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mojojo1984
10-27-2005, 11:42 AM
hey everyone,
it's Joe again.i got another question.i have a question about x-23.i first heard of her when marvel was making her own comic book series. this was when arana was in the amazing fantasy series before giving her own comic book series.at first i throught it was weird to have an wolverine clone. but i read she was also feature in the x-men evoultion series.i didn't get to read her series.but i was wounding if she still has her own comic book series in marvel because i like to started reading about her.and if anyone knew any marvel sites that talks about her past.and i was wounding if anyone knows her Ethnicity because in some pictures of her she looks asian but i can't tell if she is asian or not.because i know during the amazing fantasy series featuring scorpion she look asian too.well thank you for your time.
-Joe:)
mattbib
10-27-2005, 11:46 AM
No, her comic was a limited series. It features her origin and is probably (or at least will be) available in a trade. Or you can read issue summaries here (http://uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showfaq.asp?fldAuto=219).

She first appeared in comics in NYX. She has recently appeared in Uncanny X-Men and will be appearing in New X-Men.
Crimson
10-27-2005, 12:41 PM
No, her comic was a limited series. It features her origin and is probably (or at least will be) available in a trade. Or you can read issue summaries here (http://uncannyxmen.net/db/issues/showfaq.asp?fldAuto=219).

She first appeared in comics in NYX. She has recently appeared in Uncanny X-Men and will be appearing in New X-Men.

There is a hardcover coming out which features:

X-23 #1-6
NYX #1-7

So that covers everything apart from her appearances in:
Uncanny X-Men #450-451 (Wolverine and X-23 meet for the first time)
X-Men #165 (X-Men Christmas. X-23 comes to stay at the mansion)
Uncanny X-Men #452-459 (She goes with the X-Men on a mission)
Uncanny X-Men #460 (Does very little)

She's not asian. She'll soon becoming one of the main cast of New X-Men starting in #20.
Arrjay
10-27-2005, 01:24 PM
She's latin-american. Look up 'Arana' in a Spanish Dictionary.
mattbib
10-27-2005, 01:25 PM
She's latin-american. Look up 'Arana' in a Spanish Dictionary.The question is about X-23, not Arana.

X-23 isn't a clone (obviously, otherwise she'd be a male). She's actually more a genetic twin, carried full term by Dr. Sarah Kinney, who served as a surrogate mother and was implanted with an embryo created from duplicate X chromosomes from Wolverine.

Therefore, since she didn't actually receive any genetic material from Kinsey, X-23 is the same race as Wolverine.
RonnieThunderbolts
10-27-2005, 06:40 PM
The question is about X-23, not Arana.

X-23 isn't a clone (obviously, otherwise she'd be a male). She's actually more a genetic twin, carried full term by Dr. Sarah Kinney, who served as a surrogate mother and was implanted with an embryo created from duplicate X chromosomes from Wolverine.

Therefore, since she didn't actually receive any genetic material from Kinsey, X-23 is the same race as Wolverine.

Yeah... and Wolvie is Caucasian as can be, whether genetically a Logan or a Howlett, both possible dads of Wolvie's were Anglos.
Young Avenger
10-27-2005, 07:01 PM
Therefore, since she didn't actually receive any genetic material from Kinsey, X-23 is the same race as Wolverine.

So X-23 is Canadian?
RonnieThunderbolts
10-27-2005, 07:31 PM
So X-23 is Canadian?

Well... no. As we all know, D.N.A. doesn't have any ties to national borders, and has no nationality, but there is such a thing as real ethnicity. This goes into gray areas as well, but I don't think there is much of a case for calling X-23 Canadian as neither her guardian or herself are from Canada. If my clone is born and raised in Russia, he's Russian, I'm still American, and we are both of mostly Welsh, Irish and Scotish decent. I can see some sticklers making her "Canadian" but I think it is a weak argument.
Gaz
10-28-2005, 09:34 AM
Well... no. As we all know, D.N.A. doesn't have any ties to national borders, and has no nationality, but there is such a thing as real ethnicity. This goes into gray areas as well, but I don't think there is much of a case for calling X-23 Canadian as neither her guardian or herself are from Canada. If my clone is born and raised in Russia, he's Russian, I'm still American, and we are both of mostly Welsh, Irish and Scotish decent. I can see some sticklers making her "Canadian" but I think it is a weak argument.
Wasn't she born at Weapon X, which is in Canada? ;)
RonnieThunderbolts
10-28-2005, 07:32 PM
Wasn't she born at Weapon X, which is in Canada? ;)

Weapon X is not Canadian, but has been connected to Department H, which IS Canadian. As we know now, Weapon X is a spin-off of the Weapon Plus project, the same project that created Captain America. Now, I have no idea the Weapon X location that X-23 was born at, but I have never been lead to believe it was in Canada. Could be though, I don't know :D