Marvel Legends: X-23

Real Name: Laura Kinney

Alias: X - 23

Power 1: Adamantium Claws, both hands and feet

Power 2: Trigger Scent; that drives her into killing rage

Affiliation: X-men

Origin:

Because of the success of the Weapon X (Wolverine), a program has been established to replicate the procedure to make a clone of Wolverine and to form another indestructible mutant. Doctor Rice lead the way in this operation with another doctor named Doctor Sarah Kinney. After 22 attempts of mixing and matching chromosomes, the 23rd was a success. Dr. Sarah Kinney forced to be the surrogate mother of the experiment. After 9 months of pregnancy, she gave birth to X-23.

X-23 grew up with trainings on arts of war, learning strategies, weapons and combats. She became a subject of many experiments, she was exposed to different radiations to activate her mutant skills. Then Rice coated her claws in both hands and feet with adamantium. He also created a "trigger scent" that makes X-23 into killing state and eventually killed her mother because of this murderous state.

After that X-23 became a villain of different marvel superheroes like Spider-man, The Hulk, etc. and also a member of some affiliations that fights evil like X-men and S.H.I.E.L.D.

• X-23 Toy: by ToyBiz

X-23 toy was released by Toybiz in 2006 and part of Series 12 of Marvel Legends Action Figure line. The series is composed of 6 figures (Astonishing Wolverine, Sasquatch, Bishop, Maestro Hulk, Iron Fist and X-23). The series has a BAF (build-a-figure) Apocalypse and each figure comes with a part of Apocalypse.

X-23 comes with the Head including the upper torso of Apocalypse. The figure is nice and I think she is 1 of the decent female figures of Marvel Legends because some female figures of Marvel Legends are not that good in details (in face, in body proportion, etc.), maybe because they are hard to mold cause females are too skinny and lean. And somehow I think her head is too big for her body maybe because of her hair. For the articulation, she has more than 30 points of articulation including her folding claws on her feet. Her face was properly painted including her eyes. The figure also comes with a comic book featuring herself.

X-23 has a variant figure with black costume and a different face. In some countries this is not the variant figure, the violet one is the variant. But here in Philippines, the black one is the variant. Over-all, the figure is worth it because it comes with huge BAF part.

I Rate It: 3/5