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    Wolverine

    Character » Wolverine appears in 16062 issues.

    A long-lived mutant with the rage of a beast and the soul of a Samurai, James "Logan" Howlett's once mysterious past is filled with blood, war, and betrayal. Possessing an accelerated healing factor, keenly enhanced senses, and bone claws in each hand (along with his skeleton) that are coated in adamantium; Wolverine is, without question, the ultimate weapon.

    Would Wolverine's healing factor protect him from starving?

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    #1  Edited By nickzambuto

    Like, if he literally goes without food or water for years and years and years... would he die?

    I mean... it's kinda impossible for the HF to save him from that right? Then again, the HF itself is impossible so...

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    #2  Edited By JonSmith

    Technically, unless I'm very much mistaken, starvation is the body eating itself for nutrients. Much like dehydration. To determine the answer to this question, we have to confront the precise nature of his healing factor, and the facts thereof: It shouldn't work. Wolverine isn't shown ingesting any additional nutrients that his body could use to regrow lost appendages or other injuries. As such, we have to assume one of two possibilities: he gains that mass from an alternative dimension or some such other energy source in order to fuel that regeneration. Or: His mutation has grown an organ within him that produces it's own nutrients, making his own food when necessary. The latter is far more likely, so yes, more likely than not, Wolverine does not necessarily NEED to eat.

    However, you also have to factor in that he's constantly suffering from adamantium poisoning due to his skeleton coating. Therefore, while it may heal severe injuries, it's possible that it would not heal starvation or dehydration while he is in possession of said skeleton til the latter stages where his body begins to shut down. So he may end up in mindless agony til he eats.

    I hope that was a sufficient answer, but keep in mind that's totally speculation.

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    #3  Edited By Jeanniebird

    I vague recall that yes it was once stated in the comics that he can indeed starve to death, but I'm not sure, since I can't find this particular moment.

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    #4  Edited By god_spawn  Moderator

    His health state directly impacts his healing factor.The more hungry, tired, thirsty, he gets the worse his healing factor gets. And since it is possible for his healing factor to burn out and over tax and without sustenance to replenish then yes he would possibly starve to death eventually. His HF would probably keep him alive longer than normal people without any food or water but that is it.

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    #5  Edited By SoA

    @JonSmith: in the 80s a couple of reavers crucified him and left him exposed and he was dehydrated and starving.

    in origins and endings he sliced his bicep off for nourishment.

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    #6  Edited By Outside_85

    No said, his body would begin to eat itself to keep basic functions going, eventually it will consume more than it recreates and slowly he will hit fatal levels where those basic functions start failing including the healing factor itself which presumably also needs energy to keep going.

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    #7  Edited By cattlebattle

    Of course....or he wouldn't need to eat.

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    #8  Edited By ClawFist

    Logan has stated once before that he survived being buried beneath a massive Iceberg once and he had survived for months by feeding off his cuts of his own flesh. However it has also been stated that his healing factor needs nutrition to work effectively. In terms of going without food for years as you stated, I'm pretty sure he would eventually starve to death actually.

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    #9  Edited By kapitein_zeppos

    He'll probably last much longer than most people, but he would eventually die. When starving your body starts to look for every possible internal reserve, but there are limits, eating yourself doesn't work. His healing factor can't generate new healthy tissue full of energy and vitamins without a fresh source.

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    Doesn't matter, even if he "died" of starvation his healing factor would bring him back.

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    In the Ultimate Universe he said he fed himself with parts of his own body once.

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    since he can survive while his head cut off and learned he breathes from his skin when his head gets separeted which is also impossible and we have to understand he doesn't have an healing factor not exactly he has the ability to survive.it's more like a surviving factor.

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    For all intents and purposes it should kill him, just like suffocation. But then you face a fact that his power very blatantly ignores the mass-energy conversion and literally creates mass from nothing...

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    #15  Edited By Jasern

    His body was blasted to skeletal remains and grew back. And the comic books have never been consistant about adamantium poisoning him. He's lost his powers several times in the past with no mention of the metal poisoning him. That came up under different writers with different views about the alloy. And it doesn't make sense either, why would it poison him? It's indestructible for the most part, and normal humans have surgical steel and titanium set in there bones all the time. If anything, his healing factor is slowed because the marrow in the skeleton is largely cut off from normal flow, bone normally bring extremely porous, but being cut off because of the adamantium coating them.

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    #16 god_spawn  Moderator

    @jasern: It’s been stated the bonding process to his skeleton doesn’t inhibit any skeletal functions, so anything regarding his bones and the like getting cut off isn’t true. Regardless of how effected he is to the adamantium poisoning, it is consistently stated that is what slows down his healing.

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