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She's also known for her romantic relationships with various X-Men. After a brief flirtation with ComicBook/{{Iceman}} ([[ComingOutStory before he came out]]), she began a relationship with Alex Summers / Havok, the younger brother of stalwart X-Man ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}. They've spent the majority of their shared publication history in a state of "WillTheyOrWontThey" limbo, and almost got married at one point. Let's just say getting left at the altar didn't do wonders for her psyche.

As a long-running character in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Polaris has appeared in various other media since being introduced. She showed up in a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimated Series'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. In live-action, Polaris features as a regular on Creator/{{FOX}}'s ''Series/TheGifted'', portrayed there by Emma Dumont. This version of the character emphasized Lorna's issues with mental illness, as well as make reference to her familiar parentage.

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* BareYourMidriff: Some of her outfits have exposed her midsection.

* FunPersonified: Exiles and '90s Animated Series version

* MoreThanMindControl: How Morph was compelled to make the FaceHeelTurn in the '90s animated series

* RivalTurnedEvil: '90s Animated Series

* TricksterArchetype: The later versions of him as Morph tend to fall under this trope, the original Changeling himself not so

* WeHardlyKnewYe: In both in the 616 universe and the '90s X-Men cartoon he was KilledOffForReal before his character could properly be explored at all. His adaptational counterpart got to come back, but he didn't and, shockingly in a medium that has completely embraced DeathIsCheap, he remained dead until the mutant nation Krakoa made [[DeathIsCheap death a non-issue for mutants]].

Lorna Dane, better known as Polaris, is a Creator/MarvelComics character created by Arnold Drake and Creator/JimSteranko.

One of the first new additions to the X-Men after their founding lineup was established, Polaris has a long-rooted history with the team -- most prominently, that she's the only biological child [[note]]since the 2014 retcon involving siblings ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}} and ComicBook/ScarletWitch[[/note]] of ComicBook/{{Magneto}}. Initially contesting his claim to her parentage, it was eventually confirmed to be true. Not surprising, since they both share the ''exact'' same [[MagnetismManipulation skillset]].
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* AngstComa: Went into one when she learned the real reason behind her mother's dead. It took a literal act of god(dess) to wake her up.

* BroughtDownToNormal: She lost her powers during Decimation by her half-sister, but soon got them back through Apocalypse repowered her using Celestial technology. It's [[ShrugOfGod not really known]] whether her X-Gene has been reactivated or it's simply the technology.

%%* IJustWantToBeNormal

* UnstablePoweredWoman: She was in Genosha the day that Cassandra Nova launched a genocidal attack that killed nearly every mutant in the nation. This was the original start of her personality becoming unhinged. Later, when her long-time LoveInterest Havok decided to leave her at the wedding altar to be with a woman whom he just met, she went completely off the deep end, adopted a costume similar to her father ComicBook/{{Magneto}} and attempted to murder everyone there.

* PowerOfTrust: During the Chuck Austen era he trusted the Juggernaut when no one else would. This trust was rewarded, and even after his return to villainy Juggs has gone noticeable easier on the X-Men than he ever did prior to joining them.

* WeakWilled: Has the dubious distinction of being one of the most frequently and successfully brainwashed members of the X-Men.

* EnergyRingAttack: He provides the trope image. Havok can absorb ambient cosmic radiation and release it in the form of plasma beams with a tell-tale concentric circle pattern. These waves will emanate from his body in all directions unless he purposefully tries to channel them in a single direction, usually along the length of his arms.

* AmbiguousDisorder: ''Dark X-Men'' retroactively gave him one, as it was established in that series that he had been suffering from UsefulNotes/BipolarDisorder for the past fifty years.

* TheBusCameBack: Any day now - Xavier recently mentioned him as someone he intends to resurrect, but we're yet to see it happen.

As a long-running character in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, Polaris has appeared in various other media since being introduced. She showed up in a few episodes of ''WesternAnimation/XMen: The Animated Series'', as well as ''WesternAnimation/WolverineAndTheXMen2009''. In live-action, Polaris features as a regular on Creator/{{FOX}}'s ''Series/TheGifted'', portrayed there by Emma Dumont. This version of the character emphasized Lorna's issues with mental illness, as well as make reference to her familiar parentage.

* DeathIsCheap: Back in the '70s he was KilledOffForReal in a HeroicSacrifice while fighting the ComicBook/IncredibleHulk. A decade later it was revealed that he had simply fallen into a coma, and when ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} came near him he subconsciously absorbed Wolvie's HealingFactor and revived. As of 2019 he's dead again, but considering his previous method of revival bringing him back should be easy when the writer comes along who wants to. And indeed, as of ''ComicBook/XMen2019'' (not even a year later!) Mimic is alive again.

** He was killed again by Mister Sinister after a ComicBook/{{Hellions}} mission to Otherworld went awry and was just as quickly resurrected again* BadassFamily: He's a Summers and more than lives up to the family reputation for butt-kicking mutants.

