Post by Dawn on Dec 20, 2009 4:18:57 GMT -5
First Name: Ororo
Last Name: Munroe
Alias or Nickname: Beauty, Wind rider, Stormy, Mutate # 20, White King, Goddess of the plains and Ro
Age: Early 30’s
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 127 lbs
Eyes: Blue, white when using her powers
Hair: White
Persuasion: Good
Powers and Abilities: Weather control: Storm is the most powerfulhuman mutant in the Marvel Universe. Storm has demonstrated a plethora of abilities, most of which are facets of her powers to control the weather. Storm possesses the psionic ability to control all forms of weather over vast areas. She has been able to control both Earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems on several occasions. She can control the temperature of the environment, control all forms of precipitations, humidity and moister, generate lighting and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena, and has demonstrated excellent control over atmospheric pressure. She can incite all forms of meteorological tempests, such as Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, blizzards, and is capable of summoning a hurricane, as well as mist. She can dissipate such weather to form clear skies as well.
Her precise control over the atmosphere allows her to create special weather effects. She can create precipitation at higher or lower altitudes than normal, make whirlwinds travel pointing lengthwise in any direction, absorb ambient electromagnetism and output it as electric blasts from her body, flash freeze objects and people, coalesce atmospheric pollutants into acid rain or toxic fog, and summon wind currents strong enough to support her weight to elevate herself to fly at high altitudes and speeds. Her control over air is so great that she can even manipulate the air in a person’s lungs.
On rare occasions, Storm has demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she is able affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic mediums. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so she can see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and bending this energy to her will.
Storm has shown to be sensitive to the dynamics of the natural world, and her psionic powers over weather are affected by her emotions. Once consequence of this connection to the nature is that she often suppresses extreme feeling to prevent her emotional state form resulting in violent weather, she has sensed a diseased and dying tree on the X-Mansion grounds, detected objects within various atmospheric mediums—including water, and sensed the incorrect motion of a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere and the gravitational stress of the tides by the Moon and Sun as well as the distortion of a plant’s magnetosphere. Storm’s mutant abilities are limited by her willpower and the strength of her body. A Sentinel indentifies Storm as a possible Omega-level mutant.
Magical Powers: Storm’s ancestry supports the use of magic and witchcraft. Many of her ancestors were sorceresses and priestesses. Storm’s matrilineal powers have even been linked to the real-world Rain Queens of Balubedu, the region form which her Sorceress Supreme ancestor, Ayesha, hails. The Mystic Arcana series deals with Storm’s ancestor Ashake, who worships the Egyptian goddess Ma’at, also known as Oshtur----the mother of Agamotto. Some of Storm’s alternate universe selves possess considerable magical talent. Although Storm has not developed her magical potential, it has been hinted at. The Mystic Arcana series lists the characters with magic potential according to the Marvel Tarot deck. The Tarot asserts Storm as being “High Priestess,” the first Tarot’s choice one-third of the time. The other draws were the Scarlet Witch and Agatha Harkness. These three characters split the High Priestess care equally. On a separate note, it has been stated that Storm’s spirit is so strong that she was able to host the consciousness of an M-body of Eternity, a feat which very few Marvel Characters can accomplish without dying.
Combat and Thievery: Storm has been additionally portrayed as a skilled thief, markswoman, and a gifted hand-to-hand fighter, trained by Achmed el-Gibar, Professor X, and Wolverine. By using superior strategy, Storm has overcome physically stronger foes like Callisto and the Crimson Commando in hand-to-hand combat. Storm is an excellent marksman with handguns. Storm is also fluent in Arabic and Swahili. As part of her paraphernalia, Storm carries a set of lock-picks (with which she had an extraordinary ability at picking locks) and her ancestral ruby, which allows inter-dimensional transportation with the help of her lighting.
Physical Abilities and Traits: Storm’s physiology grants her total immunity to extreme weather conditions and temperatures of heat and cold. Her body compensates for rapid decreases or increases in atmospheric pressure. She can see in near-complete darkness and has superb dexterity. Storm has been described as having one the strongest wills among the X-Men, making her highly resistant to psychic attacks especially in tandem with electrical fields and she creates around herself. Telepaths have found it difficult to track her down and probe her thoughts. Several of these traits are independent of her mutant status and are a result of her ancestry. Also, when utilizing her powers, Storm’s eyes turn solid white.
