Scarlet Witch #3: "Sword and (Scarlet) Sorcery!"

[alliterator]

"Both Wanda and Lorna have struggled with mental health in the past, and both overcome it. But that being said, Lorna remains a scientist. She sees the world through a scientific lens, one where logic and proven answers rule, and physics reigns — even if she's a mutant who can manipulate magnetism. She still sees herself as manipulating the provable, natural world's inner workings. And Wanda? She manipulates reality itself, she can make an untrue thing true, make the impossible possible. And so she is more worried about the endpoint, the goal, not the journey. Lorna is the opposite. But as we see when Polaris appears, often times it takes the meeting point of their two philosophies to get the job done."
-- Steve Orlando







They meet Mardj of Tryfa (a land in Sub-Atomica) and go on an epic quest with her made up entirely of splash pages.


After the quest:

Comments

[buttz]

Does Polaris look way too much like Agent Brand here or do I just subconsciously think that all women with green hair look alike?

[angelophile]

It's the suglasses indoors. Not sure why Lorna's stolen that look.

[arilou_skiff]

TBH, it's a good look.

[zachbeacon]

It doesn't help that the thread having "sword" in the title kinda got me in that headspace.

[blues32]

She needs to ditch those glasses. I was wondering why Wanda was hanging out with Abigail Brand. At least get different colored shades. Like vibrant blue ones or maybe pink?

[windleopard2]

Or dye her hair a different color.

[blues32]

Nonsense. Polaris was rocking the green hair way before Brand came around.

[mastermahan]

BEAST: Damn, girl, you are totally my type right now. What do you say you and me split a bottle of chardonnay and commit some war crimes?

[scorntx]

Sage: Anyone seen Hank around lately?
Polaris: He's fine! I definitely didn't throw him into space!

[mastermahan]

SAGE: Well, just remember: they can't resurrect him if there's no proof he's dead, such as if his corpse burned up in the atmosphere or any nearby security cameras were wiped by an electromagnetic pulse. Wait, why am I telling you how the rules for resurrection work? You were part of the team that investigates deaths. You probably know exactly how to commit a murder and get away with it!

POLARIS: Wait, are you...?

SAGE: No Polaris, of course I didn't bribe Jumbo Carnation to dress you like Hank's ex as part of an elaborate scheme to get rid of him. Don't be silly.

[scorntx]

... I know it's just interview talk, but...
Hadn't really thought of Lorna as being a scientist of any kind before.
Nor can I recall her ever acting like or being treated like a scientist by other characters.
The closest would be when she and Alex went off to become archaeologists, and that is stretching the definition of scientist a lot.



Also: Yay for healthy sibling interaction.

[redmagpie]

She has a doctorate in geophysics I think

[super_fly]

You'd think more mutants and supers would pursue education tracks to help them learn more about the scientific principles behind their powers and not, say, accountancy

[scorntx]

Nah. If Lorna studied real physics she'd know her powers don't make any sense.
Like when she's able to use magnetism on metals that aren't magnetic.

Ignorance in this case actually is bliss.

[super_fly]

Not real physics, Marvel physics

[scorntx]

Just checkin' the old wiki and, yes. Apparently she does.

Huh.

[mastermahan]

She does. Mind, she only got her doctorate in Duggan's X-Men, so it's still pretty new.

[windleopard2]

So does Alex in fact. You'd think that would come up more too.

[alliterator]

Alex never finished his doctorate, actually.

[deh_tommy]

“No hard feeling about how we all demonised you and taught the children to hate you and recoil in fear at the mention of your name (a name we also turned into a casual insult), right?”
“Wait, what?”
“What?”

[shakalooloo]

Lorna calls the Scarlet Witch Wanda, but Wanda calls Polaris Polaris.

[blues32]

Mutant names. Wanda doesn't get one anymore. She's out of the club.

[shakalooloo]

Oh, it does make sense to anyone that's been keeping up with Krakoa, but to anyone not following the X-Men side of things it just makes her seem more standoff-ish.