Line #10 Fridge/AllNewWolverine


1	!! Fridge Brilliance
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3	* During the Four Sisters arc, one of Laura's clones, Zelda tells Laura to protect the youngest clone Gabby, telling her that she's what "they should have been" and "special." At first, it seems that this is in reference to Gabby's relative innocence. However, after Gabby reveals that she has claws, it seems like Zelda's referring to the fact that Gabby was the only clone of Laura to inherit her powers.
4	* ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'' thinking that Wolverine can talk to actual wolverines is understandable when you realize that all the other [[AnimalThemedSuperbeing animal themed heroes]] in her own book can actually do so.
5	* Other than some mild HowDoIShotWeb when she first finds herself in Comicbook/SpiderGwen's body during the annual, Laura actually handles herself quite well in these unfamiliar circumstances. By contrast, Gwen is a complete and total failure at managing Laura's powers. However if one is familiar with the histories of the two characters, this isn't a case of CharacterShilling or TheWorfEffect to make Laura look so much better than Gwen:\
6	Laura was raised from birth to be a LivingWeapon, and was trained extensively to handle unexpected situations and use anything at hand to her advantage to carry out her mission. She was also born a metahuman, with her mutation being forcibly activated at an early age. Gwen, by contrast, was just a physically normal girl until she was bitten by the radioactive spider. She came into her powers at a much later age, and has had no formal training. It's established in her own series and various crossovers that metahumans of equivalent power who actually ''do'' have combat training have a tremendous advantage against her, (the Captain America of her universe was able to knock her cold with one punch) and that Gwen is actually pretty helpless without her powers.
7	* In issue 17, Jean and Gabby are able to help break Laura from her conditioning to the trigger scent. At first it seems strange that after so much time no one had ever thought to use telepathy to reprogram her brain, however this is also the first time that Laura has actually been ''around'' a telepath while she was under its effects. In order to safely break her free, Jean needed to find out what's actually happening inside her brain while she's "triggered" to know ''what'' to fix.
8	** Additionally, while Emma Frost did try to telepathically break her conditioning in the past, she never had the trigger scent when she did so - she couldn't see what goes on in Laura's head when she gets triggered.
9	** Furthermore, the actual memory Laura's consciousness retreats to is one of Sarah reading to her from ''Literature/{{Pinocchio}}''. Why this memory? Laura's childhood was an endless nightmare of physical and emotional abuse already, but the process conditioning her to the trigger scent is revealed in ''Target X'' to have involved ''outright torture'', including both electric shock and waterboarding, and who knows what other nightmares before she finally began to respond as Rice desired. Sarah reading to her is one of the only ''happy'' moments she had when this was happening to her, so of ''course'' that's where her compartmentalized mind went to escape the pain.
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11	** Comicbook/{{Daken}}, Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}, and Comicbook/OldManLogan arrive on Roosevelt Island to help with ThePlague. Daken and Logan make sense, since both are related to Laura (her brother and alternate universe genetic father, respectively). However Wade Wilson is not. So why would he be helping, rather than Doctor Strange. grabbing just anyone with a healing factor, like Sabretooth? Because when the Weapon X project was experimenting on Wade, they used ''Logan's'' healing factor as the basis. It's not Laura's ''genetics'' the virus is drawn to, it has something specifically to do with the healing factor she inherited from Logan. Therefore, since Wade ''also'' shares Logan's healing factor, he's able to help fight the virus.
12	** Daken's healing factor is still compromised from [[Comicbook/DeathOfWolverine what Siphon did to him]], and he's unable to endure as much of the virus as the others. However not only was Laura ''also'' drained, but since Daken was drained first, one would expect that ''his'' would have recovered first, and therefore ought to be stronger by now. But then you remember: Daken ''also'' had to regrow his arm and eye. While Laura was also badly wounded by Mystique after her healing factor was stripped from her, her wounds could also be treated via conventional medical treatment, so it's possible by the time her abilities kicked back in she had already recovered from the wounds Mystique inflicted. Daken's injuries, however, required his healing abilities to treat. The stress of regrowing his missing parts has therefore left it in a weakened state.
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14	!! Fridge Horror
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16	* In issue 2, Captain Mooney cuts Laura with a scalpel. He claims it's to verify she's who she says she is, and not one of the Sisters — her clones — in disguise. When Laura heals from the wound, it proves her identity because they lack her HealingFactor. However Mooney ''also'' holds a piece of gauze over the wound while she bleeds. This means ''Alchemax has obtained a fresh sample of her DNA'', which might allow them to make a clone with a functional X-gene.
17	** Issue #6 shows that they didn't necessarily need it since it's revealed that Gabby actually did inherit her powers.
18	** Keep in mind that Alchemax ''didn't know''. They told Laura that none of the sisters inherited her claws or healing factor. So either Chandler was lying his ass off (not impossible considering he already lied trying to get Laura's cooperation), or the fact Gabby ''did'' have a claw came as a complete surprise to him.
19	* Captain America's actions during the ''Comicbook/CivilWarII'' crossover come across in a completely different light when you consider the then-current CosmicRetcon of Cap's origins by Red Skull and Kovik. It's entirely possible that he ''wants'' to turn Laura and Logan against one another, and is willing to see an innocent girl murdered to do it.

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