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** Marvel revealing that following the conclusion of ''{{Secret Wars|2015}}'', X-23 would be [[LegacyCharacter taking on the Wolverine name and cowl]]. Readers are pretty starkly divided between those who love the idea and those who hate it, with almost no one in between preferring to wait and see. Supporters generally find it a natural development of her character, and put Laura forward as the most appropriate choice of all the potential candidates. Those against it tend to vary more widely: those who prefer for Laura to stand on her own merits and fear her unique personality will get lost or overwhelmed as Wolverine, those who hate the concept of Legacy Characters in general with no particular opinion one way or another on ''who'' is taking on the role, many who would rather Logan just be brought back to life, those who would have preferred another character (such as Daken, Sabretooth, or even Old Man Logan), and those who just flat-out hate her character altogether.
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* FanPreferredCouple: As noted under ShipToShipCombat it's a bit contentious, but the vast majority of fans prefer Laura with Hellion even after her RelationshipUpgrade with Teen!Angel. The LesYay with Jubilee and the mild teasing with Teen!Cyclops combined with their similarities make both of these options incredibly popular as well.
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this]] is that his father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is Rice]], one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He X-23 project, has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, [[WouldHurtAChild almost kills her her]] with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age age of seven'', seven, and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all re-implants them-all of this ''without anesthesia'') at without anaesthesia-at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' his own son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this]] is that his father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this]] is that his father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this]] is that his father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]father]].
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His this]] is that his father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
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** The Babysitting Arc of her solo series has proven ''highly'' contentious among readers, usually depending on whether they're [[PortmanteauCoupleName Helix]] shippers or not, but even that isn't a firm dividing line:
*** It's generally agreed -- even by readers with no love of Hellion -- that the treatment of Julian was poorly handled. He killed Karima -- at ''Karima's own request'' -- to protect his friends and prevent her from killing all of them. He's subsequently treated like a monster by everyone, including ''Wolverine'' and ''Gambit'', despite both being guilty of far, ''far'' worse. Both even try to ''actively'' keep Hellion away from Laura. Laura's own behavior is frequently called out even by her ''fans'', as if anyone should understand the situation Julian is in now it should be her, and her cold rejection of what many believe are attempts by Julian to reach out to her for support coping with his situation has been decried as horribly out of character. This is particularly egregious that during ''New X-Men'' Julian was one of the first people to ''actively'' try and show her she was more than just a killing machine.
*** In the end, most Helix fans haven't forgiven Liu for breaking them up. Readers who don't like the Helix pairing, and particularly can't stand Hellion as a character (and a smaller minority who are fans of Hellion but hate Laura) generally tend to embrace it. Others -- even Helix fans -- argue that Laura was in no position for such a relationship at that time in her series, anyway, while agreeing it was mismanaged and both Laura and Julian were poorly characterized (and Wolverine and Gambit are ''tremendous'' hypocrites).
*** It's generally agreed -- even by readers with no love of Hellion -- that the treatment of Julian was poorly handled. He killed Karima -- at ''Karima's own request'' -- to protect his friends and prevent her from killing all of them. He's subsequently treated like a monster by everyone, including ''Wolverine'' and ''Gambit'', despite both being guilty of far, ''far'' worse. Both even try to ''actively'' keep Hellion away from Laura. Laura's own behavior is frequently called out even by her ''fans'', as if anyone should understand the situation Julian is in now it should be her, and her cold rejection of what many believe are attempts by Julian to reach out to her for support coping with his situation has been decried as horribly out of character. This is particularly egregious that during ''New X-Men'' Julian was one of the first people to ''actively'' try and show her she was more than just a killing machine.
*** In the end, most Helix fans haven't forgiven Liu for breaking them up. Readers who don't like the Helix pairing, and particularly can't stand Hellion as a character (and a smaller minority who are fans of Hellion but hate Laura) generally tend to embrace it. Others -- even Helix fans -- argue that Laura was in no position for such a relationship at that time in her series, anyway, while agreeing it was mismanaged and both Laura and Julian were poorly characterized (and Wolverine and Gambit are ''tremendous'' hypocrites).
