Trans Siberian Anarchestra (it/they)
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The Thing From Another World isn't remotely human, so I stand by my statement. :P
Healing and ageing are *not* the same thing. Ageing is the natural healing processes failing. I mean, I can see how a speedster would logically keel over dead from old age quickly, but a healing factor? Nope - does not meaningfully age is the logical consequence of that. Ill grant that healing wounds ought to require more metabolic input tough ;)
The two are connected, though. Healing is basically the body xeroxing itself and replacing damaged cells with new ones. But, after a certain time period, the copies are more and more flawed, like a xerox of a xerox of a xerox.
Adamantium would need a much higher melting point than steel since it's supposedly indestructible. So yeah, Wolverine and Lady Deathstrike should've disintegrated.
edited 20th Aug '14 7:50:58 AM by Washington213
Who's to say mutant/super healing factor works the same way as normal genetic replication? Who's to say they wouldn't also regenerate the telomeres that prevent such genetic decay? The only concern then is further mutation from external inflences, but that could also be hand-waved out by saying the healing factor eliminates genetic deviances from the whole.
Really though,analyzing it to this degree, while fascinating on a certain level, robs the aspect of any real joy. Heroes have healing factors so they can hurt, they can bleed, but so that they will not die and the day will be won. Villains have healing factors so they can hurt, they can bleed, but they just will not die no matter how much they invite retribution upon themselves. That's an oversimplification, but you probably get my point.
No, they would be an Angel. There would be nothing identifiably human about them.
The Healing Factor is one of the most retarded superpowers in comics, because it combines comic book writer's lack of knowledge of biology with comic book writer's tendency to Hand Wave a person's superpowers.
First, in order to heal at the magnitude exhibited by Wolverine (who's actually on the lower end of the spectrum as far as people with "Healing Factor" as a defining power go), he would have to eat. Constantly. There would be no moment in time in which he would not be consuming calories due to his body constantly refreshing his cells with new cells. That matter's gotta come from somewhere, after all, and Logan doesn't have the Hulk's "gamma-irradiated" excuse to power it. Second, as mentioned, he wouldn't stop aging. He'd age faster. Third, unless his Healing Factor came with a built-in cell fixer for when replication errors occur, he'd find himself very old, very decrepit, and probably just loaded with cancer in about five years. If not dead from one night of binge-sleeping without binge-eating first causing him to starve.
And don't even get me started on the whole "Adamantium" thing. That shit just would not work, no matter how fast you heal. Human cells, no matter how good they are at replicating themselves, cannot do so in the presence of 1147 °C metal, which is the minimum possible melting temperature of Adamantium based solely on the fact that it's the minimum possible melting temperature of steel, of which Adamantium is an alloy. In reality, it would probably be closer to 1400 °C, which is closer to the melting point of stainless steel.
If you meet me have some courtesy, have some sympathy, have some taste. Use all your well-learned politesse or I'll lay your soul to waste.