This is a clone of X-23 created by the Krakoan resurrection protocols in error. Both versions of Laura existed for a short while, but this version of Laura is now the lone version yet again.

Origin

After Professor X and Magneto tamed the sentient island, Krakoa, into a sovereign nation for mutantkind, the new nation had a national security interest in investigating the Children of the Vault. A three member team was recruited to sneak into the Vault for reconnaissance. As time flows quicker in the Vault, the original Laura was recruited because her healing factor would slow her aging. Unfortunately, when the mission went bad, her teammate and lover, Synch, was the only one to make it out of The Vault. Presumed dead, Laura was resurrected by The Five, who mistakenly laced her entire skeleton with adamantium, not realizing it was only her claws that were laced previously.

Creation

This duplicate of Laura appeared in X-Men (2019) #19 by Jonathan Hickman and Mahmud A. Asrar, however, she shares the entire history of the original Laura since before she had entered The Vault. She is for all intents and purposes the original X-23, however, both she and the literal original X-23 existed at the same time for a short time.

Major Story Arcs

X-Men

During the first Hellfire Gala, all mutants on Krakoa were able to vote for their premiere ambassadors, The X-Men. Both Laura and Synch were selected thanks to their sacrifice in investigating the Vault. Unfortunately, Laura's memories only exist up to her accepting the mission in the Vault. She retained none of the memories from inside the Vault, including the feelings her other self had developed for Synch, much to his chagrin. Synch tried to romance her, even considered asking Jean Grey to telepathically share his memories of their time together. Ultimately, he made peace with this Laura being a different person than the woman he fell for.

As an X-Men, she would move into the techno-organic headquarters, The Treehouse, in Central Park. Many of their public successes were repelling various alien invasions. These invasions were masterminded by Cordyceps Jones, an intergalactic kingpin who was taking bets on who could successfully invade Earth. They were forced to travel to his Gameworld and confront him. Unfortunately, Laura was mind controlled by his special spores and turned against her team. Nevertheless, Laura's team proved victorious.

Unfortunately, the older Laura would be revealed to be alive and returned to Krakoa. Younger and older Lauras met in Detroit to agree to ground rules now that they both exist. Younger Laura gave up her resurrection rights to her older self. If this version of Laura was to die, it would be permanent. Older Laura allowed her younger self to retain the moniker "Wolverine" but took her spot on the X-Men team in order to reunite with Synch.

X-Terminators

Laura would be attacked one night by vampires who loaded her up with elephant tranquilizer. They would pit her against hordes of vampires in gladiator matches for a viewing public. Slashing her way through one match, she came across Jubilee, Dazzler, and Boom-Boom, who had run afoul of a vampire Dazzler was dating named Alex. He was the son of Xarus, grandson of Dracula, and was the game master for these death matches. Alex and Xarus had defected from Dracula’s Vampire Nation and were trying to make money.

When the mutants refused to fight each other, Alex changed it from a death match to a mirror maze. Using faerie magic from Otherworld, the mirror maze generated doppelgangers from the mutants’ reflections. This forced them to blindfold themselves. As long as they didn’t see their reflections, they couldn’t attack. With Laura and the others getting less and less useful, Alex sold them to The Collector, revealing that they have been in space the whole time. As exhibits in The Collector's human zoo, they were forced into new costumes.

By blowing the septic system, the mutants cause the emergency exits to open and lead the faeries and other fighters being used by Alex to freedom. Using the Collector’s portal system, they send everyone to Krakoa, forcing The Quiet Council to interrogate them over the sudden influx of political dissidents. Thankfully, Dracula gives them the green light to go after his grandson, who he had formally excommunicated, avoiding a war between Krakoa and the new Vampire Nation.

Fall of X

In the wake of Beast's transgressions against Krakoa's intelligence agency, X-Force, Colossus was chosen as new director, and this version of Laura was recruited to replace Logan. Unfortunately, Colossus was secretly working with his anti-Krakoa brother, Mikhail, who was using The Chronicler, a psychic manipulator Mikhail had hostage, to control him. They had set up a plan to attack Krakoa, but Orchis beat them to it. Pivoting his plans during the Orchis siege of the Hellfire Gala, Colossus led a few of his teammates through a Krakoa gate and into Mikhail's clutches. Omega Red, Laura, and the recently resurrected Quentin Quire were taken prisoner. Sage and Domino did their best off the grid to save them.

