Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)
Context is king.
X-23's most basic surface level characteristic that any idiot should grasp: Stoicism.
I don't demand that her every minor appearance be a nuance in-depth examination of her character, but is it to much to ask she be written in Archetype?! This is storytelling 101! If you want people to stay invested in a character, you need to, at the bare minimum, write them such a way that they can plausibly be believed to be the same character!
I heard somebody say, the other day, that Gabby was based off of a dead meme (honey badgers). haha.
Gabby is a tremendous breath of fresh air and provides a wonderful, contrasting take on the Wolverine concept. I love her dynamics with Laura and Daken, and I'm sure she'll wonderfully charming when she's eventually paired with Logan.
I just hope they stick with Honey Badger over Scout. That's the one change in the latest series that just seems tremendously unneeded and short sighted. Of course her codename is Honeybadger. It fits her like a glove with claw slits.
What's this honey badger meme tho?
"Cable was right!"
A video that circulated in winter 2011: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg
Super timely writing on the part of Taylor!
I kinda like "Scout" better; it rolls of the tongue better and she did pick it herself (I don't think there was anything wrong with the way her other one was picked, but there it is). Besides, as pointed out in the issue itself, Laura has gone through multiple codenames, so it happens. Besides, I kinda think Gabby was more established under her real name, allowing a codename to be more flexible, unlike how Spidey and Batman will always be Spidey and Batman.
Doctor Strange: "You are the right person to replace Logan."
X-23: "I know there are people who disapprove... Guys on the Internet mainly."
(All-New Wolverine #4)