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X-23
Steven E Gordon - X23 II
Biographical Information
Real Name: Laura Howlett (Presumably)
Alias: X-23
Age: 14+
Species: Clone
Mutant
Originally From: HYDRA Headquarters
Relatives: Wolverine (Template/Father)
Affiliations: HYDRA (Creators)
Wolverine
Independent

X-Men (Future)
S.H.I.E.L.D. (Future)

Physical Description
Gender: Female
Hair color: Dark Brown
Eye color: Green
Height: 5'4
Character Information
Powers: Heightened Senses
Accelerated Healing
Adamantium Skeleton / Claws
First Appearance: X23
Voiced by: Andrea Libman
Brittney Irvin
GALLERY


Character Mutants Female H.Y.D.R.A. S.H.I.E.L.D Independent X-Men Season 3 Season 4
"This is your fault! Everything I am is because of you!"
X-23 to Logan

Appearances

Personality

X-23 is a partial clone of Wolverine created by HYDRA. Under her creators, X-23 was subjected to a brutal and miserable existence from birth, as HYDRA was grooming her to be an excellent killing machine to surpass Wolverine. Years of relative isolation and abuse at the hands of HYDRA conditioned X-23 to repress her emotions, leading her to become cold, calculating, apathetic, and nihilistic. Her training had achieved the desired effects. When she operates, X-23 is shown to be efficient, cunning, and lethal. She came to blame Wolverine for her terrible past, believing that he was conscientiously involved in her existence.

Despite the conditioning, X-23's emotions were not completely tailored to HYDRA's specifications. Deborah Risman, the HYDRA scientist that created her, had stated that she had to implement some genetic variation when creating her, rather than cloning Wolverine entirely, leading to "instability". That, coupled with the efforts to stamp out emotion, led X-23 to develop extreme anger, demonstrated upon her attack on Wolverine. When the latter began to reason with her within the same encounter, X-23's brutal exterior had been chipped away, revealing a deeply hurt and vulnerable side, clearly unused to empathy and compassion as Wolverine had shown her.

Physical appearance

X-23 is a Caucasian-mix teenage girl with a tan skin complexion and an athletic and well-fit built. She has long dark brown hair that she wears loose and comes down around her mid-back with green eyes. X-23 usually wears a leather military jacket with tan accents on the upper arms of the jacket with form-fitting leather pants. She wears a tan tank top shirt underneath her jacket with black gloves and black combat boots. She originally wore a black mask with red goggles and a tan accent between them that was part of her suit, but she ceased wearing it when she arrived at the Xavier Institute. She is most likely part Polynesian, or black, as Logan is white-skinned, but Laura Kinney (whose DNA was used to fill the gaps in the strands of Wolverine's salvaged DNA) is shown to have dark tan skin.

Powers

  • Cellular Regeneration: X-23's primary mutant power is a high rate of cellular regeneration, that enables her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues with far greater speed and efficiency than an ordinary human. Her healing factor allows her to heal and recover from any injury in a matter of seconds or minutes (and apparently a faster rate then Wolverine), depending on the degree of the injury or injuries.
    • Ailments Immunity: X-23's healing powers also makes her immune to all forms of illness and disease, as well as poisons and drugs. Unless given in massive doses.
    • Immortality: Due to X-23's cellular regeneration; she is immortal.
  • Enhanced Condition: X-23 possesses multiple physical enhancements due to her natural, mutant regenerative healing factor. Her healing factor greatly enhances her physical attributes granting her enhanced strength, reflexes, endurance and senses allowing her to survive in harsh terrain with no survival gear.
  • Superhuman Senses: X-23 is capable of tracking or sensing someone entirely by sent.
  • Adamantium Skeleton: X-23's healing factor allowed her to survive the Weapon X program bonding her skeleton with the indestructible metal Adamantium, making her skeletal structure unbreakable.
    • Adamantium Claws: X-23's Adamantium skeleton includes two Adamantium claws on each hand and on in each foot.
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Masked

Early life

X23-as a child

X-23 as a child before breaking the music box

X-23 was the twenty-third attempt to clone the original Weapon X in female form. She was created by Dr. Deborah Risman and moulded into the ultimate killing machine by a mysterious organization known only as "The Facility".

Looking to duplicate the success of Weapon X, a group called "HYDRA' conducts experiments to create an ultimate weapon, a perfect soldier. They failed 22 times, but the 23rd attempt was a success. The solution was Logan's healing factor. To duplicate his mutant ability they used Logan's DNA, creating a clone. During the process, they had to make some changes, creating a 'hormonal instability'. Their training of 'X-23' resulted in emotional instability, and hatred. They had created the ultimate warrior, but they couldn't control her.

