Can Wolverine drown?

[Thespeckledkiwi]

I was watching X-Men: the Animated Series tonight and I had a very interesting thought...Could Wolverine drown? Essentially, his lungs would fill up with water, destroying the air-sacs and such, essentially shutting down the oxygen to his blood and his brain. But how would his healing factor take effect if he is underwater for a couple hours? Would they continue to regrow the brain tissue? What about his blood?

 

[Skywalker]

I was going to say that his healing factor shouldn't work if his brain is killed, but then I recalled hearing about one time when he was almost vaporized but for a few atoms and regrew from them.

No idea if that actually happened. I hope not.

 

[Sephiroth]

it happened, someone posted the page one time, I think marvel has made wolverine too powerfull, he needs a new silver samurai

 

[A beaker full of death]

Yeah, it's gotten absolutely out of hand. How does he regenerate from a few atoms?
How come his hair reappears just so?
It's really silly now.

 

[Caleuche]

They asked this is Ultimate X-men when Sabretooth was fighting Wolverine.

"Thats why it stuck me that drowning you might be the one way to actually finish the thing. God knows why nobody's ever thought of it before. I mean how does a healing factor fix a suffocated brain? And even if you do survive, you're going to be a friggin' vegetable for the rest of your life, right?"

The question was never answered, as Wolverine choose the moment to push Sabretooth off a cliff. I think the suggestion is he'd survive, but be brain damaged.

 

[Sephiroth]

if you split wolverine down the middle, do you get 2 wolverines?

 

[Thespeckledkiwi]

Interesting question. But from what I remember when Nitro blew him up, he survived because his brain was still intact.

 

[captcalhoun]

They asked this is Ultimate X-men when Sabretooth was fighting Wolverine.

"Thats why it stuck me that drowning you might be the one way to actually finish the thing. God knows why nobody's ever thought of it before. I mean how does a healing factor fix a suffocated brain? And even if you do survive, you're going to be a friggin' vegetable for the rest of your life, right?"

The question was never answered, as Wolverine choose the moment to push Sabretooth off a cliff. I think the suggestion is he'd survive, but be brain damaged.

actually, he whacked Sabretooth in the nuts with his claws out and THEN threw him off a cliff.

 

[JoeZhang]

I was going to say that his healing factor shouldn't work if his brain is killed, but then I recalled hearing about one time when he was almost vaporized but for a few atoms and regrew from them.

No idea if that actually happened. I hope not.

No he actually was completely vaporized - and he regrew around his skeleton - without any organic material present....

Interesting question. But from what I remember when Nitro blew him up, he survived because his brain was still intact.

Nope he was completely gone - you might be thinking of the Earth X series, where he is pulled from Days of Future Past and is regenerated because his brain survives.

 

[Hermiod]

No he actually was completely vaporized - and he regrew around his skeleton - without any organic material present.....

He's got plenty of organic material within that adamantium skeleton, it's just a matter of how it got out from inside.

 

[JoeZhang]

No he actually was completely vaporized - and he regrew around his skeleton - without any organic material present.....

He's got plenty of organic material within that adamantium skeleton, it's just a matter of how it got out from inside.

It's sealed - that's part of the reason that his bones will kill him if his healing factor packs up, he's unable to produce new blood cells from his marrow - it's explained in one of the issues of uncanny.

 

[Hermiod]

It's sealed - that's part of the reason that his bones will kill him if his healing factor packs up, he's unable to produce new blood cells from his marrow - it's explained in one of the issues of uncanny.

Yes, I know, that's the problem with the panel you posted. It's not that he's completely gone, it's that he can't grow anything back from within that skeleton.

 

[wew]

I believe in one issue, where all that was left of him was one drop of blood. I think it was some annual from about 15 years ago. And no I don't know the issue, but it was when Longshot and Dazzler were part of the X-Men.

Haven't read any X-men series in about 10 years.

 

[Hermiod]

^I've recently dropped all of the X-Men titles save for Secret Invasion: X-Men for the simple reason that they've become far too heavy and boring. They're impenetrable. I have no idea what's going on most of the time.

 

[Forbin]

^I've recently dropped all of the X-Men titles save for Secret Invasion: X-Men for the simple reason that they've become far too heavy and boring. They're impenetrable. I have no idea what's going on most of the time.

I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I don't know who half those characters are any more.

 

[Forbin]

The question was never answered, as Wolverine choose the moment to push Sabretooth off a cliff. I think the suggestion is he'd survive, but be brain damaged.

But then why wouldn't his brain heal after that?

 

[Hermiod]

I'm glad I'm not the only one!
I don't know who half those characters are any more.

You'd think that considering there are only 198 mutants left they'd be able to stop digging up old villains that most readers won't remember unless they were around in the 80's.

Another case in point - I really wish they'd kill Rogue off permanently at this point. Reading comic books with characters who are permanently miserable is not entertaining.

 

[FordSVT]

The question was never answered, as Wolverine choose the moment to push Sabretooth off a cliff. I think the suggestion is he'd survive, but be brain damaged.

But then why wouldn't his brain heal after that?

It would, drowning wouldn't work.

The damage done to the cells in your brain by oxygen starvation is nothing compared to getting a bullet straight through it, and he seems to recover from those types of injuries with not much more than a short-lived headache.

 

[Hermiod]

^Given his ability to survive such injuries with his memories intact, I wonder if he has some sort of Goa'uld-like genetic memory.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I'm not a huge comic fan - most of what I know about Wolverine is from tv and the films - but where does the energy needed to regrow him from a few cells come from? Conservation of matter/energy doesn't seem to allow that.

For that matter, it seems like either he's pulling in energy from the air, or else he'd have to be eating a ton of food to keep up enough energy to heal himself every time he got hurt.

How do they account for that stuff in-universe?
If I wanted to kill him, I'd slice him up real nasty-like and lock him in a box without dinner.