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- NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of X-23 from the X-Men film series. The mainstream version can be found here: X-23.
“ | Daddy... | „ |
~ Laura acknowledging Logan as her father and her most famous line. |
“ | The name's Laura. Let's f--ing go. | „ |
~ Laura in Deadpool & Wolverine. |
“ | You were always the wrong guy…till you weren’t. | „ |
~ Laura to the Wolverine variant in Deadpool & Wolverine. |
Laura, also known as X-23, is the deuteragonist of the 2017 superhero film Logan and a supporting character in of the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine.
She is the daughter of Logan, inheriting similar powers from him. Genetically engineered from Wolverine's DNA with the intent of being turned into a living weapon that was ultimately discarded, Laura managed to gain her freedom and finally meet her "father".
She is portrayed by Dafne Keen, who also played the television adaptation of Lyra Belacqua "Silvertongue" in His Dark Materials and Jecki Lon in Star Wars: The Acolyte.
Biography[]
Logan[]
X-23 is a young mutant girl born in the alternate future where mutants have all but died off. Said by Charles Xavier to be "very much like" Logan, she's the first new mutant either have encountered in at least twenty years. Pursued by Pierce and his Reavers, Laura may help provide the key to the survival of the vanishing mutant race.
In order to save her friends, she leads an attack against the Reavers; after bonding with her, Logan likewise fights, although takes a drug to restore his healing factor, though has a severe withdrawal that could be lethal.
When Logan is wounded badly by X-24 - a younger clone of himself - Laura saved him by shooting it with an adamantium bullets. However, Logan's wounds were too fatal, and the fading medication stopped his healing factor. Logan died peacefully, encouraging Laura to live a safe and fulfilling life, and avoid being the monster the scientists wanted her to become.
Deadpool & Wolverine[]
Background[]
Around 2030s[1], after the events of Logan, Laura reached early adulthood, and while the children lived in the mutant sanctuary for some time, she encountered a rogue faction of the TVA led by Mr. Paradox, who informed her that Earth-10005 is dying because Logan is the anchor being of her universe, and his death caused the universe began to erosion. Laura attempted to convince the TVA that she can try anything to save the world. However, the TVA pruned and sent her to the Void. Now stuck in a desolate wasteland to die, Laura was able to avoid being eaten by Alioth.
Laura came across a group of other heroes who had survived in the Void from Alioth. However, the wasteland was ruled by the mutant Cassandra Nova, who forced those trapped in the Void to work for her, or else suffer death at her hands or Alioth. This group of heroes, including Elektra, Blade, Gambit, Magneto, Quicksilver, Punisher, Daredevil, and Human Torch, rebelled against Nova and formed a Resistance, hiding out in the borderlands and trying to figure a way out of the Void. The Resistance spent years in hiding, and any attempt they made to fight Nova only ended in defeat, and during their first encounters, Magneto got murdered by Nova, who melted his helmet, while Quicksilver, Punisher, and Daredevil were also murdered by Nova as well.
Also at the time during her operation in the Void, Laura began using "X-23" from the name of project where she was created as a codename[2]. Unbeknownst to her, following her banishment to the Void, Deadpool also knew about the TVA's plan to destroy Earth-10005 and decided to travel to Earth-17315, the possible future death of Logan, where Wade dug up Logan's grave, but became enraged to discover that Logan isn't resurrected, instead dissolved into an adamantium skeleton, to which he used Logan's skeleton to kill TVA's Minutemen before he sought out to find the new Anchor Being to replace the deceased one.
Present Day Events[]
Deadpool and a variant of Wolverine fought each other into unconsciousness, so were collected by Laura, who drove them to the safety of the resistance hideout. Deadpool was enthusiastic about the Legacies aiding them defeating Nova to force her to allow their escape from the Void, however, Wolverine was pessimistic, leaving to drink alone outside by a fire. When Laura joined Wolverine, he relayed his greatest regret and trauma, which she said she already can guess what happened, but he plead with her to allow him to confess, thus she agreed. Wolverine mentioned how he wears his superhero suit because he never wore it when his X-Men were alive; on another day of leaving to drink, he returned to find them all dead. He now wore the suit as it was all he had to remember his team, and he wanted to punish himself by remembering his failure. Wolverine expressed that he was the wrong man for the job of saving people, but Laura retorted so was her Logan, yet he could do it anyway.
