I’ll say this about Cullen Bunn’s focus on Havok on X-Men Blue: it’s gotten me in enough arguments with Havok fanboys to make me hate Havok more than I did before his run.

All I’ve ever asked for in regards to their relationship was to keep them apart for long enough that Lorna got to properly establish herself as her own character without him. I judged that to require 10 years apart since 5 didn’t suffice in the 00s. That’s literally all I asked. I didn’t ask for Havok to be kept away from her forever. I didn’t ask for Havok to be treated like shit for Lorna’s benefit to “make up for” all the times she got treated like shit for his benefit. Before Blue, I didn’t even hold Havok being forced into Lorna’s origin story, or into her leading her own team on ANXF, against him.

But after X-Men Blue #8 and #9, after the heavy upcoming focus on him for the next Blue story arc, and after arguments I’ve been in (especially one where a Havok fanboy’s been outright lying by saying they’ve been apart for 10 years when it’s only been 6 at best), I increasingly find myself thinking “fuck Havok.”

Lorna can’t do a single fucking thing without Marvel shoving him into Lorna’s affairs, and she can’t have a leadership role, a starring TV role, a supporting role, anything without Havok fanboys trying to put Lorna or her options down and acting like she isn’t a viable character without him. Including trying to make her interactions with Magneto out to be worse for her than the literal decades of trash treatment she’s endured with Havok, because of course.

If the goal is to wear out my very hard effort to not hate Havok and if the goal’s to kill my ability to remain open to their having a relationship once Lorna’s in good shape, congratulations, it’s fucking working.

Quickly showing another tiny amount of further evidence of why Havok forced into Polaris’ affairs is a big issue for me. By comparison.

Here’s what the official Marvel account for Latin America on Twitter posted a couple days ago.

Now here’s everything the official Marvel account has tweeted about Lorna, with keyword Polaris.

Notice that the official Marvel account has never acknowledged Magneto is Lorna’s father.

Also notice that 4 out of 7 tweets invoke Havok in some way, to reassert the attitude that Lorna doesn’t matter or deserve to be talked about unless Havok gets something out of it. Notice that when they’re talked about, Havok’s name always comes first, as an implicit note that he’s perceived as “better” and “more important” than her.

I didn’t make a picture of it, but here’s what you get if you do the same search for Havok instead of Polaris.

https://twitter.com/search?f=tweets&vertical=default&q=Havok%20from%3AMarvel&src=typd&lang=en

Havok gets 21 tweets. Polaris only comes up in 3 of them.

Let’s sum this up in statistics.

• Number of tweets for Polaris: 7
• Number of tweets for Havok: 21
• Polaris tweets mentioning/showing Havok: 57%
• Havok tweets mentioning/showing Polaris: 14%

The social media for @marvelentertainment reflects Marvel’s negative, biased attitude toward Polaris. To Marvel, Havok is a diverse character that can be all sorts of places and be many things, but over half of who Lorna is should be defined by being Havok’s girlfriend.

To Marvel, Havok deserves 3 times more promotion and support than Polaris.

This is all stuff you can see plainly if you pay attention to the comics, but you don’t even need to do that. Marvel makes it obvious with their social media activity.