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The horror.

The stranger thing is how the game has a light smell fetish. There’s a couple times where Aya insists she smells bad, one notable spot being when she finds a corpse on top of a tower and thinks it must smell better than her. There’s of course the dumpster scene, but then the Eau de Toilette item as well.

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Geekery Spotlight: POLARIS

Why we love her? Polaris is the heir to Magneto in ways her (former?) brother and sister were not. Though manipulated by him, she also respected him and her beliefs at times swayed similar to his. She has a quiet power and strength that she only rarely taps into and the right writer finds that and makes her a character to be reckoned with. Then you have the ones that want her to be nuts, a victim, needs saving, or somehow naive. I don’t think the true Polaris is any of those things. I think she fights hard for her survival and is as much a fighter and survivor as her friend, Jean Grey. Now if only they would write her more like that.

Group Affiliations: X-Men, X-Factor, Horsemen of Apocalypse, House of M, House of Magnus, Marauders, The Defenders, Starjammers, Acolytes

Other Geekery Connections: She is the daughter of Magneto, sometimes she’s sister to Quicksilver, Scarlet Witch, and Zaladane, the aunt of Luna Maximoff, Wiccan, Speed, and Nocturne, as well as the former fiance of the X-Man, Havok. She was the one time girlfriend of Iceman, led a few X-Teams and served on a few, she was also once possessed by the Marauder, Malice. Polaris’ connections in the Marvel universe are many.

I think the main issue when it comes to Lorna written as nuts comes down to how it’s written and why. You can get some great storylines that get at aspects of Lorna or her relationships out of “crazy Lorna,” which is something I think Austen did pretty well. When the purpose is to show how much she cares about other people and mutants, how much she cares about her family, the importance of certain identities and values, the toll living through something traumatic like the Genoshan genocide took on her, things like that, it can be a good thing.

It becomes a problem if “crazy Lorna” is used as an excuse to make her look stupid or weak, especially to the benefit of other characters. It’s one of the heavy criticisms I had for a particular issue of a comic. There was no sympathetic angle, it was just Lorna acting like a dumb rage monster so she could get beaten down.

Oh, and “crazy Lorna” would also be bad as a permanent primary depiction of her. It works great as certain storylines or periods of her life, but if it becomes her primary, it’ll become all she’s ever known for, same as she became known only as Havok’s girlfriend for a long time. Everything else about who she is would end up getting ignored in favor of “Oh, she’s that crazy chick.”

All my typing aside, this was a good write-up. 🙂

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I’m just not understanding what the heck was done to Pietro’s personality.  It’s like this Pietro came right from the “X-Men Evolution” cartoon.

On another topic, Pietro swimming to Atlantis with no scuba gear is quite a feat. I mean, apart from being able to hold his breath while moving super fast, he still has to contend with possible nitrogen narcosis and decompression sickness…what I’m saying is: why couldn’t they just draw Pietro in a submarine? That’s a bit more believable than him just swimming to Atlantis.

Because reasons.

I wouldn’t have thought of that, which is why I’m always glad to see fans of other characters point out issues they spot that I missed.