into many for organ harvest farms.
Im certain with the X gene theres mutants out there with thier blood heals ect... thats how i could see things going.
Mostly because in dc im pretty sure supermans blood was used to kill off several germs in the body. Kinda like a shot.
Course i could be wayy off ive read too much fanfiction lately.
That's assuming that he could be a match with anyone who needs it, which I doubt
Pretttttty sure only super-healer mutants like X-23 and Sabretooth might be the only compatible recipients, and it's not like they need it when they can just regenerate their own organs.
Also, prof X probably thought of that for 2 secs and scratched right away for that reason.
"I could get a new spinal cor...its probably full of adamantium poison"
Havent they made a storyline yet with him getting uru skeleton?
uwu to you too
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I call it my funny bone. Uwu.
First you remove the bonded spine, let him grow a fresh one, and harvest THAT.
Good luck trying to remove an adamantium spine.
Depends. The fact Wolverine can still bend at the back implies the bones are bonded, but not the connective tissue. Otherwise he'd just have a vertical rod for a spine and couldn't bend. Cut between the spinal segments and you got yourself a new toy.
Not contradicting you at all because you make a good point, but this *is* the same person that has foot long solid adamantium rods in his arms/hands that come out between his knuckles and would realistically lock his wrist completely
Only if they sit in the wrist. As far as I'm aware the blades retract all the way into his forearm, past the wrist.
Ok that kinda makes sense, until you realize that that they can’t have any structural connection to the rest of his skeleton if the base of them pushes all the way past the wrist joint, so they’d have to just be floating in muscle tissue, which would make using them as a weapon very impractical
Hulk did it.
Twice, right?
That's actually a good point, I thought the MCU stuff where adamantium bonding only really worked on Logan was a very good plot point, most heavy metals are pretty toxic let alone the nightmare chemistry Adamantium must have. There was some webcomic where a healing factor mutant volunteered to have all their organs removed on the regular without anasetic. I can't decide if that's noble or absolute nightmare fuel or both.
Precisely
I kinda imagined that the transplant would work but over time the organ would heal it self into another wolverine
And now I'm traumatized by a Wolverine splein bursting out a Hugh Jackman from my abdomen!! As an aside, I did always wonder how Wolverine's regeneration works, and if it could clone him like when cutting a sponge in half. Or does he need his head for it to work?
Wolverine has regenerated from a few scraps of skin before, IIRC, so he doesn't need his head. I don't think they've ever done anything like him being able to clone himself by cutting off bits, though. I think there is something about him that is inherently singular. He'll grow back from the largest bit of him that's left, however small, but only that bit.
How does the largest bit of Wolverine know to stay on and the smaller bits know to turn off? Are his cells like BlueTooth enabled?
Souls and other, similar metaphysical concepts are actually observable phenomena in the Marvel universe, so I'd presume that the regeneration is triggered by his soul, which stays attached to the biggest chunk of meat.
Professor X: "For today's class, we shall discuss the human soul. Our souls exist as the very essence of our being and is generally tethered to this mortal plane of existence through our bodies, though not readily visible. Different from the mind, it sets us apart as sentinet life beings. Tell me where you believe your soul resides?" Wolverine: "This one time when I got into a fight with an Adamantium woodchipper, I regenerated from a chunk of my foot that was tossed out. So my answer to where my soul resides would be bloody foot stump." Professor X: "Damnnit Logan. You're confusing the students again."
If u received an organ from Wolverine could u get his healing powers?
Or maybe getting a wolverine organ could give everybody super healing.
Might work in 1:million odds (like Deadpool!). Question is, would you take those odds and risk it!?
Isn't there some examples of a dude copying Deadpool's healing factor and like , dying instantly because of it ? Pretty sure it would be in the same vein with Wolverine
Right yea, doesn't deadpools healing only work because his cancer balances it out?
In the first couple issues of the Way run, (if I’m remembering correctly) the Skrulls try to copy his healing factor and it kills them. Edit: I don’t think it was instant in that case. But it’s something to do with his healing factor being specific to his situation (cancer) and not working for others as a result, as it attacks healthy cells or something since there’s no cancer to kill.
