Phase Zero
Characters

Laura / X-23

X-23

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A child grown from Wolverine's genetic material in a laboratory, sent out into the world with claws and almost no words.

Laura is Wolverine’s daughter, created by Zander Rice at Alkali-Transigen from his DNA implanted into a woman. She has two claws in each hand and one in each foot, an advanced healing factor, and, for the first half of Logan, almost no English at all: she is fluent in Spanish and simply does not speak to people who have not earned it.

Dafne Keen’s performance is the reason Logan works. The film hands its emotional weight to a child who is mostly silent, and it holds.

Minor spoiler

Transigen schedules the children for termination and the nurses help them escape towards Eden. Gabriela puts Laura in Logan’s care, and Xavier is killed by X-24 on the road. When X-24 fatally wounds Logan, Laura shoots him with an adamantium bullet, buries Logan, and crosses into Canada with the others.

In Deadpool & Wolverine she has been pruned into the Void, where she fights alongside Elektra, Blade and Gambit against Cassandra Nova. She kills Juggernaut and Psylocke, and is freed when Nova falls.

Played by
Dafne Keen
Role
Test subject, then a child on the run
Affiliation
The other children of Transigen
What they can do
Two claws in each hand and one in each foot, and a healing factor.

The journey

What happens to this person, title by title.

  1. Logan2017

    Handed to an old man who does not want her, drives north with him, and is the only person he manages to save.

  2. Deadpool & Wolverine2024

    Pruned into the Void, and one of the people fighting back in it.

Appears in

  1. Logan2017
  2. Deadpool & Wolverine2024

Sources

Facts last checked on Sep 10, 2026