History Headscratchers / TheWolverine

*** That's more or less confirmed by William Stryker back in {{Film/X2XMenUnited}}. "The tricky thing about Adamantium is that, if you ever manage to process its raw liquid form, you gotta keep it that way... keep it hot, because once the metal cools, it's indestructible." It's most likely that, given his vast resources, Ichiro Yashida simply did his homework. If he had been keeping tabs on Logan for so long, no doubt he would have learned of the Weapon X program, the bonding procedure, and even the power transfer attempt with Weapon XI. For a tech genius at the head of a massive zaibatsu, that would be all he needed to get the ball rolling on the Silver Samurai project until Logan was within his grasp.

* If Viper drugged Logan enough to have him ingest the metal spider, what was stopping her from stabbing him with the paralysing poison, putting the manacles on him there and then, and proceeding with extraction?

* This is more for the series in general, but this movie does involve Wolverine's love for Jean Grey, so I might as well bring it up here. In the comics, Logan and Jean were teammates and friends for years, so it makes sense for Logan to have some strong feelings for her. In the movies, Logan met Jean in the first X-Men movie, which took place over the span of about a week. At the end of the first movie, he takes Cyke's motorcycle and drives away, not returning until the second movie. The second movie also takes place over the span of about a week (and there is a day or two in which Wolverine and Jean are in two different areas) and then Jean dies. In this movie, we see that he still dreams about her years later and is deeply in love. Why? If you take all the time he spent with Jean, you'd end up with about half a month. Most of that time was spent dealing with fighting super villains so they never got to know each other that much. There's little reason why Wolverine would regard her as anyone other than an attractive woman he went on a couple of missions with.

** Perhaps the blade has been replaced over the ages.

** How did Logan even know what an atomic bomb was? Sure, Nagasaki was the site of the second bombing, but it's not as if a prisoner would have been told about Hiroshima being mysteriously destroyed by a single bomb a couple of days ago. Nor is there any plausible way Logan would've had prior knowledge of the Manhattan Project.

** [[spoiler: The Yashida company was in the edges of bankrupcy due Ichiro's obsession with immortality (adamantium armors and fancy healing-destroying tech are very expensive things), by faking his death, Ichiro essentially set up his granddaughter to take the fall for the company's ruin and he would escape free to enjoy his immortality.]]

* Yukio describes Yashida's sword as "...hundreds of years old." Is it possible for a sword that old to look that pristine, especially if it spends that time being used in battle? Even if the blade was kept well oiled to protect it from rusting, how much of it would be left after being blunted, chipped, and resharpened in battle after battle for centuries?

* I have so many questions as to why Logan was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped. We saw him and Victor at D-Day during the opening montage of XMenOriginsWolverine. D-Day was June 6th, 1944 and the A-bomb was dropped on August 9th, 1945. So in the course of a year Logan went from the European theater to the Pacific theater without Victor and was somehow captured?

* In the stinger, [[spoiler:why is Xavier still wheelchair-bound? Since he [[XMenTheLastStand survived his apparent death]] by {{Body Surf}}ing into his brain-dead twin, he should have an undamaged spine and be able to walk normally]].

* Yukio describes Yashida's sword as "...hundreds of years old." Is it possible for a sword to look that pristine, especially if it spends that time being used in battle? Even if the blade was kept well oiled to protect it from rusting, how much of it would be left after being blunted, chipped, and resharpened in battle after battle for centuries?

* Yukio describes Yashida's sword as "...hundreds of years old." Is it possible for a sword to last that long, especially if it spends that time being used in battle? Even if the blade was kept well oiled to protect it from rusting, how much of it would be left after being blunted, chipped, and resharpened in battle after battle for centuries?

** Certain parts (mainly those pertaining to "Last Stand") are definitely erased from the franchise canon. There is still the chance that the rest of the movie played out the same though (there would still be an old Japanese man that Logan saved in Nagasaki that wants his healing factor for example).

** [[TheDeterminator sheer willpower]], I assume. There's a reason his character page has VillainousValor listed on it. It's also possible the contact with the rain diluted some of the poison.

* When Nagasaki first offers Logan the chance to be mortal,Logan responds with "What they did to me,can't be undone" or something like that. To whom was he referring? The way he said it,it sounded like he meant Stryker and the scientists who grafted the Adamantium to his skeleton but this doesn't make any sense as Logan's healing factor(and therefore his apparent immortality) is a part of his original mutation and has nothing to do with what Stryker did to him. I suppose he could have meant his parents but it didn't really sound like that was who he meant.

** Obviously.

* Warning: ''Days of Future Past'' spoilers follow! So...[[spoiler: did the CosmicRetcon erase this movie as well?]]

** [[TheDeterminator sheer willpower]], I assume. There's a reason his character page has VillainousValor listed on it. It's also possible the contact with the rain diluted some of the poison.

* How was Mariko's father [[spoiler: able to survive Viper's poison, and yet still be strong enough to fight Wolverine]]?

* Why did [[spoiler: the villain fake his own death? It set off a lot of chaos regarding his granddaughter, and restored Wolverine's will to live, but I don't see what he hoped to gain from it.]]

* After [[spoiler: Yashida stabs Harada with the heated blade, Harada is seen bleeding. Wouldn't the blade be hot enough to close the wound.]]

*** It's also possible he perfectly understood her meaning and did it on purpose. She says chopsticks up are associated with death. Wolverine's a DeathSeeker.