Wolverine remains one of the most popular members of Marvel's X-Men team.

Whether it is in the comics, where he recently came back from the grave in the Marvel Legacy storyline, or in the movies, where Logan has appeared in one way or another in every single Fox X-Men movie, Wolverine is a constant and always entertaining character. He is also one of the most powerful characters in the Marvel Universe.

In the first X-Men movie, Wolverine proved to have superhuman fighting skills and strength, unbreakable claws, an Adamantium skeleton, and a healing factor.

By the time he had his own solo movie in X-Men Origins: Wolvinere, fans learned how he got some of his powers and the extent of those skills. Wolverine showed he was even more powerful than previously expected, and Logan showed that, despite all of his powers, Wolverine was not immortal.

Throughout the years in Marvel Comics, Wolverine has gained and lost powers. He has also seen himself weakened and powered up to immense levels.

Fans have been showed how his basic powers could manifest other secondary powers that allowed him to do just about anything needed to win a fight. He also proved to be one of the most enduring and reliable heroes in the Marvel Universe.

His future in the movies seems cloudy with Hugh Jackman retiring from the role after Logan. However, in the world of Marvel Comics, Wolverine is back stronger than ever.

With that said, here is Every Power Wolverine Has Officially Ranked From Weakest To Strongest.

DECELERATED AGING

Logan Wolverine and Laura Bloody

Wolverine has a lot of special powers and many of them are a result of his regenerative healing. One of these powers is decelerated aging.

This means that his healing slows his entire aging process and keeps him young, physically vital, and strong despite his advanced age.

How old is Wolverine? According to the Kitty Pryde and Wolverine miniseries, Logan was born in the late 19th century. This makes him well over 100 years old, yet his body continues to keep him healthy and strong.

In fact, he looks no older than a middle-aged man.

While this ability does not help him in a fight, it does allow him to continue fighting for many years -- or even decades -- to come.

ANIMAL EMPATHY

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Animal empathy is the ability to empathize with animals. This basically means that the person with this power can sense and understand the emotions of animals, and almost more importantly, animals can also understand said person.

This is a hugely important power that Wolverine possessed when he lived on his own in the woods.

Sabretooth shares this power as well, and while the two men don't control animals, they can work alongside them and even get help from them when needed.

For Logan, he is able to communicate his intentions to animals as well, which limits the chances for an animal attack due to unwarranted fear.

During points of intense rage, Wolverine can also take on the traits of those animals around him.

IMMUNE TO MYSTICAL CURSES

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Wolverine's healing factor also helps keep him safe from mystical curses. This is pretty important in the Marvel Comics Universe since there are vampires and werewolves running around, including the legendary Dracula himself.

Wolverine has even been turned into a werewolf before in Wolverine: First Class #10-11. However, his body was able to cure him of this curse.

In X-Men Vol. 3 #5, he was turned into a vampire, and his body was able to eliminate the vampire curse and revert him back to normal -- his body actually repelling vampirism quicker than the werewolf curse.

It should also be noted that his body rejects diseases quicker once it has encountered them, which makes him even more immune to these mystical curses from the world of Marvel monsters.

NIGHT VISION

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Wolverine is a hunter. Yes, he empathizes with animals and can understand their feelings and intent, but he also loves a good hunt.

With that said, Wolverine has a few superpowers that help him in this area, and while it is not one of the more important skills, Wolverine is able to see in the dark.

Though this helps with hunting at night and surviving surprise animal attacks in the dark, it is also incredibly useful when dealing with bad guys.

Wolverine has enhanced vision, which provides him with telescopic vision. He can use this to see great distances with clarity, though he also has the natural ability of night vision.

If fighting in pitch black darkness, Wolverine can see pretty much anything and this gives him a clear advantage over anyone other than those who share this skill -- such as Sabretooth.

LIE DETECTION

Wolverine also shares an interesting superpower with Daredevil. While Daredevil can listen to a person's heartbeat and tell if they are lying or not, Logan has a similar skill.

Thanks to his enhanced hearing, Wolverine can listen to a person's heart and from years of experience know when a person is lying or telling the truth by the speed and acceleration of the heartbeat.

Also, as he proved in the movie X2: X-Men United, Wolverine can detect when someone is pretending to be someone they are not.

Remember when Mystique tried to allure Wolverine in the tent and he figured out who she was? Wolverine has an enhanced sense of smell and can therefore tell if someone is lying about who they are.

He can also smell someone like Peter Parker and know instantly that he is Spider-Man.

IMMUNE TO POISONS AND DISEASES

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Wolverine's healing factor not only protects him from injuries, but it also protects his body from diseases and poisons.

One thing that his Adamantium skeleton did was increase and speed up his healing powers. This is due to the fact that Adamantium spreads a poison through a person's body -- which is why it failed on most test subjects.

With Wolverine's healing factor forced to work double time to save him from the Adamantium poisoning, it made this superpower even quicker to react.

