X-23

X-23 (de son vrai nom Laura Kinney ; alias Wolverine) est une super-héroïne de fiction apparaissant dans les comics américains publiés par Marvel Comics, le plus souvent en lien avec les X-Men. Le personnage a été créé par le scénariste Craig Kyle pour la série télévisée X-Men: Evolution en 2003, avant de faire ses débuts dans la série de comics NYX en 2004. Depuis, elle a été la vedette de deux mini-séries de six numéros écrites par Kyle et Christopher Yost, d'un one-shot et d'une série éponyme écrite par Marjorie Liu, ainsi que de All-New Wolverine, de Tom Taylor.

X-23 est apparemment le clone et, plus tard, la fille adoptive de Wolverine, créée pour devenir la machine à tuer parfaite. Pendant des années, elle s'est illustrée comme une assassine compétente au service d'une organisation appelée la Facility. Une série de tragédies l'a finalement menée auprès de Wolverine et des X-Men. Elle a fréquenté l'école du Manoir des X, puis est devenue membre de X-Force. Comme Wolverine, X-23 possède un facteur de guérison régénérant et des sens, une vitesse et des réflexes améliorés. Elle possède aussi des griffes osseuses rétractables recouvertes d'adamantium aux mains et aux pieds. En 2015, le personnage succède à son père en adoptant le nom et le costume de Wolverine dans la série All-New Wolverine. En juillet 2018, le personnage reprend son surnom original de X-23.

Le personnage est apparu dans diverses adaptations, notamment des films et séries d'animation, et des jeux vidéo. Elle a été interprétée par Dafne Keen dans le film Logan (2017).

Aptitudes : X-23 was apparently a female clone created from Wolverine's genetic material. Consequently, her mutant powers are similar to his. Like Wolverine, X-23's primary mutant ability is an accelerated healing factor that allows her to regenerate damaged or destroyed tissues with far greater speed, efficiency, and finality than ordinary humans are capable of. Injuries such as gunshot wounds, slashes, and puncture wounds completely heal within a matter of seconds. She has also been shown to be able to reattach limbs; for example, she reattached her hand in seconds after she severed it to escape the restraints placed on her by Kimura. The effects of her accelerated healing powers extend to her body's immune system, rendering her immune to disease and infection. She is also immune to most drugs and toxins, although she can be affected by certain drugs if given sufficient dosage. Given the regenerative nature of her cells, she is potentially-immortal, just like her "father". X-23's mutant healing factor heightened her physical senses, speed, agility, reflexes/reactions, coordination, balance, and endurance to superhuman levels. Like Wolverine, X-23 possesses retractable claws sheathed within her forearms. She releases the claws through the tissue of her knuckles, leaving small wounds which are healed by her healing factor. Unlike Wolverine, however, X-23 has only two claws per hand which are her primary weapons of offence. She also possesses a single, retractable claw housed within each foot which she tends to use for defense. These claws are actually made of bone and were forcefully extracted by Zander Rice, sharpened, coated with adamantium, and reinserted into her body. Also unlike Wolverine, X-23 escaped before the procedure to fuse her entire skeleton with adamantium could be performed. Since the claws are laced with adamantium, they are virtually unbreakable and are capable of cutting almost any substance. The known exceptions are adamantium itself, Kimura's skin, and vibranium.[volume & issue needed] In addition to her own innate powers and skills, X-23 has twice been the host of the Enigma Force, providing her with many special abilities particular to the entity. She is the first mutant to be chosen by the entity as its host, as well as being one of a handful of individuals to do so more than once. At the end of their second encounter, the Enigma Force named X-23 as the heir to its power. This permanent association was first indicated by a mark appearing on the palm of her right hand at the conclusion of the "Killing Dream" arc of her solo series. Born and raised in captivity, X-23 has been trained to become a living weapon. She is highly trained in the use of long range weapons and explosives and is a formidable hand-to-hand combatant, with intensive training in numerous armed and unarmed martial arts techniques. She has also been subjected to conditioning in which a specific "trigger scent" has been used to send her into a berserker rage, killing anything in sight; Emma Frost is unsure if this will ever be fully suppressed. She is also highly educated and so far has displayed fluency in French and Japanese, while Zander Rice once described her intellect as being "off the charts".

Race : Human Mutant