History Characters / X23

* BaseBreaker: Fans are not only still strongly divided about the original hookup under Bendis, but the conflict continues over the fact that the relationship is ''continuing'' in ''Wolverine''.

* FoeYay: Hellverine doesn't just want her because she's a killer, he makes it clear he outright ''wants'' her.

* HilariousInHindsight: While trying to seduce her to his side, Hellverine takes the form of (a naked) Cyclops, and approaches her in a very {{squick}}y manner, stroking her face and commenting on her beauty. The scene is presented as very disturbing but there's clear FoeYay. Fast forward to ''Comicbook/AllNewXMen'', and Laura and O5 Cyclops share a mutual attraction (though it's ultimately never acted on).

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. Warren is due to appear in the first arc of ''All-New Wolverine''.

* VoiceWithAnInternetConnection: Warren spends most of his time in issue 1 of ''All-New Wolverine'' 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.

* AttentionDeficitOohShiny: In the preview for ''All-New Wolverine'' #1 Warren is flying Laura to intercept a drone, and starts distracting himself rambling how he doesn't want to lose her if her plan goes wrong. She immediately warns him to get back on-track, and that now is ''not'' a good time to be having such a discussion.

An organization of assassins, Laura first meets one of their members in Paris while attempting to protect one of their targets. [[spoiler: At least one of their members is a clone of Laura herself]].

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. Warren is due to appear in the first arc of ''All-New Wolverine''.

* BaseBreaker: Fans are not only still strongly divided about the original hookup under Bendis, but the conflict continues over the fact that the relationship is ''continuing'' in this series.

* BigBad: After Rice's death and the facility's fallen she more or less takes this role in Laura's solo series.

* BigBad: While Sutter is certainly a CorruptCorporateExecutive and ObstructiveBureaucrat, it's ultimately Rice who's the real villain of the story.

* NotSoDifferent: Jubilee and Laura realize they have much in common, with X-23 having to struggle with finding herself and the trigger scent and Jubilee struggling to control her newfound blood lust. They get along [[HeterosexualLifePartners really well though]].
* VitriolicBestBuds: Jubilee and Laura didn't get off on the right foot; when she first arrived in Paris Laura actually almost took her head off, reacting almost instinctively as if Jubilee was a threat. It took a little time for Laura to warm up to her.

A group of homeless mutant teenagers who have created a new family among themselves, Laura was once a member of the group when they rescued her from her abusive pimp, Zebra Daddy. They are led by TimeMaster Kiden Nixon, and consist of {{Body Surf}}er Bobby Soul AKA Felon, his powerfully telepathic but severely autistic baby brother Lil' Bro, and {{Animal Themed|Superbeing}} {{Shapeshifter}} Tatiana.

The master thief and X-Man, Gambit seeks Laura out when she leaves on her journey of self-discovery following the events of ''Comicbook/SecondComing'' to help and support her through this difficult stage of her life. That Remy knows what it is to be looked at and judged for past actions gives him a unique perspective on Laura's situation.

* BigBrotherMentor: As with Wolverine, Gambit uses his experience to help guide Laura, and their relationship evolves into this.

->'''Gambit:'' I'm the best thief in the world, Chere. If I can't make her smile...I'll steal one for her.

* CloneByConversion: Sinister infected Claudine with a virus that's slowly converting her into a clone of Sinister's body. She had been able to fight this process, however by the time she encounters Laura she has recently suffered serious injuries at the hands of Daken, which has weakened her defenses and enabled Sinister to gain more control of their shared body, at times allowing him to manifest entirely.

* AbhorrentAdmirer: Hellverine wants Laura to lead his armies. However his interest in her seems ''far'' more personal than that.

* NotSoDifferent: He views Laura and himself as this, believing Laura understands what it is to lose pieces of oneself. Gamesmaster also says that there's been no difference between the Facility, [[Comicbook/{{NYX}}Zebra Daddy]], the X-Men, or himself; all of them seek to use and control Laura for their own ends.

* [[PsychoExGirlfriend Psycho Ex-Boyfriend: He spends his brief appearance in ''Girl's Night Out'' spying on Laura from a distance while she's hanging out with Jubilee and Gambit. Jubilee pretty much treats him like this.

The following characters have appeared in X-23's various one-shots or self-titled series.

* BigBrotherMentor: His relationship with Laura straddles the line between this and father/daughter.

Megan is Sarah's niece, whom Sarah wasn't even aware existed until the girl was several years old.

!!Daken Akihiro/Daken

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

The son of Wolverine, which makes him Laura nephew or brother, depending on the genetics. Their relationship is initially hostile, but over the course of their encounter they gain a measure of respect for one another, and Laura walks away from their adventure as one of a very few people whom Daken genuinely respects and has affection for.

