Is it ever explained in-universe why all of Wolverine's clones are female? And why those female clones look nothing like him? What makes a "clone" in this context? Some odd configuration of claws?
Is it ever explained in-universe why all of Wolverine's clones are female...
Is it ever explained in-universe why all of Wolverine's clones are female?
Yes, actually. The Y chromosome in the genetic sample they got was damaged, so they jury-rigged it by replicating the X chromosome and that had the effect of making them girls.
And why those female clones look nothing like him?
They're short and have black hair = they look like him. Your sister isn't going to be fat and hairy like you, even a clone sister.
No.
Laura is his test tube baby daughter and Gabby is a clone of Laura. That's why they are female.
But Laura and Gabby look Asian... Logan's Canadian...
Fine, fuck, whatever. Apparently cloning three claws and blue eyes is too much to ask for, but height is easy.
There's been male wolvie clones, off the top of my head there was one in the movie with Laura, but also in the comics
I could have sworn Laura was, like, 5'7", which is significantly taller than Logan...
Laura looking asian isn't a consistent thing, probably just artistic license since she's pretty similar to Cass. besides, we alerady have Akihiro as Wolverine's son, and I think Logan's dynamic with daughters is cooler.
Well yeah but Daken is Asian because his mother is Asian. Laura and Gabby, as clones of Wolverine, should be Caucasian.
They look like generic white comic book women and have green eyes.
Her official height is 5 foot 4.
is it ever explained in universe
no.
the reason is shameless attempt at sales. wolverine is so ubiquitous and overrated that he has his own trope about being used so often. he's a recognizable character not because of his character, but because of cultural oversaturation. so having girl and woman versions of him seems like a way for CEOs to rationalize selling it so more women read comics. but that won't work well
x-23 should have teamed up with the punisher years ago to stop human trafficking and pedo rings as well as defend sex worker unions (given x-23's origin story) but marvel doesn't have the balls
But Laura and Gabby look Asian
No they don't. They just look pretty. While all Asians are pretty, not all pretty people are Asian.
What ever happened to the rave chick who could control time, and the chick who turned into weremonsters if she touched animal blood? Did Marvel kill them off too?
no.
It literally is. First issue of the original X-23 mini. They explicitly say the reason and it is because the sample was damaged so they could only make female clones.
green eyes
Logan has blue eyes.
Point is, Asians don't have green eyes.
oh my bad
still an excuse to try to sell shitty female characters that are all the same and completely unoriginal. there was potential for x-23 and that was literally it
if everyone is wolverine, no one is wolverine. if everyone is spider-man, no one is spider-man. it's retarded that editorial keeps doing it instead of writing stories for the characters to have different idioms at different times. complete lack of originality and creativity
No long running comic editorial has been able to create a unique and popular character for thirty something years. The best they can do is dupe an existing character and give them an obscure sexuality.
there's literally no need to anyway, though.
anyone who wants to check off a diversity box can literally just look for what they want because diversity already exists in comics. duping characters directly cheapens the idea of diversity. it's a shallow asspull
Tfw when Wolverine's daughter is taller than you :/
well by like an inch but still.
almost like I already mentioned how it's probably just artistic license and not canon
Laura is his daughter not his clone.
She was just conceived via IVF.
no idea about the other one but Kiden finally showed up again and might be part of a love triangle with Laura now
same here. hey that just means we're the same height as wolverine himself and that's cool i guess
And why those female clones look nothing like him?
artistic cowardice. hairy butch dyke wolverine would be far too based
Catiana. She was so boring and forgettable that she's been MIA for twenty years.
there's already hatred over making a teenage female legacy character for Wolverine and this would just send them over the edge
X-23 was created because Marvel really wanted Wolverine to have more of a presence in the X-Men Evolution cartoon but the showrunners deliberately made him an adult so he could be a background character and let the kids be the stars. So they compromised by making a girlverine since they didn't want to make the show all about Wolverine nor did they want to make a teenage boy Wolverine.
Marvel eventually corrected their mistake by making the next cartoon Wolverine and the X-Men, a show where him being front and center was part of the very premise.
X-23 started as a stocky average-looking mutant agent.
Pretty much just female Wolverine and the sort of character that would be seen as pandering.
Only later has she genericised into a kind-of Asian-looking ex-sex worker.
I think if you're artificially made using DNA from a single person, even if you end up looking different because they messed with that DNA or the writers didn't quite understand genetics or whatever, you're a clone. Hell, even if they do use more than one person's DNA, if the intent was to make someone or something with specific traits from one of the "parents" then I could understand the word clone being used, since they're trying to copy something, even if it's just partially.
They're short and have black hair
Yeah...I hate that some hack draw Laura tall.
Wolverine is your enemy
clone him female
rape her for revenge
Is it ever explained in-universe why all of Wolverine's clones are female?
Originally: They got a sample of Logan's DNA. The Y chromosome got damaged so they just used two copies of the X-chromosome. Stuff like them being taller can be handwaved with a mix of "epigenetics" and "damn, guess that Y chromosome had a lot of short genes on it, huh?"
Cowardly retcon: X-23 is not really Logan's clone because like half of her DNA is taken from her "mom," the scientist that made her. This is a cowardly cowardly retcon made up because people felt too uncomfortable fapping to Wolverine's clone.