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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Polaris also known as Mistress of Magnetism , Malice , Pestilence , Magnetrix , M2 . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Polaris is the daughter of Magneto and holds the same mutant powers as her father.
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Origin
Lorna Dane's parents seemed to have died in plane crash shortly after her birth. She was adopted by a couple and did not know that she was adopted until after high school. She was also born with green hair, due to her mutant gene, but kept it dyed so she wouldn't seem different from others.
Lorna
It seemed that there was a genetic defect in Lorna that prevented her latent mutant abilities from manifesting. When a villain named Mesmero used his so called psyche-generator which allows him to command all mutants in North America with latent powers. Lorna was one of these latent mutants and she was forced to travel to San Francisco to unite with Mesmero. Lorna meets Bobby Drake (Iceman) while out in San Francisco when he ices the ground under making her trip over it. Bobby was able to convince Lorna to come with him to his apartment. When Lorna finally meets the X-Men, they all discover that she is actually a mutant with latent powers. Mesmero would come and kidnap her and brings her to his headquarters. They put her in a “genetic stimulator” that will activate her latent mutant abilities. The X-Men would try and save her when Magneto reveals that he is the mastermind behind the whole thing. He also reveals that he is the father of Lorna. This caused Lorna to hesitate when an opportunity to kill him appeared. However, Iceman would be able to convince Lorna that Magneto is not really her father when he brings up evidence that her parents already died in a plane crash. Lorna then defeated Magneto who would reveal to be an android. Lorna would join the X-Men and would pick up the code name Magnetrix, however she did not like it and decided to get rid of it.
The first time Lorna was able to display parts of her fullest potential, it was when the X-Men were kidnapped on Krakoa and a new team was sent to rescue them. She was able to disrupt the Earth’s magnetic forces and throw Krakoa into space. Iceman would eventually develop a crush on Lorna, however Lorna did not have the same feelings for Iceman. She ended up falling in love with Alex Summers (Havok). The two of them decided to leave the X-Men because they did not like risking their lives. They decided to pursue their love in geophysics and moved to the Diablo mountain range in California.
Lorna would soon be under the mind control of a Shi'ar agent named Davan Shakari, who worked for D’Ken when he was emperor of the Shi’ar Galaxy. Shakari is the one who dubbed Lorna “Polaris.” Shakari would next kidnap Alex and put him under mind control also. They used them to turn on the X-Men and try to assassinate Professor X. The two of them would battle the X-Men at Kennedy International Airport. Lorna would soon be defeated by Storm and Professor Xavier would be able to free them from Shakari’s control.
Lorna and Alex
Lorna and Alex would remain as civilians for a long time but also assisting the X-Men on some occasions. Lorna and Alex lived happily as civilians in New Mexico and also were able to complete their degrees. Later they were hunted by the team of assassins known as the Marauders. Lorna became possessed by the psionic being, Malace. Malice’s powers were able to blend with Lorna’s perfectly and together they became a powerful being. Malice would use Lorna’s body to lead the Marauders for years. Finally when Mr. Sinister was killed, Malice’s powers started to weaken and along with the hold on Lorna. Lorna was able to call the X-Men for help but they were arrived to slow. Lorna had sided with Zaladane, a priestess in the Savage Land who claims to be Lorna’s sister. The X-Men finally arrived and Zaladane gained an army in the Savage Lands to fight with them. Afterwards Zaladane confirms to Lorna that she is her sister and would use a machine to take away Lorna’s magnetic mutant powers and combine it in her. However, since Zaldane takes Lorna’s power she also took Malice along with the powers. The X-Men continue to try and save Lorna and this was when her secondary mutation activated. She gained height and became invulnerable and gained super strength. They defeat Zaladane and Lorna would shrink back to normal and was finally free.
Lorna in X-Factor
She went to Muir Island in seek of Moira MacTaggert to help explain her mutation. On her way there her 2nd mutant powers activated again and she grew big. She also discovered that he mutant powers amplifies negative emotions to others around her. Moira MacTaggert would examine her but still have no clue about it. Later it would be revealed that Lorna gained her strength from the negative emotions of those around her. The Shadow King would discover this and use it to his advantage to gain access to reality from the astral plane. It caused the whole world to grow angry and violent. Eventually the X-Factor and X-Men would save her from Shadow King’s control. Soon after Zaladane would die and return all of Lorna’s powers.
