Hey you fancy, fancy *beep*.
Dang, I'm feeling salty this week, I gotta watch my language.
I'm not crowdfunded and if I'm not careful YouTube and it's advertisers will take away
the cool $3 a month I'm making.
Uh huh yeah, uh huh yeah
I am so sorry about that.
Hey, go away.
This episode isn't about you.
So this is the origin of X-23 (and also the 23rd episode of the show), coming up right after the bump.
Created by Craig Kyle, whose family apparently doesn't belive in last names, X-23 (alias
Laura Kinney) actually didn't start out in the comics - X-23's first appearance was in
a season 3 episode of the animated series X-Men: Evolution.
After that, she showed up in the series NYX in 2004, showing off her powers but leaving
her backstory mysterious.
She finally got her own self-titled miniseries, X-23, where audiences finally got to learn
her origin story.
In X-23's first run, Innocence Lost, we learn that young Laura Kinney is a clone created
from the DNA of Logan by geneticist Sarah Kinney and Zander Rice for a top-secret weapons
program that sought to replicate the Weapon X experiments.
However, the only Weapon X sample that they can find lacks a Y chromosome, so Kinney (against
Rice's wishes) decides to create a female clone.
After 22 botched attempts, X-23 becomes a viable sample.
Rice, angered at Kinney's refusal to listen to him, forces her to become X-23's surrogate
mother until young Laura is born.
All throughout X-23's childhood, Rice performs a number of cruel experiments on her.
He exposes her to radiation poisoning to activate her mutant gene, and even takes out her claws
before coating them in adamantium.
Rice trains her to be a killer, giving her a trigger scent that would unleash her killer
instincts upon smelling it.
Basically once she smelt it, you've been delt it.
I apoligize for that joke.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry for that joke.
I'm sorry for this whole channel.
I'm sorry.
As a child, X-23's training and experimentation would come in handy; after Dr. Kinney's niece
Megan is kidnapped by a serial killer, she enlists X-23's help to rescue her.
Sneaking her out of the base, Dr. Kinney allows X-23 to track down the serial killer, slaughter
him, and rescue Megan.
When they return, however, Rice fires Kinney and reveals to her that he has already started
incubating X-24 through X-50 - a new army of killing machines.
Horrified by this, Kinney writes a letter to her daughter telling her to kill Rice and
destroy the incubation pods before planning to flee the facility together.
Unfortunately, unbeknownst to Kinney, Rice exposed Dr. Kinney to X-23's trigger scent,
throwing her into a mindless rage, killing her mother.
Before she dies, Kinney tells X-23 her real name - Laura - and gives her the information
that she needs to get to the Xavier Institute.
X-23's career in the comics after this is a long and storied one; in Uncanny X-Men #450,
she joins the supporting cast of the X-Men, while writers Craig Kyle and Christopher Yost
continued to write her into the team rosters for the New X-Men and X-Force.
Currently, in the post-Secret Wars All-New, All-Different Marvel comics universe, X-23
is, along with Old Man Logan, one of two new characters taking on the mantle of Wolverine
after the original Wolverine died, as we covered in the last video.
Of course, like Hugh Jackman's take on Wolverine, X-23 now has a cinematic counterpart in 2017's
Logan.
Played by Dafne Keen, this version of X-23 is still a little girl, and still a clone
of Wolverine.
This time, though, she is part of a larger program led by Zander Rice to weed out the
existing mutants using poisoned supercorn and breed a controllable group of super-soldier
children.
Rather than being cared for by Dr. Kinney, X-23 is smuggled out by nurse Gabriela Lopez,
whose murder by the Reavers forces her into the care of Logan himself.
So, have you read Old Man Logan?
Does the Hulk Gang remind you of The Gang Green Gang from The Power Puff Girls?
What would you do if you lived for a couple hundred years?
Jump down to the comment section and let's talk!
Not much to say this time excpt the lack of jokes in this episode is directly related
to the fact that the X-23 comics I read while making the episode were all just as depressing
as the movie Logan.
I'm not crying.
Until nex time....
I"M JAY PARKS.
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