It is a great power... don't get me wrong.
My favorite Marvel hero is Wolverine. So I get the whole healing factor thing, and think it is cool that his arch-enemy is a bigger stronger version of him... and i even like that Weapon X used Logan's own healing factor to augment other operatives.
What i don't like is that so many other people in Marvel have obtained or gained healing factors. Most of whom don't really need and or deserve it And many of whom have healing factors better then Wolverine and Sabertooth! Some examples (ones with * are supposed to be greater then wolverine's): The Hulk*, Icarus, Mimic, Copycat, The Beast, Balzing Skull*, She-Hulk, Blade, Green Goblin, Archangel, and Tony Stark*.
What the hell is the deal...?
2006-12-23 03:08:42 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Comics & Animation
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2006-12-23 08:27:31 · update #1
LOL - You're right! I've been accepting this without even questioning it. It's gotten to the point that I started to ask myself, why doesn't XYZ have a healing factor? I do this with Spidey since he's always getting banged up and it takes him forever to heal (he has limited healing).
The only time I did question it was when reading a hulk issue. He was blown away into a thousand pieces. He didn't just regenerate, he reformed (like the second version of Terminator - the liquid metal version). Don't remember the exact details of the comic but it was a mercenary fight in South America. This was when I thought that it wasn't even a healing factor anymore but something much more.
Personally, it feels right that mutants and metahumans have advanced healing and super immune systems. But some of the healing that's going on (example: X-Men Movie 3, Wolverine vs. Phoenix) seems a little over the top.
The source link below shows a ton of characters with healing factor.
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2006-12-23 05:54:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, friend you must remember that they are in business to make money (and to indoctrinate us with their political views, courtesy of Civil War, but that’s a side issue), not to be realistic, and not necessarily to entertain us. If they can get us to buy their magazines through stirring up controversy instead of giving us “what YOU, the readers demanded!” then that is what they will do.
Having established that (and I’m sorry it has to be said, every so often), you must remember that it isn’t easy to come up with new and interesting characters, because there are only so many super powers. I mean, take anything that a man could do, and make it bigger stronger, faster, etc. Okay, so they want to preserve their current characters, to avoid having to replace them as they get old.
Years ago, it was innovative for two superheroes to get married, only Aquaman and Mera had married before Reed and Sue did. But when they started having children, the editors had a hard decision to make. How realistic do we want to make this? If we let them age, it will eat into our profit margin, because readers won’t suspend disbelief that much. And yet, they had painted themselves into a corner, because the next generation (like Franklin Richards) were too interesting and too powerful to simply get rid of.
So they had to artificially age the kids (they did that to Franklin by having him kidnapped and taken to some alternate time line so he reappeared as an adult almost instantly) and then they also had to keep the parents at a young age. This was accomplished in a variety of ways.
I hope you see where this leads. The healing factor that is becoming so prevalent is simply another plot device to prevent he characters aging. Naturally, their sales figures will be the most important determining factor. Less popular characters can die permanently, moderately popular ones only die temporarily in order to enhance reader interest and sales of their titles. You can expect to see some characters have catastrophic failure of their healing factor, suddenly aging, or having all the accumulated wounds and injuries of the past years suddenly reappear, so that they die, if they start to lose their greatest super power—earning power for the company.
I hope this isn’t too blunt and cynical for you. I’m personally very disappointed with what Marvel has done to some of my favorite characters over the years, even aside from the transparent and pitiful attempt to sway our politics with Civil War. I find I can put up with it a little bit more by reminding myself that they are not in the business to entertain me or satisfy my desires.
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2006-12-23 11:47:22 · answer #2 · answered by cdf-rom 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-12-01 02:55:12 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are only so many different powers one could have. The only creativity that differs the character's powers are how they got said powers, how they can use it, how powerful it is, and the limitations.
With that said, check out the various superheroes again. How many have enhanced strength? That's right, a buttload. How many have enhanced endurance, agility, intelligence, etc., etc.? Again, quite a few.
Of course, I could make a small list of people who have Ice powers - there's Iceman, Ice, Captain Cold, Mister Freeze, Iceberg, Frost, Killer Frost to name a few. And you guessed it, they all have various degrees of ice powers, so wouldn't it stand to reason that there's quite a few characters that have a healing factor to some extent?
2006-12-23 17:22:46 · answer #4 · answered by Iceman 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Because many of the most known characters (like the ones you mentioned) have enemies that are WAY WAY WAAAAY stronger than them, so they give the heroes healing so they won't "die" (when they do die, they ALWAYS come back in some totally unrealistic way). If they didn't have healing, they would have their superbutts kicked.
2006-12-23 15:30:06 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
its just a trick to attract people on somenew comic figure than the old buggin comic hero so when people get tired of this old action hero they create new action figure (an action hero which cannot be destroyed)so that they can attract people on somethin new & they can also create new stories thn the old common comic heroes
2006-12-23 03:26:18 · answer #6 · answered by doson s 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's just the easiest way explaining why none of the hero's or villains get seriously injured or die. They just keep on ticking.
2006-12-23 03:17:05 · answer #7 · answered by jatelf72 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's not enough for them to just have one or a handful of characters with it. They have to keep using the concept until they kill it. Marvel's stupid like that.
2006-12-23 03:12:30 · answer #8 · answered by howlettlogan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So they don't die and they can keep makeing comics about them
2006-12-23 06:48:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