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[dkrook]

If her healing factor is anywhere near Logan level, how is she down for the fight?? Make it make sense Duggan! Please don't start with the shenanigans on this book now after doing an okay job.

[jmc247]

If her healing factor is anywhere near Logan level, how is she down for the fight?? Make it make sense Duggan! Please don't start with the shenanigans on this book now after doing an okay job.

The compound screws up their x-gene and thus her healing factor. Even Lorna there is in a very low power moment where she is lifting up one person which is something very basic for her not lifting a bus which would be easy as well or a city block.

[Paleo_Rage]

Also how would she lift her. Laura doesn't have metal in her bones only her claws are metal.

Reference X-23 vol 3 #11, when she told Jubilee how to kill her.

It doesn't matter how much metal Laura has or doesn't have in her claws. Lorna and her father can grab people via the iron in their blood. There is also the fact that as their abilities extend to some control over gravity.

[Havok83]

If her healing factor is anywhere near Logan level, how is she down for the fight?? Make it make sense Duggan! Please don't start with the shenanigans on this book now after doing an okay job.

She has a healing factor, but she isnt invulnerable. Neither is Logan but he has adamantium laced bones which allows him to take harder hits and get up faster

Also how would she lift her. Laura doesn't have metal in her bones only her claws are metal.

Reference X-23 vol 3 #11, when she told Jubilee how to kill her.

She's done it before. Reference Disassembled



She also explains that she an control trace metals in your body here





Its canon and has been for decades that she can lift a person up with her powers

[superjosh]

Anytime Magneto and Polaris do anything, it can be just "explained" with the Earth's magnetic field lol. I wouldn't worry too much about it!

[Micabe]

She isn't awake. Lorna is is controlling the metal in her bones/using her as a weapon.

Wait?!? Laura has a full Adamantium Skeleton now?

[Havok83]

Wait?!? Laura has a full Adamantium Skeleton now?

No. Its only on her claws

[FluffyCyclopsRLZ]

Same reason magneto justdont totally obliterate Nimrod etc. Some kinda hard plastic? Organic body mods?

LMAO. Anyone else would be 100% down for Editor's Notes saying "Some kinda hard whatever? Something body mods?" whenever writers cut corners?

Lorna's actions should now and then be able to provide fodder for philosophical debate in terms of ethics and issues of ends and means. Plus it provides a rational for built in internal conflict with the team which is always good.

Out of curiosity, how do folks think the vote will be split among the team? I'm actually thinking Laura/Scott against everyone else. Laura's going to be pissed. Scott's still on his Tyke 2.0 kick and there's the probable Vault/X-Force guilt trip. Evan would *want* to support Laura, but he wouldn't want to come off as creeping on/sucking up to her, so he'd dishearteningly pretend to be on Lorna's side. Everyone else would eventually go for some variation of "It was a jerk move, but it worked, let's get back to work."

Anyway. Just throwing it out there, but I can't help but fear this'll be one of the stupidest action sequences in recent memory. The amount of fine control required to efficiently "wield" an unconscious Laura and the ungodly amount of time the Reavers would have to simply stand there and take it just might be a little too much. Oh well, we'll see.

[Celestialbodies]

So...

Jean is supposedly "Omniversal..."/"Omnipotent..."/"Whatever...", and The Reavers get the drop on her?

....Directly flies in the face of all her detractors who refers to her as "Omniversal, Omnipotent, Whatever..." It's why I love it!

[Micabe]

She isn't awake. Lorna is is controlling the metal in her bones/using her as a weapon.

No. Its only on her claws

Then simply having Adamantium claws wouldn't allow Lorna to animate Laura's body in that fashion...

[Spiderfan001]

So...

Jean is supposedly "Omniversal..."/"Omnipotent..."/"Whatever...", and The Reavers get the drop on her?

She's not, not in her base form.People really calling her OMNIVERSAL and OMNIPOTENT in her base form....

If her healing factor is anywhere near Logan level, how is she down for the fight?? Make it make sense Duggan! Please don't start with the shenanigans on this book now after doing an okay job.

Darts mess w/ her X-gene aka healing factor.

[Havok83]

Then simply having Adamantium claws wouldn't allow Lorna to animate Laura's body in that fashion...

She has metal all throughout her body. See above scans

[loke13]

This discussion is weird on 1 half you have people trying to be faux outraged and turn this into some philosophical debate about consent and on the other half you have people saying yhat Lorna can't manipulate someone's body thru trace metals despite evidence to the contrary.

It's comic books ya'll.

[AJpyro]

She has a healing factor, but she isnt invulnerable. Neither is Logan but he has adamantium laced bones which allows him to take harder hits and get up faster




She's done it before. Reference Disassembled



She also explains that she an control trace metals in your body here





Its canon and has been for decades that she can lift a person up with her powers

Huh. You'd think it would hurt if they were messing with the iron in one's blood. It was like that for the movie.

[Devaishwarya]

It never pays to compare what's in the movies to what's written in the comic books...never.