Death of Wolverine
| "Death of Wolverine" | |
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Cover to Death of Wolverine #1 (Nov 2014).
Art by Steve McNiven and Justin Ponsor. |
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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| Publication date | September – October 2014 |
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| Main character(s) | Wolverine |
| Creative team | |
| Writer(s) | Charles Soule |
| Penciller(s) | Steve McNiven |
| Inker(s) | Jay Leisten |
| Colorist(s) | Justin Ponsor |
"Death of Wolverine" is a 2014 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics. The story has grown from both volume 5 (Marvel Now!) and volume 6 (All-New Marvel Now!) of the Wolverine main series.
The start of the storyline (Wolverine vol. 5 #5) details how a virus from the microverse caused Wolverine's mutant healing factor to burn out and stop working, allowing enemies from his past to attempt to finally kill him.
The main series is followed by a number of aftermath mini series that chronicle Wolverine's friends and family as they come to terms with the death of Logan. These series form a lead in to the weekly Wolverines title beginning in January 2015.
In September and October 2014, the "Death of Wolverine" storyline began after a virus from the microverse turned off Wolverine's healing factor, allowing his enemies to be able to kill him. Heroes such as Mister Fantastic offered to work on finding a means of reactivating his healing factor but Wolverine accepts who he is and decides not to try and fix it. When he learns that there is a bounty that has been placed on his head, Logan resolves to find his foe. It initially leads him to Viper who then points him in the direction of Lord Ogun and Ogun eventually identified him as Doctor Abraham Cornelius, the founder of the Weapon X program. Wolverine then travels to Paradise where he finds Cornelius trying to replicate what he did to Wolverine but he is missing one thing: Wolverine's Healing Factor. Wolverine then reveals to him that he no longer has his healing factor; on hearing this Cornelius is enraged and sets his latest experiment on Wolverine. Wolverine then defeats Dr. Cornelius' latest experiment and Dr Cornelius, in desperation, tries to escape by activating the adamantium bonding process on the three other subjects. Wolverine slashes the adamantium container before the bonding process can begin, but Wolverine gets covered in the adamantium when the container shatters.
Dr. Cornelius is then shown to be fatally injured with a piece of glass as a result of Wolverine throwing the Experiment through the glass window previously. As Dr. Cornelius dies, he demands to know what Wolverine accomplished in his life. Wolverine reflects on this and thinks he has done enough with his life, before he dies from suffocation from the hardening adamantium, kneeling in the sunset outside of Dr. Cornelius' base. This leaves Storm in charge of the X-Men and the team is heartbroken over what happened to Wolverine.
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