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!! Old Man Logan
''For general tropes pertaining to Old Man Logan, see his [[Comicbook/OldManLogan page]].''
An elderly version of Logan from an alternate future, Maria Hill initially contacted him for help investigating the disappearance of Agent Lee and her strike team. It's Logan's own disappearance that prompted her to call in Laura for help.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: His legs get digested by Foom before Laura can pull him out. His adamantium skeleton remains intact from the waist down, however, and his HealingFactor regenerates the rest once he's rescued.
* SwallowedWhole: Gets nommed by Fin Fang Foom. Fortunately, his healing factor allowed him to survive long enough for Laura to rescue him.
* YoureNotMyFather: Laura's reaction to him is hostile, to say the least. In fact she finds his present highly upsetting. She adamantly insists he's not ''her'' Logan whenever pressed about it by Gabby, and in one case she even describes him as "twisted."
''For general tropes pertaining to Old Man Logan, see his [[Comicbook/OldManLogan page]].''
An elderly version of Logan from an alternate future, Maria Hill initially contacted him for help investigating the disappearance of Agent Lee and her strike team. It's Logan's own disappearance that prompted her to call in Laura for help.
* HalfTheManHeUsedToBe: His legs get digested by Foom before Laura can pull him out. His adamantium skeleton remains intact from the waist down, however, and his HealingFactor regenerates the rest once he's rescued.
* SwallowedWhole: Gets nommed by Fin Fang Foom. Fortunately, his healing factor allowed him to survive long enough for Laura to rescue him.
* YoureNotMyFather: Laura's reaction to him is hostile, to say the least. In fact she finds his present highly upsetting. She adamantly insists he's not ''her'' Logan whenever pressed about it by Gabby, and in one case she even describes him as "twisted."
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* UnexpectedCharacter: While long-time fans of X-23 expressed a hope to see Kimura again after she was PutOnABus during X-Force, her sudden appearance in issue 6 caught readers and critics alike by surprise, delivering an epic WhamShot to close out the first arc.
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* UnexpectedCharacter: Yet ''another'' character to appear that not only did critics and readers not see coming, but has been almost unanimously praised for the way Taylor managed to work him into the plot without feeling out of place.
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* DestructoNookie: Foom isn't trying to ''destroy'' Hill's helicarrier. The pheromone attracting him has him trying to ''mate with it''. The damage he's inflicting is ''foreplay'', and a result of the fact that a helicarrier is ''much'' less durable than a 100 foot tall dragon.
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him. That is to say, makes him ''violently'' horny.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: A chemically-induced one both for Maria Hill's helicarrier, and later for Laura when she covers herself in Fin Fang Pheromone to lure him away from New York.
* AbhorrentAdmirer: A chemically-induced one both for Maria Hill's helicarrier, and later for Laura when she covers herself in Fin Fang Pheromone to lure him away from New York.
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* LovePotion: The pheromone an arms dealer was attempting to sell was actually ''this'' for Foom. When it spills aboard Hill's helicarrier he tries to ''mate with it''. The damage inflicted on the ship is ''literally'' just foreplay. Laura then douses herself with it in order to lead him away from New York City, [[GivingThemTheStrip and has to give him her costume to end the threat]]. [[{{Squick}} Try not to]] [[SchmuckBait think about that.]]
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Jonathan's behavior, particularly around Gabby, is much more dog-like than one would expect from a mustelid. He lounges with her on the couch, and lets her take him walkies on a collar and leash.
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Jonathan's behavior, particularly around Gabby, is much more dog-like than one would expect from a mustelid. He lounges with her on the couch, and lets her take him walkies on a collar and leash.[[note]]Being closely-related to ferrets, wolverines exhibit much the same behavior, including their penchant for thievery. Good luck keeping a ferret in one place for a casual night together in front of the TV. Collars are also very easy for them to slip out of because their heads aren't much wider than their necks.[[/note]]
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* AllAnimalsAreDogs: Jonathan's behavior, particularly around Gabby, is much more dog-like than one would expect from a mustelid. He lounges with her on the couch, and lets her take him walkies on a collar and leash.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: It's Foom, so yeah. The fact that someone was attempting to ''weaponize'' him and unleash him on a heavily-populated city makes it even worse.
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* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: {{Kaiju}}: It's Foom, so yeah. The fact that someone was attempting to ''weaponize'' him and unleash him on a heavily-populated city makes it even worse.
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* PuppyDogEyes: Breaks them out several times, variously on Laura, random nurses, and Bellona. And they are ''effective''.
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!!Maria Hill
The current director of Comicbook/{{SHIELD}}. Laura contacted her with the information needed for them to take care of arresting Chandler and finishing the cleanup of Alchemax Genetics. Maria later approaches Wolverine with a riddle of her own, that she needs her unique abilities to unravel after an arms bust goes...weird.
* BigBrotherIsWatchingYou: Hill having Laura's number isn't surprising, consider Laura called ''her'' in #6 to clean up Alchemax Genetics and turn over the confiscated files she recovered from their servers. Slightly more disconcerting is that not only can she answer Laura's phone ''for'' her when Laura refuses to do so herself, but even sets it to speaker! Oh, and she also arranges to pay for Laura and Gabby's Chinese food while trying to butter them up. She was also surreptitiously tracking [[spoiler: Comicbook/OldManLogan]] while on a job for her, despite his demands for her to back off.
* CaptainCrash: Hill bangs up yet ''another'' helicarrier in issue 8. Though to be fair, this one had an unfortunate run-in with [[spoiler: Fin Fang Foom]]. Hopefully [[spoiler: giant rampaging lizards]] are covered by her insurance premiums.
* MysteriousInformant: When Laura contacts her at the end of issue 6, she's deliberately evasive when Hill demands how she got her number in the first place, considering only a handful of people has it, one of whom is dead. Laura cryptically answers "[[Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} The dead one]] gave it to me," while relaying her message. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It's enough information for Hill to put two and two together and identify the caller.]]
* TrackingChip: All of Hill's agents in #8 were implanted with these, which ''should'' have been indestructible. The fact they've gone silent doesn't bode well for them. [[spoiler: Especially as it turns out they ended up as a late-night snack for Fin Fang Foom.]]
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* {{Retcon}}: Laura and Logan actually shared very little time together on-panel while he was still alive. Later writers, particularly after ''Death of Wolverine'', have used flashbacks and dialogue to suggest that they were much closer than would be evident from their ''actual'' interactions before his death.
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* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Gabby certainly thinks so, positively {{squee}}ing over him when she first sees him.
* TeamPet: He becomes this for Gabby in particular. Being a wolverine he's rather bad-tempered one, and snarls, growls, or hisses at pretty much everyone who isn't Laura or Gabby.
* TeamPet: He becomes this for Gabby in particular. Being a wolverine he's rather bad-tempered one, and snarls, growls, or hisses at pretty much everyone who isn't Laura or Gabby.
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!!Fin Fang Foom
A giant alien shape-shifter hailing from the planet Maklu IV, who takes the form of a dragon on earth. Foom was drawn near New York by an arms dealer attempting to sell a pheromone that attracts and maddens him.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: It's Foom, so yeah. The fact that someone was attempting to ''weaponize'' him and unleash him on a heavily-populated city makes it even worse.
* SignatureScent: The pheromone controlling him is described as "familiar, yet not" by both Laura and the last report of Comicbook/OldManLogan before he disappeared. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents which first encounter the box containing it also seem to recognize it.
A giant alien shape-shifter hailing from the planet Maklu IV, who takes the form of a dragon on earth. Foom was drawn near New York by an arms dealer attempting to sell a pheromone that attracts and maddens him.
* AttackOfTheFiftyFootWhatever: It's Foom, so yeah. The fact that someone was attempting to ''weaponize'' him and unleash him on a heavily-populated city makes it even worse.
* SignatureScent: The pheromone controlling him is described as "familiar, yet not" by both Laura and the last report of Comicbook/OldManLogan before he disappeared. The S.H.I.E.L.D. agents which first encounter the box containing it also seem to recognize it.
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!!Jonathan
An ''actual'' wolverine, dropped off at Laura's apartment by Squirrel Girl and whom Gabby immediately adopts as a pet.
* FluffyTheTerrible: As wolverines are powerful predators with strength and ferocity belying their small size, Doreen appropriately calls him Jonathan when she introduces him to Laura and Gabby.
* KillerRabbit: There's a reason his species was Logan's namesake.
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* BigBrotherMentor: Laura falls into this role with Gabby over the course of the series, and the series makes use of {{Call Back}}s and BookEnds to subtly demonstrate her teaching Gabby some of the lessons she learned from her ''own'' BigBrotherMentor, Logan.
* BigBrotherMentor: Laura falls into this role with Gabby over the course of the series, and the series makes use of {{Call Back}}s and BookEnds to subtly demonstrate her teaching Gabby some of the lessons she learned from her ''own'' BigBrotherMentor, Logan.
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* BigBrotherInstinct: BigSisterInstinct: She develops this towards the Sisters as the first arc develops, nearly losing her cool when she believes Taskmaster killed them, and making it unambiguously clear to Mooney that the girls are under her protection. It especially applies to Gabby, to whom she eventually becomes a ParentalSubstitute.
*BigBrotherMentor: BigSisterMentor: Laura falls into this role with Gabby over the course of the series, and the series makes use of {{Call Back}}s and BookEnds to subtly demonstrate her teaching Gabby some of the lessons she learned from her ''own'' BigBrotherMentor, Logan.
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* EvilInc: Even compared to its ''parent company''. Alchemax Genetics experiments are extremely illegal, immoral, and constitute a major threat to militaries ''everywhere''. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And Chandler has no desire for his bosses to find out what he's really up to.]]
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* BadassLongcoat: Starts wearing these occasionally over her uniform. Mostly for practical purposes, either because it's raining, it's cold, or she wants to cover up her costume.
* BigBrotherInstinct: She develops this towards the Sisters as the first arc develops, nearly losing her cool when she believes Taskmaster killed them, and making it unambiguously clear to Mooney that the girls are under her protection. It especially applies to Gabby, to whom she eventually becomes a ParentalSubstitute.
* BigBrotherMentor: Laura falls into this role with Gabby over the course of the series, and the series makes use of {{Call Back}}s and BookEnds to subtly demonstrate her teaching Gabby some of the lessons she learned from her ''own'' BigBrotherMentor, Logan.
* TheCape: Although she's steadily edging this way in general, it's much more evident in this series where she's become much more adept at not using lethal force. Dr. Strange notes that she's actually much better at keeping her killer instincts under control than Logan ever was.
* CoolBigSis: Becomes this to the Sisters, especially Gabby, who admits a great deal of admiration towards her to Chandler.
* ParentalSubstitute: Officially becomes one to her little "sister", Gabby, in issue 7 when her memories of Logan's failures as a father figure lead her to realizing the best place for the girl is with her.
* PromotionToParent: Laura is unsure sure what to do with Gabby in the aftermath of the "Four Sisters" arc, and at first believes she needs to find somewhere else where she can be safe and live a normal life. However after some introspection on her own relationship with Logan in issue 7, Laura decides to take her in herself, and becomes this.
* PuppyDogEyes: She ends up on the receiving end of these on separate occasions in #7, from both Gabby and Squirrel-Girl.
* TechnicalPacifist: Holding back from taking a life doesn't mean she's not completely willing and able to maim, dismember, and otherwise beat the ever-loving shit out of someone. And it doesn't mean she ''won't'' kill, either, and she very clearly establishes that there ''are'' limits to how much she'll tolerate.
-->'''Bellona:''' (After being prevented from killing) Great, "Wolverine" is a Pacifist.\\
'''Laura:''' I don't think you can call me a pacifist when we are surrounded by people I've just beaten up.
