Amiko Kobayashi

Amiko Kobayashi
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Uncanny X-Men #181 (May, 1984)
Created by	Chris Claremont (writer), John Romita (pencils)
In-story information
Full name	Amiko Kobayashi
Supporting character of	Wolverine, X-Men, Yukio, Mariko Yashida

Amiko Kobayashi is a fictional character in the Marvel universe. She is of Japanese origin. Amiko is a supporting character of the X-Men but most often allied with Wolverine.

Fictional character biography

Amiko found herself orphaned when she and her mother were caught in a battle between the X-Men and a dragon. Discovering the dying woman and her young daughter, Wolverine promised that the girl would be raised as though she were his own child.^[1]

Feeling that he could not promise Amiko a safe life if he raised her himself, Wolverine has entrusted her upbringing to several others, circumstances meaning he has had to change her living arrangements multiple times.

Wolverine left Amiko in the care of his fiance Mariko Yashida until her death, then entrusted her to an adoption agency until he found that her new foster parents were abusive, at which point he took her from their care and entrusted her to an old friend, Yukio. Wolverine brokered a deal with the Silver Samurai to protect Amiko and Yukio, and to settle any legal problems regarding the adoption.^[2]

Despite the Samurai's protection, Amiko has become a target for Wolverine's enemies on several occasions; she was even attacked and it seemed killed by Sabretooth once, though she was soon revived.

Though Amiko loves Wolverine, she sometimes resents how infrequently he spends time with her.

In the limited series Wolverine: Soultaker, Amiko discovered that her mother belonged to a family of warriors called the Shosei and now spends time with them trying to improve her martial arts skills, and hoping to make her adoptive father Logan proud of her.

Other versions

• Amiko so far had one alternate appearance, namely in the miniseries Wolverine: Days of Future Past. There, Amiko was believed dead for years by Logan. In reality, she had been brainwashed into becoming an agent of the Hellfire Club called Midnight. When Wolverine discovered this, Amiko was an adult and truly evil. However, with the aid of telepath Emma Frost, Logan was able to defeat Amiko in battle and restore her sanity.

Full name

In the comics, Amiko has never been given a surname at this point. However, in Secret War: From the Files of Nick Fury, a Marvel Comics Handbook written as "in-universe" documents assembled by Nick Fury, her surname was revealed to be Kobayashi.

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