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[Erevador]

WARNING hard science ahead:

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Fiction is nothing but lies and deceit.

 

[Log4Girlz]

Western comics are so bonkers, I love trying to explain shit. How about this. Spiderman has incredible powers of atomic attraction at his skin surface. What if certain materials can channel that energy, so his webbing channels that energy and is strengthened by it.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Now we're getting into the stupid territory.

Now??

 

[NekoFever]

I always wondered why he didn't heal around his claws when they came out, leaving a semi-permanent hole like a piercing.

But yeah, this stuff gets stupid when they feel the need to explain it in great detail.

 

[Slayven]

One thing about wolverine people forget and it is not really shown in the movie is Wolverine is super strong. Not hulk level, or even spidey level but around Cap's level. And you seen what he can do.

Beast has a beast part but it takes a lot to come out cause he never been about that life like other feral type mutants.

I always wondered why he didn't heal around his claws when they came out, leaving a semi-permanent hole like a piercing.

But yeah, this stuff gets stupid when they feel the need to explain it in great detail.

They use to draw wolverinwith little slots on the back of his hand. Hell the only reason Wolverine even has claws is because of an artist mistake, originally the claws were suppose to be part of his gloves

 

[SomedayTheFire]

i still don't get why the bone claws exists. was that simply to tie into the x men origins film or were they around before that?

Because Scott and Havok absorb solar radiation, which they both shoot.

Except Scott, who also shoots punch beams from the punch dimension.

this is still hilarious.

 

[Finaika]

i still don't get why the bone claws exists. was that simply to tie into the x men origins film or were they around before that?

Way before that.

The writers probably thought Wolverine needed something to fight with after Magneto yanked the adamantium out of him.

 

[Kareha]

Does OP realise this is a film?

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Way before that.

The writers probably thought Wolverine needed something to fight with after Magneto yanked the adamantium out of him.

ah yes. can't believe i forgot magneto yanking out his bones. i'll chalk this up to the flu and move on. i think i just tune them out because i fecking hate them.

 

[VAD]

Now we're getting into the stupid territory.

Daken's claws come from the stupid dimension where things are continuously stupid.

 

[Slayven]

Fun fact there is an anthropomorphic concept in marvel that exists only to give other anthropomorphic concepts a physical form in reality

 

[MarkMclovin]

I mean, adamantium is indestructible, so once it's sharpened it won't ever dull.

How is it sharpened if its indestructible?

 

[Nostremitus]

How is it sharpened if its indestructible?

It's molded into a sharpened form before it hardens. It's created in a liquid form, then it sets. During the cooling process it can be molded/sharpened before it sets permanently.

 

[Slayven]

Wacky thing about adamantium, is technically a failure. It was created in an attempt to replicate the voodoo of Cap's shield. But it's still not as tough

 

[Manmademan]

Western comics are so bonkers, I love trying to explain shit. How about this. Spiderman has incredible powers of atomic attraction at his skin surface. What if certain materials can channel that energy, so his webbing channels that energy and is strengthened by it.

"Mayday" Parker, Peters daughter from an alt future has powers that work this way. With concentration she can make other things stick to walls, floors, etc that she happens to be touching.

I think she can also reverse the effect creating a "repulsion" field but don't quote me on this.


Web strength is easily altered via chemical formula, but generally it's avoided making it TOO strong since spidey wants it to dissolve after a few hours.

 

[Like the hat?]

No but seriously why are his claws blades?

Animals claws scratch and tear but they don't slice.

Animal claws are only sharp because they sharpen them by scratching. Wolverines claws are indestructible, so how do they sharpen? Sharpening involves removing material. How did they get sharp in the first place?

 

[VAD]

Wacky thing about adamantium, is technically a failure. It was created in an attempt to replicate the voodoo of Cap's shield. But it's still not as tough

You're saying Adamantium is not stronger than vibranium?
Speaking of vibranium, has anyone ever attempted to attack Logan with anti-metal?

 

[IggyChooChoo]

You'd think Wolverine would get his claws wedged in something at some point. I mean, just because they're sharp doesn't mean they're frictionless. And he goes around slicing heavy stuff all the time, stuff that would press down really hard on the flat sides of his claws. Do they come out of his arms really lubed? Do his arms house glands that secrete special claw mucus?

