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How to Kill Wolverine

Let's find a creative way to kill Wolverine

In the current Wolverine series, Wolvie's body has been taken over by a demon, and Wolverine tries very hard to regain control; however, the X-Men develop a plan to kill Wolverine, for good. The plan was pretty cool, and pretty plausible. It went like so.

  1. Magneto busts in and rips the adamantium from Wolverine's skeleton.
  2. Namor rips Wolverine's head off.

Pretty sweet and simple. Sure there's also some optic blasts from Cyclops, but that's just a little bit of fun overkill. It got me thinking, are there other ways to kill Wolverine? Aside from a character "wishing his death" or something along those lines, there's got to be a few different ways to kill the ragin Canuck, right? Well, I've come up with a few plausible scenarios involving some Marvel characters.
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Scenario #1

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Featured Wolvie-Stoppers: Leech & The Vision
This is probably the simplest of ways to kill old Logan. "How simple?" You may ask? Well, check it out. First, have Leech get close to Wolverine, using his mutant power to nullify Wolverine's powers.

Next, Vision will come in, doesn't matter if it's the original Vision or the Iron Lad version, alter his density, put his hand into Wolverine's brain and play "blender" with his brains, and then pull them all out. It's hard to regenerate when you don't have any brains. Extremely violent? Yes. Successful? Double Yes.

Chance of Wolverine Surviving: Depends how long Leech stays around to get of that pesky healing factor. But chances are, if Leech stayed around for a day or two, there's no way Wolverine could come back from that.

Scenario #2

Featured Wolvie-Stoppers: Rogue (Pre-Power Control) & Jean Grey (No Phoenix)
I'm getting pretty specific here with my character choices, but oh well. This one is pretty simple, I hope. Jean Grey is there for a few reasons: distraction, containment, and detection.

So, Jean Grey distracts Wolverine, which won't be so hard because Logan is in love with her. I'm pretty sure she just has to wave, and he'll be distracted for a few minutes. Rogue can come up behind him and suck the life out of him. Since this is the Rogue before she gained ability to control her powers, she can get to the point where she is sucking the life out of Wolverine, and possibly kill him. That brings us to Jean Grey. She is there to use her telekinesis to hold Wolvie in place, and use her telepathy to detect whether or not Wolverine is alive. Worse comes to worse, Jean Grey can use her telekinesis to send Logan into space. Is it overkill? Maybe. Is it necessary? Yes.

Chance of Wolverine Surviving: 50/50. It all depends on how powerful Wolverine's healing factor is, and whether or not his brain decides to shut down from Rogue's draining process. That's why we have the launching into space plan, just in case.
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You know what the worst part is about this? I spent a lot of time over the weekend wondering how/who could kill Wolverine. I wanted to stay away from all the cosmic characters and characters who can wish people out of existence, but when it comes down to it, he's a hard character to kill. Aside from the amazing healing factor, getting past his senses, fighting ability, and that pesky adamantium skeleton makes him extremely tough.

Maybe that's why the original plan, in the current Wolverine series, is so darn cool because it involves a team of the most powerful mutants showing no mercy and ending him as fast as possible. The worst part was I could only come up with two feasible ways of killing Wolverine that didn't overlap with each other. So, that being said, how would you kill Wolverine?

Rules For Killing Wolverine:

  1. Has to be Marvel characters only.
  2. No one with cosmic powers.
  3. No one that can "wish" the character away.
  4. Cannot overlap with the original plan Cyclops/Wolverine/Namor had.
  5. Be creative.

Good luck!

~Mat "inferiorego" Elfring is a comedian, writer, comic store employee, and teacher.

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Batman.

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Rip him in half and toss each piece into the Sun, and into the ocean. Alternatively, couldn't Superman burn the flesh off his bones?

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The whole adamantium sugestion....is old way old.....neeed a new one !!!

well just take the sword that takes his healin factor out and take his head off thas all you need !!!!

 

 

For once people leave his skeletion alone....that has been way over played in marvel history !!!!

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@The Average Bear said:
" @commisar123 said:
" PunisherNo seriously one can overload his healing factor you just need to deal enough damage so yeah Frank Castle "
How would the Punisher even hope to do that? "
Steamroller. Just like before. :P
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I'd say Bind him, weight him down and toss him over the deepest part of the ocean.  Regardless of anything at some point the pressure at a certain depth will crush him along with drowning.

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Have the Grey Gargoyle turn him to stone and let Colossus smash him into pebbles and scatter said pebbles in the wind or to the four corners of the earth.
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drowning or suffocation. So the quickest way would be throwing him into a lave pool

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He fights  (insert villain here) in an epic battle to the death in a public setting and as the battle ensues a little baby is caught in the crossfire. Wolverine saves the baby, but (villain) takes advantage of the situation and deals Wolverine a fatal blow causing his HF to overload. In a scene where no word bubbles or panels can describe; Wolverine gets up from blow after having his healing factor overloaded, and slowly makes his way towards (Villain). Surprised Wolvies still standing let alone able to walk , Villain continues to blast him with (insert scientific ray/energy weapon). Wolvie takes blow after blow and refuses to fall:
(insert Villain): FALL FALL FALL DAMMIT!!!!

