Please note that this information was taken from http://marvel.com/universe/Storm
.: VITAL STATS
Codename: Storm
Real Name: Ororo Munroe
Alias/Nick: N/A
Age: Early 30's
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 127
Hair Color: White
Eye Color: Blue, glowing white while using powers
Place of Birth: New York City, New York
Relatives: Ashake (ancestor, deceased), unidentified paternal grandfather, Harriet Munroe (paternal grandmother), unidentified maternal grandmother, David Munroe (father, deceased), N’dare Munroe (mother, deceased), unidentified paternal aunt (deceased), Colonel Shetani (maternal uncle), David Munroe Jr. (nephew)
Group Affiliation: X-Men, Morlocks (leader)
.: MUTANT/EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES
X-Factor: Storm is a mutant who possesses the psionic ability to manipulate weather patterns over limited areas. She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation such as rain or fog, generate winds in varying degrees of intensity up to and including hurricane force, raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity, induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena, and disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Storm can direct the path of certain atmospheric effects, such as bolts of lightning, with her hands. She has also demonstrated the ability to manipulate ocean currents, though the extent of this ability is still unclear.
Storm’s control over the atmosphere is such that she can create certain effects over a specific area while shielding smaller areas within that region. For example, she can create a rainstorm around herself but prevent the raindrops from touching her. Storm can also create atmospheric phenomena over very small areas, such as creating a rainstorm small enough to water a single potted plant.
Storm can only manipulate weather patterns as they exist in nature. For example, she can end a drought in one area by creating torrential rains there, but that would necessitate robbing all available moisture from the surrounding areas. Storm is not able to create atmospheric conditions that do not exist naturally on the planet she is on. For example, Storm is unable to lower temperatures as far as absolute zero or raise them to solar intensities on Earth.
The limit to the size of the area over which Storm can manipulate the weather is not yet known. However, she once diverted the jet stream so as to create storms over the entire East Coast of the United States. She can create weather effects within indoor areas or within artificially maintained environments. Storm is limited by the force of her will and the strength of her body. It once took her several hours to stop a savage blizzard sweeping over much of Canada, and she nearly died from exhaustion in the process.
Storm is able to fly by creating winds strong enough to support her weight, the weight of others, and to propel her forward through the air. Storm can thus travel as fast as any wind can, and has reached speeds up to 300 miles per hour. Her powers over the atmosphere enable her to breathe at any speed, protect her from air friction, and grant her limited immunity to extreme heat and cold.
Storm is also able to alter her visual perception so as to perceive electrical energy patterns as well as those factors responsible for existing meteorological phenomena in her surrounding environment.
(The following passage is taken from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_(Marvel_Comics))
Storm's physiology grants her a 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 of the strongest wills among the X-Men, making her highly resistant to psychic attacks especially in tandem with electrical fields 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.
Skills/Weapons/Other: Storm is extraordinarily skilled at picking both locks and pockets. Storm is also a gifted hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained extensively by her fellow X-Man Wolverine, and is also an excellent marksman with handguns. Additionally, Storm often carries a set of lockpicks secreted on her person.
Storm is also a gifted and avid gardener, and she finds nurturing plant-life both calming and personally rewarding. It takes little effort for her to see great success in this venue, although she does dedicate a large portion of her free time to caring for her garden which lays nestled in the attic of the X-Mansion.
Weaknesses: Storm's ability to manipulate the weather in her immediate vicinity is affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Storm also suffers from severe claustrophobia. Finally, Storm is mortal and susceptible to both injury and death.
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.: PERSONAL DETAILS
Physical Description: The most striking thing about Storm's appearance is her physical presence. She has a calm confidence about her, and this self-assurance and gentle demeanor can diffuse the tensions of those around her. She is in excellent physical condition, although she is generally overlooked when one thinks of "strong" members of the X-Men.
When not on a mission, Storm can be seen in free-flowing garments that envoke the quality of a gentle breeze, and on occasion she chooses to honor her roots by dressing in traditional African garb that utilize bright patterns and rich fabrics.
