The Marvel Cinematic Universe does not just expand, it multiverses, mutates, and memeifies with each passing phase. And as it barrels toward Avengers: Doomsday, a title already dripping in dramatic weight, fans have begun brushing off their favorite forgotten heroes. One name in particular keeps slashing through the noise: Dafne Keen’s Laura, a.k.a. X-23. Is she coming back for more chaos and claws? Honestly, it smells suspiciously adamantium.

While the MCU keeps rewriting realities, Dafne Keen is out here rewriting expectations, one cryptic quote and mysterious Avengers mention at a time.

Dafne Keen may have moved on from dusty dystopias to space nun series (His Dark Materials, anyone?), but the legacy of Laura/X-23 still lingers like the scent of mutant potential. At Calgary Expo 2025, Keen declared she would “love to do anything with her,” cue the collective Marvel hive mind spiraling into speculation. In a chat with The Direct, she doubled down, dreaming up a team-up in Avengers: Doomsday or maybe even Avengers: Secret Wars. Theories, sharpened.

Deadpool may be a chaotic neutral personified, but in Deadpool & Wolverine (2024), he accidentally became a narrative bridge troll, dragging Laura into the MCU. Her reintroduction via multiversal madness signals more than just a cameo; it is a canon placement with consequences. Now that Laura resides in Wade Wilson’s slice of reality, her appearance in multiverse-meets-mayhem projects like Avengers: Doomsday feels less like wishful thinking and more like an overdue plot checkpoint.

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While Laura claws her way into Deadpool’s world, the next battleground might demand more than sass and swords; it might need an X-factor only she can deliver.

If Avengers: Doomsday turns out to be the cage match between timelines fans are predicting, X-23 might not just appear; she might anchor a side of the ring. With whispers of an Avengers vs. X-Men arc echoing louder, a feral fighter forged in lab experiments and trauma practically writes herself into the script. She has got the grit, the claws, and the fans behind her. At this point, a snub would feel like a multiversal crime.

Marvel may run tighter ops than Area 51, but even they cannot stop Reddit and X from assembling clues faster than a multiverse detective. The partial cast of Avengers: Doomsday already reads like a Fox X-Men reunion tour: Professor X, Mystique, Magneto, and even Gambit. Yet, Laura is missing in action. Still, Dafne Keen’s silence has fans clutching hope tighter than Mjölnir. Surprise reveals are an MCU specialty, and no-shows on cast sheets? Just part of the show.

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