Polaris

OriginA young Lorna crashing a planeAfter being married for several years, Lorna's father, a pilot named Arnold, discovers that she isn't his daughter at all. While piloting a plane carrying his wife Suzanna and daughter Lorna, who is 3 years old at the time, Arnold confronts his wife about her affair. Hearing her parents argue, little Lorna gets upset and starts crying and screaming for her parents to stop arguing. Her mutant powers uncontrollably manifest and she unintentionally rips the plane apart in mid-flight. Lorna survives the crash, but her parents do not. Drawn to the crash site by the magnetic pulse Lorna had unleashed, Magneto finds Lorna and orders Mastermind to rewrite Lorna's memories via illusions.The initial manifestation of her powers turns Lorna's hair from brown to green. She keeps her hair dyed so as not to seem different from others and become ostracized. It seems that there is a genetic defect in Lorna that prevented her latent mutant abilities from manifesting earlier. When a villain named Mesmero uses his Psyche-Generator, which allows him to command all mutants in North America with latent powers, Lorna is drawn to him and forced to travel to San Francisco to unite with Mesmero.CreationPolaris was created by Arnold Drake, Werner Roth, Jim Steranko and Don Heck and first appeared in The (Uncanny) X-Men Vol.1 issue 49 (1968).Major Story ArcsMeeting the X-MenLorna and BobbyLorna meets Bobby Drake while in San Francisco when he ices the ground under her feet, causing her to slip. Bobby was able to convince Lorna to come with him to his apartment. When Lorna finally meets the X-Men, they discover that she is actually a mutant with latent powers. Mesmero then kidnaps her, bringing her to his headquarters. He puts her in a “Genetic Stimulator” that activates her latent mutant abilities. The X-Men try to save her and it is then revealed that Magneto is the mastermind behind the whole plot. Magneto reveals that he is Lorna's true father. This causes...