History Characters / AllNewWolverine

* CoolPet: He's a ''wolverine''. Gabby adopts him on-sight and positively {{squee}}s over him when they meet.

* TeamPet: He becomes this for Gabby in particular. Being a wolverine he's rather bad-tempered one, and snarls, growls, or hisses at those he doesn't particularly trust or care about, but is overall much friendlier than a regular wolverine would. He's also ''violently'' protective of Gabby, willing to charge a pair of armed burglars head on when they break into the apartment.

* SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute: A FunPersonified ManicPixieDreamGirl who Laura is somewhat [[VitriolicBestBuds antagonistic to at first]]. Are we talking about Squirrel Girl, or ComicBook/{{Jubilee}}?

''For more about Henry, see the character page [[Characters/InnocenceLost here]].''

* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not stated at first ''what'' the Sarah Laura recovered actually was. Whether she was actually Sarah and her story about being saved and asHumanPopsicle by the Orphans of X was true, or if she was actually an advanced clone or LMD as Daken muses, was initially left ambiguous. However by the end of the arc it's confirmed that "Sarah" was a clone.

''For general tropes about Sarah, see Characters/X23.''

''For general tropes about Sarah, see Characters/InnocenceLost.''

[[folder: The Facility '''(SPOILERS)''']]

''For general tropes about Sarah, see Characters/InnocenceLost''.

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* BadassAdorable: When a pair of burglars break into the apartment, Jonathan's first instinct is to charge right at them in defense of Gabby. He ''gets shot'' and is still up and around moments later. And, well, wolverines are pretty much giant ferrets with many of the same behavioral quirks, so there's your adorable right there. WordOfGod is Jonathan is fully capable of taking on ''[[Comicbook/KittyPryde Lockheed]]'' because of the experiments performed on him.

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.

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]].

[[folder: Other Antagonists]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:100 foot tall rampaging lizards need love too.]]

* 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.]]
* 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.

* 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. Issue 14 reveals that she is responsible for the Daylesville Massacre.]]

* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Laura drowns her in the ocean. The one thing Kimura ''didn't'' have enhancements to protect her from.]]

* LogicalWeakness: Kimura's body is indestructible, and at some point she gained shielding against telepathy. However Kimura is ''still'' human, which means she still needs to breathe. [[spoiler: Laura exploits this to finally put her down for good.]]
* PsychicBlockDefense: Kimura had shields implanted at some point after Emma Frost sent her to wipe out the Facility in ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]''. It prevents Jean from taking control of her in the climax of ''Enemy of the State''.
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Kimura was behind the Sisters' escape and rampage against Alchemax Genetics. Not out of altruism, but as revenge against Alchemax for stealing their "property."]]
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:While not ''embarrassing'', her death is neither pretty, nor a grand epic final battle between her and Laura, as Laura simply drowns her in the sea.]]

* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: She dubs herself Red Hornet, her armor is vaguely wasp/hornet-like in design, and she calls her secret workshop her "nest."

* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Again, it stretches the definition of "villain," but she's certainly ineffectual; Melinda nearly loses her lunch when Gwen accidentally stabs herself in the face, and the only reason she managed as well as she did against Laura and Gwen was because her opponents weren't in their own bodies, so not in full control of their powers. As for sympathetic, she was motivated entirely out of a desire to prevent Wolverine from causing any more damage, like he did during the original "Enemy of the State."

* TheBigGuy: All 6'8" of him. [[spoiler: Bellona]] effectively uses him as an enforcer, strong-arming Laura to surrender without a fight rather than risk innocents being injured or killed in the crossfire.

* NobleDemon: Roughhouse demonstrates a soft spot for children, and refuses when one of the pirates tries to bribe him with a cut of the money the kids they're trafficking would bring by tossing him off the boat. He also takes Gabby to the ship's sickbay after she breaks her leg in confinement, in spite of Bellona's warnings of her capabilities. [[spoiler: Gabby broke her ''own'' leg as part of a DeliberateInjuryGambit to escape, but he didn't know that.]]

''For general tropes about Cap, see his [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica page]].''

After a prophecy by Ulysses that [[spoiler: Old Man Logan would kill Gabby]], the legendary Avenger is sent to Laura's apartment to bring him into custody in hopes of preventing tragedy. Instead it brings him into direct conflict with Wolverine over the matter, who refuses to judge or punish someone for something they haven't done.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Steve never been sent to Laura's apartment [[spoiler: the chain of events leading to Logan accidentally stabbing Gabby would never have happened]].

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.

* 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]].

* DynamicEntry: Introduces himself by [[spoiler: shooting Gabby, Bellonna, and Zelda]], having even managed to sneak up on ''Laura''.

* 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...

* BaldOfAwesome: Maria Hill, Chairwoman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to [[Comicbook/MsMarvel 2014 President Kamala Khan]], sports a tight buzz cut in the alternate future setting of "Old Woman Laura." Her badass bonifides are already well-established.

* 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]].

* {{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]].

''For general tropes pertaining to Laura, see her [[ComicBook/X23 page]].''

''For general tropes about Gabby, see Characters/XMen2010sMembers''

''For general tropes about Jean, see her [[ComicBook/JeanGrey page]]''

''For general tropes about Maria Hill, see her [[Comicbook/MariaHill page]].''

''For general tropes pertaining to Laura, see her [[Comicbook/{{X 23}} page]].''

* MamaBear: Do ''not'' hurt or threaten Gabby. Laura nearly killed Old Man Logan when she thinks he's killed her, and very well might have gone through with it if Gabby hadn't stopped her. When Gabby is later endangered by [[spoiler:the Brood]] in issue 22, Laura ignores [[Comicbook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Rocket's]] warnings to run away, and instead tries to ''cut her way through the entire horde'' to save her.

''For general tropes pertaining to Logan, see his [[Comicbook/{{Wolverine}} page]].''

''For general tropes pertaining to Old Man Logan, see his [[Comicbook/OldManLogan page]].''

''For general tropes about Daken, see his [[ComicBook/{{Daken}} page]]''

''For general tropes about Squirrel Girl, see her [[ComicBook/SquirrelGirl page]]''

''For general tropes about Gwen, see her [[Comicbook/SpiderGwen page]]''

''For general tropes about the Wasp, see her [[Comicbook/TheWasp page]]''

''For general tropes about Jean, see her [[Comicbook/JeanGrey page]]''

''For general tropes about Kate, see her [[Comicbook/KateBishop page]]''

''For general tropes about Maria Hill, see her [[Comicbook/MariaHill page]]''

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.

