Meanwhile, Lorna was clearly altered by her experiences on Genosha and had become a good deal more ruthless, easily killing some bad guys on a mission. So while he was still with Lorna (even agreeing to marry her) he had these feelings for Annie. They got engaged, but the problem is that while Havok was in a coma after returning from the other reality, the mutant son of his nurse used his powers to connect his mother and Havok’s minds during their sleep and they basically fell in love in their dreams. Polaris returned to the X-Mansion with the X-Men and she picked up her relationship with Havok (who had returned from that other reality). Polaris survived and was overwhelmed with the guilt of surviving (and, of course, also dealing with the trauma of seeing all of these people slaughtered in front of her). While she was on Genosha, the island nation of mutants was attacked by Cassandra Nova, who sent Sentinels to wipe out almost the entire population, with millions of mutants killed in minutes. At the same time, she discovered that she was actually Magneto’s daughter (in the past, she believed she was but then learned that she was not but now learned that, nope, she definitely WAS). In return, she helped to curb some of Magneto’s harsher tendencies in his leadership of Genosha. Lorna then joined X-Factor along with Havok and rekindled their romance.Īfter Havok was seemingly killed (in reality, he was sent to another reality), Lorna left X-Factor and eventually went to live on Genosha with Magneto, where her powers helped to boost Magneto’s dwindling abilities.
Her powers returned following the death of Zaladane.
During this period, Lorna gained super-strength. In the process, Lorna fell victim to the Shadow King, who used her as a sort of vessel for him to use his corruption powers. Eventually, Lorna was cured of Malice’s control of her body, but then had her magnetic powers stolen by the villainous Zaladane (who may or may not be Lorna’s sister.