(MARWOLF) - Is Logan an alcoholic? like a bad one?
All these years and its finally coming together. This dude walks around with the shirt off his back and barely 2 nickles in his pocket at any given point in time.
and Im like, WHY is he always broke?!
Nathanial Essex OTOH is like ~200 years old too and the man is richer than Diddy
Its gotta be the drinking. I always thought his metabolism would prevent him gettin sloshed but I guess I was wrong
He likes to drink but he can't get drunk on anything on earth. He regularly goes to Knowhere or Asgard when he wants to get real drunk. He and Thor are actually drinking buddies. But Essex was a socialite, inventor and Businessman, that's why he's rich. Logan was a wanderer who regularly had his memory wiped and was used as a weapon for a long time.
Oh š¬ sorry I thought he still owned it my bad I was kinda trying to use it as a reason to justify his richness but I actually think he is rich but doesn't use that money cuz if u think about it he has a lot of warehouses and weapons so maybe he's not rich in liquid cash but he is in estate and possessions
Maybe not but many storylines have briefly touched on him having hidden stashes, Swiss bank accounts, or investments managed by specialized firms (like Landau, Luckman, and Lake), and he used to rob banks like get mystique and many under world operations and he just doesn't care about wealth so he either has it and doesn't use it or doesn't care about it or spends it plus when he robbed banks he never really cared about the money it was just for the thrill or manipulation
In the main universe it has never shown him to HAVE anything. Like I said it is all things belonging to allies or old safe houses set up for him when he was an operative. Any money he gets he spends or gives away.
I'm not trying to totally disagree with you, but when you say he owns absolutely nothing, I think you're overlooking how comic writing works across different eras. He does have history involving hidden assets, stashes, and corporate/firm connections (like Landau, Luckman, and Lake). I haven't even read the comics in quite some time, but various writers over the decades have still hinted at him having resources tucked away. It might just require paying close attention to background details across his long publication history rather than taking a surface-level look. I'm definitely not saying he's filthy richājust that he has more going on in the background than people give him credit for. Many writers add Easter eggs that u really need to pay attention to notice. If you read the other comments in this post, you can see I'm definitely not the only one saying this, there are plenty of other readers pointing out the same thing.
It was stated in the comics that he's among the wealthiest members of the X-men
My google search says he inherited the Howlett fortune (logging in Canada), over a century of accrued interest; inherited the Yashida crime family fortune, & demonstrated this wealth by funding the school in the series Wolverine and the X-men
He's rich but not crazy rich like tony stark or Bruce Wayne. His money is managed by landau luckman and lake or LLL which is kind of like a poor man's version of the tva and operates in multiple dimensions. He used to own a bar but I'm not sure if he still does or not
I pulled an old issue, #79 Volume 2, where he has a huge warehouse of antique weapons and all sorts of interesting artifacts... So he definitely definitely has a lot of money,
There is zero excuse not to be filthy rich after living 150+ years. Our economic system is based on compounding interest .....Well I guess other than he can't remember anything.
Itās in a comic where heās in California with Melita and talking about opening his own school. It might be after/during that little Chinatown run. I canāt remember the exact comic but itās probably a thing that can be Googled. Anyway, she says something about him having the money to build a school and heās like why do you think I have no money? She tells him because he lives out of two paper sacks and he replies saying how thatās just a lifestyle choice (Iām probably paraphrasing a lot but thatās the idea). I have this screenshot somewhere but not at hand!
Anyway, it would make sense that he would have money stored away because he doesnāt really live a lavish lifestyle, heās been alive for ages and is always working with every team possible plus normal human jobs a lot of the time too. As Patch alone, heās probably made himself a ton of money through both legit and shady means, which I believe is referenced in the comics at different points. There is this thing that happens after the Fox movies where writers begin to depict him as an incompetent slob but that was never his vibe previously. He might be careless with himself but heās not irresponsible in general. Heās a smart man who has been around for a long time. Heās got safe-houses all over the world, thereās no way he hasnāt been saving money too. He also comes from some extreme wealth and even if he never got the chance to really claim any of it, Iām sure he understands how money works by now!
Tl;dr is that the man had enough cash to build and operate an entire school, to staff and house teachers and students, to have the tech and an ever watching/present Danger Roomā¦donāt let the appearance fool you, heās doing ok for himself. Being on every team ever has got to pay!
Haha right?! The man has been around and he has been working! Itās crazy that there is this idea that heās a bum when nobody is doing as much as he is! He probably made a few bucks from his time in the military across decades, heās on every superhero team, heās teaching, heās running a bar while doing the whole Patch thing, heās a busy guy who loves a side quest!
Any AA meeting Wolvie is in will never be the same:
W:"Hey my names Logan and Im an alcoholic"
"Hi Logan!"
W:"I been on the good stuff since 1890. I been trying to cut back"
"Im sorry, did you say 1890?"
W:"Yeah bub"
"You know you're not supposed to come TO a meeting loaded right?"
W:"What are you trying to say bub?"
"Im saying, you need to dry out first. This is a safe place to face your demons
W:"How bout I show you a demon right now"...
