What would happen if you fired Wolverine into the sun?

It varies from writer to writer. At this point, though, he can come back to life from just about anything. You can drown him, but as soon as he's out of the water, he'll come back to life.

He reappears in the next crossover and make a quip about suntan.

First things first. How did you manage to fire him into the sun in the first place?

A space station with an absurdly powerful railgun pointed at the sun.

Magneto almost did it to him and Jean in Morrison's run. But then she went Phoenix.

*Looks at page title*

Watched Little Kuriboh's Xmen Origins Wolverine review, didja?

LK reviewed that movie? I've got to start watching him again.

There's a link in the page quote of Running the Asylum. EDIT: Huh. It was changed. The old quote is now at the bottom of Running the Asylum.

edited 3rd Oct '12 12:10:45 PM by KingZeal

He kills the Sun, setting a chain of events leading to the next megacrossover, Wolverine- Murderer of the Human Species and Suntans.

It would make him mad.

Not Hulk level mad, but still rather annoyed.

On one level it really doesn't matter how stupidly overpowered Logan's healing factor gets. He's never going to be killed off so there's no loss of tension in making him unkillable. Then again I doubt it would go down well if Bruce Wayne had learned the secret of immortality while training to be Batman.

I always figured that cancer ought to be able to kill him. I mean, cancer, with a Healing Factor? Assuming he doesn't just turn into a shoggoth or something.

Deadpool's situation. But it's possible Wolverine can't get cancer. Deadpool had it before he got his healing factor.

The immune system fights cancer all the time. When a tumor forms, that means the immune system was simply slow to act or overwhelmed.

I mean, cancer could do him in, but the healing factor wouldn't make it any worse assuming it effects all of him equally. Then again, I guess having metal fused to your bones would hinder your immune system more than your ability to get cancer...

Why would metal on the bones hinder the immune system?

Just came in here to note that the Ultron example in the last page doesn't work. See, while Ultron's outer shell is made of adamantium, his inner workings are all standard (or at least what would be considered "standard" for a sentient death bot). Human Torch's attempt at a super nova didn't even warp the shell; the only reason Ultron went down was because the heat caused him to short-circuit.

Though, even "I can heal From a Single Cell" Wolverine would still be screwed getting shot to the sun.

edited 5th Oct '12 11:00:01 PM by Watchtower

Honestly, there's only one way to find out. I say let's get cracking.

@VB- Because bone marrow is where white blood cells are produced. That was actually a plot point in one of the comics way back- mutant powers were shut down for a while when the X-Men were in Genosha, and Wolverine was slowly dying for the duration, since either his immune system basically shut down, or 'admantium poisoning' (I don't remember if it got retconned back and forth a few times, or if my memory just sucks and I screwed it up). But yeah. Having severely depressed white blood cell production means that you don't have much in the way of an immune system.

Adamantium poisoning would be unlikely, given it is supposed to be indestructible to everything below Odin and healing factor or not, Wolverine is no Odin.

Never said it made sense, Cider, just that it was in the comics. A quick Googling reveals that in another incidence of power-stripping (when the High Evolutionary pulled a technologically-powered and shorter-lived M-Day), Wolverine was categorically stated to be dying of 'Adamantium Poisoning', rather than the vaguer causes that I recall from... I think it was X-Cutioner's Song... *looks it up* no, sorry, X-Tinction Agenda. I was close- cutesy title with 'ex' in a word being replaced with 'X', anyhow

It depends on how his power works.

If it's purely biological, he'd die. Moreover, any brain injury in any situation would be, while not permanent, more of a replacement than an actual carbon copy—since DNA doesn't have our brain's experience stored in it, but rather it's template, the only advantage he'd have on normal humans would be that he wouldn't need stem cells or science in general to regrow portions of his brain, and that it would be cheap and quick.

But I'm not familiar with Wolverine, having never read the comics or seen any supplementary material like movies or TV-shows, so I don't really know what his power is beyond the basics. If he thinks his power is regeneration but is actually some sort of psychic trick where his, "Soul," can survive his body's destruction and unconsciously reform it or something, a Schrodinger's cat kind of deal, it would allow him more room. This is what I'd guess his power is, since regeneration is usually described as turning back time (Or something equally convoluted), natural healing enhanced and sped up, or being comprised of cancer cells. Is his hair alive?

Or maybe it's just a comic and if he's fired into the sun he'll probably survive in some suspension of disbelief breaking manner or die but be resurrected by Captain Merchandise because the fans like him and it would be pretty final for a character who isn't secluded into a single, organized storyline, but rather a franchise.

edited 7th Oct '12 10:58:16 PM by Rem

I'm going to go with "He'll be burned down to his adamantium skeleton, thereupon any attempts at regeneration will be instantly burned away by the gases around him. Until such time as someone lugs the skeleton out, he won't fully revive and will essentially be dead."

Actually, thinking of Wolverine comics, that angel of death thing that was apparently helping him survive all that stuff could be a logical extension of the storyline that revealed Wolverine was the reincarnation of the hand of God...you know, if that story was not in my personal discontinuity.

edited 12th Oct '12 8:00:35 PM by Cider

He grows wings and comes back, on fire.