Healing Factors, Indestructability, and Murder: Factual Impossibility Gets A Workout
14th December 2010
Wolverine is one of a number of comic book characters who is extremely difficult to kill. It has been theorized that it would take decapitation followed by immediate removal of his head from the vicinity of his body to effectively kill him. Similarly, though Superman has died, he can survive far, far more punishment than a standard homo sapiens sapiens.
Which raises the question: if it is impossible for a given action to kill a potential target, does it constitute a crime? And if so, which crime?