* BigBrotherInstinct: She develops this towards the Sisters as the first arc develops, nearly losing her cool when she believes Taskmaster killed them, and making it unambiguously clear to Mooney that the girls are under her protection. It especially applies to Gabby, to whom she eventually becomes a ParentalSubstitute.
* BigBrotherMentor: Laura falls into this role with Gabby over the course of the series, and the series makes use of {{Call Back}}s and BookEnds to subtly demonstrate her teaching Gabby some of the lessons she learned from her ''own'' BigBrotherMentor, Logan.
* TheCape: Although she's steadily edging this way in general, it's much more evident in this series where she's become much more adept at not using lethal force. Dr. Strange notes that she's actually much better at keeping her killer instincts under control than Logan ever was.
* CoolBigSis: Becomes this to the Sisters, especially Gabby, who admits a great deal of admiration towards her to Chandler.
* ParentalSubstitute: Officially becomes one to her little "sister", Gabby, in issue 7 when her memories of Logan's failures as a father figure lead her to realizing the best place for the girl is with her.
* PromotionToParent: Laura is unsure sure what to do with Gabby in the aftermath of the "Four Sisters" arc, and at first believes she needs to find somewhere else where she can be safe and live a normal life. However after some introspection on her own relationship with Logan in issue 7, Laura decides to take her in herself, and becomes this.
* PuppyDogEyes: She ends up on the receiving end of these on separate occasions in #7, from both Gabby and Squirrel-Girl.
* TechnicalPacifist: Holding back from taking a life doesn't mean she's not completely willing and able to maim, dismember, and otherwise beat the ever-loving shit out of someone. And it doesn't mean she ''won't'' kill, either, and she very clearly establishes that there ''are'' limits to how much she'll tolerate.
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'''Laura:''' I don't think you can call me a pacifist when we are surrounded by people I've just beaten up.
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* CovertBroup: CovertGroup: While Alchemax Genetics itself is public, their ''operations'' are highly-classified. And in fact, are ''so'' secret that even Chandler's superiors don't know what he's really up to. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And will be very angry if they ever found out.]]
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* BlackSite: The bunker where Chandler and his project retreat to after Mooney's failures to recapture the Sisters in issues 2 and 3. It becomes not-so-secret after Mooney inadvertently leads Laura and the Sisters right to it.
* CovertBroup: While Alchemax Genetics itself is public, their ''operations'' are highly-classified. And in fact, are ''so'' secret that even Chandler's superiors don't know what he's really up to. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And will be very angry if they ever found out.]]
* CovertBroup: While Alchemax Genetics itself is public, their ''operations'' are highly-classified. And in fact, are ''so'' secret that even Chandler's superiors don't know what he's really up to. [[EvenEvilHasStandards And will be very angry if they ever found out.]]
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* ForScience: At least for the two scientists who survived the Sisters' original escape.
* MadScientistLaboratory: What the Alchemax Genetics labs ultimately boil down to. The one in the bunker ''especially'', featuring tables for dissecting the specimens.
* MegaCorp: Alchemax Genetics is, as its name implies, a division ''of'' one.
* MadScientistLaboratory: What the Alchemax Genetics labs ultimately boil down to. The one in the bunker ''especially'', featuring tables for dissecting the specimens.
* MegaCorp: Alchemax Genetics is, as its name implies, a division ''of'' one.
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* TagalongKid: Gabby is this to the rest of her clones, since she's the most innocent and naive.
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* TheWorfEffect: Despite being one of the most dangerous martial artists in all of Marvel, Laura makes surprisingly short work of him once she gets her foot claws into play. Justified in that Taskmaster learns his opponents' fighting style by observation, and that Laura normally attacks with the claws in her hands, and only uses the ones in her feet precisely for the purpose of catching an opponent off-guard.
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!!Laura Kinney/X-23/Wolverine
''For tropes pertaining to Laura, see her [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} page]].''
Created by a top-secret project attempting to restart the Weapon X experiments, Laura is the genetic clone of Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} created and carried to term by Dr. Sarah Kinney. Tortured, abused, and raised to be the ultimate assassin, Sarah liberated the young X-23 at the cost of her own life, and since then Laura has sought meaning in her life other than being a weapon. Wolverine eventually found her brought her to the X-Men where she began to heal, where he became a father figure and mentor to her, before eventually legally adopting her.
Following his death, Laura took up his mantle to become the Wolverine herself.
!!James Logan Howlett/Wolverine
Laura's "father" and genetic template, it was the Facility's attempts to replicate the Weapon X experiments that led to her creation. At times their relationship was strained or rocky, and Logan freely acknowledged that he was a poor father, but he nonetheless cared immensely for Laura's well-being, and objected to her inclusion on X-Force because he was determined to see her have a chance at a normal life. Following his death she takes up his mantle as Wolverine.
* PassingTheTorch: Subtly done in a flashback in #1: Laura is delirious after being shot in the head, and remembering a conversation with Logan. She's kicking herself over declining to kill an enemy when she had the chance, and it coming back to bite her (in the form of a bazooka). However Logan comforts her and congratulates her, using [[PhraseCatcher his own catch phrase]] to describe her: "You're the best you are at what you do. Doesn't mean you have to do it." It then returns to the present, with Laura getting back up and revealing herself as [[LegacyCharacter The Wolverine]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Appears several times via flashbacks. Usually something connected to the current story, such as the PassingTheTorch moment above.
* {{Retcon}}: Laura and Logan actually shared very little time together on-panel while he was still alive. Later writers, particularly after ''Death of Wolverine'', have used flashbacks and dialogue to suggest that they were much closer than would be evident from their ''actual'' interactions before his death.
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A group of assassins trained by Alchemax, [[spoiler: cloned using Laura's genetic material in an attempt to recreate her. However while they look like her, they were not born with her mutation]]. She first encounters them in Paris while attempting to protect one of their targets. [[spoiler: Originally there were ten girls. Six were killed before their escape, leaving only four]]: the unnamed sniper Laura encountered in Paris, designated X23_3PAR by Alchemax, and three others; Gabby, Bellona, and Zelda. They were modified by Alchemax to feel no pain, [[spoiler: but the process is also slowly killing them]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Averted with Bellona, Zelda, and Gabby. They're already dying as a result of Alchemax's experiments, and are determined to cause the company as much mayhem as they can before they drop.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The elder three sisters looked out for and protected Gabby from the worst of what was done to them, and helped preserve her innocence. [[spoiler: Laura herself has developed this for all the girls, and is determined to save all of them from what Alchemax did. However Zelda makes it clear that the one ''she'' most cares about saving is Gabby.]]
* BulletProofVest: The girls' masks are armored, and they all wear body armor. Gabby suggests even Laura might find it useful in spite of her healing factor.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: While Alchemax sees them otherwise — and Laura demands they treat them as actual ''people'' and not just experiments if they want her help locating them — the Sisters have all developed their own identities and personalities. Gabby and Bellona in particular:
** Gabby is quite the DeadpanSnarker, and is much more laid-back and reasonable. She's the first of the girls to reach out to Laura directly.
** Bellona is a WellIntentionedExtremist with a HairTriggerTemper.
** Zelda lies somewhere in the middle; more pragmatic than Gabby, but much more restrained than Bellona.
* CloningBlues: Much like the Facility did with Laura, Alchemax doesn't consider the Sisters to be people.
* CoolCar: The Sisters have an armored jeep they use to escape in issue 3. They're evasive about where they actually got it (or any of their gear) because they don't fully trust Laura.
* CoolMask: Every one of them wears a mask. On a meta level it also serves to hide the fact [[spoiler: they're clones of Laura]].
* CoveredWithScars: The Sisters all have multiple scars on their faces, while Bellona at least even has it on her arms. The scars on their faces are noticeably symmetrical, suggesting they were deliberately inflicted, most likely by Alchemax Genetics; when Laura arrives at Alchemax, Mooney checks her for scars and then ''cuts her'' to make sure that it is, indeed, Laura, and not one of the Sisters attempting to infiltrate the building disguised as her.
* CuriosityCausesConversion: While subjected to the same torturous upbringing as Laura, [[spoiler: it was ultimately their discovery that they are dying as a result of whatever Alchemax did to take their ability to feel away that led to their escape, and fueled their desire to bring the company down.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: The sisters made a deal with Kimura to help them escape and Bellona ends up having to give herself to the latter.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: There are four Sisters when ''All-New Wolverine'' begins. Originally there were ''ten'', the remaining six of whom were killed during training, demonstrations, [[spoiler: and as a result of the nanites in their blood, which eliminated their ability to feel pain]].
* DeathGlare: Bellona's default setting to go along with PerpetualFrowner.
* DecompositeCharacter: WordOfGod is that Bellona, Zelda, and Gabby deliberately echo aspects of Laura at different stages of her life:
** Zelda is Laura's maturity and icy stoicism in the face of danger, along with her tactical acumen.
** Bellona shares her rage and impulsiveness.
** X23_3PAR represents her fatalism and determination.
** Gabby is unique in that she's what Laura ''could'' have been; she's the innocence that was stolen from her.
* TheDogBitesBack: The Sisters eventually got tired of the abuse Alchemax inflicted on them, [[spoiler: to say nothing of their anger when they learned that they were dying]], and escaped to wreak havoc on their tormentors. According to Bellona, Mooney ''especially'' was their chief abuser, though Laura prevents her from killing him.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome Essentially what the Sisters are seeking. [[spoiler: They're dying anyway, so they want to take as much of Alchemax down with them as they can.]]
* FeelsNoPain: Laura ''snaps the arm'' of 3PAR, and the girl doesn't even flinch. [[spoiler: Turns out she's been engineered that way, as have the others.]]
* ForWantOfANail: The Sisters are pretty much what Laura could have become had Logan never brought her to the X-Men. And in fact are much the same as what Zander Rice ''tried'' to do had Sarah not ordered Laura to destroy X-24 through X-50 during her escape from the Facility.
* FreudianTrio:
** Bellona is the Superego. Though ''far'' from emotionless (her default setting seems to be UnstoppableRage), of the three she's the coldest and most ruthless. She's the fastest to kill of all of the Sisters, and the least trusting of Laura's motives.
** Gabby is the Id. She's the most emotional and compassionate, and is the one who first reached out to Laura.
** Although Zelda has not received as much development as the other two, she seems to be the Ego, holding a middle ground between Bellona and Gabby. She's much more restrained than Bellona, but more ready to go along with her actions than Gabby.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: Noteworthy for its ''absence'', as all four Sisters are clones of Laura, but didn't manifest her mutation.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler: All four of the Sisters were dying as a result of Alchemax's experiments. 3PAR was killed in Paris before it became evident, but the remaining three will die anyway without help.]]
* InnocenceLost: Much like Laura, Zelda and Bellona had their innocence stolen from them. They were tortured and abused, afflicted with a procedure that's slowly killing them, and trained to be unstoppable assassins.
** Averted with [[ChildrenAreInnocent Gabby]]: Zelda and Bellona did everything they could to shield her from what was done to them. She ''is'' the innocence that they and Laura lost.
* LivingMacGuffin: Alchemax wants them back, and is willing to manipulate and double-cross Laura to do it. "Living" isn't necessarily a requirement, however; they're completely willing to kill the girls in the process if they have to.
* MeaningfulName: According to WordOfGod, each of their given names is in some way connected to death.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: One of the reasons the Sisters escaped Alchemax and subsequently decided to start killing them.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Dr. Strange discovers a moving blur on an MRI he takes of Zelda's brain, confirming that this was how [[spoiler: Alchemax had removed the Sisters' ability to feel pain, and is also slowly killing them]].
