Comic Book / All-New Wolverine

The best there is at what she does.

All-New Wolverine is a 2015 Marvel comic book, published as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel initiative after Secret Wars. It's written by Tom Taylor, with art for the first arc provided by David Lopez. Following the conclusion of the first arc, Lopez was succeeded by Marcio Takara, while Ig Guarra assumed art duties beginning with the Civil War tie-in. Nik Virella took over as series artist for "Enemy of the State II".

This title doesn't star Logan — the original Wolverine — but rather, his young clone daughter Laura Kinney, formerly known as X-23. Set sometime after Secret Wars, All-New Wolverine follows Laura as she takes up her progenitor's mantle and figures out what it means to be Wolverine while still being true to herself.

In her first venture under the cowl, she meets The Sisters: a trio of young women (Gabby, Zelda, and Bellona) Alchemax Genetics, a division of Alchemax, produced as clones of Laura herself. Though wary of them at first, Laura soon grows protective over her genetic sisters, working to give them, especially the youngest, some semblance of a normal life. She later gets embroiled with the satellite events of the Second Superhero Civil War, faces an enemy from her past bent on using her for bid to gain control of Madripoor, and an alien plague ravaging New York.

In April, 2017, a "soft" relaunch began as part of ResurrXion, with Laura gaining an armored black-and-gray costume based more on her X-Force outfit, and art by Leonard Kirk. The book ended in May, 2018, with issue 35. It will be replaced in July with a new X-23 series, written by Mariko Tamaki, and with an art team of Juan Cabal and Nolan Woodward

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All-New Wolverine provides examples of the following tropes:

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• Abandoned Hospital: The ruins of the Facility in issue 25 evoke this. Its labs are smashed and ruined, with old equipment left behind, holding cells with smashed windows, and everything is falling apart. Its not so abandoned after all; in one lab Laura is startled to find her mother, alive and well, in a stasis tank.
• Absurdly Spacious Sewer: Laura and company make use of this when evading the Orphans of X in Tokyo.
• Actually a Doombot:
  • "Enemy of the State II:" After being captured by Kimura, Laura is sent to kill Tyger Tiger, who has been contaminated by the trigger scent. Laura successfully kills Jessán...only for Gabby and Gambit to reveal it was actually Life Model Decoy, and the real Jessán is alive and well (though still contaminated).
  • "Old Man Laura:" The Trope Namer himself makes use of them when Laura's team infiltrate Latveria on a final mission to rescue Bellona.
• Actually Pretty Funny: In issue 10, a pair of burglars break into Laura's apartment while she and Gabby are home, and Old Man Logan is there recuperating from his encounter with Fin Fang Foom. The trio find the entire situation hilarious, and are prepared to graciously allow the hapless crooks to leave. Up until they pull guns on them, and Jonathan gets shot defending Gabby (fortunately he gets better). Then it's all Laura can do to keep Logan from gutting them.
• Affirmative-Action Legacy:
  • Laura, a woman, takes over the Wolverine mantle from Logan, a man.
  • It's revealed in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate future that Ambiguously Bi Gabby has succeeded Laura (straight) as Wolverine in turn. Additionally, Danielle Cage, a biracial woman, is now Captain America.
• Airborne Aircraft Carrier:
  • In issue 8 Maria Hill drops by Laura's apartment to recruit her for a mission, complete with helicarrier. And because it's a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier, it of course subsequently gets wrecked. This time by Fin Fang Foom. She got it out of New York Bay and back in the air again in issue 11.
  • Kimura has one of her own. It's big enough to handle jets the size of a 747.
  • Fury has an entire fleet of them providing overwatch during the crisis on Roosevelt Island.
• All There in the Manual: According to concept art by David Lopez for All-New Wolverine, the address of Laura's Bronx apartment is 634 Melrose Ave., and its design was based on an actual building located at 645 Melrose. Lopez also developed an entirely new civilian style for Laura, moving her away from her traditional goth look, including a shawl/scarf that she could wear in different ways depending on the situation. However Lopez left the book following the end of the first arc, and before any of these designs could be put into use.
• Angels Pose: Laura, Bellona, and Gabby strike one on the final page of issue 5, when they resolve to finish off Alchemax after Mooney kills Zelda.
• Animal-Themed Superbeing: Played for laughs in issue 7, when Squirrel Girl drops by her apartment carting a live wolverine with her under the mistaken believe that since Laura is the Wolverine, she can actually communicate with the animal.
• Arc Words: "Please don't leave me."
• Armor Is Useless: Averted. The Sisters' lives are saved after being shot by Taskmaster in issue 2 because of their body armor. Laura herself finally takes Gabby's advice with the new costume she begins wearing in issue 19, and it immediately proves its value when a covert infiltration goes bad: Although getting shot still hurts, it spares her from debilitating injuries that would put her down until she heals. Besides her Healing Factor mitigating the chance of fatal injury, Laura's main concern was restricted mobility, but she finds it has no affect on her range of motion after all.
• Artistic License – Physics: The moon from which the alien child that set off the "Immune" arc originated appears quite small, and doesn't even have a visible sky or atmosphere. Nonetheless Laura and the Guardians of the Galaxy can walk on its surface without pressure suits or a breathing apparatus (Star-Lord does have his Cool Mask, but Laura, Drax, Gamora, and Groot are out with no protection at all).
• Art Shift: Subtle examples in issues 30 and 32:
  • Henry Sutter holds Laura at gunpoint when she confronts him and tries to talk him and the rest of the Orphans of X down at the end of issue 30. For precisely one panel, Henry is drawn to resemble the age he was the night Laura killed his mother and father.
  • Similarly done in issue 32: In the last panel, where Laura and Amber are drawn to look as they did the day of Laura's first assassination.
• Back from the Dead: Issue 25 ends on a cliffhanger as Laura smashes open a tank and pulls her mother — alive — from the goop inside.
• Bait-and-Switch: Issue 10 opens on Ulysses having a vision later revealed to be of Old Man Logan murdering Gabby, and Captain Marvel contacting Maria Hill. A few pages later, Laura and Logan hear men approaching from the fire escape, suggesting S.H.I.E.L.D. may have sent men to the apartment...only for it to just turn out to be a couple hapless burglars. And then it's subverted when Captain America does arrive with a S.H.I.E.L.D. team to take Logan into custody after all.
• Bar Brawl: Daken gets into one in issue 25, when he's ambushed at a seedy dive by the Orphans of X.
• Batman Gambit: Kimura's plot during Enemy of the State II ultimately turns out to be a colossal one:
  • She sends Laura a vial of trigger scent, intending to freak her out and draw her out.
  • Upon arriving at a small town in the middle of nowhere, she carpet bombs it with the trigger scent to force Laura to kill the inhabitants. In fact, issue 18 reveals the plan is nearly derailed right then and there: Laura snikts herself in the face to prevent herself from acting while under the effects, and Bellona has to carry out the killings herself.
  • When S.H.I.E.L.D. inevitably arrives, Laura is able to elude capture.
  • After providing enough clues to lead her to Madripoor, Laura just happens to hire Captain Ash, whom Kimura has already bribed, to take her and Gabby to Madripoor.
    • Bellona and Roughhouse were able to force Laura to surrender, but only because Ash just happened to be smuggling children to sell into slavery, and Laura didn't want to risk them getting hurt or killed in the crossfire.
• Batman Grabs a Gun: Laura make a very specific exception to her "no killing" rule by killing Kimura, the woman who tortured her throughout her childhood and was planning to force Laura to kill her aunt and cousin (her last surviving maternal relatives) along with countless other innocents.
• Behind the Black:
  • In issue 8 Maria Hill surprises Laura by lurking outside her apartment during a phone conversation between them, which wouldn't ordinarily be so bad considering Laura and Gabby are inside the apartment. Except for the fact that Hill is currently on board the freaking helicarrier hovering over the building.
  • Averted in issue 11; Laura's enhanced senses lets her smell the S.H.I.E.L.D. troops stationed outside her apartment door, and hear the ones positioned on the roof.
• Big Brother Is Watching:
  • The feed from Sarah's hidden camera is labeled "Big Mother."
  • Doom is wired into the entire population of Latveria in "Old Woman Laura", allowing him to see and hear all that goes on in the country.
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Brood turn up in issue 22.
• Big Damn Heroes: Kimura uses the trigger scent to send Laura to kill Tyger Tiger in issue 16. After cutting her way through her bodyguards and a LMD, she comes face-to-face with Jessán herself, only for Gabby and Gambit to emerge from hiding to stop her, having apparently set everything up with Jessán in advance.
• Blade Brake:
  • Laura has Warren drop her onto a moving Predator Drone in All-New Wolverine #1. She lands on it successfully and holds on with her hand claws, but starts sliding backwards towards a certain Turbine Blender anyway. Fortunately, she has her foot claws as well, which finally stop her just before she falls into the prop.
  • After ripping out the steering column of Mooney's car in All-New Wolverine #3, Laura jumps clear before it plows into a telephone pole, and skids across the street to escape the wreck, using her claws to control herself.
• Bland-Name Product: In the annual, Red Hornet mentioned she was able to find out where Logan lived from "Raddit."
• Blood Sport: It turns out that the lab where Jonathan was experimented on wasn't performing any actual scientific research. Rather, the resident Mad Scientist was creating zombie critters for his personal Zombified Animal Fight Club.
• Book Ends:
  • In issue 1 of All-New Wolverine, a flashback between Laura and Logan ends with him telling her "You're the best you are at what you do. But that doesn't mean you have to do it." At the end of issue 6, in a very similar scene Laura tells Gabby "You're the worst there is at what they wanted you to do. That's pretty impressive." See it here.
  • Issue 7 has another one where Logan uses "Galactus stepping on their sandwiches" to explain how he and Laura will never have a normal family life. At the end of the same issue, Laura tries to use the same to Gabby when when she explains how living with her wont exactly be normal (the reference is lost on Gabby). In both cases, they use the remark to explain to the other that despite the weirdness, they're still family.
