Marvel Comics/Polaris

**Polaris** (Lorna Sally Dane) is a mutant and the daughter of Magneto. Although she was initially manipulated by Mesmero, she was rescued by the X-Men and ultimately joined their ranks.

## Powers and Abilities

Polaris is an Alpha mutant with both a primary and secondary mutation. After Scarlet Witch's M-Day, Polaris lost all of her mutant abilities. She then became Pestilence and had Celestial technology grafted to her spine by Apocalypse, which has somehow reactivated her X-Gene and her mutant powers.

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

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

* **Forcefield Generation:** Polaris can protect herself from physical harm by erecting magnetic forcefields. She can stretch these fields to protect a large group and can suspend people or objects in the air.
* **Flight:** She can suspend herself in flight by riding 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 Absorption:** Polaris has been shown to absorb some forms of energy through her magnetic forcefields to temporarily boost her own powers. Early in her career with the X-Men, she absorbed Storm's lightning blast, Cyclops' eye beam, 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 Link:** Polaris is closely tied to the Earth's electromagnetic field. As it is affected, so is she, and she instinctively knows all that happens to it.
	+ **Immortality:** With this link, she is granted an odd sort of immortality, as Earth lends her strength by its simple existence. She draws upon this strength all unconsciously.
* **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 capable of reversing the flow of an entire crowd's blood in order to render them unconscious.
* **Gravity Manipulation:** She also has control over gravitational fields, enabling her to levitate non-metallic objects in the air and manipulate them via electromagnetic energy.
* **Matter Manipulation:** Polaris has the power to manipulate matter at the subatomic level, allowing her to physically bond metallic substances to other elements. This newly developed technique allows her to blend alloys to earthen, watery, gaseous, and even organic substances.
* **Electromagnetism Manipulation:** Polaris has the ability to manipulate the electromagnetic spectrum and some energies, such as electricity, electromagnetism, and magnetism, the limits of which are unknown.
	+ **Electrokinesis**

### Former Powers

**Empathic Absorption:** Due to her secondary mutation, Polaris was able to absorb negative emotional energy to transform into a virtual powerhouse.

* **Empathic Augmentation:** She can release the absorbed negativity back into her environment at an enhanced level, causing others to act more violent, selfish, and bloodthirsty.
* **Size Augmentation**
* **Superhuman Strength**
* **Superhuman Durability**
* **Superhuman Stamina**

**Disease Manipulation:** As Pestilence, Polaris had the ability 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 mutant strain or as various separate plagues.