* NotSoDifferent: The Sister encountered in Paris expresses disappointment when Laura tries to stop her from killing Chandler's son, feeling that Laura would at least understand what she's trying to do. [[spoiler: The trope is taken UpToEleven when it's revealed that the Sisters are her ''clones'']]. Gabby also expresses her frustration that Laura should be helping them because she understands what it is to be used and experimented on. Laura agrees with her on the latter point, but is still determined to resolve the situation peacefully.
** Even moreso when one considers WordOfGod that the Sisters all reflect a stage of Laura's life.
* ScarsAreForever: The fact that the Sisters ''have'' scars just further sets them apart from Laura, because it demonstrates they didn't develop her HealingFactor.
* SendInTheClones: Alchemax has cloned [[spoiler: Laura herself, finally bringing the Facility's plans for her to fruition]].
* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: The girls are dying, whether because they were engineered that way, or due to some flaw in the process which created them, so they're trying to take as much of Alchemax with them as they can.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Alchemax's training program included shooting at them ''with live ammunition''. Zelda reveals that several of the girls were killed during exercises as a result.
* TykeBomb: Being [[spoiler: clones of Laura]] makes them this by default.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bellona specifically, but by extension the rest of the Sisters, are angry at their treatment by Alchemax, ''especially'' the part how the company ''took away their ability to feel''. If they suffered anything ''close'' to the abuse Laura endured at the Facility it's hard to not empathize with them, but some of their actions may have begun putting innocent people in the crossfire.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: To date, the Sisters have employed an MQ-1B Predator drone, body armor, serious firepower, and even an ''armored truck''. Laura asks where it all comes from, but when Gabby starts to explain Bellona shuts her down as she still doesn't trust Laura.
** [[spoiler: Issue 6 reveals that the equipment was provided by ''Kimura''.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Much like Laura, the Sisters were forced to grow up ''way'' before their time ''Un''like Laura, they didn't have an outlet to heal as she did with the X-Men.
* WolverineClaws: [[spoiler: As with HealingFactor above, noteworthy for their ''absence'', considering they're Laura's clones. However in issue 6 Gabby reveals that she ''did'' manifest claws, and that her elder sisters kept this hidden from Chandler.]]
* YouAreNumberSix: Much like Laura, each of the sisters received a numerical designation from Alchemax. Bellona is X23_1BEL, Zelda is X23_2ZEL, and Gabby is X23_4GAB. However WordOfGod is that Zelda is the eldest, so these designations aren't indicative of their birth order.
** In the case of X23_3PAR this is the only name we know her by.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Whatever Alchemax did to take away their ability to feel pain is also killing them, and they only have a short time left to live. They're determined to inflict as much damage on Alchemax before they drop as they can.]]
!!Bellona/X23_1BEL
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Bellona is shot in the head by Taskmaster at the end of issue 2. Fortunately for her, her mask is armored.]]
* EvilAlbino: Bellona. Well, not exactly ''evil'', but certainly ruthless and indiscriminate in the use of violence to further her desire for revenge. Her white hair, red eyes, and very pale skin even ''further'' sets her apart from [[spoiler: Laura]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Zelda describes Bellona to Laura as "not exactly restrained," when Bellonna decides to just shoot her when she comes to talk. Of all the Sisters she's the most aggressive and quickest to violence.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: A subtler example than most, but her tendency towards violence has been very much played for laughs. When Gabby protests that they didn't blow up the Alchemax building, Bellona mutters under her breath that she ''wanted'' to, and she actually ''sulks'' when Laura warns her not to shoot anything at the Sanctum Sanctorum. And then she ignores her and shoots a cupboard in the living room. For ''winking at her''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Issue 6 reveals that Kimura and the Facility were behind the Sisters' rampage, enabling their escape from Alchemax Genetics, and providing them with their weapons and equipment. Bellona surrenders herself to Kimura as part of the agreement, and they, in turn, allow Gabby to walk away. While Bellona survives the issue, her future is left uncertain and is unlikely to be very pleasant.]]
* KnifeNut: Bellona eschews firearms in the fight at the end of issue 2, and instead wields a pair of combat knives.
* PerpetualFrowner: Bellona's default expression is somewhere between this and an angry scowl. To the point it gets lampshaded in issue 5, when Zelda catches her ''actually smiling'' [[spoiler: after Laura and Wasp succeed in destroying the nanites that have been killing Zelda]]. It happens again in issue 6 [[spoiler: when Gabby asks if she'll ever see her again while Bellona is preparing to surrender to Kimura, and Bellona replies that she'll see her whenever she looks in a mirror and forgets to smile]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Bellona is on the AntiHero end of the spectrum. Her first instinct in response to pretty much ''everything'' is to shoot it, and she seems to be the main force driving the Sisters' rampage.
* TriggerHappy: Bellona firmly believes in "Shoot first, ask questions later." Fortunately, Laura's HealingFactor means that she can actually get away with doing it to her. In #4 she shoots a cupboard. For ''winking at her'' (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* WhenSheSmiles: Bellona actually ''smiles'' when [[spoiler: Laura and Wasp succeed in destroying the nanites killing Zelda]]. Bellona waves it off as unintentional, but Zelda remarks that it suits her.
!!Gabby/X23_4GAB
* {{Adorkable}}: After Laura tells Bellona she won't kill the Alchemax goons because they might have families, Bellona snarks about cutting off one of the soldier's fingers because he might play piano. Gabby gathers them up so he can have them reattached later ''just in case it's actually true''. Her enormous grin when she reveals the Sisters were all wearing armor after being shot by Taskmaster also counts.
* BadAssAdorable: Gabby is a positively ''adorable'' little killing machine, with her mismatched tights, girlish barrettes, and bright pink sneakers. She's also a trained killer who carries a MAC-10, and is skilled enough that even ''Laura'' found it difficult to track her. And that's before she reveals that [[spoiler: she has bone claws]].
* CheshireCatGrin: Gabby sports an ''enormous'' one in issue 3, when she reveals that she, Bellona, and Zelda [[spoiler: were wearing body armor when Taskmaster shot them]]. It just makes her look even ''more'' adorable.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Gabby is the youngest of the Sisters, and Zelda and Bellona have taken great pains to protect her from the worst of what Alchemax did to them. Dr. Strange even sees that she is an innocent when he looks at her through the Eye of Agamotto, and Zelda calls her what she and Bellona ''should'' have been.
* CoolGuns: Gabby carries a MAC-10.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gabby breaks into Laura's New York apartment, and proceeds to snark about the contents of her fridge when they meet. She snarks at Bellona back at the hideout, too. Bellona gets a few in as well, particularly over Laura's refusal to kill but being perfectly fine cutting off a few fingers in issue 3.
* GunsAkimbo: In the final battle at Alchemax's bunker, Gabby dual-wields MAC-10s.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Gabby picks up an ''actual'' wolverine as a pet after he's dropped off at Laura's apartment by Squirrel Girl. As wolverines are powerful predators with strength and ferocity belying their small size, Doreen appropriately calls him Jonathan.
* FluffyTamer: Squirrel Girl drops off a wolverine named ''[[FluffyTheTerrible Jonathan]]''. The critter is a snarling ball of fur and fangs until he meets Gabby, who immediately turns him into a pet.
* HairDecorations: Gabby has her hair done with barrettes, which helps make her look even ''younger''.
* KillerRabbit: She's tiny, cute, often naive, remarkably upbeat considering her situation, and genuinely wants to be a good person. She's also packing heat ([[spoiler: and ''[[WolverineClaws claws]]'']]), and is highly-trained as a killer and assassin
* LittleMissSnarker: Gabby has SarcasmMode as practically her default setting. She snarks at almost ''everything''.
* MoodWhiplash: Gabby can shift from [[spoiler: threatening Chandler with a claw one second]], to cheerfully running off with a casual "Bye!" the next.
* OneHeadTaller: Gabby is ''tiny'', at ''best'' not quite half a head shorter than even Laura, who is noted at 5'1" by series artist David Lopez.
* PintSizedKid: Gabby is the youngest of the Sisters, and is also the shortest, being BARELY half a head shorter than Laura. Whom Lopez notes as being ''5'1"''!
* TheReliableOne: Gabby is presented as the most level-headed of the Sisters, and the one most likely to actually ''listen'' to Laura's attempts to stop them from killing everyone at Alchemax.
* TheStoolPigeon: Whistleblower Wilma/Disgruntled Daria variant. Issue 2 reveals that Laura received an anonymous tip warning of the Paris assassination attempt. [[spoiler: It turns out that ''Gabby'' tipped her off as she grew more at odds with her other sisters' more extreme position.]]
* TightsUnderShorts: Gabby's outfit consists of what looks to be shorts worn over a pair of mismatched tights, and bright pink tennis shoes.
!!X23_3PAR
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: X23_3PAR elects to take a dive off the Eiffel Tower rather than be captured. [[spoiler: All the more powerful as it's revealed the girl is a clone of Laura, but lacks her healing factor.]]
* ColdSniper: 3PAR is attempting to assassinate a man in Paris. Laura interferes and gets shot through the head for her trouble.
* DrivenToSuicide: Takes a dive off the Eiffel Tower rather than face arrest after she fails to kill Chandler's son.
* NoNameGiven: 3PAR's given name is never stated. [[WordOfGod Taylor]] states he doesn't know what it is, but that she was named by Lopez. Based on the other three Sisters it presumably starts with "PAR," which somewhat limits the possibilities.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The only name we have for her is her Alchemax designation off a computer display Chandler shows Laura.
* SickeningCrunch: The panel of Laura breaking her arm takes up a ''third'' of the page, and the "crack" of it snapping fills up a sizable part of ''that''. [[FeelsNoPain 23Par doesn't even flinch.]]
* SummonBiggerFish: After failing to kill Chandler's son herself, she calls in a Predator drone to finish the job.
!!Zelda/X23_2ZEL
* {{BFG}}: In issue 2 Zelda carries an assault rifle nearly as big as she is.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Although Zelda does die standing up to Mooney — and delaying him from killing Gabby and Bellona long enough for Laura and Wasp to get into the fight — he unceremoniously guns her down while she's weakened from the nanites, and incapable of defending herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mooney tracks the girls to Hank Pym's lab while Laura and Wasp are busy dealing with the nanites, and shoots Zelda. Gabby attacks him in retaliation while Bellona is trapped under rubble, but before he can kill her Zelda intercedes and pushes his BerserkButton. He shoots her again, this time fatally, but it buys time for Laura and Jan to return to normal size and subdue him.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Zelda is shot in the back by Taskmaster when he ambushes them at the end of the issue.]]
* TheLeader: Although Bellona is often the driving force behind their rampage, she admits that Zelda has always been the one in charge.
* PromotionToParent: Zelda. As the eldest of the Sisters she's the leader of the group, takes care of them, and is the one to whom Bellona and Gabby look. Although her control over Bellona tends to be limited at best.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Laura and Wasp succeed in saving Zelda's life by destroying the nanites killing her...only for Mooney to arrive ''just'' as she wakes up and fatally shoot her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Alchemax Genetics]]
A division of the very same Alchemax founded by Comicbook/NormanOsborn, Alchemax Genetics is under the direction of Robert Chandler. [[spoiler: They have succeeded in carrying out the Facility's plans and made several clones of Laura, though the girls lack her mutation. However Chandler secretly has other plans for the project that his bosses are unaware of.]]
* PunchClockVillain: The two scientists in the bunker are pretty much just there for the regular paycheck. They willingly give up everything on the project to create the Sisters to Laura rather than face the prospect of being hunted down later.
