History ComicBook / X23

She grew up being trained to be an Assassin, so that the Facility could sell her talents to the highest bidder. X-23 endured severe emotional and physical abuse in order to remove such weaknesses as emotion and self worth. Her creator, the one scientist who treated her like a child, tried to free her, but X-23 had been conditioned with a special "trigger scent" that would forcefully throw her into a BerserkerRage, forcing X to kill her. In her dying words, Dr. Kinney named her Laura.[[note]]She was never given a name onscreen other than X-23 in ''Evolution''[[/note]]

* MostCommonSuperPower: While Laura was introduced as a young teenager and looked the part in ''NYX'', she’s typically depicted as having large breasts compared to her peers, as most of her adventures feature her in her mid-teens to early twenties.

* Main/MostCommonSuperPower: Contrary to her age range, she’s typically depicted as having large breasts compared to her peers.

* AgeLift: Her original depiction in ''WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution'' was as a little girl. However, when she became a CanonImmigrant to the comics, she was reimagined as a teenager, which also carried other to other versions like ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' and catching fans by surprise when ''Film/{{Logan}}'' presented a TruerToTheText version.

* ''X-Men (vol.5)'': [[YoYoPlotPoint Retakes the Wolverine name.]]

* RainOfBlood: This is what tips Cap off that he let Johnson's killer escape: As he's consulting with a grunt on the killings he notices blood dribbling from between the rear doors of the ambulance where he ''just'' left the only "survivor" of the attack. He opens the door to reveal the inside of the ambulance covered in blood, and the two EMTs dead inside.

* SkippingSchool: Laura and Megan in''Target X''. Technically they get ''suspended'', but rather than heading home like they're supposed to, they ''steal the principal's car'' and take it on a joyride across San Francisco.

X-23 was created by the Weapon X offshoot known as the Facility,[[note]]ComicBook/{{HYDRA}} in ''Evolution''[[/note]] using a damaged sample of ComicBook/{{Wolverine}}'s DNA. The damage was greatest on the Y chromosome, so after several attempts at a direct clone Dr. Deborah Risman in ''Evolution'', and the similar Dr. Sarah Kinney in the comics, eventually had the brilliant idea to create [[OppositeSexClone a female copy instead]] by duplicating the X chromosome. At last the 23rd attempt to create the female clone of Weapon X was successful, thus X-23. Sarah Kinney notes X-23 is technically a genetic twin rather than a true clone, more accurately making her Logan's sister. He later introduces her to her classmates at Xavier's this way, although they share more of a father-daughter relationship.

* CassandraTruth: Because Sarah covered up her kidnapping in ''Innocence Lost'', no one believed Megan's story about him, or of her rescuer (Laura herself). This is a substantial part of what led to her troubles with her mother and in school, as they all thought she was simply making it up.

* CassandraTruth: Because Sarah covered up her kidnapping in ''Innocence Lost'', no one believed Megan's story about him, or of her rescuer (Laura herself). This is a substantial part of what led to her troubles with her mother and in school, as they all thought she was simply making it up.

She made her live-action debut in ''Film/{{Logan}}'', the third Wolverine-focused movie in the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series, portrayed by Creator/DafneKeen. For tropes specific to her movie incarnation, see the page [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesLaura here]].

She made her live-action debut in ''Film/{{Logan}}'', the third Wolverine-focused movie in the ''[[Film/XMenFilmSeries X-Men]]'' film series, portrayed by Creator/DafneKeen. For tropes specific to her movie incarnation, see the page [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesTransigen here]].

* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' (played by Creator/DafneKeen)

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* ''Film/{{Logan}}'' played by Dafne Keen

* SuperHearing: Laura's hearing is enhanced by her mutation. She was once able to hear a conversation Maria Hill was holding with Captain America...''through Cap's own ear bud from across the room''.

** It becomes almost literal in the costume Mike Choi designed for Volume II, as he based it heavily on athletic wear after surveying women in their late-teens and early-20s about what they would wear as a superhero.

* EasterEgg: Par for the course with Cabal's artwork, who sprinkles jokes and references throughout issue 1.

** Issue 2: While the Cuckoos are hurrying to flee the school before their attack on Laura and Gabby, one of the background students is a cow. In an X-Men uniform.

* MyGreatestFailure: Laura is deeply haunted by and remorseful over all of the deaths she caused, and once even asked Ghost Rider to use his Penance Stare on her because she believed she deserved punishment for all of her killings.
** The first time the trigger scent was tested on a live person, Laura killed her teacher, who became a surrogate grandfather figure for Laura.
** Killing her mother in a trigger scent-fueled rage is perhaps the single biggest one, to the point that when Logan finally manages to bring her to the Xavier school, Emma Frost tries to drive her away by taunting her with a psychic ghost of her mother's dead body blaming Laura for her death. It's enough to drive the [[NotSoStoic normally stoic Laura to tears]].

* PayEvilUntoEvil: Practically Laura's ''entire life'' has revolved around this. While she did kill innocents under the Facility, they also hired her out to killed some pretty bad people, as well. And of course when Sarah turns her loose on the Facility itself it becomes this. It's also generally her role on a team; much like Logan, she's the one willing to kill if she has to. UpToEleven when she's on X-Force, an entire ''team'' built on this principle.

* ''Fallen Angels''

* HollywoodPersonalityDisorder: Laura is highly impulsive, prone to frequent and severe dissociative episodes and panic attacks, has a proclivity for being drawn to inappropriate relationships with others, has a poor-at-best sense of self, has chronic suicidal ideation and/or total indifference to self-preservation, and has a great deal of difficulty with emotional regulation (and often uses self-harm to regulate when her other efforts fail), all of which are common signs of borderline personality disorder.