- Polestar (comics)
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caption=Polestar just prior to helping murder Nightwatch.
comic_color=background:#ff8080
character_name=Polestar
real_name=Thomas Duffy (Polestar I), Patrick Trettel (Polestar II)
publisher=Marvel Comics
debut="Amazing Spider-Man"(vol. 1) #409 (March, 1996)
creators=Mark Bagley Tom DeFalco
alliance_color=background:#c0c0ff
status=Deceased
previous_alliances=El Toro Negro (Polestar I), Joystick (Polestar II)
aliases= None
relatives=Unknown
powers=Costume and guantlets provided for manipulation of magnetic fields, including but not limited to the magnetic manipulation of metal objects and flight|Polestar is the name used by a pair of mercenaries and antagonists of
Spider-Man , closely associated with the Great Game. The first is currently deceased.Fictional character biography
Polestar I
Polestar's costume and gauntlets gave him significant control over various magnetic properties. Personality wise, he seemed obsessed with corporate business strategims and lingo, seeming for all intents and purposes to be a glorified corporate yuppie answering to his financial backers in the Great Game.
Thomas Duffy, the original Polestar, is notable for having aided fellow Spider-Man enemy and Great Game player
El Toro Negro in killing the Marvel Comics hero Nightwatch. During an attempt to kidnap the son of Nightwatch's ex-girlfriend (the boy having been declared a prize in the Great Game), Duffy used his suit's powers to peel back Nightwatch's costume (comprised ofnanites ) long enough for El Toro Negro to shoot the hero directly in his exposed chest.Unfortunately for Polestar, El Toro Negro then immediately turned on him, placing a gun between his eyes and shooting him point black in the head.
Polestar II
As is often common with costumed
supervillains , it was not long before someone else was found to fill the identity. A man named Patrick Trettel soon found sponsorship in the Great Game as the second Polestar, and was seen alongside Joystick battling the new Thunderbolts in "New Thunderbolts" #2.External links
*http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/polst.htm
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