X-Factor
Lorna was soon offered to join the government team, X-Factor, by Valerie Cooper. With this she was able to reunite with Alex. The two of them would become to leaders of X-Factor. Their relationship however would be shaky the whole time because Lorna began to grow stronger and more confident. They would break up and get back together several times. With Lorna becoming so strong, she became the Government’s “secret weapon” against a possible attack from Magneto. Malice would return to try and possess Lorna again but this time Alex would be there and try to absorb half of Malice with Lorna. This causes Malice to not be able to control someone, eventually Malice was killed by Mr. Sinister. When Mystique and Sabretooth were allowed to join X-Factor, Lorna disliked the idea of having these terrorists on the team but the government did not listen. However, this would turn out to be a fatal mistake when Sabretooth almost killed the entire team himself. Later she would witness Alex be (apparently) killed in an explosion.
Genosha
Magnetic powers
Later Lorna would meet Nightcrawler at a church and told him that she felt someone was following her and that Alex was alive somewhere. It would be revealed that some Skrull working for Apocalypse was following her in order to steal Alex’s costume. Lorna would join the X-Men to battle Apocalypse in Egypt. Lorna would meet Magneto and he discovers that he could use her to disrupt the magnetic forces of Earth. During the battle against Apocalypse, Lorna was able to assist Magneto and hide the fact that his powers had been reduced. The two then went to the island nation of Genosha.
Genosha was a nation that enslaved Mutant and Magneto took it upon himself to overthrow the government with Lorna's help. She agreed because she liked the training Magneto gave her in return for her help. She began to gain more knowledge in accessing her full potential. When Magneto decided to invade the last city that was not under his control for technology to help restore his powers, Lorna did not agree with Magneto's idea of tyranny over the nation. Lorna tried to stop Magneto but was easily defeated by him. Lorna left only to return later with the help of Quicksilver in an attempt to stop Magneto. The island of Genosha was then attacked by the mutant hunting robots known as Sentinels. Lorna was one of the few survivors but left scarred because was not able to stop the robot and sat there witnessing the murder of millions of mutants. When Magneto recorded the thoughts of the entire population's final moments as digital signals in a black box, Lorna became "possessed" by the "ghosts" of Genosha. She then constructed a monument in honor of Magneto. The X-Men would go to Genosha to aid anyone that survived, upon their arrival they discover Lorna walking around naked and weak.
Lorna's wedding
She returned to the X-Men and became more dark and violent. She also kills some anti-mutant protesters during her violent mood swing. This resulted in Alex breaking up with Lorna right before their wedding. Lorna became extremely traumatized and was cared for by the X-Men’s personal nurse Annie Ghazikhanian. Lorna became insane and went on a rampage and almost kills Alex. Juggernaut stops Lorna by knocking her out. Professor Xavier helped Lorna through psychic therapy. Lorna then promised to stop her violent rampage and return to the X-Men. It turns out that she had learned that she truly was the biological daughter of Magneto during her time in Genosha when she did a genetic test with a blood sample she had stolen from his lab. Soon Iceman would reveal to Lorna that he still had real feelings for her, but Lorna was still undecided. She still wanted to be with Alex but their relationship keeps hitting bumps, especially when he admitted that he still had feelings for Annie the nurse even though she left him.
M-Day
After the events of "M-Day," in which the majority of mutants lost their powers, Lorna also lost her mutant gene and her magnetic powers. Lorna attempted to hide her loss of powers from her fellow teammates fearing she would be kicked off the team. She was confronted by Valerie Cooper who knew Lorna had lost her powers, but Lorna would claim that it was a psychological thing that was preventing her from accessing her powers. When she was nearly killed because she could not access her powers, Lorna finally admitted that she had lost her powers. She ended up leaving with Alex watching over her. During her journey, Lorna was kidnapped by an alien named Doop who crashed on Earth, and was also a creature that Lorna saw in space on an earlier mission.