Her uniform has undergone a series of changes throughout her long career with the X-Men, but she currently favors a low-cut, sleeveless, black leather catsuit with gold trim. Storm accessorizes with a black cape, black hairpiece, golden wrist bangles, and a gold sash draped loosely from her waist
Personality: Storm is a steel-willed and serene woman with an affinity toward leadership. Although hers may not be the loudest voice, when Storm speaks her opinion is respected and generally well-received. She is a master strategist and makes up for her physical shortcomings through careful planning and tactful decision-making.
Although an orphan herself, Storm instinctively nurtures young mutants, especially females, and finds the role of mother to be as rewarding as it is natural. This gentle nature manifests itself in her unwavering vow to show mercy to her enemies if there is any chance they can be redeemed. Regardless of the wrongs done to her, Storm seems to be able to forgive and even mentor those who would harm her.
Storm is exceedingly responsible with the use of her mutant powers, and doesn't see them as a weapon to be wielded on a whim. Conversely, she uses her manipulation of the elements in a defensive manner most predominantly, and it takes great lengths (or great wrongs) to see her full fury unleashed. She is careful to control her emotions (for the sake of preventing a cataclysmic "natural" disaster) and is generally closely guarded in affairs of the heart, although as equally well-loved and easygoing among her close friends.
Storm finds great beauty in nature and has developed a strong connection to the Earth. She senses subtle changes in an ecosystem she is familiar with, and is moved by injustice done to either the land or wildlife. She is intolerant of cruelty in any form, but most notably intentional cruelty meant to harm those who are unable to defend themself.
History: (abridged and mostly provided by UncannyXmen.net)
Ororo Munroe is the daughter of David Munroe, a photo-journalist from New York, and N’Dare, a princess from a Kenyan tribe. Several of N’Dare’s female ancestors displayed white hair, blue eyes and unusual facial features, though it is unknown exactly who or how many of them did so. While it is clear that N’Dare apparently didn’t, her daughter, Ororo, did manifest those physical traits.
When Ororo was six months old, one of David’s assignments took the family from Harlem to Cairo, Egypt, where they would stay for the next years. In her earliest childhood, N’Dare showed her daughter a special ruby-crystal that had been in their family for a long time.
During an Israeli-Arab conflict, a plane crashed into the Munroes’ house. Her parents died, while Ororo, ca 5-6 years old at the time, was trapped besides her dead mother in the rubble, resulting in a severe case of claustrophobia that Ororo suffers from to the present day.
Somehow, the child managed to dig herself out, apparently taking her mother’s ruby with her. Alone in the city, she was eventually found by some street urchins who brought her to their master, Achmed-El Gibar, a kind of Fagin, who gave children a home and trained them as thieves. Within a year, Ororo was trained to be a beggar. Within another, she became an excellent pickpocket and thief.
During that time, Ororo picked the pocket of an American tourist, one Charles Xavier. The man noticed her, used his powers to stop her in her tracks and examined her. However, at that moment, he was mentally attacked by Amahl Farouk – the Shadow King - and Ororo escaped.
Itching to prove her skills as a thief, Ororo also stole another rare ruby-colored gem, the so-called “heart of eternal darkness.” She did so against Achmed-El Gibar’s direct orders. Only later, it would be discovered that the stone contained the essence of the immortal mutant Candra.
When she was about twelve, Ororo felt the irresistible urge to wander southwards and left Cairo. During that trip, she naively trusted a man who offered her a ride and was almost raped, before she killed him with her knife. As a result, she swore never to take another human life.
Ororo wandered for one year, crossing two thousand miles and nearly died on her trek through the Sahara desert. Along the journey, she discovered her emerging power to control the weather. Shortly afterwards, she witnessed how South-Africans, under the leadership of Andreas de Ruyter, were trying to kidnap Prince T’Challa of Wakanda, a young boy barely older than she, to use him as a hostage against his father. She managed to help the youth to escape. They journeyed together for some time and, while they grew very attracted to one another, T’Challa’s duty and Ororo’s dream pulled them in different directions.
Ororo arrived on the Serengeti Plain in Kenya and made her home there. There, she called out to her goddess and was answered with the sight of a shining figure of a woman, who resembled her.
Ororo herself was adopted as a goddess of life by the local tribes, whom she helped, however she could, with her powers. However, she discovered that the weather reacted to her emotional state thus, to protect the people around her, she detached herself from stronger emotions as far as possible.
