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 ===== Northstar =====
 [{{ :northstar.jpg?direct&150|Art by John Byrne}}]
-__First Appearance:__ \\
+**FIRST APPEARANCE:** [[:x-men_1963_issue_120]]\\
-[[:x-men_1963_issue_120]]\\
+**REAL NAME:** Jean-Paul Beaubier\\
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+**KNOWN ALIASES:** Jean-Paul Martin\\
-__Real Name:__ Jean-Paul Beaubier\\
+**IDENTITY:** Public\\
-__Affiliations:__ [[X-Men]], [[TeamNorthstar]]\\
+**OCCUPATION:** Former terrorist, adventurer, teacher, businessman, novelist, professional skier, trapeze artist, thief\\
-__Past_Affiliations:__ [[FLQ]], [[Alpha Flight]], [[HYDRA]]\\
+**CITIZENSHIP:** Canada\\
-__Status:__ Inactive\\
+**PLACE OF BIRTH:** Montreal, Québec, Canada\\
-__Aliases:__ Jean-Paul Martin\\
+**KNOWN RELATIVES:** Jean-Baptiste Beaubier (father, deceased), unnamed mother (deceased), Louis Martin (second cousin, adoptive father, deceased), Genevieve Martin (second cousin, adoptive mother, deceased), [[Aurora|Jeanne-Marie Beaubier]] (Aurora, sister), Joanne Beaubier (adopted daughter, deceased)\\
-__Relatives:__ [[Beaubier,Jean-Baptiste]] (father, deceased), unnamed mother (deceased), [[Martin,Louis]] (adoptive father, deceased), unnamed adoptive mother (deceased), Jeanne-Marie Beaubier ([[Aurora]], sister), [[Beaubier,Joanne]] (adopted daughter, deceased)\\
+**GROUP AFFILIATION:** None; formerly Hydra, Xavier Institute Faculty/Alpha Squadron (teacher/advisor), X-Men, Alpha Flight, Front de Libération du Québec/Cell Combattre, X-Factor, X-Force\\
-__Height:__ 5'11"\\
+**EDUCATION:** High school level\\
-__Weight:__ 175 lbs\\
+**HEIGHT:** 5'11"\\
-__Eyes:__ Blue\\
+**WEIGHT:** 185 lbs.\\
-__Hair:__ Black\\
+**EYES:** Blue\\
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+**HAIR:** Black, silver streaks\\
+**SUPERHUMAN POWERS:** Northstar can move and fly at superhuman speed. He can channel a portion of the kinetic energy of the atomic motion in his body's molecules in a single direction, accelerating his body to a velocity in direct proportion to the amount of kinetic energy he has tapped. It is theoretically possible for Northstar to reach 99% of the speed of light (186,272 miles per second in a vacuum), but his inability to breathe at such speeds and the damage his body would suffer from wind and friction prevent him.
+As a side effect of partially robbing his molecules of their atomic motion, the binding forces within and between the molecules increase which enhances the sheer toughness of Northstar's entire body. This effect gives his skin enough durability to withstand speeds up to at least Mach 10 without injury. Northstar can also vary the rate of acceleration of his molecules to release a cascade of photons as bright as a lighthouse beacon.\\
+**ABILITIES:** Northstar is a world-class professional skier, skilled trapeze artist, and an accomplished novelist. Northstar also speaks fluent French.\\
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 ==== History ====
-When Jean-Paul Beaubier was a young child his parents died in an automobile accident. He was adopted by the Martin family, while his sister, [[Aurora|Jeanne-Marie]], was sent to live in catholic girls boarding-school. The Martins died when Jean-Paul was six, and he was sent into foster care. When Jean-Paul was caught trying to steal from [[Belmonde,Raymonde]], Belmonde took the troubled youth in and became his mentor and guardian, helping him cope with both his emerging powers as well as his homosexuality.\\
+Jean-Paul Beaubier's parents were killed in a car crash shortly after his birth. He and his twin sister Jeanne-Marie were taken in by the Martins, cousins of their mother, but they could not afford to raise both children and so sent Jeanne-Marie to a catholic girl's school.\\
+When Jean-Paul was six, he was placed in a foster home after his previous foster parents died, and the twins grew up unaware of each other.\\
+As a teenager, Jean-Paul was caught stealing by Raymonde Belmonde, who became his mentor and guardian, helping Jean-Paul cope with both his emerging mutant nature and his sexuality. Belmonde introduced Jean-Paul to skiing, which he used as a means to help control his super-speed. Jean-Paul later joined a circus and became a talented trapeze artist. He came to regard his fellow performers as the family he had never known. However, there was still much anger and frustration within him which he ultimately expressed by joining the separatist Front de Libération du Québec movement. Becoming part of the Front's radical Cell Combattre, Jean-Paul acted as a courier. He came to disagree with the Cell's terrorist methods after he saw himself forced to save innocent lives from a bomb. He subsequently severed all ties with the Front.\\
