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Warning : hold SPOILERS for weapon system ten - man # 1!Wolverine ’s healing factor is easily his most useful power , not just in a battle or wartime scope , but in every aspect of his life . Logan ’s healing factor makes him immune to disease , imperviable to endure injury , and it increases his lifespan exponentially ( indeed , it ’s revealed Wolverine can hold out upwards of 1,000 year inPowers of X ) . However , for as god - tier as Logan ’s healing constituent seems to be , Marvel Comics just sustain it has a ‘ kryptonite ’ - and it ’s incredibly disturbing .
InWeapon X - Men#1 by Christos Gage and Yildiray Çinar , Wolverine variants from across the multiverse have been gathered by a Phoenix - own Jean Grey to find and eliminate an alternate variant of Onslaught . The Wolverines - in - interrogative are : Age of Apocalypse ’s Weapon X , Old Man Logan , Zombie Wolverine , Logan from Earth - decade , and the newly - introduced Jane Howlett . When the arm X - Men team is post to a world where Onslaught is hide , they rendezvous with the local X - Men / Avengers squad to find him - at which point , Zombie Wolverine makes a startling disclosure .
WhenWeapon X postulate Zombie Wolverine , “ So , healing factor did n’t aid with the bite ? ” Zombie Wolverine reply with a poor yet say “ Nope ” . Obviously , fans have known that Wolverine ’s healing factor did n’t help since first see him inMarvel Zombies , but this is the first metre readers have gotten verbal confirmation that the virus actually nonplus his heal component . Wolverine has exhaust other forms of viruses and infections with his healing factorin the past tense ( supernatural or otherwise ) , butWeapon X - Menconfirms that this specific ‘ living dead virus ’ strain is effectively Wolverine ’s kryptonite .
Deadpool and Wolverine seem as though they have the same exact healing factors , but the two abilities are reverse and absolutely suitable for each !
Wolverine’s Zombie Virus Weakness Adds Meaning To Marvel Zombies Lore
Marvel Zombies Returnby Fred Van Lente and Wellinton Alves
If Wolverine from theMarvel Zombiesreality can be infected by ‘ the Hunger ’ , then that means every Wolverine in every conceivable realness can also be infected , and their healing factor wo n’t help them in the slightest . That ’s a horrifying fruition , and one that contribute greater significance toMarvel Zombiescanon . InMarvel Zombies Return , the Watcher decides that this snake god computer virus song can not be beaten , so it must be carry .
Every zombie is flip into a time iteration in monastic order to keep them from spread throughout the multiverse , and while the importance of neutralizing the virus is stress throughoutMarvel Zombies Return , fans get a new appreciation for how imperative it was that this ‘ Hunger ’ computer virus was effectively extinguish inWeapon X - Men . If something as strong as Wolverine ’s healing factor is no match for the virus , then unfeignedly nothing can stop it , so sectioning it off from the rest of the Marvel multiverse was the only agency to get the better of the virus - and it ’s a in effect matter the Watcher was successful .
The Zombie Virus Isn’t the First ‘Infection’ that Wolverine’s Healing Factor Couldn’t Beat
What If…?Vol. 2 #24 - “What If… Wolverine was Lord of the Vampires” by Roy Thomas, J.M. Lofficier, and Tom Morgan
In an alternate timeline within the pages of Marvel Comics’What If … ?series , Wolverine gets turned into a lamia by Dracula himself , and his healing factor does n’t fight off the infection . Interestingly enough , however , Wolverine does find a way to battle the virus by the end of the comedian , though it is n’t his healing factor that helps him , it ’s his unsubduable heart . Wolverine opt to be a hero , even as an undead lamia hellbent on infecting the entire planet . However , even though his heroism help Wolverine win the 24-hour interval , his healing factor sure did n’t .
While Wolverine did succumb to vampiric infection in aWhat If … ?comic , that continuity is infamous for deform the rules of established Marvel Comics canon ( that ’s kind of the whole point ) , so events that take place in aWhat If … ?should be take with a grain of salt . However , Marvel Zombiesis steadfastly canon , something that ’s strikingly unmistakable inWeapon X - Men , asWolverine ’s healing factor kryptonite is always lurking somewhere in the multiverse - and perhaps even a sentence loop wo n’t be able to neutralise it .
Weapon X - Men # 1by Marvel Comics is available now .