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* {{Squick}}: Laura's encounter with her half-brother, {{Daken}}. Once the various double-crossings are out of the way and the pair are forced to work together to take down Colcord, Daken's private thoughts about her after seeing her in action read rather... ''[[BrotherSisterIncest romantically]]''. Of course, this ''[[AnythingThatMoves is]]'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]...
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* {{Squick}}: Laura's encounter with her half-brother, {{Daken}}.{{ComicBook/Daken}}. Once the various double-crossings are out of the way and the pair are forced to work together to take down Colcord, Daken's private thoughts about her after seeing her in action read rather... ''[[BrotherSisterIncest romantically]]''. Of course, this ''[[AnythingThatMoves is]]'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]...
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** It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
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** It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse ''[[ComicBook/CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
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* FridgeBrilliance: It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
** When Laura is engaged in the running battle with the demon, she is confronted by a starry apparition of herself, who shows her bits and pieces from her life at the Facility. Through the memories that are pulled up, the apparition proves 1) she was not ''born'' a soulless and emotionless killing machine but was forcibly made one, and 2) her creators''still'' failed when her sparing of Henry Sutter proved she had a shred of humanity left. Stars are a major motif and source of power for the Enigma Force.
** The apparition then disintegrates until it's left as a single, star-like point of light she absorbs into herself. Once again, the motif of stars.
** Laura then banishes [[spoiler: Hellverine]] by touching him and showing him herself, blasting him with light from her hand. Afterwards, a symbol connected to the Uni-Power appears on the palm of the same hand.
** During ''Chaos Theory'', Laura sacrifices herself to the Whirldemon King to break his possession of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]], and is drawn into the dimension in which he is imprisoned. The Whirldemon King recognizes the symbol on Laura's hand, because it was Prince Wayfinder and the Enigma Force that imprisoned him in the first place. Laura then bonds with the Uni-Power again, and uses it to repair the seal on the Whirldemons' prison and escape back to earth, after which the Enigma Force designates Laura as the future heir to its power.
** When Laura is engaged in the running battle with the demon, she is confronted by a starry apparition of herself, who shows her bits and pieces from her life at the Facility. Through the memories that are pulled up, the apparition proves 1) she was not ''born'' a soulless and emotionless killing machine but was forcibly made one, and 2) her creators''still'' failed when her sparing of Henry Sutter proved she had a shred of humanity left. Stars are a major motif and source of power for the Enigma Force.
** The apparition then disintegrates until it's left as a single, star-like point of light she absorbs into herself. Once again, the motif of stars.
** Laura then banishes [[spoiler: Hellverine]] by touching him and showing him herself, blasting him with light from her hand. Afterwards, a symbol connected to the Uni-Power appears on the palm of the same hand.
** During ''Chaos Theory'', Laura sacrifices herself to the Whirldemon King to break his possession of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]], and is drawn into the dimension in which he is imprisoned. The Whirldemon King recognizes the symbol on Laura's hand, because it was Prince Wayfinder and the Enigma Force that imprisoned him in the first place. Laura then bonds with the Uni-Power again, and uses it to repair the seal on the Whirldemons' prison and escape back to earth, after which the Enigma Force designates Laura as the future heir to its power.
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* FridgeBrilliance: It FridgeBrilliance:
**It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
** *** When Laura is engaged in the running battle with the demon, she is confronted by a starry apparition of herself, who shows her bits and pieces from her life at the Facility. Through the memories that are pulled up, the apparition proves 1) she was not ''born'' a soulless and emotionless killing machine but was forcibly made one, and 2) her creators''still'' failed when her sparing of Henry Sutter proved she had a shred of humanity left. Stars are a major motif and source of power for the Enigma Force.
** *** The apparition then disintegrates until it's left as a single, star-like point of light she absorbs into herself. Once again, the motif of stars.
** *** Laura then banishes [[spoiler: Hellverine]] by touching him and showing him herself, blasting him with light from her hand. Afterwards, a symbol connected to the Uni-Power appears on the palm of the same hand.
** *** During ''Chaos Theory'', Laura sacrifices herself to the Whirldemon King to break his possession of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]], and is drawn into the dimension in which he is imprisoned. The Whirldemon King recognizes the symbol on Laura's hand, because it was Prince Wayfinder and the Enigma Force that imprisoned him in the first place. Laura then bonds with the Uni-Power again, and uses it to repair the seal on the Whirldemons' prison and escape back to earth, after which the Enigma Force designates Laura as the future heir to its power.power.
