Wolverine/Thomas Howlett, from �X-Men� Immortal NOT mutant.

Solitary Poet

As everyone probably knows by now, the character Wolverine from �X-Men� has some pretty peculiar attributes, he can heal from mortal wounds (quite quickly) and due to his unique nature, it is said that there is no way of knowing just how old he is, to quote the movie �He could be forty or four-hundred.� We also know from sources that in the 1800s his name was Thomas Howlett.

I just googled Thomas Howlett and some cool genealogy came up. there was a real person named Thomas Howlett Born circa 1637 in Ipswich, Massachusetts and Thomas died in Ipswich, Massachusetts, on 22 Dec 1667. Thomas Howlett had two stepchildren, Alice and Sarah(he didn�t have children of his own). It almost sounds like a cool �Highlander� immortal bio�, just slap first death before died and presto, Wolverine is older (and younger) than previously thought.

lionhead · **Sun May 21, 2006 10:22 am**

That guy only became 30 years old and died? Doesn't sound very immortal.

Solitary Poet · **Sun May 21, 2006 10:26 am**

According to the �Highlander� movies and TV shows, you have to die an unnatural premature death to become immortal, after that you are frozen at the age you died at and never grow older.

lionhead · **Sun May 21, 2006 3:51 pm**

Good point

Lord Borg · **Sun May 21, 2006 5:35 pm**

Yeah, but Wolverine is a Mutant, this has been stated manytimes, his long life comes from his regeneration

Solitary Poet · **Sun May 21, 2006 5:53 pm**

Lord Borg · **Sun May 21, 2006 6:34 pm**

lionhead · **Mon May 22, 2006 6:06 am**

His wolf-like instincts and his ability to cure diseases(his body litterally creates the cure inside his body) is definitly from being a Mutant. So his Healing rate is mutation as well.

His adamantium skeleton exists only because he can heal himself at such a high rate, or he would have never survived it.

madlilnerd · **Sat May 27, 2006 6:35 pm**

... so are we allowed to decapitate him or not?

Lord Borg · **Sat May 27, 2006 6:48 pm**

Prolly not, he'd get pretty pissed at you

Valathous · **Sat May 27, 2006 6:57 pm**

Impossible to decapitate Wolverine. His entire skeleton is made of indestructable metal, including his neck. So if Solitary Poet's theory was right, Wolverine would, in fact, be immortal.

Solitary Poet · **Sun May 28, 2006 12:57 am**

Wolverine lives forever!

Valathous · **Sun May 28, 2006 1:20 am**

Btw, his name was JAMES Howlett, not Thomas.

... And he's Canadian,

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Founder · **Sun May 28, 2006 1:46 am**

Um...no. He is not immortal. Burning him, drowning him, blowing him up, or losing a lot of blood. Those four DEFINITLY kill him.

Valathous · **Sun May 28, 2006 2:27 am**

Immortal and invincible are two different things,

He can apparently tolerate a bit of the burning and a bit of the exploding, though. Just depends on the degree.

He has been in several different comic books and was killed in one of them by a sentinal. He took a direct shot and it vapourized all of his flesh instantly, not allowing him to heal. Left his adamantium skeleton, though.

Lord Borg · **Sun May 28, 2006 12:39 pm**

He's not Highlander immortal, his regerneration comes from his Mutation. It is possible to kill him, but eh, leave a few cells that can stay alive long enough to split and regenerat etc... and he'll come back (LIke the head shot in X:2)

Valathous · **Mon May 29, 2006 5:21 pm**

Um, he was never killed in X2, just knocked unconcious. His skull is adamantium, too, which is indestructable... The bullet didn't pierce anything but his skin.

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