• Boom Head Shot: One of the Sisters snipes Laura through the head while she's trying to protect their target in issue 1. Fortunately because of her healing factor it doesn't stick, but it takes her a few moments to get up, during which she monologues about the rain while her brain knits back together.
• Breaking the Bonds:
  • Laura allows herself to be cuffed by Mooney in issue 2 when she arrives at Alchemax Genetics' headquarters while investigating the Paris attack. Emphasis on allows. Once everyone is satisfied she's exactly who she says she is, she makes it very clear that she was always in control.
  • Issue 14: After being arrested by S.H.I.E.L.D. for massacring a town under the effects of the trigger scent, Laura is forced to escape when Fury refuses to pursue the culprits when they flee towards Madripoor. Laura puts her flexibility on display by working her cuffed hands out from behind her back so she can slice through her restraints with her foot claws.
• Breast Plate: Muramasa crafts Laura a suit of armor from pieces of the souls of herself, Daken, and Gabby, to protect her from the Healing Factor-nullifying effects of bullets made from the Muramasa Blade. While it covers her head to toe, (including a Wolverine-esque mask) it's very form fitting and includes molded boob cups.
• Breather Episode:
  • All-New Wolverine #7 is this between the end of Four Sisters and the lead-up to Civil War II. Squirrel Girl ropes Laura into locating a squirrel that is now missing after her actions in issue 3. It's silly and lighthearted, and far more focused on character development than action.
  • The very heavy and serious Orphans of X is followed in issue 31 by a comedic teamup between Gabby and Deadpool that finds them fighting a Zombie Apocalypse... of small animals.
• Brick Joke:
  • In issue 7, Gabby positively squees when she's introduced to Jonathan the Wolverine, and gushes about wanting to dress him up in little suits. In the first annual, she makes good on this by making him a superhero costume! And then in issue 30 he actually wears a suit at Sarah Kinney's funeral.
  • Deadpool and Gabby are attacked by a zombie sloth midway through issue 31 as part of an Overly Long Gag. Later, when Laura arrives looking for Gabby, one of the first questions she has for Wade is why she just passed half a sloth.
  • In issue 33, Laura notes that Gabby was once stepped on by Thanos, referencing a joke about Galactus stepping on their sandwiches used in issue 7 by Logan and Laura about how they can't have a normal life.
• Bullet Proof Human Shield:
  • Variant in issue 8. When Fin Fang Foom attacks Hill's helicarrier, Laura uses her own body to shield her and Gabby from Foom's Breath Weapon. Fortunately, her Healing Factor allows her to shrug it off.
  • Played with in the annual: Laura instinctively puts herself between Gwen and a flamethrower. However at the time Laura is in Gwen's body, and Gwen is in Laura's, meaning Laura has a very real possibility of suffering a lethal injury since Gwen lacks her healing factor. Gwen very quickly gives her a What the Hell, Hero? over it.
  • Averted to tragic effect in "Old Woman Laura:" Laura attempts to take a blast from a Doombot aiming at Maria Hill. She successfully tanks the hit... only for the blast to go clean through her and fatally wound Hill, anyway.
• The Bus Came Back: All-New Wolverine has allowed several characters to reappear after having been absent for a while:
  • Kimura resurfaces on the last page of issue 6, after having not been seen since issue 18 of Kyle and Yost's X-Force in 2009.
  • Longer still: In issue 18, Megan and Deborah Kinney make their first appearance in ten years. They were last seen in Target: X #4.
  • Although not an extended absence, issue 21 marks Daken's first post-Secret Wars appearance. Up until then, his fate after Mystique's betrayal in the final issue of Wolverines was unknown, and many fans were curious as to his fate in the rebuilt main universe.
  • In issue 25, her mother is Back from the Dead. Subverted in that she turns out to be a clone used by the Orphans to spy on/torment Laura.
  • Henry Sutter appears for the first time since X-23: Innocence Lost in issue 29. And he's the leader of The Orphans of X.
• Call-Back:
  • All-New Wolverine #6 has a few:
    • As noted under Book Ends above, the last panel of Laura and Gabby mirrors the last panel of her flashback with Logan in issue 1. In fact the presentation of the entire conversation between Laura and Gabby mirrors the one between Logan and Laura, right down to the position of characters in the panels. See here◊.
    • When Laura calls in S.H.I.E.L.D. to clean up her mess, she tells Maria Hill that while they detain Alchemax Genetics for her, and she, Gabby, and Bellona will hurt them a little to make them feel better. Again, this references the flashback with Logan in #1, where Logan tells her they won't kill the guy who almost blew her up with a bazooka, but they will hurt him a little so they feel better.
  • Squirrel Girl approaches Laura for help finding the "energetic-looking squirrel" she attached a tracker to in All-New Wolverine #3 after Mooney crashed his HUMVEE into its tree.
  • From the annual: When Gwen is in Laura's body and rambling about who she really is, Gabby immediately asks whether she suffered brain damage during the fall after plowing face-first into a car from several stories up. It's a reference to issues 1 and 6, where Laura's Healing Factor sometimes takes a moment to reset her brain after head trauma.
  • Issue 12: Laura tells Captain America she told Gabby she would never leave her while cradling her (supposedly) dead body, referencing her decision in issue 7 to allow her to stay.
  • Issue 18: Has a callback to the scene in issue 1, where Warren pats her on the head after she's been dumped across the street by a crashing Predator drone, because trying to hug her would just aggravate numerous burns and broken bones. After Kimura shoots Warren out of the sky in issue 18, Laura pulls him out of the water and does the same, with their dialogue reversed.
  • Issue 19: 16 issues after Gabby cheerfully tells Laura she should try using body armor, Laura finally integrates it into her costume.
  • Issue 21: Logan returns. Gabby mentions to Deadpool how he killed her, and is sort of like her grandpa, while Logan and Laura begin the process of mending the relationship after the events of Civil War II.
  • Issue 25: One of the takeout cartons on Laura's coffee table is marked "25 with chicken".
• Cardiovascular Love:
  • Played for laughs in issue 9: Foom gets a whiff of Laura after she covers herself in Fin Fang Pheromone to lure him away from New York City, and the background is subtly replaced by a dithered heart.
  • Comes up again in issue 31 when Deadpool lets Gabby light the gas that will burn the lab where Jonathan was tortured and his family turned into zombies to the ground.
• Catapult Nightmare: In issue 10 Laura is concerned that Old Man Logan will have one of these and freak out upon waking up, so she has him tied down to the bed and plays whale song to soothe him while he sleeps. He just ends up more confused when he does come around.
• Catharsis Factor: In-Universe example: Gabby remarks that "catharsis is pretty" in issue 31, while she, Laura, Deadpool, and Jonathan watch the lab where the latter was experimented on burn to the ground.
• The Cavalry: Daken, Deadpool, and Old Man Logan are called this by name when they arrive to help Laura cure the infected people of Roosevelt Island.
• Chekhov's Gag: Laura has to tell Squirrel Girl in issue 7 that despite being Wolverine she can't communicate with wolverines, subverting the Animal-Themed Superbeing trope. 17 issues later, Jonathan the Wolverine gets a universal translator, actually allowing him to communicate with Laura and Gabby.
• Chekhov's Gun:
  • The jetpacks Laura and Gabby used in issue 9 return, used by Gabby and Logan in an attempt to escape from S.H.I.E.L.D. Unfortunately, they're equipped with remote destruct devices...
  • Laura is sent a vial of trigger scent in issue 13 as part of Kimura's plot to lure her out so she can be recaptured. This is the same vial that Gabby uses in issue 17 as part of her plan to break her conditioning to the scent.
• Clear My Name: The overarching plot of "Enemy of the State II." The twist is that Laura did kill the people she's accused of murdering,^note thanks to the trigger scent and she's out to find out who set her up, and why. It's revealed in issue 18 that Bellona carried out the killings instead.
• Clones Are People, Too: A clone herself, Laura openly empathizes with her sisters and wants to help them.
• Clothing Damage:
  • Bellona's armor gets torn up in issue 6 after Laura wears it, allowing herself to get shot as part of a Trojan Horse gambit to gain access to Aclhemax Genetics's bunker.
  • Laura's costume gets partially digested by Fin Fang Foom while rescuing Old Man Logan from his stomach.
  • Logan's wifebeater is shredded by the end of issue 11.
• Coitus Interruptus: Gabby and Logan flee through Laura's apartment building, with Logan carving a path through the walls with his claws. They end up running through several other apartments, in one of which is a couple naked in bed and covered by a Modesty Bedsheet. Gabby almost hesitates to sneak a peek.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: Kimura invented a device that was part sensory deprivation tank, part iron maiden. She uses it on Laura, and makes the point that even her enhanced senses won't be able to pick up anything, meaning that as long as she's inside of it she literally won't know anything other than pain.
• Cool House: Doctor Strange's Sanctum Sanctorum, which startles The Sisters — Bellona especially.
• Cool Shades: The cover to the first annual has Laura, Gabby, Spider-Gwen and even Jonathan the wolverine all wearing sunglasses while strutting towards the viewer. Laura also wears a nice pair of aviators while on her road trip with Gabby in issue 13.
• Comfort Food: Gabby notes that Laura's fridge mostly contains pizza and ice cream, and surmises she takes advantage of her healing factor to get away with eating so much junk and so little healthy foods like fruits and vegetables.
• Comically Missing the Point: Gabby, quite frequently. Some standouts:
  • In All-New Wolverine #7, Laura proclaims to Squirrel-Girl that she can't talk to wolverines, cue Gabby saying otherwise while trying to talk to an actual wolverine.
  Gabby: Hello understandably irritated animal. See.
  Laura: I can't understand wolverines.
  • When the one-eyed Captain Ash mentions that she sees the world differently in #14, Gabby immediately chimes in:
  Gabby: Of course you see things a little differently. You don't have depth perception.
