Specifically, Wolverine is a character that is quite literally rooted in his exceptionalism-a troubled loner who often feels he's separate from the rest of the world due to his amazing powers and the berserker rages that keep him from integrating with society. This was tied into what he described as a deliberate creative decision to make "a left" with her character design at any juncture where Wolverine "went right," including the arc of her character development. However, the original idea of the character by creator and X-Men: Evolution scribe Craig Kyle has said he envisioned her as the X-Men's version of Pinocchio. Her background includes prostitution, murder, and self-mutilation. It's worth noting that in the X-Men film universe, the genetic sample that creates X-23 almost certainly came about from Logan escaping in X-Men: Apocalypse (audiences see some of his blood being collected in a post-credits stinger for the movie), implying that her existence in these films may have occurred as part of the various changes to the past created by the Days of Future Past movie.Īt a glance, X-23 is a very dark character. Finally, she also has the shady past of being trained as a living weapon, making the description of "girl Wolverine" more accurate than ever. The lab also coated her claws with adamantium-though only her claws rather than her entire skeleton, due to her timely escape. This resulted in her having her own highly-efficient healing factor and her own bone claws (though only two on each hand rather than three). After 23 attempts, the lab was able to create a female genetic twin of Wolverine based on his DNA. So, why is she a.well.she? The lab that created her only had one sample, and that sample was damaged. In fact, she was literally cloned from a genetic sample of Wolverine taken during his Weapon X days. X-23, however, is exactly what she looks like: a female Wolverine. For instance, asking someone to explain the Cyclops family tree will likely result in a semester's worth of lectures, visual aids, and countless red strings connecting people across different timelines and dimensions. Sometimes, comic book characters are downright difficult to explain. ![]() In the cartoon, she was meant to connect to younger audiences in a way that they could not relate to the grim and gruff Logan now, the Logan movie seems poised to use her to help audiences connect with the beloved Jackman incarnation of the character for what's likely the final time. Interestingly, her film adaptation seems to bring the character full circle. ![]() This generally grim series established a traumatic past in which she had to survive on the streets, and even the most modern interpretations of her character are presented as struggling with some of the trauma she experienced during this time. In X-23's case, she was introduced in the later seasons of the X-Men: Evolution series, a cartoon that made the controversial decision to feature most of the famous X-Men as teenagers rather than their grown selves, with the notable exception of a toned-down Wolverine who serves as teacher and role model.Īs a character, X-23 made a generally positive impression and was later featured in NYX, a limited series that focused on homeless teenage mutants. Even after all those years of fighting evil in a world that fears and hates her, there's still quite a bit that X-fans may not know about X-23.ĭespite being very different characters from very different companies, X-23 actually has something in common with the Batman villain Harley Quinn-specifically, each character was introduced via cartoons before making the jump to official comics and, eventually, live-action movies based on those comics. We got a taste of Laura's rage in the second trailer, which only piqued filmgoers' further-so in the name of clearing up a little of the mystery, we've gone through the Marvel history (comic) books to uncover all the stuff you need to get up to speed. Casual fans of the X-Men movies were immediately curious: who, exactly, is this young lady? Turns out she's Laura Kinney, better known as X-23, a character who's been around the X-Men comics for over a decade (and in the cartoons even longer). ![]() Powered by Johnny Cash's version of the Nine Inch Nails song "Hurt," the clip presented a noticeably older Logan who's taking care of a deteriorating Professor X in a world with few mutants left-one of whom seems to be the young girl that Xavier is encouraging Logan to take under his wing. Wolverine fans were electrified when the first Logan trailer officially dropped.
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