!!Captain Mooney
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Chief of security at Alchemax. Mooney contacts Laura about stopping the Sisters after she foils their attempt to assassinate the son of Robert Chandler. A very large and imposing figure, he would ''prefer'' to handle the matter himself, but acknowledges that Alchemax needs Laura's help. [[spoiler: Bellona implies that Mooney was the Sisters' jailer before their escape, and may have had a hand in abusing them.]]
* AttackAttackAttack: Mooney attacks Laura and the Sisters every chance he gets. Even ''after'' he's been ordered to stand down and basically pack up his belongings by Chandler.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Bald. Black. Commands Alchemax's security.
* BerserkButton: Takes it ''personally'' when Zelda stands up to him and reminds him that no matter how much pain he actually tried to inflict on the Sisters, he was never ''actually'' able to hurt them. [[spoiler: He kills her for it.]]
* TheBigGuy: He's ''enormous'', and has to ''bend down'' to be OneHeadTaller than Laura.
* TheBully: Zelda and Bellona both refer to him as this. He took advantage of his position as the clones' jailer to abuse them and push them around. He's ''remarkably'' less effective when pitted against people actually able to fight back.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: Mooney outright refuses to acknowledge the Sisters — and even Laura — as actual people, only referring to them as "experiments."
* TheDeterminator: Mooney ''will. Not. Stop.'' coming after Laura and the Sisters. Even after she kicks his ass twice, ''and'' Chandler directly orders him to stand down, he continues to pursue them.
* TheDragon: Chandler's second-in-command, and head of his security forces.
* ExpendableClone: When Mooney tracks Laura down to the Sisters' hideout, he has no qualms against just mowing them down.
* TheHeavy: Mooney's pursuit of the Sisters helps drive the plot in issues two and three, and comes back ''hard'' to kick them in issue five. Mooney is also the one the Sisters focus the majority of their hatred on. They may want to take down Alchemax Genetics in general, but with Mooney ItsPersonal.
* ItsPersonal: Alchemax Genetics may have created the environment of abuse, and callously disregarded their lives, but Mooney is the one the Sisters ''actively'' despise.
* JerkAss: Openly disdainful of the Sisters, not even acknowledging them as being people. Laura immediately calls him out on this.
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: When Bellona and Gabby finally run him down, Bellona makes Gabby wait around the corner while she finishes him off. The panel focuses its attention on Gabby, so we don't actually ''see'' Bellona kill him, only hear the gunshots.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** [[spoiler: He disregards his orders to pursue the clones to Hank Pym's labs when Laura and Jan inadvertently activate a homing beacon by attacking the nanites killing Zelda. It gets him captured for his trouble, and unfortunately for Alchemax, he knows ''exactly'' where the project that created the clones is holed up...]]
** In issue 6 Bellona tells him that the only reason they're even on their rampage in the first place is because of what he did to them. Had he ''not'' been such a sadistic bastard they would have been content to just walk away and disappear.
* ProperlyParanoid: When Laura arrives at Alchemax, Mooney insists on having her restrained until he can verify her identity. [[spoiler: Perfectly justified, as the Sisters are trying to kill everyone at Alchemax, and they just happen to be Laura's clones.]] Laura, of course, quickly reveals she ''could'' have escaped his restraints at any time, and was just playing along.
** Subverted when issue 3 reveals that he actually used it as a means of planting a tracker bug on her.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gets one from Bellona [[spoiler: right before she kills him]].
* {{Sadist}}: Zelda outright calls him this. He was the guy Alchemax hired to control and contained the Sisters, and while we didn't get to ''see'' their treatment at his hands, the girls make it clear that he was an abusive bully who enjoyed torturing them for his own amusement. Zelda is easily able to push his BerserkButton by reminding him of his frustration over their inability to actually ''feel'' the pain he inflicted on them. [[spoiler: It ultimately costs her her life.]]
* SlasherSmile: Sports a wicked one when [[spoiler: he shoots Zelda after she reminds him that no matter what he does to the Sisters he can never truly hurt them]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: Chandler basically tells him this over not only his failure to reacquire the clones, but the fact that his failures have been ''spectacularly'' public. He only ''tells'' Mooney that his contract is terminated, but there's a veiled threat to sic Taskmaster on him.
!! Robert Chandler
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The director of Alchemax, Laura saved his son from assassination. He requests Laura's aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else, claiming that they've grown twisted. [[spoiler: He may, however, have an ulterior motive.]]
* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a hair on his head, and leads a project carrying out not only illegal human cloning experiments and enslaving the results, but [[spoiler: the nanites taking away the Sisters' ability to feel pain were ''designed from the start'' as a means of killing and incapacitating soldiers in combat, and he's just using the girls to test the technology while seeing how long it takes for them to drop]]. Technology he intended to sell to the highest bidder.
* BadBoss: It's subtly suggested that Chandler intends to have Taskmaster deal with Mooney over his incompetence after he "terminates" the contract. However Laura and the Sisters catch up to them both before any possible cleanup plans can go beyond words.
* BeardOfEvil: It goes with this BaldOfEvil.
* BigBad: Of the first arc of ''All-New Wolverine''. He plays the victim to get Laura's help, but it's made clear very quickly that he's only trying to manipulate her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Director of Alchemax Genetics, and involved in some very shady business that he's concealing from his own bosses. In fact, Chandler outright expresses his fears to Mooney over what might happen should they learn what he's ''really'' up to. Considering [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn who actually founded parent company Alchemax]], that's saying ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards a lot]]''.
* KarmaHoudini: Played with. Chandler ''thinks'' he's going to be one, and smugly tells Laura he's just going to walk away from this encounter because he's backed by some very powerful people. Laura quickly disabuses him of that notion, especially because he ''can't'' walk away without hamstrings... On the other hand, though Chandler fully deserves to die for the things he's done, and Laura and Gabby would have been completely justified killing him, he's still allowed to live in the end.
* ManipulativeBastard: When Laura meets with him at Alchemax's offices he thanks her for saving his son, and requests her aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else. He outwardly claims to understand Laura's objections to Mooney dehumanizing the girls, but states that something went wrong and they grew twisted, and shows her video indicating the Sisters destroyed an Alchemax research center, murdering everyone inside in the process. [[spoiler: And once Laura sets out to track them down, he goes behind her back to hire Taskmaster to take the girls down, has Laura implanted with a tracking device so Mooney and Tasky can follow her, and it turns out his claims that the girls lack any sort of empathy or conscience are rubbish. The Sisters also protest their innocence over destroying the facility, claiming all they had time for was their own escape (though Bellona acknowledges she would have ''liked'' to blow it up.]]
* MrExposition: Chandler fills Laura (and the reader) in on who the Sisters are, as well as helping establish why she was in Paris in issue 1.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least compared to Mooney. He at least ''pretends'' to take Laura's objections to Mooney's dismissal of the Sisters being human seriously, and offers a plausible explanation. [[spoiler: He's also lying through his teeth.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries to pull this when Laura and the Sisters attack his base. Laura catches him stuffing his briefcase with as much project material as he could and prevents his escape.
* SmugSnake: He has such an elevated opinion of his importance — including claims to some very powerful connections who believe the ends of his project justify the means — that he firmly believes he's going to walk away from Alchemax Genetics' destruction. Laura very clearly, ''and'' literally, proves him wrong.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Friends and Allies]]
!!Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl
''For general tropes about Squirrel Girl, see her [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl page]]''
College student with Squirrel DNA and Marvel's [[MemeticMutation most powerful hero]]. She comes to Laura asking for help in tracking a squirrel who the latter had inadvertently attached a tracker to while also wrecking its home during a scuffle with Alchemax Genetics.
* [[FanBoy Fan Girl]]: Of superheroes in general. Tries to play it cool at first, but gets really excited about her team up with Laura once the latter compliments her, causing her to have them take a selfie.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Dramatically points at Laura when she calls her out to help locate a missing squirrel. It becomes a CrowningMomentOfFunny when she holds it out for a couple panels and Laura just stares at her in bewildered silence.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Her mistaken belief that other [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal themed heroes]] have the same ability to communicate with animals as she does leads to her introducing herself to Wolverine by bringing her a real live wolverine (named Jonathan).
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Swoops into Laura's apartment and turns her night upside down, ending in Laura reexamining Gabby's future and deciding against trying to send her away to someplace she believes would be safer than staying with her.
* MotivationalLie: Tells Laura that [[spoiler: the squirrel forgives her for wrecking their home because she has her father back and family is all that matters. It turns out, said squirrel just wanted her acorn back and Squirrel Girl was simply telling Laura that to get her to realize that Gabby needed her since she was her only family]].
* PuppyDogEyes: When [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger giving Laura the pointer finger fails]], Doreen resorts to this to get Laura to come with her on their team up.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A FunPersonified ManicPixieDreamGirl who Laura is somewhat [[VitriolicBestBuds antagonistic to at first]]. Are we talking about Squirrel Girl, or ComicBook/{{Jubilee}}?
* TranslationWithAnAgenda: See MotivationalLie above. Doreen deliberately mistranslates the squirrel [[ItMakesSenseInContext asking for its acorn back]] to deliver AnAesop about family.
!! Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
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''For general tropes about the Wasp, see her [[Comicbook/TheWasp page]]''
One of the founding members of the Avengers, Janet van Dyne disappeared after the events of ''Comicbook/{{AXIS}}'', when she was kidnapped by Havok as part of his attempt to escape. She resurfaces in ''All-New Wolverine #5'' to assist Laura in her efforts to help the Sisters.
* RetiredBadass: Jan has apparently withdrawn from the superhero life by the time Laura meets up with her. See UnexpectedCharacter below.
* SeenItAll: On the scale of weird shit Jan has seen? Wolverine and her three clones being magically teleported into one of Hank's old labs to steal an Ant-Man suit to fight nanomachines ranks as a mere "2."
* ShockAndAwe: Jan announces her presence in the lab when Laura and the Sisters first arrive by hitting Bellona with an electric shock to stop her from shooting up the place while trying to release an Ant-Man suit for their use. She later uses it to subdue Captain Mooney after he attacks the lab in his attempt to kill the Sisters.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Jan's appearance in ''All-New Wolverine'' came as a shock when announced in solicits not only because she's never had anything to do with Laura before, but because she's been ''missing altogether'' from the books since ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''. She ''did'' appear in the ''Rage of Ultron'' graphic novel and the [[ComicBook/AstonishingAntMan Ant-Man]] annual, however those books were published before ''Secret Wars'' and take place after but it's unclear where these two books fit on the timeline.
!! Stephen Strange/Dr. Strange
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''For general tropes about Dr. Strange, see his [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange page]]''
The Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Stephen Strange is an Avenger and former ally of Logan. Laura turns to him in hopes of [[spoiler: curing the Sisters both of their inability to feel pain, and the modifications made by Alchemax that are slowly killing them.]]
* AnimateInanimateObject: The cupboard in his living room doesn't move ''per se'', but Bellona insists it keeps winking at her. She finally gets fed up and shoots it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero breaking the seal on the doom dimension enclosed within and unleashing a monster on New York]].
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Sanctum Sanctorum, natch. Gabby is both flabbergasted and unnerved by it, such as rain falling outside one window but none of the others. To say nothing of the cupboard that's really a portal to doom in his living room. It apparently tries to flirt with Bellona.
* DressedToHeal: When the good Doctor teleports himself, Laura, and the Sisters to New York Hospital he's still dressed in his Sorcerer Supreme robes. A quick snap of his fingers and he's in a shirt, tie, and labcoat.
