Wolverine is uncircumcised. amirite?

He was born in 1832 in some canons?

by Dependent-Towel 1 day ago

My bad, looks like I was wrong. I could have sworn there was a comic source for that year, but I'm only seeing it come from X-Men Origins: Wolverine. I think my point still stands though, that most non-Jewish Canadians born in the late 1800's weren't circumcised.

by terryelwin 1 day ago

Mutant powers usually don't manifest until the teenage years. Circumcision is usually done at birth or within the first year.

by wwillms 1 day ago

He was born in 1800s in rural Canada, they may not have done it regularly then like now

by AlternativeTaro 1 day ago

Would it grow back after he got his powers though, even if it was cut off before?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Google search says he has scarring from his adamantium infusion, which was apparently such a traumatic surgery that it overwhelmed his healing factor and left him permanently scarred. This implies that once scar tissue FORMS, his healing can't go back and regenerate it, so I'd say no, he would remain circumcised. However I've also seen comics where wolverine gets basically blown to bits and he still regenerates so I dunno how any level of surgery could be so traumatic that it would overwhelm that, but perhaps it's an effect of the adamantium metal itself on his bones that interfered. I'm not a real comic nerd so my info is limited.

by Elzafay 1 day ago

I guess being blown up isn't as traumatic as a plot driven surgery Does this count as the opposite of plot armor?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Plot Nudity

by Elzafay 1 day ago

Nah, then we'd know if he was circumcised or not.

by Alone-Option1061 1 day ago

If memory serves, in some versions of that surgery, he's kept conscious as they pour liquid metal into his body. Or inject liquid metal into his bones. It would be actively be some of the most pain a person would feel. Like dying basically every moment your neurons could fire. By comparison, being basically reduced to ash in under a second or so would be… quick.

by ookeefe 1 day ago

Based.

by Kilbackzoila 1 day ago

It's actually not routinely done in Canada anymore. You can get it done but you have to seek it out yourself as a parent, most hospitals won't even do it

by dietrichjaylin 1 day ago

They don't do it regularly in Canada even now.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

They do it regularly now? Why??

by Anonymous 1 day ago

He's chinese?

by mayertina 1 day ago

So would that mean, if Wolverine lost a finger at 4 years old, before he got his powers, he would never regenerate it back? What if we cut off his entire hand afterwards? Would the hand grow back to its original status minus the finger? This is important to understanding whether Logan's snake is hooded or not.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

that is a good question. Maybe grows back the adult hand, but a 4 year olds finger. And it has to 'catch up' naturally.

by caspersigrid 1 day ago

Well deadpool had baby legs for some time so it works for me

by GoatGlittering 1 day ago

but they caught up fast enough. I talking a 4 year old finger for the next 20 years. Then it is a 24 year old finger.

by caspersigrid 1 day ago

There is an adult version of him with just one hand, from age of apocalypse I think. So however the plot demands, he can lose body parts permanently

by Anonymous 1 day ago

But does his power fix damage done to his body before it manifested.

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Would it grow back or keep on growing though?

by Anonymous 1 day ago

Assuming he was circumcised as an infant? Neither.

by wwillms 1 day ago

But you don't KNOW know....

by Anonymous 1 day ago

I'm comfortable with my level of uncertainty.

by wwillms 1 day ago

Why? The body would still recognize it as part of itself. If we assume he'd regenerate a hand he lost before his powers manifested, we kinda have to assume he'd also regenerate a foreskin

by stromannorbert 1 day ago

Now I am not well versed in Wolverine/X-Men lore by any means, but why would we be assuming that? I would assume he could not regrow a hand he lost before gaining his powers.

by yesseniafahey 23 hours ago

Even if he was circumcised as an infant, he's recovered from decapitation before. I'd ague that his cells didn't have a memory of the circumcision and his foreskin grew back uncut.

by Aggravating-Bug-8717 23 hours ago

The skin could still grow back later, there are weird dudes who spend years tugging around the skin below the glans, and other rituals, to eventually force the skin to grow its hood back which isn't going to restore any nerves. And these guys are going to be the quickest to show anyone their dicks.

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

Not where I was from no. We do it during puberty

by Anonymous 23 hours ago

Are you from Canada?

by wwillms 22 hours ago

Wolverine is Canadian

by Free_Test 22 hours ago

You're asking about me

by Anonymous 22 hours ago

You're asking about Wolverine

by Free_Test 21 hours ago

He wasn't asking about you even though the question was phrased as if he was. You brought up your own personal experience which would only be relevant if you were from 1800s Canada. The question was meant to steer you back towards the wolverine's dick.

by Eastern-Cat 21 hours ago

I know jeez I was just too lazy to actually jump on the sarcastic response if I'm Canadian or not

by Anonymous 21 hours ago

I mean look I'm a perfectly straight man, but have you seen Hugh Jackman?

by Mazie70 21 hours ago

Yes, he's a jacked human for sure.

by Anonymous 21 hours ago

Jack hughman

by Ecstatic_Anywhere775 20 hours ago

Why are you shaming my fetishes?

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

To each his own

by Anonymous 20 hours ago

Can you imagine how much hair it must have?

by haskellparisian 20 hours ago

You think it has a blade in it?

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

Around the world, outside muslim and Jewish communities baby boys don't get circumcised. Only in the US baby boys get circumcised for no religious reasons. I actually don't know why they do.

by Anonymous 19 hours ago

The US Medical Industrial Complex starts farming humans for money early here...

by maggiotimmy 19 hours ago

For money and/or flesh

by Kovacekjoel 18 hours ago

Exactly...

by maggiotimmy 18 hours ago

Also probably because he is Canadian, circumcision isn't as common there.

by Sufficient-Clue 17 hours ago

He's a non-Jewish man born in 1800s Canada, of course he is.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Yeah, probably, but not because he's a mutant.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Hmm, yes. I'll learn to resolve that fact. Thank you for your brain.