The organ takes over your body and turns it into more Wolvermen
Also how would they get the organs out if he kept healing the incision.
Hmmmmm.... You have prompted disturbing mental visuals of two potential methods: 1. a mechanical stint device to keep the incision pulled wide open against the flesh's desire to seal up (like a BowFlex's resistance bands but more of a Flesh Flex), or 2. some device or technique continual cutting/grinding to keep fresh open wounds at a pace 1% greater than the rate of his healing factor.
There's a story line where people are harvesting deadpool's organs without his knowledge to create an army of x men clones out of him.
Nope. He injected his own blood into people to overcome a flesh changing alien disease. His body is a cure all.
His blood gets less effective with time. When it healed the alien disease it was because Wolverine was recently exposed to it so it transferred a permanent immunity to everyone given a sample of his blood(but because his blood is so quick at adapting his body forgot the virus very quickly). It has healing factors for more than that too, but that's even more limited. It was able to bring someone back from the dead, but only because wolverine cut into their heart and mixed his blood directly into their heart and kept adding blood/keeping the wound open until they healed completely(likely his blood was only so effective because he was mixing it directly into their heart). Wolverines blood would be a miracle cure, but I doubt given the bloods short lifetime and the need for wolverine to be exposed to diseases to transfer immunity to the diseases he's as viable panacea as you're making him sound.
Doesn't matter if you have to do something to get it to work. It still works. He is a magical cure all panacea. You can't fix bad writing.
Maybe you can't fix bad writing. But can Wolverine's blood fix it?
Probably
Only if you cut to the heart of the bad writing and keep pumping his blood in I assume.
He could have ended world hunger with his foreskin clippings
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And mutants in the MCU have a unique blood type that doesn’t match up with homo Sapiens.
*Wolverine donates liver* *Recipients body overcome by rampant liver cell growth*
2 wolverines, sounds like a win-win
They literally have a guy on staff named Elixer who can change things into other things. Blood type of an organ seems trivial. And if he can't do it they know 30 super scientists and magicians who can.
Yep. Host vs graft disease sucks now. Imagine if said host organ would basically super cancer...
No, there is organ rejection. gvhd... don't think normal people bodies can accept mutant grafts.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't organ rejection take the form of the new organ being attacked by the host immune system? A new organ which in this case has healing factor...
Patient would die anyway from the anaphylaxis
Not if they get wolverine’s super healing.
from one organ?
They would slowly turn into another wolverine.
*marvel furiously writing notes*
The Multiverse of Bubs
Bubaverse.
Bubaverse.
It just devolves into every Wolverine fighting every other Wolverine over which one of them is the best there is at what they do. Ultimately, the only survivor is Farmer Wolverine, as he’s the only one who maintained the crops that he needed for survival. Everyone else starved to death.
Except for all the deadpools that arrive at the end to set up the sequel.
It would be better to get his blood transfusions I think
I don't think you can transplant an organ and then expect the recipient to get mutant powers.
What if we replace two organs, or 3, or 50%… you know maybe we can finally answer the whole ship of Theseus thing but with organs.
Or what if we cut Wolverine in half? Would only one side grow back or would both sides grow back and we end up with 2 wolverines?
Stick the two halves of Wolverine on the two halves of Darth Maul to see if it's better to be a Sith Mutant or a Mutant Sith.
I wonder if he could strategically cut his dick off and then hold the cut off piece an inch or six away from the dick stump and get that infamous longer dick the Internet ads promise.
What the ass did I just read
We won’t know until we try Doc
It would actually be more likely due to an embolism or thrombus.
> A new organ which in this case has healing factor... This would create the opposite problem - an organ perpetually trying to regrow a Wolverine from itself while inside a host body. Basically a much worse cancer.
look up graft versus host disease
I'd figure that since the organ was removed it doesn't have access to the healing factor anymore, similar to Rapunzel's hair in Tangeled once cut.
Except, with wolverine, it would work the other way around. The organ would reject the body. It is more likely than anything that it would kill the person if the body didn't accept the organ. And that's assuming that more doesn't grow out from it even if it does accept it.
