Wolverine #55: The Death of Sabretooth - For Death Week

[theanswer]

Wolverine and Sabretooth's healing factors have become so ridiculously over powered that writers have created a deus machina in the form of a sword called the Muramasa, which is composed of special materials that kill mutant healing factors, just in case they need to kill one of them.

Wolverine confronts Victor with the sword and cuts his arm off with it. Victor picks it up and tries to press it back on so his healing factor can reattach it, but he's horrified when it falls off. Logan explains what has happened and Victor just responds with, "Do it."



And he does.

And he's been dead since.

The bit about all of the hurt women amuses me because this is written by Jeph "Red Hulk has beaten every woman ever" Loeb.

Suggested Tags:
char: sabretooth/victor creed
char: wolverine/logan/james howlett
creator: jeph loeb
creator: simone bianchi
publisher: marvel comics
title: wolverine

Comments

[comicoz]

If people can simply clone/get a healing factor (Deadpool), why doesn't everyone have it?

[lencannon]

Well, I would say Deadpool got his healing factor in any SIMPLE way.

[silverzeo]

Well, everyone sort of does. Most of the X-Men have blood lost, raptured organs, and scars that miraculously heal one way or another and are stile as nimble as they were, with no hindering aftermaths that happen to "normal" people.

[falseaesop]

Doesn't work. Most people would die an insanely horrible death from Deadpool's healing factor. People have tried to replicate it, or clone him, it tends to end very badly (ask the Skrulls how that worked out for them). The only reason it worked for Wade is because his cancer is constantly destroying his body so it gives the healing factor something to do.

The reason it worked for Alex Haden is because technically he was dead for 5 minutes when he 'recieved' Wade's healing factor. He's a dead man kept alive by the healing factor regenerating his dead tissue... but he's still dead, but not zombie dead.

Black Swan? Same deal as Alex. But he never came back from being taxidermied.

[comicoz]

I meant Deadpool got a healing factor (from Wolvie, wasn't it?), more than others have gotten his. I did phrase it badly.

[falseaesop]

Sorry, I was trying to answer. Weapon X tried, and it killed everyone other than Wade, it only worked with him because of his cancer, however it left him horribly scarred and mentally unstable. (though plenty of evidence suggests Wade was crazy before the treatment, the cancer and the healing factor are eating and rewriting his brain tissue constantly).

Anyone else who has tried to replicate the process has failed (other than with Agent X and Black Swan), the healing factor goes into overdrive, and more or less becomes a cancer. With no wounds to heal it goes out of control and starts to grow tumors, very nasty.

Natural Healing factors in mutants seem to know when to stop rebuilding, no one has been able to replicate that.