This also helps with other types of poisons, and it is almost impossible for Wolverine to grow intoxicated or show any effects for most substances, although Wolverine Vol. 3 #26 showed that anesthetics can affect him on a large level.

RESISTANT TO WEATHER EXTREMES

Wolverine's healing factor also protects him from the harsh weather elements, which came in handy when he lived in the woods in the past.

While most people suffer frostbite or even pass away in extremely chilly conditions, Logan's body has no reaction to extreme cold.

In Wolverine Hulk #1, Logan even slept in the buff in subarctic conditions and the cold never affected him at all.

Whether he is in a desert, where normal humans could perish from dehydration or in the Arctic, where a normal man would freeze, Wolverine is able to keep going and never misses a beat.

With that said, his immunity to cold and heat does not protect him from drowning, and his healing factor will not protect him from passing away if he is submerged in water for too long.

ADAMANTIUM SKELETON

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine

The Adamantium skeleton was both a curse and a blessing for Wolverine. First, when Weapon X placed the Adamantium skeleton into Logan, it spread a poison through him that would destroy a normal person.

This caused intense pain and suffering but his healing factor ended up reversing the poison and saving his life. The good news is that Logan is now immune to those poisons and still has the skeleton.

The Adamantium laces the entire skeleton of Wolverine -- including his bone claws.

As a result, he has one of the strongest and unbreakable metals in the world connected to his skeleton, making it impossible to break his bones.

This makes his claws even more powerful-- while Logan's healing factor reverses injuries, his skeleton prevents many others.

SUPERHUMAN SPEED

Wolverine and Sabretooth battle in the Civil War in X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Wolverine also has superhuman speed, although it is at a low superhuman level. He can attack enemies at a speed that is quicker than the eye can follow.

Other heroes who have the ability to move fast, such as Spider-Man, have struggled to match the speed of Logan in a fight.

This helps when Wolverine is fighting people with weapons. While his body has no worries concerning getting shot, Logan is able to often move faster than a person can actually pull a trigger, as proved in Uncanny X-Men #232.

This makes him invaluable in a fight where there might be collateral damage, as his speed is able to save just as many lives as well as stop the bad guys.

ENHANCED REFLEXES

Wolverine 3 footage with Hugh Jackman

On top of being superhumanly fast, Wolverine also has enhanced reflexes that help him fight just about anyone.

Added to his enhanced reflexes, Logan also has years of specialized fight training. Even before joining the X-Men and working extensively in its Danger Room setting, he was trained by some of the best military co-ops in the world.

He was part of the Weapon X program in X-Men Origins: Wolverine. In the comic books, he worked with Nick Fury in the past as well.

With his specialized military training adding to his enhanced skills, he is able to stand toe-to-toe with someone like Captain America.

As shown in The Wolverine, Logan was also able to fight an entire troop of ninjas on equal ground.

SUPERHUMAN DURABILITY

Wolverine tries to hold on to a bullet train in The Wolverine

The Adamantium skeleton keeps Wolverine's bones from breaking. His healing factor allows him to heal from gunshot wounds and stabbings.

Wolverine already has a huge advantage because of this superpower. However, added on top of this advantage, Logan also has enhanced superhuman durability, making him seem almost unbeatable.

The superhuman durability enhances his muscle tissue, making it denser than normal humans. While Wolverine has been cut with swords and other knives, that was by mostly superhumanly strong enemies,as his skin is much harder to puncture, as shown in Wolverine Vol. 2 #184.

Add in the quick healing, and it is no surprise that very few people have ever been able to beat Logan in a fight.

SUPERHUMAN STRENGTH

X-Men 2000 - Hugh Jackman as Wolverine Logan

Wolverine has superhuman strength as well. While he is nowhere near the level of X-Men teammates like Colossus or enemies like Sabretooth, Logan has the ability to lift and move a large amount of weight.

One moment that shows that Wolverine is superhumanly strong can be found in Wolverine: First Class #8, where he lifted the giant Russian mutant Ursa Major and threw him across the room. Ursa Major weighs 955 pounds.

Wolverine has broken chains and has thrown numerous people with a sweep of his arms.

The big thing to remember is that when Logan goes into Berserker Rage, his strength increases a great deal and can possibly allow him to lift as much as two tons.

Even if Logan overexerts his strength and tears muscles lifting something too big, his body will instantly heal.

SUPERHUMAN STAMINA

Wolverine 3 wraps filming in New Mexico

Logan is able to fight for extremely long periods of time due to superhuman stamina.

This is due to years of experience and training. However, it also has a nice boost due to his healing factor. The reason why people grow tired and weak after long periods of action is due to fatigue toxins running through their bodies.

Wolverine's healing factor is able to instantly cure his body of the damage caused by fatigue toxins.

Much like substances and poison, Logan has grown immune partially to these fatigue toxins over the years.

X-Men Vol. 2 #5 showed that Wolverine can fight for up to 24 hours without impairment and his lung capacity also allows him to hold his breath longer than normal humans.