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-In time Jean-Paul moved to Paris where he befriended a woman named [[Mariel]] and a man named [[Yves]]. When Mariel scolded him for flaunting his powers, Jean-Paul became upset, he felt that the two people he felt the most free with were trying to constrain him. Having left Paris and returned to Quebec, he joined the D'arbanville Circus. As an acrobat Jean-Paul used his own skill, refraining from relying on his powers. [[D'arbanville,Clementine]], the circus owner was involved with the [[FLQ]], and she introduced Jean-Paul to the cause. Feeling the need to make a mark on the world, Jean-Paul engaged in protests, property destruction, and eventually terrorism. He seems to have used his powers in service to the FLQ mostly as a messenger. When he became aware of his group's plan to blow up the Quebec City Bus Terminal, Jean-Paul turned terrorism into heroism. A bomb had been planted in a garbage can, and shortly before its detonation, Jean-Paul threw it away from the innocents in the terminal. That was a turning point in Jean-Paul's life, when he realized his powers could be used for good.\\
+Jean-Paul returned to his passion for skiing, and by secretly using his powers he quickly became a world champion, winning a gold medal at the Olympics and becoming famous and wealthy.\\
+At that time, the Canadian government's [[DepartmentH]] had begun forming a team of superhuman operatives, [[AlphaFlight]].\\
+The team's founder, [[tag:Hudson,James|James Hudson]], had already recruited Jean-Paul's sister as Aurora, and after seeing a photo of Jean-Paul he noticed their resemblance and discovered they were siblings.\\
+Hudson invited Jean-Paul to join the team as well, and he was overjoyed to learn that he had a sister, joining the team as Northstar to be with her.\\
+The twin's reunion came as a surprise to all, for when they touched they created a flash of intense light.\\
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-[[Hudson,James|James MacDonald Hudson]] of Canada's superhuman development program Department H had recruited Jeanne-Marie and correlated her abilities and appearance with that of Jean-Paul, who had employed his powers to become a professional downhill skier, earning fame and fortune and an Olympic medal. Hudson noted Jean-Paul's rise from "a mediocre skier until he learned he could fly? and summoned Jean-Paul to Ottawa, revealed his certainty of Jean-Paul's powers and reunited Jean-Paul and Jeanne-Marie. Upon meeting, the twins shook hands. To everyone?s surprise, the hand to hand contact generated intense bioluminescence. Both twins immediately redefined themselves to this newly discovered familial connection. Martin legally changed his surname back to Beaubier, and both twins chose the code-names Aurora and Northstar that reflected their joint power to generate light, even over their independent abilities to fly and move at super speeds.\\
+The team's first mission was to reclaim former government operative Wolverine, who had defected and joined the American X-Men team. Ambushing the X-Men in Calgary, Alpha Flight held their own, but the battle caused much damage and the government opted to let Wolverine go rather than face massive rebuilding costs. Shortly thereafter, Department H was closed and Alpha Flight disbanded.\\
+Later visiting his sister, Northstar was shocked to discover that she had a dual personality, alternating between the free-spirited Aurora and the shy, reserved Jeanne- Marie. When Hudson reformed Alpha Flight without government funding, Northstar managed to convince his sister to return with him. After his sister began to switch personalities with increasing frequency, Northstar sought psychiatric help for her.\\
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-Jean-Paul joined [[Alpha Flight]] as Northstar to be with his sister and, in some ways, to make up for his part in dangerous terrorist activities. His role with the team remained tenuous.\\
+Later, Northstar took his sister to visit Belmonde, but the reunion turned to tragedy after Belmonde was killed by Deadly Ernest who then kidnapped Aurora. With the help of the enigmatic Nemesis. Northstar rescued his sister. The siblings later argued over Northstar's mistaken assumption that Aurora had romanced Ernest to prevent him from harming her. Shocked at her brother's arrogance, Aurora angrily told him she never wanted to see him again.\\