* DeathIsCheap: Back in the '70s he was KilledOffForReal in a HeroicSacrifice while fighting the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk. A decade later it was revealed that he had simply fallen into a coma, and when ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} came near him he subconsciously absorbed Wolvie's HealingFactor and revived. As of 2019 he's dead again, but considering his previous method of revival bringing him back should be easy when the writer comes along who wants to. And indeed, as of ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen (not even a year later!) Mimic is alive again.

* IJustWantToBeNormal

* LadyOfWar

** After ''Comicbook/AvengersVsXMen'', he's taken over as chief representative of the mutant race, although many of his fellow mutants and X-Men feel he isn't worthy of the position and disagree with him on a lot of issues. After his personality was inverted he resigned from the Avengers and joined Cyclops' mutant faction.

* YouGottaHaveBlueHair: Or green, in her case. It's connected to her powers, first activating when she first used her powers.

* CoolAunt: For her niece, [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zVgjfvfAOok/ThUSFBov7oI/AAAAAAAADnY/yjc4n0R8m5w/s1600/auntie.JPG Luna Maximoff]] (Quicksilver's daughter). [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/a16db42e7624dc1d7b6dac8e1c664472/tumblr_mi84k4um6S1ri9kvro1_1280.png She even allows the little girl to sit on her lap.]]

* AdventurerArchaeologist

* AcquiredPoisonImmunity: One of the side-effects of her brief run as Pestilence is she gained an immunity to being drugged. While a prisoner of Vulcan, his people kept trying to keep her unconscious, only for her immune system to fight off the drugs with increasing speed, at which point Lorna would get loose and start breaking things.

* PutOnABus: One of Marvel's many mutant bus passengers who have to hop aboard because their powers are too great to have around all the time. He's been in comas, prisons, you name it, and as of 2019 is MIA yet again after appearing to have made a HeroicSacrifice... until ''ComicBook/[[HouseAndPowersOfX House of X]]'' resurrects him, along with more or less every other mutant.

* PutOnABus: One of Marvel's many mutant bus passengers who have to hop aboard because their powers are too great to have around all the time. He's been in comas, prisons, you name it, and as of 2019 is MIA yet again after appearing to have made a HeroicSacrifice... until ''ComicBook/HouseOfX'' resurrects him, along with more or less every other mutant.

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* DeathIsCheap: Back in the 70's he was KilledOffForReal in a HeroicSacrifice while fighting the Comicbook/IncredibleHulk. A decade later it was revealed that he had simply fallen into a coma, and when ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} came near him he subconsciously absorbed Wolvie's HealingFactor and revived. As of 2019 he's dead again, but considering his previous method of revival bringing him back should be easy when the writer comes along who wants to. And indeed, as of ComicBook/JonathanHickmansXMen (not even a year later!) Mimic is alive again.
* DePower: During the 90's Mimic was depowered along with all of Earth's mutants by a device built by the High Evolutionary, a strong piece of evidence for those fans in the "Mimic is a mutant" camp.

* ABirthdayNotABreak: According to ''X-Factor'', she gets inexplicably angry around her birthday. [[spoiler:It's because of her repressed memories of how her mother died]].

** By Erik the Red in the mid-70s, to kill the X-Men. On the plus side, it's when she got the moniker "Polaris".

* CoolAunt: For her niece, [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-zVgjfvfAOok/ThUSFBov7oI/AAAAAAAADnY/yjc4n0R8m5w/s1600/auntie.JPG Luna Maximoff]] (Quicksilver's daughter). [[http://31.media.tumblr.com/a16db42e7624dc1d7b6dac8e1c664472/tumblr_mi84k4um6S1ri9kvro1_1280.png She even allows the little girl to sit on her lap]].

* LoveMartyr: Refused to give up on Madelyne Pryor long after [[WhatTheHellHero everyone else did.]] He went to Hell and back trying to get her resurrected on by The Five, even though his last interaction with her involved her torturing him and trying to feed him to demons that she intended to unleash on Krakoa.

* PapaWolf: Though at first he is weirded out by the idea of having a son in Mutant X, Alex later becomes extremely protective of Scotty Summers and even allows the boy to call him "dad."

* BackFromTheDead: He sacrifices himself to give Cyclops time to escape O.N.E Sentinals, exploding from his power. He’s resurrected by the Fuve Krakoa. Dies again when Sinister kills him and the rest of the Hellions in order to cover up his secret mission. The Five resurrect him again.
* BadassFamily: He's a Summers and more than lives up to the family reputation for butt-kicking mutants.

* BackFromTheDead: After being killed by Robert Callahan in order to save his brother he was resurrected by the five on Krakoa.
** He was killed again by Mister Sinister after a ComicBook/{{Hellions}} mission to Otherworld went awry and was just as quickly resurrected again

* FatalAttractor: Alex has a long list of exes, and most of them were either evil or mentally unwell in some way. The infamous anti-mutant Nurse Annie is the most well known example of this, but there's also Scarlett McKenzie (an agent of Sugar Man who seduced Havok to capture him for her boss) and Madelyne Pryor (who was currently in the throes of her breakdown into the Goblyn Queen and only got with Alex as a rebound). Even his most longtime love interest Polaris has had long periods of mental instability.

** He was killed again by ComicBook/MisterSinister after a ComicBook/{{Hellions}} mission to Otherworld went awry and was just as quickly resurrected again