Yukio (X-Men Movies)

Yukio is the tritagonist in the 2013 superhero film The Wolverine, a supporting character in Deadpool 2 and a minor character of the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine. She is a Japanese ninja and mutant, with powers that differ in both the Original and Revised Timelines. In the Original Timeline she has the ability to see the death of living creatures, while in the Revised Timeline, she is a teenager and has the ability to control and manipulate electricity, as well as the girlfriend of Negasonic Teenage Warhead.
She is portrayed by in The Wolverine and in both Deadpool 2 and Deadpool & Wolverine.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
When she was 5 years old, Yukio predicted her own parents' deaths shortly before they both died in a car accident. She was orphaned until Ichirō Yashida found her, who was on a trip with his granddaughter Mariko to see a factory he was opening in the south of Japan. From then on, she was raised by the Yashida family as Mariko's adopted sister and trained to become her protector.
===The Wolverine===
After Yashida realizes he is dying, he instructs Yukio to travel the world to find Logan and bring him to Japan. She finds him a nomad living aimlessly in Yukon, Canada, and persuades him to travel to Japan for one day to meet Yashida. Yukio is present at Yashida's funeral ceremony alongside Logan, where the Yakuza attack and attempt to capture her sister Mariko.
Yukio then experienced a vision of Logan's death. But her attempts to warn him were interrupted by Mariko's kidnapping by the Yakuza who are revealed to have been hired by Mariko's fiance and the corrupt Chief of Justice Noburo Mori. When Logan and Yukio arrived at Yashida Family Home, Logan found the parasite on his heart, similar to the one inside the body of Yashida. He attempts to use his claws to extract it, only for Shingen enters mid-procedure and Yukio to rush to his defense.
Yukio is knocked unconscious while protecting Logan by Shingen. Logan briefly died in the process, but regains his healing ability to fight Shingen. Although he initially leaves Shingen to live with the truth that he ordered his own daughter to die, Logan kills Shingen with his claws after the latter tries to attack him in anger. Yukio and Logan then follow Harada and Viper to the research center to find Mariko. When he arrives, Logan is attacked by Harada and the Yashida family's Black Clan. Logan is subdued by a combination of the Black Clan's arrows and a substance concocted by Viper to weaken Logan as Yukio is helpless to watch.
After Logan is put in a restraining device, Yukio comes to his defense and fights Viper while he fights the Silver Samurai. Yukio kills Viper by hanging her in an elevator shaft.
Wolverine later boards a plane with Yukio, who reminds him that she is still his bodyguard, and offers to fly him anywhere in the world.
===Deadpool 2===
Yukio was a teenage member of the X-Men and Negasonic Teenage Warhead's girlfriend. She would cheerfully greet Deadpool with a smile upon each encounter with him. Yukio accompanied Negasonic and Colossus to the Essex House for Mutant Rehabilitation in order to assist Deadpool, Cable, and Domino in their efforts to stop Juggernaut and Firefist. While Colossus fought Juggernaut, Yukio and Negasonic rescued the orphans inside the orphanage and, upon making sure the children would be safe, Yukio and Negasonic rushed to help Colossus fight and defeat Juggernaut.
===The Westchester Incident===
In 2028, Charles Xavier developed Alzheimer's and suffered a massive seizure that resulted in 600 people being injured and 7 mutants being killed, which included several members of the X-Men. It is unknown if Yukio was among those who were killed or injured or not.
===Deadpool & Wolverine===
Yukio and her girlfriend, Negasonic Teenage Warhead attended Wade Wilson's Birthday party in 2024. Peter shows off his piercings joined by a titanium chain to some of the guests; at his behest, Yukio tugged the chain and was amused by his reaction. During Wade's speech, he was interrupted by Buck, who made a joke about menopause, which evoked an angry outburst from Wade; he then apologised to Yukio for his anger, with her happily accepting his apology.
Yukio and her girlfriend attend Deadpool's later party, after he and a befriended Wolverine variant had saved all existence from Cassandra Nova.
==Personality==
In the original timeline, Yukio was a honorable and loyal woman towards her close friends, doing things such as appointing herself as Logan's bodyguard after he lost his regenerative healing abilities. However, due to her own abilities to see into the future and more particularly, learn about the deaths of those around her, she was constantly haunted.
In the revised timeline Yukio is kind, affable, and generally the opposite of her girlfriend Negasonic Teenage Warhead. She also is incredibly kind to Wade Wilson, and takes a liking to him, as it’s vice versa for Wade who becomes fond of her quickly. She is either not easily offended or immune to offense, as she never seemed bothered by negative emotions from others, nor their unpleasant behaviour.
==Trivia==
*The name Yukio means "cause, reason" (由) (yu), "period, era" (紀) (ki) and "man, husband" (夫) (o). 
**It can also mean "luck, fortune, happiness" (幸) (yuki) and "man, male" (男) (雄) (o).
*Yukio's vision of Wolverine death's thematically comes to pass in Logan. After being impaled on a tree stump, Wolverine dies lying on his back while holding the hand of Laura, the daughter who he has learned love.
*The Revised Timeline version of Yukio has similarities to a character in the comics named Surge.
*Deadpool has been shown to get along very well with Yukio.
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