* {{Hellgate}}: He has one in his ''living room''. Gabby immediately calls him out on it and asks why he doesn't just hang paintings instead.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: See DressedToHeal above.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: He tests all of the girls with the Eye of Agamotto to determine whether they're deserving of help. Though Gabby passes with flying colors, he nonetheless expresses his doubts about the others (particularly Bellona) until Laura asks him to use it on ''her'', and he sees for himself everything she has been through.
* SuperDoc: Strange is, by training, a ''surgeon''. Yet he also operates the MRI machine to examine Zelda.
** StealthPun: Strange is a superhero ''and'' a doctor, making him a ''literal'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Super Doc]]'.
* {{Teleportation}}: Brings himself, Laura, and the Sisters to the hospital via teleportation, and later 'ports them to [[spoiler: one of [[Comicbook/AntMan Hank Pym's]] labs]].
* UnexpectedCharacter: Strange isn't normally someone you would expect Laura to have a team-up with, given that she's had so few interactions outside the X-books.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: Subverted. The good doctor specializes in occult threats, and that's why other heroes normally turn to him for help. However in her own words, Laura has actually come for the ''doctor'', not the ''strange''.
!!Warren Worthington III/Angel (O5)
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''For general tropes about O5 Angel, see Characters/AllNewXMen''
The time-displaced teenage version of the X-Man Angel, Warren was [[Comicbook/AllNewXMen brought forward in time, along with the rest of the Original Five X-Men, by the present-day Beast]] in an attempt to get through to Cyclops about his actions [[Comicbook/HouseOfM M-Day]]. Stranded in the present when Beast was unable to return them home, Warren first meets Laura when he and the rest of the O5 rescue her from the Purifiers in Miami, eventually falling in love with and entering into a relationship with her. He acts as Laura's {{Sidekick}} in the ''All-New Wolverine''.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Straddles the line between CMOF and CMOH when Warren pats Laura on top of the head in relief she's ok after taking down the Sisters' Predator drone, since hugging isn't an option until she heals from her injuries. The CMOF comes in the form of Laura's bemusement over the gesture. The CMOH when she tells him she didn't mean he had to stop.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Warren starts distracting himself rambling how he doesn't want to lose her if her plan goes wrong when they're flying to catch the Sisters' drone. She immediately warns him to get back on-track, and that now is ''not'' a good time to be having such a discussion.
* TheChick: ''Notably'' more emotional than Laura, to the point he balks at her intent to have him {{Fastball|Special}} her at the Sisters' Predator because he doesn't want to lose her if the plan goes wrong.
* GlobalAirship: This is pretty much the main purpose he serves in the first issue, serving as Laura's main mode of transportation, [[CatchAFallingStar catching her when she jumps off the Eiffel Tower]], {{Fastball|Special}}ing her onto a Predator drone ''in flight'', and helping her flee the cops wanting to question her over the assassination attempt. Warren even lampshades it in issue 2 when Laura tries to apologize for using him as a flying taxi, quipping Wolverine would look ridiculous taking a cab, and that by having a boyfriend who can fly, she's perfectly justified exploiting that fact.
* TheGlomp: After she downs a Predator drone with her bare hands, Warren is about to do this to Laura when she stops him. Not because she's afraid of the display of affection, but because she's currently ''severely'' injured and her healing factor is still putting her back together. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Warren pats her on the head, instead]].
* OfficialCouple: When ''All-New Wolverine'' begins, he and Laura are still in the relationship they began during ''All-New X-Men''
* OneHeadTaller: Depicted as being just about a head taller than Laura.
* SchmuckBait: After Laura runs off a couple mooks sent to tail her in issue 2, Warren remarks about how scary she can be. Laura asks if she scares Warren, too. Warren recognizes the question as a trap, and tells her there's no ''good'' way to answer the question. She compliments him on his instincts.
* {{Sidekick}}: He tags along with Laura on her adventure in Paris.
* TimeTravelRomance: Began dating Laura at the end of ''All-New X-Men Vol. 1'', carrying over into ''All-New Wolverine''.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Warren spends most of his time in issue 1 as a voice in Laura's earpiece. In fact it's not even revealed Warren is who she is talking to until he swoops in to pick her up and chase down the Sisters' drone in the last third of the issue.
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[[folder: Other Antagonists]]
!!Kimura
Kimura is a normal human who was modified by the Facility expressly to serve in the capacity of Laura's handler in the even she ever got out of control. A sadistic psychopath, Kimura inflicted severe physical and emotional abuse on her while she was at the Facility, and is obsessed with tracking her down and recovering her. Her body has been granted increased physical density, which makes her virtually indestructible.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Issue 6 of ''All-New Wolverine'' reveals that ''Kimura'' provided the Sisters with the equipment and means to escape and destroy Alchemax Genetics, in retaliation for Alchemax stealing the Facility's property.]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Kimura — and implied the Facility itself behind ''her'' — was behind the Sisters' escape and rampage against Alchemax Genetics. Not out of altruism, but as revenge against Alchemax for stealing their "property."]]
!!Tony Masters/Taskmaster
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''For general tropes about Taskmaster, see his [[Comicbook/{{Taskmaster}} page]].''
A former Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} operative granted "photographic reflexes," Taskmaster has the ability to mimic the fighting style of ''anyone'' he encounters, at the cost of losing his memories whenever he utilizes his powers. He now operates as a mercenary and assassin, and was hired by Alchemax as backup to eliminate the Sisters.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Although the fight between him and Laura begins as a CurbStompBattle, with Tasky deflecting every attack Laura makes, he either forgot or didn't know about her foot claws. It costs him when he grabs hold of one of her feet. Laura promptly ''snikts'' his hand and knocks him cold.
* BondOneLiner: Taskmaster enters the book by spouting one of these, interrupting Laura's assertion to the Sisters that no one else needs to die [[spoiler: by shooting Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda, and echoing her remark]].
* TheCameo: More or less amounts to this in both issues he appears in; He only gets a single page in issue two, and Laura makes short work of him in issue 3.
* DynamicEntry: Introduces himself by [[spoiler: shooting Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda]], having even managed to sneak up on ''Laura''.
* KneeCapping: When Laura refuses to kill him, Zelda takes matters into her own hands and shoots out both his knees so he can't follow them.
* {{Monologuing}}: For his part he wasn't there for Laura, just the Sisters, and spends their fight trying to talk a ''very'' pissed-off Wolverine down by smugly warning her that fighting him is pointless because of his abilities. His overconfidence ends up getting his ass kicked.
* SmugSuper: Natch. Taskmaster almost casually disregards Laura when she attacks him in a rage [[spoiler: after he shoots the Sisters and she thinks he's killed them]]. He monologues throughout their fight about how he can adapt to anything she does and that she can't hope to beat him. And then she brings out the foot claws...
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being one of the most dangerous martial artists in all of Marvel, Laura makes surprisingly short work of him once she gets her foot claws into play. Justified in that Taskmaster learns his opponents' fighting style by observation, and that Laura normally attacks with the claws in her hands, and only uses the ones in her feet precisely for the purpose of catching an opponent off-guard.
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[[folder: Wolverine Past and Present]]
!!Laura Kinney/X-23/Wolverine
''For tropes pertaining to Laura, see her [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} page]].''
Created by a top-secret project attempting to restart the Weapon X experiments, Laura is the genetic clone of Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} created and carried to term by Dr. Sarah Kinney. Tortured, abused, and raised to be the ultimate assassin, Sarah liberated the young X-23 at the cost of her own life, and since then Laura has sought meaning in her life other than being a weapon. Wolverine eventually found her brought her to the X-Men where she began to heal, where he became a father figure and mentor to her, before eventually legally adopting her.
Following his death, Laura took up his mantle to become the Wolverine herself.
!!James Logan Howlett/Wolverine
Laura's "father" and genetic template, it was the Facility's attempts to replicate the Weapon X experiments that led to her creation. At times their relationship was strained or rocky, and Logan freely acknowledged that he was a poor father, but he nonetheless cared immensely for Laura's well-being, and objected to her inclusion on X-Force because he was determined to see her have a chance at a normal life. Following his death she takes up his mantle as Wolverine.
* PassingTheTorch: Subtly done in a flashback in #1: Laura is delirious after being shot in the head, and remembering a conversation with Logan. She's kicking herself over declining to kill an enemy when she had the chance, and it coming back to bite her (in the form of a bazooka). However Logan comforts her and congratulates her, using [[PhraseCatcher his own catch phrase]] to describe her: "You're the best you are at what you do. Doesn't mean you have to do it." It then returns to the present, with Laura getting back up and revealing herself as [[LegacyCharacter The Wolverine]].
* PosthumousCharacter: Appears several times via flashbacks. Usually something connected to the current story, such as the PassingTheTorch moment above.
* {{Retcon}}: Laura and Logan actually shared very little time together on-panel while he was still alive. Later writers, particularly after ''Death of Wolverine'', have used flashbacks and dialogue to suggest that they were much closer than would be evident from their ''actual'' interactions before his death.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: The Sisters]]
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A group of assassins trained by Alchemax, [[spoiler: cloned using Laura's genetic material in an attempt to recreate her. However while they look like her, they were not born with her mutation]]. She first encounters them in Paris while attempting to protect one of their targets. [[spoiler: Originally there were ten girls. Six were killed before their escape, leaving only four]]: the unnamed sniper Laura encountered in Paris, designated X23_3PAR by Alchemax, and three others; Gabby, Bellona, and Zelda. They were modified by Alchemax to feel no pain, [[spoiler: but the process is also slowly killing them]].
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Averted with Bellona, Zelda, and Gabby. They're already dying as a result of Alchemax's experiments, and are determined to cause the company as much mayhem as they can before they drop.
* BigBrotherInstinct: The elder three sisters looked out for and protected Gabby from the worst of what was done to them, and helped preserve her innocence. [[spoiler: Laura herself has developed this for all the girls, and is determined to save all of them from what Alchemax did. However Zelda makes it clear that the one ''she'' most cares about saving is Gabby.]]
* BulletProofVest: The girls' masks are armored, and they all wear body armor. Gabby suggests even Laura might find it useful in spite of her healing factor.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: While Alchemax sees them otherwise — and Laura demands they treat them as actual ''people'' and not just experiments if they want her help locating them — the Sisters have all developed their own identities and personalities. Gabby and Bellona in particular:
** Gabby is quite the DeadpanSnarker, and is much more laid-back and reasonable. She's the first of the girls to reach out to Laura directly.
** Bellona is a WellIntentionedExtremist with a HairTriggerTemper.
** Zelda lies somewhere in the middle; more pragmatic than Gabby, but much more restrained than Bellona.
* CloningBlues: Much like the Facility did with Laura, Alchemax doesn't consider the Sisters to be people.
* CoolCar: The Sisters have an armored jeep they use to escape in issue 3. They're evasive about where they actually got it (or any of their gear) because they don't fully trust Laura.
* CoolMask: Every one of them wears a mask. On a meta level it also serves to hide the fact [[spoiler: they're clones of Laura]].
* CoveredWithScars: The Sisters all have multiple scars on their faces, while Bellona at least even has it on her arms. The scars on their faces are noticeably symmetrical, suggesting they were deliberately inflicted, most likely by Alchemax Genetics; when Laura arrives at Alchemax, Mooney checks her for scars and then ''cuts her'' to make sure that it is, indeed, Laura, and not one of the Sisters attempting to infiltrate the building disguised as her.
* CuriosityCausesConversion: While subjected to the same torturous upbringing as Laura, [[spoiler: it was ultimately their discovery that they are dying as a result of whatever Alchemax did to take their ability to feel away that led to their escape, and fueled their desire to bring the company down.]]
* DealWithTheDevil: [[spoiler: The sisters made a deal with Kimura to help them escape and Bellona ends up having to give herself to the latter.]]
