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marvel - Would Deathstrike's healing ability be able to save her?


In the second X-Men movie, X2, Wolverine defeats Deathstrike by injecting her with liquid adamantium. Considering that Deathstrike has a healing ability similar to Wolverine's, would she come back to life if all of the [excess] adamantium was removed from her body? If yes, would there be a limited window of opportunity to perform such a procedure successfully?



Answer



This answer is purely conjecture, given the limited amount of information we know about Deathstrike from X2: X-Men United.


Due to the way that the adamantium was injected into her body, it is unlikely that Deathstrike's healing factor would've been able to save her, unless her cells found a way to regenerate a nervous system around the hardened adamantium. Wolverine's adamantium was bonded to his skeleton surgically, the liquid wasn't injected into his body haphazardly, which is how he was able to survive the process.


Additionally, when we last see Deathstrike in the film, she is both submerged and trapped in a tank of water, assuming that the injected adamantium wasn't completely surrounding her lungs, she would also have drown, in addition to any damage the adamantium caused. It is unclear how much lung damage someone with a healing factor can handle before they finally drown.


Deathstrike's best chance for survival would have been an immediate intervention from Magneto, whose power would've allowed him to return the adamantium to its liquid state and remove it from her body.


According to Wikipedia:




Kelly Hu wanted to reprise her role in X-Men: The Last Stand, indicating the she survived the fluid adamantium injection by Wolverine, but after Bryan Singer was not on the project anymore, she was not on the project anymore either. [source:wikipedia]



However no source is provided, so we can't be sure how accurate this information is. Regardless, we'll probably never know how Bryan Singer had intended for her to survive the adamantium injection.


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