Editing X-23 (section)

==Creative origins==
[[File:X23master.jpg|thumb|Promo shot for the "X-23" episode of ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]''; the original design of Laura Kinney / X-23|left]]
Laura first appeared in season 3, episode 10 of the ''[[X-Men: Evolution]]'' animated television series, titled "X-23",<ref name="Kubai">{{cite web|last=Kubai|first=Andy L.|url=https://screenrant.com/marvel-comic-book-universe-too-much-wolverine/|title=How Did The Marvel Universe End Up With (At Least) Four Wolverines?|work=[[Screen Rant]]|date=November 28, 2017|access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref> voiced by [[Andrea Libman]].<ref name="cheatsheet">{{cite web|url=https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/logan-things-to-know-about-x-23.html/|title='Logan': 5 Things to Know About X-23|last=Yaniz|first=Robert Jr.|website=Showbiz Cheat Sheet|date=March 9, 2017|access-date=July 29, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190405014944/https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/logan-things-to-know-about-x-23.html/|archive-date=April 5, 2019|url-status=live}}</ref> She was later voiced by [[Britt Irvin]] in season 4, episode 3, titled "Target X".

Laura was created by [[Craig Kyle]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Roffman|first=Michael|url=https://consequenceofsound.net/2017/03/x-23-creator-craig-kyle-has-a-pitch-for-a-logan-spinoff-thats-pretty-rad/|title=X-23 creator Craig Kyle has a pitch for a Logan spinoff that's pretty rad|work=[[Consequence of Sound]]|date=March 8, 2017|access-date=December 25, 2017}}</ref> He revealed that the character was his attempt to make a [[Wolverine (character)|Wolverine]] to "connect more to the younger kids", as while ''X-Men: Evolution'' was a reinvention of the X-Men making the characters teenagers, "Wolverine was one of the old, grizzled guys". The characterization went for the opposite of Wolverine, where instead of a man "older than we know" with no memory of his past and the life that he lost, Laura Kinney was a young girl "shackled to the murders she's committed" whose entire life revolved around the project that made her a killer. Kyle added that the character is "[[Pinocchio]] for Marvel Comics, she's a samurai sword trying to become a real little girl".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2345|last=Ferrante |first=Anthony C.|magazine=[[If (magazine)|If]]|date=October 3, 2007|title=Exclusive: Craig Kyle Reveals the Future of Marvel's Animated Films - Part 3|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071003104252/http://www.ifmagazine.com/feature.asp?article=2345|archive-date=October 3, 2007}}</ref> Kyle and [[Christopher Yost]] were the writers of the two episodes of ''X-Men: Evolution'' in which Laura appears ("X-23" and "Target X"), with Yost stating that Kyle "had all the beats of her origin in his head when I came on board".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.comicbooked.com/chris-yost-gets-comic-booked/|title=Chris Yost Gets Comic Booked!|date=20 August 2012|publisher=ComicBooked.com|access-date=29 August 2016|archive-date=29 May 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230529153818/https://comicbooked.com/chris-yost-gets-comic-booked/|url-status=dead}}</ref>