X-Men Origins: Wolverine shows Logan surviving long before the adamantium procedure. The power is why his body can get through the procedure, rather than something the metal gives him.
That distinction matters because the skeleton and the healing do different jobs. Metal can protect parts of him from being broken. His mutation repairs living tissue. Neither one makes him incapable of feeling what happens to him.
Then Stryker shoots him with adamantium bullets. Logan survives, but loses his memory. The film specifically separates his brain healing from his memories returning.
Whatever problems somebody has with that explanation, it is the explanation this movie gives. It also means “he survived the headshot” doesn't mean “nothing lasting happened.” He comes out alive and has still lost an enormous part of his life.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine shows Logan surviving long before the adamantium procedure. The power is why his body can get through the procedure, rather than something the metal giv…
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