History Headscratchers / TheWolverine

** They kissed at one point in the movie, but he had as a bigger goal to recover his memories, somehow. Its undertandable that he mourned her death, but be deeply in love is something harder.

** And letting someone else to be also inmmortal? That does not look so good.

** And letting someone else to be also inmmortal? That does not look so good.

* Couldn't they have just '''asked''' him for a blood sample or something?

** Conversational context. This occurs immediately after she tells him that he wouldn't understand why she has to honor her father and marry a man she doesn't like because he's not Japanese. This is preceded by her correcting him on the proper placement of his chopsticks in Japanese culture. Putting his chopsticks right back in the same spot is Logan rejecting the notion of what is culturally appropriate, a subtle way of saying that marrying some idiot because daddy said so is ridiculous.

** Conversational context. This occurs immediately after she tells him that he wouldn't understand why she has to honor her father and marry a man she doesn't like because he's not Japanese. This is preceded by her correcting him on the proper placement of his chopsticks in Japanese culture. Putting his chopsticks right back in the same damn spot is Logan rejecting the notion of what is culturally appropriate, a subtle way of saying that marrying some asshole because daddy said so is bullshit.

** ...You've got to be [[PrecisionFStrike fucking]] kidding me.
*** Hey, the comics are even more ridiculous.

** Simple, Logan didn't remember anything about it. But he does know that he is older than he looks and had a long past when he could have been anything. So when an old guy said he saved his life, he believes it because he knows he 'could' have done it, however he still have some doubts about it (After all Logan is not stupid enough to take anyone's words as face value). Its when he reach the scene where he saves his life that he remembers some pieces of the incident that he finally believes it.
** ^ That's not right. The first scene of movie is the Nagasaki scene then it cuts to Jean and Logan in bed. Jean asks Logan where he was and Logan says Nagasaki and Jean says Hmm...that far back. So Logan remembers Nagasaki. I believe he got his memories back towards the end of X-2

* When Yashida 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.
** The Adamantium bones, however, do make it significantly harder for him to die. For instance, a big enough explosion could destroy a Un-adamantiun-having Logan by just wiping out his body from the face of the Earth, but since he has adamantium, his skeleton would survive said explosion, and from the skeleton he'd be back on his feet again.

** Logan clearly knew what they were in for, given what he told Ichiro. "That's a B-29, bub. There's no outrunning what's coming." Him knowing that the bomb was going to hit Nagasaki on that particular day (if he was even aware what day it was) i a different story. Given the unknown time of his capture and the confinement he was in (likely a reaction to his being a "kuzuri" since few people knew what mutants were back then,) he would likely have lost at least a couple of days in there.

*** My personal belief is that Adamantium in this universe is only indestructible while it is in its solid form. But like all other metals become liquid when heated hot enough. Odds are Yashida just took some Adamantium blocks and melted them again to make his armor. Granted the original adamantium can only be destroy by Cosmic-level forces but the movies tend to take a more "believable/realistic" approach to superhero stuff(e.g Thor is not a real god just a super-tough alien, the Phoenix force is not a superpowerful cosmic force but the dark personality of Jean grey). It also explains how he cut off Wolverine's claws, he didn't cut them he MELTED them off.

* So, Ichiro had machines that can remove Logan's health power, and make him a common mortal man, capable to live a common life, grow old and die like everybody else. Of course, there were bad guys all around... but, once they have been all defeated and Mariko is safe, why doesn't Wolverine return to the lab to use those machines and become mortal? In fact, if the corporation is bordering bankruptcy, he should do it '''now''': if he returns to the Americas to have adventures with the X-Men, and go back to Japan to get rid of his immortality in some years, surely the repo will have long taken and dismantled it.

** It actually isn't. The human body achieves maturity and perfect working order when it reaches 20s/30s, before that point the cells are still evolving, and from that point onwards the cells slowly decay and proggressively stop functioning properly as the years go by, so techinically speaking, yes, his healing factor should default him to his 30s (or 20s), the prime age for a normal human body. The BigBad used the strategy of transfering his age and health (also notice how his White blind eyes transfer to Logan in that scene) to Logan while he gets his age and health, he managed to go far enough so his age would start reversing, but Mariko stops him before he can finish the process and make it permanent (and before he managed to acquire Logan's healing factor), so Logan's Healing Factor isn't depleted and just regenerates him back to his 30s. Seconds later, Logan tears off his armor, and you can see him starting to age back to his old man appearance again, indicating that the process wasn't finished.

** [[spoiler:Yes, there is one. If Wolverine had lost all his adantium while fighting the Silver Samurai, and not just the adamantium of a hand, then Magneto wouldn't be able to stop him this way. But, being who they are, surely Xavier and Magneto are already aware of the details of Wolverine's adventures.]]

*** [[spoiler: And they don't call Magneto the master of magnetism for nothing. If he could sense that the abusive guard in X2 had extra iron in his blood, he could surely sense that most of Logan's skeleton is still covered in adamantium.]]

* So, Shingen had machines that can remove Logan's health power, and make him a common mortal man, capable to live a common life, grow old and die like everybody else. Of course, there were bad guys all around... but, once they have been all defeated and Mariko is safe, why doesn't Wolverine return to the lab to use those machines and become mortal? In fact, if the corporation is bordering bankruptcy, he should do it '''now''': if he returns to the Americas to have adventures with the X-Men, and go back to Japan to get rid of his immortality in some years, surely the repo will have long taken and dismantled it.

* 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.