History YMMV / X23

* 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.

** The [[http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20131012160654/marveldatabase/images/7/7d/All-New_X-Men_Vol_1_20_Textless.jpg cover]] for ''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.
** 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.
*** The actual relationship itself has resulted in this: Contrived? Cute? Even the fact that it ''continues'' into ''All-New Wolverine'' is divisive.

* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]], one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's X-23 project, has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, [[WouldHurtAChild 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 re-implants them-all of this without anaesthesia-at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage 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 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]].

* CriticalDissonance: Although Laura taking on the Wolverine mantle is a BaseBreaker among readers (including the character's own fans), critical reception to the debut issue of ''All-New Wolverine'' has been universally positive.
* 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.

* FanDislikedExplanation: Laura is on the receiving end of three key ones relating to several WordOfGod statements:
** Marjorie Liu's explanation for her "breakup" with Hellion, which isn't helped by the hypocrisy of Wolverine and Gambit over the situation (seeing as they both have done far, ''far'' worse things in their time as X-Men), ''and'' Laura herself being written out of character. It's made more egregious when compared to how Laura and Julian were written in the first arc of the series.
** In ''Avengers Arena'', Dennis Hopeless emphasized Laura's tactical nature, and fans immediately complained when this was disregarded by having her ignore strategy in favor of a direct attack on Apex while the latter was controlling a Sentinel. He responded in the letter pages of the next issue by arguing Laura decided she didn't have time for a better plan and had to act quickly. Fans didn't buy it.
*** His explanation for Laura's sudden shift in personality and behavior in ''All-New X-Men'' Vol. 2 hasn't even been revealed yet, and fans ''already'' reject it as there's nothing plausible enough to explain her behavior.
** When fans complained about Bendis's writing of Laura's voice, giving her a more generic teenager voice and ignoring her more formal and laconic manner of speaking, he attempted to handwave it claiming Murderworld changed her. Once again, fans didn't buy it (pretty much ''any'' WordOfGod about Laura from Bendis is rejected by the fanbase).

* FanWank: A throwaway panel in ''Wolverine'' #80 (1994) features a scientist holding a test tube labeled #23. It's ''incredibly'' popular FanWank to twist this into being Laura's ''true'' "first" appearance in the books, despite the fact it predates her creation by Kyle and Yost by a decade, has ''nothing'' to do with the process for how she was originally created, is outright {{Jossed}} by her origin book, ''and'' isn't acknowledged by Marvel itself. Nonetheless, it doesn't stop it from popping up every now and then on Wikipedia (at which point it immediately gets removed).

** 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.
* 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''.

* 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.
** 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 point some people think that it was an editorial 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/AllNewXMen''. Unfortunately it was revealed this was falsely reported and there were never plans for Laura to appear in ''Amazing''.

* 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). The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #30, and 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]]).

** Gabby has quickly become this in ''All-New Wolverine'', due to her quirky DeadpanSnarker personality and being utterly adorable.

** After starting out as one of her father's many teenage girl sidekicks, Laura gets one of her own in ''All-New Wolverine''. One who happens to be ''her'' clone as well.

* LostInMediasRes: A complaint about the first issue of '' All-New Wolverine'' is that it begins with Laura Kinney in Paris in the midst of trying to stop an assassination, with no context for who she was protecting, why they were a target, or who the assassin was. It's not until the second issue that these details start getting filled in.

** In ''All-New Wolverine'' #4 shots are fired at the HateDumb attacking the book simply for another character calling themselves Wolverine.
---> '''Dr. Strange''': You are the right person to replace Logan.
---> '''Laura''': I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the internet mainly. But I'm not replacing him. I don't really know what I'm doing yet.

** After starting out as one of her father's many teenage girl sidekicks, Laura seemingly gets one of her own in ''All-New Wolverine''. One who happens to be her clone as well.

* Fanon: Although never stated in the books, it's incredibly popular among fans to explain Laura's resemblance to Sarah being as a result of Sarah using her own genetic material to repair the damaged DNA samples, thus making her Sarah's ''genetic'' daughter as well. However this theory has been refuted by WordOfGod.

** After starting out as one of her father's many teenage girl sidekicks, Laura seemingly gets one of her own in 'All-New Wolverine''. One who happens to be her clone as well.

* CompleteMonster: [[MorallyAmbiguousDoctorate Dr. Zander Rice]], one of the lead scientists of Weapon X's X-23 project, has [[TykeBomb X-23]] kept in a padded room except during training sessions or assassination missions, [[WouldHurtAChild 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 re-implants them-all of this without anaesthesia-at the same age. He develops a pheromone "trigger" that activates her berserker rage 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 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]].

* PortmanteauCoupleName: Helix has been widely adopted when discussing Laura's relationship with Hellion.
* 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). The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #30, and 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]]).

** And now Larren for the Laura/Teen!Warren tease in the same series.

* FanNickName: Still referred to more often than not as Girlverine to this day, for [[RuleSixtyThree obvious reasons]].

* 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 with a healthy dose of FoeYay. Fast forward to ''Comicbook/AllNewXMen'', and Laura and O5 Cyclops share a mutual attraction (though it's ultimately never acted on).

* FridgeBrilliance:
** It was the ''[[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:
*** 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.
** 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.
* 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''.

** An out-of-character example was that one interview her creator Chris Kyle did where he referred to himself as an "overprotective mother" to her. UnfortunateImplications ahoy!

* PanderingToTheBase: At least according to the people on one side of the BrokenBase, who view the X-23 character with more than a little bit of scorn. A blatant RuleSixtyThree character with a past somehow even ''[[UpToEleven more]]'' traumatic and convoluted than Logan's sounds like the stuff of a JournalRoleplay character, yet not only does X-23 exist, she is also very frequently used and promoted as an A-tier character. The rationale behind this, X-23's naysayers argue, is drearily predictable: if WolverinePublicity is a golden goose, why not clone it and get twice the golden eggs for the price of one? It's been downplayed in more recent years, but back in the first couple of years of her existence X-23 was also very heavily featured, to the point where it was very hard to argue against her being a CreatorsPet. And of course there's the more recent arc where she's [[TakeUpMySword taken up Wolverine's role and codename]].

* 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). The cover to ''All-New X-Men'' #30, and 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]]).

* {{Squick}}: Laura's encounter with her half-brother, {{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]]...

* 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).

** Marvel revealing that following the conclusion of ''ComicBook/{{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.

** 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.