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Our forefathers and wolverine had foreskin. Let it be written

by Anonymous 17 hours ago

Yeah and so are most people on earth. The US are the weird ones on this one because it's done for literally no reason unlike Jews and Muslims who at least have a religious excuse.

by Anonymous 16 hours ago

just because someone is a mutant, doesn't mean they need to be mutilated

by Interesting_Will 16 hours ago

This is the third time I've had this conversation this month but here it is. Wolverine regenerates to a default that is heavily influenced by how he views himself. That is why his hair will regenerate to a certain length and style even if he is regenerating from a single cell of blood. It's why he has appeared the same age for approximately 150 years. In Age of Apocalypse he does not regenerate a missing hand however he has literally regenerated from a skeleton.a How much he is able to regenerate varies wildly but in this case I don't think it matters. As an British Canadian from the 1832 my assumption is that he doesn't view himself as circumcised therefore he isn't. aHe did regenerate from a single cell of blood but that required the M'Kraan crystal

by Responsible_Emu_9213 16 hours ago

I run in a very X-Men heavy crowd

by Responsible_Emu_9213 16 hours ago

I mean he is from Canada in the 1800s. Was exactly common back then.

by Alexzanderhagen 15 hours ago

He can cook foreskin soup everyday, just snip snip, it grows back, belly full for cheap!

by SpecialObvious 15 hours ago

The cheese can flavor the soup like boullion base

by Anonymous 15 hours ago

Forbidden calamari

by Anonymous 15 hours ago

If he had an appendectomy, would his appendix just schlluuuurp-boinkt back before the surgeon's very eyes?

by Heloiseemard 14 hours ago

You could infinitely harvest his foreskin and provide skin grafts for every single burn victim in the world.

by Anonymous 14 hours ago

Is a circumcised person someone who has no foreskin, or someone who was circumcised at some point of his life?

by EfficientData 14 hours ago

Yes

by binspasquale 14 hours ago

The latter, for example my daughter is not circumcised.

by Whilpert 13 hours ago

I'm gonna bet most of them aren't cut my friend.

by GasDesperate2371 13 hours ago

I feel like this would fall into absimilar category of Stan Lee's explanation of how Spider-Man could beat the Hulk and such, in that a character's relative power level is whatever the author needs it to be, in order to drive their particular story. Any explanation doesn't necessarily have to be realistic...it just has to be believable enough to fit the story being told. As such, I think it would be best to call this "Schrodinger's Wolverine foreskin", as I can't imagine any story outside of fanfiction, in which the question of his circumcision would be even remotely relevant to the story.

by oscarhilll 13 hours ago

Watch Preacher), the 4th season bit with the vampire and the foreskin conspiracy.

by Anonymous 12 hours ago

Not necessarily. Mutations typically happen at puberty. Wolverine's in particular happened when he was around 10 years old. Considering damage to our bodies can and does get recorded in our DNA, its not hard to imagine his body resets to a state similar to what it was when he first developed his powers. If he got the downstairs snikt, it likely stayed that way.

by Anonymous 12 hours ago

Pretty sure Wolverine was born in the early 1800s. Unless he's a muslim or a jew there's like a 0% chance he would have been circumcised given it didn't become popular for non religious reasons until the 1860s and even then it was only among the British upper class until the 1910s-20s.

by Anonymous 12 hours ago

But that doesn't completely rule it out, either. Nevermind the Doylist explanation. He wasn't written in the 1800s. He was written in the 70s by two Americans.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

My point is our unconscious biases inform the characters we write. The chances of two American men born in the 30s and 40s being circumcised are probably high. Outside of Word of God its only speculation. That's not important. Its a good thing I wasn't talking about your explanation, then, isn't it?

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

Your mind works in an interesting way.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

You know what I never understood is if his mutant powers start during puberty, shouldn't he then forever look like a teenager or at least a very young adult. Not a 40s dude

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

He looked like a teenager for a long time prior to the "current" time of the comics. He will look like a 40 year old man for a long time as well. It's all slowed down.

by Anonymous 11 hours ago

Gotcha thanks TIL

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

His healing factor isn't perfect nor will it last forever.

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

also if he cuts/shaves his beard do it regenerate? would his hair be longer if it does

by Main_Muffin1030 10 hours ago

When did he gain his regenerative ability? Isn't there a regeneration person who's missing a leg because he gained it after an accident? That might be Dark Horse now that I'm thinking about it, but the principle could be the same.

by lowekim 10 hours ago

Actually the '92 series had a story arc where Logan went on a brandy bender and did a self circumcision while intoxicated, only to realize upon waking up hungover, the foreskin regenerated 4x in excess, leaving him an em embarrassing amount of extra skin on his mutant dong. Stan Lee autographed copies fetch like $10k on eBay.

by Inevitable_Candy9132 10 hours ago

What makes you think he doesn't get circumcised regularly?

by Ok_Quantity 10 hours ago

Can't get circumcised. It'll heal over due to his mutant ability to fast heal.

by Anonymous 10 hours ago

A little over 2/3 of AMAB Canadians have a normal penis, so yes, it is fairly likely.

by Whilpert 9 hours ago

He has a mutant healing factor, which is not the same as regeneration.

by Anonymous 9 hours ago

He's literally come back from just a skeleton. He has regeneration, regardless of how Marvel words it.

by lowekim 9 hours ago

Really? That's stupid.

by Anonymous 8 hours ago

That's comics, baby.

by lowekim 8 hours ago