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So I'm no big city doctor but as I understand it we build muscle because we essentially tear up our muscle fibers and then they grow back bulkier because that's what our bodies do. So if Wolverine's mutant power is that he heals back crazy fast doesn't that mean he should be like the most buff muscular dude in the marvel universe? Like any time he exerts himself it should be near instant muscle game. Like him lifting weights should mean that you can actually see his muscles swelling as he's lifting and so long as he keeps lifting heavier and heavier weights he could become like incredible hulk levels of buff over the course of like fifteen minutes right?
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Why wouldn't I? Tony Stark, Peter Parker, Otto Octavius, Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, and many others do it all the time. It's not a magical fantasy setting, and mutations are scientific in nature.
That's exactly what I said.
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But if this is true then he would be a skinny wimp with baby muscles because it would mean he was never able to build muscle mass ever.
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And Wolvie is supposed to be so muscled that he's damn near as wide as he is tall - check out his earlier appearances, back when he was 5' 3". He gets loads of exercise lugging that adamantium skeleton around.
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That makes sense then. I imagine at some point he's literally so dense with muscle fibers that they stop tearing at all and that's when he's reached peak muscularity. Sometimes I feel like not enough things break when he sits on them tho.. that dude must weigh at least as much as a minivan, little terminator that he is.
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But like jonsills and flyingfinn wrote, comic-book science very frequently diverges from real-world science. It's just a cool-sounding excuse for cool superhuman abilities. All that really matters is that it's applied consistently when a concept is established.
Yeah... that was the point I was making. The fact that Wolverine isn't the size of the hulk is potentially not scientifically accurate. Glad we could finally end up there 26 days later.
Yes. Maybe the mutant who can regenerate from getting blown up within seconds just needs to take steroids so he can exceed his natural human limits.
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If you tear muscle when you workout and it heals and builds more more.
Then when he works out he tears and instantly heals. No stretching needed.
The minor tear for him is instantly heal. So it could also be argued that he works outs and his muscles heal faster than they can tear...or perhaps he builds muscle instantly because for each miniatures tear it’s healing instantly.
So...
If we also believe there is a cap on how big he can get, he could literally bulk up in less time than most people. Like...inna freakishly less time. He could go from skinny to peek physical condition in a matter of a week.
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If the X-men were a Russian operation, he probably would. Of course it's also possible that his body metabolizes performance enhancers so quickly that they're in and out before they can have any noticeable effect.
you completely missed the point o3o again
That is, in fact, canon. During the birthday thing with spiderman he downs an entire bottle of whiskey, gets super drunk for a few seconds, then has a big hangover for a little bit. Steroids would not be able to help Wolverine exceed his very normal human limits. Well, unless they were specifically designed for his normal human superhuman mutant physiology.
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I wasn't asking about steroids tho o3o you brought that up
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As an author, I always shy away from writing about science fiction and stick with fantasy. There are millions of neckbeards, who debate things about Star Wars and Star Trek, right down to where the ships toilets are located. Meanwhile... if I tell you the wizard casts a spell or witch turns a person into a frog, no science comes into play. Sure the neckbeard can look at me and say, "In your book, where the witch turned the hero into a frog, the mass of an average human person is 70 to 80 kg and the mass of a frog..." I just hold up my hand and reply, "Magic! Duh?!".
According to everything I read, about both Deadpool and Wolverine, states they can recomposite themselves, after being tossed into a wood chipper, and fed to sharks as chum. Deadpool has the worse version, as he not only is suspend in a constant state of death, his lost limbs wander off to become Evil Deadpool.
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That's good because it's the entire point of the thread. It's strange how people keep feeling the need to point out that I asked a science question about a comic book character o3o
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Perhaps. Maybe he's like a vampire and he always grows back to some sort of set form that he attained when his powers reached 'maturity' or something. Now that I think about it that makes the most sense. Wolverine is like a vampire.
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That's the answer then. That's also actually a thing that has come up in Vampire tabletop sessions. Specifically a character who bore a centuries long grudge against his sire because he delayed siring him for a decade for political reasons, during which the character went partly bald, and now has to look like that for all eternity rather than the glorious mane they had in their younger years. So I guess Logan could have had it worse than looking like an anime character.
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