History: Storm first appeared in 1975 in the famous Giant Size x-Men, written by Len Wein and penciled by Dave Cockrum. In this comic, Wein uses a battle against the living island Krakoa to replace the first-generation X-Men of the 1960’s with new X-Men. Storm was an amalgamation of several characters Cockrum intended to us for the Legion of Super Heroes. In a 1999 interview, Cockrum said that the original black female of the Legion would have been called the Black Cat. According to him, she had Storm’s costume but without the cape, and like a cat-like haircut with tufts for ears. However, other female cat characters like Tigra had appeared, so Cockrum redesigned his new character, giving her white hair made her look like a grandmother, and thus presumably unpopular , he just said: “trust me.”
Chris Claremont, who followed up Wein as the writer of the flagship titled Uncanny X-Men in 1975, embraced Storm and started writing many notable X-Men stories, among them then God Love, Man Kills and Dark Phoenix Saga arcs, which respectively served as the base for the films X2: X-Men United and X-Men 3. In both arcs, Storm is written as a major supporting character. This was a harbinger of things to come, as Claremont stayed the main writer of that comic book for the next 16 years and consequently wrote of the publications containing Storm.
In Uncanny X-Men #102 (December 1976), Claremont established Storm’s back story. Ororo’s mother, N’Dare, is the princess of a tribe in Kenya and the descendant of a long line of Africans with white hair, blue eyes, and a natural gift for sorcery. N’Dare falls in love with and marries African American photojournalist David Munroe. They move to Harlem in uptown New York City, where she becomes pregnant with Ororo and bears her, and then to Egypt during the Suez Crisis, Where they are killed in a botched aircraft attack and leave six year-old Ororo as an orphan. There, her violent claustrophobia is also established as a result of being buried under tons of rubble after that attack. She then becomes a skilled thief in Cairo, under the benign Achmed el-Gibar and wanders into the Serengeti as a young woman. There, she is worshipped as a goddess before being recruited by Professor X for the X-Men.
Claremont further fleshed out Storm’s back history in Uncanny X-Men #117 (January 1979). He retroactively added that Professor X, who recruits her in Giant Size X-men #1 of 1975, had already met her as a child in Cairo. As Ororo grows up on the streets and becomes a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar, one of her most notable victims was Charles Francis Xavier, later Professor X. He is able to use his mental power to temporarily prevent her escape and recognizes the potential in her. However, when Xavier is attacked mentally by Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King, the tow men are preoccupied enough with their battle to allow the girl to escape. Both Xavier and the Shadow King recognize Storm as the young girl later.
Punk revival (1980s)
In the following issues, Claremont portrayed Storm as a serene, independent character. Although Storm was initially written having trouble adjusting to Western Culture, e.g. calling the obligation to cover herself up in a public bath “absurd,” she earns a lot of respect: In Uncanny X-men #139 (November 1980), Claremont established her as the leader of the X-Men after Cyclops took a leave of absence, a position she hold in various incarnations. Claremont also made Storm especially harbor motherly feelings for the youngest X-Men, 13-year old Kitty Pryde. In Marvel Team-up #100 (December 1980), Claremont wrote a short story in which the retroactively established that Storm, then 12 years old, saves a young Black Panther from racist thugs when they both are in Kenya. This story would later become a base for later writers to establish a deeper relationship between both characters.
In X-Men Annual #5, The X-Men travel with the Fantastic Four to help Arkon the Imperion defeat lizard-like Badoon invaders who had taken over his kingdom. Storm and Arkon share a kiss at the end of the issue, as she turns down his offer to make her his queen.
In the early eighties, adventures of Storm written by Claremont included a Space Opera arc, in which the X-Men fight parasitic beings called the Brood. Storm is infected with a Brood egg and contemplates suicide, but then experiences a last-minute save by the benign whale-like Acanti aliens. In the following arc, Claremont further established Storm’s character strength. He wrote a story in which Storm’s fellow x-Men Angle is abducted by a rogue mutant group called the Morlocks. The X-Men are hopelessly outnumbered, and Storm is rendered sick by the Morlock called Plague. Only one solution is left; and X-Men must defeat Morlock’s leader Callisto in duel to the death. At first, Storm’s colleague, Nightcrawler, wants to battle her, but Storm states that since she leads the X-Men, she must fight Callisto. Despite being violently sick, she defeats Callisto by impaling her through the heart and nearly kills her.
