HeartwarmingDeadpool & Wolverinefan art shows a creatively simple way to have Dafne Keen’s X-23 inherit Wolverine’s mask and title in theMCU. One ofthe most fan-pleasingDeadpool & Wolverinecharacter returnsis Dafne Keen’s Laura Kinney a.k.a. X-23, who joins Deadpool and Wolverine’s fight against Cassandra Nova and is revealed to have been saved from the Void inDeadpool & Wolverine’s emotional ending. With Wade and Logan likely to return and eventually join the MCU’s Earth-616, X-23 is also likely to continue her heroic journey despite the end of Fox’sX-Menmovie franchise.
On X, artist@yamuoexshares a piece of fan art depicting X-23 afterDeadpool & Wolverine’s ending, picking up Wolverine’s mask and trying it on herself. Dafne Keen’s X-23 hadn’t seen Wolverine’s comic-accurate yellow suit before, as her Logan variant never wore a colorful costume in her timeline. Check out the image below:
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Following the events ofDeadpool & Wolverine, Laura will likely be very intrigued by Wolverine’s mask, as it only exists in the form of comic book drawings in her timeline. InLogan, the titular hero catches Laura readingX-Mencomic books, and he reprimands her for believing in their retelling of the X-Men’s adventures, saying that"maybe a quarter of it happened, and not like this".Now that X-23 is back and a new, more optimistic Wolverine has taken her under his wing, there’s a chance she will want to follow in his footsteps and eventually inherit the Wolverine mantle.
Jackman’s Logan could simply pass on the torch to Dafne Keen’s X-23, who could become All-New Wolverine
Although the MCU may be heading towards a franchise-wide soft-reboot afterAvengers: Secret Wars, Hugh Jackman’s Wolverine is such a popular character that he might stay in the MCU’s main continuity, at least for a few years afterward. However, Jackman will eventually retire. So, to avoid having to explain a second reboot exclusively for Wolverine, Jackman’s Logan could simply pass on the torch to Dafne Keen’s X-23, who could become All-New Wolverine — the title Laura Kinney receives in the comics when she adopts the Wolverine mantle following Logan’s death.
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Given that James Mangold’sLoganintroduced a much younger X-23 than usual, Dafne Keen has matched the age her character is regularly portrayed to be, which gives her the perfect chance to keep playing the character indefinitely afterDeadpool & Wolverine. After her next couple of on-screen adventures alongside Wolverine, X-23 could then be welcomed bythe MCU’s own X-Menor another MCU mutant team. And similarly to the source material, X-23 could be the main Wolverine for a while until Logan returns — this time played by a new actor.
