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The Marvel macrocosm is preparing forWolverine to return from the deadened , but bombshells are already being dropped . The latest ? That X-23 is n’t a clone of Wolverine ’s at all , but a genetic daughter along with her " female parent " Sarah .
The shocking alteration to the character ’s lineage come inHunt For Wolverine : Adamantium Agenda # 4with X-23 a.k.a . Laura Kinney research for Logan along with Iron Man , Spider - Man , Jessica Jones and Luke Cage . Their hunt has them investigating Mister Sinister ’s genetic mad science , end up in a massive trap . It turns out that Sinister had been collecting and catalogue the deoxyribonucleic acid of everyone on dry land ( let in mutants ) and sell off that DNA to the high bidder .
The squad prefer to put down the database , but not before Tony Stark took a look … and discovered that Laura ’s descent as a clone of Wolverine ’s was n’t the full account at all .
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After the team destruct the database and returns home , Laura calls Tony out on the fact that he ’s learned something , now that he ’s his avoiding her eyes and his affection rate come up around her . His faltering makes sense , at long last explaining that her DNA shows she is not a knockoff of Wolverine carry to term by Dr. Sarah Kinney , whom she considered her adopted female parent . Laura has Wolverine ’s DNA , but it ’s actually all mixed with Sarah ’s .
The final result , Tony explain , is that Laura is no clone , or even a " genetic counterpart . " Laura is Wolverine ’s biological daughter , and Sarah is to the full her biological mother .
Fans of the character may remember the visual aspect of Sarah Kinney inX-23 : Innocence Lost , the form of address that fully explains Laura ’s backstory . Originally , it was explained that X-23 was not precisely a ringer of Wolverine , but a " transmissible Gemini . " The DNA that the Weapon X projection had was too damaged to clone Wolverine completely , but Sarah ( the scientist working on the project ) , rule a manner to supplant the damaged Y chromosome with a duplication of the be X. It would make a mutant who is a ringer of Wolverine in every way except for gender - and Sarah wound up carrying it to full term as a foster .
This tardy reveal intend that Laura ’s own DNA makes her more Wolverine ’s daughter than anything else , with Sarah Kinney just as responsible for her resulting genes . For fans who now realize Logan has a daughter , and that Laura really was raised by her mother , it ’s a moment that demand further hold - and investigating in come issues .
In practical term , this may end up pretend X-23 ’s powers . As we saw in anearlier issue ofAll - New Wolverine , Laura is dying in the not - so - remote future tense . Perhaps the fact that her deoxyribonucleic acid is only half Wolverine ’s is going to connect to this , forestall her from becoming the variety of nearly - immortal her father has shown himself to be .
Otherwise , it may mean that readers get another looking at at her backstory , as we discover how this came about . Was there some element of the healing constituent that caused a fetal Laura to take on Sarah ’s DNA in utero ? Or did Sarah deliberately add some of her own for reason we can only pretend at ?
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Either fashion , Wolverine now has another tress look for him when he makes his true first appearance inReturn Of Wolverine , which hits shelves on September 19th . In the meantime , though , Marvel is still wrapping up a few storylines from theHunt For Wolverineevent - and launching a few unexampled ones through shocking revelations like these .
Hunt For Wolverine : Adamantium Agenda # 4is available now fromMarvel Comics .
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