• Comical Overreacting: In issue 8, Laura and Gabby take Jonathan the wolverine walkies in the park. Other pedestrians positively panic at the sight of Jonathan, and scatter.
• Comic-Book Time: Exactly how far in the future "Old Woman Laura" is set is unclear. Enough time has passed that Laura is beginning to visibly show her age, even though it's established by Logan that she shouldn't look a day past her mid thirties for decades, if not for a century or more. Yet Kamala Khan is old enough to be President of the United States, and an aged Maria Hill is still kicking around. Unless Laura is prematurely aging because of Clone Degeneration, yet that should have been enough of a tipoff something was wrong that Gabby shouldn't have been surprised to learn she was dying.
• Companion Cube: Gabby treats Laura's pelican statue as this, insisting they bring it along even though it's an inanimate object. Laura was already ahead of her and had it loaded in the car.
• Continuity Nod: Has its own page.
• Continuity Snarl: Daken had his wrist claws bonded with metal from the Muramasa Blade, which Logan cut out and buried with the hilt shard of the sword. However All-New Wolverine #27 shows that all three claws were coated.
• Covers Always Lie:
  • All-New Wolverine #3 shows Laura dramatically jumping between two armored cars loaded with soldiers charging each other, while rockets and bullets fly between them. The scene does sort of happen, except it's Alchemax pursuing the Sisters's armored jeep. And the girls are fleeing, not attacking the other car head-on.
  • The cover for All-New Wolverine #6 shows Laura and all three of the Sisters standing together, backed into a corner and ready to fight. However Zelda was killed in issue 5...
• Darker and Edgier: The "Orphans of X" arc running beginning in issue 25 is this for the series as a whole. Although some of the humor — particularly where Gabby is concerned — remains, the story is much more serious, violent, and bloody than anything in the book since its first arc.
• Dead Person Conversation: While unconscious mid-fight, Laura speaks with Logan.
• Deliberate Injury Gambit: Gabby pulls one on Roughhouse, breaking her own leg to engineer her escape from Ash's ship in issue 16.
• Denser and Wackier: Issues 7-9, compared to the first arc. Issue 7 features an appearance by Fun Personified Squirrel Girl, with a main plot that centers around finding a missing squirrel Laura accidentally rendered homeless in #3. Issues 8 and 9 finds her in a rather random encounter with Fin Fang Foom, which is resolved by Laura covering herself with a pheromone that essentially acts as an aphrodisiac for the 100 foot tall dragon, and uses it to lure him away from a population center. However while the main plots are sillier and more focused on just being fun, there's still rather deep character drama, as all three issues find Laura dealing with her lingering difficulties coping with Logan's death, and the family she never got to have growing up.
• Desecrating the Dead: At some point in his past, Old Man Logan came across the grave of his universe's Gabby in the Wastelands. He then proceeded to destroy and spit on the marker.
• Destination Defenestration: Gwen defenestrates herself in the annual, jumping out of Laura's apartment window before she realizes that she doesn't have her web shooters (or powers) in Laura's body.
• Died in Your Arms Tonight: Hellion, in the alternate future, is shown in a flashback to the Doom World War lying dead in Laura's arms. Whether he was already dead or in the process of dying when she held him isn't clear.
• Diseased Name: Inverted: In issue 19 a sick alien child crash lands on Roosevelt Island. She manages to say one thing before succumbing to her illness: Laura Kinney. In issue 20 it's revealed that this led to the virus being dubbed the Laura Kinney Virus once it began to spread. Laura herself is less than pleased at having the pathogen of a lethal disease named after her.
• Domino Mask: One is worn by Jonathan in the annual, after Gabby decides he needs one to protect his secret identity.
• Do Not Adjust Your Set: In issue 8 Maria Hill attempts to call her for help. Not wanting anything to do with S.H.I.E.L.D., Laura refuses to answer. So Hill picks up for her. Laura then warns Gabby not to say anything. So Hill puts Laura's phone on speaker.
  Laura: Can she do that?
  Hill: Yes, I can do that.
• Doomy Dooms of Doom: Twice in issue 33: The final conflict between the heroes and villains in the backstory is called the Doom World War, and Latveria is enclosed within what has been dubbed the Doom Dome in its aftermath.
• Due to the Dead: After making their peace with the Orphans of X in issue 30, Daken insists that they return Sarah's body (which they used to create their clone) so Laura can finally provide her with a proper funeral, and gain closure over her death.
• Dying Moment of Awesome: It's kind of undermined by her Healing Factor allowing her to recover, but Laura's Heroic Sacrifice in issue 21, walking out among the sick and taking on their illness so her body can destroy it. She keeps going even though her healing abilities are overwhelmed and fail, rapidly aging and getting sicker and sicker by the moment. She's so determined to reach as many of the infected as she can that she keeps on going until there's nothing left of her but a desiccated husk.
• Earth-Shattering Kaboom: Quill ultimately elects to blow up the moon of Rhittle in issue 24, in order to exterminate the Brood hive there.
• Eaten Alive:
  • The ultimate fate of Professor Holt and the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents attempting to arrest her in issue 8: Devoured whole by Fin Fang Foom. This was nearly the fate for Old Man Logan, as well, however a combination of his Healing Factor and adamantium skeleton kept him alive long enough for Laura to rescue him in #9. He still loses the lower half of his body until his flesh is able to regenerate.
  • Dr. Borland meets his end this way as well: devoured by a pit full of zombie wolverines.
• Eat Me: After learning that the substance in the box attracts Fin Fang Foom in issue 8, Laura realizes just what happened to Old Man Logan and the missing S.H.I.E.L.D. agents. She realizes the only way to get them back is to get eaten herself, so dives into Foom's open maw.
• Embarrassing Hospital Gown: In issue #22, Laura wakes up in a hospital bed and wearing a hospital gown after being unconscious for two weeks. But she doesn't notice it and is angry at all the time she already spent in bed and wants to get back to the action. So when she yanks off their IV and gets out of bed, she ends up giving Gabby an eyeful of her buttocks, causing Gabby to snark to Laura that it may be better to put some clothes on before she goes to talk with S.H.I.E.L.D.
• Enemy Mine: After the Orphans borrow some Hand ninjas to assault Muramasa's home in an effort to capture Laura, Daken, and Gabby, Gorgon himself arrives, and is not pleased at his people being coopted. After executing the Orphan who led the attack and regaining control, he agrees to provide Laura and Gabby with a ride to track down the rest of the group.
• Enter Stage Window: Laura often enters and exits her apartment through the window and fire escape, rather than going through the door. Justified because she usually does this when she's in costume, and it avoids awkward conversations with the neighbors. Issue 10 also suggests this is usually how Warren comes and goes from her apartment when he drops by, as she tells Old Man Logan she leaves a window unlocked because she has a flying boyfriend.
• Epiphany Therapy: Of a sort. Jean and Gabby help Laura try to break her of the trigger scent conditioning, with Gabby letting Laura use her as a punching bag, while Jean enters her mind. Jean discovers that Laura's consciousness retreats to a memory of Sarah reading her Pinocchio when she's under the effects of the scent. Laura's consciousness believes she's locked in, but Jean helps her realize that the "door" was always open, letting her break through and shake the trigger scent's control over her.
• Evil Gloating: Amber takes the time to brag about killing Sabretooth, Deathstrike, and Old Man Logan, and revealing her plan to kill the rest of them. After Laura reveals her new suit of armor from Muramasa.
• Even Evil Has Standards: During the "Enemy of the State II" storline, Roughouse agrees to escort a group of intended child slaves to safety. When one of the pirates who was transporting the children tries to cut a deal with him, he adamantly refuses, and throws the pirate off the ship for good measure.
  Roughouse: I've done some horrible things in my time... [pauses to throw the pirate off the ship] ...But being asked to protect kids from slavers isn't one of 'em.
• Face–Heel Turn: In the "Old Woman Laura" arc:
  • Doctor Doom, who had a Heel–Face Turn after Secret Wars, returned to his villainous ways and launched an all-out attack on the heroes called the Doom World War.
  • Magneto apparently wound up on Doom's side, as he can be seen attacking the Hawkeyes (Clint Barton and Kate Bishop) with a large piece of metal debris, while Iron Man blasts it.
• Fake Assassination: An odd variation during the "Enemy of the State II" arc. The assassination attempt itself is very much real, with Kimura using a trigger scent-induced Laura to murder Tyger Tiger for control of Madripoor. However Gabby, Gambit, Jean Grey, and Angel are wise to the plan, and swap out a Life Model Decoy for the real Jessán, both to make it look to Kimura like the attack was successful, and as a trap to recapture Laura so Jean could deprogram her.
• Fanservice: The general lack of it in All-New Wolverine is frequently cited as a strength of the series, as though the Wolverine costume is quite form-fitting, it's much less revealing than most of Laura's outfits historically tended to be. The artists also make a concerted effort to avoid overtly sexualizing her by downplaying the Male Gaze.
  • The series does possess non-sexual forms of fanservice, however, particularly in the form of the flashbacks with Logan, Taylor's general attention to continuity (see Call-Back and Continuity Nod above).
  • When Gabby geeks out after being given the name "Honey Badger" by Daken, the splash panel is filled with classic Wolverine covers, such as Incredible Hulk #181 and Frank Miller's legendary Wolverine #1. However all the titles are changed to Honey Badger, with Gabby in Logan's place. See the panel here◊
  • Some more conventional fanservice does appear in the form of Daken meditating completely nude in issue 28. Also, one panel in issue 29 has Laura running across the snow in her skivvies, having thrown away her kimono while rushing back to Muramasa's house to get her costume when the Hand attacks.
• "Fantastic Voyage" Plot: Issue #5, which involves Laura and The Wasp shrinking into Zelda's body to destroy the nanites inside her.
