Wolverines strength is under rated
Wolverines strength is under rated
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Off TopicLet me be frank, I love Wolverine. I know that he's not really that interested as a character, but he was the first comic book hero I really got into, so he'll always hold a special place in my heart.
I was thinking lately how Wolverine is portrayed as far as his strength goes, and I feel that its a little misrepresented. Taking into effect that pretty much every one, even normal humans, are far stronger in comic books than your average real human is, Wolverines attacks should be far more devastating than they are shown to be. The guy has been walking around with an extra 100 pounds of metal inside of him for years, it would be like lifting weights anytime you do anything. Since muscle is built by tearing from exertion and then restructuring, with his healing factor his muscle mass would have grown epically in his first couple of days of having the adamantium inside of him alone, not even taking into account the decades he's carried it. To be able to move with the speed and agility that he is shown doing he would have to be immensely strong, I mean like Captain America strong at least, which he's never really been shown to be.
I realize that writers giving Wolverine an upgrade now would probably result in backlash from fans who are getting tired of seeing him in nearly every book, I just think its weird that he's been portrayed as weaker than he should really be for so long.
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I personally think cap should be rated higher, basically because he has been able to knock hulk around a bit. considering hulk has been hit by cars without flinching, the rating seems a little low.
and I know these ratings do not always show like this in comics, but it is supposed to be the official marvel classifications. if a writer asked what the characters are able to do, these are the stats they are given.
Using a tree as a baseball bat:
Holds up an elevator car:
shatters "unbreakable" steel chains:
shatters "unbreakable" chrome-alloy shackles:
throws the 500 lb Colossus hard enough to knock down the 900 pound Juggernaut.
Honestly, I'd be ok with the idea of Wolverine being stronger than Cap, and I love Cap. Despite it never officially saying that Wolverines mutation has resulted in super strength, he is obviously far stronger than any normal human could ver be, especially considering his size. You could read almost any comic he's in and infer that. He's really done some pretty ridiculous feats of strength. Thats not to say that Cap hasn't as well, cause obviously he has. But we know for certain, as in it is explicitly stated that Caps strength is not and can not be superhuman, whereas we don't know what the limit on Wolverines is. Seeing as how Deadpools mutation is derived from Wolverine, and Deadpool has superhuman strength, it would be pretty safe to say that Wolverine does too.
The 800 lb cap for Cap is outdated and never held water in my opinion even in the 80s and Wolverine being able to lift a ton is straight up ridiculous imho.
I haven't seen him use the high end of that often, but honestly, I don't lift at my max often, I doubt many people do.
Understandable though. If you take Shadowcat, change her power set, and give her a little sass then you basically have Jubilee.
No worries man. I'm too much of a Marvel Geek for my own good hehe.
A lot of writes are hired, they are not fans of the medium, so they do what they want as long as they don't go "too far off coarse".
I guess what I meant was that in order to move with the speed that he does with the extra weight, he'd have to be exerting an insane amount of strength that would still transfer through a strike.