Polaris: Queen of Mutants/Mistress of Magnetism Appreciation 2024

[Will Evans]

Dazzler is probably too (strawberry) blonde. I think many would prefer Monet over Frenzy. I'm meh on both. I'd rather have Iceman on the team than Pyro! Honestly, the power to control flames has never been very interesting in a comic book.

If Frenzy weren’t there, I would say this was Warren making a substitute O5.
Cyclops = Havok
Beast = Feral
Iceman = Pyro
Warren = Warren

Edit: If Maddie ends up joining them, this would confirm my suspicions.

[UncannySurge]

I'm glad Lorna didn't end up on X-Factor. Maybe Fall of X was the beginning of her "villian" arc in the eyes of the New editor.
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[jmc247]

I'm glad Lorna didn't end up on X-Factor. Maybe Fall of X was the beginning of her "villian" arc in the eyes of the New editor.

If publishing plays up the philosophical divergence card they are doing something very good for not just for Lorna, but the line as a whole. The winning proposition though would be Lorna not contained to any one title.

With the X-Men '97 cast back in their classic 70s/80s costumes, this makes me hope that when Lorna does pop up as more than a glorified cameo, we get to see her in her classic green/gold costume instead of the dated X-Factor look. And that we actually get a storyline depicting her as the Heir of Magneto, especially if Wanda and Pietro are being ignored.

Not sure they will be ignored. The previous show runner was talking up Wanda. As for Lorna she is functionally a vastly different character sans her entire 2000-2005 era. How you bring her story and character forward without that era is a very difficult proposition. It still isn’t hard to add in she was there all along, but there is a limited shelf life of time to do it.

[UncannySurge]

If publishing plays up the philosophical divergence card they are doing something very good for not just for Lorna, but the line as a whole. The winning proposition though would be Lorna not contained to any one title.

I completely agree, and I would expect that if Queen Lorna Dane called upon her people to continue resisting that she would appear across all titles at some point 💚
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[marhawkman]

Dazzler is probably too (strawberry) blonde. I think many would prefer Monet over Frenzy. I'm meh on both. I'd rather have Iceman on the team than Pyro! Honestly, the power to control flames has never been very interesting in a comic book.

there is so much fun you could have writing Monet and Joanna in the same book. Monet is literal royalty, and Joanna is just a random kid off the street with powers.

[M@Bowers2014]

I'm glad Lorna didn't end up on X-Factor. Maybe Fall of X was the beginning of her "villian" arc in the eyes of the New editor.
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Unfortunately I think you are correct. Her bad ass moment in FoX was the beginning of her villain/mutant terrorist arc. They're going to shift her into what Magneto was to the X-Men back in the day since he will now be in the Prof X roll. As I've said before I'd rather Lorna be a hero like she was created to be in the original X-Men title. I think there is way too much flip flopping of characters rolls in these books. It comes of to me like they can't think of anything else to do with some of these characters. I say if you can't use Polaris, Mystique, Destiny or Sinister like they were originally intended then maybe use another character instead. In Lorna's case I feel they are only doing this arc with her because they've been told they can't do it with Magneto. And they've convinced themselves that it's going to be a great story to once again have Lorna do a heal turn.

[jmc247]

Unfortunately I think you are correct. Her bad ass moment in FoX was the beginning of her villain/mutant terrorist arc. They're going to shift her into what Magneto was to the X-Men back in the day since he will now be in the Prof X roll. As I've said before I'd rather Lorna be a hero like she was created to be in the original X-Men title. I think there is way too much flip flopping of characters rolls in these books. It comes of to me like they can't think of anything else to do with some of these characters. I say if you can't use Polaris, Mystique, Destiny or Sinister like they were originally intended then maybe use another character instead. In Lorna's case I feel they are only doing this arc with her because they've been told they can't do it with Magneto. And they've convinced themselves that it's going to be a great story to once again have Lorna do a heal turn.

If Brevoort is to be believed Lorna wouldn’t be making a ‘heel turn’.

The X-Men are going back to being intergrationists and X-Factor US government agents. Some characters are not going to follow them, frankly there is no good reason that I can see for Lorna to change her view radically at this point.



Given she is appearing as a protagonist in Wanda’s ongoing I think you can expect something if she is having a militant arc more along the lines of her 2000 Acolytes arc hopefully with her leading this time.



