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He's one of Marvel's biggest mary sues and overrated as fuck. I remember seeing somewhere, I think at Cracked, that on a Wolverine vs. Punisher comic, mr macho man finds out that Frank Castle has plenty of naked muscle men magazines, "It's research!"
Wolvie's reaction was a silent smirk that spoke "HAHA LOL UR GAY"
The neat thing about a silent response from a fictional character is that it can be reinterpreted.
If someone was hoarding nude pics and told me they were for "research", I'd smirk too. "Researching all night til their arm falls off."
I mean that was a pretty standard response at the time, so maybe Wolverine is just echoing the attitudes of the time?
I do wonder this about immortals, do they live long enough for the white cells in their brain to solidify into pure inflexible dark grey matter, or are they in a constant state of flux that their attitudes change on a whim depending on their surroundings (essentially, forever mentally children)
At least in wolverines case, he isn’t truly, fully, immortal. His healing factor eventually slows to the point he gets old and dies. In the case if true immortality like Mr. Immortal, it is most likely part of the power that gives them immortality to also keep the body roughly the same, i.e in working order. Mentally they all probably go insane after a few hundred or thousand years, but the comics do not cover such large periods or accurately reflect the mental state.
Isn't it usually that it gets interfered with, and that does him in?
To my knowledge, interfering with the healing factor only works while actively interfering it, and if you stop at any point Logan is able to come back essentially post mortem. In some books it is so powerful that he essentially stopped aging when he acquired the healing factor secondary mutation. In the movies, he still ages but much slower, and eventually his body begins to reject the adamantium in his skeleton and his healing factor cannot heal fast enough, leading to his (kinda) death.