#Zaladane

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ABC's of the X-Men

A is for Apocalypse

B is for The Brood

C is for Callisto

D is for Deathbird

E is for Exodus

F is for Fenris

G is for Goblin Queen

H is for Hellfire Club

I is for Imperial Guard

J is for Juggernaut

K is for Krakoa

L is for Legion

M is for Magneto

N is for Nimrod

O is for Omega Red

P is for Proteus

Q is for Quicksilver

R is for Reavers

S is for Sabretooth

T is for Toad

U is for Upstarts

V is for Vertigo

W is for Wendigo

X is for X-Cutioner

Y is for Yuriko

Z is for Zaladane

By Joel Furtado

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A FATAL MISTAKE 🌪️

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Uncanny X-Men #275

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Zaladane!

So here’s my way to bring her back.

Polaris is missing, presumed dead. Wanda is asked to skry for her and she picks up her essence in the afterlife. She summons “Polaris” to the living realm, only to find out that the essence of Polaris she sensed was actually the part that Zaladane had siphoned off before she was killed.

Now she’s back and on the loose!

Thoughts?

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Zaladane (x/x)

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I'm pretty sure nobody at Marvel gives a damn about Polaris' family tree.

Okay, so, her name is Lorna Dane. She was adopted and raised by her Aunt and Uncle, Mrs and Mr Dane.

Her mother was Suzanna Dane. So clearly, her husband Arnold was Arnold Dane?

Well, that's the thing: Arnold's sister is Lorna's Aunt. Dane shouldn't be his last name, nor Suzanna's. But Suzanna got Dane as a last name in 2024.

So either her Uncle decided to take his wife's last name, good for him; her Aunt married someone with the same last name; or her father and her aunt both married people with the same last name.

And then you get to Zaladane, who claims to be Polaris' sister.

Who's her parents? We never find out! The Dane part implies it might be the human parents/adoptive parents. However, Zaladane did fight a war against Magneto and his narration calls her a dark mirror of himself, representing all his worst beliefs and impulses. So. That's an implication.

He also, in X-Factor #243, refers to Suzanna Dane as "the mother of his children". Emphasis mine

Anyway he killed her back in the 90s, so we've never learned the truth.

Except now she's appearing in a mini-series set before her death. Maybe we'll learn more, or maybe it's just an excuse to put Rogue in the Savage Land Bikini again.

I'm gonna accept the X-Factor line as confirmation Magneto is the dad.

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Rogue: the savage land #4

Zaladane calling herself Magneto's daughter is interesting. I wonder hiw much she know.

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Headcanon: Origins of Zaladane

Astra is Zaladane's "mother"!

Wait! wait! Stay with me...

Astra learned of Lorna Dane's existence from Mastermind. She probably did some investigation because she noticed Magneto was preoccupied with something (Lorna). Due to Astra's unhealthy obsession with Magneto, she steals some DNA from him (from the med lab, his hairbrush, or whatever) and creates a child that is combined with Astra's DNA. She grows Zaladane in an artificial womb and artificially advances her age (because babies, ew). Then presents Zaladane as a child to Magneto while he's in his Savage Land base, hoping that Zaladane is something that Magneto wants and it would cause them to be closer.

Magneto is horrified and feels violated by the fact that she used his DNA and threatens to kill her if he ever sees her again. She teleports off, leaving Zaladane behind because she doesn't really care about Zaladane. Astra is more upset that her plan didn't work. Magneto takes pity on Zaladane and leaves her with a family in Savage Land.

I imagine that Astra see Zaladane as a means to an end and is a bit cruel to her before presenting her to Magneto. Combined with Zaladane's fast aging (in my headcanon), or maybe adjustments that Astra made to Zaladane's DNA, Zaladane ends up psychotic.

Then she shows up in later stories, and we know how her story ends...

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Credit to: https://www.instagram.com/cerebrofiles/

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Uncanny X-Men #274

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Uncanny X-Men (1981) #249

The fact that Claremont made Zaladane = Zala Dane will forever make me lose my fucking mind lmao

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“does she have no sense”

Jim Lee - Scott Williams

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