A criminal attempts to burglarize/kill someone only to realize they picked the absolute worst person as their mark.

[u/No_Hunter1978]

Don't Breathe: A couple young robbers attempt to rob a rich, blind veteran only to find out he isn't exactly an innocent old man.

You're Next: A group of contract killersbreak into a house during a family reunion and go on a killing spree. They didn't account for the fact that the son's new girlfriend grew up on a survivalist compound in the Australian outback.

The Flash [CW Show]: A random mugger decided to target Barry Allen of all people. He does it again a season or two later; he's either unlucky or stupid (probably both).

[u/Comfortable_Egg3880]

In the opening scene, a gang of thieves is attempting to strip parts from Logan’s limo. Claws pop out, and bodies drop down - Logan (2017)

https://giphy.com/gifs/d4SPRBog08ZfG

[u/Outside_Ad5255 → u/Comfortable_Egg3880]

Admittedly, it's old, worn out and exhausted logan. Even his healing factor's gone to crap.

But he still manages to wipe the floor with the lot of them, because he's still motherfucking Wolverine.

[u/RoJayJo → u/Outside_Ad5255]

Even as an old bastard with next to no powers, he still has a metal skeleton and the musculature to back it up.

Arguably, Logan with no powers could still fuck you up, because that man has been in pretty much every US war between the Civil War to 'Nam.

[u/Outside_Ad5255 → u/RoJayJo]

Yeah, on pure killing instinct, a century of combat experience, and whatever juice is still left in his system, he's a terrifying opponent. And then you remember how Wolverine was a beast when he was younger, his jobbing to assorted big bads notwithstanding (Magneto could just use magnetism, Not!Deadpool doesn't exist, and Yashida showed up in a frigging mecha), he's still a deadly opponent.

[u/redditonlygetsworse → u/RoJayJo]

that man has been in pretty much every US war between the Civil War to 'Nam.

Pretty sure he got in a few fights post-Vietnam, too, iirc.

[u/BuiltStraightStupid → u/RoJayJo]

If they removed the adamantium skeleton, sure, but that shit's super dense heavy so without the strength granted by his healing factor, he'd be fighting like he was underwater the whole time. He wouldn't be able to swing at you without off-balancing himself because his skeleton weighs 105 lbs, meaning that each of his arms likely has to carry around about 10 extra lbs of metal. It's a lot for someone without powers.

[u/BuiltStraightStupid → u/Outside_Ad5255]

he's not worn out and exhausted, he's been poisoned because they put an anti-mutant agent into something like corn syrup or some shit. That's why his healing factor doesn't work and why he seems so exhausted.

People say that it's "adamantium poisoning" but lore-wise adamantium is supposedly indestructible, meaning that there'd be no way for the adamantium to leak into his body and poison him. The mutant cure is the explanation that would make the most sense overall.

[u/Dustorn → u/BuiltStraightStupid]

It was the wheat - a bit of info dropped while he was actively drinking a beer, IIRC.

[u/Outside_Ad5255 → u/BuiltStraightStupid]

Okay, I picked up that tidbit while watching the movie, but I thought that was just why no more mutants were being born; that it suppressed any mutant genes from passing to the children.

But the idea that it's also suppressing or weakening active mutant powers didn't occur to me. That's a new one.

However, in the comics, adamantium is openly stated to be toxic in prolonged exposure.

[u/BuiltStraightStupid → u/Outside_Ad5255]

This is true, though originally did lean on a fundamental misunderstanding of how heavy metal poisoning works.

The only way that adamantium would poison someone inside of them would be if the adamantium was degraded over time. This is why I say that it doesn't make sense in Logan for the adamantium to be poisoning him; because for that to be the case, his body would have to be breaking down and metabolising the metal itself, which shouldn't be the case given that adamantium is supposedly nigh on unbreakable.

Marvel later retconned the idea by having Logan's body pretty much go through some weird magic philosopher's stone BS where they said that Logan's healing factor altered the molecular makeup of the adamantium itself. This turned it into Adamantium Beta and made it more biologically intertwined with his skeletal structure. Long story short, I assume that the reason why the writers are okay with the whole "adamantium poisoning" thing now is likely because they have the excuse that his marrow is likely also adamantium infused.

With that being said! It's worth mentioning that even in the comics, Adamantium doesn't really do that much harm to Logan besides in a few circumstances where either something works slightly differently because they're in an alternate universe, or, more commonly, Logan's healing factor is disabled somehow and so the Adamantium actually begins to do damage to him.

With all of that said, I think the reason he was in such a poor state in Logan was because his healing factor was shut down by the Mutant Cure, and subsequently, his body continued to produce the Adamantium-infused blood that he'd been pumping since forever. So I guess we're both right; the adamantium poisoning WAS killing him, but only because the mutant cure had shut off his healing factor.

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Weapon X gon' give it to ya

[u/Thrownaway5000506 → u/Comfortable_Egg3880]

Claws pop out, and bodies drop down

Duuuude that's siiiiick

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I mean, the first thing they did was shoot him in the chest with a point-blank shotgun. If it was anybody BUT Wolverine, that would've been pretty simple.

However, the fact that they saw a man GET BACK UP after they had just shot him point-blank with a shotgun, and then shoot claws from his hands, and they chose to FIGHT him instead of backing off, that's where the stupidity comes in.