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Wolverine's Claws Not Mutant Power?


Revealed in "Reunion Part 2", Wolverine's claws weren't part of his mutant powers. His healing factor was and in this episode when his claws came out, he bellowed a little bit in pain >uhhh whhhat he said<, so it's a given that it's his healing factor that makes it not hurt. However if his claws were natural, why would they hurt?

Just curious.

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From what people have said on here he actually has tubes that the claws come out of so he doesn't bleed all over the place. And actually this show was before the retcon of Wolverine having bone claws. In the original comics this show is based off of Wolverine's claws were created and implanted into him by Department H. That's why in the first episode with Nightcrawler Wolverine says, "What kind of a god would let a man do this to me?" then releases his claws.
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From what people have said on here he actually has tubes that the claws come out of
I thought he had tubes too, so I did wonder why his claws coming out without his mutant powers seemed to hurt him. Maybe it was something that happened internally. But I'm pretty sure, when that did happen, I didn't see any tubes.

Maybe just a little bit of convenient writing.

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I have no idea when that 'healing factor' kicked in, it wasn't there from the start, but after that Wolverine might as well have just worn a cape and a big S on his chest.

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I thought everyone knew that Wolverine was given his adamantium skeleton in Canada as a member of Weapon X. He discovered his claws then. So no, they're not a mutant power.


But even if they were, how exactly would Mr. Sinister's machine affect him? The claws are still physically there, just as Beast's size and agility are still with him even after Sinister's machine has sucked the mutant powers out of the Savage Land. So I don't think all mutant powers are energy-based. Some are physical.





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The adamantium skeleton also would kill him without the healing factor because his healing factor keeps the metal from poisening his blood. That wasn't done in the cartoon though.

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The adamantium skeleton also would kill him without the healing factor because his healing factor keeps the metal from poisening his blood.


Which would be a good excuse, except other non-mutant humans have adamantium bones and aren't being poisoned. Bullseye has an adamantium spine and no healing factor.

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I think it would kill Logan because his ENTIRE skeleton is coated in Adamantium. You need your bones to generate blood cells.

The others have only partial adamantium coating, so there's enough raw bone to still make blood cells.

That, or the writers who created those guys forgot that you need your bones to live.

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I can't believe that there is actually a thread on imdb concerning something this obvious. The claws were always there. Due to the massive amount of mind monkeying done to Wolverine, he has known and forgotten about his claws at various times during his 100 plus years of life. The adamantium coating of his skeleton is nearly covering his entire skeleton, that is why he heals nearly instantaneously when he does not have it. His healing factor is retarded by the adamantium, but is still insanely faster than a human. He even admitted that it still hurts when he pops his claws when the healing factor is working, but the neat, clean, smooth wounds heal faster. By the way, Bullseye takes medication to counteract the adamantium poisoning.

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It is mentioned that if he uses his claws enough, it opens up holes, much like a peircing, it still hurts everytime he lets them out.

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The claws weren't always there. When Wolverine was originally created, his claws were implanted and not part of his actual mutant powers. The "natural bone claws" were later retonned as a way for Wolverine to keep his "cool factor", ie. claws that come out of his hands, after Magneto ripped all the Adimantuim out of his body.

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Because there are knives, coming out of his hands, tearing apart bones, nerves, tissue, and skin, every time they come out and go back in, that's why it hurts, after a while you get used to it, and in the case of wolverine, he heals from it while it's happening, but the initial pain is still there.

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Originally in the comic books, Wolverine's claws WERE NOT part of his mutant powers. Originally his powers were a healing factor and heightened senses. Marvel even released a collector card detailing how Wolverine's claws worked at one point. It's since been retconned that his claws were always there and were part of his mutant abilities.

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Revealed in "Reunion Part 2", Wolverine's claws weren't part of his mutant powers. His healing factor was and in this episode when his claws came out, he bellowed a little bit in pain >uhhh whhhat he said<, so it's a given that it's his healing factor that makes it not hurt. However if his claws were natural, why would they hurt?


There are mutations that make people more susceptible to pain in real life such as how red heads experience. Albino's have to stay out of the sun, people with hemophilia can't get cut. We've evolved to be the smartest creatures on the planet yet we still feel pain.

Wolverine has a healing factor not an immunity to pain. The real question is if Wolverine's mutation didn't give him the bone claws that his metal claws are laced with then how did he develop the muscles to extend the claws in the first place?




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The real question is if Wolverine's mutation didn't give him the bone claws that his metal claws are laced with then how did he develop the muscles to extend the claws in the first place?


The comics originally depicted Wolverine's skeleton as having bionic components grafted onto his skeleton, as this panel from Uncanny X-Men #142 shows:

http://i.stack.imgur.com/gtx1j.jpg

Perhaps all he'd have to do is press some mechanical triggering device in his palms and the blades would slide right out.

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When I saw the first X-MEN film. I thought Logan was a normal human soldier who voluteenered for a experiment, which he was given a metal skeleton and metal claws, but the experiment had caused him to loose his memory. I didn't expect him to be a 200 year old mutant who started off with bone claws, later metal claws, when he is injected with adamantium and suffering permament amnesia, when he is shot in the head with a adamantium bullet.

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Because it had not yet been revealed in the comics and his memory loss kept him from remembering. It wasn't a retcon; it just wasn't revealed yet. The same as Rogue's name. Claremont never stated that he intended Wolverine's claws to be bionic.

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Actually it was a retcon. They even once showed a schematic of the mechanism that controlled the claws.

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because at the time,.. he never had bone claws, making them part of huis mutant abilities in the comics when this show started...

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