Healing Factors and Aging?

[Dizzystarr]

Do we know how much healing factors of Charterers like Wolverine and Sabretooth slows down their aging and how long they could live til they died of old age?

[Ambaryerno]

Do we know how much healing factors of Charterers like Wolverine and Sabretooth slows down their aging and how long they could live til they died of old age?

I don't think it's ever been consistently established. Romulus was thousands of years old. Deadpool is I believe supposed to be immortal (granted how much is his healing factor and how much is Thanos's curse is unclear). X-23 mused in the Logan Legacy she thought Logan (and by extension her) could live forever, however his healing factor is also negatively impacted by his adamantium.

[xhx23x]

Like with any character's age in comics, that largely depends on the story the writer wants to tell. Healing factor guys just have an easy out to explain it away.

[Handsome men don't lose fights]

I hate Marvel's current take on healing factors. It makes no sense at all. Rapid healing should deplete your overall lifespan, not extend it. Rapid division of cells = advanced aging, easily repeated injury, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Speed healers should be scarred, and in constant pain, not nigh-immortal bullet sponges with unblemished skin.

[ZNOP]

I hate Marvel's current take on healing factors. It makes no sense at all. Rapid healing should deplete your overall lifespan, not extend it. Rapid division of cells = advanced aging, easily repeated injury, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Speed healers should be scarred, and in constant pain, not nigh-immortal bullet sponges with unblemished skin.

Wolverine, in one of the X-titles did mention that his injuries always involved pain when he healed.

[MyriVerse]

I hate Marvel's current take on healing factors. It makes no sense at all. Rapid healing should deplete your overall lifespan, not extend it. Rapid division of cells = advanced aging, easily repeated injury, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Speed healers should be scarred, and in constant pain, not nigh-immortal bullet sponges with unblemished skin.

Depends on how perfect the healing is. Perfect healing would never, ever degrade cells. Perfect healing would make you immune to all cancers.

[sureshot]

I hate Marvel's current take on healing factors. It makes no sense at all. Rapid healing should deplete your overall lifespan, not extend it. Rapid division of cells = advanced aging, easily repeated injury, and increased vulnerability to cancer. Speed healers should be scarred, and in constant pain, not nigh-immortal bullet sponges with unblemished skin.

No one wants to read about speed healers who are scarred and in constant pain. I get what your saying. Yet your trying to add a level of realism to a genre. That routinely breaks realism also on a constant basis.

[Wolverine12]

In Morrison's New X-Men Wolverine looked in his prime 100's of years in the future. In Old Man Logan he looks old a few decades in the future. I tend to think Morrison is probably more correct based on how little Logan has aged in his first few hundred years. I'd imagine the same applies to Sabretooth and X-23. Deadpool looked basically the same after centuries had passed in X-Force.

[Ambaryerno]

In Morrison's New X-Men Wolverine looked in his prime 100's of years in the future. In Old Man Logan he looks old a few decades in the future. I tend to think Morrison is probably more correct based on how little Logan has aged in his first few hundred years. I'd imagine the same applies to Sabretooth and X-23. Deadpool looked basically the same after centuries had passed in X-Force.

Old Man Logan is also set in a different universe. Different universe, different rules.

[sureshot]

Not to mention considering what Old Man Logan did in his universe. As well as the hellhole that his universe is. I can see why the character looks much older.