Laura Kinney is the result of a top-secret project to replicate the original Weapon X. She has joined the X-Men to find her place, but reverts to her killer instincts as a member of X-Force.
Craig Kyle (creator)
She’s supposed to be the opposite of Wolverine, he’s a wild animal, she is a robot. She thinks like a human second, never like an animal she’s just not that way. Even as we see her evolve to become more human she still finds her most comfortable places when she’s murdering and that’s the tragedy of her life. It’s the human scenarios and emotions that tear her apart.
In her essence she is Marvels “Pinocchio”, a samurai sword who’s desperate to become a girl.
Origin
X-23
X-23 was the direct result of 22 failed attempts of a top secret program designed to clone the original Weapon X. Doctor Martin Sutter, who had hoped to create another mutant capable of surviving the intense adamantium bonding process, eventually hired the renowned mutant geneticist Doctor Sarah Kinney. Although she initially wanted to create a female clone of Wolverine due to the damaged Y chromosome of the genetic sample they had acquired, her request was denied, as Doctor Zander Rice, Sutters protege, still desired the original mutant. Finally, Kinney was given permission to use two of Wolverine's X chromosomes to create a female clone, however, as a punishment for her insistence, Rice was forced to act as the surrogate mother of the embryo and for nine months, her every move was monitored until she finally gave birth to "X-23".
Raised in captivity and officially labeled as X-23, the mutant was rigorously trained to be the perfect weapon. Although Kinney tried her best to help her surrogate daughter retain some of her humanity, her efforts were futile, for at the age of seven, X-23 was exposed to extreme levels of radiation in order to accelerate the onset of her mutant genes. Next, Rice had her claws forcibly removed and coated with adamantium before they were painfully put back in place. While continuing her training, Rice created a "trigger scent" that would cause X-23 to enter into a berserker rage that would send her on a murderous rampage once her heightened senses picked up the smell. In order to make sure the "trigger scent" worked, Rice used it on her Sensei because he was nice to her.
After knowing what a successful killing machine they had created, Rice sent X-23 on numerous assassination missions, selling her talents to the highest bidder and leaving her emotionally stunted in the process. Ultimately, the power hungry Rice sought to gain full control over the project and had X-23 kill Doctor Sutter and his family. Later, Doctor Kinney's niece, Megan, is abducted by a serial killer, causing her to secretly send X-23 to rescue Megan. When Kinney discovers numerous incubation pods containing more female clones, she has X-23 perform one last mission; kill Doctor Rice and destroy the other clones. Unfortunately, Rice managed to plant X-23's trigger sent on Doctor Kinney, forcing the mutant to savagely murder her mother. While dying, Kinney refers to X-23 as Laura before giving her a letter containing information on Wolverine, Charles Xavier, and the X-men.
Target X
Target X
NYX
Before returning to Xavier's Institute, X-23 returns to New York City where she was taken in by a pimp named Zebra Daddy. Here she worked as a prostitute and began to cut herself with her own claws whenever she was in a precarious situation. Confused, and choosing to remain mute, Laura was unable to free herself from this lifestyle until she befriended fellow mutant Kiden Nixon, who had the ability to freeze time when in danger. After escaping from Zebra Daddy, X-23 kills him in order to save her friends.X-Men
Facing Wolverine
After helping Spider Man, Iron Man, and the Black Widow to save a young mutant from danger, X-23 tracks Wolverine while he investigates the Canadian Rockies. After being ambushed evolved by Suarians from the Savage Land, Laura works with Psylocke, who quickly befriends her, and Ka-Zar, in taking back the Savage Land while freeing Storm from the Saurians in the process.
Decimation
Laura and Hellion
Laura and Hellion later team up to rescue their teammate Mercury after she is kidnapped by Kimura. After securing information on Cessily's location, Laura shoots her informant in the head. It was at this time that Hellion claims killing will no longer be used in their interrogation techniques. After infiltrating the facility where Kimura held Cessily. After being attacked by Predator X, the young mutants are saved by the combined forces of both the Astonishing and New X-Men teams, although the Predator escapes from the battle.
Quest for Magik
While searching for his old protege, Magik, Belasco brought the young X-men to his realm in Limbo, including X-23. After attempting to attack the demon lord, Belasco kills her, turning her into a pile of bones. He then resurrects her and after being aided by Elixir and David, she assists the other students in escaping from this hellish realm.World War Hulk
X-23 vs. Lady Deathstrike
Messiah Complex
During the Messiah Complex, X-23 is placed on a new X-Force team with; Wolverine, Wolfsbane, Caliban, Warpath, and Hepzibah in order to track down the newborn mutant. During their pursuit of Cable, X-Force is pitted against Lady Deathstrike and her new Reavers. Laura quickly attacks Deathstrike out of revenge for previously injuring Hellion, however, after suffering serious injuries of her own, her body goes limp and she stops attacking. Once close enough, Laura, who was only playing possum, severely damages Deathstrike's cybernetic systems and healing factor. After continuing their battle, X-23 appears to kill Deathstrike before traveling with the rest of the X-Men to Muir Island in order to face the Marauders where she also kills Scrambler before he was able to attack Wolverine.X-Force
X-Force
After rescuing Rahne, Laura condemns her actions, claiming that she should have known better, although Wolverine brutally scolds her, and claims that people like Rahne are the types of people you die for. Confused by this statement, Laura is shown self mutilating herself before catching the scent of both Elixir's and Angel's blood after they are brutally attacked by a manipulated Wolfsbane. When Laura arrives on the scene, she allows Rahne to attack her as well rather than defend herself. After she is healed, Laura witnesses Warren's transformation back into Apocalypse's Angel of Death. X-23 stays by Elixir's side, telling him to stay back before she is wounded by Archangel's attacks.
