The Sentinel story brings Alex into her life. They're both prisoners, both dangerous enough that somebody wants to keep them under control, and neither one has much reason to tr…

The Sentinel story brings Alex into her life. They're both prisoners, both dangerous enough that somebody wants to keep them under control, and neither one has much reason to trust what's happening around them. Bobby's interested in Lorna early on, but Alex becomes the lasting relationship. That also gives the books a habit of pairing them off and sending them away together. There's a reasonable character decision underneath that. They don't particularly want to spend every day getting attacked because they're X-Men. Trying to have a life outside the team makes sense. The problem is that when they disappear from the book, Lorna loses a lot of room to develop on her own. Then somebody needs a powerful familiar face for the next disaster, and back she comes.