Ororo also found a substitute mother in the elderly tribal woman, Ainet, who helped her learn how to responsibly use her complex powers.
Years later, a threat arose as a fellow mutant who called himself Deluge, had wrested control over the weather from her in an attempt to revenge himself on humanity. With the help of several of the original X-Men, who were stranded in Kenya, Ororo managed to destroy Deluge and disperse the storm. After she had departed back to her tribe, the X-Men wanted to inform Xavier about this promising mutant. He informed the group that he already knew about her, but didn’t want to contact her because he thought the cultural shock would be too much for her to handle.
However, some months later, when the X-Men had been captured by the mutant island Krakoa, he felt he had no other choice. After enlisting the help of several other mutants he had recently learned about or had at one point had met his students before, Charles Xavier visited Ororo in Kenya and asked her to join his X-Men. He explained that she was a mutant, not a goddess, and that she had a responsibility to the world. Curious, Ororo decided to leave her “nest” and see what the world had to offer.
Old and new team together defeated the mutant island. As part of the X-Men, Ororo received the codename “Storm” and a costume made of unstable molecules. It also contained some of her own elements, like her tribal tiara and her mother’s ruby, which she wore as a brooch that held the cape together.
Ororo was naïve in the ways of the modern world. For example, she had no idea why there was any need for clothing, if one didn’t feel cold. This led to some embarrassing episodes with her fellow X-Men. Otherwise, she quickly made friends among the others, regarding them as a family. She very quickly forged a bond of friendship with Jean Grey, who helped Ororo to buy a new wardrobe. It was during one of their shopping tours that Jean learned of Storm’s severe claustrophobia when the two women were chasing a thief into a subway station.
Ororo was also the one member of the team who would stand up to Wolverine when his temper was flaring and, through sheer force of personality, get him to back down. There were aspects of the life as an X-Man that proved hard for her, though, as for example when she destroyed a Sentinel that seemed very lifelike. What if she were ever forced to kill another human being?
Storm’s claustrophobia placed the entire team in danger when they battled Juggernaut and Black Tom in Cassidy Keep. In the cellars of the ancient castle, Ororo felt entombed between the walls of solid rocks and went into shock. She could do nothing but cry while her teammates were butchered. Only after all had fallen, she utilized the strength to fight. However, it was only after the Juggernaut accidentally punched a hole in the wall and she could see the open sky again that she could free the team and turn the tide.
During the X-Men’s adventures in the Savage Land, Ororo was at one point unable to save the villain Garokk’s life, who was falling into a dark pit. She flew down after him but, shortly before she had reached him, she was overcome by her claustrophobia and rushed back to the surface. Feeling the need to sort this out alone, she distanced herself from the other X-Men and wandered around the Savage Land on her own. Bathing in a lake, she suddenly encountered a strange beast and saved a mysterious woman from it, almost losing her own life in the process.
When Ororo came around, she found herself in another fantastic dimension adjacent to the Savage Land. M’rin, the woman from the lake, was this dimension’s warrior queen. She befriended Ororo and came to regard her as her surrogate daughter (her true daughter being her mortal enemy). However, after a while, Ororo felt she had to leave her and return to the X-Men. Before Storm left, M’rin showed her how to use her mother’s ruby crystal to open the dimensional gates and come visit her, if she wished.
Back in New York, Storm decided to take a look at Harlem, where she was born. When she reached the building where her family used to live, she was shocked to learn that it now was the hideout of several junkie kids. She wasn’t aware how run down things had become in the neighborhood since her family had left. Her friends, Misty Knight and Luke Cage, reminded her that there was only so much that superheroes could do.
Ororo started to doubt her life as an X-Man. At least in Kenya she could help people. Here, she only seemed to fight. Some time later, she was kidnapped by Arkon, emperor of the other-dimensional world Ptolemaeus. After he was defeated, the adventure reminded her that life as an X-Man was more than just one battle after the next.
When a new student, the teenager Kitty Pryde, was introduced, Ororo quickly started to develop motherly feelings towards the girl, whose parents’ marriage was disintegrating. During the same adventure where the X-Men met Kitty, Storm was captured and humiliated by the telepathic White Queen, who telepathically probed Ororo for information on the X-Men. When the rest of the team assaulted the building, the White Queen got angry and would have left Storm a brainless vegetable, if not for the intervention of Phoenix.
