>>94144929Not that guy, but Wolverine is different.
Of all the "This male hero is now replaced by a woman" shit Marvel has been doing, Laura taking up the Wolverine mantle is the only one that makes sense.
She's been around and a part of Wolverine's character development for well over 15 years
She's been trained by him.
Her powers are identical.
Her entire reason for existing in-universe was to replace Wolverine as the next generation of Weapon-X.
She was, for all intents and purposes, his biological daughter. Wolverine came to love her like a daughter, and Laura would come to love him as a father.
And a passing of the torch from parent to child is one of the few
Laura becoming Wolverine to honor Logan's memory is in the same vein as Dick taking over as Batman while Bruce was "Dead" because he knew that Gotham needed Batman, and that he always knew he'd take up the cowl should Bruce bite it.
If it wasn't for all of the diversity pushing at Marvel, I feel like Laura as Wolverine would have been better well received. But as it stands, she just gets lumped into Marvel's dump truck of diversity. And that's kind of sad, because she's the only one of them that was actually worthy of the mantle she took up, and any weight it would have had was diminished.
