History YMMV / X23

* AdaptationDisplacement: Although X-23 was first introduced in ''X-Men: Evolution'' and the series continues to have a sizable fanbase, her comics iteration is by ''far'' better known, and tends to influence most other AlternateUniverse versions. For example, her depiction in ''Film/{{Logan}}'' draws significantly from ''Comicbook/InnocenceLost'' and ''Target X''.

* CreatorsPet: It's ''very hard'' to argue that she is not this to creator Craig Kyle. He has even gone on the record referring to himself as an "overprotective mother" of her in interviews.

* InternetBackdraft: The reveal in ''Hunt for Wolverine: Adamantium Agenda #4'' that Laura carries Sarah Kinney's DNA, making her her ''biological'' daughter quickly proved divisive, with some readers believing it invalidated her previous struggles by suddenly making her no longer a clone, or depriving her of an aspect of her character that set her apart from Logan's other offspring. Supporters of the development believe it makes sense, and argue that it does not significantly change her since it only reinforces her own viewpoint of their relationships.

* BrokenBase: Much like her [[ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} father]], Laura has generated a bit of divisiveness among the fanbase.

* AmbiguouslyBrown: She's always been drawn to look very different from Wolverine, and many have interpreted her look from different artists to look very east Asian. With the reveal in later comics that she's actually more of a daughter to to Wolverine genetically than a clone and that she has a ton of genes from her surogate mother Sarah, who does look very Asian as well it, seems to make sense. But it has never been confirmed in story, althought writer Marjorie Liu stated on Twitter that she intended for Laura to be Asian when she wrote her series.

* ItsTheSameNowItSucks: An odd case blending with TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Together, this was the response by many X-23 fans upon learning the new book would be under the ''X-23'' name, and that Laura was giving up the Wolverine cowl. In particular, fears that StatusQuoIsGod would see Laura returning to using "X-23" as a code name and undoing all of her character development has led to backlash since the book was announced, even though it has yet to be revealed whether she will actually be using the name in the book, or if it's just being used on the cover for branding. Additionally, this comes in spite of reassurances by writer Mariko Tamaki that ''X-23'' will be building on the development begun by Tom Taylor in ''Comicbook/AllNewWolverine''.

* CounterpartComparison: Some people still say that she's just a female Wolverine.

* 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 disappointed 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''.

* 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 [[HoYay Les Yay]] with Jubilee and the mild teasing with Teen!Cyclops combined with their similarities make both of these options incredibly popular as well.

** Although never stated in the books, it's incredibly popular among fans to explain Laura's StrongFamilyResemblance 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.

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* WordOfGod: Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Julian that she doesn't feel anything for him is that Laura has essentially outgrown their relationship]]. Fans...[[FanDislikedExplanation tend not to agree]]. However it has less to do with the point of view of the author than it does 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 — and that many find the characterization of both Laura and [[spoiler: Julian]] to be unusually poor (''especially'' the latter).

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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).

* 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]].

* FanDislikedExplanation: 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.

** 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).

* {{Squick}}:
** During one part of "The Killing Dream," Hellverine torments Laura in the form of Cyclops. A ''naked'' Cyclops, who keeps telling her that she's his.
** 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]]'' {{D|epravedBisexual}}aken...
* UnintentionallyUnsympathetic: The audience is intended to take Laura's side in her breakup with Hellion, and Julian certainly says some rotten things to her when she dumps him. However everything leading ''up'' to that point in no way justified how she treated him: Hellion was in the midst of a HeroicBSOD after a TraumaCongaLine beginning with losing his hands during ''Second Coming'', and continuing through the fallout of his killing Karima. When Laura meets him at the school, he's been locked in his room as punishment for his actions, (even though he did the only thing he could to stop her, ''at Karima's own request'') and is desperately seeking ''someone'' to just talk to him and support him as he struggles to hold himself together. Instead she comes by just to say "hello" and then leaves him again. He spends the entire rest of the arc just trying to reach out to her, only to get continually rebuffed, even though at this time she was ''supposed'' to be one of his best friends (to say nothing of his kinda-sorta-girlfriend). It doesn't help at all that he's being treated like a monster by Wolverine and Gambit for doing the same sorts of things they've spent most of the series helping ''Laura'' cope with. In the end, it only makes her look every bit as cold and unfeeling as he accused her of being, and Logan and Remy just look like hypocritical jackasses.

* WordOfGod: Marjorie Liu's explanation for the ending of x-23 #19, in which [[spoiler: Laura tells Julian that she doesn't feel anything for him is that Laura has essentially outgrown their relationship]]. Fans...[[FanDislikedExplanation tend not to agree]]. However it has less to do with the point of view of the author than it does 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 — and that many find the characterization of both Laura and [[spoiler: Julian]] to be unusually poor (''especially'' the latter).

* CreatorsPet: It's ''very hard'' to argue that she is not this to creator Chris Kyle. He has even gone on the record referring to himself as an "overprotective mother" of her in interviews.

* WhatTheHellCastingAgency?: X-23 didn't debut in the comics; she debuted in the 2000s cartoon ''TVseries/XMenEvolution'', and who did the showrunners get to first embody the personification of broken, savage rage? Creator/AndreaLibman. Yes, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qT9rhmzdZJ4 THAT Andrea Libman]].

** 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}}.

* 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.

** 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.

* FanNickName: Still referred to more often than not as Girlverine to this day, for [[RuleSixtyThree obvious reasons]]. Even ''more'' now that she's taken the Wolverine name on herself. The latter has also given rise to X-Verine.
* 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.

** In the 2011 episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSuperHeroSquadShow'', "Too Many Wolverines!," one of the Wolverines is X-23 dressed in the classic Wolverine suit. Fast-forward to 2015 when Laura [[LegacyCharacter takes up the Wolverine mantle]]...

* 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 Creator/JoeQuesada and later Creator/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.

* 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]] or Comicbook/{{Sabretooth}}. 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]]).

** 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]]...

* 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''.

* FandomRivalry: Fans of X-23 have begun developing one with fans of Comicbook/OldManLogan. Although it initially began rather one-sided, with Old Man Logan fans often disparaging of X-23 and ''All-New Wolverine'', X-23 fans were generally neutral or enjoyed both characters. However this has recently shifted, with X-23 fans viewing Old Man Logan as undermining Laura's role as Wolverine by getting much more focus by writers in events, and outside the X-Men books in general. The fact that Logan will be appearing in ''three'' team books and his solo under [=ResurrXtion=], while Laura only has her solo, has only further fueled the resentment.

* 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.

* {{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).

* OlderThanTheyThink: A year before Laura Kinney, there was Avery Connor, also a teenage OppositeSexClone of Wolverine with his healing factor and fighting ability. She appeared first ([[OneEpisodeWonder and only]]) in Creator/GregRucka and Creator/YoshitakaAmano's picture-novel ''Elektra & Wolverine: The Redeemer''.

* 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.