Northstar whose real name is Jean-Paul Beaubier, is a cartoon character created by Chris Claremont (lyrics) and John Byrne (drawings), published by Marvel Comics. Appearing for the first time in the pages of Uncanny X-Men No 120 (April 1979), Jean-Paul is known for being the first Marvel superhero homosexual. Canadian mutant, along with her sister, Aurora superhero, was a founding member of Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight and then switch between the rows of the X-Men.Northstar is a mutant able to move and fly at supersonic speeds, as well as possessing excellent resistance to friction caused by air that otherwise would reduce the body into pieces. His body also gives him an extraordinary balance and agility. Physical abilities, to add more complex ones are related to the manipulation of light, after strengthening the hand of the Sons of the Crypt, rose up to create true bursts of thermal energy.
In addition to mutation, Northstar is a good fighter, hand-to-body, especially in martial arts. Founder and leader of a corporation based primarily on winter sports, Jean-Paul was also an Olympic-level skier, a gymnast and an expert storyteller.
Born into a family of French-Canadian origin, the parents of Jean-Paul died in a car accident when he was young, and along with her twin sister Jean-Marie were adopted separately. Become teenage Baubier joined the Front de Liberation du Quebec, a separatist terrorist group for the independence of Quebec from Canada, but it soon dissociated himself disgusted by the violent methods of the movement.
Before his debut as a superhero, he became a professional skier, but his athletic career was short-lived when it became public with his ability to move at high speed: it was then that he decided to join the group Alpha Flight sponsored by the Canadian government, where he found his sister also become a superhero.
