‘The Wolverine 3’ Spoilers: Logan To Die By Drowning Or Beheading? Hugh Jackman Gives A Clue! There Aren't Many Ways To Kill A Healing Mutant

'The Wolverine 3' might actually be the last appearance of Hugh Jackman as Wolverine. It might even be the end of Logan himself. We are reminded that he is not immortal, he is simply a mutant genetically and technologically gifted to be a step ahead of death. But what if he misses a step?

"X-Men: Days of Future Past" has been shown, and it was a movie that was poised to shake the foundations of the entire Mutant Cinematic Canon. It has succeeded in that objective, but it also gave the audience a two-year long challenge (until the next movie is shown). Did Wolverine die? Short answer would be "No." But can he actually be killed? That's another question.

Hugh Jackman spoke to io9 on his chances of consistently cheating death:

"io9: In this movie, the audience is lead to think that Wolverine dies [from drowning] but of course he doesn't die because he's Wolverine. He never dies! I'm curious, in your world, do you think that it's possible that your version of Wolverine could die? Because right now it seems like no.

Jackman: You have to feel that's possible. And I think that's what Marvel is doing with the comic books. You have to feel that every character there is in danger. It's part of the problem we got into with Wolverine his kind of escalation of his ability to survive. The only way to get rid of him is to chop his head off. It was actually Chris McQuarrie who said no we have to reset that, and he did that with him becoming mortal.

But I always felt that he could die. He heals, he just heals quicker. In X2 when he's getting stabbed repeatedly by Lady Deathstrike that you felt he was going. And he was dying and that's how I was playing it. In the end that drowning thing got cut a little bit. For you and I we lie without breathing and after a minute, we're gone. For him, it's 20 minutes. But it's not that he can be there for 11 years, you feel like he needs breath at some point."

An analysis of how the Wolverine would die led to the two best possibilities (from Moviepilot):

Drowning, as Jackman stated, and also:

"Wolverine was forced to drown his own similarly powered son, Daken, in the comics and it remains a very possible route to the graveyard for the hero."

Beheading is also a possibility because Wolverine's powers do not include generating lost limbs-and the head is much more than simply a limb.

There would be other, more creative ways but one of the most obvious is if Wolverine somehow loses his mutant healing factor. He'd be very vulnerable, of course and given his orientation for a lack of required caution, the results will be deadly.

How will Wolverine die? How would you want to portray it, if you want it to happen at all?