In Uncanny X-Men #173, October 1983, a notable move was made by changing Storm’s costume and appearance. Writer Claremont and artist Paul Smith created a new look, abandoning her old costume for black leather top and pants, and changing her former veil of white hair into a punk Mohawk. In a 2008 interview, Smith regretted the change as a “bad joke gone to far…I knew they were going to cut the hair, so as a joke I put a Mr. T Mohawk on her… Louise Simonson said we’re gonna get hung no matter what we do, so let’s commit the crime! So we went with the Mohawk… But once you into the whole leather and stud thing it was a bad joke that got way out of hand.”
In the actual story, Storm’s outlook on life darkness after her struggles with the Brood. These changes alienate her from Kitty for a time. Storm influenced in this by Yukio, a lover of Wolverine who becomes one of her dearest friends. To flesh out Storm’s love life, Claremont wrote an arc in which fellow mutant Forge develops a mutant power neutralizing gun. The intended target was another X-Men, Rogue, who because of her criminal history and a recent encounter with some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, believed to be a terrorist. When the shady U.S. government operative Henry Peter Gyrich aims at Rogue, he accidentally hits Storm, taking away her powers. Forge saves Storm from death and takes her back to his home in Dallas Texas to recover. With his help, she adjusts to life without her powers, and they slowly fall in love. Later, Storm over hears a phone conversation between Forge and Gyrich, and discovers forge built the weapon that took her powers away. She is heartbroken and leaves him.
However, Claremont continued to write her as a strong character, letting a depowered Storm win against Cyclops. For the leadership of the X-Men in Uncanny #201 (1986) In the late eighties, Claremont wrote arcs in which Storm, again portrayed with a costume and hairstyle closer to her original, temporarily joins the shady Hellfire Club. (1987), is trapped in another dimension with Forge and regains her elemental powers, and is captured by the evil Cyborg Nanny. Although believed slain in that encounter, she resurfaced, having become amnesiac as a result of being physically regressed to childhood by Nanny. She is hunted by the evil telepath Shadow King and the following arc, The X-Tinction Agenda; she is kidnapped to the mutant-exploding fictional nation of Genosha and is temporarily transformed into a brainwashed mutate, but is in the end restored physically and mentally to her adult prime.
Growth as a Character (1990s)
In October 1991, the X-Men franchise was re-launched, centering n the new eponymous X-Men (Vol. 2) comic. Claremont wrote Storm as the leader of the X-Men’s Gold Team; the other team, blue is led by her colleague Cyclops, the X-Men she once succeeded as leader. When Claremont left the X-Men comic after 16 years since his debut in Uncanny X-Men #94 (1975), he was replaced by Jim Lee, who continued portraying her as a strong leader. In the sister title Uncanny X-Men, now under Scott Lobdell, Lobdell continued on the romance between storm and Forge eventually having Forge propose to Storm n 1992. Storm hesitates and is about to say yes when Forge misinterprets her reaction and rescinds his offer before Storm can speak. Lobdell waited until November 1993 before he let a deeply hurt Storm and Forge make up with each. In 1995, Lobdell continued with an arc which pitted the X-Men against the Morlocks again. As Claremont did with Callisto in 1983, Lobdell let Storm end the battle by mortally wounding her opponent at the heart. This time, Storm rips out one heart of the two-hearted Morlock girl Marrow, who had fixed a bomb to it. In February 1996, Storm got her first miniseries, the eponymous Storm. In these four issues, Ellis wrote a story in which Storm is sucked into an alternate dimension and pitted against villain Mikhail Rasputin.
Storm then returned to the X-Men and led one of the strike teams for a long time. (She was leader of the 'Gold team' (Jean Grey, Archangel, Iceman, Bishop, Collosus, and Nightcrawler)
She only recently took a back seat to her friend Gambit, and only for a short time at that. She returned to the role of leader when the lost Books of Truth, prophecies written by the precog Destiny were discovered. Fearful of the temptation that Xavier would be under should he find out about the Books, Storm organized a secret mission to find them, taking a number of her teammates with her, and not telling Professor X.
Early on in their mission, Storm agreed to help a number of Saurid refugees travel to the Savage Land. The mission was ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates, and Storm was captured by Brainchild. Brainchild brainwashed Storm and also genetically maniuplated her body to revert her to a more feral state, complete with fangs and claws, and sent her to attack the X-Men. Though the X-Men helped Storm break Brainchild's hold on her, Storm was concerned about lingering effects, though since she was somehow returned to normal, she seems fine.