In the attack against Nova's army, Laura killed the Juggernaut to take his helmet, as they needed it to stifle Nova's immense psychic powers. She throws the helmet to Deadpool and Wolverine , who successfully disable Nova's powers by putting it on her head. The duo demand that Nova help them escape the Void, but she mocked them by saying that they needed to remove the helmet for her to do it, but if they do, she will kill them. However, wanting to honour Professor Charles Xavier's legacy and inspired by Laura's encouragement of his heroic potential, Wolverine expressed a desire to show mercy; he also proclaimed that had Charles known about his sister, he would have tirelessly worked to save her.
Nova appeared convinced, so agreed to return them to their desired universe. With the helmet removed, Nova revealed a trinket in her pocket that she salvaged from a variant of Dr. Strange that she murdered, with the trinket being a sling ring. Nova used it to create a portal for Deadpool and Wolverine; although, she pointed out that they had only five seconds before Alioth arrived to devour; Laura witnessed as the two anti-heroes made it through the portal, as Alioth enclosed upon Nova's Giant Man skeleton fortress.
Laura survives Alioth's attack and after Deadpool and Wolverine managed to stop the destruction of Earth-10005, as well as saving the multiverse itself, leading to the death of Nova and the return to life of their world, Deadpool managed to convince the TVA's higher ranks to free Laura and her companions from the Void. Laura is last seen at the party thrown by Deadpool and Wolverine for their victory, also allowing Laura to live a new life with new friends and a new father figure, and she also pets Dogpool.
Personality[]
Laura has no knowledge of the outside world, or how it works. This is because she was isolated by Transigen for her whole life. As a result of this, Laura doesn't know much about how the world works and how to act around people she doesn't know.
Laura has many of the behavioural traits that her father had. She's quite easy to anger, and resorts to violence whenever she doesn't get her way - as seen when she flips the store clerk on to the ground and nearly stabs him just because he took away her snacks; as well as the time she decked Logan in the face when he told her that he couldn't get her to North Dakota and told her that Eden didn't exist. Though it isn't her fault, since she was engineered and taught to fight and to be a soldier.
Even though she does have some anger issues, Laura exhibits kindness and selflessness. Some examples of this, is when she shielded Charles from being shot while escaping the Reavers for the first time. She also silently tried to comfort Logan after Charles's death, by putting a comforting hand on his wrist.
As she aged, she had matured greatly, holding a far more stable temperament and a greater ability to engage in conversations. She was also grateful for the aid, bond, and sacrifice that was eventually provided by her genetic father. Despite her banishment into the Void, she was still appreciative of the life she was allowed to have through Logan's sacrifice. She was able to see in the alternative Logan a lot of her father, including his best qualities buried under so much bitterness and managed to reach his wounded heart by convincing him that he was still a good person.
When in combat, an older Laura could still enter a savage state like when she was still a child, however, she had developed a stronger discipline that allowed better focus, as well as greater tactical talent; she could also calm herself more smoothly, to regain composure after a violent fight.
Powers and Abilities[]
As the daughter of Wolverine, Laura possesses most of his mutant abilities. Most notably, she possesses an accelerated healing factor that repairs damage almost instantaneously. Her healing factor has enabled her to survive point blank explosions strong enough to blow up large buildings, being dropped in vats of acid, attacks from superhumanly strong foes such as beatings from the Blob, or the Sentinels. She's shrugged off being shot, even through the head at times and has shown to regenerate entire limbs and organs.
Weaknesses[]
- Limited Durability: Although X-23 has adamantium infused into her claws, it does not extend to her skeleton, making her more vulnerable for broken bones and severed limbs, although neither of these have been seen. However, X-23's accelerated healing factor, superhuman durability, endurance and stamina makes up for the lack of an adamantium skeleton.