• Fastball Special: Subverted in issue 23: The Guardians of the Galaxy are retreating from a Brood horde, with Drax carrying Laura. Laura, however, is trying to get free because the Brood have taken Gabby. To save her from being overwhelmed, (and out of annoyance when she snikts his arm in her attempts to make him let her go) Drax throws her away from the fight.
• Finger in the Mail: Laura is sent Daken's arm in issue 25 as a message by the Orphans of X.
• Flipping the Bird:
  • Not actually in issue 13, but when Gabby gets fed up with a rude woman in traffic, she pops her claw and raises her hand in a manner very reminiscent of the gesture.
  • Gabby literally gives Deadpool the bird in issue 22. As in: She cuts off her own middle finger and gives it to him in a box as a parting gift. Deadpool is brought to tears of joy.
• For Science!: Rankine tries to argue this as his justification for experimenting on a Brood Queen, causing the entire mess in the first place. No one buys it for a second, as he just digs himself in deeper by indicating he intended to sell his research as weapons.
• For the Evulz: Dr. Borland's experiments in issue 31 aren't even For Science!. He's doing it entirely for his own sick amusement.
• Formula-Breaking Episode: The final arc, "Old Woman Laura", pulls double duty:
  • In context of the series, this arc is set entirely in the future, rather than the present-day setting of the vast majority of the book. Gabby is grown up and now Wolverine, with Laura having retired.
  • And in context of the larger Marvel universe, it breaks the string of Bad Future settings of stories like Marvel 2099, Days of Future Past, and Old Man Logan by presenting a future in which the heroes won, and created a utopia.
• Fragile Speedster: Gabby may be incredibly well-trained in hand-to-hand combat, but she's also a tween even smaller than the 5'1" Wolverine. When she takes on the substantially larger Captain Mooney (who has to bend down to be One Head Taller than Laura) by herself, she manages to jump on him and deliver a solid headbutt. However Mooney shrugs it off and casually tosses her away. Because however well-trained she is, she's still just a tiny kid.
• Frame-Up: Double Subverted. Laura does kill every single person in Daylesville, California, but it's due to the Trigger Scent, meaning it's still Kimura's fault by proxy. And then it's triple subverted in issue 18, when Bellona confesses that Laura managed to snikt herself in the face before she completely fell under the trigger scent, and that she was left to do the killings as a contingency plan.
• "Freaky Friday" Flip: The plot of the first annual centers around Laura and Gwen Stacy having their bodies swapped.
• "Friends" Rent Control: Laura and Gabby's apartment on Roosevelt Island is much nicer than the one in the Bronx she inherited from Logan, being a corner apartment at the top floor of the high rise. It's a pretty prime location, and Laura doesn't exactly have a regular salary. However it's also justified: The apartment was paid in full by the residents and given to them as a gift in gratitude for saving the island from an alien virus
• Fully-Dressed Cartoon Animal: Not cartoon animal, but when Gabby squees over meeting Jonathan the wolverine in issue 7, she gushes about wanting to dress him up in little suits. And then she makes good on it by making him a costume to protect his secret identity (despite being the only wolverine that follows around a superhero). Complete with Domino Mask.
• Funny Background Event: Gabby plays with Groot and Jonathan in the background while Laura and Star-Lord have a serious conversation about the possibility the alien virus may have been part of a ruse to lure Laura into a trap in issue 22. It starts with Jonathan using Groot as a chew toy and Gabby coming to his rescue, and ends with Groot using the wolverine as a Horse of a Different Color.
• The Future Will Be Better: "Old Woman Laura" presents a utopian future in which the heroes won against the villains, setting it apart from the Bad Futures that dominate most of Marvel's alternate timelines.

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• Gay Paree: The first issue of sees Laura in Paris attempting to stop an assassination. This time it's the antagonist who takes the dive off the top of the tower. And despite being a clone of Laura, dies in the process because she doesn't have a Healing Factor.
• Gilligan Cut: When she and Laura head out on vacation in issue 13, Gabby gleefully hangs out of the sunroof of their car announcing the road trip. The very next page sees them mired in New York City traffic.
• Giving Them the Strip: After Laura covers herself in the pheromone controlling Foom and leads him away from New York to protect it from the chemically-induced amorous intentions of the 100 foot tall dragon, Laura ends up having to give him her costume to end the threat.
• The Glomp:
  • After Laura downs a Predator drone with her bare hands, Warren is about to do this to Laura when she stops him. Not because she's afraid of the display of affection, but because she's currently severely injured and her healing factor is still putting her back together. Warren pats her on the head, instead.
  • Laura of all people is the Glomp-er, gathering Gabby into a crushing bear-hug when upon learning she's still alive after Old Man Logan accidentally stabbed her while in a feral rage.
• Good Thing You Can Heal:
  • Issue 1 has a sniper shooting Laura in the head and her falling to ground dead. A few minutes later, she gets up and walks away.
  • Old Man Logan stabs Gabby, seemingly killing her. However, Gabby reveals herself as having inherited Laura's healing factor.
• Gory Discretion Shot:
  • Gwen accidentally stabbing herself (while in Laura's body) in the face with Laura's claws happens off-panel. Same when Laura removes her claws so her body can heal. We don't see the results, but it's enough to make Red Hornet nearly barf in her helmet on the first, and grosses her out again the second.
  • Gabby gives Deadpool her finger in a box as a gift in issue 22 (It Makes Sense in Context). We don't see it, but Wade gives Laura a good look, and her face says it all.
• Grave Humor: In addition to the grave of Elizabeth Howlett in issue 27, Caball's artwork includes several gag headstones: Apollo Creed, Faith In Humanity, and Juan Caball's Career.
• Grave-Marking Scene: At the beginning of issue 12 Logan is seen standing in front of the grave of Gabby in his home reality, Earth-807128. He subsequently smashes the tombstone to pieces and tells her she doesn't deserve to be remembered.
• Great Offscreen War: The Doom World War in "Old Woman Laura's" backstory: A global conflict which pit all of the worlds heroes vs. its villains, and which the heroes won.
• Grievous Bottley Harm: One of the Orphans of X tries to pull this on Daken in the bar fight in issue 25.
• Grievous Harm with a Body: Daken throws an angry rottweiler at one of the Orphans of X while escaping their Torture Cellar.
• Healing Hands: Because of a quirk in how The Plague during the "Immune" arc functions, it effectively turns Laura's healing factor into this: The alien virus is actually drawn to her, and will actively leave the body of anyone infected with it and enter hers instead if she makes skin-to-skin contact with one of the victims. Her healing factor then destroys the virus.
• Heel–Face Turn: Tyger Tiger is attempting one for the entire island nation of Madripoor, seeking to turn it from a Wretched Hive of smugglers, drug runners, and organized crime, into a place of legitimate business. This puts her afoul of both Kimura, who wants to maintain the status quo and set herself up at the top of an island-wide criminal empire, and S.H.I.E.L.D., who has come to Madripoor in pursuit of Laura for her trigger scent-fueled massacre of Daylesville. Tyger is left with no choice but to cooperate with the latter if she wants to fulfill her dreams.
• Heroic RRoD: In issue 21 Laura, Gabby, Daken, Deadpool, and Logan go out into Roosevelt Island to help cure the people ravaged by The Plague. However even with their healing factors, the disease can eventually overwhelm them. one by one, Gabby, Daken, Wade, and Logan have to drop out as they push themselves to the point their healing abilities are compromised. Laura pushes herself beyond those limits because of her drive to save as many people as she can. She begins Rapid Aging as her healing factor breaks down, and she eventually collapses into a desiccated husk.
• Hidden Supplies: Gabby stashed the jet packs she and Laura used while dealing with Fin Fang Foom under her bed. As one does at her age.
• Hoist by His Own Petard: The Mad Scientist who experimented on Jonathan and his family meets his doom when he falls into the pit of zombified wolverines.
• Hot Skitty-on-Wailord Action: Played for laughs in issues 8 and 9. After S.H.I.E.L.D. releases a pheromone that attracts Fin Fang Foom in issue 8, he attacks Maria Hill's helicarrier. However Gabby quickly realizes Foom's not try to destroy it, but mate with it. Which she quickly lampshades with a spoof on The Talk. In order to lure him away from New York to protect the city, Laura douses herself with the pheromone to act as bait. Foom promptly turns his amorous intentions on her instead, and she's successfully able to lead him off. In the end she has to sacrifice her costume to placate him, and borrow clothes from Captain Marvel to get home.
• How Do I Shot Web?: The inevitable result of mind-swapping two superheroes with vastly differing power sets. When Laura and Gwen have their consciousnesses switched in the annual, neither is able to fully control the others' powers: Laura struggles with Gwen's Super-Strength, and Gwen ends up snikting herself in the face with Laura's claws.
• If I Wanted You Dead...: Laura pulls this to quite dramatic effect on the Orphans of X in issue 30: After going out to talk to them in an effort to defuse the conflict she tells that had she and her family wanted to kill them, there would be nothing they could do about it. On cue, Gabby, Daken, and Old Man Logan (who have hidden themselves throughout the crowd by donning the Orphans' distinct masks, pop their claws to reveal they had been hiding among them all along, literally putting the Orphans at their mercy.
• If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: Logan and Gabby trade these in issue 12: Logan's is almost verbatim, threatening to come for her if she ever does anything to hurt Laura. Gabby accepts that, and then throws it back in his face by threatening to "put him down" like a rabid dog if he ever does anything to hurt or upset Laura again.
• I Have Your Wife: Kimura reveals in issue 16 that she's located Laura's aunt and cousin, and uses them as leverage to prevent Laura from killing herself to escape working for her.
• "I Know You Are in There Somewhere" Fight: A two-pronged example in issue 17 when Jean and Gabby attempt to break Laura of her conditioning to the trigger scent. Gabby faces Laura physically, using the scent on herself because she'll both heal from the injuries Laura will inflict, and because she won't feel the pain. Meanwhile, Jean enters Laura's mind, and confronts the representation of her consciousness in an attempt to convince her she doesn't have to be controlled any longer.