Attacking Vanisher in his safe house
Back at Angel's home, X-23 informs Elixir that he knows too much and hints that Cyclops' only course of action is to kill him, although she fails to inform him that she is already aware the Cuckoos were already enlisted to erase Josh's memory so he could return to the X-Men without risk of exposing the secret of X-Force. This does not go according to plan as X-Force is sent on another mission to retrieve the Vanisher who had supposedly stolen a sample of the Legacy Virus. Although Laura insists that Warren's current state deems him too unstable to participate in the mission, they ultimately loose Vanisher but gain a valuable ally in Domino who informs them of the locations of three of Vanisher's safe houses. X-Force then ambushes him in all three locations before giving him an inoperable brain tumor in order to gain his cooperation in destroying the Legacy Virus. After Vanisher takes them to the lab he lost the vile, the team is ambushed by of clones of the Marauders before X-23 is contaminated with the Virus. Although she attempts to commit suicide, Elixir stops her and assists her healing factor in burning the virus from her system.
Escaping Fever Pitch's explosive death
During their initial encounter with Cable, Stryfe appears and takes Hope to his citadel. The team notices that a chronal field is surrounding Stryfe's fortress and will ultimately deny them the ability to travel back to the present. Domino, Laura, and Vanisher attempt to deal with this problem, hoping to find a machine to destroy, but instead find Laura's old friend, Kiden, who has been kept painfully alive for years to power Stryfe's chronal machine. Although Kiden begs Laura to kill her, Domino ultimately is the one pulls the trigger after Laura hesitates. With the temporal distortion down, Vanisher rips off his time device and returns to the future, whereas Laura and Domino assist the rest of their team in defeating Stryfe with the aid of a revived Apocalypse.
Rescuing Boom Boom
As she emerges from the time stream moments before the Leper Queen shoots Boom-Boom, Laura shoots the and kills the Leper Queen with the last of her strength before collapsing to the ground. Although she still attempts to get up, mumbling that Surge and Hellion are still in danger, she finally loses consciousness. Moments later, HAMMER agents burst onto the scene and apprehend both Laura and Boom Boom, after spending a long time trying to track X-23 down.
In transit, Agent Morales, once a SHIELD agent, wonders why they're treating a kid like Laura in this manner. Agent Young tells his female partner that X-23 is a weapon. Agent Morales still has her doubts, and her anxiety increases when they take Laura to a secret facility that she doesn't recognize. Laura wakes up as they arrive, and despairs when she sees that they are at a newly built Facility, and that her longtime tormentor, Kimura, is one of the people waiting for her.
She loses consciousness, and when she awakens from pain some time later, she discovers that she's chained up, and that Kimura is standing in front of her, gloating, and holding a chainsaw. Having already brutally cut off one of Laura's arms, Kimura then proceeds to bring the chainsaw to bear once more on the weakened and helpless mutant.
But before Kimura is able to do any more damage Agent Morales enters the scenes and stops her, quickly unchaining X-23, she grabs her arm and the two are about to leave when Kimura gets back up. Laura informs Morales that Kimura is "Bullet prof" and the two take off running. On the way X-23 is able to slow down her pervious care taker by using her foot claw to jam one of the large bulk doos and causes it to close on Kimura.
Agent Morales and X-23 take of running but are soon found by facility guards. The two are able to shut themselves in one of the many testing bays filled with viles. After taking a look around Laura discovered that each one of these tubes contain the trigger scent that they facility intend to use on her. X-23 get's edgy and asks the agent if she works for the Facility. Getting nervious she drops the vile that she was looking at and Laura quickly grabs it. Along with informing Morales about what the Trigger scent could actually do. With that they turn around and see that the facility have produced massive amounts of the trigger scent and intend to use it.
X-23 "Women Of Marvel"
This march X-23 will star in her own one-shot as part of Marvel comics year long event " Women of Marvel", Written by Marjorie Liu with illustrations from Alina Urusov, The plot will have X-23 and Wolverine visit New York to see Jubilee, While their she picks up the scent of her old friend Kiden (from the NYX series) , Finding her friends laura must face the greatest enemy of all one's own self.