''For general tropes about Gambit, see his [[Comicbook/{{Gambit}} page]]''

''For general tropes about Dr. Strange, see his [[Comicbook/DoctorStrange page]]''

''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''.

[[folder: Orphans of X]]
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** They eventually [[spoiler: shift their plans away from Laura once they learn that she's as much a victim as they are, and then join with her in hunting down the people who ordered her hits]].

* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Laura is able to convince them that their real enemies, the ones who deserve their hate, are those who paid the Facility to have her kill them, while revealing how she was tortured as a child. She even joins them in the end]].

* VillainHasAPoint: The Orphans are furious Laura is viewed as a hero despite the blood on her hands, and intend to murder her, Daken, and pretty much everyone else from Logan's extended family/mutation type in retaliation for the friends and family they've lost at their hands, and to ensure they can never hurt anyone again. Considering the sheer amount of damage an amoral monster like Comicbook/{{Sabretooth}} has caused over the years, and that even Laura killed hundreds — if not ''thousands'' — of people before she swore off killing, they're not entirely ''wrong'' about the number of innocent lives they have destroyed.

* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Her father was one of the Secret Service agents assigned to Greg Johnson, and who Laura killed during her test mission.]]

* TheLancer: Henry is second-in-command or co-leads the Orphans with Amber. [[spoiler:It was Henry's anger at seeing Laura honored over Roosevelt Island who transformed the Orphans from a simple support group, to an organization bent on exterminating mutants like Logan and Laura.]]

[[folder: Alchemax Genetics]]
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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.]]

* 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.]]
* 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.]]

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.]]

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

** [[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...]]

* 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.

* 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]].

!! Robert Chandler

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.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* OfficialCouple: When ''All-New Wolverine'' begins, he and Laura are still in the relationship they began during ''All-New X-Men''

[[folder: Friends and Allies]]

* AnArmAndALeg: [[spoiler: After learning what Ash is transporting presses one of her berserk buttons, ''and'' discovering Ash sold her out, Laura cuts off her hand and kicks her overboard in the resulting fight.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler:She sold Laura out to Kimura the moment she boarded her ship.]]

* RewardedAsATraitorDeserves: [[spoiler: Is gunned down by Bellona after Laura is captured, when she refuses to return the children she was transporting to sell into slavery. Given that Bel orders Roughhouse to kill ''all'' the pirates once they free the kids, it's likely Ash was a dead woman walking even had she complied.]]
* RuthlessModernPirates: When Gabby comes aboard hers hip thinking of classic Golden Age pirates, (complete with TalkLikeAPirate and DressedToPlunder), Laura and Ash quickly make it clear she's not ''that'' kind of pirate, eye patch aside. However dialogue suggests her operations more accurately make her a smuggler rather than a pirate. [[spoiler: Issue 15 reveals she's trafficking ''children'', which hits one of Laura's {{Berserk Button}}s when she finds out.]]
* SlaveryIsASpecialKindOfEvil: [[spoiler: Her cargo is actually a bunch of kidnapped children destined to be sold into slavery in Madripoor. Suffice to say, Laura is ''not'' happy when she finds out, and even [[FaceHeelTurn Bellona]] is disgusted, and orders the kids to be returned home.]]
* TooDumbToLive: [[spoiler:Ash mashes Laura's BerserkButton when she discovers she was trafficking children to Madripoor to sell into slavery, calls her a "stupid <expletive deleted>" for trusting her, and ''honestly'' thinks her crew can physically restrain her. That mistake costs her a [[AnArmAndALeg hand]] and gets her kicked overboard. After she's rescued by Bellona and Roughhouse she fails to learn that when you're dealing with the bad guy and [[MovingTheGoalposts they change the conditions of the deal]], ''you take the new conditions''. ''That'' gets her shot dead.]]

* NakedOnRevival: [[spoiler:Happens to him twice: The first time when he wakes up after being tortured by the Orphans in part 2. The second time after he's been shot by a Muramasa bullet, and stuck in morgue until Laura can remove it.]]

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* 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]].

!! Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman
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!! Janet van Dyne/The Wasp

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!! Jean Grey
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* TheShrink: Gabby calls her in to help break Laura of her conditioning to the trigger scent. [[spoiler: She does so by probing Laura's mind during one of her rages, and speaking directly with her consciousness.]]

!! Kate Bishop/Hawkeye

* 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. 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.]]
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She's the one who dispatches Cap to Laura's apartment to bring Logan in. When Logan and Gabby later try to flee using S.H.I.E.L.D. jetpacks, she uses a remote detonator to bring Logan down. [[spoiler: Both events lead directly into [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Ulysses' vision coming to pass]] when Logan accidentally stabs Gabby in the resulting rage.]]

* 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.]]

!! Remy [=LeBeau=]/Gambit
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Laura's friend and older brother figure with the X-Men, [[spoiler: Gambit arrives in Madripoor to help rescue her after she's recaptured by Kimura]].

* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He works with Gabby and Tyger Tiger to subdue Laura while she's in a trigger scent-fueled rage, blasting her with one of his playing cards to stop her from killing Jessán.]]
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler: Remy first appears in the last couple pages of issue 16, when Laura is attempting to kill Tyger Tiger under the effects of the trigger scent. He announces his presence with his AffectionateNickname for Laura, before blasting her with one of his exploding cards to subdue her.]]

!! Stephen Strange/Dr. Strange

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.]]

* {{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]].

[[folder: Wolverines Past and Present]]

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[[caption-width-right:350:The All-New best at what she does.]]

* ApologeticAttacker: [[spoiler:After Daylesville is doused in trigger scent, but before she falls into a murderous rage, Laura apologizes to the locals around her for what is about to happen. Subverted when it turns out Laura managed to stab herself in the head before falling to the trigger scent, meaning that someone else slaughtered the town.]]

* CloneDegeneration: [[spoiler:Laura is dying from this in the alternate future presented in the "Old Woman Laura" arc, although it sets in much later than is typical.]]

** In "Old Woman Laura", Laura intends to go down to rescue her sister and take Doom with her. [[spoiler:Ultimately subverted, as Gabby browbeats her into living and finding a fix for her CloneDegeneration at the end.]]

