The more you ask questions the more the unreality of the situation shows, so I guess it would depend on the writer.
You couldn’t normally cleave or smash an adamantium bone, so it would much harder to dismember Wolverine. You’d have to cut ligaments and tendons carefully to avoid the bones, while fighting the regeneration at the same time. But, I think if you figured out some way to separate part of the adamantium skeleton from Wolverine, when the a new part grew to replace the removed part, the new part would contain “normal” bones.
But, I think if you figured out some way to separate part of the adamantium skeleton from Wolverine, when the a new part grew to replace the removed part, the new part would contain “normal” bones.
That’s what happened when Magneto stripped him of adamantium. It fucked Wolverine up bad but he recovered and went back to how he was until Apocalypse put it back in him.
The bones are coated in adamantium if memory serves right so presumably if you cut through his bone it would just regrow normal bone then everything else. Wolverine has had the adamantium ripped out before and while excruciating he did heal back up, he has also been disintegrated down to just his adamantium skeleton at least once before which seems to have effectively killed him but that was also the days of future past storyline so who knows maybe he could’ve regenerated from his eyes, but also there’s a version of wolverine who’s down to a stump on one arm but then again Apocalypse was involved so who knows what was going on with that.
You’d have to cut ligaments and tendons carefully to avoid the bones, while fighting the regeneration at the same time.
What about a powerful explosive device? Perhaps delivered with a significant amount of kinetic energy. Like a HEAT round from a 120mm cannon? To that should be able to rip limbs off. Maybe we’d be entering “ship of Theseus” territory here? Or multiple wolverines, each with their respective adamantium parts?
I can only imagine that some part of the brain has to be involved for the regeneration to produce a Wolverine. But, I could imagine at least two Wolverines, one non-verbal, regenerating from different parts of the brain.
Wouldn’t the brain regenerate completely? That is if the cranium is split.
The premise for my thought experiment was, that every bone was intact, and they were just separated at the connecting tissue.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously. Actually that would answer the original question on the removal of external sexual organs. I mean, cut off the balls and there are no balls to regenerate from. Remove the penis and there’s no cavernous tissue etc.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously.
I disagree that there “no point” if destroying the brain (not the eyes) is death.
I disagree that any part has to be able to regenerate, we lose cells all the time, and being able to cut off a toe and create a new person is, to me, a very different power from regeneration.
I agree that regeneration can create tissue types that are not present. The edges of the regeneration are probably the stem-iest of the stem cells and capable of “becoming” any other cell.
I think the “person” of Wolverine is most strongly embodied in the physical “shape” of the brain created through experience. New brain matter would would like not “contain” a Wolverine (at least initially). Parts that were only bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc. might regenerate, but the don’t “contain” a Wolverine to grow into. But, we also know there are (at least) two thinking things inside each brain, one in each hemisphere, so I can imagine if the Wolverine brain is separated we might get multiple Wolverines – or we might get a Wolverine and some other things.
The more you ask questions the more the unreality of the situation shows, so I guess it would depend on the writer.
You couldn’t normally cleave or smash an adamantium bone, so it would much harder to dismember Wolverine. You’d have to cut ligaments and tendons carefully to avoid the bones, while fighting the regeneration at the same time. But, I think if you figured out some way to separate part of the adamantium skeleton from Wolverine, when the a new part grew to replace the removed part, the new part would contain “normal” bones.
That’s what happened when Magneto stripped him of adamantium. It fucked Wolverine up bad but he recovered and went back to how he was until Apocalypse put it back in him.
The bones are coated in adamantium if memory serves right so presumably if you cut through his bone it would just regrow normal bone then everything else. Wolverine has had the adamantium ripped out before and while excruciating he did heal back up, he has also been disintegrated down to just his adamantium skeleton at least once before which seems to have effectively killed him but that was also the days of future past storyline so who knows maybe he could’ve regenerated from his eyes, but also there’s a version of wolverine who’s down to a stump on one arm but then again Apocalypse was involved so who knows what was going on with that.
So in summary, data inculclusive.
What about a powerful explosive device? Perhaps delivered with a significant amount of kinetic energy. Like a HEAT round from a 120mm cannon? To that should be able to rip limbs off. Maybe we’d be entering “ship of Theseus” territory here? Or multiple wolverines, each with their respective adamantium parts?
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/split
I can only imagine that some part of the brain has to be involved for the regeneration to produce a Wolverine. But, I could imagine at least two Wolverines, one non-verbal, regenerating from different parts of the brain.
Wouldn’t the brain regenerate completely? That is if the cranium is split.
The premise for my thought experiment was, that every bone was intact, and they were just separated at the connecting tissue.
Wouldn’t the entire body is able to regenerate from a single part, without every tissue type present? I mean not much point in regeneration, if all it takes to disable you is removing both your eyes simultaneously. Actually that would answer the original question on the removal of external sexual organs. I mean, cut off the balls and there are no balls to regenerate from. Remove the penis and there’s no cavernous tissue etc.
I disagree that there “no point” if destroying the brain (not the eyes) is death.
I disagree that any part has to be able to regenerate, we lose cells all the time, and being able to cut off a toe and create a new person is, to me, a very different power from regeneration.
I agree that regeneration can create tissue types that are not present. The edges of the regeneration are probably the stem-iest of the stem cells and capable of “becoming” any other cell.
I think the “person” of Wolverine is most strongly embodied in the physical “shape” of the brain created through experience. New brain matter would would like not “contain” a Wolverine (at least initially). Parts that were only bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, etc. might regenerate, but the don’t “contain” a Wolverine to grow into. But, we also know there are (at least) two thinking things inside each brain, one in each hemisphere, so I can imagine if the Wolverine brain is separated we might get multiple Wolverines – or we might get a Wolverine and some other things.