* DeathByOriginStory: There are four Sisters when ''All-New Wolverine'' begins. Originally there were ''ten'', the remaining six of whom were killed during training, demonstrations, [[spoiler: and as a result of the nanites in their blood, which eliminated their ability to feel pain]].
* DeathGlare: Bellona's default setting to go along with PerpetualFrowner.
* DecompositeCharacter: WordOfGod is that Bellona, Zelda, and Gabby deliberately echo aspects of Laura at different stages of her life:
** Zelda is Laura's maturity and icy stoicism in the face of danger, along with her tactical acumen.
** Bellona shares her rage and impulsiveness.
** X23_3PAR represents her fatalism and determination.
** Gabby is unique in that she's what Laura ''could'' have been; she's the innocence that was stolen from her.
* TheDogBitesBack: The Sisters eventually got tired of the abuse Alchemax inflicted on them, [[spoiler: to say nothing of their anger when they learned that they were dying]], and escaped to wreak havoc on their tormentors. According to Bellona, Mooney ''especially'' was their chief abuser, though Laura prevents her from killing him.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome Essentially what the Sisters are seeking. [[spoiler: They're dying anyway, so they want to take as much of Alchemax down with them as they can.]]
* FeelsNoPain: Laura ''snaps the arm'' of 3PAR, and the girl doesn't even flinch. [[spoiler: Turns out she's been engineered that way, as have the others.]]
* ForWantOfANail: The Sisters are pretty much what Laura could have become had Logan never brought her to the X-Men. And in fact are much the same as what Zander Rice ''tried'' to do had Sarah not ordered Laura to destroy X-24 through X-50 during her escape from the Facility.
* FreudianTrio:
** Bellona is the Superego. Though ''far'' from emotionless (her default setting seems to be UnstoppableRage), of the three she's the coldest and most ruthless. She's the fastest to kill of all of the Sisters, and the least trusting of Laura's motives.
** Gabby is the Id. She's the most emotional and compassionate, and is the one who first reached out to Laura.
** Although Zelda has not received as much development as the other two, she seems to be the Ego, holding a middle ground between Bellona and Gabby. She's much more restrained than Bellona, but more ready to go along with her actions than Gabby.
* HealingFactor: [[spoiler: Noteworthy for its ''absence'', as all four Sisters are clones of Laura, but didn't manifest her mutation.]]
* IllGirl: [[spoiler: All four of the Sisters were dying as a result of Alchemax's experiments. 3PAR was killed in Paris before it became evident, but the remaining three will die anyway without help.]]
* InnocenceLost: Much like Laura, Zelda and Bellona had their innocence stolen from them. They were tortured and abused, afflicted with a procedure that's slowly killing them, and trained to be unstoppable assassins.
** Averted with [[ChildrenAreInnocent Gabby]]: Zelda and Bellona did everything they could to shield her from what was done to them. She ''is'' the innocence that they and Laura lost.
* LivingMacGuffin: Alchemax wants them back, and is willing to manipulate and double-cross Laura to do it. "Living" isn't necessarily a requirement, however; they're completely willing to kill the girls in the process if they have to.
* MeaningfulName: According to WordOfGod, each of their given names is in some way connected to death.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: One of the reasons the Sisters escaped Alchemax and subsequently decided to start killing them.
* {{Nanomachines}}: Dr. Strange discovers a moving blur on an MRI he takes of Zelda's brain, confirming that this was how [[spoiler: Alchemax had removed the Sisters' ability to feel pain, and is also slowly killing them]].
* NotSoDifferent: The Sister encountered in Paris expresses disappointment when Laura tries to stop her from killing Chandler's son, feeling that Laura would at least understand what she's trying to do. [[spoiler: The trope is taken UpToEleven when it's revealed that the Sisters are her ''clones'']]. Gabby also expresses her frustration that Laura should be helping them because she understands what it is to be used and experimented on. Laura agrees with her on the latter point, but is still determined to resolve the situation peacefully.
** Even moreso when one considers WordOfGod that the Sisters all reflect a stage of Laura's life.
* ScarsAreForever: The fact that the Sisters ''have'' scars just further sets them apart from Laura, because it demonstrates they didn't develop her HealingFactor.
* SendInTheClones: Alchemax has cloned [[spoiler: Laura herself, finally bringing the Facility's plans for her to fruition]].
* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: The girls are dying, whether because they were engineered that way, or due to some flaw in the process which created them, so they're trying to take as much of Alchemax with them as they can.]]
* TrainingFromHell: Alchemax's training program included shooting at them ''with live ammunition''. Zelda reveals that several of the girls were killed during exercises as a result.
* TykeBomb: Being [[spoiler: clones of Laura]] makes them this by default.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Bellona specifically, but by extension the rest of the Sisters, are angry at their treatment by Alchemax, ''especially'' the part how the company ''took away their ability to feel''. If they suffered anything ''close'' to the abuse Laura endured at the Facility it's hard to not empathize with them, but some of their actions may have begun putting innocent people in the crossfire.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: To date, the Sisters have employed an MQ-1B Predator drone, body armor, serious firepower, and even an ''armored truck''. Laura asks where it all comes from, but when Gabby starts to explain Bellona shuts her down as she still doesn't trust Laura.
** [[spoiler: Issue 6 reveals that the equipment was provided by ''Kimura''.]]
* WiseBeyondTheirYears: Much like Laura, the Sisters were forced to grow up ''way'' before their time ''Un''like Laura, they didn't have an outlet to heal as she did with the X-Men.
* WolverineClaws: [[spoiler: As with HealingFactor above, noteworthy for their ''absence'', considering they're Laura's clones. However in issue 6 Gabby reveals that she ''did'' manifest claws, and that her elder sisters kept this hidden from Chandler.]]
* YouAreNumberSix: Much like Laura, each of the sisters received a numerical designation from Alchemax. Bellona is X23_1BEL, Zelda is X23_2ZEL, and Gabby is X23_4GAB. However WordOfGod is that Zelda is the eldest, so these designations aren't indicative of their birth order.
** In the case of X23_3PAR this is the only name we know her by.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler: Whatever Alchemax did to take away their ability to feel pain is also killing them, and they only have a short time left to live. They're determined to inflict as much damage on Alchemax before they drop as they can.]]
!!Bellona/X23_1BEL
* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Bellona is shot in the head by Taskmaster at the end of issue 2. Fortunately for her, her mask is armored.]]
* EvilAlbino: Bellona. Well, not exactly ''evil'', but certainly ruthless and indiscriminate in the use of violence to further her desire for revenge. Her white hair, red eyes, and very pale skin even ''further'' sets her apart from [[spoiler: Laura]].
* HairTriggerTemper: Zelda describes Bellona to Laura as "not exactly restrained," when Bellonna decides to just shoot her when she comes to talk. Of all the Sisters she's the most aggressive and quickest to violence.
* HeroicComedicSociopath: A subtler example than most, but her tendency towards violence has been very much played for laughs. When Gabby protests that they didn't blow up the Alchemax building, Bellona mutters under her breath that she ''wanted'' to, and she actually ''sulks'' when Laura warns her not to shoot anything at the Sanctum Sanctorum. And then she ignores her and shoots a cupboard in the living room. For ''winking at her''.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Issue 6 reveals that Kimura and the Facility were behind the Sisters' rampage, enabling their escape from Alchemax Genetics, and providing them with their weapons and equipment. Bellona surrenders herself to Kimura as part of the agreement, and they, in turn, allow Gabby to walk away. While Bellona survives the issue, her future is left uncertain and is unlikely to be very pleasant.]]
* KnifeNut: Bellona eschews firearms in the fight at the end of issue 2, and instead wields a pair of combat knives.
* PerpetualFrowner: Bellona's default expression is somewhere between this and an angry scowl. To the point it gets lampshaded in issue 5, when Zelda catches her ''actually smiling'' [[spoiler: after Laura and Wasp succeed in destroying the nanites that have been killing Zelda]]. It happens again in issue 6 [[spoiler: when Gabby asks if she'll ever see her again while Bellona is preparing to surrender to Kimura, and Bellona replies that she'll see her whenever she looks in a mirror and forgets to smile]].
* TokenEvilTeammate: Bellona is on the AntiHero end of the spectrum. Her first instinct in response to pretty much ''everything'' is to shoot it, and she seems to be the main force driving the Sisters' rampage.
* TriggerHappy: Bellona firmly believes in "Shoot first, ask questions later." Fortunately, Laura's HealingFactor means that she can actually get away with doing it to her. In #4 she shoots a cupboard. For ''winking at her'' (ItMakesSenseInContext).
* WhenSheSmiles: Bellona actually ''smiles'' when [[spoiler: Laura and Wasp succeed in destroying the nanites killing Zelda]]. Bellona waves it off as unintentional, but Zelda remarks that it suits her.
!!Gabby/X23_4GAB
* {{Adorkable}}: After Laura tells Bellona she won't kill the Alchemax goons because they might have families, Bellona snarks about cutting off one of the soldier's fingers because he might play piano. Gabby gathers them up so he can have them reattached later ''just in case it's actually true''. Her enormous grin when she reveals the Sisters were all wearing armor after being shot by Taskmaster also counts.
* BadAssAdorable: Gabby is a positively ''adorable'' little killing machine, with her mismatched tights, girlish barrettes, and bright pink sneakers. She's also a trained killer who carries a MAC-10, and is skilled enough that even ''Laura'' found it difficult to track her. And that's before she reveals that [[spoiler: she has bone claws]].
* CheshireCatGrin: Gabby sports an ''enormous'' one in issue 3, when she reveals that she, Bellona, and Zelda [[spoiler: were wearing body armor when Taskmaster shot them]]. It just makes her look even ''more'' adorable.
* ChildrenAreInnocent: Gabby is the youngest of the Sisters, and Zelda and Bellona have taken great pains to protect her from the worst of what Alchemax did to them. Dr. Strange even sees that she is an innocent when he looks at her through the Eye of Agamotto, and Zelda calls her what she and Bellona ''should'' have been.
* CoolGuns: Gabby carries a MAC-10.
* DeadpanSnarker: Gabby breaks into Laura's New York apartment, and proceeds to snark about the contents of her fridge when they meet. She snarks at Bellona back at the hideout, too. Bellona gets a few in as well, particularly over Laura's refusal to kill but being perfectly fine cutting off a few fingers in issue 3.
* GunsAkimbo: In the final battle at Alchemax's bunker, Gabby dual-wields MAC-10s.
* FluffyTheTerrible: Gabby picks up an ''actual'' wolverine as a pet after he's dropped off at Laura's apartment by Squirrel Girl. As wolverines are powerful predators with strength and ferocity belying their small size, Doreen appropriately calls him Jonathan.
* FluffyTamer: Squirrel Girl drops off a wolverine named ''[[FluffyTheTerrible Jonathan]]''. The critter is a snarling ball of fur and fangs until he meets Gabby, who immediately turns him into a pet.
* HairDecorations: Gabby has her hair done with barrettes, which helps make her look even ''younger''.
* KillerRabbit: She's tiny, cute, often naive, remarkably upbeat considering her situation, and genuinely wants to be a good person. She's also packing heat ([[spoiler: and ''[[WolverineClaws claws]]'']]), and is highly-trained as a killer and assassin
* LittleMissSnarker: Gabby has SarcasmMode as practically her default setting. She snarks at almost ''everything''.
* MoodWhiplash: Gabby can shift from [[spoiler: threatening Chandler with a claw one second]], to cheerfully running off with a casual "Bye!" the next.
* OneHeadTaller: Gabby is ''tiny'', at ''best'' not quite half a head shorter than even Laura, who is noted at 5'1" by series artist David Lopez.
