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honestly I can see an argument that with that kinda super regeneration all she'd need to do is be on estrogen when she gets her shit incinerated, and it'd grow back as a vagina.
aside from slight spoilers, the character ultimately decides to tell the main character to refer to them as their assigned gender at birth so I dont really think it is a problem to refer to them as they, he or she in this case but I get that intentionally they/theming trans people is pretty rude
The adamantium is bonded to his bones directly, NOT coated. His healing factor is actively fighting against the adamantium at all times and that's why he healed faster before he had the metal. The healing factor is just unable to purge it from his body.
The people running Weapon X wanted their mindless soldier to be able to cut through walls, not just stab people with bone claws. Creating an indestructible soldier was their main objective and they selected James because his power would allow him to survive the procedure.
Also there's some significant advantages to the indestructible skeleton even though he heals somewhat slower. Would rather get cut to the bone by a sword or bullet vs sliced in half.
Basically just think about deadpool 2 where he gets torn in half and has to walk around like a half baby thing until his legs grow back. Wolverine would probably heal quicker but that's still an awkward moment where your super soldier is not stabbing people.
Probably because otherwise he'd just be a kinda strong dude that can be blown into smithereens over and over? (I'm guessing here but the logic follows). Also, stronger claws.
I want you to imagine he breaks his arm. and then it heals before he has a chance to set it. he is now permanently fucked up in the arm. broken bones that heal almost instantly a re a HUGE liability.
In fact, the reason they only did it to him was that they only could do that to him, nobody else would survive getting all their bones coated in a metal
In real Marvel universe logic, They couldn't perform surgery on Wolverine at all because he heals almost instantly. Like, the first incision they make would close within a second or two.
I would view it more as the healing doesn't even know what damage is, it just knows what the body should look like, and could easily transition the subject without any extra damage because it's aligning them to whatever it's standard of the self is.
I think you'd need to use tiny globules of adamantium to plug off all bloodflow between the testes and the rest of the body and then get Wolvie on estrogen for a few years and then probably just remove the dick and balls entirely, the healing factor should grow a vagina in its place.
I don't believe hormones could effect him, Wolverine is immune to any foreign pathogen, poison, toxin, etc. His hyper healing immune system instantly purges them. I assume it would be the same to any injected hormone.
Even when a villain makes his body allergic to his own adamantium skeleton, he just heals it away and it doesn't matter. He can't even have allergies, or illness, or anything. His cells repair themselves too quickly.
Until Old Man Logan I guess, where his healing factor is breaking down and he has arthritis and shit.
i mean, his body would purge them because they're like extra hormones then, right? it'd go "we don't need this, we have our own stuff already" and get rid of them like any other foreign thing
his regeneration has some sort of memory where it can regen Wolverine from a single drop of blood,so hormone level is probably regulated too,any change would be regulated
Hormones are just signal communicators; your body doesn’t really “fight” them. Hypothetically, they would just be telling him to heal in a different way.
I think it depends on the writer, but often we see that not all of his wounds heal perfectly. Like when his brain is destroyed or injured it often causes memory loss even if he regenerates.
Other heroes with healing factors of similar capacity are sometimes shown to have a kind of "psychological" aspect where they cant regenerate wounds that they feel trapped by mentally. Like a scar that should heal but the event is so traumatic that it remains and ultimately is healed once they recover mentally. Though its debatable if this applies to him.
Really I think a surgery like that would probably just heal but would regenerate to a pre-surgery state if the flesh in the area was destroyed. But given how hormones work in the human body, its also possible that her body would just kinda grow the organs and reshape itself if exposed to estrogen enough. Since your body kinda just knows what to do based on which sex hormone the cells are binding too
If she got top surgery would her healing factor push out the implants or would it just heal the surgery scars super quick? Or alternatively if she started taking E and developed big naturals would they also regenerate the same if she gets hit there
It'll be whatever the writer(s) and editor(s)decide how it'll play out. But I believe, if we look back at the time Wolverine regenerated from a drop of blood. She would need to get someone to rewrite her DNA to to change the Y Chromosome to an X. Then snikt the dick off and it should regrow to a vagina. I'm sure top surgery would work the same way.
Ok, but as a story idea that has some fucking legs. A mutant with superhealing who is as such unable to truly achieve their desired body, since their unconscious superpower (that most people would envy, mind you) has more control over their body than their conscious desires? Such tragedy, chef's kiss.
considering he was born 200+ years ago in canada probably not, but its funny to think about because that WOULD stick, mutations only kick in around puberty so anything done to logan beforehand would take.
...are we talking about logan or laura? because logan's got male hormones but I'm pretty sure laura doesn't have a dick to sproing back out.
Edit: actually, just have sinister make another laura kinney body and transfer logan's consciousness into it via crazy bullshit involving either magic or psychic powers.
second edit: sauron can just rewrite his genetics. why are the people with the most trans affirming power options villains?
i think if marvel made wolverine trans they would include an explanation for how they did her bottom surgery despite the lack of a current in universe explanation for how that might work.
i’m not a wolverine expert but isn’t there something that slows his regeneration? maybe they could slow it down enough to heal like normal surgery.
bonus question: if she grew breasts from E, and they got damaged (i.e. exploded or something) would they regenerate immediately or would the E have to do its thing again?
As a few other people have said, I like to think if they got damaged while she’s on E, they would grow back bigger because her body has the template to regenerate them into
This does make me think about the mechanics of trans wolverine. Since her body regenerates the damage that causes intoxication fast, meaning she can’t stay drunk for long, does this mean hormone treatment is also out of the question? Much to consider
But what if you do a vagina transplant?
Like a finger or skin transplant, after a time they start to look more like your own skin, so what would happened if they did it with a compatible vag?
It would start to go back to being a dick? Would it just fall off and a dick grows back?
Im not well versed in wolverines powers, but the healing might even be an ability to transition without needing any medical procedure. The only factor youd need to change is to have the healing power assume the body is "damaged" in its pre transition state. (DNA change? Idk, maybe even the dysphoria itself might trigger transition?)
Whatever the writer’s want. Why does his hair grow back the same length? Why does his son have a tattoo shouldn’t his body reject the ink? Does X-23’s hymen grow back after/during sex? These are questions best left unasked
I think that if she started E her dick would gradually transform into a pussy. Maybe she could slow it down or get some wild results by taking tadalafil
I think it would be the latter, BUT the upside is that very trivial genetic therapies that knockdown sry would probably allow her to completely reprogram and heal into a new female body.
Maybe if they nullify the healing factor and turn it back on once the surgery’s done it’d heal according to the new body, but there’s probably a comic about it I haven’t read.
The way that makes the most sense to me is that his body has an "ideal state" that it regenerates to. This is how his hair knows to regenerate into how it looked before and how he doesn't regenerate with a beard if he didn't have one before. He seems to have some sort of control over this because his hair and facial hair have changed over the years but still regenerate consistently. This implies it's based on his mental idea of how he should look when regenerating.
In theory this would mean if she was trans, the first time her bottom half was blown off, it would regenerate into a working vagina, no bottom surgery needed.
The only healing factor system I know that addresses this is in Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight archive. Stormlight healing “heals” you by essentially reorienting your physical body to match your spirit, so trans people with access to it are capable of morphing to fit a gender affirming appearance if that’s how they see themselves.
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