ENHANCED AGILITY

Wolverine and Deadpool in Marvel comics

Logan's superhuman speed and reflexes give him superhuman agility. His enhanced powers allow him to achieve feats that normal humans could never accomplish.

His balance, agility, and bodily coordination are enhanced to a degree far beyond even the greatest human athletes.

Logan can even dodge bullets, although he normally doesn't care and just lets his healing factor do its thing.

He showed in X-Men: Schism #4 that he can also easily dodge Cyclops' optic blasts, despite the two having similar training at the X-Men academy. Logan can also jump up to 30 feet in the air without even taking a running start, as shown in Wolverine #2.

Much like his reflexes, his agility is compared to Captain America, who gained his powers through the Super Soldier Serum.

ENHANCED SENSE OF SMELL

Hugh Jackman as Wolverine in the woods in X-Men The Last Stand

Wolverine also has an enhanced sense of smell. This comes in handy in a number of areas.

For one thing, Logan is able to figure out anyone's secret identity. All he has to do is smell a superhero or villain, and if he sees them again, he knows instantly who they are.

He also can tell when someone is portraying someone else, such as Mystique disguising herself in the first X-Men movie.

However, this power comes in handy in other areas. Logan is an expert tracker and can use his sense of smell to search and find people.

In the Mutant Massacre in the pages of the X-Men comics, Logan was able to find survivors and help them using his tracking abilities. He can also smell an enemy coming, which prevents him from being overtaken by sneak attacks.

RESISTANCE TO TELEPATHY

Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier in X-Men Origins Wolverine

Wolverine had a power given to him by Professor Charles Xavier -- although this was not until Professor X had already messed with his mind.

In the comics, Logan had no memories of who he was or where he came from, something that was shown at the end of X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

In Wolverine Origins #29, that amnesia was made worse by Professor X, who twisted Logan's mind to join the X-Men, even though his mission was to go to the mansion to take out Charles.

However, in Wolverine Vol. 3 #46, Professor X slightly made up for it when he implanted psi-shields into Logan's mind to protect him from telepathic assault.

This is similar to what Jean Grey later did to protect Jessica Jones from The Purple Man in the comics, and it makes Logan highly resistant -- but not completely safe -- from attacks on his mind.

Adamantium & heated CLAWS

Wolverine's Bone Claws

Wolverine's most popular weapons are his claws. These retract into his arms and he can pop them out, slicing through his own skin to use them as weapons against bad guys.

When he pulls them back in, the skin automatically heals over the holes.

The claws have gone through various changes over the years. Originally, they were 12-inch bone claws and Logan could extend one or all six (three in each arm) at will.

Most mammals' claws are made of keratin, but Logan's are bone -- and later laced with Adamantium, making them able to cut through almost anything except similar metals, such as Captain America's shield.

In the comics, Wolverine just returned from the grave and his claws now heat up, which is a brand-new power.

BERSERKER RAGE

Wolverine has an incredible abilitiy that is both a powerful ally and a huge hindrance to those around him. This is his Berserker Rage.

When Logan is pushed to the limit, loses something special to him, or suffers pain that is beyond even his tolerance, he loses control completely.

When Wolverine goes into a Berserker Rage, it is similar to when Hulk goes wild.

Logan becomes feral and loses all control over himself and his actions. He has no moral code whatsoever and becomes a danger to his friends and even innocent bystanders in the area at the time.

However, this power also enhances his already immense powers to heightened levels.

His strength, agility, endurance, and durability grow exponentially and his unpredictability makes him extremely dangerous.

REGENERATIVE HEALING FACTOR

The most important superpower that Wolverine possesses is easily his healing factor. When Logan is injured, his body almost instantly heals and keeps him in the fight at all times.

Gunshots instantly heal, wounds from blades close, and in New X-Men #150, Logan even regenerated a missing eye in mere seconds.

Not only that, but the healing factor fixes internal damage almost instantly. If something passes through Logan and destroys his internal organs, these organs instantly regenerate.

This eliminates poisons from his body and cures him of all diseases. He lost this power in the comics but regained it when he returned in Marvel Legacy #1.

This is the power that keeps him alive, and was thus a major plot point in The Wolverine movie, which showed that even a nuclear blast could not hurt him for long.

PHOENIX FORCE

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While it was not a power that is natural for Wolverine, the greatest power that Logan has ever possessed was the Phoenix Force.

In Astonishing Spider-Man & Wolverine #5, Logan used a weapon called the Phoneix Gun to destroy Doom the Living Planet. However, part of the Phoenix Force went into Logan.

This is the same force that corrupted Jean Grey and is one of the most dangerous and powerful entities in the universe.

When in possession of this force, Logan could create cosmic flames under any condition, which could destroy almost anything. He also possessed world destruction abilities, as this is the main purpose of the Phoenix Force.

While he eventually lost this power, the recent mysterious heating up of his claws brings back memories of the power and makes Wolverine's future look very interesting.

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