+Despite Northstar's pleas for forgiveness, Aurora stayed true to her word, and he eventually ceased operating as a member of Alpha Flight on a regular basis. Aurora ultimately sought to break her ties with him completely by having her teammate and then-lover [[Sasquatch]] alter her powers so they were not the same as his. Ultimately reconciling their differences following the apparent death of Sasquatch, the twins joined Alpha Flight in opposing the gamma- spawned Hulk, who was rampaging through Vancouver. During the battle, the twins discovered that, as a result of Aurora's altered powers, they could now no longer touch each other without temporarily canceling out their powers. The Hulk was eventually driven back to the U.S., and the Canadian government realized that Alpha Flight was necessary and reinstated the team's funding.\\ Northstar returned to active status with the team, but his terrorist past would soon come back to haunt him after former members of Cell Combattre began turning up dead. After the killer was exposed, Northstar was pardoned for his past indiscretions by Canada's Prime Minister.\\
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-The dynamic between the twins proved complicated. Aurora knew that her brother was homosexual. A sexually liberated woman, Aurora was not bothered by it. The conservative fundamentalism of Jeanne-Marie seemed not to know this fact as early in their relationship as Aurora knew, and would undoubtedly disapprove. Another mugging attempt against Jeanne-Marie triggered the personality change back to Aurora.\\
+Shortly thereafter. Northstar grew ill until he became almost completely incapacitated. While Alpha Flight sought a cure, the Norse trickster god Loki appeared to the twins, convincing them that they were not mutants but the children of an Asgardian elf, and that Northstar was dying because he could not exist without his light. Aurora willingly expended her power to bathe Northstar in her light, curing him. She was then captured by demons and became trapped in the Asgardian netherworld, while Northstar was welcomed into the realm of Asgard by his supposed brethren. Loki was summoned before the higher gods, They Who Sit Above in Shadow, and berated for his actions. In attempted atonement, he transported Aurora to a monastery on Earth, but was sent to the netherworld himself as punishment. Northstar remained in Asgard until his former teammates rescued him from being slain by Dark Elves worshipping Llan the Sorceror, and during the ensuing battle against Llan he was able to restore Aurora's powers. As a side effect, both siblings proved able to generate light individually. After discovering an abandoned baby girl who had been born with the AIDS virus, Northstar adopted her, naming her Joanne, but she died weeks later. Northstar then publicly announced his homosexuality, hoping that his celebrity status would increase interest in HIV prevention. Following another disbanding of Alpha Flight, Northstar was implicated in the murder of a tabloid reporter, and the Canadian government dispatched Department K's Weapon P.R.I.M.E. unit to bring him in. At the same time, Northstar was targeted by the manic assassin Arcade, who had been employed by Carl Kerridge, a businessman who sought to cleanse the human race of supposed impurities. Northstar was able to gather enough evidence to prove his innocence and convict Kerridge.\\
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-Wanting to individualize herself from her brother, Aurora had Sasquatch genetically modify her biochemistry to make her light powers no longer dependent on contact with Northstar.\\
+Northstar later reunited with his former teammates to uncover the truth about the new Department H, and they assisted a new Alpha Flight team against the latest Weapon X. Northstar then left to write his autobiography, "Born Normal." At a book signing in Philadelphia, Northstar was recruited by the mutant telepath Jean Grey to join an ad-hoc X-Men team to oppose Magneto and his planned all-out attack against mankind. Returning to Canada, Northstar established himself as a successful businessman before he was invited to join the Xavier Institute as a teacher of business and economics. Northstar also taught a flight class for new students. and became advisor to a squad of students he dubbed Alpha Squadron in honor of his former team.\\
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-Jean-Paul developed a tearing cough. When [[Pestilence]] fed off the "death and decay within" Northstar's body, the illness was greatly worsened. He steadily grew more and more ill until he was almost completely incapacitated. Looking to cure Northstar's physical symptoms and Aurora's worsening MPD, team went to find the Firefountain, a source of magical power which they thought might have been able to cure both twins.\\
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-He never reached the Firefountain, as [[Loki]] convinced him that his and his Aurora's mother had an Asgardian elf. Northstar was then fooled into believing that he was dying because he could not exist on earth without the light that the twins had once shared. [[Aurora]] expelled all of her light into her brother to save him, leaving her powers drained. Powerless, she was dragged off by demons. Northstar then flew to Asgard through a gate opened by Loki. When Loki was summoned before the higher gods, [[They Who Sit Above in Shadow]], he transported Aurora to a monastery to atone for his trickery.\\
