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bitchybeautyboy:

Can someone tell me who is this beautiful young woman who look like Lorna Dane. Can this really be Lorna? I don’t remember where I got this, but it has no explanation whatsoever who she really is. I hope this is Lorna and if it is, where is that panel from? What issue? Thanks

I finally found confirmation of what I was very sure this is: it’s Aphrodite IX (EDIT: Apparently it’s Aphrodite IV according to lordtimeblogposts, my bad!).

http://www.comicvine.com/profile/syapt/images/

Lorna’s been mind-controlled a lot of times, but it’s never been in this way where an entire organization is controlling her and talking about uploading mission parameters like she’s a robot. The government in Marvel had a plan to brainwash Lorna and use her as a weapon against Magneto during the 90s X-Factor, but it never happened.

Still, this is really good art. And it’s pretty common for people to see pictures of Aphrodite IX and think it’s Polaris, at least in my recent experience.

I think it says a lot in favor of Polaris and how Marvel should use her more if a headliner at a competitor that has her own title is often mistaken for an “obscure” character Marvel never promotes.

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somnusinferno:

I want a basic t.v. show thats a family drama focused around Max Eisenhardt and his son and daughters, Wanda Maximoff, Lorna Dane and Pietro Maximoff.

I think this would be great. I even thought of how this could go as a TV show a few months back.

Wanda and Pietro are either seniors in high school or freshmen in college. Lorna’s a freshman in high school. By night, the four of them go out to avenge mutants and deal with mutant rights issues. All the while, during the day, they try to hide their nightly activities and appear to be normal.

Of course, this brings a lot of identity drama: wanting to be acknowledged as special, not wanting to be attacked or get found out by the authorities. Should mutant powers be or not be used as the advantage they are in everyday life. What happens to people that find out.

First season can be the general dichotomy. That can go on for however many seasons it works. A season can be about the family living on the run after their identities are compromised. Another season can be establishing and running Genosha.

The family will inevitably run into the X-Men somewhere along the way, whether from the start or a later season. Lorna would no doubt wonder why she can’t just admit she’s a mutant and go live at the mansion with the other mutants (dad Magneto’s reasons: it makes her a target, makes people look more closely at the family). There could even be a hopefully positively portrayed romance between Lorna and Havok, Havok being with the X-Men, a Romeo and Juliet sort of thing.

All that to say, yeah, there’s a hell of a lot of unique potential in a Magnus family TV show. 🙂

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Polaris, in this universe, is not the daughter of Magneto, despite sharing similar powers. However, Lorna Dane is still closely bonded with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch, who used to be her teammates in X-Factor.

I don’t get why this keeps getting deleted and reposted over and over and over and over again. If it was just one or two times, I’d be fine, but this goes up in a constant loop every few days or every week, and it’s getting really annoying.

Maybe I’m oversensitive, but it bugs me because of Lorna’s history of mistreatment and struggles she’s had as a character. She was introduced as Magneto’s daughter from the get-go, but the editors had that retconned out many issues later with really flimsy justification.

This led to decades of Lorna stripped of the feminist aspects she was created with, along with her getting treated as the resident punching bag to promote other women like Storm and Zaladane during the 70s and 80s. This happened because without the father connection, they attached her to Havok, and in attaching her to Havok, she was rewritten from her badass self to a submissive, weak character.

She’s finally bouncing back, very very slowly, first with Peter David writing her better in the 90s and then with a HUGE boost with Marvel returning her to her status as one of Magneto’s daughters. If she gets back with Havok, it may actually be a good, healthy relationship now, something that was incredibly rare before.

And I don’t think any of that would be the case if the retcon was left in place.

To say “Hehe, in this imagined universe, Lorna is back to not being Magneto’s daughter anymore” bugs me a lot knowing how much it’s damaged the character. Marvel doesn’t even consider her a real X-Men member or acknowledge she’s existed since 1968, they don’t include her in major franchise-wide tributes or events anymore, and I’m certain this is to blame.

At least with the idiotic retcon to Wanda and Pietro, it’s happening because Marvel wants to promote the characters in other ways. Things are being done that make the loss not as bad as it would be without those things. With Lorna, the intent was never to promote her, only diminish her. 

So yeah, I can ignore it here and there, but it gets really annoying to see the exact same message every few days or every week that in my mind translates to “Let’s do that one thing again that completely decimated the character for decades and still holds her back to this day.”