10 Things Everyone Always Gets Wrong About Wolverine

4. The Metal Skeleton Problem

Another favourite little party piece (assuming it's a particularly nerdy party) people like to bring up is all the problems that metal skeleton must cause Wolverine. Are his teeth metal? Is he magnetic? And the most hilarious observational comedy bit of all, of course, is how does he travel on airplanes? He has a metal skeleton! Surely he must set off all the metal detectors and then there's an awkward moment akin to the bit with the cucumber wrapped in foil from This Is Spinal Tap, as he takes off more and more items of clothing before the nice TSA agents accept that he has shiny bones. Yeah, no, that's been explained countless times, in a couple of different ways. One theory that's been pitched by numerous different creative teams who've worked on Wolverine-related comics over the years is that he carries a medical card which explains that he has metal parts in him, the way that people with certain prosthetics are given to avoid similar embarrassing situations. The other is that adamantium, being a made-up metal and all, simply doesn't set detectors off, the way that many such surgical metals or jewellery or whatever don't. So there.