Wolverine continues to walk forward, another blast which takes off half of his face, BLAM! another takes off his left arm. Wolverine is about an inch away from (Villain).

Villain:WHY WON'T YOU DIE!?!?!?!

WOLVERINE is an inch away from death, gives a smile truly worthy of the grim reaper and says as he raises his remaining charred right arm.

Wolverine: Cause I haven't killed you yet.
SNIKT!  Three claws go right through the (villain) causing him/her to die a slow and painful death.

Wolverine collapses to the ground having saved the day and whispers "Jean" and dies surrounded by family and loved ones.

YEP THATS HOW I WOULD KILL WOLVIE....YEP

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The best way I saw Wolverine die was in an elsewhere story. Kitty Pryde killed him when he was a mindless weapon X killing machine. He killed most the x-men and Kitty simple put her hand through his head!

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Travel back time to kill Thomas and Dog Logan, then James Howlett live, and Wolverine died! 

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Invisible Woman and Human Torch vs Wolverine


I see the scenario kinda playing out like their battle with Dr. Doom in the first film. Human Torch flies around wolverine going super nova while Invisible woman contains the heat. I doubt wolverine can withstand 10000+ degrees Kelvin. His entire body would melt, including his adamantium skeleton and all his organs... there would be nothing left but ash, im sure even the adamantium would evaporate.
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Magneto does his Fatal Attractions or Ultimatum stunt then anyone can just decapitate the old geezer. I prefer Cyclops do it.

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Decapitating Wolverine and then keeping the head away from the body is the way to kill Wolverine, it was part of the Xavier Protocols.

 

 

 

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Having Storm constantly electrify Wolverine until his flesh is completely burned off. Then flash freeze the metal skeleton. Then tornado him into a volcano.

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I don't know.....

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telepaths like prof x,emma,psylocke,karma,revanche,rachel,jean with no phoenix,stephord cuckoos with cerebro on the other side of the world blow his brains out

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But wouldn't Wolverine body re-grow from his head to bottom?

On a related note, I made this little parody a while ago about the ol' Canuck:

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I guess it sort of answers the "cutting parts of Wolverine body" (as well as to why and how he can appear in so many books/teams at the same time!)
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Black Bolt karaoke extravaganza!

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Submerge him in an adamantium  tank filled with acid, he couldn't break out and the acid would destory all the organic tissue quicker than he could heal.

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Get a construct generating character (Invisible Woman/Songbird/Quasar) and handcuffs his hands with constructs to hold his hands (and claws), then throw him into the middle of the ocean or the center of a volcano.

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Carnage... he will kill him with his epicness.
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1) Have Namor drag him to the deepest depth of the sea and chain him up with adamantium chains.

2) OD him with adamantium poisoning.

3)Have Quicksilver beat the crap out him at super speed while Speed vibrate his molecules to any explosive rate. Wolverine healing factor would not be about to keep up with Quicksilver trashing and because Speed is vibrating his molecules Wolverine pain tolerance would cause him to black out as his molecules are rip apart.

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Easiest way to kill Wolverine is to have him try to GENUINELY kill Gambit for whatever reason.... Not gonna go into details they vary &the end result  doesnt matter..coz he wouldnt even BE matter -__-

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@Vermillo said:
" 1) Have Namor drag him to the deepest depth of the sea and chain him up with adamantium chains.2) OD him with adamantium poisoning.3)Have Quicksilver beat the crap out him at super speed while Speed vibrate his molecules to any explosive rate. Wolverine healing factor would not be about to keep up with Quicksilver trashing and because Speed is vibrating his molecules Wolverine pain tolerance would cause him to black out as his molecules are rip apart. "
This is good by itself unless wolvie gets some help
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i think if a strong telekinitec(s) can hold wolverine for a while then he would be very easy to kill with a muramassa blade or that anti metal thingy

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Iceman freezes Wolverine and than transports him in a secret laboratory 100 meters below earth. Than they detonate 10 atomic bombs while wolverine is frozen. No healing factor can survive from that (although Deadpool once survived an atomic bomb, so I added 9 more). BOOM!

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Sandman and Hydro Man


Sandman can put sand inside body stopping his breathing
Hydro Man can drown him. Again stopping his breathing
Both should be able to catapult him into space effectively getting rid of the Canadian.