* TheLostLenore: [[spoiler:Hellion is this for her in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate future.]]

* NotSoDifferent: [[spoiler:She defeats the Orphans of X not by destroying the organization, but by ''joining'' them, making it clear that she was as much a victim as they were, and promising to bring those who forced her to kill their loved ones to justice.]]

* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: The Laura and Gabby of Old Man Logan's timeline ended up killing each other. Although the circumstances aren't made clear, the fact that Logan is most broken up over ''Laura's'' death suggests Gabby was the Heel.]]

** [[spoiler:She finally reaches her limit when confronted with Kimura, the woman who tormented her all her life at the Facility, and continually threatened her, her friends, and her family after she joined the X-Men for years thereafter.]]

* YourDaysAreNumbered: [[spoiler:Laura is dying of CloneDegeneration in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate future, and resolves to use her time left to finish off Comicbook/DoctorDoom once and for all.]]

* TalkingAnimal: Sort of, as of issue 24. [[spoiler:While tending wounds he received in issue 22, Rocket implants a Universal Translator because he got tired of trying to interpret Jonathan's normal wolverine growls, grunts, and hisses.]]

* TranslatorMicrobes: [[spoiler:In issue 24 Rocket implants a Universal Translator, allowing Jonathan's normal vocalizations to be understood.]]
* UndyingLoyalty: [[spoiler: Once he has a universal translator and can properly communicate with Gabby and Laura, he outright states that he's willing to put his life on the line for them.]]

* YouNoTakeCandle: [[spoiler:After receiving his Universal Translator, Jonathan's wolverine vocalizations are translated for Laura and Gabby as this.]]

!! Old Man Logan
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* AccidentalMurder: Issue 11: Confused and disoriented after being blown up and shot full of tranquilizers, Logan [[spoiler: mistakes Gabby for the Gabby of ''his'' universe, who may have killed his universe's version of Laura, and impales her on his claws. Fortunately, she has a HealingFactor and although dead, she gets better]].

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler:Shot in the head by a Muramasa Bullet, which manages to penetrate his adamantium skull.]]

* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: After a S.H.I.E.L.D. attack drives him into a feral rage, he confuses Gabby for the Gabby of ''his'' universe, and impales her on his claws.]]

* UnstoppableRage: Logan goes berserk in issue 11 after having his [[ItMakesSenseInContext jetpack shot out of the sky]], and then getting shot full of tranquilizers by S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives on the ground. [[spoiler: Gabby tries to talk him down from it, but gets gutted for her troubles.]]
* WhatTheHellHero: Laura delivers one to him after [[spoiler: he impales Gabby, and Laura believes she's been killed]], utterly tearing him apart over his actions both verbally ''and'' physically. [[spoiler: Even after Gabby is revealed to have survived, and stops her from ''killing'' him, Laura lays into him. Of course it's not helped that even ''after'' this Logan tries to warn her that Gabby is dangerous and can't be trusted]].
* YoureNotMyFather: Laura's reaction to him is hostile, to say the least. In fact she finds his presence 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." Although is issue 10 she begins warming up to him, [[spoiler: their relationship is permanently soured when she believes he killed Gabby in a feral rage. Even after learning Gabby survived because of she does indeed possess a HealingFactor, Laura wants nothing more to do with him]].

[[folder: The Sisters]]

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[[caption-width-right:170:L-R: Zelda, Bellona, and Gabby [[SeanConneryIsAboutToShootYou are about to shoot you]].]]

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]].

* 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.]]

* 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]].

* 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]].

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* {{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.

* SendInTheClones: Alchemax has cloned [[spoiler: Laura herself, finally bringing the Facility's plans for her to fruition]].
* SuicideMission: [[spoiler: The girls are dying as a result of nanites infecting their brains, so they're trying to take as much of Alchemax with them as they can.]]

* TykeBomb: Being [[spoiler: clones of Laura]] makes them this by default.

* 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.]]

* 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.]]

* BoomHeadshot: [[spoiler: Bellona is shot in the head by Taskmaster at the end of issue 2. Fortunately for her, her mask is armored.]]

* TheBusCameBack: [[spoiler: She resurfaces on the final page of issue 14, having undergone what appears to be cybernetic enhancements, and now working for Kimura.]]

* EvenEvilHasStandards: [[spoiler: Post FaceHeelTurn, she is still disgusted by Ash's slave-trading pirates and orders them all to be killed.]]
* EvilCostumeSwitch: [[spoiler: Her mask has a large black "X" painted over the mouth, she dresses all in black, and appears to have undergone cybernetic enhancement by the time she reappears working for Kimura in issue 14.]]
* FaceHeelTurn: [[spoiler: Returns in issue 14, now working for Kimura.]]

* 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.]]

* 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]].
* PutOnABus: [[spoiler: She disappears from the book after surrendering herself to Kimura.]]

* 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.
* WolverineClaws: [[spoiler: Issue 18 reveals Kimura had them implanted as part of a contingency plan to frame Laura for the Daylesville killings, if Laura herself failed to wipe out the town.]]

* BadassInDistress: Is captured by the Brood in issue 22. [[spoiler:She ends up being assimilated and turned into a Brood Queen in issue 23.]]
* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: She works with Gambit and Tyger Tiger to subdue Laura while she's in a trigger scent-fueled rage, restraining Laura so Gambit can hit her with one of his cards.]]

* 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.
* CloneByConversion: [[spoiler:In issue 23 she's transformed into a Queen by the Brood, intending to use her HealingFactor and inability to feel pain to strengthen the species. Fortunately, that same healing factor prevents it from sticking.]]

* FaceHeelTurn: Not ''our'' Gabby, but [[spoiler: the Gabby of Logan's timeline ended up killing and being killed by the Laura of his timeline. Although the circumstances are unclear, that it's ''Laura's'' death Logan mourns suggests that she didn't turn out ''quite'' as innocent as "Gabby Prime"]].
* FightingFromTheInside: [[spoiler:After being turned into a Brood Queen in issue 24, the same HealingFactor the previous Queen infected her to bring her into the hive for ends up purging the Brood genetics from her system.]]

