Wolverine's Body Count Exposes the Shocking Truth of His 'Hero' Status
Marvel's Wolverine may be one of the X-Men's most memorable heroes, but that doesn't mean he ascribes to the unwritten heroes' code of sparing his enemies — and is in fact the hero with one of the highest body counts imaginable. Logan has the durability to survive fights that would kill any ordinary human thanks to his impressive healing factor and his adamantium-laced skeleton, and his claws allow him to slice through dozens of enemies at once. But even fans aren't aware of his actual kill count in comics, which numbers in the thousands.
Wolverine's history, even now, is shrouded in mystery. He was born James Howlett in the 1830s, but his healing factor slows down his aging substantially to the point where he is nearly always depicted as a man in his late 30s to early 40s. Thanks to the trauma of his childhood, involvement in numerous wars, and alternations to his body as part of the Weapon X Program, even he isn't completely sure of his own past. Taking the name Logan and later Wolverine, he fought for Canada's Alpha Flight team before joining Professor Xavier's international team of X-Men.
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Wolverine is considerably more violent than other X-Men (and perhaps even more than some villains); he notably lacks the famous «no killing» rule that defines other superheroes such as Batman and Superman and even Spider-Man. In Wolverine #27, Wolverine is let loose by his allies to fight an army of Hydra, Dawn and Hand soldiers. With the lights out, the soldiers can only panic as they lose men, one by one, to an unseen force. Wolverine is eventually spotted in what appears to be a veritable sea of mercenary bodies. Later in the same issue, Ichiro's
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