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Just recently read the Daken - Dark Wolverine storyline and ran into something that made me think for a little while. I have always questioned the comic power of regeneration or super-healing, but Daken just had a few things that stood out a little to me.


First, let's start with a description of the power (I'm sure you all know it but bear with me). For characters like Wolverine (most famous), Deadpool, Hulk, X-23 and Daken, any wound that they take will heal quickly good as new. Get shot, no worries. A little cut, gone in seconds. Broken bones knit in a flash. Somehow their bodies work so quickly to heal that even burning or acid isn't always enough to put them down for long. Heck, Wolverine has been at basically ground zero of a near-nuclear explosion when Nitro let loose while on MGH and healed in a few hours.

In the past, the writers would go through great pains to make sure that everything made sense and had very detailed explanations. Lately though, small things get past them. Looking at the healing ability, I have always wondered how it even seems to know what hair style they had so that the character's hair grows back just the right length and style too. But Daken took the cake in the Dark Wolverine storyline. My first big complaint is Daken's tattoo. I think it was in Ultimate X-Men, Wolverine mentioned that tattoos had a habit of fading quickly on him since his skin cells regenerate so quickly and the ink wouldn't stay. Not too sure I buy that completely, but I buy that more than watching Daken get burnt to a crisp and then heal back to normal with his tattoos intact. Did those somehow get inked into his DNA? How in the world would his skin know to put the ink back in the right places?

Sorry, I know that is probably a very specific complaint about something that most people would never notice, expecially when characters keep coming back from the dead or going to different universes, but they could at least try to make things as realistic as possible. At least make Daken about having to go to a tattoo shop after every battle or feature his tattoo artist shaking his head every time he gets called to redo it.

Sorry, minor issue that just set me off a little...