Sadly, Phoenix died shortly thereafter and her fiancé, team-leader Scott Summers, needed a sabbatical. Xavier asked Storm to become the new leader, a role Storm was first unsure about, even though all her teammates – including the authority-hating Wolverine - applauded Xavier’s choice.
Logan even taught her how to handle firearms around that time, knowledge she abhorred, but which should eventually come in handy.
During a walk in Salem Center, Storm was almost assassinated by a South-African sniper, part of de Ruyter’s revenge plot for her saving T’Challa as a teenager. Solving the case, the Black Panther and Ororo renewed their friendship but both realized that any chance for a relationship between them had passed.
When Kitty’s parents demanded that Kitty be transferred to the Massachusetts Academy (of the White Queen), Storm brought her there and became the victim of the Hellfire Club’s latest plot. To infiltrate the X-Men, the White Queen used a device to switch bodies with Storm. Ororo had a hard time dealing with her new telepathic powers but eventually did, by remembering the friendship with Jean Grey, who had explained her a few things about mental powers. After freeing herself, it took her some time to convince Kitty that it was really Storm stuck inside Emma Frost’s body. Eventually, they came through and saved the X-Men. With their personalities restored again and Frost about to attack once more, Storm was overcome by a murderous rage and quite willing to break her vow not to kill. It was Wolverine, of all people, who held her back and reminded her that she was better than that.
As a leader, Storm was forced to show a greater deal of unscrupulosity, for instance, when she and the X-Men infiltrated the Pentagon to destroy all the government’s files on the X-Men (as the anti-mutant climate was growing), a plan which unfortunately led to a fight with Rogue within the Pentagon. As a result, Storm wrestled not only with her own doubts but also with those of Cyclops, who had returned from his leave of absence and was unsure whether he should take his old position back.
During a nightly walk in New York, Ororo was mugged and found later with a throat injury. Nobody knew what was wrong with the ailing Ororo over the next days, not even she herself. At first, Ororo felt strangely safe in the night, while direct sunlight was bothering her. Later, she sensed someone calling out to her. Kitty finally figured out that she was under the thrall of a vampire – Dracula himself. When Dracula was later killed by someone else, Ororo was completely freed of his influence.
When Colossus’ sister, Illyana, was kidnapped to the other-dimensional Limbo by the dark magician Belasco, the X-Men followed. There, they met alternate, older X-Men from another timeline. Ororo came face to face with an elderly version of herself, whose mutant powers had waned with age. However, she had instead turned to the other side of her heritage and became a powerful sorceress, who challenged Belasco's rule over Limbo.
When the X-Men were abducted into space by the Brood, Ororo took it harder than the others. Unlike during other space adventures of the X-Men, she felt that the special link she shared with Earth’s lifeforce had been severed and she had no idea why. When the X-Men battled some of the alien Brood, Storm released lightning to stun them but it flared out of control, destroying the enemies’ ship and killing them. Having broken her vow not to kill again, Storm was frightened and ashamed at the same time. She examined herself, body and soul, and finally found the reason for her condition – within her resided a child, an alien child. She and the other X-Men had been infected with Brood embryos. Learning this, Ororo was in turmoil and fled from her friends in a small spaceship. She felt she couldn’t take a life, even one as evil as the Brood in her, but how could she unleash such an evil on the world? Just as her body starting to undergo its transformation, she took a third way out, effectively trying to commit suicide, as she channeled the energy of all the stars around her into herself, destroying the Brood embryo but leaving her unprotected in the vacuum of space.
Ororo would have died, had she not been saved by the Acanti, a race of space whales, that was hunted by the Brood, who liked to use them as living spaceships. Eventually, with the homeworld of the Brood destroyed and the X-Men miraculously healed by the Acanti, Ororo was restored and returned to them.
Further emotional changes were to come when, shortly afterwards, the X-Men confronted the Morlocks – a clandestine society of mutants that lived beneath New York – over the kidnapping of former X-Man Angel. With the X-Men hopelessly outnumbered, Storm saw only one chance to save her friends. She challenged the tough Morlock leader Callisto to a duel and surprisingly won by ruthlessly and intentionally almost killing Callisto, something she would never have done in the past. As a result, she also inherited the leadership of the Morlocks and, before she and her team left, she forbade any more attacks on the humans living on the surface.