Manifest Destiny
X-23 later moves with the X-Men to San Francisco, where they are accepted as heroes by the mayor, having rejected the Fifty State Initiative. X-23 was roomed with Armor and Pixie. Laura left behind a towel covered with blood, which the latter brought to Emma Frost. Frost stated that it wasn't Laura's blood and later brought this matter to the Cabal.Powers and Abilities
A living weapon
X-23's healing factor allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed cellular structures with superhuman efficiency, even allowing her to re-attach dismembered limbs. Although her healing factor has saved her life on numerous occasions, X-23 can still be killed if she loses too many vital organs, or suffers from losing copious amounts of blood. Her healing factor also allows her some degree of immunity to diseases and infections, however, drugs in large enough doses can still affect her.
Unlike her genetic donor, X-23 was able to escape her facility before the entirety of her skeleton was fused with adamantium.
An expert assassin
Special skills
X-23 was trained from an early age to become a living weapon. This has made her adept in numerous armed and unarmed fighting techniques, while also making her an expert assassin, having been trained with a number of long distance weapons. X-23 has had extensive training in espionage and black ops tactics and has also demonstrated that she is fluent in both French and Japanese.Personality & Relationships
Laura and Logan
Characteristics
X-23
Height: 5'6"
Weight: 147 lbs
Eyes: Green
Hair: Black
Status
Known Relatives: Sarah Kinney (surrogate mother, deceased), James Howlett ( Wolverine, genetic progenitor) Megan Kinney (cousin), Debbie Kinney (aunt)Citizenship: None
Place of Birth: The Facility, location unrevealed
Marital Status: Single
Occupation: Adventurer; (former) student, assassin, (former) prostitute
Education: Home schooled
Alternate Realities
Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse
Age of Apocalypse
A version of X-23 was revealed in the Age of Apocalypse anniversary, where she was said to have been discovered in a lab that belonged to Mister Sinister before it was liberated by Magneto. Going by the name Kirika, it is later revealed that she is the daughter of Wolverine and Mariko Yashida, and unlike her 616 counterpart, all of her claws are sheathed within her forearms, and her bones were laced with adamantium by Magneto upon her request. She lends her aid to the X-Men by searching for her father who had gone into self-exile, and the two of them embark on a mission to track down Mister Sinister in order to rescue Jean Grey.Marvel Team-Up: Legion of Losers
X-23 is featured in a story dubbed "The League of Losers", that is composed of C-list heroes including X-23, Darkhawk, Dagger, Araña, Gravity, Sleepwalker, Speedball, and Terror. The group forms together in order to prevent a villain named Chronok from stealing a time device invited by Reed Richards. During this time, X-23 develops a relationship with Gravity and the group is eventually successful in their task. However, because of the effect of alternate timelines, the team is unable to travel back to the present and decide to stay in the 2099 time period. It was also revealed by Marvel, that because of the time travel paradoxes, this story was presented in an alternate universe.
X-Men: The End
X-Men: The End
In the alternate future presented in the X-Men: The End, X-23 is shown as an adult, and a prominent member of the X-Men. She helps the mutant team in locating and capturing the renegade X.S.E. member, Sage and later, under orders from Cyclops, helps to locate Mister Sinister, Gambit, and both the Lebeau and Summers children. X-23 eventually joins the rest of the X-Men in the Shiar Empire where a massive battle ensues against Cassandra Nova and the Imperial Guard. Laura is one of the few X-Men present at this battle who survived the entire ordeal.Captain Universe
At one point, X-23 was possessed by the Uni-Power when it hoped to take advantage of her advanced healing abilities. Although hesitant at first, she ultimately agrees to help the cosmic power, aiding it in its mission by becoming Captain Universe before it moved on to its next vessel.Appearances in Other media
X-Men Evolution
X-Men Evolution
X-23 makes an appearance in X-Men Evolutions during an episode that involves Wolverine discovering a clone has been created from his DNA. With a similar background to her comic book counterpart, X-23 initially plans to kill Wolverine, blaming him for her predicament, before she escapes after he refuses to turn her over to SHIELD. She is later seen on the run from both SHIELD and Hydra, although she allows the latter to capture her. She does this to destroy Hydra's mobile base of operations. X-23 is not seen again until the final episode, where she is shown as a future member of the X-Men in a precognitive vision by Professor Xavier.Wolverine and the X-Men
Wolverine and the X-Men
In an alternate future, X-23 fought alongside Wolverine and was cloned into four identical copies. She and Wolverine helped Professor X from a Sentinel attack as he was abducted by Master Mold's Sentinels.
Film
In the Hulk vs Wolverine film, X-23 made a cameo appearance in a test tube during a scene in the Weapon X Facility.
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| Super Name: | X-23 |
| Real Name: | Laura Kinney |
| Aliases: |
Laura Kinney Laura X Weapon X X Talon Captain Universe Laura Logan Laura Howlett |
| Publisher: | Marvel Publishing |
| Gender: | Female |
| Character Type: | Mutant |
| 1st Appearance: | NYX #3 |
| Appears in: | 188 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |
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