So we all agree Quicksilver’s little sister in DOFP was Polaris and not Scarlet Witch?
I just want to point out that at the time of this reblog, this post has 5,256 notes.
Here’s a fun game! Guess which one was written by Feminist Icon Chris Claremont and which wasn’t?
I think a lot of the reason some people, especially certain people at Marvel, won’t give Lorna any kind of a chance to show her potential is because of their fandom for Claremont.
Claremont did a lot of great things for the X-Men franchise and it’s fair to say he made the X-Men franchise what it is today, but Lorna’s one of the black marks on his tenure. If they admit Claremont screwed Lorna over, then they have to admit that Claremont isn’t perfect and his vision for at least one of the characters was in poor taste.
Many people can’t stand admitting something like that. The only alternative they believe they have when confronted with such a truth is to convince themselves Polaris is a bad character that doesn’t deserve to have any opportunities.
I feel like someone pushed someone else into the pool, and it just— devolved from there, until they were all soaking wet and laughing.
Fun with Google autocompletes/suggestions, Magnus family edition (pt. final)
Welcome to what is currently planned to be the last part in this series! Part 1 and part 2 here.
I skipped over a search with just “Polaris” before because the Web autocompletes were all for other stuff like four-wheelers. However, if we do Image Search…
In case you can’t see it well enough, the image search suggests Marvel and X-Men to narrow the search so we get Lorna out of a Polaris search. Before that, it’s about the star and a generic “logo” search, which applies to tons of things.
We continue!
Seems a lot of people immediately want to know more about Magneto’s daughters when looking into Quicksilver. Also, Days of Future Past is a much bigger deal in terms of Magneto’s son than Age of Ultron. Last one’s pretty much a given.
This is where I reiterate that this is not exhaustive. I’m only doing the ones that interest me personally. So I could do searches of Quicksilver or Pietro Maximoff, but while the search results would definitely interest fans of Pietro, I didn’t feel like taking the time to screencap and post them. I urge fans of the characters I skip to do their own more thorough autocompletes. 🙂
What I really like here isn’t only that interest in Lorna and Wanda as sisters is highlighted here, but that Pietro is acknowledged too, and the idea of Lorna and Wanda fighting is also in there.
And same here, except it doesn’t do “brother and sister” or “sister and brother” or any of that. It implies just how much interest there is in the sisterhood.
I skipped the ones of Wanda and Pietro since they don’t mention Lorna, but one search of them focuses on the forced retcon, another highlights how they’re Magneto’s kids. I like these, though, because they continue to highlight how important the sibling dynamic is that just the name “Lorna” combined with Wanda or Pietro pulls in suggestions for the third sibling.
I didn’t add this to the last post, but yep, it acknowledges Lorna as Wanda’s sister in the autocompletes here too.
Highlights that when we look at Wanda interacting with the X-Men, the focus is on 1) the Fox film, 2) her status as Magneto’s daughter, and 3) the last real X-Men cartoon Marvel’s put out, which had a dynamic with Lorna.
That last one, about WatXM, is extremely important. X-Men: Evolution lasted longer and arguably had a bigger role for her. Theoretically, we could say WatXM only comes up because of how recent it is, but we saw in a previous part that one of the image search suggestions for Lorna is X-Men: Evolution. So it’s not just how recent it is that matters.
People like her role on WatXM, and aside from her dynamic with Nightcrawler, her dynamic with her family was a huge part of her use.
This concludes my series on Google autocompletes/suggestions for the Magnus family. Perhaps I’ll try other terms I missed or skipped some time in the future. Maybe I’ll retry searches to see how they’ve changed. For now, this is the end. I hope it gave a lot of food for thought. 🙂
Iceman
Astonishing X-Men #63
Cover art by Phil Noto
I remember the pleasant speculation on what might happen during the issue.
Liu did an excellent job, but I wish more time had been spent on Lorna and Nurse Annie interacting. I think there would’ve been a lot of interesting discussion between the two and how things have changed between them compared to how things were last time they talked.
I also thought much the same when All-New X-Factor was running; I thought it would’ve been interesting if Nurse Annie joined X-Factor in a medical role.
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