Editing Northstar (character) (section)

=== X-Men split and reformation ===
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Northstar is contacted by [[Cyclops (Marvel Comics)|Cyclops]] to find Anole (who is in hiding after accidentally attacking his own father due to [[Post-traumatic stress disorder|PTSD]] from his X-Mansion experiences). Northstar discovers Anole in a tree, the teenager not too happy to see his former mentor. Jean-Paul thinks Victor is having a problem with fitting in, as both a mutant and as a gay teen. Victor explains that his town accepts him for who he is – his problems come from Northstar, along with the other X-Men, for stealing the New X-Men's innocence. Just before departing, he elbows Jean-Paul in the face – similar to how Northstar attacked him in the past – and says that the New X-Men shouldn't look for him.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=January 2013}}

Northstar and his sister Aurora respond to [[Emma Frost]]'s telepathic [[All-points bulletin|APB]] and fight alongside the X-Men in San Francisco against the [[Skrull]]s when they invade Earth.<ref>''Secret Invasion: X-Men'' #2</ref> However, Northstar also makes a life for himself outside of superheroics, having returned to being a star at extreme snowsports, as well as starting his own brand of snow sporting equipment and becoming involved in a relationship. Wolverine approaches Jean-Paul to rejoin the X-Men as its [[speedster (fiction)|speedster]]. After confirming that he would not be a [[Tokenism|token gay]] member, he accepts.<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #508</ref> While training [[Surge (Marvel Comics)|Surge]] in super-speed, Northstar stops to give an interview, where he learns of [[Simon Trask]]'s Proposition X (a Mutant Breeding Act [[California ballot proposition|Ballot Initiative]]). He runs back to the X-Men and threatens to quit and go back to Canada. However, he remains with the X-Men throughout several missions,<ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #511</ref> including confrontations with [[Green Goblin|Norman Osborn]]'s [[Dark X-Men]]<ref>''Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Utopia'' #1</ref><ref>''The Uncanny X-Men'' #514</ref><ref>''Dark Avengers/Uncanny X-Men: Exodus'' #1</ref> and a rescue mission to retrieve [[Magik|Illyana Rasputin]] after she is banished to [[Limbo (Marvel Comics)|Limbo]] during the events of ''[[X-Men: Second Coming|Second Coming]]''.<ref>''X-Men: Second Coming - Revelations: Hellbound''</ref>

A temporal copy of Northstar—from shortly before the apparent death of [[Guardian (Marvel Comics)|Guardian]] at the hands of [[Jerry Jaxon]]—was introduced near the end of the third ''Alpha Flight'' series, along with an entire team of early Alpha Flight members.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=November 2010}} This Northstar is last seen with a similarly time-displaced Aurora, still operating in the [[Earth-616]] present.{{Volume needed|c=y|date=November 2010}}

During the "[[Chaos War (comics)|Chaos War]]" storyline, Northstar alongside Aurora, Sasquatch, and Snowbird are reunited with a resurrected Guardian, [[Vindicator (comics)|Vindicator]], Shaman, and [[Marrina Smallwood]], and they reform [[Alpha Flight]].<ref>''Chaos War: Alpha Flight'' #1</ref>