When the X-Men were in Japan for Wolverine’s planned wedding, Storm ran into and fought side by side with a friend of Wolverine’s: Yukio, a self-proclaimed ronin (a rogue masterless Samurai) who lived life to the fullest every day, as though it were her last. Storm found herself fascinated with the woman and her lifestyle and Yukio’s influence was the final straw that caused a visible change in Ororo. When Storm returned to the X-Men a few days later, she had gone punk, was dressed in leather, more willing to use violent means against her foes, if necessary, and no longer willing to keep her emotions in check. The change puzzled her team-mates and especially hurt her relationship with Kitty.
When Rogue, the team’s most recent addition, who was going through a difficult phase, was chased by governmental agents because of a mistaken murder charge, Storm followed her to Mississippi, intending to help. To show Rogue that her mutant power was not only a curse, Ororo voluntary let her absorb her power. Amazed by the way Storm saw the world, in energy patterns, Rogue was tempted to permanently absorb the weather abilities, but resisted, not wanting to betray the trust placed in her.
Tragedy ensued when, suddenly, the federal agents tracked them down. Storm tried to save Rogue from their pursuers, but was hit by the blast instead. The weapon used was an newly-built untested Neutralizer that instantly banished all superpowers.
Storm was saved from drowning in the Mississippi by the gun’s inventor Forge, who hadn’t meant for this to happen. Forge nursed the suicidally depressed Storm back to health. Ororo realized that, without her weather powers, she no longer would have to fear her emotions overwhelming her. Eventually, both mutants began to fall for each other but, when Ororo accidentally learned that it was Forge who had designed the Neutralizer, she left him, angrily, despite his offer to find a way to restore her powers.
Feeling she no longer had a place among the team, Ororo quit the X-Men and returned to Africa, to find her place in the world. She finally came to terms with having lost her powers as, in her heart and mind, where it truly mattered, she could soar higher than the stars.
Not much later, Ororo was sought out by Warlock of the New Mutants, who asked her to come to Cairo. The rest of the New Mutants had had been captured and possessed by their former team-mate, Karma. Together, they were able to free their other teammates.
Ororo accompanied the teenagers to the Greek island paradise, Kirinos, feeling they deserved a break. Unfortunately, they fell victims to a plot by Loki. Loki subtly brainwashed Ororo and gave her an enchanted mallet similar to the one of Thor, intending to make her the new goddess of thunder – one that would be obedient to him. Naturally, the X-Men followed their friends to the mystic realm but Ororo only managed to snap out of her trance after Loki forced her to use her restored abilities to almost kill Wolverine. Herself again, she rejected Loki’s gifts, thwarting his plans for controlling Asgard.
When Xavier had left the school in Magneto’s care, Cyclops felt that he should lead the X-Men, as a powerless Storm clearly was unable to do the job. Storm challenged him to a Danger Room duel and, surprisingly, she won. She had been focussed on the job while he was not, distracted by the troubles his rejoining the team would cause his marriage.
Some time later, a group calling themselves the Marauders slaughtered the other mutant group Ororo led – the Morlocks. Storm felt she had failed as a leader and wanted to give up until Callisto, the de facto Morlock leader, slapped her back into taking up her responsibilities again, reminding her of the effect this would have on the many wounded and dying.
With more and more enemies to mutants in general rallying against them, the Hellfire Club proposed an alliance with the X-Men, offering Magneto the seat of White King. After discussing this with Ororo, he accepted, with his own condition that he and Storm would jointly take the title of White King.
However, Ororo would not be not available for much longer. The Marauder Malice trying to take over Dazzler, and the bombing of the house of Jean Grey’s sister, Sara, indicated that somebody was trying to get to the X-Men through harming their friends and families. As these enemies would apparently only stop once the X-Men were dead, Storm came up with the plan to go underground and fake the team’s deaths. Overall, she adopted a more aggressive style and decided the X-Men would have to be more proactive.