 

[HIGH DEF JEFF]

Whenever I see people trying to apply logic to what a comic book character does and is capable of I think of this Heroes of the Web

https://m.youtube.com/watch?list=PL6812B8428958E2D2&v=6zAW11gSOk0

Like Robert Ashley says.. "i think they dont exist"

 

[nded]

Wacky thing about adamantium, is technically a failure. It was created in an attempt to replicate the voodoo of Cap's shield. But it's still not as tough

I think adamantium actually is stronger than vibranium. It just didn't end up with the shock absorbing properties of vibranium that they were trying to replicate.

Animal claws are only sharp because they sharpen them by scratching. Wolverines claws are indestructible, so how do they sharpen? Sharpening involves removing material. How did they get sharp in the first place?

I assume the process that enabled the stuff to be bound to Wolverine's bones renders the material malleable enough to be shaped into handknives.

 

[WarMacheen]

 

[KimonoNoNo]

The recent Xmen movies make it seem as though Quicksilver is always perceiving time at hyperspeed.

In which case his perspective of time must be completely fucked up, if he isn't able to "turn off" the speed then i don't understand how he could communicate with anyone.

They try to say that it's the reason he's an asshole, but to be completely honest, if he's just a regular human who operates on a clock that's like 1000 times faster than everyone elses, i don't see how that wouldn't drive him insane.


His power is a curse lol

I remember Star Trek TOS episode along those lines. Kirk was sped up and effectually vanished from the perpective of the rest of the crew, but from Kirk's perspective the rest of the crew was mere statues.

It's like an epoxy. Keep the compounds separate and it's like putty, but once you mix them and let it cure, it's becomes hard.

They retconned his mutation when Magneto ripped his metal out. He had bone claws all along as part of his mutation, which they explained because he already had the feral senses and look.

If adamantium is not a metal but a super-hard resin, how could Magneto rip it out of Logan's skeleton in the first place.

 

[NEO0MJ]

If adamantium is not a metal but a super-hard resin, how could Magneto rip it out of Logan's skeleton in the first place.

Magneto can manipulate metal on a molecular level which allowed him to extract it from Logan's body.

 

[zethren]

The metal is so hard that the edges don't wear or dull. It's typically harder than the substance it cuts through. That's all that's needed beyond force and momentum.

Basically this.

For instance if it comes into contact with other adamantium, it would likely not cut through it the same way it would other metals or materials we see him cutting.

 

[Broken Joystick]

He went back in time to kill Hank Pym so he could stop Ultron from ever being created. Then he traveled to the future and it was completely different, so he traveled back AGAIN to kill himself to prevent Hank Pym from being killed. Hank then programmed in a special code to keep Ultron from...Ultron...ing.

Wolverine's son, Daken, actually had one claw on each hand coated with the Muramasa blade, which has the power to wound people with healing factors, since it ignores the healing factor.

i fucking love comics

 

[KAOz]

Magneto can manipulate metal on a molecular level which allowed him to extract it from Logan's body.

Follow-up question.

Why didn't he simply do that again?

 

[DarkJediKnight]

Here's a internal look at Wolverine.

 

[PixelatedBookake]

Can/Has Magneto use his powers to change the shape of Cap's shield? Being that it's pure adamantium I'd believe he could. But, then again, it's also part vibranium

 

[commedieu]

I've got a better question.

Hugh Jackman isn't anywhere near the proportions of wolverine and has always put me off the role because I find him terrible.

In an alternative dimension, is there a version of me that doesn't mind and will see the movies after x2?

 

[LordKasual]

Adamantium is poisoning him, so without his healing factor, he dies. It hinders his healing.

If it's poisoning him, it means that it's either leaking or chemically reacting with his biology

which means that at some point, his body should break down his adamantium

which means that the metal wouldn't be invulnerable...?

 

[DarkJediKnight]

This one is from the 2000 movie.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

I've got a better question.

Hugh Jackman isn't anywhere near the proportions of wolverine and has always put me off the role because I find him terrible.

Hugh Jackman IS Wolverine. So what if he's 6'3? What a stupid thing to hold a grudge on.

Do you also have a problem with James Marsden? Because they made him stand on top of boxes and crates when he did scenes with Famke and Hugh. Cyclops is 6'3 but Marsden is 5'9. Woo big deal.

 

[PSqueak]

Cyclops eyes have apertures into a dimension of pure kinetic energy. He essentially punches people with his eyes. Applying this logic, Wolverines cells must be tiny apertures to a dimension of meat, from which his body regains mass and blood after being all kinds of fucked up.

