What Stryker did to Logan's body 

What are those screws in Logan's claws? What is the damage his hands take when he protracts his claws? Are there adamantium bullets left in his head? And what the X-rays of his skeleton will tell us. This video answers these and other interesting questions about our old acquaintance Wolverine, don't forget to put a like and enjoy watching.

I have always loved seeing X-rays of Logan’s claws, the way they tear through the bone and muscle has always been simultaneously disgusting and cool as fuck.

His claws used to hurt him even when they were bones. The metal just made it all worse and poisoned his body ! Man suffered from beginning to the end of his life!

The amount of pain that Wolverine has endured would be beyond anyone else. And the pain he's gone through has to give him some mental strength we can't fathom.

Along with Logan’s accelerated healing, he also has an innate ability to spike his adrenaline increasing his speed, strength, and X factor ability, as well making pain irrelevant. He was a perfect subject for the program

I’ll never forget how they had Logan bloodied and horrified at his new claws in the flashbacks of the OG X-Men Movies, and then in Origins he just walks out and looks at them like “huh, how bout that”.

I think that’s one of the main reasons I love Wolverine as a character half his ability is body horror

I think it's more plausible that the claws with the screws are a practical set Hugh Jackman was using while filming and never intended for a closeup. This was before the advent of Blu-ray and 4K television made super detailed scrutiny possible.

2:13 Which is why Logan is the only one who's able to survive such a procedure, his regeneration is working on overdrive trying to keep him alive, and he almost did die during the procedure.

Rogue: "when they come out, does it hurt?" Wolverine: *"EVERYTIME."*

Yeah, it's clear the writers of the first and second X-Men movies were going with the claws being artificial implants which is far more brutal and traumatic than just coating his bones. They full on surgically twisted and distorted his body like nazi scientist all because he could heal. Now that's horrifying. It's actually implied that they're not naturally a part of him when in a flash back he's screaming in horror at the sight of them. They were obviously going with the pre 1993 comics before Magneto stripped his metal. I'm thinking that they may have not even known?

Dr. Rice: I believe you know my father from the Weapon X Program. Logan: Yeah. He's the asshole who put this poison in me. I think I might've killed him.

It's awesome you are one of the few people to get it correct about the genetically altered corn syrup weakening Logan and not Adamantium poisoning. Also, there was one unfired adamantium bullet left in the gun Stryker shot Logan with. Though it was never shown, more than likely that is the bullet Logan kept with him all those years.

That xray shot of his claws coming out is one of my favorite shots in film history. When i saw that in theaters i was amazed. Felt like i could understand the pain he feels.

We know they didn’t remove his bone claws and they were coated with adamantium as they grow back through the remains of the metal ones that were cut off in the Wolverine.

I feel like the second xman movie, Logan had organic claws. They were shaved down slightly, and acid etch them, letting what ever structure or coating placed around it to fully bond with the bone. Basically veneers from hell

Logan's got to be the coolest superhero whose powers nobody wants

Great video. Ngl Wolverine definitely had a lot of pain during the Logan movie. Almost every single day he would have to wipe the blood off before retracting the claws injuring his hand in the process.

6:30 - That's how I always assumed the process worked, even as a kid reading the comics: the metal was applied _over_ the bones, not injected _into_ them. He's essentially wearing body armour... only it's internal, and more "skeleton armour". That's why his body and flesh still gets damaged (albiet briefly).

I prefer how in the comics the claws ejected from above his fingers not between the fingers.

Isn’t the whole point that Wolverine was able to get the adamantium is because of his healing factor being so strong? So even if it fills the bone, his healing factor essentially ensures that only the bone is bonded and his marrow is kept safe

I like to think that at least in comics, part of Logans mutation is that the bones, muscles and tissues of his fore arms are arranged in a way thay the claws can come out without destroying his wrists and fore arms.

The mystery regarding the Weapon X surgeries and body horror surrounding it are so interesting and fascinating.

Now that you mention it, his wrists would swell when he uses his claws, and his forearms would be massive compared to normal people (muscle movement dedicated to extending and retracting the claws)

I prefer the version where Logan has bone claws which are removed and adamantium blades are attached to where the claws should be

4:48 it makes sense that she has a lot more bones in her hands because throughout the movies she’s always cracking her fingers

John - What did they do to you, man? Logan - Don't ask.

This is why the scene of his claws getting cut off in The Wolverine always confused me, because after that, he still has the bone claws. It’s not like Stryker gave him new claws made of metal, he just coated the bones in metal, so wouldn’t he lose his bone claws too? Maybe I’m just an idiot, but that always frustrated me.

