X-23 (Laura)

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Modern, Comics: Created at the Facility from Wolverine's DNA with Sarah Kinney as surrogate, X-23 is trained as an assassin and, as Sarah dies helping her escape, is named Laura.

Cinematic

Laura, a girl grown in a lab from Logan's DNA, escapes her creators and is saved by her father, who dies protecting her. Later the TVA banishes her to the Void, where she joins a resistance against Cassandra Nova, helps Deadpool and an alternate Wolverine, and is returned home by B-15 to live with that Logan.

Comics

Laura Kinney, codenamed X-23, is a mutant created by a secret program from Wolverine's DNA and later shown to be the biological daughter of Logan and Sarah Kinney. Raised as an assassin, she joined the Xavier Institute, New X-Men, X-Force and Avengers Academy, took the Wolverine name, and spent centuries in the Vault. Resurrected as a duplicate, the original now goes by Talon.

Fox films

Laura, designated X-23, is a young mutant created by Transigen from Wolverine's DNA, sharing his healing factor and claws. Raised in the Transigen facility and then adopted by a nurse, she travels with Logan and Charles Xavier toward a rumored refuge in North Dakota. After Logan dies protecting her group, she leads the mutant children across the border into Canada.

Timeline 16 events

  1. Modern · Comics: Created at the Facility from Wolverine's DNA with Sarah Kinney as surrogate, X-23 is trained as an assassin and, as Sarah dies helping her escape, is named Laura.
  2. Modern · Comics: She tracks Wolverine to the Xavier mansion and, after the X-Men take her in, is enrolled at the Xavier Institute.
  3. Modern · Comics: She follows Wolverine into the Savage Land and helps the X-Men stop the Hauk'ka from controlling Storm.
  4. Modern · Comics: Belasco drags the New X-Men students into Limbo and kills X-23 repeatedly until Darkchild returns everyone to the Institute.
  5. Modern · Comics: Assigned to a new X-Force, she fights the Marauders and Predator X at Muir Island.
  6. Modern · Comics: During Messiah War she goes back in time alone to save Boom-Boom from the Leper Queen after the rest of the team falls ill.
  7. Modern · Comics: In Madripoor, Laura and Gambit break up Colcord's revived Weapon X program with Daken's uneasy help.
  8. Modern · Comics: Leaving X-Force and the X-Men behind, she joins Avengers Academy.
  9. Modern · Comics: She goes with the time-displaced X-Men and the Guardians of the Galaxy to the Shi'ar homeworld to recover Jean Grey.
  10. Secret Wars · Comics: Having taken the Wolverine name, she finds the cloned assassin Gabby and destroys Alchemax Genetics.
  11. Secret Wars · Comics: She travels to Madripoor, where Kimura holds her and Gabby, and kills Kimura after Jean Grey helps break the trigger scent's hold.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: Laura, Darwin and Synch enter the Vault in Ecuador, where time runs much faster than outside.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: After roughly two hundred years inside, Laura is killed and resurrected as a duplicate without her Vault memories while the original is kept captive.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: Forge rescues the original Laura, now called Talon, and she and Synch become leaders of the X-Men from a base in the Morlock tunnels.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: The High Evolutionary disintegrates Laura, whose consciousness lives on in Synch's mind until he lets it go.
  16. 2018 · Fox films: Laura is born as part of the Transigen Project, created by Zander Rice from Wolverine's DNA (timeline: revised).

allied with

Wolverine (Logan), Colossus, Deadpool (Wade Wilson), Gambit (Remy LeBeau), Jubilee (Jubilation Lee, as Silver Surfer), Daken, Kitty Pryde, Professor X, Rictor, Pixie, Rockslide

parent of

Wolverine (Logan)

enemy of

Psylocke (Elizabeth Braddock, variant), Juggernaut (Cain Marko, conjectured), Mister Sinister (Nathaniel Milbury), Hulk

travels to

Savage Land, Limbo, Muir Island, Madripoor, Chandilar

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026