Riddle me this Sup Forums: X-23 is a child, yeah? As in, in the early stages of puberty, and still needing to grow. Her bones are coated in adamantium; metal. Metal doesn't grow (unless in some edition of some comic book somewhere in the ether that is the Marvel universe it's disclosed that adamantium has organic properties.)
So, what was the plan with her? Waste and replace the adamantium in her body after X amount of days? That won't work, her bones should be continuously growing. Are they separated plates that we're going to be filled in as the bones grew? Is it hurr-durr don't-think-about-it comic book logic? Am I missing something?
Eli Jenkins
hurr durr don't think about it comic book logic
Bentley Cruz
Her bones never got coated, just her claws.
She was gonna get the full-skeleton treatment once she reached full size, but then the people at the facility that created her all mysteriously had their guts fall out one day.
Although yes, even just having her claws coated should cause problems, because her bone claws would be growing as well. Oh well, whatever.
John Rodriguez
>Her bones are coated in adamantium Only her claws are adamantium
Samuel Kelly
I will admit to not remembering the earlier comics that well. Wasn't it a case where they literally removed the bones and put the blades in?
Cause later when she gets her arm cut off, she cuts the blades out so they can be placed into the arm she will regrow.
Aiden Gomez
Surgically removed the bone claws, coated them, and then put them back in, yes.
Kevin Cox
As others have said, she only had her claws coated. This makes her much, much lighter than Wolverine and much less durable leading to a different fighting style
Ethan Lee
Alright. Thanks for correcting my faulty memory.
Colton Hernandez
Although she heals much faster. I don't think her healing factor can burn out to the point where she ages past prime condition/age. Wolverine's was probably overburdened by literally being highly active continuously, compensating for the adamantium in his body to prevent toxic shock and metal poisoning. It just petered out over time, and now he ages.
Jordan Smith
Now to ask another question.
Can Laura have children?
Forget about M-day and all that. If you where a scientists who had to make an Female assassin and you had access to their genes would you remove the ability to have kids? It would come in useful if you had to seduce and stay with your target until the right moment.
Also if you where in Laura's shoes and had a healing factor so no STDs and couldn't have kids would you sleep around a lot?
Luke Perez
I want to have children with her
Brayden Ramirez
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Andrew Johnson
This feels like a crypto-waifufag thread.
Ryan Gray
Her claws won't grow either. If I'm remembering right they bathed her in radiation to accelerate her mutation and cause the claws to grow to full size. Then they cut them out, coated them in adamantium, and put them back in. All while she was still conscious.
I imagine she can't have children just because of her crazy healing factor instantly destroying any hostile organisms inside of her.
Gabriel Moore
This was a flaw in her solo series, as they said she couldn't swim just because of her claws, when adamantium claws would, at worst, be like having five pound weights on her hands and feet, which wouldn't impact her weight that much and she'd be strong enough by now to compensate and still swim.
Aaron Myers
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Jack Stewart
Sperm would survive. You'd probably have to be white and have the same blood type for the embyro to grow to fetal stage. The egg contains all the shit besides genes.
Actually how does the healing factor not attack her natural gut fauna? Or does the healing factor just return her to a certain health? How come she does my lose memory when she gets shot in the head?
Ian Gomez
>a child, yeah? As in, in the early stages of puberty, what? no. she's a full grown woman of 16 or so think about it, she's logan's clone. how tall did you think she'd be?
Xavier Russell
the gut fauna get to stay alive as long as they don't enter her bloodstream. the moment a fissure opens up, say, from rough anal sex, any bacteria that make it inside are instantly wiped out, and the wound closes
Ian Rogers
Did they ever explain why her claws are in different places and the foot one is way too long back when she was created they hadnt retconned the bone claws yet i think
Logan Bennett
Love that she was a street prostitute at that age.
Kevin Rogers
It's been a while since I took a reproductive class but isn't the sperm attacked by the woman's internal defense system? And the egg protected by a similar defense? One would imagine it would be in hyper drive on someone like Laura.
Zachary Richardson
X-23 was 11-13 when she escaped the facility, and was turning tricks at that age.
Carter Nelson
She had bone claws. Bone flaws were back in the 90s or earlier (I remember him having bone claws in the comics I was reading at the time), Laura was 2000s.
Jose Sanders
I want to know who wrote Laura to be a jailbait hooker.
Lincoln Turner
That's kind of troubling, considering the actor who plays her in Logan can't be more than ten.
Hell, she looks eight.
Hudson Morris
Joe Quesada. He's actually the one that brought X-23 into the comic canon, then Kyle and Yost came in later and made her into what we know today (pre-Wolverine mantle)
Zachary Jenkins
she's 11
Dominic Morris
She's apparently between 11-12. No official age on Wikipedia, but she was born in 2005
Alexander Morgan
Man, I wish some of the other X-kids in her generation got cool fanart like this.
Cooper Cooper
>Actually how does the healing factor not attack her natural gut fauna? Or does the healing factor just return her to a certain health? How come she does my lose memory when she gets shot in the head?
This is just bullshit headcanon, so ignore me if I turn out to be wrong. During Ellis's run on Iron Man, he mentioned that Extremis worked by editing a part of the human brain that acted as a blueprint (when your body heals a cut, it heals based on what this part of the brain says). Maybe healing factors operate based on that, which recognizes said bacteria as part of them?
Levi Lee
She never said she couldn't swim. Just that she's better at sinking.
Isaiah Gonzalez
Same reason our immune system leaves our own gut fauna alone, I guess.
Aaron Parker
It's mentioned (by Kyle or Yost in an interview -- I don't remember which -- and by Professor X in the current "Logan" movie) that Laura is more than merely a clone of Logan. She's actually the harbinger of a new race based on the mutations exhibited by herself and Logan. For example, her different claw structure is actually an example of sexual dimorphism.
Presumably, if enough 'clones' are created that are mixtures of Logan's genetic material and that of separate mothers, then you might have a breeding population with sufficient genetic diversity to avoid the worst of any in-breeding problems. And the hyper-healing abilities of that lineage might serve to mitigate some of those problems.
If Laura and her kind can bear children, and the Logan gene is dominant (bet it is...) then we have an interesting potential problem. A race of demi-Wolverines would be incredible survivors. Such a race could conceivably out-compete both humans and other mutants.
For extra nightmare fuel, assume that that X-23 type females have birthings that are litters.
So Magneto was right! Mutants do inherit the earth. But I bet he didn't have that particular set of inheritors in mind.
