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Kimura is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics Universe. She first appeared in New X-Men #31. She is X-23's handler in the Facility that created X-23 and assigns X-23 her missions. Throughout Kimura's time as X-23's handler, she abused X-23, finding any excuse to bully her, regardless of whether X-23 failed or not. After X-23 escaped the Facility, Kimura has made it her duty to track down X-23, bring her back to the Facility, and kill anyone X-23 has come in contact with. Tracking X-23 to the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning, Kimura proceeds to lure X-23 out in the open so that she can capture her, as well as Mercury. Kimura seems to have been herself enhanced by the Facility so that X-23 would not be able to harm Kimura with anything she tries. This is evidenced in X-23's origin story, where X-23 is unable to slice Kimura with her claws. In New X-Men #34, X-23 fires off several rounds at Kimura and they just harmlessly bounce off. Further, in New X-Men #36, it is confirmed that Kimura obtained her powers from The Facility. While fighting with X-23 on the pages of New X-Men (issue 34), Kimura states after what you did in San Francisco, I should reach through your skull and pull out your brains. This statement is explained in X-23: Target X # 5, where X-23, in order to protect her aunt and cousin chains Kimura to a gas pipe in a house (unable to defeat or hurt Kimura any other way) and lighting a match. In X-23: Target X, X-23 is shown going to San Francisco as her first stop after escaping the Facility and Kimura making the first attempt (aside from the initial attempt to prevent her from leaving the Facility in the first place) to bring X-23 back. In New X-Men, as Kimura's actions in the life of X-23 come to light to some in the Xavier Institute, Kimura, as she makes another attempt to kill X-23, is mind-wiped by Emma Frost to forget about her grandmother--the only influential and positive person in her life. Emma tells Kimura that she is nothing but a bully who is trying to harm others to make up for her own sad childhood full of sorrow and being bullied. Emma then implants in Kimura's mind the goal/urge of hunting down the leaders of the Facility, particularly Professor Harkins who oversaw the experimentations done on Mercury.
Fictional character biographies
Origins
As stated in New X-Men #36, Kimura was born to an abusive alcoholic father and a negligent mother. Her life at home also mimicked her life at school, where she was also abused and tormented by her peers. Through unspecified means and at some point in time, Kimura's grandmother became her caregiver. At once, her grandmother tried to heal the emotional damage inflicted upon Kimura through nurturing, love, and understanding. However, by that point in time the emotional scars were permanent and her grandmother's attempts to reach her were futile. After her grandmother's fatal heart attack, Kimura took off, eventually coming into contact with the Facility. She then underwent some unspecified procedure that granted her physical invulnerability, density control, and reconstruction. She then exacted revenge against those in her past who had wronged her. During her time at the Facility, Kimura eventually assumed the same abusive role as the people who victimized her in the past, particularly Laura (X-23). After her failed altercation with X-23 in New X-Men #36, Kimura was easily confronted telepathically by Emma Frost, who erased Kimura's memory of the only person who ever loved her--her grandmother--as payback for what she had done to X-23 and her other students. Frost then programmed her to seek out the members of the Facility and terminate them, starting with its director, Professor Harkins.
