Science Reveals Wolverine's True Weaknesses

Tuesday, July 23, 2013 - 12:30 in Biology & Nature

"The Wolverine" Courtesy of 20th Century Fox In the new film The Wolverine, everyone's favorite genetic anomaly loses his ability to self-regenerate. Here are some of the things he should fear the most. In a new summer film, everyone's favorite genetic anomaly will lose the reason he has been able to snikt! though skirmishes, scuffs, and scrapes for the last century and a half-superhuman healing abilities. The mutation that makes Wolverine worthy of the X-Men is that his cells regenerate at incredible speeds. He ages at a snail's pace, he can re-grow parts of limbs and organs after serious injury, and he is basically impervious to infection and disease. Until now. In The Wolverine, which opens July 26, a former Japanese soldier whose life Wolverine saved during WWII offers a way to remove the mutant's regenerative superpowers. Since living forever can be its own kind of torment, Wolverine-Logan to his...

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