* FutureMeScaresMe: That is, Future Gabby Scares Old Man Logan. [[spoiler:Apparently, ''something'' happened with the Gabby of his universe that has Logan concerned. He even pointedly asks whether Gabby intends to hurt Laura when he mentions having known her in his reality.]]
* GenderBlenderName: [[spoiler:The name of Gabby's spouse in the alternate future depicted in "Old Woman Laura" is Taylor, and the book even avoids using ''pronouns'' to avoid revealing whether they are a man or woman.]]

* HiveQueen: [[spoiler:Gabby gets captured by the Brood in issue 22. In issue 23, the local queen is so impressed and intrigued by her HealingFactor and inability to feel pain that she decides to make her a new queen.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: [[spoiler: Old Man Logan impales her on his claws when he's driven into a feral rage by a S.H.I.E.L.D. attack, and mistakenly believes she's the Gabby of ''his'' universe.]]

* LegacyCharacter: [[spoiler:Becomes Wolverine in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate future, after Laura retires to rule Madripoor.]]
* MutualKill: [[spoiler: Her counterpart in the [[Comicbook/OldManLogan Wasteland]] killed and was killed by the Laura of that universe.]]

* 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.]]
* TakingYouWithMe: [[spoiler: The Laura and Gabby of Old Man Logan's timeline ended up killing each other. Although the circumstances aren't made clear, the fact that Logan is most broken up over ''Laura's'' death suggests Gabby was the Heel.]]
* TagalongKid: Gabby is this to the rest of the clones, since she's the most innocent and naive.

* 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.]]

* 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 3PAR doesn't even flinch.]]

* 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.]]

* NotQuiteSavedEnough: [[spoiler: By issue 5 she has slipped into unconsciousness and is on death's door because of the nanites in her blood. With no other options to save her life, Laura and Wasp use one of Hank Pym's suits to enter her bloodstream, where the pair fight the nanites directly. They're successful, and Zelda regains consciousness once enough of the machines are destroyed...right in time for Captain Mooney to show up and fatally shoot her]]

* SacrificialLion: [[spoiler: While X23_3PAR is the first of the Sisters to die, she receives very little development before she chucks herself off the Eiffel Tower. Zelda is the second, receiving substantial development as the leader of the Sisters (before Laura takes on the role), and then being killed by Mooney at the end of issue five to firmly establish just how big of a bastard he is, and to serve as the catalyst for Laura, Bellona, and Gabby's RoaringRampageOfRevenge.]]
* ShootTheShaggyDog: [[spoiler: Literally 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.]]

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She's the one who dispatches Cap to Laura's apartment to bring Logan in. When Logan and Gabby later try to flee using S.H.I.E.L.D. jetpacks, she uses a remote det

* HappilyMarried: She's married with two sons in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate future. The boys are named [[DeadGuyJunior Logan and Wade]], (and are apparently quite a handful who fully live up to their namesakes) and her spouse is named [[GenderBenderName Taylor]].

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: She's the one who dispatches Cap to Laura's apartment to bring Logan in. When Logan and Gabby later try to flee using S.H.I.E.L.D. jetpacks, she uses a remote detonator to bring Logan down. [[spoiler: Both events lead directly into [[SelfFulfillingProphecy Ulysses' vision coming to pass]] when Logan accidentally stabs Gabby in the resulting rage.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: Apparently, she has nothing against having a number twenty-five with chicken. Its not much, but it does very mildly humanize her.
* PrecrimeArrest: Ulysses has a vision that Logan will kill Gabby in the future. Maria and Captain Marvel dispatch Captain America and a squad of S.H.I.E.L.D. troops to apprehend him before it can happen.
* 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.]]
* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Most of her appearance in issue 11 is feeding Cap instructions and intelligence through his earpiece. Unfortunately, Logan and Laura's enhanced hearing allows ''them'' to hear her, as well.

!!Megan and Deborah Kinney

Laura's long-lost aunt and cousin, whom she was forced to send into hiding to protect them from Kimura.
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* BadassNormal: What does Megan do when a fight breaks out between Laura, Gabby, and ''Daken''? Grabs a ''{{frying pan|of doom}}'' and leaps into the fray.
* BestFriend: Way back in ''Target X'' Megan calls Laura her best friend. In issue 28 she ''shows'' it, by comforting and supporting Laura over the Orphans of X's vendetta, reminding her that while she may have done many unforgivable things, that it's not who she is anymore.
* TheBusCameBack: Laura ''finally'' reunites with them nearly ten years after their last appearance at the end of "Enemy of the State II."
* IHaveYourWife: Kimura reveals she finally managed to track them down, but rather than just kill them outright decided to use them as leverage against Laura. If she doesn't cooperate, or attempts to kill herself so Kimura is unable to use her as a weapon, she'll make good on their threat.

!!Nick Fury, Jr.

The son of the legendary Comicbook/NickFury, Fury is part of the S.H.I.E.L.D. response team investigating when Daylesville falls silent. He later becomes Laura's S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison following the Roosevelt Island crisis.
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* TheHandler: Fury replaces Maria Hill as Laura's liaison, as it's determined that her working relationship with Hill was compromised after the events of ''Civil War''.
* HeroAntagonist: Although one of the good guys (for a given value of "good" considering he works for [[BigBrotherIsWatching S.H.I.E.L.D.]]) he's still detaining Laura for the murder of Daylesville's entire population.
* MissionControl:
** Fury commands the helicarrier squadron providing overwatch of Roosevelt Island during the "Immune" arc, and more or less fills this role for Laura, Ironheart, and other boots on the ground.
** After the events of "Immune" he becomes Laura's S.H.I.E.L.D. liaison.
* ObstructiveBureaucrat: Is actually hampered by them when the true culprits in the Daylesville Massacre escape into Madripoor airspace, as he's legally unable to pursue them. This then turns him ''into'' one, as Laura is forced to escape so she can continue the pursuit herself.
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure:
** "Enemy of the State II": Fury takes Laura at her word and immediately follows up on her claim when she warns him that aircraft bombed the town of Daylesville with trigger scent, which would at least mitigate her culpability. He also berates Agent Bennett's PoliceBrutality when they initially apprehend her, and when she argues against his decision to stand down when the aircraft escape towards Madripoor.
** "Immune": Fury is under orders to raze Roosevelt Island to the ground. However rather than kill 10,000 innocent people out of hand, he agrees to hold off as long as he can to give her time to resolve the issue.