* CainAndAbel: The Cain to Laura's Abel.
* EvilCounterpart: He's this to Laura in a way. Both are genetic children of Logan, both tend to only use two of their claws and save the third for special attacks, both have messed up pasts. They have a mutual respect for each other, partly because they are so alike.
* HeelFaceTurn: Of a sort. Daken doesn't exactly go full Face, but [[spoiler: after Colcord double-crosses him, he and Laura are no longer at cross-purposes and work together to shut him down]].
* IncestYay: Some of Daken's private thoughts when he watches Laura in action read this way. Then again, it ''is'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]''
* ManipulativeBastard: It's Daken, natch.
* NotSoDifferent: Technically brother and sister, both raised by some very, ''very'' bad people, but while Daken embraces what Romulus made him, Laura desperately wants to be something more than just a weapon and killer. Nonetheless, their similarities give them a fair bit of mutual respect towards one another.
* WorthyOpponent: He and Laura come to view one another as this, and Laura becomes one of a ''very'' few people he genuinely respects.

* TheUglyGuysHotDaughter: He's the ugly guy to Laura's hot daughter. It particularly stands out because she's his OppositeSexClone.

!!Dr. Zander Rice
Head of surgery, and senior scientist involved in the attempt to replicate Weapon X, Rice's father was killed during Wolverine's escape from the installation in which he was being experimented on. Rice continues to blame Wolverine for the incident, and he takes this hatred out on the young X-23.

* AbusiveParents: Although not Laura's father, as the senior scientist working on the project he effectively serves as such, and inflicts most of the physical abuse she receives in ''Innocence Lost''.
* BigBad: While Sutter is certainly a CorruptCorporateExecutive and ObstructiveBureaucrat, it's ultimately Rice who's the real villain of the story.
* FreudianExcuse: Rice blames Wolverine for his father's death (not without reason, considering Wolverine gutted him). So because Laura was created with Wolverine's DNA, he holds her responsible as well.
* JerkAss: Even before he takes a flying leap off the slippery slope, Rice was a dick who showed no regard for the mutants he was experimenting on, and was openly antagonistic towards and disparaging of Sarah. [[spoiler: He was also screwing around with Sutter's wife, Rachel, and fathered her son Henry. Remember, Sutter practically ''raised'' Rice after his father was killed by Wolverine.]]
* ManipulativeBastard: Rice plays Sutter like a fiddle. It's never made clear whether Sutter ignores Sarah's warnings about Rice's behavior because of this, him not believing her, or because he just plain doesn't care. But there's no doubt that Rice knew exactly what buttons to push to get Sutter to turn over control of the project to him.
* MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate: Rice is a doctor, specifically a surgeon. He operates on and performs experiments on mutants in association with the Facility's attempts to recreate Weapon X, and many of the procedures he performs on Laura fall ''way'' beyond the MoralEventHorizon (he shoves her in a radiation chamber and doses her with fatal levels of radiation at the age of ''seven'' just to forcibly activate her HealingFactor).
* OffingTheOffspring: Tries to pull this twice: First by deliberately leaving X behind on a mission so she will be killed (Rice himself isn't her father, but played a substantial role in her creation). The second, is when he [[spoiler: attempts to cover up evidence of his affair with Rachel Sutter by sending Laura to kill her and his son with her.]]
* [[spoiler: SelfMadeOrphan]]: [[spoiler: Sort of. Wolverine killed his father escaping the Weapon X installation, after which Sutter became his father-figure. Rice sends X-23 to kill him so he can have total control of the project.]]
* RevengeByProxy: Rice abuses the young Laura entirely for revenge on for Wolverine killing his father.
* UsedToBeASweetKid: Rice is introduced in the story as a wide-eyed toddler being told by Martin Sutter his father wouldn't be coming home. It goes downhill from there.

!!Kimura

Kimura is a normal human who was modified by the Facility expressly to serve in the capacity of Laura's handler in the even she ever got out of control. A sadistic psychopath, Kimura inflicted severe physical and emotional abuse on her while she was at the Facility, and is obsessed with tracking her down and recovering her. Her body has been granted increased physical density, which makes her virtually indestructible.

* AbusiveParents: Kimura's FreudianExcuse is that her mother neglected her, her father abused her, and that she was subjected to a ''lot'' of bullying as a child. Her grandmother attempted to undo the damage, but by then it was too late and Kimura later takes it all out on Laura.
* ArchEnemy: Kimura becomes this for Laura in ''Target: X''. Her indestructibility makes her impossible for Laura to kill with her claws. Additionally, their backgrounds are NotSoDifferent granting even more parallels between the two.
* AxeCrazy: She's a violent and sadistic psychopath who actually ''enjoys'' the fact her job allows her to beat the shit out of a ''child''. When she manages to catch up to Laura at Megan and Debbie's house, she's positively ''gleeful'' when she begins ''slowly pushing her finger into Megan's chest'' to punish Laura for running away.
* MadeOfIron: Kimura has been modified by the Facility with increased body density, effectively making her indestructible.
* TortureTechnician: She ''loves'' to torture Laura, and pretty much anyone Laura cares about even if they ''don't'' get in the way of recovering her. Her methods are fairly crude, however, as she usually relies on her bare hands, and threatens to use her heightened body density to ''push her hand into Megan's chest'' to rip out her heart.
* YouAreNumberSix: Kimura as a rule refers to Laura as X-23, and not by her "real" name.

* TortureTechnicial: She ''loves'' to torture Laura, and pretty much anyone Laura cares about even if they ''don't'' get in the way of recovering her. Her methods are fairly crude, however, as she usually relies on her bare hands, and threatens to use her heightened body density to ''push her hand into Megan's chest'' to rip out her heart.