Someone explain Hulk tearing Wolverine in half

[Superman]

Was this an actual event? Was it some kind of 'What if?'

[avatarxprime]

In Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine, Hulk rips Wolverine in half (lower body from upper, not down the middle) and tosses said halves in different directions. Wolverine wakes up, sniffs out his lower body and starts slowly moving towards it so he can reattach himself.

It was no What-If or even a joke, it's in the normal Ultimate Marvel continuity, and therefore canon regarding Ultimate Wolverine's endurance/healing factor.

[DPDarkPrimus]

The miniseries is still unfinished. It was supposed to be five issues and it's been like a year since the second issue came out.

Also I'm pretty sure that Wolverine got ripped in half because his spinal column non-Adamantium-plated discs in between the vertebrae.

[Hades]

I've recently started reading the ultimate verse. Making my way through the trade paperbacks.

I really wish they would hurry up and finnish this miniseries so that it can be released as a TPB

[Dennis Toy]

In Ultimate Hulk vs Wolverine, Hulk rips Wolverine in half (lower body from upper, not down the middle) and tosses said halves in different directions. Wolverine wakes up, sniffs out his lower body and starts slowly moving towards it so he can reattach himself.

WHAT THE FUCK!?? How the hell can he re-attach himself when he's torn in half. Does his regeneration power have limits?

[Hedgehog's Roommate]

Limits on Wolvie's healing have been discussed before. The answer is no, there are apparently no limits to his healing.

[OmegaGuy]

Ultimate Wolverine can die, but apparently there was some stupid retcon of 616 Wolverine that makes him truly immortal, so if he dies he goes to this limbo dimension, and he can choose whether to "step into the light" or not, and if he chooses not to, he ressurects. That's apparently how he regenerated when Nitro burned him down to a skeleton.

[Superman]

Ultimate Wolverine can die,

What do you base this on? The evidence would seem to indicate otherwise.

[OmegaGuy]

There's nothing indicating he would survive if his entire body, including the adamantium, was destroyed (and yes there are things in the Ultimate MU that can do that)

[Superman]

Why not just drown him?

[TheDarkling]

Why not just drown him?

As absurd as it may be, he would most likely heal the damage caused by oxygen deprivation.

[Noble Ire]

Why not just drown him?

As absurd as it may be, he would most likely heal the damage caused by oxygen deprivation.

So then why does he need to eat? I seem to recall a similar thread describing him coming close to starving to death (although, he did save himself by eating his own flesh and having it regenerate, but that's not the same thing). Wouldn't his cells simply "heal" from nutrient-deprivation?

[Lancer]

Ultimate Wolverine can die, but apparently there was some stupid retcon of 616 Wolverine that makes him truly immortal, so if he dies he goes to this limbo dimension, and he can choose whether to "step into the light" or not, and if he chooses not to, he ressurects. That's apparently how he regenerated when Nitro burned him down to a skeleton.

Or, it could be him hallucinating on account of his brain being totally cut off from all sensory input on account of every part of him not protected by adamantium getting turned to ashes by Nitro.

[Ford Prefect]

Or, it could be him hallucinating on account of his brain being totally cut off from all sensory input on account of every part of him not protected by adamantium getting turned to ashes by Nitro.

Some of us would prefer that Wolverine's cellular regeneration not being the cause of his survival in that instance.

[Bluewolf]

Is there any way to kill him?!

[Alferd Packer]

While I'm no expert, I did stay at a Holiday Inn last night. I recall hearing some comicky friends talking about this, and they seemed to say that the only way to kill him would be to somehow chop his head off and separate it from his body in such a way that the two can never be rejoined. Like, chuck them into deep space, or something.

Of course, maybe Wolverine's head will just grow a new body, or vice versa. Like I said, I'm no expert on the subject.

[Stravo]

Is there any way to kill him?!

Disintergration, no molecules, nothing to heal, end of story. I think its fairly preposterous that Wolverine's healing factor went from almost killed by a sword through the chest and heart wielded by Kitty Pride that then put him out of commision for months while he healed to ripped in half or completely incinerated save for his brain protected by his adamantium skull and coming back in minutes.

Can we call this Silver Age Wolverine as opposed to the Golden Age Wolverine of the Claremont/Miller era?

I have always wondered how a character that was always meant as a second stringer hero at best got to be the flagship character of Marvel. He's an interesting character but really in the end, Spiderman summed him up right in a classic issue where he casually bitchslaps Wolverine (and the rest of the X-Men for that matter) "You're nothing more than a thug with pig stickers in your hands."

[Crazedwraith]

Why not just drown him?

As absurd as it may be, he would most likely heal the damage caused by oxygen deprivation.

In one of the Early ultimate X-Men arcs Sabertooth claims the only way to kill him and Wolverine is by drowning them. He attempts to drown Wolverine in a river but gets clawed in the nuts. Wolverine doesn't really comment on how effective the drowning was though.

[SCRawl]

Is there any way to kill him?!

Disintergration, no molecules, nothing to heal, end of story. I think its fairly preposterous that Wolverine's healing factor went from almost killed by a sword through the chest and heart wielded by Kitty Pride that then put him out of commision for months while he healed to ripped in half or completely incinerated save for his brain protected by his adamantium skull and coming back in minutes.

I think that the difference in healing ability -- from the merely extraordinary to the completely ludicrous -- was explained by the fact that the admantium in his skeleton was holding it back. Once it was removed, it got way more effective. I don't know what happened when he got the adamantium back, since I wasn't following events at the time.

[Jim Raynor]

Ultimate Wolverine can die, but apparently there was some stupid retcon of 616 Wolverine that makes him truly immortal, so if he dies he goes to this limbo dimension, and he can choose whether to "step into the light" or not, and if he chooses not to, he ressurects. That's apparently how he regenerated when Nitro burned him down to a skeleton.

Or, it could be him hallucinating on account of his brain being totally cut off from all sensory input on account of every part of him not protected by adamantium getting turned to ashes by Nitro.

Really? I haven't read the stupid issue in question, but from what I've heard it was some mystical bullshit about where Wolverine's soul goes after his brain IS destroyed.

[TheDarkling]

In one of the Early ultimate X-Men arcs Sabertooth claims the only way to kill him and Wolverine is by drowning them. He attempts to drown Wolverine in a river but gets clawed in the nuts. Wolverine doesn't really comment on how effective the drowning was though.

Given the guys ability creates blood cells in lieu of his bone marrow and presumably grows all his flesh in premium condition I can't really see any reason why it wouldn't just heal the damage.

Of course that is ultimate Wolverine so he may be different (although the thread is about ultimate wolverine).

[Superman]

So then why does he need to eat?

Good question. Given what his healing ability is capable of, he shouldn't need to.

[Jim Raynor]

From what I've heard, in one of the comics he actually survives in the wilderness by eating parts of himself.

[Superman]

From what I've heard, in one of the comics he actually survives in the wilderness by eating parts of himself.

Ah, he's a perpetual motion mutant.

[OmegaGuy]

Wolverine's healing factor is basically reinterpreted by every writer that writes him. It's not consistent.