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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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Just squeeze his prostate, that should kill him.

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1. Gambit could charge wolverine's claws then jean could put up a telekenetic shield and contain the blast.

2. Tony Stark could make a mahine to check his vitals then everytime he starts to regenerate it would release a nerotoxin and flamethrowers would light him up.

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Wouldn't you be able to kill Wolverine simply by using lethal injection? I mean think about it the chemicals would stay in his veins. I don't see how his healing factor would help in this case. Could it really be that simple?

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He's got a healing factor. Due to his adamantium skeleton he is heavy so he cannot swim. Throw him at the bottom of the ocean. He will drown. His healing factor will kick in and he will be revived. But no air so he will die again. This will happen continuously, only be in life for a few seconds. He cannot die but he cannot live as well. Cruel!

Even though he has swam dozens of times with it.

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He's got a healing factor. Due to his adamantium skeleton he is heavy so he cannot swim. Throw him at the bottom of the ocean. He will drown. His healing factor will kick in and he will be revived. But no air so he will die again. This will happen continuously, only be in life for a few seconds. He cannot die but he cannot live as well. Cruel!

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He can drown,He has shown to be afraid of drowning. He doesn't panic from anything because he knows he won't drown. I have only seen him panic from the mention of CYBER, and drowning.

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Have Magneto encase him in a vibranium casket then have Sentry THROW HIM INTO THE SUN a black hole. I win.

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Time to get creative: Bishop and Husk. Bishop uses his time traveling device, taking him and Husk to 1887 Husk sheds rubber skin, gives Thomas Logan the worlds first condom. No more Wolverine.

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@god_spawn: Well, that's rather disappointing.

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@roboadmiral: Age of Apocalypse is still another universe. In 616, he's regrown organs multiple times and even managed to heal from a skeleton a couple of times as well. X-23 has regrown limbs before too so I'd if Logan didn't have the adamantium, he has no reason he shouldn't be able to at this point.

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@god_spawn: Seriously? I thought one of the limitations on his powers was that he couldn't grow back things he completely lost. In Age of Apocalypse he lost his hand. Then again, that was the '90s. My Wolverine information is probably rather out of date.

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@roboadmiral said:

Step 1. Pump him full of a butt-ton of elephant tranquilizer (seriously, all that's needed is like a minute or two of unconsciousness)

Step 2. Cut open his stomach, reach up under his rib cage and remove his heart. He isn't growing that back.

He already has.

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Step 1. Pump him full of a butt-ton of elephant tranquilizer (seriously, all that's needed is like a minute or two of unconsciousness)

Step 2. Cut open his stomach, reach up under his rib cage and remove his heart. He isn't growing that back.

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Step 1. Cure Wolverine of X-gene

Step 2. Kill Wolverine

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Drown him.

No, seriously, its that simple.

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If he dies, he will come back to life everytime. The only way is to destroy every single one of his cells.

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What about traveling to Asgard and having an Uru axe made and then behead him.........problem solved

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replace his beer with liquid nitrogen

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Unsynthesized Carbonadium spike Prison while having him tied up with Adamantium chains.

You have to have something that gets rid of his healing factor, that's for sure.

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I thought I heard somewhere that he recovered from dust once...around there.

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@xmentas: There was one time he regenerated from a drop of blood but it like touched a crystal or something. So idk if that is what you were referring to. He has regenerated from a skeleton about 2-3 times so at this point his HF is at least that potent.

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@god_spawn: I didn't really mean a full 60 minutes, just exaggerating that overtime constantly blasting him. And I've heard that there's been times Logan healed to the point that it was considered too much and people wouldn't even consider it official.

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@xmentas: I don't think I have ever seen Scott sustain a blast that long to begin with which is why I am doubting he would be able to when a higher level blast was gassing him out in moments. Repeated blasts throughout the day sure he can put up. Cyclops doesn't need to hold a blast on him for an hour though, he could just shred him to bones over and over with a moderately leveled blast with a short blast length period and eventually Logan's HF becomes taxed and he is done since Logan's flesh is not much tougher than a normal humans if at all.

He can be. The problem is keeping him down. Logan dies...all the time. His healing is just ridiculous. He has survived in orbit before. He has had his throat ripped out before and was kicked into the ocean only to eventually heal and come out later. Suffocating would kill him temporarily as would drowning as Logan thought that if he drowned his healing factor would revive him and he would die and be in this state of limbo. He would eventually die as his healing gets taxed but if say someone was to fish him and pump his body with nutrients, his HF would most likely revive him.