** Laura's preferred "civilian" look is awful fanservicey for someone who has had such a negative experience with her sexuality, and whose response to being hit on generally falls in a line between brusque and violent. So why does she continue to fancy short skirts and fishnets, crop tops and corsets, and other FetishFuel wear? Laura never learned about fashion from the Facility, so she's had to pick up how she ought to dress from the people around her. She first picked up her goth style while raiding Megan's wardrobe, and Megan (who was also goth) was her first and for a long time ''only'' friend. Laura continues to dress this way either because her exposure to Megan's style has lead her to think this is how a girl her age ought to dress, or just because of the influence Megan had on her personally.
**It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
** Laura's preferred "civilian" look is awful fanservicey for someone who has had such a negative experience with her sexuality, and whose response to being hit on generally falls in a line between brusque and violent. So why does she continue to fancy short skirts and fishnets, crop tops and corsets, and other FetishFuel wear? Laura never learned about fashion from the Facility, so she's had to pick up how she ought to dress from the people around her. She first picked up her goth style while raiding Megan's wardrobe, and Megan (who was also goth) was her first and for a long time ''only'' friend. Laura continues to dress this way either because her exposure to Megan's style has lead her to think this is how a girl her age ought to dress, or just because of the influence Megan had on her personally.
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** In Issue 1 of ''Death of Wolverine: Logan's Legacy'', Sabretooth makes an off-hand comment about Laura's recently dyed forelocks while running his fingers through her hair. This is ''after'' responding to Laura's suggestion to Daken that they take Creed down by telling her [[GettingCrapPastTheRadar he'll go down any time she likes]] earlier in the issue. The Squick factor is not at all helped by the fact Creed is a cannibalistic and psychopathic rapist and murderer with a long-standing obsession with Wolverine, and who gets off on torturing those closest to Logan (''especially'' women) for his own amusement.
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** Also with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, mainly due to a scene in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 intro where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doarx57Leyg he catches her]] after she's thrown across the room by SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}.
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** Also with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, mainly due to a scene in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3'' intro where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doarx57Leyg he catches her]] after she's thrown across the room by SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. Unfortunately it was revealed this was falsely reported and there were never plans for Laura to appear in ''Amazing''.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, ''ComicBook/AmazingXMen'', her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. Unfortunately it was revealed this was falsely reported and there were never plans for Laura to appear in ''Amazing''.
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* PortmanteauCoupleName: Helix has been widely adopted when discussing Laura's relationship with Hellion.
** [=Cyx-23=] has also been thrown about for the shipteasing between Laura and Teen!Scott in ''All-New X-Men''.
** And now Larren for the Laura/Teen!Warren tease in the same series.
** [=Cyx-23=] has also been thrown about for the shipteasing between Laura and Teen!Scott in ''All-New X-Men''.
** And now Larren for the Laura/Teen!Warren tease in the same series.
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's {{X-23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
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* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's {{X-23}} ComicBook/{{X 23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
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** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel. The textless preview of the same issue has caused a firestorm among fans over how Laura's interactions with Warren are portrayed.]]
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).
** [[spoiler: Based on [[http://community.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5147&d=1404331456 this image]], it appears that Laura/Teen!Warren is actually becoming fully canon.]]
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the The cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura to ''All-New X-Men'' #30, and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] Laura's night out with Teen!Warren, has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).
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** [[spoiler: Based on [[http://community.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5147&d=1404331456 this image]], it appears that Laura/Teen!Warren is actually becoming fully canon.]]
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** The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin some people think that it was an editorial mandate.
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** The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin point some people think that it was an editorial mandate.
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** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel. ''And'' now Bendis has released [[http://community.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5147&d=1404331456 this]] from The textless preview of the same issue.issue has caused a firestorm among fans over how Laura's interactions with Warren are portrayed.]]
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. But then they found out that she would only appear in one arc, at least for now.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. But then they found out that she would only Unfortunately it was revealed this was falsely reported and there were never plans for Laura to appear in one arc, at least for now.
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** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel.]]