• Implied Death Threat:
  • After having already kicked Captain Mooney's ass and the collective asses of his entire army when they tried to kill the Sisters in issue 2, and leaving him broken and bleeding in the wreckage of his car after he tried again to chase them down and finish them off in issue 3, Laura warns him that this is her holding back, and if he comes after her and the Sisters again that next time she won't.
  • Chandler himself makes a veiled one to Mooney in issue 5 over his very public failures to bring the Sisters in.
• Improbable Infant Survival: Zigzagged in issues 11 and 12. At the end of issue 11, Logan [1] impales Gabby on his claws, and it appears that she's been killed. And likely would have been, until issue 12 revealed she manifested a healing factor. Is surprises everyone when she gets back up, seemingly no worse for wear.
• Info Dump: Much of issue 13 is spent recapping events of X-23: Innocence Lost and Target: X, establishing who Kimura, Megan, and Debbie are, and the nature of the trigger scent.
• In Medias Res: The very first issue begins with Laura in the midst of a mission in Paris, with little context given for why she's there, who she's trying to protect, and how she decided to take up the Wolverine name.
• Insistent Terminology: In issue 8, Gabby calls the substance controlling Fin Fang Foom a "Fin Fang Pheromone." The next issue when Hill simply calls it a "pheromone," Gabby immediately corrects her with the pun.
• I Regret Nothing: Gabby's verbatim response to Laura's annoyance over betraying her secret Suicide Mission to Captain Marvel and Hawkeye in issue 34.
• Ironic Echo:
  • Early in issue 10, Laura and Old Man Logan hear someone incredibly nervous coming up the fire escape. The preceding scene between Captain Marvel and Ulysses implies it's going to be S.H.I.E.L.D. agents coming to stop one of his visions, but it turns out to just be a couple burglars. Later in the issue it happens again, only this time it turns out to be Captain America and a veritable army of S.H.I.E.L.D. soldiers.
  • The callback to issue 7 in issue 12 mentioned above becomes this. In issue 7, Laura tells Gabby she'll never leave her, and allows her to stay rather than sending her away. It's a bit bittersweet because it's associated with Laura's own feelings of abandonment by Logan when he left her at the Xavier School, but is nonetheless meant to be uplifting. In issue 12, Laura laments to Captain America that she told Gabby she would never leave her, after she believes Old Man Logan accidentally killed her in feral rage.
• It's All My Fault: When an alien virus begins ravaging Roosevelt Island after a sick alien child crash-lands there looking for her, Laura shoulders the responsibility despite Peter Parker and Ironheart telling her she's not to blame. The fact someone decided to name the virus in her "honor" adds salt to the wound.
• It's a Small World, After All: The laboratory where Jonathan was being experimented on turns out to be no more than four blocks away from Laura and Gabby's Roosevelt Island apartment.
• It's Going Down: True to form, in issue 8 Maria Hill's helicarrier gets trashed, in this case by a rampaging Fin Fang Foom. It manages to stay up through the end of issue 8, but is finally disabled and splashes down near the mouth of the Hudson in issue 9.
  Gabby: Your helicarrier lost its heli.
• It's Personal:
  • Laura's decision to take out Kimura in issue 18 is built on this.
  • Her determination to find a cure for the alien virus in Immune, and to track down its source in the following arc, are driven by the child which brought the disease to earth asking for Laura by name before she died. Laura therefore feels personally responsible for the virus. Ironically, the only reason the child asked for Laura is because she died before she could mention any of the other names on her list, including the likes of Beast and Stark.
• It's the Only Way to Be Sure: "Immune:" Fury doesn't want to raze Roosevelt Island to the ground, but left with no other choice he will sacrifice 10,000 people to prevent the alien disease ravaging the island from spreading to the rest of the world. Laura goes in to do whatever she can to make sure he doesn't have to make that call.
• Jet Pack: Both Laura and Gabby use S.H.I.E.L.D. jet packs in issue 9 during the fight with Fin Fang Foom. Gabby ended up stashing them under her bed, and she and Logan attempt to escape from S.H.I.E.L.D. with them in issue 10.
• Keep the Reward: Subverted. After saving (most of) the population of Roosevelt Island from the virus, they offer Laura an apartment there free of charge as a thank you. Laura tells Gabby they don't accept rewards, but since she was unconscious at the time, Gabby already accepted on her behalf knowing she would refuse once she woke up.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: In the future, an adult Gabby has assumed the mantle of Wolverine from a retired Laura.
• Killed Offscreen: The only casualty of the Doom World War explicitly shown in "Old Woman Laura" is Hellion during a flashback battle scene. However if Doom's Superhero Trophy Room is any indication, Cap, Stark, and Peter Parker were killed as well.
• Kirk Summation: Laura delivers a withering one to Captain America after S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt to apprehend Old Man Logan before he could kill Gabby only ended up nearly causing the tragedy in the first place. When Steve tries to object to her decision to let Logan go anyway, she utterly rips apart the circumstances of Civil War II and warns Cap exactly what will happen if everyone keeps going down the road they're currently on before storming away.
  Laura: This kid who can see the future. He'll divide you all again. Everyone will be a bit right and a bit wrong. But the world will watch hero fight hero, and people will get just a little more disillusioned, a little less trusting, a little more cynical. Tell Hill we're going away. Somewhere S.H.I.E.L.D. can't find us. Tell her I know something about her future. I know we're not in it.
• The Last Dance: "Old Woman Laura" finds a dying Laura undertaking one last mission: Kill Doctor Doom. Subverted: While she completes her mission, Laura doesn't die, and in fact Gabby browbeats her into continuing to find a way to fix her Clone Degeneration.
• The Last Straw: The Orphans of X were once content to hate Laura and her fellow Wolverines from afar, getting together only to support each other. But after what happened on Roosevelt Island, their disgust at seeing those they hate most hailed as heroes prompted them to try to kill them all.
• Latex Space Suit: Issue 5 features a "Fantastic Voyage" Plot, in which Laura and The Wasp must enter Zelda's blood to destroy nanomachines that are slowly killing her. Laura's suit, a variation on the Ant-Man suit, is supposed to both protect her from the environment and make it possible for her to shrink down in the first place. It's also skin-tight with the classic bubble helmet. Ditto for Jan's, which is basically her regular (also skin-tight) costume. Somehow, the fact Laura using her claws causes tears in the gloves and boots does nothing to compromise the suit.
• Layered World: The location of Laura's apartment is a nightclub in Spider-Gwen's home dimension, where Gwen happens to be performing at a gig. Their body swap is caused by Laura and Gwen inhabiting the same spot in their respective universes when Red Hornet attempts to use her portal gun to forcibly send Laura to the other universe.
• Leave Him to Me!: In the final battle in issue 18, Laura insists that taking out Kimura is her responsibility. It's Personal.
• Let's You and Him Fight: Spectacularly averted in issue 5: Strange teleports Laura, Gabby, Zelda, and Bellona to one of Hank Pym's labs to steal an Ant-Man suit. The Wasp is there keeping tabs on the installation, but rather than attack, she only takes measures to prevent Bellona from shooting the place up, and actually takes the time to check out the facts first.
• Lighter and Softer: Than is typical not only for a Wolverine book, but for X-23 herself. Laura makes a conscious effort to avoid killing, and the book focuses much more on character development for both Laura and her clones (especially Gabby) than it does on action and bloodshed. That's not to say it's lacking mature themes at all, particularly in the first arc, but it's a significant departure from what most readers expected.
• Logical Weakness:
  • Kimura may be super-strong and possess unbreakable skin, but she still needs to breathe. Laura kills her by drowning her.
  • The Muramasa metal prevents wounds from healing, but only in the wounded area itself. Laura and her family take advantage of this by simply cutting out the area around the wound, allowing their Healing Factor to kick back in and replace the entire area.
• Lonely Bachelor Pad: In issue #13, Laura and Gabby hole up in one of Logan's cabins, which they arrive to find a complete wreck, with the only food in the house being a stale loaf of bread a family of mice have turned into an apartment. Laura makes it clear it's not because it's been abandoned since Logan's death; it looked like that when he was still using it. Logan truly was the best there is at what he did, but that wasn't housekeeping.

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• MacGuffin: Alchemax requests Laura help them bring the Sisters in to prevent them from killing anyone else. However it's really a double-cross. While Laura intends to resolve the situation peacefully, Alchemax doesn't exactly care about the "bring them back alive" part, and both Mooney and Taskmaster attempt to kill the girls since their corpses are just as useful.
• Malevolent Masked Man: A masked and hooded figure watches Laura depart earth aboard Milano in issue 22, before reporting in to someone that the Wolverine has left earth, and to switch their target to Daken.
• That Man Is Dead: In issue 18 Laura forever severs ties with her past as the Facility's experiment and Kimura's personal punching bag, and declares that she is not X-23.
  Laura: I'm not X-23. I'm not your experiment. I'm not your @#$%ing property! You are the last person who will ever think they can own me. No one owns me! I'm not a thing. I'm Laura Kinney! I'm the daughter of Sarah. I'm the daughter of Logan. (Laura shatters the Iron Man armor she's wearing) I'm Wolverine!!!
• Mob War: Laura gets drawn into one between Kimura and Tyger Tiger. Tyger wants to turn the country straight and eliminate its illicit businesses, but Kimura wants to maintain the status quo and set herself up as head of an island-spanning criminal empire. She lures Laura to Madripoor intending to use her to assassinate Tyger, and remove the last roadblock to her gaining total control.
• Modesty Bedsheet:
  • A couple Logan and Gabby interrupt while doing the deed during their escape from Cap and S.H.I.E.L.D. hastily cover themselves with one when the pair smash through their apartment.
  • Laura gets one herself in #20 while submitting herself to examination by Monica Rappaccini while the latter is trying to find a cure for The Plague.
