35 Facts About X-23

1.

Laura Kinney was born on X-23; codename Wolverine and is a fictional superhero appearing in media published by Marvel Entertainment, most commonly in association with the X-Men.

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X-23 attended school at the X-Mansion, and eventually became a member of X-Force.

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X-23 has retractable adamantium-coated bone claws in her hands and feet.

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4.

X-23 was portrayed by Dafne Keen in the 2017 film Logan.

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5.

X-23 was later voiced by Britt Irvin in season 4, episode 3, titled "Target X".

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6.

X-23 revealed that the character was his attempt to make a Wolverine to "connect more to the younger kids", as while X-Men: Evolution was a reinvention of the X-Men making the characters teenagers, "Wolverine was one of the old, grizzled guys".

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7.

Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost scripted X-23: Innocence Lost, a six-issue miniseries that details the character's origin, as well as X-23: Target X, a six-issue miniseries that covers the character's experiences between her origin story and her appearance in NYX.

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8.

X-23 reveals to Sarah that Rice is responsible for the murders.

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9.

X-23 succeeds and meets her mother, and they prepare to flee.

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10.

X-23 takes Laura to a bus station and tells Laura to return to Logan.

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11.

X-23 defends Jade Parisi, daughter of mob boss Don Parisi, against some thugs who berate her for having a mutant boyfriend.

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12.

X-23 is rescued by the X-Force, leading into the 2009 - 2010 "Necrosha" storyline, which sees Laura reunited with her friends from the NYX series.

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13.

In X-23 Laura begins having horrible nightmares for mysterious reasons, then finds herself on a journey to self-discovery and begins a friendship with Gambit.

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14.

X-23 cannot be with Wolverine because she is afraid to violate his new philosophy: if you are a kid you do not fight, and he sees her as a kid.

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15.

X-23 tells him she is going to miss him too, then she takes a motorcycle and drives to the academy.

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16.

X-23 subsequently begins to date the younger Angel, and meets Jimmy Hudson—the son of the Wolverine of the Ultimate Marvel universe—when the team are transferred into the Ultimate Universe by accident.

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17.

X-23 asks him why he endangered himself, and he tells her that he wanted to change himself so he won't turn into Archangel and that he can stay himself forever since he is in love with her.

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18.

X-23 has been shown to be able to reattach limbs; for example, she reattached her hand after she severed it to escape the restraints placed on her by Kimura.

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19.

X-23 is immune to most drugs and toxins, although she can be affected by certain drugs if given sufficient dosage.

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20.

X-23 possesses a single, retractable claw housed within each foot which she tends to use for defense.

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21.

X-23 is the first mutant to be chosen by the entity as its host, as well as being one of a handful of individuals to do so more than once.

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22.

X-23 is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives and is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques.

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23.

X-23 has displayed fluency in French and Japanese, and Zander Rice once described her intellect as being "off the charts".

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24.

Laura recounts in the X-23 One Shot, that Kiden and her friends did not know or care that she was a weapon.

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25.

X-23 affectionately referred to her as "Petite" and even managed to get her to calm down from a trigger scent-induced rage.

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26.

Laura had some jealousy towards Jubilee from the X-23 one shot as Logan treated her more like a daughter than he did her.

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27.

X-23 remarks that Laura is a construct, to which Laura retorts that he is just like her: Just like the Facility made Laura into a weapon, so did Romulus do to Daken, to which he responds that he owns his own fate.

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28.

X-23 eventually adopted a super-hero code name, Honey Badger, given by her brother Daken.

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29.

X-23 became Wolverine, and she fills that role as well as her predecessor, if not better at times.

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30.

X-23 proved to be amazing at it and has since become Wolverine again, working with the X-Men.

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31.

X-23 is one of the very few X-Men who survive and is seen attending to Kitty Pryde's speech at the end of the story.

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32.

X-23 was found in one of Mister Sinister's labs after it was liberated by Magneto.

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33.

X-23 is killed during the events of "The Dark Angel Saga" by the now-crazed AoA version of Wolverine, as her team and X-Force from Earth-616 try to free Gateway.

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34.

X-23 befriends some street kids and shares her symbiote with them.

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35.

X-23 battled alongside the other Venoms and in the end she returned to her universe.

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