most normal humans heal injuries over a long period of time, Wolverine's healing factor speeds up that natural process. Wolverine's natural healing has been advanced to the point where he can heal extensive injuries (such as broken limbs) in a matter of hours to days. This factor gives him a higher resistance to poisons and toxins, an enhanced resistance to disease, an extended life span as well as the ability to recover from almost any injury. The more extensive the injury, the longer the healing time will be.
Weapons: Wolverine's skeleton has been bonded with the indestructible metal Adamantium. Also, he possesses adamantium-laced, retractable claws housed in his forearms. At will, he can release them through the skin on the back of each hand.
Special Limitations: Despite his healing factor, Wolverine is not immortal. If the injuries are extensive enough, especially if they result in the loss of vital organs, large amounts of blood, and/or loss of physical form (such as having flesh burned away by fire), Logan can die.
History: Until his first recorded encounter with the green-skinned behemoth called the Hulk as an agent of Canada's Department H, Wolverine's past remains shrouded in mystery. Due to extensive memory implants, courtsey of the Weapon X project, even his own recollections are suspect: Was he a samurai in Japan? A mercenary operative for the Central Intelligence Agency? A "wild man" living off the Canadian wilderness?
Logan was drafted into the Canadian government's Weapon X project by a group of scientists who had been hired to perfect and implement a technique that would graft the indestructible metal adamantium to human bone cells. The adamantium was bonded with Logan's skeleton during a procedure he survived thanks only to his accelerated healing factor; he was indoctrinated into the program as an assassin, codename Wolverine. |
