Created in 1968, Polaris aka Lorna Dane first appeared in The X-Men issue 49.
A mutant, she’s been apart of the X-Men team, X-Factor, Starjammers and even was one
of Apocalypse’s Horsemen once upon a time.
Also, Magneto’s her dad.
That goes a long way in explaining her abilities to control magnetism, or rather, her electromagnetic
manipulation.
While there are similarities to daddy dearest, Lorna is very much her own mutant, and today,
we’re going to be taking a closer look at what she can do with our list of the top 10
super powers you didn’t know Polaris had.
10 Magnetic Field Manipulation Let’s start off with the basics.
Lorna is an alpha level mutant who is has the ability to manipulate magnetism.
She can lift and manipulate metal, can liquify it, mend it or reconstruct metal objects,
and has shown some influence of ferrous metals.
Theoretically, she has the potential to do all the things that Magneto can do, but has
only ever used her powers to manipulate magnetic, electrical and gravitational fields, and hasn’t
been able to summon the same amount of energy that he has in the past.
9 Magnetic Pulse & Energy Absorption Let’s talk about what Polaris can do with
the energy she manipulates.
She’s able to focus her magnetic energy into concussive blasts to use against foes
in combat.
But it’s not just blasts; she can use them to overload or short-circuit electrical systems,
and can use it to the extent of destroying whole space ships with a single pulse (which
is something she did to a Shi’ar warship once upon a time).
Or the flip side of that, she is also able to absorb energy through her magnetic force
fields as a means of temporarily boosting her own strength.
She once absorbed Storm’s lightning blast, Havok’s energy beam and Cyclops’ eye beam
all at the same time, which boosted her so much that she was able to propel an entire
island from Earth into space.
8 Flight Bet you knew she could fly, but did you know
how she does it?
Similar to how Magneto is capable of levitating and flight thanks to his magnetism powers,
Polaris can pull off the same trick, enabling her to fly.
This is done by suspending herself while riding the Earth’s magnetic field.
Which is actually pretty straight forward.
7 Electromagnetic Spectrum Manipulation In addition to being able to manipulate magnetic
fields, Polaris can also manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum.
This means that Lorna can manipulate different kinds of energies, such as electricity, as
well as electromagnetic and magnetic energies.
She has a connection to the electromagnetic field, so she’s able to handle gamma energy,
electric energy, x-rays, ultraviolet energy, visible light, lasers and potentially much
more.
Her limits with this ability are unknown, but are definitely powerful considering she
ranks as an Alpha level mutant.
It’s worth noting that this ability functions much like her father’s same control over
the electromagnetic spectrum, versus someone like Storm who can manipulate almost all of
the energies of the spectrum.
Still, not too shabby.
6 Force Fields Lorna can create magnetic force fields that
she uses to either protect herself from physical harm, or to extent across others in order
to protect them.
It’s also a means of her moving or suspending objects or individuals in the air; she creates
a magnetic force field and moves them with it.
As we’ll get to a little later on, these force fields come in handy for more than just
defensive maneuvers.
Moving on!
5 Her Tech Aside from her powers, Polaris has some pretty
cool equipment that she uses.
For starters, she dons a bio-hazard containment suit which also had a nifty little metal belt
that she would often manipulate to use as either a weapon or a tool.
In addition to that, she had a cybernetic nanobot grafted into her right eye but Serval
Industries, which allowed Harrison Snow to see whatever she was seeing at any given time
back in all new X-Factor issue 3.
4 Geomagnetic Link Because of her ability to perceive and manipulate
the magnetic field, Polaris’ powers are innately tied to the Earth’s Electromagnetic
Field.
If the Earth’s EM Field is affected in any way, she can sense it and feel it.
It’s like having an extremely insightful intuition, in which at all times she can sense
what happens to it instinctively.
This link grants her something that has been argued to be an immortality of sorts; the
Earth can lend her strength simply by existing.
This isn’t something she has control over though; she draws from this unconsciously.
3 Electromagnetic Sight Yet another skill that Lorna shares with daddy
dearest!
Polaris has something called electromagnetic sight.
This means that she can perceive the world around her as patterns of both magnetic and
electrical energy.
And it’s not just the world around her either, it’s the people in it, too.
Or life forms, rather.
Lorna can perceive the natural magnetic auras that surround other living beings in her vicinity.
2 Metal and Matter Manipulation So this one might be a bit obvious, but the
extent of this power is where it really shines and surprises.
So of course, she can manipulate and levitate objects with her electromagnetic fields she
can create.
This doesn’t just apply to metal materials either; non-metal can be affected because
it stems from the fields she creates.
She can manipulate gravity to a much smaller extent, and she can also manipulate non-metallic
objects if they contain any metal ores in their structure.
Best of all, she can do this on a sub-atomic level, and is able to perceive it as such.
In addition to this, Polaris can also morph metal, physically bonding metal substances
to each other and to other elements, too.
On an atomic level as well.
So she can bend alloys to a ton of substances, including watery, earthen, gaseous, and, terrifying
of all, organic ones.
1 Organic Iron Manipulation Here’s one that’s a little blood chilling.
Because of her astute control over her powers, Polaris can manipulate the natural iron that
is found within the bloodstreams of living organisms.
Meaning she can f*ck you up from the inside out.
She’s able of doing damage in a subtle but fatally effective way; if she were to reverse
the flow of an individual, she could render them unconscious.
And to really freak you out, this power can cast a wide net; she can do this to a large
group of people or crowds at the same time.
Alright there we have
it friends!