Marvel Legends X-23 Laura Kinney - X-Force Action Figure

Maybe I'm not the best there is, but I'm pretty damned close.

The Marvel Legends X-23 Laura Kinney X-Force uniform action figure is a definite must have for any X-Force fan and one of the nicest Marvel Legends figures we've seen in some time. It's actually a wonder why she's turned into a peg-warmer. 

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

Marvel Universe All New Wolverine Action Figure

Overall we found the Marvel Universe All New Wolverine a tad bit bland - in light of the previous X-23 figure - and we expected a bit more in terms of features and detailing. 

We reviewed the X-Force Marvel Universe version of X-23 waaaay back in 2012 waaaay before Marvel thought it would be a good idea to flood "diversity" into its books and accuse us readers of being unable to accept it.

Marvel's David Gabriel would later "retract" his statement by stating that readers were not happy with the abandonment of the core characters of Marvel in favor of their new female - or evil - versions.

Personally we think that not only did Marvel shoot itself in the head by gender bending or twisting its main roster of characters, but because their writing of late has been really bad.

Logan Trailer 2 2017

The 2nd Logan Movie Trailer is out from 20th Century Fox and it is fight-fight-fight galore! Highlights include:

• Introducing Dafne Keen as X-23. Apparently Sienna Novikov lost out the role of Laura Kinney AKA X-23, and Ana "Ani" Cruz Oliver from the TV show "The Refugees" takes the role.
• And she pops her claws - quite violently
• There's an X-Men comic book in Logan's universe
• Logan really is getting old because X-23 makes him look even older. 
• Charles Xavier lives to be 90

Hugh Jackman - Logan Poster Revealed

A photo posted by Hugh Jackman (@thehughjackman) on Nov 15, 2016 at 2:17pm PST

Hugh Jackman posted one of the first posters of Logan. The poster also provides one of the first looks of Sienna Novikov as X-23.

Sienna Novikov chosen to play X-23 in Logan - Wolverine 3

X-23 and Logan

The Internet is abuzz that the kid holding the hand of Logan in the upcoming 3rd Wolverine movie has been identified as Laura Kinney X-23, the clone of Wolverine, and she will be portrayed by Sienna Novikov.

Sienna Novikov is a relative newbie to the industry and according to imdb, she is a US State Fencing Qualified and a State and Regional Gymastics champion.

She was a picture double featured in Bad Moms and an un-credited extra in Daddy's Home.

She joins Boyd Holbrook (Narcos, Gone Girl) who will be playing Donald Pierce

Now we're waiting for the internet backlash at the sudden whitewashing of Laura Kinney's originally Asian ancestral make-up.

Marvel Universe: X-23

Presenting X-23 from Series 4 of the Marvel Universe 3.75" series. You'd think that Marvel would bother to match her stand number with her name but no. X-23's stand marks her as the 20th figure of the 15th Marvel Universe 3.75" action figure series - not that it matters and it doesn't really affect the figure, but... Hey! She has a number in her name so why not go ahead and match the base!!!??

To the uninitiated, X-23 or Laura Kinney is a clone of the Canadian Berserker Wolverine (James "Logan" Howlett). Despite the fact that Wolverine is practically bleeding like a sieve in almost every comic book he appears in, the Weapon X program (The Super Soldier program that created Wolverine), only had a copy of Wolverine's Y chromosome. Dr. Sarah Kinney joins the program and suggests creating a female clone of Wolverine since they did not have a complete DNA sample. 22 attempts were made to substitute a male chromosome to create a new Wolverine. 22 failures later, Dr. Kinney decides to ignore her orders and proceed with discarding the donor X chromosome.


For disregarding her orders, Dr. Kinney is made X-23's surrogate mother and names her Laura. At the age of seven X-23 is experimented on further and she extrudes bone claws identical to those of her donor father - except she extrudes two from each hand and one from each foot. These claws are removed, coated with adamantium and reinserted. She is then trained to be an assassin, and given a trigger scent for her berserker rage, and rented out as a killer for hire.

Years later thanks to her donor father and the X-Men, X-23 ended up as a member of the New X-Men and later a member of the covert X-Force hit-squad. Today X-23 is a member of Avengers Academy.