At the age of 12, she was put through the Weapon X program that gave her the same abilities as Wolverine.

X-23

X-23's first mission was to extract information from a S.H.I.E.L.D base. Upon accessing the files, she found records of the X-Men but became furious and went rogue after reading Logan's file and blaming him for her traumatic upbringing.

Now knowing where her target was, X-23 ventured out to the Institute where she hid in a tree and watched as Hank taught his class, she then spied on the other X-Men before sneaking into the building where she found herself in Jean's room. Once discovered by Sam, X-23 fired a device at him that rendered him unconscious before leaving the room and doing the same to anyone else who got in her way. Knowing that someone would find her, she posed as an innocent and upset child who began crying in one of the rooms where Xavier discovered her, when asked who she was and if she was okay, X-23 revealed herself to be hostile and fired one of the devices at Xavier and fled the room where she targeted anyone else who was onto her. Once she cornered Scott, Rogue and Logan in a room, X-23 collapsed the floor under the former causing him to drop where she then engaged in a fight with the man that was the cause of her existence.

Not wanting to fight, Logan began defending himself from X-23's oncoming attacks with the latter continuously blaming him for her creation with Logan claiming he had no idea she existed until S.H.I.E.L.D made him aware that morning. After being told the truth, X-23 began breaking down and crying no longer being able to hold in her emotions any longer. Now a rogue agent, X-23 claims she's going to be hunted down by HYDRA for her betrayal with Logan offering to take her in but she refuses the offer not wanting the X-Men to be caught in any experiments committed by HYDRA, she instead then runs away from the grounds and her appearance is covered up by Logan claiming that she got away.

Target X

Still on the run from her old faction and bosses, X-23 took it upon herself to go after HYDRA so she could get revenge on the people who experimented on her and raised her as a weapon. However, knowing that X-23 was coming for them, HYDRA sent out Omega Red and Gauntlet, two agents who were ordered to capture Logan and leave him out in the woods as a way to draw out their traitor, X-23 did appear as planned but she was able to take the two HYDRA agents with ease as she was fully healed unlike Logan who was bruised and on the ground.

She then refused Logan's second offer to join the X-Men stating that HYDRA was still on her back, she then told Logan to return home as he would be no use to her since his healing factor was messed with during his fall from the helicopter. During their argument, both are ambushed and captured by HYDRA and taken back to Viper who plans to wipe X-23's memories of her rogue behaviour so that they can make her their perfect assassin again. Upon being placed in containment until she can be brainwashed again, X-23 placed one of her deactivated devices on her forehead to trick her former boss into believing she was unconscious, X-23 then used the method to escape. When confronting Viper, X-23 forced Logan off the airship they were on claiming she'll end HYDRA even if she dies doing so, the ship blew up taking the agents of HYDRA and presumably X-23 with it.

With HYDRA arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D , Nick appeared and questioned Logan about "the girl" to which Logan mentioned she didn't make it out of the explosion, once SHIELD left the scene, Logan picked up X-23's scent where he discovered she lived. X-23 then watched from afar as the agents involved were arrested and taken away now with S.H.I.E.L.D believing her to be dead. X-23 then fled the area so she could be free to be her own person.

Future

Future-X-men

Future X-23.

When Charles Xavier was under Apocalypse's control, he was able to see into the mind of Apocalypse. In the Future, Xavier saw an adult version of X-23 that would one day join the X-Men.

Notes

Trivia

  • X-23 was created by Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost for X-Men: Evolution series, and was introduced as a more youthful version of Wolverine. Much like Harley Quinn, X-23 is a canon immigrant, initially introduced in tie-in, non-comics media, and assimilated into the main universe after proving popular.
  • She received a self-titled comic series in 2005, where she kills people around the world, the times shown are Craig Kyle's friends' birthdays.
  • X-23 makes her first on-screen appearance in the 2017 movie "Logan" where she was still created using the DNA of the titular character as well as the Alkali-Transigen substance
  • X-23 was voiced by Andrea Libman in X-23 and Brittney Irvin in Target X.
  • X-23's creator, Deborah Risman viewed her as a daughter instead of an experiment.

In Other Media

  • X-23 was created for this show as a way for the younger viewers to relate more.
  • X-23 appeared in Wolverine and the X-Men.
  • X-23 appears in multiple video games, some of which include: X-Men: The Official Game, Marvel: Avengers Alliance and Marvel Strike Force.
  • X-23 in other media is known as Laura Howlett or Laura Kinney.
  • X-23 In the 2017 film "Logan" was created by the Alkali-Transigen substance.

References

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