Lorna as a Horseman
Lorna soon was kidnapped by Apocalypse and transformed into one of his Horsemen of Apocalypse known as Pestilence. Lorna had the ability to ingest and create new plagues. Apocalypse also used his advanced technology to give Lorna back a magnetic power similar to the powers she lost on M-Day. While under his influence and brainwashed, Lorna infiltrated the World Health Organization and rook the viruses there to create a meta-plague. Apocalypse had planned to infect all of humanity so that he could offer a cure to only 10% of the population. They would battle the X-Men and New Avengers when they finally discover Pestilence was actually Lorna. Lorna would be able to resist Apocalypse and would later recover in the Xavier Institute for Higher Learning. Gambit and Sunfire would return to the X-Mansion and try to recover Lorna, but they battle the X-Men and fail. Lorna would leave the mansion that night to search for Apocalypse in Egypt and would eventually be rescued by Havok and the X-Men. It is unknown why Apocalypse gave Lorna back her magnetic abilities, as they weren't a part of his plans before being thwarted by the X-Men.
Starjammers
Recently the X-Men learned that the "all-new all-different X-Men" that were recruited and sent to Krakoa were not Xavier's first rescue attempt. Only one of the members of the original rescue team, Vulcan, had survived. Lorna has rejoined the X-Men and accompanying Professor Xavier and his team of Uncanny X-Men to find and stop Vulcan after Vulcan set off into space for Shi'ar space with the intention of single-handedly bringing down the Shi'ar empire. On rout to the center of the Shi'ar empire Lorna and Havok have been rekindling some of their relationship. Lorna has also been working on learning how to control her new magnetic abilites which work differently from her original powers
Polaris seems to have gotten in touch with her powers and she began to wild them like her old ones she could control the energies of the others on board their ship when Vulcan crushed the stargates to prevent them form fallowing him. During a huge fight with Vulcan and the royal guard she managed to display her former power level by stopping even the almost unstoppable Gladiator for a moment.
When Vulcan began to beat Havok it was Polaris who stopped him by attacking his bloodstream she fought him to the point where he was near death and spitting out blood plus his powers weakened. She would have killed him if Deathbird hadn't attack her letting Havok fight Vulcan again on a fair level and he too almost killed Vulcan and left him even weaker.
This however didn't stop Vulcan from killing his father Corsair with a powerful blast of energy and the fight began to rage out of control so Lilandra sent half the team home against their will and Vulcan left with Deathbird to heal form his wounds.
Polaris along with Marvel girl, Havok, Korvus stayed with the remaining Starjammers to fight Vulcan and restore Lilandra to the throne.
Powers and Abilities
Polaris possesses the ability to manipulate magnetism. Although she has the potential to exercise all of the powers that Magento has, as yet she has only used powers involving the manipulation of magnetic, electrical, and gravitic fields. Moreover, she cannot summon as great an amount of energy as Magneto can. The exact limits on the amount weight that she can magnetically lift at present have not been measured, but they are considerably below those of Magneto. Since she has preferred not to use her powers in combat situations, she has not worked nearly as hard to develop them as Magneto has. As with Magneto, it is unknown whether Polaris's powers are purely psionic or whether they derive from her physically. Polaris has been observed levitating metallic objects and creating force fields in which she can suspend persons or objects in the air and in which she can protect them from attacks from outside the fields. She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. By concentrating, Polaris can perceive the world around herself solely as patterns of magnetic and electrical energy. She can perceive the natural magnetic auras surrounding living beings, as well.
She was de-powered after M-Day, but almost immediately after re-powered by Apocalypse when she was made into a horseman. It is assumed that she possesses the same abilities as before, although this time her powers seem to be based in technology as she is no longer a mutant. Polaris has stated that these new powers are more difficult to control compared to when she was a mutant and far more dangerous. It has also been said by Emma Frost, that her powers are apparently mutating. She was also cured of the plagues which she ingested as Pestilence, and in that respect seems to be back to normal.
Polaris also has green hair due to her x-gene. She still has green hair now as a human, but she could simply be dyeing it green.
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Alternate Realities
Ultimate Polaris
Age of Apocalypse
Earth-1298
Earth-295
In the Age of Apocalypse reality Rogue had permanently absorbed half of Polaris magnetic powers. She was a prisoner in Sinister's Breeding Pens, and was experimented on by the Dark Beast.
Earth-1298
In the Mutant X reality Polaris was a member of the X-Men.
Earth-1610
In the Ultimate universe Polaris was a student at the Academy of Tomorrow.
Earth-9997
In the Earth X reality Polaris and Havok were members of the Starjammers.
Earth-58163
In the House of M reality Lorna was a member of the royal family.
Earth-3931
In this reality Polaris was a vampire, and a member of the Avengers who all were vampires.
Creators
Polaris was created by Arnold Drake
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