How Would You Kill Wolverine?

[The Lugz]

I'm a bit perplexed about his healing, actually. If he really did regenerate his entire body back from being reduced to a skeleton, where'd the material to form the body come from? Are his cells able to make proteins and such out of air? And if a single cell is enough for him to regenerate his whole body, why aren't there Wolverine clones everywhere? You shed lots of cells every day, aren't those cells enough to make a new Wolverine?

I cannot answer the original question without having some answers of my own first.

PS. A thought occurs. inb4 'A wizard did it'.

because it's impossibly broken logic, there would indeed be at-least one wolverine for each time he shed a single cell that was allowed to replicate because that's the only logical outcome of any scientific understanding of 'he can regenerate from a single cell'

the only other answer involves some kind of nth dimensional soul that picks which cell regenerates which has marvel written all over it, so i pick that.

 

[wulfy42]

Actually he survived being put in the concentration camp incinerators repeatedly (among other things), so just toasty him wouldn't do the trick.

I think feeding him to a pack of Ravenous actual wolverines would be the best solution...or at least the most poetic.

First breed some very aggressive wolverines that go into a feeding frenzy at the scent of blood. Then incapacitate wolverine and cut him up a bit....and toss him into your large wolverine habitat....after not feeding them for a day or 2 so they are very hungry.

Now whenever he starts to regenerate body parts the wolverines will munch on him....and he will basically be a perpetual food sorce for them. Even if you don't actually monitor the area they would be able to live just off his natural regenerating flesh...at least till his abilities gave up and he just plain died.

Even if he somehow did manage to survive that....I bet he would change his name afterwards

 

[Bobbity]

Strand him on Mars. Or drop him into Jupiter. Something of the sort. I don't care how strong that fucker is, he's not living through that.

 

[votemarvel]

Simple. I'd just follow the Xavier Protocols and separate his head from his body.

Plus if you want to talk healing factors Wolverine's is better than Sabertooth's, it is just it is constantly taxed from having to fight the adamantium poisoning from his bones. Though to be fair Sabertooth didn't take months to heal from a claw to the brain, he was actually lying for the majority of the time and pretending to be mindless (boy was Boom Book upset when she found that out.)

Deadpool's is likely better than Wolverine's though, given that he can regrow limbs. That is something that neither Wolverine or Sabertooth's have been able to do.

Of course the grand-daddy of them all is the Hulk. Though it greatly depends on which incarnation you are talking about and how mad he is at the time.

Though of course the healing factor of any character is as powerful as it needs to be to tell the story.

 

[Michael Hirst]

Put him in a blast furnace and leave him there.

 

[wulfy42]

I'm a bit perplexed about his healing, actually. If he really did regenerate his entire body back from being reduced to a skeleton, where'd the material to form the body come from? Are his cells able to make proteins and such out of air? And if a single cell is enough for him to regenerate his whole body, why aren't there Wolverine clones everywhere? You shed lots of cells every day, aren't those cells enough to make a new Wolverine?

I cannot answer the original question without having some answers of my own first.

PS. A thought occurs. inb4 'A wizard did it'.

because it's impossibly broken logic, there would indeed be at-least one wolverine for each time he shed a single cell that was allowed to replicate because that's the only logical outcome of any scientific understanding of 'he can regenerate from a single cell'

the only other answer involves some kind of nth dimensional soul that picks which cell regenerates which has marvel written all over it, so i pick that.

They kinda did explain this at one point, and actually had a different mutant with better regen powers who would be cloned when cut in two etc (think it was actually in one of the xmen movies even).

Anyway in many cases wolverine has had his blood etc used to help heal/regen other people....so his cells/body offer regenerative properties...but only to a complete system (perhaps based on the brain, the soul or whatever). He is ageless btw....and even his blood can be used to make others live forever (although it seems like it takes more and more to have the same effect so eventually a normal human would die.

If you did cut off Wolverines hand....he could re-attach it to himself......or it could be kept viable in a certain solution and the bone marrow/blood etc used over decades etc to boost normal humans regenerative abilities and prevent aging. They did that by getting a bone fragement from wolverine in WWII at one point and then using it and super soldiers to allow them to take debilitating/deadly drugs that made them super fast/strong etc as well.

They really go back and forth constantly regarding how powerful wolverines healing factor is. Sometimes it makes him basically immortal, other times it can only take so much and then he needs to recharge. Phoenix thrashed him so hard for instance that his healing factor couldn't keep up in the dark phoenix comics. Rogue of course could drain his power allowing him to die easily (even from wounds he had already healed in fact).

Some of the insane amount of damage he has taken should make normal bullets absolutely worthless against him (not to mention even super human punches/kicks etc) yet he often is seriously hurt by bullets and normal melee attacks. Even normal human beings have knocked him down or over come him physically in some story lines.

One thing that is pretty consistent though is that he does not actually age much, if at all, because he does not have any cellular decay. He does have a very large weakness though which is a propensity for memory loss. Even in the comics where they state wolverine has exceptional mental control, he still seems to have his mind messed with on a fairly consistent basis. Even if it doesn't work that often many of his enemies have tried to trick him into working for them etc when he could not remember his past or who he is. While to some extent I could understand how that works with telepathic mutants like Professor X.....I would think his memory centers would also regenerate any damage done to them very quickly. Instead, he seems to be very vulnerable to memory loss for some reason.

