you know, nonnie..you always know how to make a gal struggle. i just wanna point out that every mutant is a complete badass and can kick my ass any day.
1. wanda maximoff – i know she kind of caused a gigantic mess with the whole ‘trying to access charles mind’ thing but..this woman right here is the baddest of them all. seriously. not only is she breathtakingly beautiful but she can get business done. do i need to go on?
2. johnny storm– all i gotta say is this man has quite literally stolen my heart. not only is he smokin’ with those flames of his but have you seen the way he looks? he could melt you by just lookin’ at you! seriously though, i have a feeling he could do some pretty big damage if he wanted too.
3. lorna dane– i could go on and on about this babe right here. she’s smart, she’s fierce, she’s gorgeous, she’s incredibly strong and have i mentioned incredibly powerful? there’s no telling what this gal can do but all i know is i’m here for it. give her the recognition she deserves.
4. gabby kinney– is she considered a mutant? either way she’s on this list because this girl’s not only as cute as one can get but as fierce as one can get. i’m almost positive this girl could kick anybody’s ass in this place and you’ll definitely see me cheering her on.
5. anna marie– listen, i know this gal’s just got here but it doesn’t take long for anyone to notice just how amazing she is. not only does that sweet mississippi accent get anyone going but she can literally absorb the life out of anything. how badass is that?
6. remy lebeau– i want everyone to know i’ve the biggest heart eyes for this man. his words are so incredibly captivating i could listen to him talk literally for the rest of my life. out of all the mutants here, i definitely have to say he has some of the coolest abilities and i hope we get to see more of this badass cutie.
7. emma frost– now, i know this gem should definitely be higher on my list because..well..she’s emma freakin’ frost but? i haven’t seem much of her yet. still, she definitely deserves to be at least somewhere on here because have you seen her? not only could she slice you in half with that tongue of hers, but she could literally freeze you from just her beauty. i volunteer.
8. scott summers– oh cyclops, a classic gem in the mutant community. i think it’s more than obvious that those optic blasts could slice through literally anything, which by the way– so *badass*. we have so many of those here, don’t we? but he’s a complete and total heartthrob! show yourself more, handsome! don’t hide!
9. logan howlett– again, another classic. this man screams ‘edgy’ no matter where he goes and i live, breathe, and die for it. he’s also kinda a hot mess which is..hot in itself? plus, he’s always got something snarky to say and he always, even if he doesn’t mean too, gives me a good laugh. mans got a tongue, i’ll tell ya. also? those claws? literally insane. slice it up, boo!
10. bobby drake– last but certainly not least is mister bobby drake. he always seems to bring a sense of light and happiness to the mutant community which, is something some of these babes totally need. he’s just absolutely adorable and breathtakingly handsome that i just couldn’t help but save him for the best spot. his icy powers can also do some pretty chilling stuff.
When I complain about Havok forced on Lorna, this is the fucking reason why. This is supposed to be a write-up for her, but instead, it’s a write-up of how she’s been used for the benefit of men around her.
I deliberately removed the user’s name and handle because I don’t want him to be harassed, and that would accomplish absolutely nothing anyway if it did happen.
What matters isn’t who said it, it’s why they said it. That reason is the impression they get of Lorna because of her history with Havok. Because of all those decades, this user – and many others – perceive her as a character that exists for men. That can and should only be seen in terms of how she can advance the stories of men, add status to men, make men look good by being around them. Never what Lorna herself has accomplished, how she’s developed, what she’s been through.
This is why I hate Havok after X-Men Blue, and why I’m so fiercely against Havok forced on her. It’s Marvel muddying the view of who Lorna actually is. It’s disregarding her value because they can’t seem to care enough about this female character to do right by her, because she’s not popular like Jean Grey or Storm or Emma Frost so they can get away with it.
I had some thoughts on my drive in to work today concerning Lorna’s beautiful and awesome green hair. And because I love writing these articles, I’ve decided to make writing them into part of my celebration of Lorna’s 50th anniversary.
As most fans know, Lorna used to dye her hair brown to hide her green hair.
She’s had that green hair ever since. So here’s the question: Why was Lorna dyeing her hair?
These are a few theories.
Foster Parent Protection
This is the theory I’ve held longest, but it’s only as I start to write this post that I realize it’s not the only possible reason.