X men 1 and 2 really had some borderline horror moments. Both wolverine's operation and that creepy wheelchair dude who almost overpowered professor X

I've never noticed the base of his claws having screws and hardware in X1 until now. That's such a cool detail. I always lamented the movies removal of the comic ports and moving the claws to being between his knuckles rather than back of hand. I like the read that the blades were surgically grafted onto his bone claws to bring in a little of that comic port influence. All of the trauma with popping his claws also make sense to me in the idea of mutations being random genetic happenstance, a lot of mutations and gene expressions aren't necessarily productive or reduce the quality of life in creatures and end up not being passed on especially if the mutation ends up traumatizing or killing the animal.

The adamantium bullets were a profoundly stupid idea. If adamantium bullets could penetrate adamantium, his claws would cut through the adamantium coating of his bones on the way out as opposed to pushing the bones out of the way.

I love the concept of a character who has to eviscerate themself to use their powers. they do it really well in Chainsawman

Did they ever elaborate on how the adamantium transformed Logans bone claws into fully sharpened blades? Or is that just a cool thing nobody ever questioned? His original claws were more like giant pointy fingerbones, not sharpened blades like a knife.

Original power hurt to use, tortured, and experimented beyond imagination. Power constantly repairs nerves under stress, new version causes more pain, including any "tugging" on the claws, and has been seen to be put through some of the most painful stuff on cinema. We've seen him break so many bones but I think Beast curb stomping his claws when they were bones really drove it home how much he goes through. No wonder he was finally ready to sleep. I always thought he would be able to gain a pain tolerance, but that healing factor is a double edged sword.

I thought that the adamantium sealing his bones inhibited his white blood cell production, which is used to fight infection. His healing factor compensated for the reduced natural healing, but as the modified foods suppressed his healing factor, he was slowly dying. Ironically had he chosen to go to Canada, or live on the boat, eating healthier would have allowed his healing factor to return.

Wolverine has always been the most relatable comic book character. He is just like us except he has a better healing factor and a metal skeleton.

The novel of the Weapon X comic book explained in great (and gruesome detail) how the scientists worked around the metal functioning harmoniously with his bone marrow

as a person studying bioengineering and is on a wolverine kick right now, this video was made for me! really well put together, loved it so much. thanks for sharing :]

Your one of the only people on RU-vid that I’ve ever seen talk about how Logan can totally fuck up his claw display if he does it with his wrists bent 😂

In the comics, X-23 actually has her claws removed, laced with the adamantium and placed back in which I think the movie also showed a bit of

I just always wondered why there was never any blood on his claws when popping then in and out

This is great content. You're underrated as hell, keep it up, man.

The Marvel TTRP Game published by TSR in the 80’s. Every time the claws were popped out caused damage, didn’t mater much in game terms because of the regeneration. Also if Wolverine just used fists extra damage was caused because of the harder fists.

This channel really likes the word "body"

5:25 i mean, it's a fact that people adjust and adapt to pain, however we usually do so due to nerve damage. Essentially when you take repeated trauma to an area the nerves get damaged and can't send as many, or as strong impulses to your brain. Logan nerve centers regenerate, so the amount of pain will be consistent. Your ability to process and work through different stressors, such as pain can be developed however. Logan likely has developed a familiarity with the pain, but it hasn't dulled. 10:30 the bullets dropping out of his flesh are borderline illogical anyway. Most bullets chambered in a reasonably effective caliber can pass through a man his size. Or at least, you'd expect at least a couple of them to do so. That is, unless his muscles have become more dense due to his body needing to support the weight added by his metalic implants. Honestly, his body might at least find it easier to force them through the back if it's gonna reject the bullets. As a firearms nerd i would have either animated the bullets to ricochet off of his bones or pass through. I think bullets should be able to stick inside him. I just think that it'd rarely be a problem. Most of the time when bullets 32. And above stop in a human target it's because they were slowed by bone. Logans bones don't slow bullets. They stop bullets. If a bullet causes him discomfort he can dig it out himself. Having his body push the bullets out is pretty weird if you ask me. Of course the films don't know how he should interact with bullets. After all, a shot to the head knocked him unconcious in one of the films. It was a non adamantium round fired from a cop. I want to say in x3. It's hard to display how his body should realistically act with bullets without either downgrading him or making it a rated r film lol.

In the comics Logan’s healing factor replicates adamantium so I always thought spare adamantium was recycled

The screws we could see when magneto was flexing wolverines claws were a production slip. They were part of the props used in the scene and the post production team just didn’t catch them to scrub them from the shot.

In the comics, it's said that the Adamantium and bone are basically the same thing, so all the bone functions still work like normal while being unbreakable.

I think the pain he feels now when he pops his claws only fuels him.

He has his bone claws in his adamantium ones. When that japanese guy, he saved in ww2, tries to steal logans healing factor, he cuts the claws and drills into the bone marrow of them

Thanks for this Wolverine video explanation

The only thing that really ever bothered me is how the bone claws were round and after the metal they became flat.