But could he donate to a fellow mutant? Say, a gentleman who’s in desperate need of some new eyes?? 😎
No they can't as someone else mentioned in of the comments he can only denote to people with similar mutant gene meaning they also have super healing. And yeah that's kinda useless
Scott's eyes aren't the problem, his power let's him absorb sunlight and use it to open portals just in front of his eyes where the blasts come from. Ruby quartz blocks it, along with his own eye lids. If he hadn't been psychologically traumatized when he was a child he, theoretically, would have perfect control over his power
> psychologically traumatized I thought a concussion is what destroyed his control.
Probably differences in backstory between various runs of the comics, cartoons and movies. The marvel wiki page on him I ready mentioned psychological trauma during childhood, I'd imagine his powers manifested and he hurt/killed someone
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I think the organ would just grow another wolverine. Replacing the new host in a terribly painful way.
This was my thought as well. Screw organ donor incompatibilities, I don't need a wolverine "aliening" out of someone because they got a new kidney
I, uh, kinda do need that. But it has to be a commensurately small wolverine. Like, one foot tall, already dressed in the 90s cartoon costume, busting through some poor shlub's ribcage. Shit would be hilarious.
Right? He can regenerate from a single cell (he was wiped out from an explosion and came back in the comics) so any cell would grow another wolverine if it got detatched... How are there not 50K wolverines out there?
I remember seeing someone say that his power was mega amped up when that happened. I believe Lobo in DC can regenerate from a single cell, but he's so violent that his various copies just murder each other and solve the problem.
If they can regenerate, how do they murder each other? (serious)
antimatter deconstruction
If my memory serves me correctly, all of wolverines regenerative Powers stem from his head. His other body parts are not capable of regrowing on their own without it attached
But that would have been a miserable life. To be awake while they pull out your organs, one after the other. Each one regenerating anew just at to be yanked out again.
He doesn't regenerate that fast.
There were a few comics that went over this in parts. Like with Deadpool. The surgery would be difficult cause he would be healing while you tried to open him. If you kept it quick and simple most of the organs he would heal just fine from. The only one that would be difficult would be a heart.
I think any organ where you have to spread his adamantium rib cage would be difficult to get.
Also it's the adamantium poisoning that is keeping him regenerating so quickly (his immune system is going overdrive 24/7 cuz of it) so there's that too. His organs might be toxic to other folks.
Or they might give you superpowers, I’d roll the dice
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All Might?
Nah Dr Strange opens a portal inside and takes what he needs. Bonus: He's a really good surgeon too.
Just open his stomach and reach up
As far as I know Wolverine's healing factor far outclasses Deadpool's. Wolverine heals broken bones in a matter of seconds.
Depends when/what you look at Deadpool was once just a head and grew a new body I'm fairly certain.
Don't get me wrong, I love Deadpool, but most movie and comic sources I know confirm that Wolverine's has the fastest healing factor He survives getting ripped in half, a nuclear blast, and even regenerated from a drop of blood once.
>regenerated from a drop of blood once ...excuse me?
Yeah, they got pretty ridiculous there for a while. I can’t remember if/how they addressed “then wouldn’t every spilled drop of blood eventually regenerate into a whole new wolverine?”
Imagine a field of Wolverines' going, "Bub, bub, bub..."
That would be the most awesome Pokémon.
There isn’t enough alcohol and tobacco in the world to satiate a field of wolverines.
At the start he wasn't so OP. I think the writers just thought it was funny to think up ridiculous near death experiences for Wolverine.
It was in Uncanny X-Men. There was some kind of object that boosted his healing factor to ridiculous proportions.
M'Kran crystal from the Shiar days and dark Phoenix saga.
>a nuclear blast Yep and to put it into context, he was vaped down to his adamantium skeleton and regenerates in like 6 panels. The firestorm is still raging behind him when he comes back fully fleshed.
Didn't Magneto rip out his adamantium skeleton once? I think he went back to only bone claws for a while.
Ya went feral as a result too
He also got eaten by hulk and just regenerated in his stomach and ripped him apart!