Then, while stopping an inter-dimensional invasion in Madripoor, Storm was brutally betrayed and slashed in the spine by Viper. Fortunately, the invading leader, Khan was smitten with Storm and brought her to his dimension where the advanced medicine saved her life. Though Khan wanted Storm to be his queen, she eventually escaped with the rest of her X-Men. Since then she has been recovering well under Wolverine's guidance, but she still pushes the envelope too far too often, leaving her at risk for permanent paralysis. And though Storm's team and their whereabouts were now known to Professor X and she has had contact with some of his staff, Storm maintained her team's independence, hoping to focus on protecting humans from mutants.
Some time later, Storm visited Yukio in Japan and became embroiled in a ring of fighting competitions organized by Masque. She was drugged and manipulated to become the Arena's champion, battling Callisto and then nearly being forced to kill Yukio before she re-asserted control over her mind. She eventually fought Masque and won, becoming the overall leader of the Arena, which she left in Callisto's hands.
Returning to the X-Men, Storm led them against Elias Bogan and freed Rachel Summers from his thrall. She also proposed and received approval from Val Cooper and Alexei Vashin for a mutant police force called the X.S.E. (X-Treme Sanctions Executive), which operated for some time in conjunction with a multi-national governmental task force. However, following Magneto IV's attack on New York, Storm returned her team to the rebuilt X-Mansion, taking up residence in the carriage house. Storm still ran the X.S.E., dispatching Nightcrawler to deal with certain supernatural menaces in New York and the other members to deal with X-23 and mutant-related crimes
Then, on a mission to Africa to deal with mutated animals, Ororo ran into the Black Panther again. T'Challa appeared to miss Ororo and attempted to woo her, but she rejected him, AFTER planting a huge kiss on him. Rather than return to the United States, though, Storm remained in Africa, seeing the need of the common people for a protector "goddess."
NOTE: Storm has been on the board before, and has a history here that puts her before the Tchalla Retcon, so he has been taken out of her history to a small degree, and they ARE not married in our board's history.
((Thanks to Wikipedia and Violet (Who played Storm here years ago, and wrote the end by hand.))
Character is from: X-Men
Last Name: Munroe
Alias or Nickname: Beauty, Wind rider, Stormy, Mutate # 20, White King, Goddess of the plains and Ro
Age: Early 30’s
Height: 5’ 11”
Weight: 127 lbs
Eyes: Blue, white when using her powers
Hair: White
Persuasion: Good
Powers and Abilities: Weather control: Storm is the most powerfulhuman mutant in the Marvel Universe. Storm has demonstrated a plethora of abilities, most of which are facets of her powers to control the weather. Storm possesses the psionic ability to control all forms of weather over vast areas. She has been able to control both Earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems on several occasions. She can control the temperature of the environment, control all forms of precipitations, humidity and moister, generate lighting and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena, and has demonstrated excellent control over atmospheric pressure. She can incite all forms of meteorological tempests, such as Tornadoes, Thunderstorms, blizzards, and is capable of summoning a hurricane, as well as mist. She can dissipate such weather to form clear skies as well.
Her precise control over the atmosphere allows her to create special weather effects. She can create precipitation at higher or lower altitudes than normal, make whirlwinds travel pointing lengthwise in any direction, absorb ambient electromagnetism and output it as electric blasts from her body, flash freeze objects and people, coalesce atmospheric pollutants into acid rain or toxic fog, and summon wind currents strong enough to support her weight to elevate herself to fly at high altitudes and speeds. Her control over air is so great that she can even manipulate the air in a person’s lungs.
On rare occasions, Storm has demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she is able affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic mediums. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so she can see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and bending this energy to her will.
Storm has shown to be sensitive to the dynamics of the natural world, and her psionic powers over weather are affected by her emotions. Once consequence of this connection to the nature is that she often suppresses extreme feeling to prevent her emotional state form resulting in violent weather, she has sensed a diseased and dying tree on the X-Mansion grounds, detected objects within various atmospheric mediums—including water, and sensed the incorrect motion of a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere and the gravitational stress of the tides by the Moon and Sun as well as the distortion of a plant’s magnetosphere. Storm’s mutant abilities are limited by her willpower and the strength of her body. A Sentinel indentifies Storm as a possible Omega-level mutant.