Non-Canon Appearances[]
X-Men: The Official Game[]
X-23 was at Alkali Lake to find out about her past. She was looking for Colonel William Stryker when the X-Men came. She thought they were bad people and she attacked them. There she fought Wolverine, Colossus, Nightcrawler and Iceman. She was defeated and said she was going to try and find answers.
Quotes[]
“ | Laura: You had a nightmare. Logan: Do you have nightmares? Laura: Sí. People hurt me. Logan: Mine are different. Laura: ¿Por qué? Logan: I hurt people. |
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~ Laura and Logan on their nightmares. |
“ | Laura: I hurt people, too. Logan: You're gonna have to learn to live with that. Laura: They were bad people. Logan: All the same. |
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~ Laura and Logan talking about how they deal with the feeling of killing when someone hurts them. |
“ | Logan: I only met you, like, a week ago. Now you got your Rebecca, your Delilah, your blah blah blah, whatever– everything you asked for, you've got it! And it is better this way... because I suck at this. Bad shit happens to people I care about. You understand me? Laura: Then I'll be fine. |
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~ Laura and Logan about to go their separate ways. |
“ | A man has to be what he is. Joey. Can't break the mold. There's no living with the killing. There's no going back. Right or wrong. It's a brand. A brand that sticks. Now you run on home to your mother. You tell her everything's alright. There are no more guns in the valley. | „ |
~ Laura delivering the eulogy for her father. |
“ | Laura: You are dying. You want to die. Logan: How do you know? Laura: Charles told me. Logan: What else did he tell you? Laura: To not let you. |
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~ X-23 to Wolverine. |
“ | Logan: Listen, you don't have to fight anymore. Go. Don't be what they made you... Laura...Laura... Laura: Daddy... Logan: Ah... [Smiles] ...So this is what it feels like... [Dies] Laura: [Weeping] No! No! Daddy! Daddy! |
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~ Laura is saddened as Logan dies, just after she finally comes to regard him as her father. |
“ | You might not know it, but you're a good man, Logan. | „ |
~ Laura to the alternate Wolverine, not believing that he is as pitiful as he seems. |
“ | Laura: I got to grow up because of you. A lot of kids did. Logan (MCU): Well, a lot of kids didn't grow up because of me. Trust me, kid, I'm no hero. Laura: That suit says different. |
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~ Laura talking about how her life changed because Wolverine was there. |
“ | Adiós, pendejo. | „ |
~ Laura to Juggernaut, before killing him. |
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Laura is initially considered a clone of Wolverine due to the way she was created, but biologically, she is indeed Wolverine's daughter.
- Due to being born in Mexico and having a slight Spanish accent in her youth, Laura is technically of Mexican nationality. In Deadpool & Wolverine, Laura, now older, speaks with a neutral accent; while primarily speaking in English, she also still occasionally used Spanish.
- During the battle against Cassandra Nova's gathered villains, Laura wore sunglasses like the pair she took from the gas station on the road trip with Logan.
- In Deadpool & Wolverine, Laura wears a belt with the X-Men symbol.
- Laura's early adulthood age as seen in Deadpool & Wolverine possibly imply that the event where she got pruned into the Void by the TVA took place around 2035 in Earth-17315 before the main event of Deadpool & Wolverine occured[1].
- With the older Laura now took residence on Earth-10005 Revised, this mean that the revised timeline now has 2 version of Laura, and with the main event of Deadpool & Wolverine took place in 2024, so there's possibly that the younger version of Laura still exists somewhere in that revised timeline.
External links[]
- X-23 on the X-Men Movies Wiki
- X-23 on the Marvel Wiki
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 In the movie, Laura is depicted as aging at a similar rate to her actress, Dafne Keen, who suggests that she was pruned by 2035 at the latest, considering her age in the film Logan.
- ↑ Laura is referred to multiple times as X-23 by characters such as Wade, suggesting she took it on as a codename sometime after Logan's demise.
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