Wolverine's Original 'Old Man Logan' Turned His Healing into a Nightmare
Due to his impressive healing factor, Wolverine can quickly recover from any attack no matter how severe his injury is, plus he has an unnaturally long lifespan which allows him to practically live forever, even through post-apocalyptic events such as that in Old Man Logan. While being unable to die seemed like a curse for Logan on the pages of that particular storyline given the grim reality he was forced to endure, his first experience living in a futuristic wasteland made his life in Old Man Logan seem preferable as it turned his healing factor into an absolute nightmare.
Wolverine: Old Man Logan by Mark Miller, Steve McNiven, and Dexter Vines takes place in a world where Marvel’s villains have defeated every superhero on the planet and claimed the world as theirs. With Red Skull acting as ‘president’ over the United States territory, the country was broken up into factions ruled over by a number of powerful villains, with the rest of the world falling into a similar power structure. Logan lives in a territory ruled by the Hulk after Bruce Banner lost his mind and turned into a sadistic, cannibalistic monster. Throughout the story, Wolverine is able to defeat some of the villains who were responsible for turning the world into a wasteland, but he was powerless to stop the Hulk from killing his entire family–turning his already miserable existence into an eternal hellscape.
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The X-Men: Millennial Visions #1 short story “Last Man Standing” by Matt Broome details a chain of events similar to that of Old Man Logan, though much more catastrophic. After every Avenger, aside from Thor, dies in a war on the other side of the galaxy dubbed the Kree-Daedemon War, Thor
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