Emma Dumont Teases A Magnetic Season Finale For The Gifted

The Gifted has surprised many long-time X-Men fans by telling a story about mutants on the run from Sentinel Services.

While the show hasn’t gotten many big comic book characters, such as Cyclops or Jean Grey, they did score Polaris as their leading lady. The green-haired mutant is the infamous daughter of Magneto and played by the talented Emma Dumont. In a recent interview with Comicbook.com, Dumont teased how her fictional father will come into play for this season’s finale much to the excitement of readers.

While the notorious villain has yet to be mentioned on the show, FOX has made it clear that her parentage will definitely stay the same despite this being television and not a movie. However, the question was asked whether The Gifted would simply ignore Lorna’s backstory because of how hard it would be to work Magneto into the main storyline.

"Coming up in the season, and specifically episodes 12 and 13, our finale episodes, Polaris struggles with…she thinks there are two paths. What she believes and what she wants, what her personal beliefs are and what she thinks is right, and then the other path is what she was born to do, which is be Magneto’s daughter, which is to take over his legacy. But what Lorna doesn’t realize is those two things are exactly the same, and she finally does realize that eventually in the season, later on, and that really terrifies her."

At the heart of the X-Men, there have always been mutants who feel like they need to use their powers to look after their own kind versus those who want to help everyone. It makes sense that The Gifted would want to use Polaris as the character to spearhead the movement for mutant superiority after spending years fighting the government.

Now she needs to look out for her unborn child and stop an evil organization from kidnapping and torturing mutants to use as soldiers. In this bleak new world, she’s probably beginning to question her decision to be the only one taking the moral high ground.

"She hasn’t heard great things about her father. She’s heard bad things about her father, in fact. Her chosen family, the Mutant Underground, they don’t think highly of him. They think he was a bad guy. Anyone would hurt a human is bad, even if it saves 200 mutants lives. It’s still bad. But for her it’s not that bad. You know, having this man who, every couple of years will reach out to her, very ominously, or whatever, but still refuses to be in her life, she hates him, as most daughters whose father’s abandoned them would. But she still can’t deny she is exactly like him, in every way. Even her mutant abilities are the same. She is his only living birth child. Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver, sure. They’re just made from his DNA. She is literally exactly like him, and she can’t deny that, but she’s really scared of it. She’s really, really scared of it."

Lorna has already shown glimpses of Magneto through her training of mutant children. While Professor Xavier wanted to teach kids on how to adapt to society, Magneto always believed that their powers made them more superior. Polaris has no qualms having Lauren and Andy Strucker fighting off her knife attacks because she knows that fighting is a more powerful skillset than normal school, a fact she points out to their mother.

The Gifted has also set up young Andy Strucker to begin following in his mentor’s footsteps and it’s possible that the two of them leave to create their own Brotherhood type organization at the end of the season.

"Seeing Marcos go back with Carmen was really scary for her. She doesn’t need Marcos. I think she thinks she doesn’t need him, but I think we all know she does. Birthing a baby to a man that willingly would hurt people, and blow things up, and do things for no reason, not to save anyone, not to do any good, would use his powers for evil, really, made her really scared. And knowing that her father is not part of her life, Magneto, and that he’s someone who has been viewed as using his powers for evil, even though she doesn’t. Later on in the season we get to all that, but she doesn’t want Marcos to be Magneto. She doesn’t want Marcos to abandon this child like her father did her. So, that’s also a thought that’s running in her head.And I think Marcos doesn’t trust her. Her mental disorder comes up later in the season, and Marcos can’t really tell if the things she’s saying or doing is because of her, if it’s because of the pregnancy hormones, or is it because of her mental illness, So, he’s very on edge on her. But that offends her. She gets offended when he chalks her feelings and thoughts up to mental illness. That’s rude and disrespectful."

Polaris’ mental illness has yet to be fully addressed on the show but her rocky relationship with Marcos has become increasingly unsteady. The Mutant Underground is stronger when they’re together, and it’s possible in the finale that Marcos will choose to rejoin his former gang, Lorna will form her Brotherhood, while Thunderbird will stick around to continue helping people.

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Right now, everyone has their own idea about what’s best for the group, and with all those conflicting ideas there’s bound to be some disagreements.

"I think something I’ve struggled with personally is I want to make sure that people understand that her choices are her own. No matter what, no matter who is influencing her, no matter what happens, her choices are always her own. Just like her father. No one can tell her what to do."

As one of the more complex characters on television nowadays, Lorna has been a force to be reckoned with on The Gifted. Right now she seems to be following John’s orders, but by the finale, she might be taking charge a bit more. As one of the more iconic X-Men characters on the show, it will be nice to see the show remember some its comic book history.

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While it’s doubtful that Magneto will ever get a cameo in the show, it’s always a good sign to see the writers staying true to a character’s origin.

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