"Logan" director James Mangold noted during a press preview of the film that actress Dafne Keen is only 11 years old (soon to be 12), but she'll no doubt draw comparisons to the popular character from Netflix's "Stranger Things." Why? Because both are tough-as-nails, they barely speak, and they pack some seriously badass abilities.

Marvel fans long speculated that Keen's character in "Logan" was the fan-favorite clone of Wolverine. This was further egged on by teaser imagery on social media naming her Laura, which many presumed to be Laura Kinney. Fox finally made the news official to press in the best way possible -- by screening the first 40 minutes of "Logan."

It's also a time where X-Men comics exist within the same space, elevating mutants to a certain degree of celebrity.

"The interesting thing for me was the idea, and in show business many of us experience this in more regular ways, but just when legends are made human, and what happens when a legend is living under the weight of all of the bulls**t and hyperbole," Mangold explained to press after the footage screening.

"Who is the Real Paul Bunyan and did he really have Babe the Blue Ox, or was it really just a large ox and it got exaggerated? And so the idea for us was this idea that they live in a world in which the legend of them exists, but it's not really what happened, completely -- or is it?"

Logan and Caliban take turns administering daily medication to Charles that helps keep his untamable telepathic powers in check, while his confines -- a tipped-out water tower -- offers further protection as the minerals in the metal work to keep his abilities contained within the space.

Soon, they get to meet Laura.

Although he tries to stay out of the situation, Logan encounters Gabriella again. She used the limo service to lure him to a motel room, where, exasperated and bleeding, she claims Pierce is her angry boyfriend trying to take their daughter, Laura, who's keeping to herself in the parking lot. They need to get to North Dakota by Friday or else they'll "miss our chance to cross." (Where are they crossing? Unsure. But it is implied that the final intended destination might be Canada, Logan's ol' stomping grounds.)

Pierce tries to convince Laura to come with them, but his coddling expression turns to terror as two adamantium claws slink out from each set of knuckles.

X-23 mashes together the inventive acrobatics of Scarlett Johansson's Black Widow with the ferocity of Wolverine's berserker rage to deliver a fight frenzy worthy of the film's R rating — and when the Reavers seem to have an upper hand on the little serial killer, she has those two extra blades in her feet to assist.

She also runs up the front of the moving limo and into the sunroof as easy as we would get up from the couch to grab something from the fridge. Yep. She's that badass.

"She will even get more amazing for you guys when you see the rest of the movie," Mangold promised.

"I wanted to take the kind of cute stink off Laura," Mangold added. "I didn't want it to turn into kind of Kewpie-doll actress. I was really nervous about that, and it's one of the great things happening in cinema now — is that language, we're relying less. Movies are becoming more and more bilingual, and multilingual, and it's actually making us as directors tell stories, again, more with eyes, and camera, and in collaboration with our actors."

In this regard, "Logan" packs the added significance of existing within our modern political climate — as we approach the age of President Donald Trump, a man who's made defamatory blanket remarks on the hispanic population, here comes a blockbuster film that introduces a female hispanic superhero to a major movie franchise.

"I think we've all felt what's going on in the country right now, for several years, so I mean, I don't think we're -- I'm not Kreskin, to make an old reference," Mangold joked. "But I did, you felt this going on. You feel what's going on, and I've felt it for a long time."

"As a lot of the world looks pretty much the same, with some styling changes, but the undercurrents of stress that you're feeling, I just imagined everything we were feeling now. I didn't quite imagine what was gonna happen over the next 18 months, but that I imagined it percolating."

"Logan" hits theaters on March 3, 2017.