10 Insane Times Superheroes Lost Their Powers

9. Wolverine - Wolverine (Vol. 5) #6

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Marvel Comics

The 2014 Wolverine series went down a route that few other comics starring the short Canadian menace have ever gone down, as issue #6 features our favourite X-Men be infected with an alien virus that removed Howlett's healing factor.

While this sounds like an excuse to place Wolverine on the backbenches, this only convinces the hero to do more and more daring missions, which served to amp up the tension for the rest of the series, as every issue after this point appeared to have a scenario where it looked as though the adamantium-laced warrior was about to face his end.

Although this is one example of a depowering that perhaps went on for too long - as this infection would last into the next volume and year of the comic's run - it still proved an undeniably interesting experimentation with how writers could play around with existing hero's powers.

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