Did Wolverine just stop aging or is he aging really slow? Thanks!

He ages really slow

Really slow.

In the movies, he gets older because his healing factor slows down as he ages.

In the comics we've seen stories that take place over a hundred years in the future without Logan getting old. Which is why Old Man Logan doesn't make very much sense, but I guess you can explain that away because of it being a alternate reality.

Agree. I hope the movie will explain it. Then again, canon is one thing and non-canon is something totally diferent. Movies on one hand don't always follow the comics. I would really like to know the canon explanation. :)

In the movies, (X-Men: Origins), in 1845 he is still a child. Fast forward and it's the Civil War (1861-1856)...he's much older, probably over 25, meaning he aged normally. Then comes the WW1, WW2, Vietnamese War, more than 100 years have passed and Wolverine didn't age at all, or maybe he aged a only a bit. Why? Why did he suddenly stop aging?

hopefully, they will explain that in the movie Logan.

Hope so.

Aging is the accumulation of molecular and cellular damage, it makes sense that Wolverine would be able to fix that damage much better than normal people.

You might be conflating aging with growing, they are not the part of the same process.

Our body is programmed to grow up, but it's not programmed to age. In fact it's programmed to prevent aging, it's just that it's not perfect at preventing it, so some small amount of damage accumulates, and eventually that damage accumulates to a point above which our body cannot tolerate it, and we die.

Didn't he lose his healing in Logan? That may be why he looks older despite a few years of timeline.

@mortein:

Good point...so what prevented Wolverine from aging? Accumulation? Maybe it's happening really slow?