!! Remy [=LeBeau=]/Gambit

''For general tropes about Gambit, see his [[Comicbook/{{Gambit}} page]]''

Laura's friend and older brother figure with the X-Men, [[spoiler: Gambit arrives in Madripoor to help rescue her after she's recaptured by Kimura]].
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* BigDamnHeroes: [[spoiler: He works with Gabby and Tyger Tiger to subdue Laura while she's in a trigger scent-fueled rage, blasting her with one of his playing cards to stop her from killing Jessán.]]
* DynamicEntry: [[spoiler: Remy first appears in the last couple pages of issue 16, when Laura is attempting to kill Tyger Tiger under the effects of the trigger scent. He announces his presence with his AffectionateNickname for Laura, before blasting her with one of his exploding cards to subdue her.]]
* EdibleAmmunition: Gambit blasts a hole in the side of Kimura's flying fortress. ''With a can of beans.''

!! 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.]]
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* 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.
* {{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''.
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* 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.
* 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: 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.]]
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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.
* 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.]]
* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.]]
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* 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.
* ForTheEvulz: While Chandler masks his treatment of the Sisters with ForScience and MoneyDearBoy, Mooney is simply a sadistic bastard who tortures and abuses the girls just because he ''can''.
* 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.]]
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* 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.]]
* MoneyDearBoy: Everything he's doing is motivated purely for the ''massive'' amounts of money he claims his experiments are worth. He even has the brass balls to tell Laura that it's ''so'' valuable, that he's going to just walk away from her dismantling the operation. She quickly and literally disabuses proves him otherwise.
* 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: Orphans of X]]

A mysterious organization with a thirst for vengeance against Logan's family.
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* TheBlank: Their masks lack any sort of observable eye holes, which just makes them even creepier.
* TheConspiracy: They apparently have members ''everywhere'', even within the military and S.H.I.E.L.D. In fact, almost all of their members seen thus far are just ordinary people whose lives and families have been destroyed by Wolverine and his offspring.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: The entire reason for their vendetta is because many had loved ones killed by the various Wolverines.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: They very deliberately spare Captain Marvel's life, because they consider her an innocent bystander in their vendetta.
** They eventually [[spoiler: shift their plans away from Laura once they learn that she's as much a victim as they are, and then join with her in hunting down the people who ordered her hits]].
* EvilPlan: They want to wipe out Wolverine, his progeny, and everyone like him so they can't hurt anyone else.
* HeelFaceTurn: [[spoiler: Laura is able to convince them that their real enemies, the ones who deserve their hate, are those who paid the Facility to have her kill them, while revealing how she was tortured as a child. She even joins them in the end]].
* ItsPersonal: Their primary motivation: All of them have had their families negatively impacted by Logan, Daken, Laura, and other mutants like them, and they're striking back for revenge, and to prevent it from happening to anyone else. They notably don't finish off Carol Danvers when they have her at their mercy, because she's innocent of the crimes they blame Logan and the others for.
* KnightOfCerebus: Their arrival heralds a much darker and more serious turn for the story, and present perhaps the biggest threat of any antagonist in the series thus far.
* MalevolentMaskedMan: The Orphans of X wear black masks marked with an X across the face. They first appear in issue 22 as a lone masked figure watching Laura depart earth with the Guardians of the Galaxy, before alerting someone over phone to switch their attention to Daken. They appear in full for the first time in issue 25, and after ambushing Daken at a BadGuyBar the ''entire crowd'' dons the same masks.
* MoreDakka: They are ''armed for bear''. One scene in issue 26 reveals an entire fleet of cars filled with members all packing automatics and submachine guns.
* ParanoiaFuel: The creepy masks are bad enough, but the fact that they're just regular, ordinary folks with mundane lives and day jobs just adds to their menace. ''Anyone'' Laura meets could be one of them, and they have no qualms about striking without warning, or using those close to Laura (such as [[spoiler:her mother]]) to get close to her. The Orphans are everywhere, there's ''hundreds'' of them, and there's no way to be sure until they spring their trap.
* VillainHasAPoint: The Orphans are furious Laura is viewed as a hero despite the blood on her hands, and intend to murder her, Daken, and pretty much everyone else from Logan's extended family/mutation type in retaliation for the friends and family they've lost at their hands, and to ensure they can never hurt anyone again. Considering the sheer amount of damage an amoral monster like Comicbook/{{Sabretooth}} has caused over the years, and that even Laura killed hundreds — if not ''thousands'' — of people before she swore off killing, they're not entirely ''wrong'' about the number of innocent lives they have destroyed.
* WhereDoesHeGetAllThoseWonderfulToys: In their first full appearance, they somehow manage to arrange for an ''F-16'' to launch an airstrike on the BadGuyBar where they've cornered Daken. Escalated ''further'' in issue 27, where they are able to commandeer spy satellites, have a C-130 equipped with some sort of teleporter, and even have equipment capable of disabling ''[[ComicBook/MsMarvel Captain Marvel]]''.

!!Amber

The apparent leader of the Orphans of X, or at least the one directing their attacks on Laura and her family. Even more so than the others she has a personal vendetta against Laura herself.
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* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She is in a relationship with Henry Sutter, who helps to melt down the Muramasa Blade and forge it into bullets.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: Amber is actually ''shocked'' to learn not only that Laura was tortured and forced to kill, but that ''Henry knew it all along''.
* TheLeader: Amber appears to be the one in charge of the Orphans, and directs them in their efforts to reclaim the Muramasa Blade, the attack on Laura, Gabby, and Daken as they await transport to Madripoor, and [[spoiler:the executions of Old Man Logan, Sabretooth, and Lady Deathstrike]].
* LeaveHimToMe: When Amber orders their Japanese contacts to deal with Laura's group in Tokyo, she gives specific instructions that Laura is hers alone.
* ItsPersonal: Perhaps even more so than the rest of the Orphans.
* YouKilledMyFather: [[spoiler:Her father was one of the Secret Service agents assigned to Greg Johnson, and who Laura killed during her test mission.]]

!!Henry Sutter

''For more about Henry, see the character page [[Characters/InnocenceLost here]].''