Logan is a functional alcoholic. Like a real life one. It takes a rather large quantity of booze to get him even slightly buzzed. He drinks cause he loves the taste and after burn honestly.
He functions with and without it, hence being a functional alcoholic. The term(irl) refers to people that can drink and get drunk and still act/behave as normal. Logan, is the superior version of that. As his healing factor makes it difficult for him to get drunk. Even if he were he'd be fine. Captian America, Deadpool, The Flash, and Superman all have similarities when it comes to alcohol consumption. They cannot get drunk or it metabalizes ver fast.
I would disagree, if he isn't getting drunk due to the healing factor then he's not acting/behaving normal while drunk.
If he's just drinking for the taste that would put him closer to being a conisur than an alcoholic
Heās not a functional alcoholic. To be considered a functional alcoholic, you still have to meet the criteria for Alcohol Use Addiction, and he does not.
He isn't the type to save money. He work at blue collar jobs and odd jobs, spend on things like clothes, cigars, drinks and motorcycle. He also have memory problems which make long term investment complicated.
Wolverine doesn't care about money and technicaly is a alcoholic larper as he is immune to the life threating downsides (other than being stupid) and addiction/dependancy to alcohol
Logan's healing Factor basically means it's almost impossible for him to get drunk, and if he does ingest the vast amount necessary to get a buzz it doesn't last minutes.
That's why he drinks and smokes cigar is heavily, because he has to super ingest to get anything out of it
That's at least one comic I remember of Wolverine saying "alcohol is a toxin, and my body instantly neutralizes toxins"... But he was obviously drunk at the time.
You're getting down voted, but I do feel like there's at least a hydration issue. I don't think his healing factor automatically keeps him fully hydrated and alcohol is a diuretic.
This is the only answer LOLOL. i imagine he spent some time TRYING to be a wino and forget about all his issues (of that century LOL) but eventually levelled out
not to mention the constant kidnapping by shady organizations and memory wipes. when Wanda gave him back all his memories multiple government agencies went into panic mode and started mass shredding and deleting files
With the shit he's seen, his rate of healing, and immortality, really how could he not be? It probably takes him a few bottles of bourbon within an hour for him to get tipsy. Dude is always drinking.
Heās a functioning alcoholic, yes. Logan canāt get drunk the way humans can. He would have to drink massive quantities of high proof alcohol to get drunk like a normal person who mostly drinks Whiskey every day.
Now, if Logan were to be in an Olympic sized swimming pool full of say, 100 proof Whiskey, and he was somehow able to consume, letās say, a quarter of it, heād probably be drunk for at least a few weeks.
James Howlett aka Wolverine gets his drinks for free because people fear him.
Most of his habits comes from Smitty from the comic Wolverine Origin. After James lost his father by accident when he discovered his powers for the first time. After he fled from his home, he took most of his habits from Smitty. He has seen in him somehow a father figure. He wanted to be like him, serious, mean and strong.
When it's about James being an alcoholic, it depends on his mood and how his day went and depending on who you're, he will act differently.
No; heās not constantly drinking but he enjoys going on a bender from time to time. He does feel the effects of alcohol, he just feels it less because of his healing factor. (He clearly states āIām drunkā in Claremont/Millerās original miniseries.) My head canon states that one six pack hits him like one beer for a man his size.
I've always been curious to know if the biological aspect of addiction is healed by healing factors. If so, he probably just does it behaviorally, because he enjoys it, and because he can.
His metabolism DOES prevent him from getting sloshed which is why he needs to drink SO MUCH to be able to feel anything, or maybe more accurately so he doesn't feel the emotions he doesn't want to feel. I also saw it mentioned that he likely smokes cigars so often to deaden his sense of smell so he doesn't have to deal with all the other strong scents around him.
He's broke because he doesn't give a shit. If a person cares about power they can make themselves wealthy in a single lifetime, if you're Logan you'll spend most of your lifetimes drinking beer that barely dulls your senses to try to forget everything you've had to do.
He is neither a alcoholic nor a drunkard. That healing factor and the fact that he's constantly under attack makes it quite hard to enjoy the buzz of boozing.
Alcoholic for Wolverine with his powers is a relative term, but its become worse since he isn't allowed to visually smoke anymore because Joey Q said so.
This started from this one level in MARWOLF where he wakes up in some other dudes bed with like 100 empty corona bottles scattered about.
Im guessing he can drink himself to sleep easy enough but then his metabolism slows like anybody elses would, and he's gotta suffer a hangover for a few (minutes? certianly no more than 30) before everything rights itself
Rinse, repeat, no fear of liver damage. Thats actually not a bad deal TBH
HAH i meant more in the context of "is the reason why the MFer always seems broke, is he spent the last 200 years trying to stay hammered, cause of the f*cuked sh*t he's had to do
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u/PersonalitySmall593 9h ago
He likes to drink but he can't get drunk on anything on earth. He regularly goes to Knowhere or Asgard when he wants to get real drunk. He and Thor are actually drinking buddies. But Essex was a socialite, inventor and Businessman, that's why he's rich. Logan was a wanderer who regularly had his memory wiped and was used as a weapon for a long time.