Northstar

Comics

Modern, Comics: Loki tricks him into believing he is half-elf, and he is drawn through a gate to Alfheim and Asgard where trolls capture him.

Comics

Jean-Paul Beaubier, called Northstar, is a Canadian mutant who flies, generates light and moves at superhuman speed, and whose twin sister is Aurora. A former skier and Alpha Flight member, he was a prominent gay hero, taught at Xavier's school, and was killed and brainwashed once. On Krakoa he led X-Factor, and after the Fall of X he helped hide young mutants from Orchis.

Timeline 13 events

  1. Bronze · Comics: He joins Department H's Alpha Flight to be near his twin sister Aurora and takes the name Northstar.
  2. Modern · Comics: Loki tricks him into believing he is half-elf, and he is drawn through a gate to Alfheim and Asgard where trolls capture him.
  3. Modern · Comics: After adopting an HIV-positive baby named Joanne, who dies, he announces at a press conference that he is gay.
  4. Modern · Comics: Jean Grey recruits him for an X-Men mission to Genosha during Magneto's takeover.
  5. Modern · Comics: After Xavier offers him a teaching post, he joins the faculty of the Xavier Institute.
  6. Modern · Comics: Wolverine, brainwashed, kills him; Hydra then resurrects him and makes him leader of a mutant death cult.
  7. Modern · Comics: The Children of the Vault brainwash him and Aurora and send them to attack the Xavier Institute, until Cable defeats him.
  8. Modern · Comics: He marries his husband Kyle Jinadu.
  9. Fresh Start · Comics: In the reality created by Nate Grey he serves in Department X, a police force that arrests dissident mutants.
  10. Fresh Start · Comics: On Krakoa he becomes head of X-Factor and moves into the Boneyard after the investigation of Aurora's murder.
  11. Fresh Start · Comics: The Morrigan kills him along with most of the X-Factor team, and he is later resurrected.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: He and Tommy Shepherd find Scarlet Witch's corpse at the Hellfire Gala and he leads X-Factor's investigation.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: After the Orchis attack he helps evacuate Canada's young mutants to the old Alpha Flight space station.

allied with

Dazzler, Aurora, Wolverine (Logan), Daken, Anole

travels to

Alfheim, Genosha

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026