With the help of Doctor Strange, Dom and Sage were able to breach the interdimensional prison Mikhail had been keeping their teammates. It was recently made unstable by Colossus, who was fighting his brother after learning the truth of his manipulation. Once contact had been made with the captives, including The Chronicler, Strange was able to drag them out of the pocket dimension. With X-Force almost entirely united, they rescued Logan, who has been a lone fugitive since Orchis' attack, and set up a new headquarters in the North Pole, called The Greenhouse.

Sabretooth War

After Sabretooth escaped from The Pit on Krakoa, he used an Orchis spaceship to travel the multiverse, creating a team of variants of himself. When he returned to his Earth, the mutant nation was gone, but he tracked Logan to The Greenhouse. With his new army, he killed Quentin Quire and Fang to lure Wolverine out of The Greenhouse. After Wolverine was overwhelmed, they tied him up alive to watch as they slaughter the other members of X-Force and the mutants they are protecting inside. When the telefloronic security system started to attack the Sabretooth army, Sabretooth Prime ordered them to retreat, with Laura as their prisoner.

Wolverine would chase after them solo but fall victim to Sabreooth as well. Sage did her best to track them, but it wasn't until Laura escaped her cell and sent an S.OS. that she was able to locate their missing members. She got a team together to rescue them, using a telefloronic jet of Black Tom's devising. They arrive to the abandoned landmass of Krakoa just in time to witness Logan, armed with Muramasa blade and an admantium armor, fighting Graydon Creed, who was recruited by the Sabreteeth to take out 616-Creed.

Laura reunited with the team and takes on Sentinels being controlled by Graydon to clear the way for Creed and Logan's final face off. Using the Muramasa blade, Logan finally dices Sabertooth to pieces, killing him for good.

Elsewhere, the older Laura is killed in an attack from Orchis, and with Krakoa gone and the resurrection protocols ended, this version of Laura has become the lone version yet again.

Heir to Apocalypse

With Krakoa ended and Arakko flourishing, Apocalypse has turned his full attention to the red planet. However, he must leave behind an heir to steward the rise of mutantkind on Earth. So, he chooses twelve mutants, including Laura, to compete in trials to prove their worth. As the first trial, they are challenged by son of Apocalypse, Genocide. The twelve worked together to defeat him, eventually revealing underground tunnels, the location of the second trial. With four of them already fallen, the remaining eight continue.

Before they could face the new trial, Laura catches Mr. Sinister betraying the group and attacks. While defending himself, Sinister throws a grenade, causing Laura to fall into an abyss. Apocalypse did not wish harm to any of these mutants though. At the moment of her failure, Laura was teleported to safety.

Laura was cut out of cryochamber by Angel with the other mutants. She waited patiently with Angel for the other mutants that failed the trials before using a teleporter to return them to Earth from Arakko.

From the Ashes

In the wake of losing Krakoa and the fall of Orchis, Laura returned to New York to work as a vigilante protecting the mutants in the city. Mutant hatred was the highest it had been in a long time. She bumped into other mutants like Ms. Marvel and Anole. At first, she rejected their friendship, believing she had to suffer alone, but she eventually relented worried about being helpless and lonely. With their help, she was able to protect the new Morlocks from the new Purifiers and investigate a mutant terrorist calling himself The Krakoan.

The Krakoan was revealed to be former classmate, Hellion. He was working with the Cuckoos for Empath . His terrorist attacks were to drum up anti-mutant sentiment while targeting city councilman. Empath then replaced them with puppets under his control and forced a vote on anti-mutant law by forcing a confrontation between Hellion and the mutant heroes Laura had befriended. The anti-mutant law would create mutant ghettos where Empath could stoke a new revolution, leading to a new Krakoa under his leadership. Laura and the others got this intel from their mole in Empath's operation, Sophie Cuckoo.

Ms. Marvel plans a counterprotest, building a grassroots campaign of human allies to communicate over the Purifiers who have rebranded themselves as "Truthseekers." Sophie was also able to burn out the psychic influence of Empath and her sisters from certain council members, allowing the vote on the new law to move in the favor of freedom.