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** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel. ''And'' now Bendis has released [[http://community.comicbookresources.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=5147&d=1404331456 this]] from the same issue.]]
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** The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' #20, depicting a passionate kiss between Laura and the time-displaced teenage Cyclops has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.
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** The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen'' #20, depicting a passionate kiss between Laura and the time-displaced teenage Cyclops has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} [[ComicBook/AllNewXMen Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}. But then they found out that she would only appear in one arc, at least for now.
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* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}. ''ComicBook/AllNewXMen''. But then they found out that she would only appear in one arc, at least for now.now.
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, Laura/Dust, Laura/Elixir, Laura/Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott.
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, Laura/Dust, Laura/Elixir, Laura/Fantomex, Kimura]], Gambit, Finesse, Mercury, Dust, Elixir, Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott.Scott, too). To a lesser extent, [[spoiler: the cover preview for ''ANXM'' #30 showing Laura and Teen!Warren locked in a passionate in-flight kiss]] has sparked shipping for ''that'' pairing, as well (and more than a few jokes over the idea of Laura moving through the ''entire'' O5. Yes, even [[LesYay Jean]]). In fact it's amazing Quentin Quire's Stepford Cuckoo-induced ImagineSpot of himself flirting with her in ''ComicBook/WolverineAndTheXMen'' #4 hasn't created ''that'' pairing ([[{{Rule34}} yet]]).
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, Laura/Dust, Laura/Elixir, Laura/Fantomex, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, Hulk (see CrackPairing above) and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].Cyke]] (not that it stops anyone from shipping her with the ''adult'' Scott.
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** The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin some people think that it was an editorial mandate.
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** The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin some people think that it was an editorial mandate.mandate.
* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}. But then they found out that she would only appear in one arc, at least for now.
* YankTheDogsChain: Out of Universe example. When it was announced that Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle would write Laura again in ComicBook/AmazingXmen, her fans celebrated, since they were dissapointed with the way she was portrayed in ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}. But then they found out that she would only appear in one arc, at least for now.
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* WordOfGod: Bendis's explanation for Laura's apparently out of character voice is that it is a result of her being "changed" by Murderworld. The fans, however, aren't buying it.
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* WordOfGod: Bendis's explanation for Laura's apparently out of character voice is that it is a result of her being "changed" by Murderworld. The fans, however, aren't buying it.it.
**The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin some people think that it was an editorial mandate.
**The same can be said for Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Jullian that she doesn't feel anything for him]]. In this case however, it had less to do with the point of view of the author and more with the execution of the scene, which was found to be rushed by many, to the poin some people think that it was an editorial mandate.
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It says quite clearly on the page for And The Fandom Rejoiced not to link to it. It is for in-universe examples and links from the beginning of related trope pages only.
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** The rejoicing comes with a healthy dose of YankTheDogsChain, as the appearance is only scheduled for that arc.
** The rejoicing comes with a healthy dose of YankTheDogsChain, as the appearance is only scheduled for that arc.
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The reaction to the news that Laura will be appearing in an upcoming arc of ''ComicBook/AmazingXMen'' under her original creators [[MyRealDaddy Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle]], due to dissatisfactionamong the fans with how she has been handled since the end of her solo series, particularly by [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Hopeless]] and [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Bendis]].
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The reaction to the news that Laura will be appearing in an upcoming arc of ''ComicBook/AmazingXMen'' under her original creators [[MyRealDaddy Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle]], due to dissatisfactionamong dissatisfaction among the fans with how she has been handled since the end of her solo series, particularly by [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Hopeless]] and [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Bendis]].
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* AndTheFandomRejoiced: The reaction to the news that Laura will be appearing in an upcoming arc of ''ComicBook/AmazingXMen'' under her original creators [[MyRealDaddy Christopher Yost and Craig Kyle]], due to dissatisfactionamong the fans with how she has been handled since the end of her solo series, particularly by [[ComicBook/AvengersArena Hopeless]] and [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Bendis]].