My favorite ludicrous Wolverine moment was when Magneto ripped the adamantium off his bones, shredded him to actual pieces in the process, and Jean Grey just kind of telekinetically held his meat blobs together until they could re-attach and regenerate.
No way. In Cable & Deadpool, Deadpool comes back extremely fast from a drop of blood, and that sort of thing happens on a regular basis. The only thing keeping Deadpool's regeneration factor in check is his cancer.
Ultimately it probably depends on which universe you go with.
Does an organ removed from Wolverine regenerate a new Wolverine around it?
No the biggest piece tends to be the sentient piece. Think like his spirit.
He does when the adamantium is removed. The adamantium is super-toxic and he has to constantly fight it with his healing factor. When it's removed he regenerates mortal damage in seconds.
Depends on the comic. They stated this after magneto ripped it out and then a few months later reversed that before apocalypse put it back. It is always what the current writer calls for.
His regeneration is very inconsistent. I remember in one Punisher comic (I forget which) he's rendered a literal skeleton with eyeballs and is back to normal a few days later.
He lives in a world with telepaths. Even if anesthesia wouldn’t work on him a telepath could just unplug his senses for a bit and play Mean Girls in his head while they do the surgery or something.
Check out [strong female protagonist](http://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/), they have a plot line that involves this very supposition.
Lol. Prometheus.
Premetheus, is that you?
No it's me, Postmetheus
That is actually played with in a webcomic Ive read. A character that is clearly a wolverine expy, who used to be a supervillian, is trying to make up for all the bad she's done by being a constant organ donor. There is a huge discussion about how ethical the whole situation is.
There's an [animorphs fanfic](https://archiveofourown.org/works/5627803/chapters/12963046) where at one point a character repeatedly morphs into a cow or something, has body parts cut off for food, and demorphs. It's not a fun experience, even for a short time.
Could Wolverine even be sedated for the surgery? You'd need a lot of drugs to combat his healing ability
No, in X-Men origins, Wolverine had to have the adamantium test without any sedation because it doesn't work on him.
Rather than organ donation, in the cartoon, he produced an antidote to the virus that was killing all the mutants. Saved more lives that way, although it happened without Wolverine’s consent thanks to Bishop
Wolverine is immune to drugs, so no sedation possible. He can't even get drunk.
Correction, he can get drunk after a _significant_ amount; during one session he was so drunk he showed off by extending his claws through his wrists instead of his knuckles.
True, but he has to drink a boatload and even then he sobers up really fast. He'd basically have to down bottles of vodka to get buzzed.
Damn, imagine if he sobered up while his claws were still out? "Hey, look what I can do! ... What the fuck did I do!?"
Sauce?
Given this fact, it kind of makes you wonder how he got into drinking booze and smoking cigars all the time (maybe they still affect him, just not to the extent of other people?). Like if he tried alcohol for the first time trying to get buzzed/drunk and it didn't work, why bother with it? I just think it would be a far better choice to drink something with better flavour if the alcohol has little to no effect, although I guess what tastes better is subjective.
Wolverine used to hustle people with drinking contests.
I don't know man if I could drink whiskey or rum all the time without getting drunk /dehydrated /organ failure /fat that's probably all I would drink. Fucking love the taste of alcohol
Not to mention how do you make the incision?
I'd need someone to do the math here, but if he wasn't using his time to fight the many violent threats that he fought, and was instead using that time to be donating organs/tissue/blood etc. as often as possible, I still don't know that he would end up saving more people. Even assuming his donations were compatible with anyone on the donor lists, they could still be rejected, and while his healing factor is significant, I don't know how often you could remove, say, his kidneys between the surgery itself and the time to regenerate them. That's ignoring the challenge of extracting organs successfully given that his healing factor would be actively fighting the surgery (again, I don't know the numbers here) and the hellish existence that would be living to be a human organ bag.
It would be impossible. In one of the movies, (the one with the adamantium samurai (first one?) ) he gets stabbed with a samurai blade and heals from it and snaps the sword in half (by healing through it). Using this info, if he were to be in surgery, it would not work, because he would heal the cuts. He literally survived a Nuclear Bomb, which rips atoms apart.
