I want to point out something exceedingly important.
Marvel’s attitude is that Polaris is just fine where she is. That she’s not important enough or deserving enough of use and good treatment to get either of those things unless she achieves absurd conditions that Shatterstar, Multiple Man and many others never need to fill. A version of her can be the breakout star of a TV show, it can be her 50th anniversary, and yet that’s still supposedly not enough.
Even when it was enough for Blink when they thought she would be the show’s breakout star. They had no problem with bringing back Exiles, and putting Blink on a team, when they thought the show would be her big moment. But when it turns out to be the big moment for Lorna, suddenly they can’t do anything.
So Marvel has this narrative. “Things are fine.”
They’re not, though. And there’s a blatantly obvious piece of evidence that supports this claim: everyone, everyone that talks about her level of use thinks she deserves better than she’s getting.
One of the personal experiences I commonly share is that when I first discovered Polaris, back in 2009, and said she needed to return from space, some guy said she should stay in space limbo to “keep her away from characters that matter.”
I never see that kind of badmouthing anymore.
What I see instead, all the time, is how she’s not getting the respect and use she deserves.
Nobody ever says Lorna’s been in too much, that she’s gotten more than she deserves, that she’s overhyped. That never happens. The message is always that she isn’t getting all the things that she should be getting. That she’s a much better character than Marvel ever gives her credit for.
If Marvel’s attitude about Lorna not being important or worthwhile enough was true, I’d be the only person saying any of these things. Instead, many, many other people think the exact same thing I do. If I died right now, the complaints would keep coming from all those other people.
#hi can we stop with this shitty characterization #this is the dumb nerd who flies up to balconies with flowers #and mopes sadly with fish when his gf dumps him #he’s not a sexist man whore you idiot writers GOD
Pietro (age 12 and 3 minutes) – impatient, irritable, irritating, smart-aleck, fiercely protective of his “baby sisters,” highly suspicious of outsiders, constantly (and futilely) trying to please Dad, angry that he’s the oldest, but still shorter than his siblings.
Wanda (age 12) – reclusive, very sheltered up bringing, longs for the chance to know more about the world – and especially kids her own age, gets on better with teens/adults than her peers, misuses slang constantly, tries too hard to “be cool,” really into ballet
Lorna aka “Lori” (age 10 and three quarters) – the youngest, but tall as all heck, bubbly if a little shy, a major dork (note the Tamagotchi pet), tends to get and keep friends by letting them take advantage of her kindness and generosity, can change moods in a red-hot minute, has a raging crush on an older guy (she even makes her own t-shirts in his honor)
X-men franchise:Gives us quicksilver but no Polaris or scarlet witch
Me: Ok.Ill wait.:)
Mcu: Gives us a whitewashed (Christian-washed so to say) version of scarlet witch and quicksilver, has the nerve to kill quicksilver off in his first appearance, and still no Polaris until the tv show The Gifted is released.
Me: >:(🔪
erm idk about you but i dont let the whitewashing in the fox universe slide either
Good point. Fox also has the problem of Bryan Singer, which is nothing to gloss over either.
I think the difference here is in established attitudes towards characters. Marvel thinks Polaris is worthless except as Havok’s girlfriend, and they’ve already killed off Pietro. That means Marvel will ignore what people want because it doesn’t fit their nostalgia goggles. Meanwhile, Fox still has the door open to bring the whole family together. They’re also comparatively new, meaning they’re not going to artificially limit characters based on faulty ideas they formed when they were 5 years old.
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