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In terms of your comments focused on the ‘original’ intent of characters. Lorna’s first storyline was a divided loyalties story fighting the X-Men on the side of Magneto when he was in his batsh*t era.



There is a fundamental difference though between Lorna and post Claremont Magneto though and Sinister or the other names you gave and that is they seek the same ends as the X-Men by different means.

[M@Bowers2014]

I'm fine with Lorna doing her own thing as long as she doesn't go full blown villain. I have a very bad feeling that she is going to become a straight up killer. Killing civilians just because they're human, etc. I don't have an inside scoop or anything. Just a gut feeling.

[jmc247]

I'm fine with Lorna doing her own thing as long as she doesn't go full blown villain. I have a very bad feeling that she is going to become a straight up killer. Killing civilians just because they're human, etc. I don't have an inside scoop or anything. Just a gut feeling.

Highly unlikely. They had her pull her punches massively in attacking the space station in Fall of X #2. There was a legitimate military rationale not to stop the attack, but she did anyway letting most of her foes excape at the request of other X-Men.

We have seen Lorna out for vengeance and this is a mild version of it so far.

[GoingGreen]

I would -hate- Polaris as a villain. It was bad enough when she was treated as Havok's in-house villain where they masked it / washed it away with a PTSD label that a few modern writers mistook for bipolar.

I can accept a time where the canon world views her as a villain... as long as it's clear to fans she hasn't completely lost her way -yet again-. They're not done paying their dues for all the possessions, mind controls, power swaps / power stealing / power mimicking, etc, that took up so much of her developmental years.

[M@Bowers2014]

Highly unlikely. They had her pull her punches massively in attacking the space station in Fall of X #2. There was a legitimate military rationale not to stop the attack, but she did anyway letting most of her foes excape at the request of other X-Men.

We have seen Lorna out for vengeance and this is a mild version of it so far.

I didn't have a problem with that scene given the context of what had happened during FoX. I will have a problem if moving forward she becomes what Magneto was until he changed in the 80's.

[jmc247]

The word villain is hot button and I knew some poster coming onto the thread and dropping it wouldn’t help anything even doing it in quotes.

The X-Men since the 80s had their villains being Sinister, Poccy, Sabersh*t and on and on. Characters who are motivated for bad ends. Then they had a large group of characters who have been antagonists to the X-Men in their tactics, but not in their goals who have been the same as the X-Men.

[M@Bowers2014]

I can accept a time where the canon world views her as a villain... as long as it's clear to fans she hasn't completely lost her way -yet again-. They're not done paying their dues for all the possessions, mind controls, power swaps / power stealing / power mimicking, etc, that took up so much of her developmental years.

I agree with all of this. I'm kinda hoping she shows up in X-Factor being offered to be on the team and her turning it down. Reading the team the riot act for being Government lackeys or something. As long as they don't turn her into the new Magneto. I have a bad feeling that's what they are going to do because it's the easy way to deal with her. And let's not forget. There are very few actual X-Villains left on the table. The most interesting ones have been made into anti-heroes or are dead. IDK only time will tell. I wish FoX was already over with so we could find out.

[jmc247]

I agree with all of this. I'm kinda hoping she shows up in X-Factor being offered to be on the team and her turning it down. Reading the team the riot act for being Government lackeys or something. As long as they don't turn her into the new Magneto. I have a bad feeling that's what they are going to do because it's the easy way to deal with her. And let's not forget. There are very few actual X-Villains left on the table. The most interesting ones have been made into anti-heroes or are dead. IDK only time will tell. I wish FoX was already over with so we could find out.

Nonsense. The X-Men should absolutely have teams with the same goal that don’t agree on tactics.

It was an enormous benefit to the line in the 1990-2000 era when you had teams honorably disagree. You know full well that is possible and not just in the sense of the 60s comics with the Brotherhood one note power hungry foes.

It hurt the Krakoa era a lot that there wasn’t more disagreement among mutants. A big ideological schism back in late 2022 could have saved the era and continued it.

Some fans absolutely hate when their favorite characters can’t get along, but that was long the core driver of drama on the books other then shipper soap.

[Soulsword323]

Honestly shocked Lorna wasn't on X-Factor this go around. I believe the roster isn't complete yet, but I'm not sure if Lorna will land in this title or not. Looking at, it doesn't seem like a strong title unfortunately.

I hope Polaris actually has a home, and doesn't get stuck in character limbo for a while. I think there is more stuff to be announced, but I'm still worried Lorna won't show up anywhere.