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@god_spawn: stress maybe? lol..and why can't Wolverine be suffocated?

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@xmentas: Did you see Schism when Cyclops was sweating and on the verge of falling over when firing a beam at a sentinel for a short amount of time? The book was terrible.

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Put him in the hands of a writer who isn't a fanboy and hates how ridiculous his healing factor is currently represented.

/end thread

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You drop him in the ocean

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@god_spawn: Did you see wolverine during the fight in Schism? That wasn't even 30 minutes and Wolverine was reduced to skeleton.

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@xmentas: Cyclops would get tired a lot faster than Jean and I highly doubt he can hold a blast for an hour strong enough to rip Logan to a skeleton and counterbalance the healing factor. He heals from brain damage. They would literally have to rip his brain or head and so far no one has even been able to dislocate a joint on his body, Hulk included. Suffocating or drowning isn't a permanent way to kill him either, Magneto would be able to do something though like crush him into a junk ball.

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1. Have Nightcrawler teleport him into space (NC wearing a suit so he's good).

2. Have Jean hold him in place while Cyclops blasts his body for a good hour. If Jean gets tired then Xavier will take the shift.

3. Have Hulk and Juggernaut go against him in the danger room, let them enjoy a slug-fest. Enough hits to the brain and he's done.

4. Like the picture above, have Storm shock him continuously while Bobby keeps him frozen in place.

5. As Magneto crushes him have Spiderman web his whole face enough so that as his body is breaking he suffocates.

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Ask Magneto to rip him to pieces.

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You Kill Wolverine like this:

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well, most of these wouldn't actually kill him, even without oxygen he can survive, (in ultimate universe) but i don't know if he can regenerate without oxygen, probably he will be only off combat due to his missing limbs scattered . but not actually dead, cuz we have cells inside or bones right? that cells couldn't regenerate him after he is put back to a oxygenated condition? maybe he only can be stoped? oh god that is so confunsing, only if you get rid of his skeleton too it should work

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Alex Mercer absorb Wolverine THE END.

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Oh, or Namor could swim him into the deepest part of the ocean so that he's stuck there being constantly crushed by the pressure. Or, you could rip out his skeleton and Hulk could eat him? Surely he can't heal if he's absorbed into someone's bloodstream?! Or rip the metal out and skewer him so he can't escape. If he can't get off the skewer he can't heal. Also could Morlun kill him?

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Throw him in the sun. Or a beam from Mjolnir could totally obliterate Wlvie.

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Não é somente força mais tem que haver inteligencia. Heróis no nível ômega talvez poderiam matar o Logan

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@Dayvid3: Only authentic M2 WWII flamethrowers will work!

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Jam a flamethrower nozzle through an eye, pull the trigger. You probably should stand back too.

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@Doctor!!!!! said:

Cut his head off with a adamantium blade that is soaked with a mutant cure, so his body will not heal if he manges to come back.

I'm creative!!!

Well played

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@Park: Supposedly decapitation but I believe there was instance before getting the adamantium he regrew a head. The M-Blade, carbonadium, overtaxing his healing factor, molecular manipulation, absolute zero freezing. Shutting off his HF like Cyclops did to him via special nanobots and kill him.

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@god_spawn: Really? Jeez... so how do we kill him?

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@Park: Wolverine would regenerate though. He's healed from nothing but a skeleton a few times actually.

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@god_spawn: I think if Wolverine's skeleton exploded but remained intact the skin/muscle/all-that-good-stuff would be obliterated. Then Gambit could take the skull and keep it.

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@Park: I don't think Gambit can charge his skeleton. It might explode similar to what happened with Cap's shield but everything would remain intact.

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@god_spawn: Gambit blows up his skeleton? And keeps Wolverine's skull in a safe.

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@Park said:

Drown him?

Possible, depending on showings. He's had his throat ripped out and was thrown in a lake before only to come out eventually. Wolverine fears drowning in that it won't kill him as his healing would keep him alive but he would be constantly drowning, reviving due to his healing factor. A limbo if you will.

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Drown him?

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@yeopop: use Deadpool to annoy him to the point of suicide...

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Super engineer a microbe from darwin's cell samples and use magic to make them extra violent (plus properties of anti metal) then set that sunnuva b!tch on wolvie