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| Maybe I'm not the best there is, but I'm pretty damned close. |
Laura Kinney: We never did like her as Wolverine. We personally saw that as a weird gimmik by Marvel to make all of Marvel's main characters princesses or minorities. Well it looks like the experiment is at an end. Thor is dead and the mantle has been foreshadowed to return to the Odinson; Falcon has returned the shield to Captain America (Shame considering there was another shield available for his use), and; THE Wolverine is back.
When Wolverine returns to claim his mantle, we wonder if Laura will revert to X-23 or will there be Old-Man Logan, Wolverine, Female Wolverine and James Hudson?
MORE AFTER THE JUMP
To be clear though, this is not Wolverine - that comes much later in her career - this is X-23 back when she was a member of X-Force - the hit-squad formed by Cyclops that, come to think of it, didn't really tie-up any loose ends. Logan objected to Laura's presence in the team, wanting her to grow up to be "normal" instead of living the life of a killer. But he was overridden by the great one-eye.
Logan even-tually got his wish though as Laura was removed from the team and whisked away to join the young Avengers when a new group of killers was assembled. Their wiki claims that as of the 34th issue, they managed to kill 31 characters - 14 of them from the Age of Apocalypse timeline. But then, no one stays dead forever.Laura's blister pack reads: "A female Wolverine clone, X-23 slashes out uncontrollably when exposed to a deadly 'trigger scent'" X-23 comes as she is shown - no accessories and the torso portion of the BAF Sasquatch.
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| Not so bad for a clone, huh? |
FIRST: We finally have a Marvel Legends action figure that has a facial expression! To be real there were probably a few Marvel Legends figures over the years that had facial expressions, but these usually ended up looking like they were constipated. Over the years Marvel has tended to keep their figures as deadpan as possible - sometimes they looked even looked like corpses (Like Gamora). We've come across a few notable exceptions, but Deadpool's alternate face is, well, an alternate face, and; Juggernaut really has to smile like that.
So we're really loving the snarl. It goes well with her blood-red eyes
It looks waaay more dramatic and artistic portrayal than the stone-face of the X-Force Wolverine and her equally grim-faced Marvel Universe version:
SECOND: X-23 is very finely sculpted. This Marvel Legend comes with a very tone and sexy body.
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| You don't wanna get hurt, do you? |
THIRD: X-23's Articulation is excellent and Laura is such a joy to pose! Obviously she can kneel.
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| Already identified 17 ways to beat you. |
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| You die, not my fault. |
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| I cannot... Will not... Lose. |
FIRST: The biggest gripe that we have when it comes to the Marvel Legends X-Force X-23 action figure are the missing claws in her feet.
X-23's surprise Adamantium weapon was present in the first ever Marvel Legends X-23 action figure (Which looked like crap). Sadly the blades are not present here.
SECOND: The second problem that we have with X-23 is that if you put her side-by-side with the X-Force Wolverine, she cannot match up with his articulation - though she does come close. Perhaps we may be asking for too much though given that she's leaner than he is.
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| Hmph. Amateur. |
Well worth it.
Here's X-23 versus her father the X-Force Wolverine.
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