Lee Forrester


Aleytys "Lee" Forrester is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Her first appearance was in The Uncanny X-Men #143.

Fictional character biography

Forrester is a resident of Florida and the captain of the fishing trawler, Arcadia. Cyclops of the X-Men, a.k.a. Scott Summers, is hired on the Arcadia during a leave of absence. Forrester is targeted by the supernatural being D'Spayre after her father, Jock, commits suicide over the loss of his wife. D'Spayre is defeated by Cyclops and Man-Thing.
Summers and Forrester engage in a brief romantic relationship. They are shipwrecked on an island inhabited by Magneto in the Bermuda Triangle, where Magneto reveals Summers's identity as Cyclops to her. Forrester eventually breaks off her relationship with Summers, claiming she does not want to become involved with the X-Men. She becomes sexually intimate with Magneto after she rescues him from a shark attack. However, Forrester and Magneto separate when he becomes the headmaster of Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters.
Forrester becomes the skipper for an expedition force which, after sailing through a dimensional warp within the Bermuda Triangle, is stranded in an alternate Earth alongside James Scully. After three years, Forrester and Scully send a message buoy to Earth, where only days had passed since their disappearance. However, the two fall in love and refuse to return to Earth when the X-Men and the Future Foundation arrive to rescue them.