Magical Powers: Storm’s ancestry supports the use of magic and witchcraft. Many of her ancestors were sorceresses and priestesses. Storm’s matrilineal powers have even been linked to the real-world Rain Queens of Balubedu, the region form which her Sorceress Supreme ancestor, Ayesha, hails. The Mystic Arcana series deals with Storm’s ancestor Ashake, who worships the Egyptian goddess Ma’at, also known as Oshtur----the mother of Agamotto. Some of Storm’s alternate universe selves possess considerable magical talent. Although Storm has not developed her magical potential, it has been hinted at. The Mystic Arcana series lists the characters with magic potential according to the Marvel Tarot deck. The Tarot asserts Storm as being “High Priestess,” the first Tarot’s choice one-third of the time. The other draws were the Scarlet Witch and Agatha Harkness. These three characters split the High Priestess care equally. On a separate note, it has been stated that Storm’s spirit is so strong that she was able to host the consciousness of an M-body of Eternity, a feat which very few Marvel Characters can accomplish without dying.
Combat and Thievery: Storm has been additionally portrayed as a skilled thief, markswoman, and a gifted hand-to-hand fighter, trained by Achmed el-Gibar, Professor X, and Wolverine. By using superior strategy, Storm has overcome physically stronger foes like Callisto and the Crimson Commando in hand-to-hand combat. Storm is an excellent marksman with handguns. Storm is also fluent in Arabic and Swahili. As part of her paraphernalia, Storm carries a set of lock-picks (with which she had an extraordinary ability at picking locks) and her ancestral ruby, which allows inter-dimensional transportation with the help of her lighting.
Physical Abilities and Traits: Storm’s physiology grants her total immunity to extreme weather conditions and temperatures of heat and cold. Her body compensates for rapid decreases or increases in atmospheric pressure. She can see in near-complete darkness and has superb dexterity. Storm has been described as having one the strongest wills among the X-Men, making her highly resistant to psychic attacks especially in tandem with electrical fields and she creates around herself. Telepaths have found it difficult to track her down and probe her thoughts. Several of these traits are independent of her mutant status and are a result of her ancestry. Also, when utilizing her powers, Storm’s eyes turn solid white.
History: Storm first appeared in 1975 in the famous Giant Size x-Men, written by Len Wein and penciled by Dave Cockrum. In this comic, Wein uses a battle against the living island Krakoa to replace the first-generation X-Men of the 1960’s with new X-Men. Storm was an amalgamation of several characters Cockrum intended to us for the Legion of Super Heroes. In a 1999 interview, Cockrum said that the original black female of the Legion would have been called the Black Cat. According to him, she had Storm’s costume but without the cape, and like a cat-like haircut with tufts for ears. However, other female cat characters like Tigra had appeared, so Cockrum redesigned his new character, giving her white hair made her look like a grandmother, and thus presumably unpopular , he just said: “trust me.”
Chris Claremont, who followed up Wein as the writer of the flagship titled Uncanny X-Men in 1975, embraced Storm and started writing many notable X-Men stories, among them then God Love, Man Kills and Dark Phoenix Saga arcs, which respectively served as the base for the films X2: X-Men United and X-Men 3. In both arcs, Storm is written as a major supporting character. This was a harbinger of things to come, as Claremont stayed the main writer of that comic book for the next 16 years and consequently wrote of the publications containing Storm.
In Uncanny X-Men #102 (December 1976), Claremont established Storm’s back story. Ororo’s mother, N’Dare, is the princess of a tribe in Kenya and the descendant of a long line of Africans with white hair, blue eyes, and a natural gift for sorcery. N’Dare falls in love with and marries African American photojournalist David Munroe. They move to Harlem in uptown New York City, where she becomes pregnant with Ororo and bears her, and then to Egypt during the Suez Crisis, Where they are killed in a botched aircraft attack and leave six year-old Ororo as an orphan. There, her violent claustrophobia is also established as a result of being buried under tons of rubble after that attack. She then becomes a skilled thief in Cairo, under the benign Achmed el-Gibar and wanders into the Serengeti as a young woman. There, she is worshipped as a goddess before being recruited by Professor X for the X-Men.
