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What do you think about her? Christina Ricci "famous for playing Wendsday in The Addams Family and her incredible extencion in horror Films like Sleepy Hollow, After.Life, Cursed, Monster, and the list goes on thanks to her creepy small doll like face and huge eyes" (The quick career note was taken from the site about propositions for a role of American Mcgee's Alice).

@c2thaj: Definitely, at some parts she is even the main character of the series (the Not Forgotten part). That is because the 2008 series is written by her creators - Craig Kyle and Chris Yost. Her portrayal in this series is outstanding, surely one of the greatest. In it we have everything that makes X-23 an interesting character. On one half she is a perfect, cold blooded (and suprisingly well educated with guns, which is quite rare in marvel series) assassin. There are numerous situations with her using pistols and even sniper rifles, rather than simply cutting her way through like Wolverine. The way she speaks and treats people is also worth noting. There are even parts where she goes in a badass berserk mode, similiar to Innocence Lost/Target X series. But on the other half she is a tragic heroine (her dilemma of being a clone born to kill is well developed here), who tries to hide her emotions at all cost for mission success. The plot here is more dark, gory and spy-based (with the presence of United Nations) and Mike Choi's dark and bloody art goes hand to hand with the story.

I almost forgot. Happy New Year!! Wish you more interesting posts and a dream of X-23's movie finally coming true, no matter who will play the role.

Well, acting is an entirely subjective thing, but her cold look quite fits X's style. If she had never played in Twilight and X-23's story would be her debut, would you argue? I wouldn't.

I will be banned for this. Hate it or love it, I really do think Kristen is a decent choice. She likes playing silent, alienated, troubled teens (like her role in Speak - for me it's like a mirror image of X-23 in Innocence Lost). Twilight comes to the end, so I think it's time to tone down the hate a little bit.

@krspaceT: NYX - her first appearance. In it she was a prostitute, quite sadomasochistic, since the picture above represents one of her "services". And no, it's not Hellion.

@lykopis: I'm not reading Avengers Academy, X-23 is not portrayed well in this series (opinion based on rumors, but the bra thing says for itself)

All in all, should we really treat this subject so seriously? In all the movies, tv shows, games etc women are usually pretty, cause attractiveness brings audience's attention. I'm not talking simply about sexualism, characters looking nice and strong (or weak and miserable, it all depends on the story) are easy to identify with. Some writers wants an action based story, so they put well builded, usually handsome guy, or a skinny, nice looking girl - making a breach of the rule generally ends with smaller, more elite audience, unless the story, by making an departure from classic solutions, brings you different, but still strong emotions.

Although X-23 is physically attractive, sometimes her stories like to sacrifice her attractiveness for realism and depiction of her rather strong personality. Other heroines, like these above, usually go through dramatic situations with only few scratches to not damage their look (I'm not an expert, maybe I'm wrong). But when X-23 had her limbs cut off, not to mention being constantly burned to muscle tissue, it was hard to think about her attractiveness (X-Force, when she was carrying her arm while escaping from the facility. It wasn't very sexy if you ask me). Such situations gives drama, but also realism and brings attention to her personality rather than her look. As for her look itself, she has quite good genes (Wolverine represents strong manliness and dr Sarah Kinney wasn't ugly at all) so the fact that she has a pretty face and a good body is not a big surprise (visually she is a perfect copy of her mother). Since she doesn't give a damn about her look, her clothes were rarely provocative (with only exception being cropped top X-men shirts). She was seen quite often wearing ordinary clothes like dark jackets and blouses not revealing her breast (surely not like in the pictures above). I like how writers adds dose of realism to her stories and I really like the fact that X-23 is not heavily sexualised. For me she is the most realistic heroine in Marvel Universe.

Since she has superb healing factor, losing her limbs or being burned to bone is not as sacrificial as you might think... but being a child forced to kill dozens of people (no matter what age) and still having emotions and a sense of morality, despite the brutal and humiliating training, demands some respect.