Of course, even Polaris’s paternal history is simple compared with Quicksilver and the Scarlet Witch. 243 that Lorna’s mother had an affair with Magneto, and it was an argument between the two of them that caused her mother and step-father’s deaths.) (It would ultimately be revealed in 2012’s X-Factor No. Because blood test results could never be faked in a world filled with evil genius scientists. 431 revealed that Lorna had a blood test performed to confirm her paternity, and Magneto was her father after all. Forty years later, 2008’s Uncanny X-Men No. 52, “Your parents were killed in a plane crash only weeks after you were born… Magneto spotted your mutant powers, and when he sniffed out your true story, he set out to convince you that you were his daughter! I’ve got affidavits to support it all!” Well, you can’t argue with an affidavit.Įxcept, it seems, you can. That same storyline, however, would later that idea to be untrue, with Iceman telling her in Uncanny X-Men No. 49, it was part of a storyline that would reveal that she was Magneto’s daughter, thereby explaining her own magnetic powers. When the character was first introduced in 1968’s Uncanny X-Men No. The parentage of Lorna Dane (AKA the superhero Polaris) is a strange and complicated thing. More surprisingly given the otherwise complicated comic book mythology surrounding the X-Men, Anya has never been revived in any meaningful way, nor been retroactively revealed to be a mutant/not Magneto’s child/a combination of the two. This was, unsurprisingly, one of the earliest events to push Magneto towards his war on humanity. This didn’t go too well: scared when Magnus demonstrated his powers, a mob attacked his family and burned down his house, with Anya still inside.

The most straightforward of Magneto’s comic book offspring, Anya was Magneto’s first child born at some point immediately following the Second World War, when Magneto - who was already by this point on his second name, having gone from Max Eisenhardt to Magnus Eisenhardt - and his childhood Magda were released from Auschwitz and attempted to start a new life in the Ukraine.

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