** The rejoicing comes with a healthy dose of YankTheDogsChain, as the appearance is only scheduled for that arc.
** The rejoicing comes with a healthy dose of YankTheDogsChain, as the appearance is only scheduled for that arc.
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* MyRealDaddy: Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost created her, but didn't introduce her to the Marvel Universe (she's a CanonImmigrant), putting her in the hands of JoeQuesada and later ChrisClaremont, probably with the intention of invoking this trope; when it didn't work, they started writing her themselves. While their take was seen as superior to Quesada's and Claremont's and laid groundwork on the character, it still had its share of problems. It was Marjorie Liu's run on Laura's solo title that definitely did a lot to make fans like a character that had previously (often derisively) been called Girlverine and MarySue.
* TakeThat: How some fans view [[ComicBook/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Peter Quill's]] and Teen!Bobby's comments about either not realizing Laura was even with them, or not even bothering to learn her name. These comments are widely viewed as Bendis's response to reader complaints about Laura's out of character voice and her not having anything to do on the team in ''All-New X-Men''.
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** StoicWoobie: Despite all she's been through, though, Laura seldom actually talks about it. But mostly because her emotionally-abusive upbringing has left her with a poor understanding of ''how'' to express herself, to the point that she frequently [[SelfHarm cuts herself]]. When she ''does'' [[NotSoStoic break down]], she's prone to bouts of severe if not suicidal depression.
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** StoicWoobie: Despite all she's been through, though, Laura seldom actually talks about it. But mostly because her emotionally-abusive upbringing has left her with a poor understanding of ''how'' to express herself, to the point that she frequently [[SelfHarm cuts herself]]. When she ''does'' [[NotSoStoic break down]], she's prone to bouts of severe if not suicidal depression.depression.
* WordOfGod: Bendis's explanation for Laura's apparently out of character voice is that it is a result of her being "changed" by Murderworld. The fans, however, aren't buying it.
* WordOfGod: Bendis's explanation for Laura's apparently out of character voice is that it is a result of her being "changed" by Murderworld. The fans, however, aren't buying it.
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** [[spoiler: The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' #20 has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.]]
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** [[spoiler: The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' #20 #20, depicting a passionate kiss between Laura and the time-displaced teenage Cyclops has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.book.
** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel.]]
** [[spoiler: And yet ''again'' with the [[http://24.media.tumblr.com/d24a2f28ce7d594b8bdd2aa1d3e8d131/tumblr_n4foetpNKh1rx5px6o1_500.jpg cover]] for issue #30, depicting a similar moment for Laura and O5 Angel.]]
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** [[spoiler: The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #20 (see BrokenBase above) takes full advantage of {{Rule 34}} and {{Rule 63}} to add fuel to the fires over the popular [[HoYay Wolverine/Cyclops]] CrackPairing.]]
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** [[spoiler: The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #20 (see BrokenBase above) takes full advantage of {{Rule 34}} and {{Rule 63}} to add fuel to the fires over the popular [[HoYay Wolverine/Cyclops]] CrackPairing.]]
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* FoeYay: Kimura is positively ''obsessed'' with Laura, and takes great pleasure in torturing her whenever she has the opportunity (she approached taking a ''chainsaw'' to Laura's arm with rather disturbing enthusiasm). Much of her other behavior tends towards being stalkerish in nature, and is very comparable to that of an obsessive and jilted lover. This has not gone unnoticed by the fanbase and a certain segment has made Kimura's interest outright romantic or sexual (see ShipToShipCombat below).
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, and even Deadpool. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].
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* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, and even Deadpool. There's even more than a few fans who [[IncestYayShipping ship her with Daken]]. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].
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* BrokenBase: Much like her [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} father]], Laura has generated a bit of divisiveness among the fanbase.
** Some readers view her as a CreatorsPet, claiming that whenever an X-book is taken over by Christopher Yost and/or Craig Kyle, X-23 is promoted to a lead role at the expense of other characters (in Kyle's case, this is not entirely unfounded), and because she's also often considered an A-List character rather than B- or C-List as is the case with most teenage heroes. Some ''New X-Men'' fans in particular accuse her of leading to Wind Dancer being written out of the series so Laura could jump in and take her place as Hellion's LoveInterest at the same time Yost and Craig took over. Defenders will point out that while X-23 eventually ''did'' eventually develop as a romantic interest for Hellion, her stint in the book also began with her on the receiving end of a fair amount of bullying on his part (particularly over her being a clone) so she didn't really "jump in" and replace her (although Hellion does bully basically everyone not in his clique, which included Wind Dancer). Additionally, defenders will point out that other characters still received a substantial amount of focus during her time in the book, particularly Surge, Pixie and Mercury.