The son of Rachel Sutter and (unknown to him) Zander Rice, Henry has joined the Orphans of X for revenge against Wolverine. He serves as a metallurgist, bonding the metal of the Muramasa Blade to bullets to provide them with a weapon against Wolverine, and has also entered into a relationship with Amber.
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* ComicBookTime: Henry was no older than around 7-8 at the time Laura killed his family. Per [[WordOfGod Taylor]] he was meant to be about 18 years old. However Laura was 13 when she killed his parents and escaped the Facility. With her being 20 years old, that means he should be no older than 14-15.
* TheBusCameBack: He returns after last being seen when Laura spares his life in ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost''.
* DramaticIrony: Henry is unaware that Martin Sutter is not his biological father, and that his biological father Zander Rice sent X-23 to kill his parents to gain total control of the project for himself, and cover up the affair with his mother Rachel.
* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: He's romantically involved with Amber.
* TheLancer: Henry is second-in-command or co-leads the Orphans with Amber. [[spoiler:It was Henry's anger at seeing Laura honored over Roosevelt Island who transformed the Orphans from a simple support group, to an organization bent on exterminating mutants like Logan and Laura.]]
* ItsPersonal: Laura killed his mother and the man he believed to be his father (and his ''actual'' father, though his mother was killed before she could confess the affair).
* SurvivorGuilt: Henry believes that Laura should have killed him, as well.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: When last we saw him, he was an innocent little boy Rice intended to have killed to cover up an affair. Now he's fully committed to cold-blooded murder against Laura and any mutant like her.
* VillainousBSOD: Henry begins to lose it when Laura doesn't play into what he wanted, and ''{{talk|ingTheMonsterToDeath}}s'' to the Orphans rather than attacking. He only unravels further when she reveals the truth about her past, and that Henry withheld her torturous upbringing at the hands of (both) his fathers from the rest of the Orphans.
* YouKilledMyFather: Henry is driven by Laura's killing of his (not actual) father and mother.
* YoungerThanTheyLook: WordOfGod confirms that Henry's aged appearance is the result of the stress of everything he's been through since Laura spared his life.

!!Ira

One of two members of the organization tasked with working on Daken after his capture. He takes a direct hand in torturing him when his partner, Lisa, is unable to continue any more.
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* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: His ultimate fate; stabbed through the head by Daken when he gets too cocky about his work.
* SmugSnake: With Daken at his mercy he gleefully remarks how he's going to make him scream. However he's got nothing to back it up; the moment Daken gets loose he's finished.
* TortureCellar: He and Lisa operate a torture chamber in the basement of an ordinary suburban home. They take Daken there to hack off his arm as a message for Laura.
* TortureTechnician: He's Daken's main torturer. While Lisa gets squeamish and is unable to continue, he positively ''relishes'' the opportunity.

!!Jasmine

Jasmine was a member of the Orphans given only a month to live by her doctor. She was part of the team sent to recover the Muramasa Blade, and died disabling Captain Marvel.
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* AndThisIsFor: She drops this quote right before she dives out of the Orphans' plane to attack Captain Marvel, doing it for her daughter, Alice.
* MadeOfExplodium: Whatever her PoweredArmor is, when it goes up the blast is powerful enough to knock even ''Carol'' senseless.
* PoweredArmor: Jasmine wears a combination suit of armor/bomb that she uses to dive-bomb Carol.
* SuicideAttack: She made her attack on Captain Marvel ''knowing'' it would kill her.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Her doctor only gave her a month to live, which is why she volunteered for the SuicideAttack.

!!Lisa

A doctor working with Ira on torturing and breaking Daken. She's the one who hacked off his arm, and the TortureCellar appears to be in her home.
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* AnArmAndALeg: She hacks off Daken's recently regrown arm [[FingerInTheMail as a message to Laura]].
* BigBrotherIsWatching: While Ira works on Daken, she retreats to her living room to monitor the camera feed coming from [[spoiler:Sarah]].
* DeadlyDoctor: Lisa is a doctor, who uses her medical knowledge to help torture Daken by cutting off his arm. Ira makes a point of noting to Daken that the only reason she's violating her Hippocratic Oath is because ''she hates Daken that much'', however she's unable to continue after that.
* FriendToAllLivingThings: When she's not working she helps rescue dogs, particularly pit bulls and rottweilers, believing there's some good in them despite their reputations. The irony of this is not lost when Ira points out that Daken is too far for even ''her''.
* RightHandAttackDog: She has several dogs in the house, implied to be rescues she's taken in. She sics them on Daken once he breaks free of their TortureCellar.
* TortureCellar: She and Ira operate a torture chamber in the basement of an ordinary suburban home. They take Daken there to hack off his arm as a message for Laura.

[[/folder]]

[[folder: Other Antagonists]]
!!Fin Fang Foom
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[[caption-width-right:350:100 foot tall rampaging lizards need love too.]]

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. That is to say, makes him ''violently'' horny.
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* 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.
* 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.
* {{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.
* 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.]]
* 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.
* 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.

!!Kimura
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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.
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* 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. Issue 14 reveals that she is responsible for the Daylesville Massacre.]]
* TheDreaded: Laura admits to Gabby in issue 13 that Kimura is the only person she ever feared.
* TheDon: Is attempting to set herself up as this in Madripoor during "Enemy of the State II." By issue 16 she has already gained control of a large part of the island, however Tyger Tiger maintains the majority of the power and stands in her way.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler: Laura drowns her in the ocean. The one thing Kimura ''didn't'' have enhancements to protect her from.]]
* KnightOfCerebus: While the series has, on the whole, been LighterAndSofter than the usual fare for X-23, the mere ''mention'' of Kimura is a harbinger that things are about to get DarkerAndEdgier again.
* LogicalWeakness: Kimura's body is indestructible, and at some point she gained shielding against telepathy. However Kimura is ''still'' human, which means she still needs to breathe. [[spoiler: Laura exploits this to finally put her down for good.]]
* PsychicBlockDefense: Kimura had shields implanted at some point after Emma Frost sent her to wipe out the Facility in ''[[Comicbook/NewXMenAcademyX New X-Men]]''. It prevents Jean from taking control of her in the climax of ''Enemy of the State''.
* ManBehindTheMan: [[spoiler: Kimura was behind the Sisters' escape and rampage against Alchemax Genetics. Not out of altruism, but as revenge against Alchemax for stealing their "property."]]
* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler:While not ''embarrassing'', her death is neither pretty, nor a grand epic final battle between her and Laura, as Laura simply drowns her in the sea.]]
* 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.

