Wolverine? Dead?
Say it ain't so!
Odds of Wolverine dying and staying dead: zero.
I figure Marvel's having to tease fans by saying they'll kill him because they blew their ability to tease them about revealing his origins.
Wolverine is gonna take a dirt nap? Okay. Plant him out back right next to the graves of Superman, Batman, Captain America, The Human Torch and every other superhero Marvel and DC have killed off only to bring back 12 months later.
Says the man who clearly understands the comics industry.
Killing a comic book character has become one of the most transparent and tiresome tropes of the industry. Hey, I heard
Archie is getting knocked off too! Sob-sob. He was only in high school for 70 years! He died so young.
Oh well, dig an extra hole for Archie and drop him in it too.
There's
only one thing that can kill a superhero. Low sales. It not only kills 'em dead it
keeps 'em dead.
I'm fond of the term "currently dead". No one is unrevivable, especially if there's a successful movie or a popular run of a book based on an adjacent bit of continuity.
Female characters have a greater tendency to stay dead than male ones. This needs no explanation.
As far as controversies go croaking Wolverine is a pretty lightweight one. Why not go balls out and have him come out as gay? Just the reaction of the fanboys alone would be priceless.
Now
THAT would be worth plunking down $3.99 for.
It's
already happened. It appeared in X-Treme X-Men, so it's imperfectly canonical, but I'm pretty sure someone at Marvel is thinking like you.
He can be blasted down to bare metal, flushed out an airlock, drowned, starved or dehydrated, frozen solid, roasted, dropped from ten miles up, dropped into a volcano, etc...
Pretty much the only harm he's impervious to are aging, diseases, parasites, and physical injuries that don't kill him in an instant.
I've seen an argument that he could be killed by being teleported into an off-planet hard-vacuum environment, but IMO that's just hibernation. Bringing the remains back into a terrestrial environment and letting 'em soak for a while should revive him.
Given Deadpool's canonical relationship with Death, are there any currently dead Marvel characters who couldn't be brought back by hiring Deadpool to retrieve them? Deadpool's obviously descended from Roger Rabbit and Bugs Bunny by way of Ambush Bug and The Heckler, so it's a good bet he can do anything as long as it's funny.