History Characters / XMenFilmSeriesTransigen

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Averted; while he mentions his father to Logan, Rice is totally unconcerned by the fact that Logan killed him, brushing it off as if it were totally irrelevant to their conversation. [[spoiler:While he does treat X-24 with some small affection, Rice still sees him as a living weapon first and foremost, having bred X-24 to be a rage-fueled killing machine and nothing else.]]

* ShoutOut: The film itself draws parallels between him and Jack Wilson from Film/{{Shane}}. Observe that they both have a RedRightHand in the form of a "evil hand" (in Wilson's case it's just a leather glove, while Pierce has the mechanical arm).

-->''"A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can't break the mold. There's no living with a killing. There's no going back. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand that sticks. Now you run on home to your mother, and tell her... everything's all right. There are no more guns in the valley."''
--->-- '''Laura''', quoting ''Film/{{Shane}}''

'''New Timeline:''' [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesXMenNewTimeline X-Men]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesNewMutants New Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesXForce X-Force]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesApocalypseAndHisFollowers Apocalypse and His Followers]] | '''Transigen''' | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesOtherMutantsNewTimeline Other Mutants]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesHumansNewTimeline Humans]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesWeaponXNewTimeline Weapon X]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesDBari D'Bari]] | [[Characters/XMenFilmSeriesNewMutantsVillains New Mutants Villains]]-]]]]]

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** Laura is pretty much what you'd ''actually'' get if you tried to train a child into an emotionless killing machine. When introduced she's virtually feral, responds violently when she feels threatened, and all but panics at the sound of a passing locomotive. Laura also shows extensive signs of stunted emotional development, evidenced by many of her behaviors, such as punching every button on an elevator, which is something you'd expect from a five-year-old instead
of an eleven-year-old. While she's certainly a highly-skilled and frighteningly efficient killer, she's ''still'' just a preteen girl fighting grown men twice or more her size; Laura can be subdued by sheer weight of numbers, and when an opponent ''does'' land a solid hit on her ([[spoiler:such as X-24 throwing her against a wall]]) she goes down hard (though God help you once she gets back up).

** Laura is pretty much what you'd ''actually'' get if you tried to train a child into an emotionless killing machine. When introduced she's virtually feral, responds violently when she feels threatened, and all but panics at the sound of a passing locomotive. Laura also shows extensive signs of stunted emotional development, evidenced by many of her behaviors, such as punching every button on an elevator, which is far more probable for a five-year-old than the eleven-year-old she is. While she's certainly a highly-skilled and frighteningly efficient killer, she's ''still'' just a preteen girl fighting grown men twice or more her size; Laura can be subdued by sheer weight of numbers, and when an opponent ''does'' land a solid hit on her ([[spoiler:such as X-24 throwing her against a wall]]) she goes down hard (though God help you once she gets back up).

* HumanityIsInfectious: At the beginning of the film, Laura acts more like a wild animal than a person, and her relative obedience with Logan and Xavier can probably be chalked up to her pack mentality and obeying those above her in the hierarchy. It's only through prolonged exposure to them that she actually starts to act like a child.
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Pierce shoots Laura in the back with a spear gun in the fight at the industrial yard in the beginning. The projectile penetrates so deeply it punches all the way through her body, with a solid foot of it emerging from her chest. She shrugs it off with only a harrowing shriek thanks to her HealingFactor, and goes right back to kicking ass once she can cut herself free.

* SurprisinglySuddenDeath: [[spoiler:Logan abruptly shoots him in the neck while Pierce is talking, made all the the more surprising since Logan rarely, if ever, uses guns.]]

* BreakoutCharacter: Her role in the film is a bit larger than is typical for the trope, being intended from the start as the "third leg of the table," in Mangold's words. However, the universal acclaim for Dafne Keen's performance has made her this, with many critics lauding her as the best part of the film and stealing every scene she's in (even ''more'' impressive considering the caliber of actors she's working with). Even before ''Logan'' released, director Mangold and producer Simon Kinberg began discussing an interest in continuing the character in her own spinoff film.