!!Melinda [=McDonough=]/Red Hornet
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The niece of the Hornet, Eddie [=McDonough=], Melinda targets Wolverine in retaliation for her uncle's death during the original "Enemy of the State" event.
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* AffirmativeActionLegacy: A woman taking on the mantle of a man.
* AlliterativeName: '''M'''elinda '''M'''cDonough.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: She dubs herself Red Hornet, her armor is vaguely wasp/hornet-like in design, and she calls her secret workshop her "nest."
* AntiVillain: She's really not a bad person, just a bit misguided. Unfortunately she was ''so'' consumed by her desire for vengeance she forgot to do basic fact-checking before actually putting her plot into motion. Like making sure her intended target was ''still alive''.
* BasementDweller: Has spent all of her time since Wolverine (Logan) killed her uncle planning her revenge, and completely cut herself off from the outside world. As a result she missed out on a few important developments, such as Logan ''himself'' having died.
* BunglingInventor: She intended to just 'port Wolverine (Logan, not Laura) to another dimension to get rid of him. Her portal gun swapping Laura's and Gwen's minds was completely unexpected.
* ChildProdigy: Was ''incredibly'' intelligent from even a young age. Her parents thought there was something wrong with her, but her uncle Eddie realized she was actually a genius, and encouraged her intellectual development.
* ColorAnimalCodename: ''Red'' Hornet.
* GadgeteerGenius: Invents a gun that can forcibly teleport people to other dimensions. And apparently swap their consciousnesses with anyone who happens to be standing in the exact same spot in the destination universe. However the latter appears to have been unintentional and she only ''thinks'' she can make it work deliberately to fix the whole mess.
* HeroAntagonist: She actually means well. Her motivation was strictly to prevent Wolverine from causing any more damage than he already has, and didn't intend to attack Laura and Gwen at all. She just failed to be sure of what she was pointing her portal gun at before pulling the trigger.
* IneffectualSympatheticVillain: Again, it stretches the definition of "villain," but she's certainly ineffectual; Melinda nearly loses her lunch when Gwen accidentally stabs herself in the face, and the only reason she managed as well as she did against Laura and Gwen was because her opponents weren't in their own bodies, so not in full control of their powers. As for sympathetic, she was motivated entirely out of a desire to prevent Wolverine from causing any more damage, like he did during the original "Enemy of the State."
* LegacyCharacter: For Eddie [=McDonough=], though she goes by the name Red Hornet instead.
* MistakenIdentity: Attacks Laura with her portal gun believing she's Logan. Not so much a matter of Melinda confusing her for Laura, but that she just plain didn't bother to ''check''. She just aimed her gun at the apartment and fired.
* PoweredArmor: She designed and built a new suit based on the original Hornet armor.
* RevengeBeforeReason: Had Melinda actually stopped and taken a moment to think about what she was doing (or even, y'know, kept tabs on what was happening around her) she would have realized just how pointless her vendetta was: Not only was Logan BrainwashedAndCrazy when he killed her uncle and not in control of his actions, but by the time she was ready to put her plan into motion ''he was already dead''.
* VomitingCop: Well, Vomiting Villain. When Gwen-as-Laura accidentally ''snikts'' herself in the head after misjudging the length of Laura's claws, Melinda nearly hurls into her helmet.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Motivated entirely out of a desire to prevent Wolverine from hurting anyone else.
* YouKilledMyFather: Well, uncle. And Laura had nothing to do with it, as that was Logan. She just happened to be living in Logan's apartment when Melinda put her plot for vengeance into motion.

!!Roughhouse

A one-time adversary of Logan who often partnered with Bloodscream, Roughhouse turns up in Madripoor under Kimura's employ when Laura arrives investigating a lead in the Daylesville massacre.
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* TheBigGuy: All 6'8" of him. [[spoiler: Bellona]] effectively uses him as an enforcer, strong-arming Laura to surrender without a fight rather than risk innocents being injured or killed in the crossfire.
* DynamicEntry: He ''jumps'' from a helicopter hovering over Ash's ship without so much as rope to slow his descent. No ThreePointLanding, but it's impressive nonetheless.
* EvenEvilHasStandards: One of the surviving pirates tries to bribe him into letting them take and sell the kids, offering him a cut. Roughhouse makes it ''abundantly'' clear just what he thinks about hurting children, and hurls the guy overboard.
* FamedInStory: Roughhouse is somewhat surprised that Gabby hasn't heard of him, and immediately remarks that she ''really'' doesn't want to know him better.
* NobleDemon: Roughhouse demonstrates a soft spot for children, and refuses when one of the pirates tries to bribe him with a cut of the money the kids they're trafficking would bring by tossing him off the boat. He also takes Gabby to the ship's sickbay after she breaks her leg in confinement, in spite of Bellona's warnings of her capabilities. [[spoiler: Gabby broke her ''own'' leg as part of a DeliberateInjuryGambit to escape, but he didn't know that.]]
* NoSell: Catches one of Gambit's exploding playing cards in issue 18 before it can hit a bunch of Kimura's mooks, and doesn't even flinch when it explodes.
* WifeBasherBasher: Roughhouse was believed to have been abused as a child, and wears a thick beard and long hair to hide the scars. He then invokes this when one of Ash's pirates tries to bribe him into letting the crew sell off the kids by offering a cut of the profits, throwing the man overboard in retaliation. He also expresses his pleasure when Bellona orders him to kill the pirates after they've safely returned the children to the U.S.
* WouldNotHurtAChild: See EvenEvilHasStandards above. Roughhouse does ''not'' take kindly to the slave-trading pirates, citing his own hard childhood when he refuses an offer to split the cut for selling the kids by chucking the guy off the boat.

!!Steve Rogers/Captain America
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''For general tropes about Cap, see his [[Comicbook/CaptainAmerica page]].''