** [[spoiler: The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' #20 has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.]]
* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's {{X-23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
* CounterpartComparison: Some people still say that she's just a female Wolverine.
* CrackPairing: With Franchise/SpiderMan. There's a large group of people on [[{{Imageboards}} certain imageboard that must not be named]] who thinks they're cute together.
** Also with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, mainly due to a scene in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 intro where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doarx57Leyg he catches her]] after she's thrown across the room by SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}.
** [[spoiler: The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #20 (see BrokenBase above) takes full advantage of {{Rule 34}} and {{Rule 63}} to add fuel to the fires over the popular [[HoYay Wolverine/Cyclops]] CrackPairing.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The first X-Man after ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} to have her own page on this site (and one of the few to have her own series). Even when she joined the New X-Men, she was easily the most popular character.
** For a while, she was the ''only'' X-Man with her own page, but now ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, ComicBook/XMan (and SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}, if you count him) have gotten in on the act.
* {{Fanon}}: Before they gave her the name Laura in the comics, some WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution fanfic writers would give her many different names, different from fic to fic. Some still do. Also, as it was never stated in the show, many speculate as to whether she has metal bones or not (she doesn't in the comics due to never taking the full Weapon X treatment, but in the show she was shown to).
* FridgeBrilliance: It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
** When Laura is engaged in the running battle with the demon, she is confronted by a starry apparition of herself, who shows her bits and pieces from her life at the Facility. Through the memories that are pulled up, the apparition proves 1) she was not ''born'' a soulless and emotionless killing machine but was forcibly made one, and 2) her creators''still'' failed when her sparing of Henry Sutter proved she had a shred of humanity left. Stars are a major motif and source of power for the Enigma Force.
** The apparition then disintegrates until it's left as a single, star-like point of light she absorbs into herself. Once again, the motif of stars.
** Laura then banishes [[spoiler: Hellverine]] by touching him and showing him herself, blasting him with light from her hand. Afterwards, a symbol connected to the Uni-Power appears on the palm of the same hand.
** During ''Chaos Theory'', Laura sacrifices herself to the Whirldemon King to break his possession of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]], and is drawn into the dimension in which he is imprisoned. The Whirldemon King recognizes the symbol on Laura's hand, because it was Prince Wayfinder and the Enigma Force that imprisoned him in the first place. Laura then bonds with the Uni-Power again, and uses it to repair the seal on the Whirldemons' prison and escape back to earth, after which the Enigma Force designates Laura as the future heir to its power.
* FridgeHorror: In her POV episode of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' Laura's private thoughts reveal that the moment she walks into a room, she immediately formulates a plan of attack to kill everyone else inside it because of her training and conditioning by the Facility, and that ''she can't shut it off''. Her mind is constantly working out how to kill everyone around her. If that's not FridgeHorror enough, remember she was hired by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed and Sue]] to babysit for them in one arc of her solo series. This means that the minute she showed up for the job, ''her brain created a plan for killing the Richards kids''.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Just see ShipToShipCombat below. The girl ReallyGetsAround in the fandom considering she's only barely had an official relationship in the books.
* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, and even Deadpool. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].
* {{Squick}}: Laura's encounter with her half-brother, {{Daken}}. Once the various double-crossings are out of the way and the pair are forced to work together to take down Colcord, Daken's private thoughts about her after seeing her in action read rather... ''[[BrotherSisterIncest romantically]]''. Of course, this ''[[AnythingThatMoves is]]'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]...
* TheWoobie: Even taking the whole "[[TykeBomb raising a child to be an assassin]]" thing into consideration, Laura's upbringing was far harsher than it had to be. And this is on top of repeated YankTheDogsChain and FromBadToWorse moments every time it looks like she might have a chance to turn her life around. The poor girl just can't catch a break!
** IronWoobie: Despite just how badly Laura wants a normal life, she ''will'' keep on fighting to protect others because she ''must''. Recruiting her for ComicBook/XForce was acknowledged to be a tremendous mistake for her well-being by everyone involved, but Laura still accepted the position anyway, and has proven time and again her willingness to sacrifice herself for others.