NYX

In the aftermath of Empath, Laura and her friends created NYX, a community action group that was neither academy nor X-Men. Finally reunited with her first friend, Kiden, Laura sought out Hellion in custody. She refused to believe that he was responsible for the six dead councilman. Despite his bluster and gloating, he eventually relented. He had only hidden the councilman to fool Empath, so Laura vowed to rescue them all and bring Hellion into the fold.

Unfortunately, their ability to reach people brought them into direct conflict with Mojo, who had set himself up as the New York gangster, Mr. Friend. He had gotten his hands on a Krakoan seed and merged it with a NYC technopath named Local, whose ability connected him to the whole city. Through Local, the whole city was infested with Krakoan transfloronic tech at his control. He also got on Laura's bad side by kidnapping Kiden.

NYX tracked him to Grand Central Station, where Mojo was putting down his roots for a world takeover. When Sophie networks the hope and belief of the New York mutants NYX has helped, they are able to easily overwhelm Mojo's influence.

Killuminati

Bucky and Black Widow put together a New Avengers task force, including Laura, to investigate a secret lab in Russia surrounded by missing persons reports. The lab was being used by The Jackal, an expert in cloning, who had used DNA samples from the Illuminati to create deranged copies of them. The Jackal released them to defend himself, but once they started to confront these Avengers, they fled and spread around the world. Bucky's New Avengers were responsible for tracking them down.

Powers and Abilities

As a clone and the daughter of Wolverine, Laura possesses most of his mutant abilities. Most Notably, she possesses an accelerated healing factor that repairs damage almost instantaneously. Her healing factor has enabled her to survive point blank explosions strong enough to blow up large buildings, being dropped in vats of acid, attacks from superhumanly strong foes such as beatings from the Blob, or the Sentinels. She's shrugged off being shot, even through the head at times and has shown to regenerate entire limbs and organs.

Laura, like her father, possesses 6 retractable bone claws, though hers differ with two in her hands and one in each foot. These claws are coated in adamantium, allowing her to cut through almost any substance.

Despite her appearance, she possesses low level superhuman physicals such as strength, speed, and agility. She's been able to rip steel security doors off of their hinges, and throw grown men through walls. She can move faster than the eye can follow, has deflected bullets with her claws and even Logan has said she is quicker and more agile than she is.

She also possesses superhuman senses, which are sensitive to ranges much greater than those of baseline humans. Notable are her senses of vision, audition and olfaction.

Laura has received extensive training in armed and unarmed combat, and is an expert in a number of martial arts, as well as in the performance of black ops missions. She's skilled and crafty enough to have defeated Lady Deathstrike, stalemate her brother in Daken, hold her own against her father, Raze, and even outmaneuver Hydra Steve Rogers. She is an expert assassin, and has had espionage training. She possesses a facility for languages, and has displayed the ability to speak English, French, Japanese and Arabic with some degree of fluency. It is possible that she speaks other languages that have not yet been displayed. Laura is also very intelligent, and presumably has a detailed knowledge base in anatomy and torture.

Despite being incredibly hard to kill, Laura does have her weaknesses. The Facility created a specific chemical called the Trigger Scent in order to make her kill targets she was unwilling to kill. The Trigger Scent sends Laura into berserker rage, in which she can't distinguish friend of foe and kills everyone she sees. In All New Wolverine, she was however, able to break the hold the scent has over her and is no longer affected by it. She is also weak to powerful energy blasts. She shares some common weaknesses with Wolverine due to her nature as a clone. Due to the lack of an adamantium skeleton, Laura is more susceptible to decapitation than Wolverine. Her healing factor can also be bypassed a few ways; it can be overtaxed, making it harder for her to heal; Carbonadium introduced into the system is poisonous and can stop healing factors if not hinder them to a near useless level; also, the Muramasa blade is a weapon forged from a portion of Wolverine's soul, and it slows down healing factors.

Character Profile

• Height: 5'10"
• Weight: 160 lbs
• Eye Color: Green
• Hair Color: Black
• Citizenship: American
• Marital Status: Single
• Occupation: Adventurer; former student waitress, assassin, prostitute
• Origin: Mutant

Family/Relatives

• Wolverine (James "Logan" Howlett): genetic template/father
• Sarah Kinney: creator/mother
• Amiko Kobayashi: foster sister
• Megan Kinney: cousin
• Debbie Kinney: aunt
• Daken: half-brother
• Gabby Kinney: Clone-sister
• Laura Kinney: original source for Krakoan resurrection