After a prophecy by Ulysses that [[spoiler: Old Man Logan would kill Gabby]], the legendary Avenger is sent to Laura's apartment to bring him into custody in hopes of preventing tragedy. Instead it brings him into direct conflict with Wolverine over the matter, who refuses to judge or punish someone for something they haven't done.
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* BilingualBonus: He calls Jonathan ''Gulo gulo'', the scientific name for "wolverine" (as noted to Gabby by Laura and Logan).
* DramaticIrony: Unbeknownst to anyone, Cap here is actually a loyal servant of HYDRA, due to an alteration by a Cosmic Cube. As seen in other ''ComicBook/CivilWarII'' tie-ins, he is deliberately escalating the conflict to undermine trust in superheroes.
* HeroAntagonist: Ostensibly one of the good guys, but runs afoul of Laura and Logan when he tries to take the latter into custody for something he hasn't even done.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Had Steve never been sent to Laura's apartment [[spoiler: the chain of events leading to Logan accidentally stabbing Gabby would never have happened]].
* ReasonableAuthorityFigure: Tries to be one, but the nature of his mission immediately puts him at odds with Laura and Logan.
* WellIntentionedExtremist: Cap admits he doesn't completely agree with his orders, but has seen enough of Ulysses' visions that he believes following them is the right thing to do.
* WhatTheHellHero:
** Laura immediately calls out just how unlike him it is to punish someone for what they haven't actually done. She reams him even ''more'' in the aftermath of issue 12, pointing out that without his intervention, ''none of the conflict that followed'' would have even happened. She then makes it clear ''exactly'' what she thinks of the [[ComicBook/CivilWarII Second Superhero Civil War]], and demands she be left out of it.
** Even Gabby gets in on it, and also calls Steve out on how he's ''supposed'' to be about liberty and freedom for all, before mockingly suggesting it applies to everyone "except that guy. He could maybe, ''possibly'' do something bad."

!!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.
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* 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.
[[/folder]]

[[folder: The Facility '''(SPOILERS)''']]

''Warning: This character presents a significant spoiler. Read at your own risk. No other spoilers for this character will be marked.''

!!Sarah Kinney

''For general tropes about Sarah, see Characters/InnocenceLost''.

Laura's mother: The Facility scientist who created her, carried her, raised her, and was ultimately killed by her. Her death has long haunted Laura, yet she inexplicably resurfaces alive and seemingly well, possibly giving her a second chance at the family she was denied.
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* AmbiguouslyHuman: It's not stated at first ''what'' the Sarah Laura recovered actually was. Whether she was actually Sarah and her story about being saved and asHumanPopsicle by the Orphans of X was true, or if she was actually an advanced clone or LMD as Daken muses, was initially left ambiguous. However by the end of the arc it's confirmed that "Sarah" was a clone.
* BackFromTheDead: Subverted: Sarah says she ''wasn't'' dead when Laura left her; the cold outside the Facility bunker slowed her biological processes long enough for her to be found and saved. It's later revealed that this Sarah was actually a clone, so the real Sarah was DeadAllAlong and the Orphans just had her body.
* FanDisservice: She's literally naked when her first full view is seen by both Laura and the readers.
* GlowingEyesOfDoom: The Orphans of X take direct control of her in issue 27 to address Laura and her family. When they do, her eyes turn solid green and begin to glow.
* HumanPopsicle: When Hank [=McCoy=] notes Sarah has the biological processes of a younger woman than her expected age[[note]]as much as seven years have passed since ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost''[[/note]] she responds that the means by which her "rescuers" stored her effectively did this. The discrepancy was actually because she was a clone all along.
* KilledOffForReal: Again. Daken realizes something is wrong when Laura introduces him, and shoots her in the chest. When Laura finally snaps out of her resulting rage, it's long enough for Sarah to apologize before the Orphans of X reveal themselves through her. By the end of the arc it's revealed that this was just a clone, and the real Sarah has been DeadAllAlong.
* TheMole: Initially it's unclear whether or not she's an UnwittingMole, but Sarah is being used by the Orphans of X to spy on Laura, and gather information about the Muramasa Blade. Eventually it's revealed that this Sarah was a clone, though it's still ambiguous how much of the real Sarah was actually in there, and how much was simply a {{People Puppet|s}}.
* PeoplePuppets: The Orphans of X are able to take control of Sarah directly, and even speak through her. However most of Sarah's actions appear to be her own, as he eyes turn [[GlowingEyesOfDoom a bright, glowing green]] when she's under their active control.
* SeeingThroughAnothersEyes: The Orphans of X are able to view what's happening around Sarah through her eyes. The exact mechanism (cybernetic implant, hidden camera, etc.) is unclear.
* WalkingSpoiler: Not only is her very appearance a big spoiler in of itself, but there's even more going on than it at first appears.
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[[caption-width-right:170:L-R: Zelda, Bellona, and Gabby are about to shoot you.]]

* FashionableAssymetry: Her costume consists of a purple bodysuit that bares the entirety of her right arm and shoulder.

* 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]]. [[spoiler: Becomes much straighter in issue 14 when it's revealed she's now working for Kimura.]]

* TheKnightsWhoSaySquee: She positively geeks out over meeting Comicbook/IronMan, Comicbook/CaptainMarvel, and Comicbook/CaptainAmerica. And getting to fly a jet pack.

* ParryingBullets: She pulls this off in issue 10, neatly slicing a bullet fired at her face in two. ''[[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome From point-blank range.]]''

* NotInThisForYourRevolution: When Daken arrives on Roosevelt Island, he makes it clear he doesn't really give a toss about the people of Roosevelt Island. The only reason he's there [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments is because Laura needs him]].

* GivingSomeoneThePointerFinger: Dramatically points at Laura when she calls her out to help locate a missing squirrel. It becomes a SugarWiki/{{Funny Moment|s}} when she holds it out for a couple panels and Laura just stares at her in bewildered silence.

* AGirlAndHerX: He's the "X" in this duo with Gabby.

* AGirlAndHerX: She's the "Girl" in this duo with Jonathan the Wolverine, and thinks he's the best pet ever, wanting to dress him up in little suits and build a cardboard city for him to destroy.

* DramaticIrony: Henry is unaware that Martin Sutter is not his biological father, and that his biological father Zander Rice sent X-23 to kill his parents to gain total control of the project for himself, and cover up the affair with Rachel.

!!Laura Kinney/X-23

!!James "Logan" Howlett

* ParentalSubstitute: Much like Earth-616's Logan, he became this for the X-23 of his reality. In fact it's implied he was even ''more'' so in that he had an active hand in her upbringing. By contrast 616!Logan largely left her to her own devices after dropping her off at the Xavier School, resulting in the shakier relationship the pair had in the main universe.

** 807128!Gabby's middle name was Zelda, in apparent honor of her slain elder sister. It's unclear if 616!Gabby uses the same name, but the precedent on AlternateUniverse versions makes it probable.