'''Logan:''' He was one of the guys who put this poison in me. I think I killed him.\\

* BigEater: If dinner with the Munsons is anything to go by. She starts by [[JabbaTableManners shoveling mashed potatoes into her mouth with her bare hands]] before Logan corrects her, and then proceeds to dish out ''enormous'' scoops of corn onto her plate before Logan takes the bowl and spoon away. After dinner, her face positively ''lights up'' when Kathryn Munson asks if she wants dessert, and when Logan is on his way out the door to help Will fix the water, he has to stop her when she tries to go back for ''more'' pie after everything has been cleared away. Earlier in the film, she wolfs down corn flakes when she first meets Charles (and even continues eating when the Reavers arrive to take her into custody), and one of the first things she does following that fight, (after her ride on the coin-op pony) is to raid a convenience store for a snack. Justified: N=not only is she a growing child who's barely had a decent meal in at ''least'' two days, but the common interpretation is that her HealingFactor comes with a heightened metabolism ''requiring'' more calories to begin with.

* AxCrazy: He is violent and bloodthirsty, and no-one except Rice can control him.

* AdaptationalWimp: Although they've all been enhanced with cybernetic prosthesis, thus far we've not seen characters with modifications to the extent of Deathstrike or Bonebreaker from the comics.

* ZergRush: Barring their prosthetics, they're basically still just normal people; however, they seem to have near infinite numbers no matter how many the heroes kill, with the ranks boosted at certain points by both Mexican federals and American soldiers. When they are chasing after the X-23 kids, their powers may enable them to take down a few of the Reavers, but their sheer numbers force the mutants to just keep running.

* {{Expy}}:
** Of Liev Schreiber's Victor Creed. Besides visually looking similar to him with his short shorn hair, X-24's superior strength and speed compared to Logan mirrors Sabretooth's portrayal in ''X-Men Origins''.
** Also of X-23 herself, in that he's a clone of Wolverine bred and raised specifically to be the perfect killing machine, whereas the film version of Laura was created through artificial insemination or some other similar process.
** He also shares some traits in common with "Albert", an android doppelganger of Wolverine from the comics, being an EvilKnockoff of Wolverine associated with Donald Pierce.

* TheSociopath: While he is undeniably highly intelligent and [[FauxAffablyEvil dangerously charismatic]], neither of these hinder the fact that he is nothing but a cold, sadistic, and downright despicable excuse of a human being.

* RoaringRampageOfRevenge: He was already a ball of rage to begin with, but at the sight of Rice's dead body, plus a little goading from Pierce, he completely ''flips his shit'' and starts to ''really'' hand Logan his ass.

* UnstoppableRage: When someone triggers him, he's a violent tempest of feral, psychotic destruction and hate killing everything and anything in his path.

* KickTheSonOfABitch: When he slaughters the corrupt farmers who just happened to get in his way. Nobody, audience or characters, sheds a tear.

* AdaptationalModesty: In the comics, Laura is usually (one of) the residential MsFanservice(s) of whatever team she's on. She first appeared in ''Comicbook/{{NYX}}'' as a teen prostitute very much dressing the part, and her costumes frequently involve BareYourMidriff. However, Keen was cast deliberately with an eye towards avoiding the expected "20-something actress in a hot outfit," leading to a much more modest appearance appropriate for an 11 year-old girl in the film. Though, like with her AdaptationDyeJob, [[TruerToTheText this does bring her closer to her original incarnation.]]

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: Logan pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head near the end of the film, and it's done so abruptly and casually as to be embarrassing. He barely has time to react, he doesn't get to finish his MotiveRant, and, most damning of all, Logan doesn't even bother getting his claws dirty killing him.]]

* UndignifiedDeath: [[spoiler: Logan pulls out a gun and shoots him in the head near the end of the film, and it's done so abruptly and casually as to be embarrassing. He barely has time to react, he doesn't get to finish his MotiveRant, and Logan doesn't even bother getting his claws dirty killing him.]]