History
Early life[]
Laura was one of several mutant children created by Transigen as part of their X-23 project around 2016. Laura specifically was created using genetic material salvaged from the Wolverine, and like him, developed an advanced healing factor and retractable bone claws, with two in each hand and one in each foot. These claws were laced with adamantium when she was still very young, and she was extensively trained in martial arts.[2]
Her primary caretaker during her captivity was a nurse named Gabriela, and she, like the other nurses, soon grew disillusioned with Transigen's treatment of the children under Dr. Zander Rice. When Rice deemed the X-23 project a failure, the children were all earmarked to be destroyed while he focused his attention on X-24. Gabriela and the other nurses rallied to help them escape, planning to take them first to a haven named Eden in North Dakota, and from there slip them across the border into Canada. Gabriela personally assumed responsibility for Laura, and set out in search of the Wolverine for help reaching the others after they were separated.[2]
Meeting Logan[]
Laura was with Gabriela when her nurse was able to track down Logan while he was driving a for-hire limousine. Although she begged for his help, Logan rebuffed her request and sent her on the way. Gabriela tried again, summoning him to her motel under the guise of hiring his limousine, and even offered him a substantial amount of money once they reached Eden. Logan eventually acquiesced, but when he returned for her the next day he found Gabriela dead in the motel, and Laura missing.[2]
The girl's whereabouts soon became clear. Upon returning to the old plant where he and Caliban were caring for an aging Charles Xavier he was accosted by Donald Pierce. Pierce, heading up the search for the missing girl, had previously questioned him about Gabriela, and as the confrontation escalated Pierce was knocked out by a pipe thrown at his head from behind. Laura emerged from a hiding place nearby, and Logan realized that she had stowed away inside his trunk after his first trip to the motel. Xavier then emerged from their shack, revealing her name, and proudly proclaiming to Logan that she was the new mutant he previously tried to tell him about. Logan had Caliban take Pierce out into the desert and dump him, but Pierce quickly regained consciousness and overwhelmed the mutant.
Before Logan and Charles could plan their next move, Pierce returned with his Reavers and local police as reinforcements. Quickly ascertaining Laura's whereabouts in the complex, Pierce sent his men in to apprehend her. Laura, however, quickly dispatched them, and emerged from hiding presenting the head of a Reaver. A fight broke out between Laura, Logan, and the Reavers, with several of Pierce's men killed during their escape.[2]
On the run[]
With the Reavers on their trail Logan was left with no choice but to attempt to reach Eden. Gabriela left Logan a video confession of her involvement in the project which created Laura. She revealed that not only where there other children, but that Transigen was working on something new when they found the X-23 children impossible to control or turn into weapons. Gabriela begged Logan to protect Laura, insisting that she was not just an experiment, she was his child. Charles would reiterate this assertion, identifying Laura as Logan's daughter.
Following a misadventure with a convenience store clerk that Laura nearly killed when he attempted to relieve her of food she was eating without paying for it, the trio arrived at a casino and hotel in Oklahoma City to ditch their damaged limo, and find a change of clothes and a new car. Laura reacted to the sight of the city lights with awestruck wonder as they drove through the streets, and couldn't help playing with the buttons on the hotel's elevator, much to Logan's irritation. After cleaning up, he leaves Laura in Charles' care (and vice-versa) with instructions for her on administering Charles' medication, then departs the hotel in search of a new car. Meanwhile she bonds with the old mutant while watching Shane on the hotel television.[2]
The Void[]
Sometime after Logan's death she would come across the Time Variance Authority who would prune her and be sent to The Void. While in the Void, she would meet Elektra, Blade, Gambit, and Human Torch who were forming a Resistance. At some point in time, Human Torch would leave the Resistance to scout out other survivors. Eventually, Laura would find Deadpool and Wolverine in a car after they had gotten tuckered out fighting, and drove them to their base, where the Resistance would introduce themselves after the two had woken up. [3]
After doing their introductions and informing the two of how they had gotten there, Deadpool accidentally let slip he knew their friend Johnny to which Wolverine told the Resistance Deadpool had gotten Johnny killed. Deadpool quickly explained to the angered Resistance that Johnny had gotten himself killed with his words with Johnny's death and the fact that they were unable to save their own worlds convincing them to help Deadpool and Wolverine. Later that night, Laura talked to Wolverine and gave him a pep-talk about him and her Logan, Wolverine informed Laura of what happened in his world and then told her that she had the wrong guy and he was no hero. Laura in turn told Wolverine that like her father, he was always the wrong guy until he wasn't.[3]
Fighting at Cassandra Nova's compound
The next day they went after Nova's group and fought them. Laura killed Juggernaut by slicing off his ankles and taking his helmet which she proceeded to successfully toss to Deadpool as Psylocke grabbed her and pulled her back down. [3] Along with the rest of the Resistance, she then escaped from being devoured by Alioth.