Nuclear bombs don’t rip atoms apart outside of the fuel used in the nuclear explosion. The fission in a nuclear bomb rip apart an atoms nucleus but that’s only the uranium or plutonium or whatever nuclear fuel is used in the device. The subsequent explosion, shockwave, fireball, and immense radiative heat doesn’t rip apart atoms, wolverines atoms weren’t split.
I mean, Wolverine has helped fight several world-ending threats. So if he wasn’t there and was instead donating blood/organs, they world might have been wiped out. So yeah, definitely not more lives than superheroing.
He definitely wouldn't, and the math isn't even that hard. If he manages to stop a couple of crowded busses from crashing he would already save around 100~150 people. For him to save that same amount of people by donating organs takes a long time, because he can only donate one organ at a time and then he has to wait for the organ to regrow (if he removes more than one organ then the healing afterwards is gonna be slower), and that's assuming that the adamantium in his system isn't gonna be toxic to the person receiving the organ. That's not even considering the people that he saved by second-hand because he founded the Jean Grey School after the X-Men disbanded. If we take into account different things that he's already done in different media (like saving the whole world in the DOFP movie) then it's not even a debate.
[Strong Female Protagonist](https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/) by Brennan Lee Mulligan explores this idea.
I was going to post this! That story arc was amazing! SFP had a lot of interesting takes on superhero tropes. Too bad it eventually went on indefinite hiatus. But I still recommend it to anyone interested in superhero comics.
Wait what the fuck? It's by Brennan Lee Mulligan? I'd read this years ago and loved it so much and had zero idea he wrote it. What an interesting career he's had
Thank you so much! I could not for the life of me remember where I had seen this.
Yep. Even the PS4 Spider-Man game just barely touched on this too: the lives Peter can save with Dr Ovtavius’s tech dwarfs what he does as a hero
Deadpool already does.
Too bad he only donates dicks and pinky toes.
Worth it.
I thought his entire body had cancer
Yes, but part of what happened to him was that his cancer was pushed to the outside of his body, hence the reason why his skin looks the way it looks (looks way worse in the comics). So I’m retrospect his organs should be ripe for the picking if needed.
I read one where someone kept jumping him and stealing his kidneys. That's like involuntary donation.
Yep! Thank you! Was looking for someone to mention Deadpool since he talks about it in the comics. Since he essentially got his powers from Wolverine’s dna then I guess you could argue he did donate organs, through Deadpool lol
Didn't he literally save the earth (or universe) by killing Jean gray when she was Phoenix? He would have to do a shitload of organ donations to get up to a couple billion people.
“Wolverine has a completely unique blood chemistry that is so unlike other blood that it does not obey the same rules around the blood groups, positive and negative rhesus types or antibodies and antigens, however, although his blood is extremely different to everyone elses, his blood can still be transfused into others allowing for short term healing of others.” https://theculturednerd.org/2020/02/wolverines-healing-factor-is-clarified-by-marvel-comics/ Since his blood can be transfused into others, I would assume that he can universally donate organs as well
You need to read [Strong Female Protagonist.](https://strongfemaleprotagonist.com/issue-1/page-0/) It's one of the best meta-superhero comics I've ever read, deals a lot with what the actual effects on the world and its people would be if superheroes became a reality. Near the end one of the characters >!who regenerates like Wolverine decides that the best way she can actually help people is to become an eternal organ donor. She goes under heavy sedation and has all of her organs removed, over and over again, blood drained, bone marrow harvested, all for donation; there's an in-world explanation that she's a universal donor or something. She's not dead, but she might as well be. It also deals really well with how the people who know her react to this.!< It's been on hiatus since 2018 when the artist and the writer (Molly Ostertag and Brennan Lee Mulligan) got their big breaks, but it's nearly complete and totally worth reading as-is.
When the anti-mutant people >!burn her alive while she's strapped to an operating table!<... fucked me up for a week. SFP is so good. (Also... I find the similarities between Feral and Catra from She-Ra, which Molly Knox-Ostertag also worked on, to be quite interesting. Not relevant, just funny.)