• Mood Whiplash:
  • The scene with the burglars in issue 10 starts as a Crowning Moment of Funny due to the sheer absurdity of a couple Muggles trying to rob the Wolverine (two of them, in fact, along with the Tyke Bomb clone little sister to one of them). It very quickly turns serious when they pull guns, and Jonathan is shot defending Gabby, Gabby goes berserk against one, and Laura has to restrain Logan from gutting the other. The mood then rapidly swings back to funny when Jonathan is revealed to be fine, and Gabby begins gleefully calling him "Jonathan the Unstoppable" (they will write songs of his legend).
  • Once again in issue 11. Logan and Gabby's escape from Laura's apartment, with Logan carving holes through the walls (including interrupting a couple having sex — prompting Gabby to hesitate before following Logan out) makes for an amusing and entertaining action sequence. This ends very quickly when an explosion and a couple dozen darts of tranquilizers lead a berserk and disoriented Logan to eviscerate Gabby.
  • Gabby in general is very good for these, able to swing the scene all within the space of one panel.
  • Issue 30 ends with a funeral for Sarah Kinney, after Daken requests the Orphans return her body so they can give her a proper burial, while also finally providing Laura closure after having to watch her mother die in her arms twice before leaving her behind to flee for her life. It's a beautiful, tearful, and heartfelt scene. And then you realize that Jonathan the Wolverine is wearing a suit.
• Moral Myopia: Henry Sutter, leader of the Ophans of X. He hates Laura for killing his father, Martin, ignoring the fact that Martin was the one who created Laura to be an assassin for hire (information he neglected to share with the rest of the Orphans, including his girlfriend Amber). He also ignores the fact that Laura spared his life (and her acknowledging that this encounter was what spurred her to reject the Facility's orders), and her telling him that she was just as much a victim as him, shooting Laura repeatedly with Muramasa bullets and calling her an "animal". Amber, whose father was killed by Laura, is noticeably disturbed by his actions.
• Mugged for Disguise: More like Claws Shoved Through Head For Disguise. After killing the man torturing him, Daken disguises himself in the man's clothing and mask.
• Mugging the Monster: A couple hapless burglars break into Laura's apartment in issue 10. While Laura is home.
• My Beloved Smother: Gabby essentially accuses Laura of being this when she's ordered to stay aboard Milano in issue 22, only to have her argument completely demolished when Laura immediately points out that she let her travel into outer space.
• Mythology Gag:
  • The wolverine Squirrel Girl drops off at Laura's apartment is named Jonathan. It's silly because it's a wolverine, making it a case of Fluffy the Terrible. However then you remember that the man Logan believed to be his father was John Howlett.
  • Captain Ash's ship is named S. S. Yost, in reference to X-23 co-creator Christopher Yost.
• Never Say "Die": In issue 33, Laura averts it when she confesses to Gabby that she's dying as part of an Alternate Universe and future. However she then plays it straight: While noting that she's lived a good life to comfort her sister, she chokes up when she mentions having had good years with Julian and can't get it out that he died, so instead she references that those years were before the Doom World War. A later flashback confirms Julian was killed in that conflict.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero:
  • After Ulysses has a vision that Old Man Logan would kill Gabby, Hill sends Captain America to Laura's apartment to take them into custody. A fight breaks out, leading to Gabby and Logan fleeing on the rocket packs used during the adventure with Fin Fang Foom. Hill has Logan's destroyed, causing him to crash into Central Park, and driving him feral with rage. Gabby tries to calm him down, but in his current state he confuses her with the Gabby of his universe, and lashes out, impaling her on his claws. S.H.I.E.L.D.'s efforts to prevent Ulysses' vision only led to its coming to pass.
  • In issue 17, Tyger Tiger is left in a position where she must cooperate with Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D., and turn Laura in to further her aims of bringing Madripoor onto the world stage as a legitimate national and business power. She betrays the location of the bunker where her friends are hiding her, and takes Fury there. Unfortunately, this also ends up leading Kimura right to them.
  • The alien virus that ravages Roosevelt Island during "Immune" was created as a biological weapon to kill the Brood attacking a Shi'ar medical research facility. Unfortunately, not only did it break out and infect residents of the research base, all it did to the Brood was make them even angrier.
• Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: A vial of trigger scent mailed to Laura's apartment by Kimura as part of her plot to recapture her later gets used by Gabby to help break the conditioning. Without it, Gabby and Jean would have had nothing to use.
• Night of the Living Mooks: The Orphans of X have a member in the Hand. He co-opts a group of the undead ninjas under Amber's orders to attack Laura, Daken, and Gabby at Muramasa's home. It doesn't end well for him when Gorgon turns up to regain control.
• Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: The Hand make an appearance in issue 29, bringing their undead-ness with them.
• No Escape but Down: Laura escapes S.H.I.E.L.D. custody in issue 14 by blowing a hole in the Quinjet she's currently riding in and jumping out. Without a parachute.
• Not What It Looks Like: The first time Laura sees Deadpool in issue 31, his katanas are loaded down with skewered zombie squirrels. Wade immediately invokes this, however when she points out it looks like he's made squirrel kabobs, he concedes that it actually is what it looks like.
• No, You: After Laura and Gabby get chewed out by an older woman from bringing such a "dangerous dog" (Jonathan, Gabby's pet wolverine) to the park, Gabby immediately turns around and calls her dangerous for failing to recognized Jonathan isn't actually a dog.
• Noodle Incident: At some point in "Old Woman Laura's" alternate timeline Gabby got stepped on by Galactus, and reduced to mush (she got better).
• Now Allowed to Hug: Laura, as a former victim of sex trafficking, has a noted hatred of being touched. So after she takes out a drone and crashes to the ground, Angel goes to hug her, and she stops him. He immediately apologizes, saying he should have remembered her past. She shakes her head, saying it's not because of her previous issues, but because she's got several broken bones and her healing factor is still knitting her back together. By way of compromise, Angel pats her head.
  Angel: Awkward?
  Laura: So much. (Angel stops. Laura smiles ruefully) I didn't say to stop.
• Odd-Shaped Panel: Prominent in Juan Cabal's art, as he frequently uses objects within a scene as additional panel space. Just a few examples:
  • Floor tiles, windows, and walls in the ruins of the Facility in issue 25 are used to display Laura's memories of her brutal upbringing.
  • Sarah's coffee mug in the following issue becomes a depiction of her time in a stasis tank.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • Agent Lee's response to Professor Holt opening the box at the beginning of issue 8. The scene cuts away before the contents can be revealed, but it scares the hell out of her and the S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives with her.
    • Laura's is much more subdued when she realizes just what that mysterious substance actually is in the box. She only barely manages to get out a warning to Maria Hill before Fin Fang Foom is drawn in by the pheromones it contained, and begins tearing apart Hill's helicarrier.
  • Laura again in issue 13, when she realizes that the water bombers roaring over Daylesville are about to dust the area with trigger scent.
  • A double whammy from Laura and the Guardians of the Galaxy in issue 22: First when the alien colony starts charging its guns, and then when the group sees what they're preparing for: A large group of the Brood.
• Ominous Message from the Future: Provided by Old Man Logan. Apparently Alchemax Genetics existed and were up to the same tricks in his universe, as well. He knows that Gabby is lying to Laura about the existence of her claws, and who knows what else because he met her in his world. Whatever happened with the Gabby of his timeline, it's suggested to have not been pretty: He pointedly asks whether she intends to harm Laura, which Gabby denies. When he later tries to discuss the matter with Laura herself she refuses to even listen, reminding him that this isn't his universe, and she's determined for herself and Gabby to live their own lives, and Screw Destiny.
• Our Zombies Are Different: Gabby and Deadpool run afoul of a horde of zombie bunnies, squirrels, and even a sloth while investigating the lab where Jonathan was experimented on in issue 30. Unfortunately they discover that Jonathan's entire family had already been zombified, as well.
• Overly Long Gag: Used to perfection in issue 30, with an entire five-panel page devoted to a zombie sloth slowly crawling menacingly at Gabby and Deadpool, while the duo banter and have a soda.
• Paranoia Gambit: A subtle example in issue 13 maneuvers Laura into being driven into a murderous rage, wiping out a small town in California: Recent events (burglars, random unannounced visits by Squirrel Girl, S.H.I.E.L.D. raiding her apartment, getting mind-swapped with someone in another dimension) have led Laura to decide it's best for her and Gabby to disappear for a while. When a mysterious package arrives while they pack, Laura decides to move up their departure to the next morning. Then she opens the package and discovers it contains a vial of trigger scent. Laura decides they need to leave right now. She and Gabby head for an old cabin of Logan's outside the town of Daylesville. Right in time for someone to crop-dust the place with the trigger.
• Person as Verb: After Laura throws her Muramasa Shield to stop a fleeing Mook and catches it after in rebounds back to her, Gabby squees that she "Captain America'ed."
• Pietà Plagiarism:
  • The cover to issue 12 features Logan cradling Gabby's body in this pose.
  • Laura does a variant with Hellion in the flashback to the Doom World War in issue 33.
• The Plague: During the "Immune" arc, an alien child crash-lands on Roosevelt Island seeking Laura's help. The child dies upon contact with Ironheart, in the process unleashing a lethal alien virus on the island. The virus itself is random and indiscriminate in what bodily systems it attacks but is invariably lethal.
• Police Brutality: Bennett, one of the S.H.I.E.L.D agents responding to the attack on Daylesville, wastes no time administering a beat-down to Laura when they arrive to take her into custody, even though Laura is complying. It also makes her Too Dumb to Live, which is pointed out by another agent who notes what Laura is capable of if sufficiently provoked.
• Population: X, and Counting: Played with rather darkly in issue 13: A sign for a town called Daylesville reads "Population: 30" in the first panel. The splash on page 2 is captioned "The Town Daylesville, CA. Population: 0," with Laura on her knees and surrounded by corpses.
• The Power of Love: Half of the equation while Jean and Gabby try to break Laura from her conditioning to the trigger scent.