Claremont further fleshed out Storm’s back history in Uncanny X-Men #117 (January 1979). He retroactively added that Professor X, who recruits her in Giant Size X-men #1 of 1975, had already met her as a child in Cairo. As Ororo grows up on the streets and becomes a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar, one of her most notable victims was Charles Francis Xavier, later Professor X. He is able to use his mental power to temporarily prevent her escape and recognizes the potential in her. However, when Xavier is attacked mentally by Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King, the tow men are preoccupied enough with their battle to allow the girl to escape. Both Xavier and the Shadow King recognize Storm as the young girl later.
Punk revival (1980s)
In the following issues, Claremont portrayed Storm as a serene, independent character. Although Storm was initially written having trouble adjusting to Western Culture, e.g. calling the obligation to cover herself up in a public bath “absurd,” she earns a lot of respect: In Uncanny X-men #139 (November 1980), Claremont established her as the leader of the X-Men after Cyclops took a leave of absence, a position she hold in various incarnations. Claremont also made Storm especially harbor motherly feelings for the youngest X-Men, 13-year old Kitty Pryde. In Marvel Team-up #100 (December 1980), Claremont wrote a short story in which the retroactively established that Storm, then 12 years old, saves a young Black Panther from racist thugs when they both are in Kenya. This story would later become a base for later writers to establish a deeper relationship between both characters.
In X-Men Annual #5, The X-Men travel with the Fantastic Four to help Arkon the Imperion defeat lizard-like Badoon invaders who had taken over his kingdom. Storm and Arkon share a kiss at the end of the issue, as she turns down his offer to make her his queen.
In the early eighties, adventures of Storm written by Claremont included a Space Opera arc, in which the X-Men fight parasitic beings called the Brood. Storm is infected with a Brood egg and contemplates suicide, but then experiences a last-minute save by the benign whale-like Acanti aliens. In the following arc, Claremont further established Storm’s character strength. He wrote a story in which Storm’s fellow x-Men Angle is abducted by a rogue mutant group called the Morlocks. The X-Men are hopelessly outnumbered, and Storm is rendered sick by the Morlock called Plague. Only one solution is left; and X-Men must defeat Morlock’s leader Callisto in duel to the death. At first, Storm’s colleague, Nightcrawler, wants to battle her, but Storm states that since she leads the X-Men, she must fight Callisto. Despite being violently sick, she defeats Callisto by impaling her through the heart and nearly kills her.
In Uncanny X-Men #173, October 1983, a notable move was made by changing Storm’s costume and appearance. Writer Claremont and artist Paul Smith created a new look, abandoning her old costume for black leather top and pants, and changing her former veil of white hair into a punk Mohawk. In a 2008 interview, Smith regretted the change as a “bad joke gone to far…I knew they were going to cut the hair, so as a joke I put a Mr. T Mohawk on her… Louise Simonson said we’re gonna get hung no matter what we do, so let’s commit the crime! So we went with the Mohawk… But once you into the whole leather and stud thing it was a bad joke that got way out of hand.”
In the actual story, Storm’s outlook on life darkness after her struggles with the Brood. These changes alienate her from Kitty for a time. Storm influenced in this by Yukio, a lover of Wolverine who becomes one of her dearest friends. To flesh out Storm’s love life, Claremont wrote an arc in which fellow mutant Forge develops a mutant power neutralizing gun. The intended target was another X-Men, Rogue, who because of her criminal history and a recent encounter with some S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, believed to be a terrorist. When the shady U.S. government operative Henry Peter Gyrich aims at Rogue, he accidentally hits Storm, taking away her powers. Forge saves Storm from death and takes her back to his home in Dallas Texas to recover. With his help, she adjusts to life without her powers, and they slowly fall in love. Later, Storm over hears a phone conversation between Forge and Gyrich, and discovers forge built the weapon that took her powers away. She is heartbroken and leaves him.
However, Claremont continued to write her as a strong character, letting a depowered Storm win against Cyclops. For the leadership of the X-Men in Uncanny #201 (1986) In the late eighties, Claremont wrote arcs in which Storm, again portrayed with a costume and hairstyle closer to her original, temporarily joins the shady Hellfire Club. (1987), is trapped in another dimension with Forge and regains her elemental powers, and is captured by the evil Cyborg Nanny. Although believed slain in that encounter, she resurfaced, having become amnesiac as a result of being physically regressed to childhood by Nanny. She is hunted by the evil telepath Shadow King and the following arc, The X-Tinction Agenda; she is kidnapped to the mutant-exploding fictional nation of Genosha and is temporarily transformed into a brainwashed mutate, but is in the end restored physically and mentally to her adult prime.
