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salarta:

1407-graymalkin-lane:

Magneto’s not Lorna’s real dad

X-Men #52, January 1969

According to that storyline, yeah. But Lorna’s introductory storyline was all about establishing how she’s Magneto’s daughter, and making the struggle between following in her father’s footsteps or doing the right thing into her central focus.

When reading the issues directly, it becomes clear there must have been some sort of editorial demand to retcon her relationship with her father, and we saw how much that retcon has hurt her even up to today. She still has a lot of trouble getting due respect for her long history with Marvel and the X-Men franchise.

I’m not attacking you if it looks that way, graymalkin; I know you’re just posting panels and pages. 🙂 I’m just informing for people who don’t know all this.

I’m never offended by someone adding additional info! 

I’m presenting and reviewing these issues chronologically, as is, and so I’m never going to get into anything that happens in the “future” (which, as of right now, is most of the X-Men canon). But if anyone wants to add more info on their own blog, I mean, there’s always a ton to talk about with such a long-running series, so go right ahead. 

Great! I feel better reading this. I always worry that I might sound confrontational when I don’t mean to sound that way. I’ll add info on my own blog whenever I think it’s relevant. 🙂

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0roro-munroe:

why tf is Polaris so weak…..

Now you know why many Lorna fans are miffed at the really raw deal she’s been given over the decades. 😛 It’s because of how she got written in the 70s and 80s that Lorna is still treated by Marvel like she’s some obscure side character that doesn’t deserve to be considered an important part of X-Men franchise history, despite being around since 1968 as the second woman to join the team and getting introduced before Havok.

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metalslugx:

The 3rd Birthday was a great game but it shouldn’t have any connection to Parasite Eve at all

Maybe taken entirely on its own merits it would have been okay. But unlike cases like The Spirits Within, it wasn’t just a case of putting names where they shouldn’t be. 3rd Birthday went out of its way to ruin Aya Brea and Parasite Eve with insulting, sexist alterations to concepts and characters from Parasite Eve and Parasite Eve II. It treated Aya far, far worse than any other major female game protagonist of any franchise, including how Nintendo treated Samus with Other M.

Five years later, I’m still waiting for Squeenix to make 3rd Birthday completely noncanon with a Parasite Eve 3 starring the real, badass Aya. Their refusal to do that is why I refuse to touch anything Squeenix until they undo the mess they made with a real sequel that does things right.

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lordtimeblogposts:

Great
work with magneto, I know you will make great interactions within your
cast. Is there any hope to see polaris again with his father? (Uncanny X-men)

Cullen Bunn  We’ll see!

For clarification for people wondering about this, it was a response Cullen Bunn left on CBR’s boards.

I’m not entirely sure what to make of his response. “We’ll see” is an optimistic sort of answer. It’s very open-ended. If Lorna’s about to get killed off, as I’ve been worrying may happen during Secret Wars, then I’d normally expect more guarded answers. Answers along the lines of “I can’t say until after Secret Wars.” It also implies he’s not sure either, but that implication might be deliberate. 😛

Alongside this, Bunn’s said the currently revealed team isn’t the full team. Theoretically, Lorna could be on such a team, and I can already see one thing I think Bunn would address if she was.

On one hand, I don’t like the idea of a team much bigger than 6, maybe 7 characters max. I feel like it prevents giving each character enough panel time. It was one of my biggest criticisms of X-Factor when it had about 11-12 members; you had stretches up to 6 whole months where you see and hear nothing involving certain members. On the other hand, it looks like the number of X-books is going to be cut so small that it’ll be lucky if Lorna gets to appear anywhere at all. So as bad as it would be for the roster to be too big, we’re stuck with special extenuating circumstances that didn’t exist when X-Factor was going.

It’s also possible some other book that has yet to be announced would have Lorna on it, but frankly I think the chances of that are slim to nil. It’s not a question of whether or not there’s a lot of potential to her on other books, I’ve said for a while I’d love a Polaris solo even though there’s probably no chance of it for another decade or two. It’s an issue of Marvel wanting to cut things down for all the X-books.

Just sent you a ship thing via whatsapp (you will see why I sent it there when you see it)

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thatonerecruit:

You guys need to see this epic essay that she wrote. She sent it to me through Whatsapp and then sent me fanmail so I could copy and paste it. LIKE. WOMANNNN. No one has to send something like this btw, I just think angie-pangaea has become super passionate about trying to include Lorna Dane in my life. HAHAHA

Keep reading

I’m not sure if this is fan AU or fan headcanon, but since I’m not completely sure, I feel I should mention something real fast. In 616 canon, Lorna’s powers manifest when she’s a little girl in response to her mother and stepfather arguing with each other. It ends up causing the plane crash that killed both those parents, and her father Magneto shows up shortly after and has Lorna’s memory altered to keep her from remembering that day.

Other than that, I think the rest could fit as fan headcanon in the gaps of 616 canon. 🙂 The descriptions are pretty cool.