Healing factor
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A healing factor is a term used to describe the ability of some characters in fiction to recover from bodily injuries or disease at a superhuman rate. The term itself is most commonly applied to comic book characters in the Marvel Universe, although other quickly-regenerating characters exist.
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Artistic license
The efficiency of a character's healing factor, as with all "powers", varies frequently, depending on the situation and the writer writing it, with, as a story is being told, drama being the key factor.
Broad displays of artistic license have often led to debates among fans of particular comic book characters that have superhuman rates of healing, such as Wolverine, Deadpool, Sabretooth, Hulk, et cetera, as to which comic characters heal faster, or what the ultimate extent of their healing factors might be.
Comics
Marvel Comics
There are numerous characters within the Marvel Universe that possess some form of accelerated healing ability. The source of these "healing factors" ranges from genetic mutation to artificial enhancement to magic. The exact limits of some character's healing powers is often a source of debate among fans since many of their healing powers have appeared to fluctuate in efficiency. Marvel continuity has also established that all mutants heal slightly faster than normal humans. *Uncanny X-Men #210*
Marvel Comics characters known to possess a "healing factor" include:
- Anais*X-Men: Search For Cyclops #1 (Oct. 2000)*
- Archangel*Wolverine vol.2 #147 (Feb. 2000)*
- Blackheart*Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Update '89 #1 (Jul. 1989)*
- Bloodscream*Wolverine vol.2 #1-4, Iron Man Annual #1 (Nov. 2007)*
- Cyber*Wolverine vol.2 #79-80, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Wolverine 2004*
- Daken*Wolverine: Origins #6, Wolverine: Origins #10-15*
- Deadpool*Wolverine vol.2 #88, Wolverine Annual '95, Cable & Deadpool vol.1 #34,*
- Elsa Bloodstone*Bloodstone vol.1 #1-4 (Dec. 2001-Mar. 2002)*
- Gamora*Guardians Of the Galaxy volume 2. #3*
- Hulk*Incredible Hulk vol.1 #340, Incredible Hulk vol.1 #455, Wolverine vol.2 #145*
- Iron Man*Iron Man (vol 4) #6, Iron Man: Director of S.H.I.E.L.D. #28*
- Lady Deathstrike*Wolverine vol.2 #114*
- Luke Cage*Civil War: Battle Damage Report (Mar. 2007)*
- Namor the Sub-Mariner*Sub-Mariner vol.2 #3 (Oct. 2007)*
- Native*Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Wolverine 2004*
- Professor X*X-men vol.2 #211*
- Omega Red*X-Men vol.2 #2-5*
- Sabretooth*Sabretooth: Death Hunt #1-4, Wolverine vol.2 #124, Wolverine vol.2 #125*
- She-Hulk*She-Hulk vol.2 #16*
- Ultra Girl*Ultra Girl #1 (1996), All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #12 (Dec. 2006)*
- Ulysses Bloodstone*Marvel Presents #1, Rampaging Hulk vol.1 #8, Captain America vol.1 #357, Marvel Universe #7*
- Underworld*Underworld #1-6 (2006), All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z: Update #2 (2007)*
- Wendigo*Incredible Hulk vol.1 #181, Blaze vol.2 #4, She-Hulk vol.2 #16*
- Werewolf by Night*Marvel Spotlight vol.1 #3 (Mar. 1972), Werewolf By Night vol.1 #8, Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: Update '89 # 8 (Dec. 1989)*
- Wild Thing*J2 #5 (1999), All-New Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe #12 (Dec. 2006)*
- Wolverine*Wolverine vol.1 #1, Wolverine vol.2 #90, Wolverine vol.2 #150, Wolverine vol.3 #43*
- X-23*X-23: Target X*
Ultraverse
DC Comics
- Amazo *"Justice League of America (Vol.2) #24*
- Creeper * Showcase #73 (April, 1968)*
- Deathstroke
- Doomsday * "The DC Comics Encyclopedia" *
- Flash
- Hawkgirl (All versions due to Nth Metal) * "Hawkman" (Vol. 4) #21 *
- Hawkman (All versions due to Nth Metal) * "Hawkman" (Vol. 4) #21 *
- Hawkwoman (All versions due to Nth Metal) * "Hawkman" (Vol.4) #21 *
- Hourman *"JSA: Justice Be Done"*
- Lobo*Lobo #27 (1997)*
- Manhunter (Both Paul Kirk and his clones)*Detective Comics #437-443 (1973) #1 (Oct. 2000)*, *
- Martian Manhunter *"JLA: Classified" #3*
- Orion * "Who's Who: The Definitive Directory of the DC Universe" (Vol. 1) XVII * * "Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus" (Vol. 4) * *"JLA: The Ultimate Guide to the Justice League of America"*
- Supergirl * "Supergirl" (Vol. 5) #4 *
- Superman * Wonder Woman (Vol.2) #219 *
- Swamp Thing
- Vandal Savage*JSA: Classified*
Topcow Comics
- Witchblade*Witchblade #3 (1996)*