Time for another installment!

What Can Polaris Do?

Watch the video! It’s fun!

In this video, we see a very intricate almost Rube Goldberg like contraption that uses magnets. It makes use of multiple very interesting principles: magnetic objects interacting with non-magnetic objects, magnetic fields pulling other susceptible objects barely enough to make them swing, balls linked by magnetism blocking smaller objects but breaking up for heavier objects or ones with more momentum.

That’s my rundown. Now I’ll go into what I feel this demonstrates in terms of how Polaris could use her powers.

The most obvious is creating a similar contraption. With such a contraption, she could create something in advance that she could then set off during a fight with minimal work (”simply set the ball in motion”) to do the job for her while she focuses on fighting and protecting herself. Say, for example, a device prepped to release multiple nets to capture multiple enemies in succession, or time blaster shots for when a powerful enemy would’ve recovered from the last one.

The next, and I think far more exciting, feature is its use of non-magnetic objects alongside magnetic ones. Think of it like the magnetic manipulation equivalent of not expecting a sword wielder to throw a punch. If Lorna’s fighting an enemy, they’re going to assume that any use of her powers will be direct – that she’ll use only things she can directly manipulate. They may not expect her to, say, create and launch a cannonball into a pillar that breaks and causes a chandelier to drop from the ceiling onto her opponent. That is a very simplistic example; a more complex one may be hitting a non-magnetic ball with a magnetic ones enough to make it bounce around and ultimately hit her enemy.

Lastly, the notion of a string of magnetic beads able to keep out lighter objects but break to let heavier ones in could work well. She could create traps that capture only the heavier enemies. She could create a “gate” that effectively splits teams so that she can take out the stronger, more powerful ones before having to deal with the smaller ones – say, if she were up against the Avengers, to fight Hulk while forcing Captain America and Hawkeye to wait outside.

Of course, none of this is even taking into account the idea of Polaris actively magnetizing metal, allowing her to have it all set up without even needing to directly affect what she’s already magnetized.

That’s it for this one! If you’ve got videos, articles, pictures, etc that could work for one of these articles, feel free to send them my way! Or better yet, do a write-up of your own!