** StoicWoobie: Despite all she's been through, though, Laura seldom actually talks about it. But mostly because her emotionally-abusive upbringing has left her with a poor understanding of ''how'' to express herself, to the point that she frequently [[SelfHarm cuts herself]]. When she ''does'' [[NotSoStoic break down]], she's prone to bouts of severe if not suicidal depression.
** Some readers view her as a CreatorsPet, claiming that whenever an X-book is taken over by Christopher Yost and/or Craig Kyle, X-23 is promoted to a lead role at the expense of other characters (in Kyle's case, this is not entirely unfounded), and because she's also often considered an A-List character rather than B- or C-List as is the case with most teenage heroes. Some ''New X-Men'' fans in particular accuse her of leading to Wind Dancer being written out of the series so Laura could jump in and take her place as Hellion's LoveInterest at the same time Yost and Craig took over. Defenders will point out that while X-23 eventually ''did'' eventually develop as a romantic interest for Hellion, her stint in the book also began with her on the receiving end of a fair amount of bullying on his part (particularly over her being a clone) so she didn't really "jump in" and replace her (although Hellion does bully basically everyone not in his clique, which included Wind Dancer). Additionally, defenders will point out that other characters still received a substantial amount of focus during her time in the book, particularly Surge, Pixie and Mercury.
** [[spoiler: The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}}'' #20 has proven ''quite'' divisive among the fans, even though the kiss never actually happens in the book.]]
* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]] is one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's {{X-23}} project. He has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, almost kills her with radiation poisoning to trigger her healing factor at the ''age of seven'', and surgically removes her natural claws one at a time, coats them with adamantium, then reimplants them (all of this ''without anesthesia'') at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage (which he conditioned her to respond to using ColdBloodedTorture) and uses it to get X-23 to kill her martial arts instructor, and leaves her behind on a mission to be killed after he murders the other members of the team so he can claim they were taking fire and had to retreat. After X-23 shows back up alive, Rice then manipulates the head of the X-23 project, who had raised Rice after his father's death, into granting Rice control of the project, at which point Rice then sends X-23 to kill the man, his wife, and son - even though Rice knows the boy is ''his'' son, from an affair between Rice and the wife before her marriage (X-23 leaves the child alive). Upon taking over the project, he begins the development of embryos X-24 through X-50, which he intends to sell to the highest bidders, and then taints the one remaining person X-23 cares about, the project scientist who was her surrogate mother, with the trigger pheromone, which causes X-23 to fatally injure the woman - just as she was about to take X-23 and disappear after destroying the project complex. [[FreudianExcuse Rice's reasoning for all of this?]] His father, who worked on the original (Wolverine) Weapon X project was killed by Wolverine when he escaped, and [[RevengeByProxy Rice held X-23, who is Logan's genetic double, responsible for Wolverine's killing of his father.]]
* CounterpartComparison: Some people still say that she's just a female Wolverine.
* CrackPairing: With Franchise/SpiderMan. There's a large group of people on [[{{Imageboards}} certain imageboard that must not be named]] who thinks they're cute together.
** Also with ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk, mainly due to a scene in the VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom3 intro where [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=doarx57Leyg he catches her]] after she's thrown across the room by SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}.
** [[spoiler: The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #20 (see BrokenBase above) takes full advantage of {{Rule 34}} and {{Rule 63}} to add fuel to the fires over the popular [[HoYay Wolverine/Cyclops]] CrackPairing.]]
* EnsembleDarkhorse: The first X-Man after ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} to have her own page on this site (and one of the few to have her own series). Even when she joined the New X-Men, she was easily the most popular character.
** For a while, she was the ''only'' X-Man with her own page, but now ComicBook/{{Storm}}, ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}, ComicBook/{{Dazzler}}, ComicBook/XMan (and SelfDemonstrating/{{Magneto}}, if you count him) have gotten in on the act.
* {{Fanon}}: Before they gave her the name Laura in the comics, some WesternAnimation/XMenEvolution fanfic writers would give her many different names, different from fic to fic. Some still do. Also, as it was never stated in the show, many speculate as to whether she has metal bones or not (she doesn't in the comics due to never taking the full Weapon X treatment, but in the show she was shown to).