 

[Swny Nerdgasm]

In all honesty just use the same sword to kill him that they used to kill Sabretooth, It shuts down healing factors with it's blade, so get Magneto to do the rip out his Adamantium again, and while he's stunned from that cut off his head. There you guys go, a perfectly in universe legal way to kill Wolverine.

 

[Captain Pirate]

I'd say as you can't really kill him, I'll say what I meant in the other thread about Magneto.

Drop him in a volcano, and, if humanly possible, separate his bones. Eventually, it would erupt and he'd be scattered in solid rock, leaving him unable to regenerate.

Hang on.. extra question, if that happened, and all his adamantium limbs were separated, from which bone would he regrow the rest of him? I'm assuming his skull...
And would the new bones be adamantium? Because I've heard that it was bonded to his bones, so maybe his body recognizes that as part of itself....

But even if he did grow back, his brain would regrow perfectly but he would have no recollection of anything.

 

[The Lugz]

Actually he survived being put in the concentration camp incinerators repeatedly (among other things), so just toasty him wouldn't do the trick.

I think feeding him to a pack of Ravenous actual wolverines would be the best solution...or at least the most poetic.

First breed some very aggressive wolverines that go into a feeding frenzy at the scent of blood. Then incapacitate wolverine and cut him up a bit....and toss him into your large wolverine habitat....after not feeding them for a day or 2 so they are very hungry.

Now whenever he starts to regenerate body parts the wolverines will munch on him....and he will basically be a perpetual food sorce for them. Even if you don't actually monitor the area they would be able to live just off his natural regenerating flesh...at least till his abilities gave up and he just plain died.

Even if he somehow did manage to survive that....I bet he would change his name afterwards

your first idea was better, but i can simplify it somewhat
incapacitate him ( many methods, simplest is probably blunt force to the head, sniper round in the eye, ect )
drop him in a vat of molten steel and solidify it, creating a large, sealed, solid prison
( he is not superman, even if he can overpower regular people he is not strong enough to break a thick piece of steel coating him like that )
leave him until he exhausts all energy present in his body trying to breathe, move, think, whatever.
=death
obviously carrys the risk of other mutants breaking him out, especially magneto or anyone with a power over metal or teleportation or whatever, but if the situation is wolfy himself, alone i think it would work quite well

 

[El Luck]

Easy, get the Hulk in. It'd be a fun fight but the Hulk would win.

 

[spacepope22]

Well, from what comics say, as long as one cell in his body survives, he'll get back up. He has survived a nuclear blast (when he was caught in Nitro's explosion during Marvel Civil War.) He's been shot, stabbed, crushed, blown up, dropped out of planes. Not to mention having Magneto rip out his skeleton, (not counting the Ultimate Universe where Magneto's powers let him atomize Wolverine.) And most importantly, covered with scorpions (bonus points to all who get that reference.) The only thing i could think of would be take away his air. I mean, the guy has to breathe.

 

[DazBurger]

They were rather close to doing so in Old Man Logan.

Just make him depressed enough... He'l start to age.

 

[Iron Mal]

The only two ways I could envision of killing a man who's powers of regeneration essentially equal indestructability would be as follows:

Plan A: Drown him, theoretically his regeneration would only respond to physical trauma (so having a limb cut off for example), but in cases of drowning there is no physical trauma to regenerate from (his death is the result of the absence of oxygen, you can't regenerate from being unable to breathe).

Plan B: Starvation, such rapid and powerful regeneration would theoretically require a massive amount of energy to function (kind of like how the human bodies natural repair and immune system is weakened when we're stressed, malnourished and otherwise deprived of nutrients and other important substances). Leave him in an inpentatratable Adamantium chamber with deep cuts all over the body and never open it, if suffocation (see above) doesn't kill him then the fact that he would be consuming calories like there's no tomorrow (resulting in either ceasing to function or causing his body to devour itself).

Bingo, one dead 'invincable' super hero.

 

[Dracowrath]

Why would I want to kill Wolverine? He's awesome! But, if I had to, I'd probably go with incinerating him. He can't regenerate if every single cell in his body is ash. All that'd be left would be a metal skeleton.

 

[Kolby Jack]

I'd use my MAGNETIC powers to make Iron Man and Cyclops fire their beams at him cuz I can control complex electronics too now for some unexplained reason, then use MAGNETISM to... uh... burn him! Yea, cuz magnetism burns flesh too! Oh, but he still has a disembodied hand stuck in my chest? It's not like he can regenerate from a single cell, so forget it! Nope, he is dead. BY MAGNETISM!

Oh, and if my arm were to get chopped off, I'm not worried, because I can use MAGNETISM to cauterize it! MAGNETISM!

And why would all this happen? Well, I used my MAGNETIC powers to tilt the Earth's MAGNETIC axis! This somehow causes massive global catastrophes, rather than just confusing the hell out of a few birds with little impact on the Earth itself like those dumb scientists say would happen. Screw them, they can't control the awesome power of MAGNETISM!

MAGNETISM CAN DO ANYTHING!!!! ANYTHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING!!!!!

If it isn't obvious, I am not a fan of the X-men, especially Magneto. And especially especially ULTIMATE Magneto. And especially especially especially Ultimate Magneto in Ultimatum. Ugh.

 

[EvilMaggot]

dump lava on him... fully covered.. dont think he can regenerate that fast ?

 

[9Darksoul6]

The same way you'd kill a vampire:
Stake his heart (no blood circulation -> no brain activity -> unconsciousness -> imbobilization), cut his head off and set him on fire (no head -> no regenaration; the fire is just to make sure).