So why is Logan unable to heal himself? The answer “Logan” seems to be pushing comes from some of the “X-Men” comics, and has to do with his adamantium-coated skeleton.
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In doing that, he rewrote the timeline of events that completely altered the first three “X-Men” films, plus erasing all the stuff that happened to Logan in “X-Men Origins: Wolverine” ( read more about the implications of that time shift here). It seems entirely possible, and probably likely, that Logan never lost his healing powers to Yashida in the altered timeline.Īlso Read: How 'Logan' Fits With the Other 'X-Men' and 'Wolverine' Movies (Spoilers) In that movie, Logan travels back to 1973 and alters history in order to prevent mutants from being wiped out in the future. “The Wolverine” was released in 2013 - followed by”X-Men: Days of Future Past” in 2014. However, while that explanation would make some sense in terms of the “X-Men” continuity, it seems like the films may have already disallowed for that version of events. Yashida was able to steal enough of Logan’s healing power that he lost his immortality after all.
So it could be that Logan never fully recovered from the effects of that drain.
Yashida succeeds in draining some of Logan’s healing ability before he’s killed. Logan refuses, and at the end of the movie, Yashida uses a giant samurai robot to take Logan’s powers by force. First he offers to take it from Logan to release him from the guilt and torment he suffers from never dying. The blast burned Logan, but he healed immediately, right in front of Yashida’s eyes.ĭecades later, Yashida wants Logan’s immortality for himself. Logan saved Yashida’s life by pulling him into a well where Logan was being held at a Japanese prisoner of war camp. He saw Logan’s powers first hand - at Nagasaki, when the atomic bomb was dropped. The first answer could be that Logan’s powers were sapped at the conclusion of “The Wolverine.” In that movie, a man who knew Logan in 1945, Ichiro Yashida, has become a powerful industrialist in the 2010s. Another comes from the comics and his alluded to, but never explicitly discussed, in “Logan.”Īlso Read: The Complete History of Wolverine in the 'X-Men' Movies, Including the Setup for 'Logan' (Photos) One comes from “The Wolverine,” the second film of the “X-Men” spinoff trilogy that “Logan” brings to a close. There are two possible answers to why Wolverine isn’t the unstoppable killing machine he once was. It seems that Logan’s mutant powers are drying up. And more importantly, he looks like an old man. Though Logan survives the blast to the chest thanks to his adamantium innards, the wound heals at a dramatically slower rate than in the past. In short, he’s been basically unkillable throughout the various “X-Men” films.Īlso Read: All 45 Marvel Movies Ranked From Worst to Best, Including 'Logan' (Photos)īut this time, things don’t work quite as well. His body’s mutant powers heal him almost instantly, and his skeleton is coated in a nearly indestructible fictional alloy, adamantium. What’s more, because his healing ability also affects the aging process, Logan has looked the same age (early 30s at most) for more than 100 years. The James Mangold film kicks off with the titular superhero ( played by Hugh Jackman) catching a shotgun blast at close range after trying to stop gang bangers from stealing the rims off the limousine he drives. Usually this wouldn’t be a problem - Logan has taken quite a few gunshots before.
At the start of “Logan,” the mutant formerly known as The Wolverine has seen better days.
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