Polaris Polaris
Real Name: Lorna Dane
Height: 5'7
Weight: 115 lbs.
Eyes: Dark Green
Hair: Light Green
Group Affiliation: X-Factor
Powers: Magnetism
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men 49, October 1968

Polaris first met the original X-Men as a foe, the pawn of Mesmero, who used his mind control ability to make her believe that Magneto was her father, and followed his plans as ordered. She overcame his control though, and after helping the X-Men defeat him, she joined up with the them alongside Havok whom she fell in love with. Never a major player, though, she remained mostly in the background until the fateful day the team encountered Krakoa. She was instrumental in ending the threat of the living island which temporarily captured the original X-Men, using her incredible control over magnetic force to hurl it into space. She and Havok departed with the rest of the original X-Men, save Cyclops, after they returned home from the adventure. Seeing that the new team of X-Men could fend for themselves, she returned to the normal life which she enjoys more than anything, but is still too often denied.

She and Havok remained apart from the team for a long time, trying to live their normal lives together, only with an occasional visit to the X-Men...it was not to last. When Havok left on what was intended to be a brief trip to set things straight with the X-Men, the Marauders attacked their home. Polaris defended herself valiantly, but in the end, the evil band of mutants were too much for her. She was captured and then possessed by an entity called Malice. Malice twisted the darkest part of her psyche, and took control of her. As Malice, Polaris Polaris_in_original_costume led the Marauders for a time, battling against the X-Men and Havok himself with a bloodthirsty vengeance. She may never have escaped the evil entities grasp, if not for fate. While in the Savage Land, her previously unknown sister, the malicious Zaladane, stole Polaris's power of magnetism right from her vessel. In the process, the entity Malice was destroyed. Stripped of her magnetic powers, Lorna's secondary, latent mutant power began to manifest in the form of super strength and invulnerability. She became the powerhouse of the X-Men team for a time, but eventually, her magnetic mastery returned, and the secondary powers receded. Zaladane met her end some time later, at the hands of, ironically enough, Magneto.

Polaris stayed with the X-Men a bit longer following their tangle with the Shadow King and the return of her magnetic powers, but with the main X-Men team returned from the Siege Perilous, saw no further need for her presence there. With Cyclop's and the other original X-Men rejoining their old team, a new group of mutants were brought together to fill out X-Factor, now under the reign of the government. Polaris joined the new X-Factor, alongside Havok once again. After nearly dying at the hands of Sabretooth, she seemed to be questioning her decision to remain with the team and Alex. Before she could reach a final conclusion, Alex was presumed killed in an explosion. Nothing has been seen of her, or the rest of X-Factor, since Alex's supposed death.


Strength level: Polaris possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise.

Known superhuman powers: 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.


Last updated October 18, 1998

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This history was written by Onyx, please do not use without permission. Stats copied from Marvel Comics.