Lorna is growing in a world that fears and hates mutants. What if her foster parents knew she was a mutant and hid it from her? Perhaps Magneto took Lorna to the only living family other than himself that could take her in, explained his desire for Lorna to lead a normal life, and the Danes took over from there.
Even if the Danes didn’t know Lorna was secretly a mutant, the visual signifier could have led people to believe she was a mutant and attack her. So, it could have been a matter of protection.
Subconscious Aversion
This is a theory I don’t like (at least right now), but as it’s a possibility I’m including it.
Lorna’s green hair came about when her powers manifested – and she accidentally killed her parents. In other words, in a child’s mind, green hair = trauma and death. Mastermind may have altered her mind to make completely forget, but trauma is not just the memories themselves. It’s the echoes they leave in the mind, and that would have been difficult to impossible to erase.
So, Lorna dyeing her hair may have been a small part of her that remembered the feeling of her trauma and didn’t have the tools to get past it, so she avoided it. She dyed it brown, her hair color from before her powers awakened, after all.
Bullied
And then there’s kids.
Kids are horrible to other kids that stand out “too much.” Just about anything could be grounds for bullying and harassment, and green hair is astoundingly showy in a room full of kids with brown, black, blonde or red hair. As she says in her introductory story, she dyes her hair to “avoid attracting the curious.” What if in this case, that meant kids who wanted to pick on her for it?
Similarly, maybe it made her more of a target for sexual harassment, and her method of dealing with it back then was to “dress down.”
End of Hair Dye
So with these three theories, I come to the final thing I wanna bring up. She stopped dyeing her hair after her powers were restored and she realized she was a mutant. Why?
Here’s what I think: she’s discovered who she is as a mutant and now embraces what that green hair means for her. Her green hair isn’t just a quirk of genetics. It’s symbolic of her identity. It no longer represents something to fear or be ashamed of. It represents her power, her courage, her calling as a mutant.
She never dyes her hair again because deep down, no matter what she says or does, subconsciously she loves being a mutant and standing out as one. Any claims made to the contrary are false. If they weren’t, why would she go around showing off the most visible sign of her mutant identity?
Quick question for fellow Lorna fans! Or even people who wouldn’t necessarily say they’re fans, but who care about her and wanna give their input.
What do you think a preteen/teen Lorna would wear, before she consciously knew she was a mutant and her mutant powers were restored?
Remember, I said consciously. Subconscious can still play a factor. 🙂 Also remember Marvel has a sliding timescale, so maybe that’s something to consider, maybe not.
This is two tweets I’ve found recently of people specifically asking Thompson to do stuff with Lorna.
I don’t think her reply in the second pic means anything; there were multiple suggestions, she could’ve been replying to any or all of them.
For the most part, I don’t have any particular feelings right now on whether Thompson would be good or bad for Lorna. I don’t know enough about her or her writing.
She would fulfill one of my recent ideal criteria, which is Lorna written by a female writer. I think a lot of the problems with the way Lorna’s been written by Marvel stem from a male writer POV. Lorna was written well in the few pages Marjorie Liu used her, for example.
I have more tweets focused on fave characters of the tweeter, but I wanted to spotlight these two because of the X-Men Blue panel used. As I said in another Tumblr post, I’m seeing that panel more and more on social media. I think it shows people want Lorna to be Magneto’s daughter, they want it used and explored, but they also don’t want it to be treated like it’s all there is to who Lorna is as a character.
More fave character sorts of posts for Lorna.
More requests/demands for Lorna to get a solo book, to go with what I’ve pointed out in other posts.
I’m also really glad to see Lorna increasingly referred to as a Queen. I think most people are just using it as a title of respect, but in her original storyline she was called the Queen of Mutants. Plus she was set as the heir of Genosha. So it all fits perfectly. The sassy and beautiful green queen.
Damn right she does.
Another tweet of someone signaling they’d like Lorna to be a lesbian, or that they personally see her as lesbian.
And on the flip side, this. The original tweet from Marvel was about a list of who in the Marvel universe had the best beards.
I’m pretty sure this is someone wondering if Marvel’s going to try to kill Lorna off in the next Marvel event. I can see other ways of meaning though, mostly playful.
We all know there’s a lot of love for the ideal Magnus family, here’s another tweet to that point.
I’ve seen a fair number of these kind of tweets. I think it says something about Lorna’s popularity and how awareness has spread of her when people do these “character you remind me of” tweets and Lorna is among the characters thought of.
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