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-Jean-Paul spent quite some time in Asgard, until he was needed in the conflict against [[Llan]]. Talisman sent Aurora, [[Goblyn]], [[Pathway|Laura Dean]] and [[Persuasion]] to retrieve him. They arrived just in time to save him from being slain by [[Dark Elves]] who worshipped Llan. He was able to heal his sister as she had previously healed him, by sharing their powers through touch. Both re-powered with the permanent change that both could generate light independently of each other, both twins re-joined Alpha Flight. They now knew that Loki's revelation of their family history had been entirely fabricated, but to this day neither have seemed interested in exploring the circumstances of their parents' deaths. When Alpha Flight regained Canadian sponsorship, Northstar served with them\\
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-While battling [[Mister Hyde]], Northstar was knocked clear of the battle and found a small baby girl abandoned in a garbage can in an alley, and sped her to the hospital. Several weeks later Jean-Paul learned that the baby had AIDS. Jean-Paul adopted the girl, naming her [[Beaubier,Joanne]]. The entire affair made a lot of press, and did not go unnoticed by Lou Sadler Sr, the former [[MajorMapleleaf]]. Sadler had gone mad with grief over his son Michael's death from AIDS not long before.\\
-To protect his daughter, Northstar engaged Mapleleaf in battle, during which Jean-Paul admitted that he too was gay. Saddler convinced Beaubier that he had a duty as a public figure to go public with his sexuality. It was not long after that Joanne died in Jean-Paul's arms, with Major Mapleleaf at his side to console him. Jean Paul, in a press conference made his sexuality public, in hopes to open the doors to conversation in context of the AIDS crisis.\\
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-A bout of depression hit Northstar some time later, as he felt he had lost his purpose in life, which brought him to an attempted suicide. Realizing one of the main element missing in his life was his sister, he began to seek her out. In doing so, they both joined with Alpha Flight to battle the menace of the new [[Weapon X III|Weapon X]].\\
-After this battle ended, Northstar semi-retired to write his memoirs as a gay Super Hero.\\
-During the book tour, [[Phoenix|Jean Grey]] of the [[X-Men]] asked Northstar to join an X-Men strike force. Though at first Northstar declined the request, he did eventually consent to take part. The mission was successful, and Northstar's contribution was very important to the mission's success. At this time Jean-Paul decided not to stay with the X-Men. He was not yet aware that his sister was no longer safe with Alpha Flight, but that she had disappeared.\\
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-It was not long after Jean-Paul's first mission with the X-Men, that Professor Charles Xavier asked him to join the teaching staff at Xavier's School for the Gifted. While he considered his options, Northstar joined the X-Men on a mission involving a young mutant who's powers were killing him. When the child died, Northstar realized it was his duty to help other young mutants, and accepted Xavier's offer. His roles at the Xavier institute involved teaching Business & Economics, giving flight classes and serving as a student adviser.\\
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-When [[Hand]] captured and brainwashed [[Wolverine]] into attacking the Xavier Institute, Wolverine fatally stabbed Northstar. His body was later stolen by The Hand and resurrected in a brainwashed state. He lead the attack of similarly controlled super-beings against [[SHIELD]] Eventually Northstar was captured by Wolverine (Whom S.H.I.E.L.D. had deprogrammed) and was taken into their custody for deprogramming.\\
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-[[ChildrenOfTheVault]], who exploited Northstar's mental vulnerabilities and brainwashing to recruit him into their battle against the X-Men. The Children had also kidnaped a mentally destabilized Aurora; they boosted the powers of both twins and manipulated or brainwashed the twins into attacking the X-Men.\\
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-Following the defeat of The Children, Rogue delivered both twins to the S.H.I.E.L.D helicarrier in an attempt to reverse the multiple layers of brainwashing that each twin had undergone since the disbanding of the version of Alpha Flight on which they had both last served. The process itself did not cure the twins. However, proximity and mutual connection to the same mental-manipulative machinery allowed the twins to again merge their powers.\\
