Death of Wolverine #2

[flint_marko]

Wolverine wants to know who the client is, and Viper tells him he'll have to earn it.




They battle, and Sabretooth apparently scratches out one of Wolverine's eyes. He's about to kill him when Lady Deathstrike arrives and stabs him in the back. Wolverine stops her before she can finish him off, saying he's poisoned and chained, and when he dies it's not going to happen this way. She lets him leave.

Comments

[skemono]

Doesn't Sabertooth also have a healing factor? Wouldn't that prevent Viper's poison from killing him?

[lilacsigil]

Yeah, this bothered me too. Poison should only briefly slow him down. Unless he's lost his healing factor too for some reason?

[cainofdreaming]

Viper's used poisons that specifically counter healing factors in the past. Creed only survived last time because Kitty phased him while she was trying to deliver the poison.

She really is kinda the best there is in her field, which is poison making, so it's not really surprising that she'd have something that affects even Logan and Creed.

[md84]

Healing factors have their limits. Wolverine's was weakened for a long time because it kept the adamantium in his body from poisoning him to death. X-23 has a better healing factor since she doesn't have as much adamantium, and she still nearly died when Nimrod -- a future version of the robots specifically designed to kill mutants -- blasted her. Makes sense that a master poisoner like Viper could cook up something deadly enough to threaten Sabertooth's life.