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admonition : arrest freebooter for Wolverine # 43!Wolverine ’s healing ingredient is perhaps his most utile and impressive mutant business leader . Sure , his pincer are deadly and his heightened senses are great , but it ’s his healing broker that allows him to pick a fight with literally anyone ( indeed , Wolverine debuted combat the Hulk ) . And now , one specific aspect of this god - tier power has just been clear up up - one that ’s been a mo inconsistent throughout Marvel Comics history .

In a preview deal byAIPT ComicsforWolverine#43 by Victor LaValle , Benjamin Percy , and Geoff Shaw , readers are taken back in time to the era where Wolverine and Sabretooth actually influence together as members of a Weapon X hit police squad known as Team X. This is especially startling given that Sabretooth and an army of his multiversal edition have waged state of war on Wolverine and the X - Men in the present daytime during the alreadyblood - soaked Marvel Comics effect : Sabretooth War .

During the flashback chronological succession , Wolverine and Sabretooth are preparing to make a jump out of a plane during a Team X mission . This small part of the military mission is all fans get , but it ’s enough to trigger Sabretooth ’s nostalgia - and that ’s straight from his lips . In a narration box , Sabretooth says , “ Nostalgia is one hell of a drug . I’m immune to every narcotising there is , except maybe that one ” . This quote is an interesting look into the more relatable side of Sabretooth ’s mind , but it ’s also incredibly telling about the nature of his cure gene - and , by extension , Wolverine ’s .

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Wolverine ’s all - time greatest X - Men curse just receive a new codename to match his unprecedented upgrade , make him more terrific that he was before !

Sabretooth Confirms His & Wolverine’s Healing Factor Is Immune to Narcotics

Settling a major inconsistency that’s notably seen inWolverineVol. 2 #154 by Rob Liefeld and Eric Stephenson

Skip in the lead five volumes to the upcomingWolverine#43 , and suddenly , that method of incapacitating Wolverine ( and seemingly anyone with a similar healing factor like Sabretooth ) does n’t puzzle out . Given the more up - to - date nature of the currentWolverinerun , it seems like Sabretooth ’s check is something of a minor retcon , which more so acts to set the track record straight about what their healing element can protect them from - and narcotic ( including tranquillizer ) is one of them .

Wolverine’s ‘No Narcotics’ Revelation Teases the Bloody End of Sabretooth War

If Wolverine is going to stop Sabretooth, he’s going to have to kill him!

Sabretooth Waris already one of the most violent and blinking events in Marvel Comics history , and this novel confirmation just see that it will end as violently as it began . conk intoSabretooth War , narcotic were fair plot in accept down someone like Wolverine or Sabretooth , mean Logan could have defeated Creed through non - lethal means . However , as if to avoid that possibleness all , this upcoming Wolverine issue confirms that tranquilizers wo n’t work out the way they did inWolverine#154 . So , if Wolverine want to stop Sabretooth , he ’s function to have to kill him .

Regardless of what this could mean for the duration of theSabretooth War , this moment is truly substantial in Marvel Comics history . The precise nature of Wolverine ’s healing factor is seemingly always in magnetic flux , but now , the criminal record has been set up directly in attentiveness to narcotics and tranquilizers , settling a major mutual exclusiveness aboutWolverine ’s healing agent .

Wolverine # 43by Marvel Comics is uncommitted February 14 , 2024 .

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Wolverine with visual representations of his healing factor.

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Wolverine fighting Sabretooth.

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