Originally posted by Rutog98
Honestly, I just don't believe Polaris can do this. Magneto once manipulated the electrons in someone's mind to force them to tell him the truth. It was a move that took concentration. He had to put his hand on their forehead and everything.This is something I believe to be beyond even Magneto. Can you show me Polaris doing something like this to someone?
Ah, I think this may be my fault, I must explain something.
Actually, I may have discovered a deep flaw in my own logic here, I will get to that after.
First off, I have no idea if Polaris can do this, X men aren't my forte, especially their lesser used characters. However, the mechanism I am proposing does not really require Polaris to do anything that is "outrageous" for a magnetic controller.
For one brain cell to pass a signal onto the next, it must pass it as an electrical charge. However, that charge is built at several points within each neuron.
please tell me where I need to elaborate, because this is not easy stuff..... Inside of each brain cell there is a -35 mV resting potential. This means that inside of each neuron, there is a VERY small negative charge associate with the potential of that cell to fire.
The reason there is that potential to fire, is because outside of the cell are molecules with very strong positive charges. When the neuron begins to communicate with other neurons, it brings in a whole bunch of these positive molecules. This creates a positive charge that activates a long series of events that resolves in the one neuron passing its signal onto the next.
However, if the charge inside of a neuron was the same as a charge outside of a neuron, it would be impossible for one cell to communicate to the next. Polaris would need only to make all the charges in Storm's brain (or even in select localized areas) equal to prevent her from living.
This is moderately different than TMS which I think Storm may have a better chance of using than Polaris. Nor do I think Polaris should be able to do what Magneto did in your post. That is insane. I would question that claim in the same way I would question Storm making clothing out of electron changing. That could be up there as one of Magneto's best feats ever imho.
Now, the big problem with this. One of the issues I had with Storm using TMS was the fact that it really isn't common knowledge. Come to think of it, this might be beyond what Polaris knows about the brain as well. After writing out all that, it becomes more clear to me that this isn't common knowledge, and that Polaris is probably not an expert on neurology.
I will give you this, without her one move KO's, I don't think Polaris is going to take the majority.