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-With their powers restored, the twins became reserve members for the X-Men, before Northstar once again joined the team.\\
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-During Unity's takeover of Canada (in the events of Fear, Itself), his boyfriend Kyle was taken over by the Unity process, a mind-control process of vague purpose.\\
-The process led Kyle to hate Northstar; however, he was cured when Alpha Flight ended the threat.\\
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-Northstar has since been spending his time in New York with the X-Men and Kyle, who seems to have moved there.\\
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-==== Powers/Abilities ====
-Northstar's mutant powers include the ability to utilize the atomic motion within his molecules to propel his body through the air at superhuman speeds. Theoretically, Northstar has the potential to travel at speeds approaching light itself. He has a strong resistance to physical stress and temperature extremes, allowing him to stay unharmed when he utilizes his speed. He also emits a soft, blue light.\\
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-__Accelerated Metabolism:__ Both Aurora and Northstar have a boosted metabolism that can be used to heal wounds quickly.\\
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-__Durability:__ As a side effect of partially robbing his molecules of their atomic motion, the binding forces within and between the molecules increase. This enhances the sheer toughness of Northstar's entire body. This effect gives his skin enough durability to withstand the ravages of wind, friction and air turbulence. He is durable enough to collide into normal human being at mach three speeds and not sustain any damage from the impact. Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, Northstar gained superhuman durability.\\
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-__Flashbang:__ It used to be necessary for him to make physical contact with his sister to be able to generate a bright light. However, after the resurrection by The Hand, Northstar is capable of doing this on his own, half a million candles bright.\\
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-__G-Force Compensation:__\\
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-__Pyrokinetics:__ Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, the twins gained a new ability by touching hands it generates a massive pyrokinetic attack that destroys the surrounding area and people instantly with it.\\
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-__Reflexes:__ Northstar has heightened reflexes even to the point running speeds faster than mach 18.7 actually traveling 2.5km/sec. That orbital velocity [Mach 18.7-Mach 23.3] while still dodging cars and buildings doing this. His reflexes are far above the average human, but often at times Northstar and Aurora are shown not to have any at all\\
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-__Speed:__ Through an act of concentration, Northstar can channel a portion of the kinetic energy of the atomic motion in his body's molecules in a single direction. This can accelerate his body in a velocity in direct proportion to the amount of kinetic energy she has tapped. He is capable of going 99% the speed of light, but is limited due to he would sustain great damage to himself and the environment if he reached that speed. Northstar can safely go Mach 10 without causing any damage.\\
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-__Strength:__ Due to the alterations by the Children of the Vault, the twins gained superhuman strength.\\
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+After his teammate Wolverine was captured and brainwashed by the terrorist organization Hydra, Northstar was killed in an ambush by Wolverine. He was subsequently resurrected and brainwashed into leading Hydra's super-powered army in an attack on the Helicarrier headquarters of their nemesis S.H.I.E.L.D. Meanwhile, Wolverine had been deprogrammed by S.H.I.E.L.D. and aided in the defense of the Helicarrier, but was unable to prevent Northstar from seriously injuring S.H.I.E.L.D.'s leader Nick Fury. Northstar then led the army on a killing spree, murdering anti-mutant and anti-gay supporters until he was confronted by Wolverine. Capturing him, Northstar tortured him until a group of giant mutant-hunting robot Sentinels under S.H.I.E.L.D. control intervened. As the Sentinels killed the other super-beings. Wolverine was able to defeat Northstar, and he was taken into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody to be deprogrammed.\\
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