ok but this is canon magneto
Yep this is a pretty accurate assessment!
Videos
Got this sent to me by @kurt-banged-her! It’s the panel for Hasbro’s Marvel Legends line at SDCC. I set this video to start right at where they introduce the Polaris figure.
What I love about the video, apart from so many people cheering for it, is the host saying
“you can cross her off your want list so I never have to see her in the top ten again.” It’s one of many, many signs of how egregiously Marvel ignores Lorna and her value. It took so long for a figure of her to come out, and so many people want it, that she became notorious as a character people wanted to see but constantly never got.
It’s not going to happen, but Marvel should really be taking this as another strong indicator that she’s a character they need to do better for. Canceling her only book where she’s the leader after going out of the way to undermine it, or briefly giving her good representation in a Marvel-wide event and then abandoning her for over half a year and counting so far, doesn’t cut it.
Heat was getting to me so I stopped. Then this happened. #polaris #lornadane #xfactor #90s #xmen #green #greenhair #80srock #cosplayprogress #silly #lipsync #whythefucknot #geekgirl #geek #nerd #nerdlife #cosplayer #cosplaylife #comicbooks #comics #cartoon #instalike #instadaily #instavideo #dance #randomness #random
As I get to say too often lately: I’m disappointed, but not surprised, that there’s no mention of Polaris in this at all.
Marvel acknowledging Lorna as Magneto’s daughter again is a relatively recent phenomenon, and Marvel went out of their way to avoid letting Lorna and Wanda interact as sisters in the 616. Almost all the scenes they’ve had together are alternate universe versions of them.
If Marvel was in charge of this video or had authority over its go-ahead, then I strongly suspect that both Wanda’s X-Men origins and Magneto being her father would have been left out if Marvel thought they could get away with it.
A final personal aside: I think Elizabeth Olsen is a great actress, she was excellent in the U.S. version of Silent House, and maybe she’s a good Scarlet Witch (I can’t say cause I stopped watching the MCU after the forced retcon on Wanda and Pietro’s parentage in Axis), but I don’t think she’d be good as Polaris. What little I’ve seen of her as MCU Wanda gives me more of a gothy witch vibe, but Lorna to me is more of a wild punk rock/heavy metal type.
Cosplaying in Boston
In which I bring bread and everyone falls in love with bread.
Bread is very doable.
And now for something completely different.
Juuuuuust showing off a video of some of the things Polaris can do.
(Magneto too, obviously, but I care more about Lorna’s options)
I mainly watched this to see what would be said about Polaris/Lorna Dane. She only got very brief mentions in the middle and toward the end, but they’re meaningful despite brevity. First mention is to establish she’s one of the first X-Men after the initial five, second mention is to highlight that it was a combination of Polaris and Storm that launched Krakoa into space. Both are important, given Marvel often likes to ignore when Lorna was created and act like she didn’t exist until the 90s. I’ve also heard, but can’t personally confirm as I haven’t read it, that one depiction of Krakoa tried to retcon Lorna out and replace her with Jean.
The speaker in this vid is extremely enthusiastic. I especially like how she highlights the social and cultural context. That’s an extremely important aspect to most fiction, and far too many people don’t try to take context into account when they judge something from the past. In general, good video and intro.
Let’s sing along
Odessa, Kanono, Rosella, Alena, Hatsune Miku, Lyonesse
Mackenzie, and Freya and Beatrix and Eiko, Megurine Luka, Celes
then Marta and Sypha and Farah Cecilia, Jill Valentine, Maya, Garnet
Aya Brea, Chris Lightfellow, Meliadoul, Agrias, Rafa, Junon and ColetteNakoruru, Shantotto, Lucia, Lucia, Leona, Leona, Emilia
Asellus, Luna, Yuna, Kunoichi, Feena Katt Rutee Mary and PhilliaMiria, MsPacMan, Red Eye, Fio Germi, then Nadia and Irene Lew
Opera, Precis, and Lyndis and Jenna then Gum, Cube Piranha and Mew
Tengaar, Kasumi, Cornette, Ladybug, Mia Hamm, Tyra Elson Papri
Timegal and Rydia Charlotte and Lara Croft Monica Kid and Chun LiEvery female ruler you play in Civ 4, and then Samus well that’s a no brainer
Josephine, Alyx Vance, Pyra and Jade and all female pokemon trainersthere’s Lightning and eri, rose and then sami and then goku’s granddaughter pan
Princess Erika, Bianca, Lukia, but only if you buy your games in JapanMarle and miyaka then ayla then lucca then blaze ronnie bell and aeris
the version with clothes, athena and king alisa stewart and farisLissandra, Irelia Karma Quinn Poppy Soraka Lux Lulu Diana
Caitlyn, Cassiopeia, Fiora Annie and Sona Jinx Nami Tristanathere’s rena and terra and relm and micaiah bayonetta maria renard
and lena and alis masuyo baraduke tower of druaga’s ishtar.sonia sonia sonia sonia sona? that is an overused name
teefa and teefa… there’s only two teefas valis is from her own gameany game where you can make your own character that applies to male or female gamers
that’s a good chunk of the videogame library…so when they tell you
they’re not represented
kindly go tell them
to learn about gaming
pick up a controller
and play
Oh good, this load of bull again.
1) If you have to cite female characters from incredibly obscure games to pad your numbers, you’re wrong.
2) If you have to cite female characters that were made 15-30 years ago and haven’t been used since, you’re wrong.
3) If you have to cite minor side characters that didn’t lead their own games, you’re wrong.
4) If you have to pretend many of these women are not the sole token woman or one of only a few women among character rosters that have double or more men, with male characters usually treated as more important, you’re wrong.
Lists like this try to deny there’s a problem by pretending that if you can generate a list of ANY female characters across the ENTIRE HISTORY of video games, then somehow it cancels out the past 5-10 years of mostly male characters as the stars of mainstream entries.
These lists also pretend that taking the same incredibly loose criteria used to come up with at most a hundred women and applying it to male characters wouldn’t result in a list thousands of male characters deep.
None of this “women have enough representation, look at these names” junk is a genuine counter-argument. It’s desperate grasping at straws to act like valid criticism is invalid so the industry doesn’t have to get any better.
salarta 