Death of Wolverine

"Death of Wolverine" is a 2014 comic book storyline published by Marvel Comics. The story has grown from both volume 5 (Marvel Now!) and volume 6 (All-New Marvel Now!) of the Wolverine main series, and also continued with "Hunt for Wolverine" and "Return of Wolverine".

The start of the storyline (Wolverine vol. 5 #1–6) details how a virus from the Microverse caused Wolverine's healing factor to burn out and stop working, allowing enemies from his past to attempt to finally kill him.

The main series is followed by a number of aftermath mini-series that chronicle Wolverine's friends and family as they come to terms with the death of Logan. This series forms a lead-in to the weekly Wolverines title beginning in January 2015.

A Microverse virus disables Wolverine's healing factor, rendering him mortal. Mister Fantastic offers to work on reactivating Wolverine's healing factor, but Wolverine accepts the vulnerability.

Wolverine learns that there is a bounty on his head and resolves to find the contractor. His search initially leads him to Viper, who directs him to "Lord Ogun"; Ogun is actually Abraham Cornelius, the founder of the Weapon X program. Wolverine travels to Paradise, where he finds Cornelius trying to replicate what he did to Wolverine, but he cannot replicate Wolverine's healing factor. Wolverine reveals to him that he no longer has a healing factor for the doctor to copy. Cornelius is enraged and sets his latest experiment on Wolverine. Wolverine defeats Cornelius' experiment and Cornelius, in desperation, tries to escape by activating the adamantium bonding process on the three other subjects. Wolverine slashes the adamantium container before the bonding process can begin, but is immersed in molten adamantium when the container shatters.

Cornelius is fatally injured during the conflict. As he dies, Cornelius claims rhetorically that Wolverine's life was nothing but violence. Wolverine reflects on a life of violence, love, friendship, and mentorship in equal measures, imagining it to be "Enough." He dies as well, encased in the hardening adamantium. Storm takes charge of the X-Men and the team is heartbroken over Wolverine's death.

An elderly Steve Rogers and Deadpool are shown collecting anything which has Wolverine's DNA on it and destroying it, so no one would be able to clone the Wolverine. They infiltrate an A.I.M. base, where they steal a blade with Wolverine's blood on it. As they leave, Steve goes inside, leaving the blade with Deadpool and saying that Deadpool knows what to do with it. Deadpool then takes the blade to Butler's incubator, which could regrow an entire being. Deadpool scrapes the blood from the knife into a petri dish but hesitates before putting it in the machine, wondering whether he should resurrect Wolverine or let him rest and decides that he needs to think it over.

Cyclops is shown entering a bar and beating a couple of men who were insulting one man's son for being a mutant. After beating them, he raises a glass of beer as a toast to Wolverine.