The attention to detail is insane

4:48 I like to think that the internal membranes and matrices in Logan’s forearm and wrist are slightly different to allow for the claws to slip past muscle mindless and connective tissues instead of outright severing them. It would still hurt because you’re still pulling muscles away from their anchor points but it won’t leave the wolverine without any control for more than just a split second.

Thought it was canon that the adamantium poisoning was what was ultimately slowing and deteriorating his healing factor over time

Wolverine will always be my favorite marvel character, I’m glad he’s back in Deadpool three

Pretty badass that he feels significant pain every time he uses his claws. The rage he uses could be explained by that alone 😂

It’s weird when you say that his body doesn’t reject the adamantium bullets like his survival factor is a living thing that recognises the potential for having this super metal grafted to his bones. I say survival factor because In one comic Logan was decapitated and woke up in the presence of nick fury as a head. Logan asked how he was even talking let alone breathing, nick said that the pours in his skin were being replacement lungs absorbing oxygen around him. Knowing that his healing factor is capable of such things why doesn’t his survival factor grown new tissue out of the gaps in order to split Logan in half so he can essentially shed the skeleton. If it is holding onto the adamantium bullets it might be trying to patch up the holes in Logan head and cover it with the adamantium bullet since there would be a regular bit of bone not covered making it a clear weak point. Another comic had magneto remove Logan’s metal however it resulted in logan essentially evolving as his survival factor spent all its time on the metal like multiple people trying to fit through the same door and it just kept piling on.

One of the greatest superheroes and he suffered his entire life because of the pain he felt from his own abilities. Kick-ass abilities, but still painful. All Wolverine all day long

One of the funniest moments is when Mistique was mimicking X-Men members and Cyclops is so ready to open his visor, but stops when he realized the Wolverine in front of him is the real one when he says “you’re a dick.” As both of them don’t get along at all 🤣

The "it hurts everytime" thing of the claws I always knew, but didn't understand that the claws are actually fucking up everything in their way, from forearm forward. Slicing his wrists apart on the inside ligament and all, seems like maybe the biggest weakness that's never talked about. But then again his healing factor is so wild that I could believe there's not much to exploit.

Got to wonder what the original idea for “you volunteered for it” was gonna go. After all it was clear from x2 that this was a long and horrific procedure and his brief horror at seeing his claws so you have to wonder how far that “you volunteered” was stretched.

That needle scene's the most horrifying thing ever. I always wondered how they covered the bones equally by so little entry points. My non science based guess would be relying on cooling and Wolverine's regeneration: As the adamantuim seeps over his bones it just keeps burning and moves around by capillary action, covering more ground as adamantium cools down on the bone area contact; While simultaneously can't bind and burn away under the skin to go around more while being artificially cooled by the liquid bath he's in. No wonder why the procedure's deadly, if it wasn't for the controlled environement and the insane rapid regeneration Wolverine has. One thing it always bugged me are the claws, it's pretty likely they're surgically inserted before the adamantium injection but it was paradoxically said and shown explicitly in the movies he got all adamantine'd up in one go and escaped after the procedure's done. Like how... since logan's claws weren't knife shaped to be covered like that. Also if it's pre-installed on him, how the cast adamantium's not welded with the claws? Idk this stuff always bugged me ever since, now growing up i understand it's for the one cinematic reveal where wolverine's all adamantinum clawed rebirth scene take place yet it still doesn't feel right, it'd be probably more beneficial to show the drawn-outedness of the procedure to hammer in the point only Wolverine could survive the full procedure and why he's that special. Movies man I swear to God...

whos here after the Deadpool & Wolverine movie xD

Wolverine was always the best character in these movies hugh jackman was a beast

Logan’s claws were upgraded, you can see them go from circular bone claws, to slender adamantium claws in the x-ray.

What if Deadpool/wade Wilson had adamantium procedure done to him? He's been dismembered plenty of times. Be interesting how he would react

Nothing happens with adamantium bullets in his brain since adamantium can't pierce adamantium so the bullets just bounced off. No idea hot the film makers are doing with their logic but its quite bad.

11:02 well no because... They still would have been damaged on impact AND he wouldn't have the shell casing for it.

I think, the adamantium bullets stay for far longer than lead ones, but they do eventually come out. Not because his body rejects them, but because the new tissue pushes it out. I imagine he wakes up one day and finds an adamantium bullet by his head.

If he was in water would he sink due to the weight of the metals?

that's a fucking genius angle i never thought of. they poisoned the food supply to stop mutations, but no one talked about what that food does to people who are already mutants. it would explain why logans healing factor weakens so much in addition to his aging as well as xavier etc.