• Precision F-Strike: The comics may be softer than, say, Old Man Logan, but you can expect if not Laura herself then some character to use one per story arc. Memorably when she screams that "I am not your fucking property!" while killing Kimura.
• Precrime Arrest: S.H.I.E.L.D. shows up on Laura doorstep to take Logan into custody after Ulysses has a vision that he will kill Gabby. Laura, however, will have nothing of it, and chews out Captain America over the idea of knowingly punishing someone who hasn't committed a crime.
• Prophecy Twist: In issue 10, Ulysses predicted that Old Man Logan would kill Gabby. In issue 11, he does, because S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempt to intervene just creates the circumstances of her death to begin with. However not only did Ulysses' vision not account for this, it also didn't show that Gabby has been keeping a Healing Factor secret from everyone. The twist is revealed in issue 12, when she wakes up and stops Laura from killing Logan in retaliation.
• Pungeon Master: Gabby, quite frequently, but she gets a particularly lame one in issue 8 when she learns that the mysterious substance S.H.I.E.L.D. discovers is actually a pheromone that attracts the alien dragon Fin Fang Foom.
  Gabby: A Fin Fang Pheromone?
• Quarantine with Extreme Prejudice: S.H.I.E.L.D.'s reluctant strategy when The Plague is unleashed on Roosevelt Island to prevent it from spreading to the rest of New York City. All roads to and from the island is cut off, helicarriers are stationed over the island with guns hot, and police guarding the island are under orders to shoot anyone attempting to leave. They're fully prepared to taket his to the furthest extreme if a cure can't be found.
• Race Against the Clock: "Old Woman Laura" is this. After learning she's dying from Clone Degeneration, Laura determines to undertake one more mission: Kill Doctor Doom before her time runs out.
  • The "Old Woman Laura" storyline is a direct contrast to the Old Man Logan story. As in that tale, all the super-villains got together to attack...and were defeated because it's impossible to get a few thousand twisted, greedy, selfish, self-serving sociopath criminals to trust each other enough to become an effective army. While the heroes took some losses, they were able to use their superior teamwork to take the villains down.
• Reckless Gun Usage: In issue 27 Daken waves around a submachine gun in Debbie's house, and has his finger on the trigger the entire time. Sort of justified because Daken is having a bit of a Freak Out, but considering he's a 70+ year-old killer with extensive combat experience, that's still pushing it.
• Red Herring: In issue 34, Wasp makes a point of mentioning she's stuck in her small size for good, and trying to return to normal would tear her apart. This would seem to be laying the groundwork for a Heroic Sacrifice later. However it never comes to pass.
• Removable Steering Wheel: Played seriously in issue 3. During a high-speed chase, Laura jumps into Mooney's HUMVEE, rips out the steering wheel, and jumps out again. The vehicle careens out of control and slams into a tree, allowing the Sisters to escape.
• Rewarded as a Traitor Deserves: While not a traitor per se, Rankine started the whole mess in the Immune and Hive arcs by secretly experimenting on a Brood Queen behind the backs of the other scientists, which then escaped and crated a hive on Rhittle, trapping them there and leading to all of the subsequent deaths when the virus got out of control. Laura and Arfesia's mother argue over whether S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Shi'ar Empire have jurisdiction, with Laura pointing out no matter who they turn him over to, Rankine is likely to just be put to work designing weapons, rather than face justice. Rocket solves the dilemma by just spacing the bastard.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: In issue 31 Deadpool and Gabby team up to face a Zombie Apocalypse of small animals. As horrified as she is, Gabby still finds them adorable.
• Roaring Rampage of Revenge:
  • After Zelda's death in issue five, Laura leads the Sisters on one to finish off Alchemax Genetics in issue 6. It's downplayed in that no one ( except possibly Mooney) is actually killed, and Laura leaves the Alchemax goons alive for S.H.I.E.L.D. to deal with.
  • Played for laughs in issue 7. Squirrel Girl clearly thinks that they're on this and fully expects Laura to cut down the door to an apartment where a missing squirrel is supposed to be. Laura simply knocks on the door instead.
• Rule of Symbolism: Issue 17 makes the most overt connection between Laura's background and Pinocchio to date: While trying to determine what happens to Laura's consciousness when she's under the effects of the trigger scent, Jean finds her hiding in a memory of her mother reading to her from the book. Throughout the conversation that follows, the text of the book is juxtaposed with Jean's efforts to help Laura break free of her conditioning. Notably:
  • Sarah reads a passage about how one's conscience is a voice they often ignore, mirroring Laura's refusal to listen to Jean.
  • Passages about Pinocchio's nature as a marionette, such as his strings, allude to the trigger scent itself and Laura's programmed response to kill whatever is marked with it.
  • The final passage referenced in the text, remarking upon Pinocchio's transformation into a real boy and that he's no longer just a puppet, juxtaposes Laura breaking free of her conditioning and literally cutting the last strings that enabled Kimura to control her.
• Runfor The Border: Issue 32 reveals that the man who ordered the hit on Senator Johnson — Laura's first assassination mission that the Facility used as an advertisement — fled the US in the aftermath because he knew it could eventually be traced back to him, and was expecting Laura to eventually come for him, too.
• Running Gag: Bellona's first reaction to...pretty much everything is to just shoot it. She shoots a cupboard in Dr. Strange's house. For winking at her! It gets to the point that Laura yelling at her for shooting everything in sight has become a running gag in of itself.

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• Save the Villain: At the end of issue 1, Laura is determined not only to stop her renegade clones, but to save them as well. Subverted as they are quickly revealed to not be the actual villains after all.
• Scenery Censor:
  • In issue 20 Laura strips out of her costume and lets Monica Rappaccini examine her while trying to find a cure for The Plague ravaging Roosevelt Island. When they're interrupted by Gabby, Laura cuts herself out of the Modesty Bedsheet and restraints, and for one panel her bare breast is obscured by one of the straps that had been holding her still on the gurney.
  • A variant in issue 26 combines this with Splash Panel and Odd-Shaped Panel to great effect: Daken is strapped down naked to a table on a full-page Splash Panel that is divided into a 12-panel grid. Some of those panels are blacked out contain only dialogue, the man torturing him, or the tools being used (or all three). One of these blacked-out panels is conveniently located right where his genitals would be. See it here◊.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Laura and her group's response to Civil War II.
  Laura: Tell Hill we're going away. Somewhere S.H.I.E.L.D. can't find us. Tell her I know something about her future. I know we're not in it.
• Seen It All: The citizens of New York City have become so accustomed to superhero battles and alien ships crashing into the city, that when yet another ship comes down on Roosevelt Island in issue 19, everyone stands around taking pictures rather than run screaming
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: S.H.I.E.L.D.'s attempts to prevent Ulysses' prophecy about Old Man Logan killing Gabby only end up causing it. Laura directly calls Cap out about it.
• Send in the Clones: Issue 1 reveals that someone has succeeded at the Facility's attempts to clone her: the Sisters are all clones of Laura, whom she is determined to both stop, and to save.
• Shout-Out: Has its own page.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: Laura delivers an epic one to Kimura in issue 18. The fact that Kimura is dead for most of it doesn't negate the awesomeness.
  Laura: "I'm not X-23. I'm not your experiment. I'm not your @#$%ing property! You are the last person who will ever think they can own me. No one owns me! I'm not a thing. I'm Laura Kinney! I'm the daughter of Sarah. I'm the daughter of Logan." (Laura shatters the Iron Man armor she's wearing) "I'm Wolverine!!!"
• Spiritual Sequel: "Enemy of the State II," the series' third major arc, will be one for the "Enemy of the State" arc that ran through issues #20-31 of the 2003 Wolverine ongoing.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: One recurring criticism of the series is that Gabby and the guest stars often steal the show, and at times are more interesting than Laura herself.
• Squick:
  • In-universe example: When Stark remarks that he's had to sterilize a few rooms in his day, Laura and Carol both express their disgust with him.
  • In-universe again: After Gambit blows Laura up with one of his playing cards in issue 16, Warren reveals he was the one who flew the pieces of her to the bunker where she's put back together again. He asks her to never make him do it again.
  • An in-universe aversion: When Deadpool has to remove his costume, he warns Gabby about the hideous scarring covering his body thinking she'll have this reaction. Gabby is actually completely unfazed, and promptly shows him her own facial scars. It's as sweet as it sounds.
  • And in-universe again in 22: Gabby gives Deadpool her middle finger in a box, and Wade gleefully shows it to Laura. Laura's expression says it all.
  • Yet another in-universe example in issue 29, when Gabby freaks out about getting Hand ninja in her mouth.^note the Hand's undead ninjas tend to explode into ash when killed.
• Status Quo Is God: Invoked by Kimura. Tyger Tiger wants to turn the entire nation of Madripoor straight, but Kimura's interests are best served by the island remaining exactly as it is.
• Strange Minds Think Alike: Gabby has a thought process that often takes her into some downright weird places. Wade is...Wade. They become instant best friends withing moments of meeting one another in issue 21.
• Suicide Mission: Laura's mission in "Old Woman Laura" is this: She's dying, and sets out on a one-way trip to kill Doom, and rescue Bellona. That it requires venturing deep into Latveria means that even if she succeeds, she's likely not coming back alive.
• Superhero Trophy Shelf: Doom decorates his throne room with Iron Man's mask, Mjolnir, Captain America's shield, and Spider-Man's torn costume in issue 34.
• Swallowed Whole: The fate of Old Man Logan and several S.H.I.E.L.D. operatives in issue 8 was to be devoured by Fin Fang Foom. Laura decides the only way to get them (or at least what's left of them) back is to dive in herself. Logan's Healing Factor allows him to survive, but the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents aren't so fortunate...
• Take That!:
  • Laura delivers one to Marvel's recent string of Good Versus Good conflicts (Civil War, Avengers vs. X-Men, AXIS, and now Civil War II) in issue 12, with many readers finding her Kirk Summation mirroring their own thoughts on such events.
