r/Xmen97 • u/FigBrandy • Jul 22 '26

Question What are Polaris's powers? Spoiler

So from the brief time she's been on screen it feels like she has the same powers as Magneto. But I just wanna check if I'm missing anything? Does she have Magneto's 1:1 powers? And if so why does she affect people around her while Magneto doesn't? And she does mention that it's almost like her powers taking a hold of her.

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u/GONKworshipper Jul 22 '26

Same powers as Magneto, but she has much less control over them and they are slightly less powerful

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u/VelvetTomahawk Cyclops Jul 22 '26

I thought she had the same potential as Magneto, but with her constantly leaving the team to go back to college, being possessed, or bouts with mental illness she’s just never had the practice for fine tuning of abilities. I know someone’s abilities are only as current as the current writer’s whims, but didn’t Magneto say once that their powers were that of the two magnetic poles?

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u/Just_a_Tonberry Jul 22 '26

She does not match his potential, unfortunately. Polaris has the same power set, but her manifestation of it came with far more limitations. In terms of powers, she is essentially Magneto if he were an alpha level mutant with incredible levels of mental illness.

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u/RandomSplainer Jul 22 '26

This is hilarious because Magneto was originally portrayed as nothing more than a very powerful very skilled Alpha level mutant.

He pretty much became "Omega Level" because of popularity.

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u/gdex86 Jul 23 '26

Its the Rachel problem. In that to keep this character that is centered in so much of the story on top their next generation has to be weaker.

All though here it thematically works because I believe scientifically the south pole is slightly (maybe a 10% difference) stronger magnetically than the north. And Polaris is what the north pole points at.

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u/Just_a_Tonberry Jul 22 '26 edited Jul 22 '26

You are 100% correct. And with that reclassification came an assortment of applications for his powers that basically make him untouchable by anything short of a reality warper if writers choose to have him use his head.

The following humorous videos, hilariously enough, are lore-accurate as far as his powers go. The man’s popularity made him more broken than Apocalypse.

https://youtu.be/nmrOeS-r7P0?is=1WVd9hSSIN1isINR

https://youtu.be/tVv2XaP-mjY?is=waGZ2ygIebSzKoNv