Growth as a Character (1990s)
In October 1991, the X-Men franchise was re-launched, centering n the new eponymous X-Men (Vol. 2) comic. Claremont wrote Storm as the leader of the X-Men’s Gold Team; the other team, blue is led by her colleague Cyclops, the X-Men she once succeeded as leader. When Claremont left the X-Men comic after 16 years since his debut in Uncanny X-Men #94 (1975), he was replaced by Jim Lee, who continued portraying her as a strong leader. In the sister title Uncanny X-Men, now under Scott Lobdell, Lobdell continued on the romance between storm and Forge eventually having Forge propose to Storm n 1992. Storm hesitates and is about to say yes when Forge misinterprets her reaction and rescinds his offer before Storm can speak. Lobdell waited until November 1993 before he let a deeply hurt Storm and Forge make up with each. In 1995, Lobdell continued with an arc which pitted the X-Men against the Morlocks again. As Claremont did with Callisto in 1983, Lobdell let Storm end the battle by mortally wounding her opponent at the heart. This time, Storm rips out one heart of the two-hearted Morlock girl Marrow, who had fixed a bomb to it. In February 1996, Storm got her first miniseries, the eponymous Storm. In these four issues, Ellis wrote a story in which Storm is sucked into an alternate dimension and pitted against villain Mikhail Rasputin.
Storm then returned to the X-Men and led one of the strike teams for a long time. (She was leader of the 'Gold team' (Jean Grey, Archangel, Iceman, Bishop, Collosus, and Nightcrawler)
She only recently took a back seat to her friend Gambit, and only for a short time at that. She returned to the role of leader when the lost Books of Truth, prophecies written by the precog Destiny were discovered. Fearful of the temptation that Xavier would be under should he find out about the Books, Storm organized a secret mission to find them, taking a number of her teammates with her, and not telling Professor X.
Early on in their mission, Storm agreed to help a number of Saurid refugees travel to the Savage Land. The mission was ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates, and Storm was captured by Brainchild. Brainchild brainwashed Storm and also genetically maniuplated her body to revert her to a more feral state, complete with fangs and claws, and sent her to attack the X-Men. Though the X-Men helped Storm break Brainchild's hold on her, Storm was concerned about lingering effects, though since she was somehow returned to normal, she seems fine.
Then, while stopping an inter-dimensional invasion in Madripoor, Storm was brutally betrayed and slashed in the spine by Viper. Fortunately, the invading leader, Khan was smitten with Storm and brought her to his dimension where the advanced medicine saved her life. Though Khan wanted Storm to be his queen, she eventually escaped with the rest of her X-Men. Since then she has been recovering well under Wolverine's guidance, but she still pushes the envelope too far too often, leaving her at risk for permanent paralysis. And though Storm's team and their whereabouts were now known to Professor X and she has had contact with some of his staff, Storm maintained her team's independence, hoping to focus on protecting humans from mutants.
Some time later, Storm visited Yukio in Japan and became embroiled in a ring of fighting competitions organized by Masque. She was drugged and manipulated to become the Arena's champion, battling Callisto and then nearly being forced to kill Yukio before she re-asserted control over her mind. She eventually fought Masque and won, becoming the overall leader of the Arena, which she left in Callisto's hands.
Returning to the X-Men, Storm led them against Elias Bogan and freed Rachel Summers from his thrall. She also proposed and received approval from Val Cooper and Alexei Vashin for a mutant police force called the X.S.E. (X-Treme Sanctions Executive), which operated for some time in conjunction with a multi-national governmental task force. However, following Magneto IV's attack on New York, Storm returned her team to the rebuilt X-Mansion, taking up residence in the carriage house. Storm still ran the X.S.E., dispatching Nightcrawler to deal with certain supernatural menaces in New York and the other members to deal with X-23 and mutant-related crimes
Then, on a mission to Africa to deal with mutated animals, Ororo ran into the Black Panther again. T'Challa appeared to miss Ororo and attempted to woo her, but she rejected him, AFTER planting a huge kiss on him. Rather than return to the United States, though, Storm remained in Africa, seeing the need of the common people for a protector "goddess."
NOTE: Storm has been on the board before, and has a history here that puts her before the Tchalla Retcon, so he has been taken out of her history to a small degree, and they ARE not married in our board's history.
((Thanks to Wikipedia and Violet (Who played Storm here years ago, and wrote the end by hand.))
Character is from: X-Men
