Marvel Comics/Polaris

**Polaris** (Lorna Sally Dane) is a mutant who was born between an affair between Magneto and a married woman named Suzanna. Suzanna's husband, Arnold, learned of the affair while the three were on a flight, triggering Polaris' powers and resulting in a plane crash that killed both Suzanna and Arnold.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

Polaris is an Alpha level mutant with both a primary and secondary mutation, although her secondary mutation was stripped and never returned during the events of M-Day.

**Magnetism Manipulation:** Polaris has the ability to manipulate magnetism. Although she has the potential to exercise all of the powers that Magneto has, she has only used powers involving the manipulation of magnetic, electricla, and gravitational fields thus far. Moreover, she has yet to summon as great of an amount of energy that her father has. The exact limits on the amount of weight that she can magnetically lift at present have not yet been measured. Since she has, in the past, preferred not to use her powers in combat situations and has decades less experience with them, she is not up to par with Magneto. As with Magneto, it is unclear whether her powers are purely psionic or whether they derive from her physically.

The main feat made possible with her powers is her ability to lift and manipulate metal. She has shown such fine-tuned skilles to nearly liquefy, mend, and reconstruct metallic objects and has some level of influence on the ferrous metals that reside within everything. She once mended and reconstructed silverware and metallic plates into a metallic suit identical to Magneto's costume.

* **Force Field Generation:** Polaris can protect herself from physical harm with the use of personal force fields. She can stretch these fields to protect large groups and can suspend people or objects in the air.
* **Flight:** Polaris can suspend herself in flight by riding on the Earth's magnetic field.
* **Energy Perception:** 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.
* **Energy Blasts:** Polaris can focus her magnetic energy into powerful concussive blasts. She can also overload or short-circuit electrical systems. She has been shown to be able to destroy Shi'ar warships with single magnetic pulses.
* **Energy Absorption:** Polaris has been shown absorbing some forms of energy through her magnetic force fields to temporarily boost her own powers. Early in her career with the X-Men, she absorbed Storm's lightning blasts, Cyclops' eye beams, and Havok's energy blasts at the same time, giving her enough strength to propel an entire island from the earth and into space.
* **Geomagnetic Awareness:** Polaris is tied closely to the Earth's electromagnetic field. As it is affected, so is she. She instinctively knows all that happens to it is granted an odd sort of immortality. Earth lends her strength by its existence, and she draws on this strength subconsciously.
* **Organic Iron Manipulation:** Polaris has such control over her powers that she is able to manipulate the natural iron within the blood of living organisms. She was able to reverse the flow of an entire crowd's blood in order to render them unconscious.
* **Electromagnetism Manipulation:** Polaris has the ability to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum and some energies, such as electricity, electromagnetism, and magnetism. Her power is such that she is compared to her father. She has a connection to the electromagnetic field, allowing her to handle various types of energies such as electrical, gamma, X-rays, ultraviolet, visible light, lasers, and more.

#### Former Powers

**Empathic Absorption:** Polaris possessed a latent secondary mutation that manifested when her powers were stripped and taken by her half-sister Zaladane. This mutation was later deactivated by the Scarlet Witch's M-Day. Polaris was able to absorb negative emotional energy to transform herself into a virtual powerhouse.

* **Empathic Manipulation:** Her power also allows her to release the negative emotional energy back into her environment at an enhanced level, causing others to act more violent, selfish, and bloodthirsty.
* **Enhanced Strength**
* **Enhanced Durability**
* **Enhanced Stamina**
* **Size Augmentation**

**Disease Manipulation:** As Pestilence, Polaris has the power to ingest and synthesize new plagues without harm, controlling their virulence and particular genetic markers. She was then capable of releasing the virus or plague as a combined or mutated strain or as the various separate plagues they originally were.

### Abilities

* **Geophysics:** Polaris possesses expertise in geophysics and has earned both a Master's as a Doctorate in the field.

### Weaknesses

**Mental Illness:** Polaris appears to have inherited her father's propensity for mental illness and depression. She has, at various times, suffered from mental breakdowns, episodes of mental illness, and severe depression.

## Equipment

**Ocular Nanobot:** Polaris was grafted with a cybernetic nanobot in her right eye by Serval Industries, allowing Harrison Snow to see what she saw at any moment.