Warning! Spoilers ahead for Deadpool & Wolverine.
Summary
- Deadpool & Wolverine Brought X-23 back to Earth-10005, meaning she could enter the MCU’s main timeline and eventually join the Young Avengers.
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X-23s displayed excellent teamwork and leadership skills in LoganLeading a group of fellow mutants.
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The MCU’s Young Avengers are significantly different from their comic book counterparts. X-23 fits the open, older and slightly more versatile version of the team.
The MCU Young Avengers Could be one step closer to assembling, courtesy of Deadpool & Wolverine. Although Marvel Studios hasn’t officially announced a Young Avengers project, it’s clear that the MCU has been laying the groundwork for the team for a while now. Several young Avengers have been introduced since the start of Phase 4, and The Marvels‘ scene featured Kamala Khan recruiting Kate Bishop for her own version of The Avengers Initiative.
Deadpool & Wolverine not only introduced Hugh Jackman’s new Wolverine variant in an MCU movie, but it also brought in some pre-MCU characters either as supporting characters or the like. Deadpool & Wolverines versatile cameos. One of these X-Men Characters who made a surprise appearance in Deadpool & Wolverine is Dafne Keen’s Laura Kinney aka X-23, who joins the titular heroes alongside Wesley Snipes’ Blade, Jennifer Garner’s Elektra and Channing Tatum’s Gambit to defeat Cassandra Nova.
X-23 could be the Young Avengers Multiversal member
Dafne Keen’s Laura Kinney is now able to join the MCU’s main timeline with Wolverine and Deadpool
After Deadpool asks Hunter B-15 to save his friends from the void as a sign of gratitude for thwarting Paradox and Cassandra Nova’s evil plans, Wolverine and X-23 appear at Deadpool’s house during Deadpool & Wolverines ending scene, meaning that both Logan Characters have found a home in Earth-10005. Wolverine and Deadpool are almost guaranteed to enter Earth-616 in Avengers: Doomsday Or Avengers: Secret WarsAnd they could bring X-23 along with them. Once in the MCU, X-23 could stay and find a new family in the Young Avengers.
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Laura Kinney showed great leadership skills in Loganwhere she led her fellow test subjects in a counterattack against Xander Rice, the Reavers, and X-24. X-23’s friends joined forces to defeat Donald Pierce and his henchmen, and she successfully helped her friends escape to Canada despite Wolverine and Charles Xavier’s deaths. X-23 also struggled to develop social skills after several years of confinement, and she was purged from her timeline after settling in Canada with her mutant survivor team. Joining a team of young superheroes in the MCU would be a logical step in her journey.
X-23 fits the MCU’s Young Avengers concept
The Young Avengers of the MCU are quite different from the original Marvel Comics team
In the comics, the Young Avengers assemble with the goal of carrying on the original Avengers legacy, The MCU version of the Young Avengers seems to be less connected to Earth’s Mightiest HeroesAnd all of the possible candidates are older than their comic book counterparts. X-23’s age and lack of ties to the original Avengers make her a perfect candidate for this iteration of the team. Besides, X-23’s multiversal trip from Earth-10005 to Earth-616 after Deadpool & Wolverine Along with the stories of America Chavez, Ms. Marvel and Cassie Lang, as they have been involved in multiverse-related battles.