* PintSizedKid: Gabby is the youngest of the Sisters, and is also the shortest, being BARELY half a head shorter than Laura. Whom Lopez notes as being ''5'1"''!
* TheReliableOne: Gabby is presented as the most level-headed of the Sisters, and the one most likely to actually ''listen'' to Laura's attempts to stop them from killing everyone at Alchemax.
* TheStoolPigeon: Whistleblower Wilma/Disgruntled Daria variant. Issue 2 reveals that Laura received an anonymous tip warning of the Paris assassination attempt. [[spoiler: It turns out that ''Gabby'' tipped her off as she grew more at odds with her other sisters' more extreme position.]]
* TightsUnderShorts: Gabby's outfit consists of what looks to be shorts worn over a pair of mismatched tights, and bright pink tennis shoes.
!!X23_3PAR
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: X23_3PAR elects to take a dive off the Eiffel Tower rather than be captured. [[spoiler: All the more powerful as it's revealed the girl is a clone of Laura, but lacks her healing factor.]]
* ColdSniper: 3PAR is attempting to assassinate a man in Paris. Laura interferes and gets shot through the head for her trouble.
* DrivenToSuicide: Takes a dive off the Eiffel Tower rather than face arrest after she fails to kill Chandler's son.
* NoNameGiven: 3PAR's given name is never stated. [[WordOfGod Taylor]] states he doesn't know what it is, but that she was named by Lopez. Based on the other three Sisters it presumably starts with "PAR," which somewhat limits the possibilities.
* OnlyKnownByTheirNickname: The only name we have for her is her Alchemax designation off a computer display Chandler shows Laura.
* SickeningCrunch: The panel of Laura breaking her arm takes up a ''third'' of the page, and the "crack" of it snapping fills up a sizable part of ''that''. [[FeelsNoPain 23Par doesn't even flinch.]]
* SummonBiggerFish: After failing to kill Chandler's son herself, she calls in a Predator drone to finish the job.
!!Zelda/X23_2ZEL
* {{BFG}}: In issue 2 Zelda carries an assault rifle nearly as big as she is.
* DyingMomentOfAwesome: Although Zelda does die standing up to Mooney — and delaying him from killing Gabby and Bellona long enough for Laura and Wasp to get into the fight — he unceremoniously guns her down while she's weakened from the nanites, and incapable of defending herself.
* HeroicSacrifice: [[spoiler: Mooney tracks the girls to Hank Pym's lab while Laura and Wasp are busy dealing with the nanites, and shoots Zelda. Gabby attacks him in retaliation while Bellona is trapped under rubble, but before he can kill her Zelda intercedes and pushes his BerserkButton. He shoots her again, this time fatally, but it buys time for Laura and Jan to return to normal size and subdue him.]]
* InTheBack: [[spoiler: Zelda is shot in the back by Taskmaster when he ambushes them at the end of the issue.]]
* TheLeader: Although Bellona is often the driving force behind their rampage, she admits that Zelda has always been the one in charge.
* PromotionToParent: Zelda. As the eldest of the Sisters she's the leader of the group, takes care of them, and is the one to whom Bellona and Gabby look. Although her control over Bellona tends to be limited at best.
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Laura and Wasp succeed in saving Zelda's life by destroying the nanites killing her...only for Mooney to arrive ''just'' as she wakes up and fatally shoot her.]]
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Alchemax Genetics]]
A division of the very same Alchemax founded by Comicbook/NormanOsborn, Alchemax Genetics is under the direction of Robert Chandler. [[spoiler: They have succeeded in carrying out the Facility's plans and made several clones of Laura, though the girls lack her mutation. However Chandler secretly has other plans for the project that his bosses are unaware of.]]
* PunchClockVillain: The two scientists in the bunker are pretty much just there for the regular paycheck. They willingly give up everything on the project to create the Sisters to Laura rather than face the prospect of being hunted down later.
!!Captain Mooney
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Chief of security at Alchemax. Mooney contacts Laura about stopping the Sisters after she foils their attempt to assassinate the son of Robert Chandler. A very large and imposing figure, he would ''prefer'' to handle the matter himself, but acknowledges that Alchemax needs Laura's help. [[spoiler: Bellona implies that Mooney was the Sisters' jailer before their escape, and may have had a hand in abusing them.]]
* AttackAttackAttack: Mooney attacks Laura and the Sisters every chance he gets. Even ''after'' he's been ordered to stand down and basically pack up his belongings by Chandler.
* BaldBlackLeaderGuy: Bald. Black. Commands Alchemax's security.
* BerserkButton: Takes it ''personally'' when Zelda stands up to him and reminds him that no matter how much pain he actually tried to inflict on the Sisters, he was never ''actually'' able to hurt them. [[spoiler: He kills her for it.]]
* TheBigGuy: He's ''enormous'', and has to ''bend down'' to be OneHeadTaller than Laura.
* TheBully: Zelda and Bellona both refer to him as this. He took advantage of his position as the clones' jailer to abuse them and push them around. He's ''remarkably'' less effective when pitted against people actually able to fight back.
* ClonesArePeopleToo: Mooney outright refuses to acknowledge the Sisters — and even Laura — as actual people, only referring to them as "experiments."
* TheDeterminator: Mooney ''will. Not. Stop.'' coming after Laura and the Sisters. Even after she kicks his ass twice, ''and'' Chandler directly orders him to stand down, he continues to pursue them.
* TheDragon: Chandler's second-in-command, and head of his security forces.
* ExpendableClone: When Mooney tracks Laura down to the Sisters' hideout, he has no qualms against just mowing them down.
* TheHeavy: Mooney's pursuit of the Sisters helps drive the plot in issues two and three, and comes back ''hard'' to kick them in issue five. Mooney is also the one the Sisters focus the majority of their hatred on. They may want to take down Alchemax Genetics in general, but with Mooney ItsPersonal.
* ItsPersonal: Alchemax Genetics may have created the environment of abuse, and callously disregarded their lives, but Mooney is the one the Sisters ''actively'' despise.
* JerkAss: Openly disdainful of the Sisters, not even acknowledging them as being people. Laura immediately calls him out on this.
* KilledOffScreen: [[spoiler: When Bellona and Gabby finally run him down, Bellona makes Gabby wait around the corner while she finishes him off. The panel focuses its attention on Gabby, so we don't actually ''see'' Bellona kill him, only hear the gunshots.]]
* NiceJobFixingItVillain:
** [[spoiler: He disregards his orders to pursue the clones to Hank Pym's labs when Laura and Jan inadvertently activate a homing beacon by attacking the nanites killing Zelda. It gets him captured for his trouble, and unfortunately for Alchemax, he knows ''exactly'' where the project that created the clones is holed up...]]
** In issue 6 Bellona tells him that the only reason they're even on their rampage in the first place is because of what he did to them. Had he ''not'' been such a sadistic bastard they would have been content to just walk away and disappear.
* ProperlyParanoid: When Laura arrives at Alchemax, Mooney insists on having her restrained until he can verify her identity. [[spoiler: Perfectly justified, as the Sisters are trying to kill everyone at Alchemax, and they just happen to be Laura's clones.]] Laura, of course, quickly reveals she ''could'' have escaped his restraints at any time, and was just playing along.
** Subverted when issue 3 reveals that he actually used it as a means of planting a tracker bug on her.
* ReasonYouSuckSpeech: Gets one from Bellona [[spoiler: right before she kills him]].
* {{Sadist}}: Zelda outright calls him this. He was the guy Alchemax hired to control and contained the Sisters, and while we didn't get to ''see'' their treatment at his hands, the girls make it clear that he was an abusive bully who enjoyed torturing them for his own amusement. Zelda is easily able to push his BerserkButton by reminding him of his frustration over their inability to actually ''feel'' the pain he inflicted on them. [[spoiler: It ultimately costs her her life.]]
* SlasherSmile: Sports a wicked one when [[spoiler: he shoots Zelda after she reminds him that no matter what he does to the Sisters he can never truly hurt them]].
* YouHaveFailedMe: Chandler basically tells him this over not only his failure to reacquire the clones, but the fact that his failures have been ''spectacularly'' public. He only ''tells'' Mooney that his contract is terminated, but there's a veiled threat to sic Taskmaster on him.
!! Robert Chandler
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The director of Alchemax, Laura saved his son from assassination. He requests Laura's aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else, claiming that they've grown twisted. [[spoiler: He may, however, have an ulterior motive.]]
* BaldOfEvil: He doesn't have a hair on his head, and leads a project carrying out not only illegal human cloning experiments and enslaving the results, but [[spoiler: the nanites taking away the Sisters' ability to feel pain were ''designed from the start'' as a means of killing and incapacitating soldiers in combat, and he's just using the girls to test the technology while seeing how long it takes for them to drop]]. Technology he intended to sell to the highest bidder.
* BadBoss: It's subtly suggested that Chandler intends to have Taskmaster deal with Mooney over his incompetence after he "terminates" the contract. However Laura and the Sisters catch up to them both before any possible cleanup plans can go beyond words.
* BeardOfEvil: It goes with this BaldOfEvil.
* BigBad: Of the first arc of ''All-New Wolverine''. He plays the victim to get Laura's help, but it's made clear very quickly that he's only trying to manipulate her.
* CorruptCorporateExecutive: Director of Alchemax Genetics, and involved in some very shady business that he's concealing from his own bosses. In fact, Chandler outright expresses his fears to Mooney over what might happen should they learn what he's ''really'' up to. Considering [[Comicbook/NormanOsborn who actually founded parent company Alchemax]], that's saying ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards a lot]]''.
* KarmaHoudini: Played with. Chandler ''thinks'' he's going to be one, and smugly tells Laura he's just going to walk away from this encounter because he's backed by some very powerful people. Laura quickly disabuses him of that notion, especially because he ''can't'' walk away without hamstrings... On the other hand, though Chandler fully deserves to die for the things he's done, and Laura and Gabby would have been completely justified killing him, he's still allowed to live in the end.
* ManipulativeBastard: When Laura meets with him at Alchemax's offices he thanks her for saving his son, and requests her aid in stopping the Sisters before they can kill anyone else. He outwardly claims to understand Laura's objections to Mooney dehumanizing the girls, but states that something went wrong and they grew twisted, and shows her video indicating the Sisters destroyed an Alchemax research center, murdering everyone inside in the process. [[spoiler: And once Laura sets out to track them down, he goes behind her back to hire Taskmaster to take the girls down, has Laura implanted with a tracking device so Mooney and Tasky can follow her, and it turns out his claims that the girls lack any sort of empathy or conscience are rubbish. The Sisters also protest their innocence over destroying the facility, claiming all they had time for was their own escape (though Bellona acknowledges she would have ''liked'' to blow it up.]]
* MrExposition: Chandler fills Laura (and the reader) in on who the Sisters are, as well as helping establish why she was in Paris in issue 1.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: At least compared to Mooney. He at least ''pretends'' to take Laura's objections to Mooney's dismissal of the Sisters being human seriously, and offers a plausible explanation. [[spoiler: He's also lying through his teeth.]]
* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: Tries to pull this when Laura and the Sisters attack his base. Laura catches him stuffing his briefcase with as much project material as he could and prevents his escape.
* SmugSnake: He has such an elevated opinion of his importance — including claims to some very powerful connections who believe the ends of his project justify the means — that he firmly believes he's going to walk away from Alchemax Genetics' destruction. Laura very clearly, ''and'' literally, proves him wrong.
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[[folder: Friends and Allies]]
!!Doreen Green/Squirrel Girl
''For general tropes about Squirrel Girl, see her [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl page]]''
College student with Squirrel DNA and Marvel's [[MemeticMutation most powerful hero]]. She comes to Laura asking for help in tracking a squirrel who the latter had inadvertently attached a tracker to while also wrecking its home during a scuffle with Alchemax Genetics.