1:10 where do I sign up?

i think that if he can survive with adamantium bullets in his brain, he could have them removed telekinetically

I see the only way for it to work, would be, that, because adamantium is indestructible, then it doesn't matter it it is even a millimeter thick, it will work. Also, that where is muscles attach to his bones, those portions would be skipped over and coated around with the adamantium. So basically, his claws and his muscles attached to his bones, would remain and the claws would be fuzed together when they were so close together in Logan's forearms. This would actually work, and Logan's bones wouldn't have adamantium interwoven, so that his bone marrow wouldn't be compromised.

His claws being inside his arms/wrist as you pointed out dos not make to much sense. That is why in the comics they are on top of his arms and come out on top of his hands.

The amount of damage from the claws to the hand is so insane you just have to laugh 😂

someone: Ohh...Wolverine is so cool, I wanna be wolverine... Me :......Do you???

It splits his knuckles and seperates ligamets

As adamantium is virtually indestructible and the skull is covered by a thin layer of flesh, it’s safe to say that when Logan is shot in the head, the bullet deflects off of it as it can’t pancake against the skull. Lead bullets, by comparison, pancake against the skull and Logan’s healing factor ejects the flattened bullets from his skin while healing.

The Hacksmith Industries channel recently created their own version of wolverines bones by coating them in nanovate alloy. I'd like to imagine that the Weapon X program did this to Logan with Adamantium, so instead of replacing his bones and bone marrow completely with Adamantium, they just coated over them. Thus, preserving Logans anatomical functions, allowing his healing factor to work

gotta love that both of marvels biggest healers (wolverine and deadpool) are in constant pain

Man thank goodness for that super healing cause if his flesh never healed that fast oof the pain would literally be agonizing rather then a couple seconds

its crazy how he will heal those wound but will be opened up again every time

this video needs to be examined further after the opening credits from Deadpool and Wolverine!

logan's bones still have a small core of marrow, and the general structure of a bone with the ability to produce new red and white blood cells, but that's only because his healing factor was producing marrow faster than the molten adamantium could melt it away.

the level of physical pain logan went throughout the x men series was insane.

I’ve been a huge wolvie fan my entire life. I was explaining to my youngest how having an accelerated healing factor could make you incredibly strong by constantly repairing the damaged muscle tissue. Also, how painful those claws would be as the same said healing factor would repair your nerve damage over and over. Ouch.

Personally, while I love the emerging from the tub scene in origins. I really wish they had given us a dark gritty green tinted. Hard version

Two things: 1. You mentioned “X-23” when referring to “X-24”, as Laura is X-23. 2. The adamantium bullet in Logan is not the same as the ones in Origins. Logan has rounded revolver rounds, designed to blow chunks out; whereas Origins have armor piercing rounds, designed to lodge in Otherwise a really great video. Always found it interesting how Origins decided to retcon Wolverine’s anatomy (once the graphic novel of the same name was released), affecting the design element shown in previous movies, but then to even acknowledge that they would ignore various design elements (the bounding process). Regardless, loved your analysis on this topic

Interesting to read the comments. I always thought Logan had a backstory that really didn’t mean a lot for him. I mean he lost his memory which would be the worst. But he keeps blaming them for the claws, not because they’re Metal but because he has claws. It’s only later we find out he had claws the whole time.

Well, he didn't need to remove the bullet from his body to obtain it. You said Stryker only put 5 bullets in him from his revolver. meaning that there was one more left unfired.

None of this makes sense. The only thing that would make sense is that adamantium can replace calcium in the bones, effectively bounding at an atomic level, kinda like Strontium can replace calcium.

… his claws should actually be “CLAWS” = Coming out of your fingers, just like Sabertooth. It makes no sense that even his bone claws to stick out, because what happens if it meets resistance = The bones are going to be bent out of his fist, same applies to his Adamantium claws.

The bone claws didn't exist in the 1980's Marvel A to Z. That series of comics discussed the powers of most of the most prominent characters. Wolverine's claws were not bone but were added during the weapon-x program. The claws were deployed via bionic housings in his forearms. His healing factor made adding the claws possible.

Logan deserves better I wanna ease his pain 😩😥 this why I love Wolverine as my fav marvel character

If i recall correctly, earlier versions of wolverine didn't have claws at all before the weapon x program and instead they were made then. I'd assume that's why in the old movies you see screws and mechanical elements in his claws.

I always assumed the adamantium was melting away logan's bones as it was being injected. And his healing favtor kept his bone marrow from being burned away making it so the interior of the bones are normal, but the exterior was coated.

the destroyed ligaments and damaged bones or whatever would explain why he cant move his wrists at all (or he isn't supposed to be ably to)

Woah. Wolverine can make an assassins creed hidden blade.