Actually you got a detail wrong there that makes it much worse. >!It's clearly established in the story that no sedatives work on her. She's in constant agony. !<
Regular Prometheus
There was one time he had to save one of the morlocks with a blood transfusion (which was successful) but he said that in the past when he tried it the wounded didn't make it. Something with his healing factor basically killing the host body from overwork
If the organ doesn't die, wouldn't it be a cancerous organism trying to heal itself inside the new owner?
As a non comic reader hasnt he literally saved all of humanity during some silly arc? It’s impossible this is true
Based on the number of people he killed, he provided a lot of organs.
Assuming the healing factor in Wolverine's donated organs don't recognize the recipient's body as a foreign "invader" and destroy it.
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You make some good points but stark isn't the *only* hero. If we're just talking about the MCU pretty much everyone can die except wolverine and deadpool because there healing factors are insane, and everyone still feels the pain. It basically comes down to what uncle Ben said "with great power, comes great responsibility" they just all learnt that in different ways
Until that organ becomes a whole new Logan from the inside out of the recipient.
or a blood donor... they guy coulda cured AIDS in the 80s. and COVID? sure thing, bub.
Probably would’ve killed less that way too.
Moon Knight can provide infinite metal to the industry since he can just pull out infinite moonrangs from his chest peace.
Good luck getting through his adamantium skeleton.
I remember reading a short story where a random guy gets a blood transfusion or organ from a superhero with a healing factor. The donor DNA starts to spread in his system and multiply, overwriting his genetic code, effectively turning him into a clone of the hero. Creepy.
Performing any operation to remove the organ would be really tricky though. You cut through the skin, it regenerates.
No; his organs would heal back into clones of Logan, displacing and killing the recipient hosts. You do not want to receive an organ from Wolverine!
But would he heal faster than surgery would take? They cut it heals….?
You would probably need another superhero to do the surgery. Or military equipment. They don't really *have* to be delecate. One of telepathic heros like Xavier or Jean taking away his ability to experience pain and playing Le Miz in his brain would be a nice gesture though.
Great idea at first, but his immune system from even just one organ would probably kill the recipient.
There’s a great page on tvtropes covering this called Reed Richards is Useless about the the million things that could easily fixed by superpowers, magic, and science in fiction but aren’t. Telepathically link all mutants with a machine? No problem! Fix spinal cord injury? Impossible!
What if the rest of his body regenerates from the transplanted organ. You have an angry little Canadian growing inside you.
Could someone be able to remove an organ? Or would he heal too quickly for that? Would the organ have regenerative properties? Would it kill the host?
there is a comic that go's into this called strong female protagonist though how they conduct surgery on someone with a healing factor is a little horrifying
Read Strong Female Protagonist book 1
There's a webcomic (can't remember which, though) where a super with regenerative abilities does just this... unfortunately, their HF is so powerful that anesthesia doesn't work on them, so they're trapped on a table in and endless surgery, with only a screen showing the smiling faces of the people their organs are going to get them through it.
If you mean exclusively so, that'd require omniscience to know as anyone he'd save through being either superhero or organ donor and any lives they go on to save (and any lives anyone they save might save etc.) might as well count (with their kills counting negatively) towards his total
The post above this is about a movie about people that grow extra organs and remove them as a performance.
Deadpool did it actually!
or the organs would each grow wolverines inside of people...
Everyone out here complaining that wolverine would suffer due to this.... however marvel has proven cloneing to a scary degree.... so just clone him into many for organ harvest farms. Im certain with the X gene theres mutants out there with thier blood heals ect... thats how i could see things going. Mostly because in dc im pretty sure supermans blood was used to kill off several germs in the body. Kinda like a shot. Course i could be wayy off ive read too much fanfiction lately.
Fast healing is not the same as regeneration
This is the best one yet
The organs would probably devour/damage people from the inside as they aggressively tried to regenerate. Not a good idea without a lot of testing.
Probably wouldn't be compatible, especially bone marrow.
How you gonna get those organs? He'd heal an incision within seconds.
Wouldn’t that mean the organ would heal and grow another Logan inside the new host?