A New Life[]
After he and Wolverine killed Cassandra and saved the Multiverse, Deadpool requested that Hunter B-15 save the Resistance members from the Void and return them to their respective universes. However, rather than return to her hellish reality, Laura chose to join Wolverine in Earth-10005 Revised, where they would hang out with Deadpool and his friends.[3]Attributes
Powers
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Retractable Claws: Laura has two retractable claws on each hand and also one in each foot.
Abilities
- Skilled Combatant: Laura is proficient in hand-to-hand combat, fully capable of taking on grown men almost twice her size. She was even able to dominate X-24 in hand-to-hand combat, and was only thrown off when he caught her with a lucky blow.
- Skilled Gymnast: Laura demonstrates considerable gymnastics and acrobatic abilities, and frequently employs flips and cartwheels in combat. She primarily utilizes these skills to avoid incoming blows and bring her foot claws into play, while enabling her to compensate for her height disadvantage by scaling her opponents.
- Driver: Despite her youth, she is fully capable of operating a vehicle, and was able to successfully navigate the rest of the way to Eden when Logan lost consciousness from his wounds.
Weaknesses
- Human Skeleton: Although her claws are laced with adamantium, her skeleton is not, making her more prone to being disabled by broken bones and severed limbs, although neither of these methods have ever slowed her down.
Paraphernalia
Weapons
- Adamantium-Laced Claws
Notes
- Dafne Keen portrayed Laura in Logan and Deadpool & Wolverine.
- Laura is Hispanic in the film because, rather than a product of cloning, as in most incarnations, her mother was impregnated through more traditional (if highly-advanced) artificial techniques.
- Although not directly referred to as X-23 in the film, the designation is instead used for the entire project which produced her, and numerous other mutant children via harvested DNA. All of the children are identified with a serial number in the format X23-##, with Laura herself receiving X23-23 as a nod to the comics and X-Men: Evolution.
- In the film Deadpool & Wolverine, 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.
- Laura demonstrates an interest in horses in the film. Among the items she apparently shoplifts from the convenience store is a toy horse, and she's fascinated by the Munson family's animals when they run into them on the highway.
- Although Laura is depicted as a pre-teen in Logan, early concepts made her a teenager much closer in age to her primary universe incarnation. This was later dropped as part of the film's deliberate subversion of genre conventions.[4]
Trivia
- Laura's Transigen file indicates an Emotional IQ between 70-78 months, suggesting stunted emotional development. This coincides with some of her behavior in the film, which is more appropriate for a much younger child than her age would suggest (such as playing with the buttons in the elevator, or the power locks in Logan's truck).
- Laura's Transigen records give her blood type as O-, likely a result of her healing factor.
- Despite largely refusing to speak to people she doesn't trust, Laura is more or less fluent in both English and Spanish. However, in Deadpool & Wolverine, she was seen to be more fluent in English aside her native is Spanish.
- As a result of her traumatic childhood, Laura states she suffers nightmares about people hurting her.
- According to James Mangold, only Laura's claws are bonded with adamantium.
See Also
- 2 appearance(s) of Laura (Earth-17315)
- 1 minor appearance(s) of Laura (Earth-17315)
- 12 image(s) of Laura (Earth-17315)
- 3 victim(s) killed by Laura (Earth-17315)
Links and References
- Laura (Earth-17315) on the
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