Well, here's the thing: comic books operate as the story dictates at the time. They make Star Wars look like it has a solid and consistent power set (considering they have had Force users destroy planets and Super Star Destroyers, that's something). Wolverine's healed pretty fast in the past. He's actually regenerated near-total destruction from Cyclops' optic blasts (which at the exact same time were described as capable of pulverising adamantium to dust) in the course of a panel or two. But he doesn't do that all the time.MHR said:
Not a Wolverine deal, but we've had Bruce Wayne shrug off explosions, and The Punisher fell like 400 stories without so much as a broken bone. If even "normal" people in comics can suddenly develop immunities to things like falling and explosives,Wolverine suddenly regrowing his head doesn't see m all that weird. Hell, the above example of Wolverine putting his legs back on wouldn't have happened in the 90s, because Deadpool was the only one of the Weapon X guys who could do that OR truly regenerate.
Most media has inconsistencies, especially if you're talking a large franchise. But comics? There's so much dissonance in one continuity alone, you can literally justify almost anything. Especially when humour exists in the same continuity.
In fact, the ultimate answer to "who would win between (two comic characters) is "whose comic is it?" Spider-Man's gone toe-to-toe with Thanos, Punisher's beat the Hulk, and even the Juggernaut has been punked outside of the X-Men books.
So yeah, in a medium with less consistency than Calvinball, how do we even measure this sort of thing?