As a caveat he is scared of water...
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Venom holds him down then sufficates him with his tendrils\webbing.
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Wolverine: Choose yer last words wisely, Wade. They might just be yer last...
Deadpool: [to himself: thinking] Booze... cheap cigars...
[Deadpool unsheathes his sword and aims it at Wolverine]
Wolverine: Madman! Yer a madman!
Deadpool: Booze and Cheap Cigars? You'll find pleny'o' both down there...
Wolverine: No freak threatens me! I'm the best at what I do, and what I do ain't very nice!
Deadpool: You bring the crowns and heads of conquered kings to my city steps. You insult my queen. You threaten my people with slavery and death! Oh, I've chosen my words carefully, Logi'. Perhaps you should have done the same! 
Wolverine: What in hell are you talkin' about, Wade?! This is madness!
Deadpool: [Lowers his sword] Madness...? 
THIS IS MARVEL!!!
[Kicks Wolverine into the pit of doom, where only a camera follows his augmented eyes until he falls forever into darkness]
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Wolverine loses his powers on M-DAY. Death by poisoning.

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Easy.

STEP1:USE acid to fry his skin and destroy his adamantium bones.
STEP2:USE a knife and turn Wolverine into many litlle bloody things on the floor.
STEP3:BURY Wolverine remains in the negative zone, utopia whatever as long as they dont find themselves for very long time.
You could also use the legacy virus but that would be too easy. 

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One person and one person only Crystal of the inhumans:
Crystal draws ore out of the earth and superheats it with fire on wolverines body immobilising him then drowns him.Chances of wolvie surviving 0%

 Burn and Drown just as nature intended
 Burn and Drown just as nature intended
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Scarlet Witch took out the Wrecking Crew by weakening their immune systems and causing them to vomit by amplifying whatever bacteria, disease, or infection was already in their bodies. With Wolverine, all she would have to do is use her "chaos magicks" to screw up Wolverine's immune system and let him die of adamantium poisoning.

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Keep him in a bottle of acid, then remove his head from his body and keep it like a trophy

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Spiderman could do what he did to juggernaut; encase wolverine in concrete after ripping adamantium from his skeleton and breaking off his bone claws, guy'll suffocate.  Either that, or get a telepath to hypnotise him into committing suicide with muramasa blase

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@TheShame:
 

Spiderman could do what he did to juggernaut; encase wolverine in concrete after ripping adamantium from his skeleton and breaking off his bone claws, guy'll suffocate

 Spider-man is no where near strong enough to even try that.

 @gui22:

STEP1:USE acid to fry his skin and destroy his adamantium bones

 I doubt acid would melt adamantium.
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Question to my super-knowledgeable buddies:
I thought I read somewhere that once Adamantium was grafted onto Wolvie's bones that it couldn't be melted down with heat again...
I know they said that in the film, which I'm ignoring, but I thought I read that in a 90s X-Men issue.

Am I right or wrong?
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Overtax his HF, turn off his hf, or get rid of his brain completely.

Death in uncanny x-force overtaxed his HF by filling him with every virus, plague and disease known to man, surprisingly Wolverine was still kicking and moving through all that but wouldve fell eventually. Idk if he wouldve healed eventually if he did die. And he did heal eventually from all that was his connection was severed from death.
And Pestilence was misdirected by Fantomex into thinking she had bugs eat wolv's eyes and eat his brain which wouldve left him dead if it was the real thing.

Easiest way i say is to get rid of his brain. I think he died in Chop Shop but healed after having organs removed and i believe he died in get mystique as well, all this happened after the crappy Logan Dies story arc where it said if he died, he couldnt heal. Seems like it was ignored.

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@inferiorego: I can only recall adamantium ever being melted once. But that was After Wolverine cut off, Rune King Thor or Odinforce Thor's arm off. Thor blasted him with the Odinforce and he melted but that's a highly powerful magical force.  But regular things like acid i doubt will work. Maybe it could in the sun, but it's never been shown that i can think of.
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Drop a kilogram of antimatter on him.

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@spiderbat87:
yeah, during the Onslaught saga. jean discovered a file that he had created on how to best kill not just wolverine, which was the cut off his head and seperate it from his body, but all the x-men.

 

the namor ripping off his head has already been thought off...

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Why not just drop him into a vat of liquid metal a la T2? "I know now why you cry... bub."

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wouldnt it be easier to get namor to just drown him? i mean theres no way to heal from having water in your lungs

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Have Doctor Doom seal him in a room built out of vibranium and then pump in athrax.

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Ghost rider will use his chain and tie around wolverine's head then hulk will use some rope or chain and tie it on wolverine's waist. Ghost rider will be ride on his motorcycle and play tug-a-war with the hulk. It will rip wolverine's head and waist down to his legs apart.
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Make him watch Dancing with the Stars ...

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Dismember him and put each bodypart in molten true Adamantium and allow it to harden.

 

Then pop the cork on the Champagne because the most overused character in Marvel will be gone forever.

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@Wattup:
Spectre would take care of him
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Why do we have to kill him, isn't neutralizing him enough? Just use one of the multitude of telepaths the X-men currently possess and fry his brain. He'll be a drooling husk.

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@cmaprice:
The movie portrayed it wrong, the pheonix would easily kill him