Punches from the punch dimension! Meat from the meat dimension!

Deadpool's healing factor is significantly higher because it's merged with his cancer. Or something to that effect.

His healing factor and his cancer are in an endless race of one upping each other, that's why when they put his healing factor on skrull soldiers they exploded in masses of meat and blood: with no cancer to constantly repair, they just kept producing cells until they exploded.

 

[Pagusas]

This one is from the 2000 movie.

going by that, it would be impossible for him rotate his wrist.

 

[DarkJediKnight]

going by that, it would be impossible for him rotate his wrist.

It pushes back and goes in behind the wrist from any twisting of wrist. .

 

[Acinixys]

Because they're harder than diamond but not brittle like diamond.
There are actually at least two minerals IRL that are harder than diamond.

One of them is

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my penis

 

[Alx]

going by that, it would be impossible for him rotate his wrist.

Maybe he can't. You never see him playing tennis in the movies.

 

[NEO0MJ]

Follow-up question.

Why didn't he simply do that again?

Magneto hasn't been antagonistic to the X mentioned in quite some time after that.
Plus, with his healing boosted afterwards and no way to directly effect him with his powers Wolverine becomes a bigger nuisance to him.

 

[PixelatedBookake]

I wonder how long it will be until Wakanda has their own Wolverine but with a vibranium skeleton. Like, some scientists steal the Weapon X blueprints and don't have any adamantium or something.

 

[zeemumu]

If Misty Knight punched Wolverine would his skeleton just fall apart?

 

[Alx]

I wonder how long it will be until Wakanda has their own Wolverine but with a vibranium skeleton. Like, some scientists steal the Weapon X blueprints and don't have any adamantium or something.

Wouldn't it make more sense for them to build their own Iron Man out of Vibranium ?

 

[fireflame]

I thought the claws were the result of a military experience.

 

[Slayven]

You're saying Adamantium is not stronger than vibranium?
Speaking of vibranium, has anyone ever attempted to attack Logan with anti-metal?

Cap's shield isn't just vibranium. There is a larger factor no one has been able to analyze or duplicate. Molecule Man said it was one of the weirdest things he ever seen.

I think adamantium actually is stronger than vibranium. It just didn't end up with the shock absorbing properties of vibranium that they were trying to replicate.



I assume the process that enabled the stuff to be bound to Wolverine's bones renders the material malleable enough to be shaped into handknives.

Yeah Vibranium is tough but it has it limits, and raw vibranium is even weaker

 

[Dan]

Here's a internal look at Wolverine.

The way his arm is bent, it looks like he's holding a tiny white flag.

 

[Teggy]

He went back in time to kill Hank Pym so he could stop Ultron from ever being created. Then he traveled to the future and it was completely different, so he traveled back AGAIN to kill himself to prevent Hank Pym from being killed. Hank then programmed in a special code to keep Ultron from...Ultron...ing.

What I was wondering how exactly Wolverine killed himself if no one had managed to do it before. I pulled the issue up and...it's done offscreen and they don't explain it.

 

[Sapiens]

Serious Question: Does it drive the "True" Marvel universe fans crazy that the only Marvel films people are really talking about these days are from Fox?

Whodda thought that Fox would ever get their shit together this good?

 

[Slayven]

Serious Question: Does it drive the "True" Marvel universe fans crazy that the only Marvel films people are really talking about these days are from Fox?

Whodda thought that Fox would ever get their shit together this good?

What universe are you posting from?

 

[TAJ]

Way before that.

The writers probably thought Wolverine needed something to fight with after Magneto yanked the adamantium out of him.

And then later on they had him mostly use a sword instead of his claws when he was Death.

 

[Broken Joystick]

Serious Question: Does it drive the "True" Marvel universe fans crazy that the only Marvel films people are really talking about these days are from Fox?

Whodda thought that Fox would ever get their shit together this good?

 

[Zen_Arcade]

Serious Question: Does it drive the "True" Marvel universe fans crazy that the only Marvel films people are really talking about these days are from Fox?

Whodda thought that Fox would ever get their shit together this good?

1) I don't know how you're missing all of the Guardians hype.

2) The "True" Marvel universe fans you're talking about are probably just people who want good comic book movies that are relatively similar to their source material. The problem was that for a while there Marvel Studios were the only one doing that.