* FridgeBrilliance: It was the ''[[CaptainUniverse Uni-Power]]'' (with whom Laura previously bonded) that enabled Laura to defeat the demon tempting her in ''The Killing Dream'' arc of her ongoing series:
** When Laura is engaged in the running battle with the demon, she is confronted by a starry apparition of herself, who shows her bits and pieces from her life at the Facility. Through the memories that are pulled up, the apparition proves 1) she was not ''born'' a soulless and emotionless killing machine but was forcibly made one, and 2) her creators''still'' failed when her sparing of Henry Sutter proved she had a shred of humanity left. Stars are a major motif and source of power for the Enigma Force.
** The apparition then disintegrates until it's left as a single, star-like point of light she absorbs into herself. Once again, the motif of stars.
** Laura then banishes [[spoiler: Hellverine]] by touching him and showing him herself, blasting him with light from her hand. Afterwards, a symbol connected to the Uni-Power appears on the palm of the same hand.
** During ''Chaos Theory'', Laura sacrifices herself to the Whirldemon King to break his possession of [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Valeria Richards]], and is drawn into the dimension in which he is imprisoned. The Whirldemon King recognizes the symbol on Laura's hand, because it was Prince Wayfinder and the Enigma Force that imprisoned him in the first place. Laura then bonds with the Uni-Power again, and uses it to repair the seal on the Whirldemons' prison and escape back to earth, after which the Enigma Force designates Laura as the future heir to its power.
* FridgeHorror: In her POV episode of ''ComicBook/AvengersArena'' Laura's private thoughts reveal that the moment she walks into a room, she immediately formulates a plan of attack to kill everyone else inside it because of her training and conditioning by the Facility, and that ''she can't shut it off''. Her mind is constantly working out how to kill everyone around her. If that's not FridgeHorror enough, remember she was hired by [[ComicBook/FantasticFour Reed and Sue]] to babysit for them in one arc of her solo series. This means that the minute she showed up for the job, ''her brain created a plan for killing the Richards kids''.
* LauncherOfAThousandShips: Just see ShipToShipCombat below. The girl ReallyGetsAround in the fandom considering she's only barely had an official relationship in the books.
* ShipToShipCombat: [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} Just like her daddy]], Laura gets a fair bit of this, mainly between Helix (Hellion/Laura) fans, [[LesYay Laura/Jubilee]] fans, and fans who don't see her as having interest in relationships whatsoever. Also toss in [[FoeYay Laura/Kimura]], Laura/Gambit, Laura/Finesse and Laura/Mercury, and more crack pairings such as Wither, Spidey, and even Deadpool. And now {{Rule 63}} and time travel is enabling the Scott/Logan CrackPairing to live vicariously through [[ComicBook/{{All-New X-Men}} Laura and Teen Cyke]].
* {{Squick}}: Laura's encounter with her half-brother, {{Daken}}. Once the various double-crossings are out of the way and the pair are forced to work together to take down Colcord, Daken's private thoughts about her after seeing her in action read rather... ''[[BrotherSisterIncest romantically]]''. Of course, this ''[[AnythingThatMoves is]]'' [[DepravedBisexual Daken]]...
* TheWoobie: Even taking the whole "[[TykeBomb raising a child to be an assassin]]" thing into consideration, Laura's upbringing was far harsher than it had to be. And this is on top of repeated YankTheDogsChain and FromBadToWorse moments every time it looks like she might have a chance to turn her life around. The poor girl just can't catch a break!
** IronWoobie: Despite just how badly Laura wants a normal life, she ''will'' keep on fighting to protect others because she ''must''. Recruiting her for ComicBook/XForce was acknowledged to be a tremendous mistake for her well-being by everyone involved, but Laura still accepted the position anyway, and has proven time and again her willingness to sacrifice herself for others.
** StoicWoobie: Despite all she's been through, though, Laura seldom actually talks about it. But mostly because her emotionally-abusive upbringing has left her with a poor understanding of ''how'' to express herself, to the point that she frequently [[SelfHarm cuts herself]]. When she ''does'' [[NotSoStoic break down]], she's prone to bouts of severe if not suicidal depression.