  Laura: He'll divide you all again. Everyone will be a bit right and a bit wrong. But the world will watch hero fight hero, and people will get just a little more disillusioned, a little less trusting, a little more cynical.
  • Fury takes a shot at All-New X-Men in issue 15 when he remarks to Maria Hill he's having agents keep tabs on the O5 to make sure Laura doesn't go to them for help. He snidely comments his best agents are watching a bunch of mundane teen angst.
  • The "Old Woman Laura" arc has a major shot on the famous Old Man Logan storyline. It states how, as in the other tale, all the super-villains got together into one massive army to attack the heroes...and were easily beaten because it's impossible to get a few thousand greedy, twisted sociopathic criminals to work as a unit while the heroes are better organized and used their teamwork to defeat their enemies.
• Take That, Critics!: In issue 3, Doctor Strange says Laura is the right person to replace Logan. She says that there's a lot of people who would disapprove. Mostly guys on the internet.
  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.
• Take That Me: Among the funny tombstones Caball hides in the scene of Captain Marvel in the cemetery in issue 27 is one for his career.
• Take a Third Option:
  • In issue 6 Laura doesn't want to kill Chandler, but she can't let him escape, either. She doesn't have another means to restrain him, and wants to be out before S.H.I.E.L.D. arrives to take him into custody. No problem: as Laura quickly points out, he can't run without his hamstrings.
  • Rocket's solution for what to do with Rankine, the weapons scientist who caused the entire mess in "Immune" and "Hive," in issue 24. Laura and Arfesia's mother argue over whether S.H.I.E.L.D. or the Shi'ar Empire have jurisdiction over his crimes, with Laura pointing out they need to consider carefully, because whoever they turn him over to may just end up employing him, instead. Rocket spaces him.
• Taking Up the Mantle: After Logan's death, Laura (naturally) takes it upon herself to keep the Wolverine mantle taken.
• The Talk: Spoofed by Gabby in issue 8, when Fin Fang Foom attacks Hill's helicarrier after being drawn in by a pheromone contained within a box they recovered from the wreckage of a previous attack.
  Gabby: So this is like when a giant rampaging lizard and a flying aircraft carrier love each other very much...
• Talking the Monster to Death: Laura realizes in issue 30 that simply attacking the Orphans of X will simply make them right, and just perpetuate the cycle of violence that led to their formation in the first place. So instead she confronts them by revealing the truth about her origins, and how they're not that different because she was as much a victim as they were.
• There Was a Door: With no other way out of Laura's apartment after being cornered in Gabby's room by some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, Logan just carves a hole to escape through with his claws.
• Throwing Your Shield Always Works: Laura manages this, to Gabby's delight. "You Captain America'd!"
• Thrown Out the Airlock: Rankine's fate in issue 24, when Rocket decides to solve the dilemma of what to do with him upon Laura pointing out that a weapons scientist like him would just end up working for whoever they turned him into, rather than being punished.
• Time Skip: The final arc, Old Woman Laura.
• Too Dumb to Live:
  • Two burglars break into Laura's apartment in issue 10, while she, Gabby, and Old Man Logan are home. It ends about as well as expected.
  • Drax considers Laura this in issue 24, when rather than fleeing to the Milano, she returns to confront the Broodified Gabby.
  • The Orphan of X acting as a Torture Technician to Daken. Irritated by the fact that Daken hasn't made a sound in three straight days of torture, the Orphan releases Daken's remaining hand from the restraints and holds it down by the wrist, intent on cutting off his arm. Daken takes the opportunity to pop his wrist claw through the Orphan's hand, then impale him through the skull. Daken then steals the Orphan's mask and uses it to escape.
• Trailers Always Spoil:
  • The cover for issue 7 revealed that Gabby would survive the attack on Alchemax's bunker months before issue 6 was released.
  • A textless preview for issue 13 posted before issue 12 was released spoils Gabby surviving her injuries at Logan's hands.
• Trespassing to Talk: In a future scene in issue 33, Laura infiltrates the Oval Office of The White House, purely to have a word with the president — Kamala Khan, sometimes aka Ms. Marvel. This mildly irritates Kamala, who points out that Laura is at this point the head of a foreign state, and can perfectly reasonably ask to talk to the president any time she likes. Laura has her reasons, though.
• Turbine Blender: Laura narrowly avoids one in All-New Wolverine #1 when she nearly slides off the back of the Predator drone she's clinging to and falling through its propeller. She manages to stop herself with her claws just short of it. This is a legitimate threat, as even with her healing factor it likely would have killed her.
• Undressing the Unconscious: In issue #22, Laura spends two weeks unconscious in a hospital bed, and when she awakens, she's wearing only an Embarrassing Hospital Gown. She doesn't notice it, and when she gets up she ends up giving Gabby an eyeful, since the gown has a big opening in the back and Gabby snarks that Laura should put on some clothes before meeting anyone.
• Unflinching Walk: Lampshaded in issue 30 by Deadpool as he, Gabby, Laura, and Jonathan walk away from the lab they've just torched: Badasses walk away from the fire without looking back. Then they turn around to watch it burn.
• Unusually Uninteresting Sight: Issue 8: One would expect a S.H.I.E.L.D. helicarrier hovering over the Bronx would draw a lot more attention than it actually.
• The Virus: The Brood show up in issue 22. Gabby gets captured and turned into a Brood Queen in issue 23.
• Waking Non Sequitur: Laura is shot through the head by a sniper in All-New Wolverine #1. As her healing factor knits her brain back together she looks up in confusion at the rain falling down on her, and spends a few moments talking to herself while remembering that's what it is.
• Waking Up at the Morgue: Exploited in issue 6 by Laura to infiltrate Alchemax. Step 1, disguise herself as Bellona. Step 2, make a reckless headlong attack on alerted guards with machine guns. Step 3, soak up enough bullets to convincingly flatline while her regeneration prioritizes the internal damage. Step 4, get body-bagged and hauled to the lab for dissection.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: Logan, Deadpool, and Daken spend issue 21 topless. Justified in that they're working on curing a disease that they can draw from its victims by physical contact because of their healing factors. Hilariously, while Wade and Logan don't strip down until being briefed, Daken turned up shirtless without knowing the details.
• Wardrobe Malfunction: Experienced by Laura in issue 22. After spending two weeks unconscious in a hospital bed, Laura gets up and demands to be taken to S.H.I.E.L.D. at once upon learning how long she was out, not realizing she's been undressed while unconscious. Gabby, who is standing behind her, suggests she might want to get dressed first because the hospital gown she's currently wearing has a very big opening in the back.
• Wham Episode:
  • In issue 6, the architect of the Sisters' escape is revealed to be Kimura. Also, Gabby has claws.
  • Issue 25: Sarah Kinney is alive.
• Wham Line:
  • Throughout issues 8 and 9, whenever Gabby asks if Old Man Logan is Laura's father, Laura adamantly insists that he's not Logan, and uses the temporal and universe-crossing shenanigans that led to his arrival in the main universe to brush it off. However when Gabby brings him back to their apartment to recuperate after Fin Fang Foom mostly digested his legs, Logan wakes up enough to recognize it as the place where he raised her. Laura is struck speechless.
  • Issue 25: "Mom?"
• Wham Shot:
  • At the end of issue 6 Bellona is speaking to the mastermind behind the sisters' escape. The last panel reveals it to be Kimura.
  • The last page of issue 11 is a splash of Logan impaling Gabby on his claws.
  • Issue 14: Bellona is back. And working for Kimura.
  • Issue 25: While exploring the remains of the Facility base where she was bred for Daken, Laura smashes open a tank to free him. When she clears away all the gunk she realizes it isn't Daken. It's her mother.
• What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Laura's no-kill policy apparently doesn't extend to the Brood. Or, according to Word of God, to Hand ninjas (seeing as they're already dead).
• Whole-Plot Reference: Many reviewers have noted a similarity between the first couple issues of All-New Wolverine and Orphan Black, to mixed reception.
• Wolverine Publicity: Logan — the trope namer himself — appears in issues 1 and 7 as a pair of dream sequences/flashbacks, while Old Man Logan appears in #s 8-12.
  • You could also take the title itself as a meta example of this trope, since the Wolverine suggested isn't the one most people are familiar with.
  • Inversion: Marvel heroes such as Wasp, Strange, and Squirrel Girl appear to help establish the title.
• Womb Level: Laura spends the first part of issue 9 spelunking inside Foom's digestive track to find Old Man Logan.
• Wouldn't Hurt a Child: Roughouse. When Gabby pulls a Deliberate Injury Gambit with her claw, he is horrified, and personally takes her to an infirmary.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are:
  • In the first issue Laura has a flashback of Logan giving her a speech on why her choice not to kill a drug dealer wasn't a bad thing, and why she was a better person than he himself was. Despite all she'd been through, which Logan flat out calls worse than anything he's ever dealt with, she's nowhere near as mean as him.
  • She's determined to make sure that Gabby recognizes this about herself, as well, and avoid all of the pain and hardship she went through during her efforts to recover.
• You Killed My Father: The Orphans of X all lost loved ones to Laura and her fellow Wolverines in the past, and are out for Revenge.
• You're Not My Father: Upon learning that Old Man Logan has gone missing while on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. in issue 8, Laura has this reaction by adamantly insisting that he is not her Logan. She does warm up to him more in issue 10, but by the end of issue 12 any chance of an amicable relationship is pretty much dashed.
• Zombie Apocalypse:
  • When Laura tells Gabby they're headed to an old cabin of Logan's, Gabby wryly remarks that it sounds like the beginning of a horror movie and begins snarking about zombie hordes. Unfortunately it turns out to be prophetic after a fashion: A formation of water bombers dust the town with trigger scent, and the mindless rampages it induces in Laura could be quite comparable to one.
  • Deadpool and Gabby team up in issue 31 to fight an actual Zombie Apocalypse...of small animals. Being a horde of zombie rabbits, squirrles, and other such critters, (including a sloth) they were never in serious danger.

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