* [[FanBoy Fan Girl]]: Of superheroes in general. Tries to play it cool at first, but gets really excited about her team up with Laura once the latter compliments her, causing her to have them take a selfie.
* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Dramatically points at Laura when she calls her out to help locate a missing squirrel. It becomes a CrowningMomentOfFunny when she holds it out for a couple panels and Laura just stares at her in bewildered silence.
* SpeaksFluentAnimal: Her mistaken belief that other [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal themed heroes]] have the same ability to communicate with animals as she does leads to her introducing herself to Wolverine by bringing her a real live wolverine (named Jonathan).
* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Swoops into Laura's apartment and turns her night upside down, ending in Laura reexamining Gabby's future and deciding against trying to send her away to someplace she believes would be safer than staying with her.
* MotivationalLie: Tells Laura that [[spoiler: the squirrel forgives her for wrecking their home because she has her father back and family is all that matters. It turns out, said squirrel just wanted her acorn back and Squirrel Girl was simply telling Laura that to get her to realize that Gabby needed her since she was her only family]].
* PuppyDogEyes: When [[GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger giving Laura the pointer finger fails]], Doreen resorts to this to get Laura to come with her on their team up.
* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A FunPersonified ManicPixieDreamGirl who Laura is somewhat [[VitriolicBestBuds antagonistic to at first]]. Are we talking about Squirrel Girl, or ComicBook/{{Jubilee}}?
* TranslationWithAnAgenda: See MotivationalLie above. Doreen deliberately mistranslates the squirrel [[ItMakesSenseInContext asking for its acorn back]] to deliver AnAesop about family.
!! Janet van Dyne/The Wasp
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''For general tropes about the Wasp, see her [[Comicbook/TheWasp page]]''
One of the founding members of the Avengers, Janet van Dyne disappeared after the events of ''Comicbook/{{AXIS}}'', when she was kidnapped by Havok as part of his attempt to escape. She resurfaces in ''All-New Wolverine #5'' to assist Laura in her efforts to help the Sisters.
* RetiredBadass: Jan has apparently withdrawn from the superhero life by the time Laura meets up with her. See UnexpectedCharacter below.
* SeenItAll: On the scale of weird shit Jan has seen? Wolverine and her three clones being magically teleported into one of Hank's old labs to steal an Ant-Man suit to fight nanomachines ranks as a mere "2."
* ShockAndAwe: Jan announces her presence in the lab when Laura and the Sisters first arrive by hitting Bellona with an electric shock to stop her from shooting up the place while trying to release an Ant-Man suit for their use. She later uses it to subdue Captain Mooney after he attacks the lab in his attempt to kill the Sisters.
* UnexpectedCharacter: Jan's appearance in ''All-New Wolverine'' came as a shock when announced in solicits not only because she's never had anything to do with Laura before, but because she's been ''missing altogether'' from the books since ''Comicbook/{{Secret Wars|2015}}''. She ''did'' appear in the ''Rage of Ultron'' graphic novel and the [[ComicBook/AstonishingAntMan Ant-Man]] annual, however those books were published before ''Secret Wars'' and take place after but it's unclear where these two books fit on the timeline.
!! Stephen Strange/Dr. Strange
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''For general tropes about Dr. Strange, see his [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange page]]''
The Sorcerer Supreme of Earth, Stephen Strange is an Avenger and former ally of Logan. Laura turns to him in hopes of [[spoiler: curing the Sisters both of their inability to feel pain, and the modifications made by Alchemax that are slowly killing them.]]
* AnimateInanimateObject: The cupboard in his living room doesn't move ''per se'', but Bellona insists it keeps winking at her. She finally gets fed up and shoots it, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero breaking the seal on the doom dimension enclosed within and unleashing a monster on New York]].
* {{Bizarrchitecture}}: The Sanctum Sanctorum, natch. Gabby is both flabbergasted and unnerved by it, such as rain falling outside one window but none of the others. To say nothing of the cupboard that's really a portal to doom in his living room. It apparently tries to flirt with Bellona.
* DressedToHeal: When the good Doctor teleports himself, Laura, and the Sisters to New York Hospital he's still dressed in his Sorcerer Supreme robes. A quick snap of his fingers and he's in a shirt, tie, and labcoat.
* {{Hellgate}}: He has one in his ''living room''. Gabby immediately calls him out on it and asks why he doesn't just hang paintings instead.
* LabcoatOfScienceAndMedicine: See DressedToHeal above.
* SecretTestOfCharacter: He tests all of the girls with the Eye of Agamotto to determine whether they're deserving of help. Though Gabby passes with flying colors, he nonetheless expresses his doubts about the others (particularly Bellona) until Laura asks him to use it on ''her'', and he sees for himself everything she has been through.
* SuperDoc: Strange is, by training, a ''surgeon''. Yet he also operates the MRI machine to examine Zelda.
** StealthPun: Strange is a superhero ''and'' a doctor, making him a ''literal'' [[DontExplainTheJoke Super Doc]]'.
* {{Teleportation}}: Brings himself, Laura, and the Sisters to the hospital via teleportation, and later 'ports them to [[spoiler: one of [[Comicbook/AntMan Hank Pym's]] labs]].
* UnexpectedCharacter: Strange isn't normally someone you would expect Laura to have a team-up with, given that she's had so few interactions outside the X-books.
* WhoYouGonnaCall: Subverted. The good doctor specializes in occult threats, and that's why other heroes normally turn to him for help. However in her own words, Laura has actually come for the ''doctor'', not the ''strange''.
!!Warren Worthington III/Angel (O5)
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''For general tropes about O5 Angel, see Characters/AllNewXMen''
The time-displaced teenage version of the X-Man Angel, Warren was [[Comicbook/AllNewXMen brought forward in time, along with the rest of the Original Five X-Men, by the present-day Beast]] in an attempt to get through to Cyclops about his actions [[Comicbook/HouseOfM M-Day]]. Stranded in the present when Beast was unable to return them home, Warren first meets Laura when he and the rest of the O5 rescue her from the Purifiers in Miami, eventually falling in love with and entering into a relationship with her. He acts as Laura's {{Sidekick}} in the ''All-New Wolverine''.
* AffectionateGestureToTheHead: Straddles the line between CMOF and CMOH when Warren pats Laura on top of the head in relief she's ok after taking down the Sisters' Predator drone, since hugging isn't an option until she heals from her injuries. The CMOF comes in the form of Laura's bemusement over the gesture. The CMOH when she tells him she didn't mean he had to stop.
* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: Warren starts distracting himself rambling how he doesn't want to lose her if her plan goes wrong when they're flying to catch the Sisters' drone. She immediately warns him to get back on-track, and that now is ''not'' a good time to be having such a discussion.
* TheChick: ''Notably'' more emotional than Laura, to the point he balks at her intent to have him {{Fastball|Special}} her at the Sisters' Predator because he doesn't want to lose her if the plan goes wrong.
* GlobalAirship: This is pretty much the main purpose he serves in the first issue, serving as Laura's main mode of transportation, [[CatchAFallingStar catching her when she jumps off the Eiffel Tower]], {{Fastball|Special}}ing her onto a Predator drone ''in flight'', and helping her flee the cops wanting to question her over the assassination attempt. Warren even lampshades it in issue 2 when Laura tries to apologize for using him as a flying taxi, quipping Wolverine would look ridiculous taking a cab, and that by having a boyfriend who can fly, she's perfectly justified exploiting that fact.
* TheGlomp: After she downs a Predator drone with her bare hands, Warren is about to do this to Laura when she stops him. Not because she's afraid of the display of affection, but because she's currently ''severely'' injured and her healing factor is still putting her back together. [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Warren pats her on the head, instead]].
* OfficialCouple: When ''All-New Wolverine'' begins, he and Laura are still in the relationship they began during ''All-New X-Men''
* OneHeadTaller: Depicted as being just about a head taller than Laura.
* SchmuckBait: After Laura runs off a couple mooks sent to tail her in issue 2, Warren remarks about how scary she can be. Laura asks if she scares Warren, too. Warren recognizes the question as a trap, and tells her there's no ''good'' way to answer the question. She compliments him on his instincts.
* {{Sidekick}}: He tags along with Laura on her adventure in Paris.
* TimeTravelRomance: Began dating Laura at the end of ''All-New X-Men Vol. 1'', carrying over into ''All-New Wolverine''.
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Warren spends most of his time in issue 1 as a voice in Laura's earpiece. In fact it's not even revealed Warren is who she is talking to until he swoops in to pick her up and chase down the Sisters' drone in the last third of the issue.
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[[folder: Other Antagonists]]
!!Kimura
Kimura is a normal human who was modified by the Facility expressly to serve in the capacity of Laura's handler in the even she ever got out of control. A sadistic psychopath, Kimura inflicted severe physical and emotional abuse on her while she was at the Facility, and is obsessed with tracking her down and recovering her. Her body has been granted increased physical density, which makes her virtually indestructible.
* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: Issue 6 of ''All-New Wolverine'' reveals that ''Kimura'' provided the Sisters with the equipment and means to escape and destroy Alchemax Genetics, in retaliation for Alchemax stealing the Facility's property.]]
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Kimura — and implied the Facility itself behind ''her'' — was behind the Sisters' escape and rampage against Alchemax Genetics. Not out of altruism, but as revenge against Alchemax for stealing their "property."]]
!!Tony Masters/Taskmaster
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''For general tropes about Taskmaster, see his [[Comicbook/{{Taskmaster}} page]].''
A former Comicbook/{{SHIELD}} operative granted "photographic reflexes," Taskmaster has the ability to mimic the fighting style of ''anyone'' he encounters, at the cost of losing his memories whenever he utilizes his powers. He now operates as a mercenary and assassin, and was hired by Alchemax as backup to eliminate the Sisters.
* AntiClimaxBoss: Although the fight between him and Laura begins as a CurbStompBattle, with Tasky deflecting every attack Laura makes, he either forgot or didn't know about her foot claws. It costs him when he grabs hold of one of her feet. Laura promptly ''snikts'' his hand and knocks him cold.
* BondOneLiner: Taskmaster enters the book by spouting one of these, interrupting Laura's assertion to the Sisters that no one else needs to die [[spoiler: by shooting Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda, and echoing her remark]].
* TheCameo: More or less amounts to this in both issues he appears in; He only gets a single page in issue two, and Laura makes short work of him in issue 3.
* DynamicEntry: Introduces himself by [[spoiler: shooting Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda]], having even managed to sneak up on ''Laura''.
* KneeCapping: When Laura refuses to kill him, Zelda takes matters into her own hands and shoots out both his knees so he can't follow them.
* {{Monologuing}}: For his part he wasn't there for Laura, just the Sisters, and spends their fight trying to talk a ''very'' pissed-off Wolverine down by smugly warning her that fighting him is pointless because of his abilities. His overconfidence ends up getting his ass kicked.
* SmugSuper: Natch. Taskmaster almost casually disregards Laura when she attacks him in a rage [[spoiler: after he shoots the Sisters and she thinks he's killed them]]. He monologues throughout their fight about how he can adapt to anything she does and that she can't hope to beat him. And then she brings out the foot claws...
* TheWorfEffect: Despite being one of the most dangerous martial artists in all of Marvel, Laura makes surprisingly short work of him once she gets her foot claws into play. Justified in that Taskmaster learns his opponents' fighting style by observation, and that Laura normally attacks with the claws in her hands, and only uses the ones in her feet precisely for the purpose of catching an opponent off-guard.