Storm felt that, especially under theses circumstances, she needed her powers back. Swallowing her pride and naming Wolverine deputy leader, she went to Dallas to ask for Forge’s help. Forge had used their time apart to use the technology in his artificial leg to create an anti-Neutralizer, which gave Storm back her powers.
It turned out, however, that the only way to defeat the Adversary (who had captured Force previously) was a certain magical spell to counter the one Forge cast many years ago, which had freed the Adversary in the first place. As it needed nine souls to give it energy, the X-Men and their companion Madelyne Pryor, on live TV, sacrificed themselves for Forge’s spell to banish the Adversary. However, while the world believed the X-Men dead, they were secretly returned to life by Roma, Omniversal ruler.
The X-Men decided to follow Storm’s original plan and let everybody believe they were dead, in order to better strike back at their enemies. They found a new base in the former hideout of the Reavers, in the Australian Outback. While some of the other members missed their friends and loved ones, who did not know of the X-Men being still alive, Storm got the chance to reacquaint herself with her foster mother, M’rin, during a trip to the Savage Land
Some time later, during the Inferno event, the X-Men found themselves face to face with X-Factor for the first time, among them Jean Grey, whom they had believed to be dead. Jean and her team likewise had thought the X-Men were no longer among the living, after the events of Dallas had been broadcasted on TV. The first tension was soon overcome and Storm found herself happily reunited with her best friend.
When Storm destroyed the demon N’astirh, by overloading his circuitry with her lightning, this also showed the great differences between Cyclops and Storm’s teams. Cyclops clung more to the ethics taught to them by Xavier, whereas Storm wanted to get the job done, no matter what means necessary.
Back at their headquarters in the Australian Outback, the X-Men were attacked by the psychotic Nanny and her charge, the Orphan Maker, in a perverse attempt to save them. Nanny captured Storm and faked her death to her teammates. Once back in their base, Nanny physically and mentally reduced Storm to her pre-teens to better control her. However, Storm’s claustrophobia gave her the strength to overload Nanny’s systems and escape from her containment device.
The now approximately 11-12 year old Ororo found herself in the city of Cairo, Illinois. She had no memories of her time with the X-Men or even why she was in America. Her powers hardly worked either, due to her youth. The Shadow King took this opportunity to once more hunt her. Taking over the body of FBI agent Jacob Reisz, he framed young Ororo for murder.
Ororo hid and once more returned to her thieving ways. During one of her capers, the Shadow King had his agents waiting for her. Luckily, she was saved thanks to the intervention of a fellow mutant and thief named Gambit. He became intrigued by the young girl and they formed a partnership, playing Robin Hood, stealing from the rich and giving to the poor. Eventually, they were found again by Nanny. They managed to beat her and destroy her aircraft, but the encounter reactivated Storm’s memories of what had happened to her and who she had been.
Together, she and Gambit traveled to the X-mansion. Excessive tests and examinations revealed that Nanny not only had reduced her to a teenager, but Ororo was stuck in this form – she did not grow or age and, as such, she could not fully develop her powers.
Some time later, Storm and several New Mutants were kidnapped by Genoshan agents. At that point, the Genoshan government worked together with old X-Factor enemy, Cameron Hodge, to destroy the various X-Teams as revenge for an earlier defeat by them. The attack grew into a political conflict and the world learned the X-Men had not been slain in Dallas, as they had thought. In custody, Storm seemingly underwent the conditioning process that the Genoshans had developed to turn mutants or mutates into obedient, mindless slaves. Ororo’s head was shaved, she was stripped of any free will and was called Mutate 20.
However, Genegineer Moreau and Chief Magistrate Anderson were among the faction working against Hodge and intended to use Storm in a Trojan Horse gambit against him. When Storm attacked Cyclops on Anderson’s orders, Storm not only regained both her faculties and her adult body, she also was given the means to reactivate the neutralized powers of the other captured X-Men.
Some time later, it was discovered that the Shadow King had taken over the minds of the residents of the Muir Island Research Facility. Most X-Men were captured by the residents when they tried to stop the Shadow King and so Professor Xavier, back on Earth, enlisted the help of both X-Factor and SHIELD. After the villain was defeated, the original five rejoined the fold. The X-Men were reorganized with Cyclops and Storm becoming leader of one X-Men squad each. Storm was leader of the so-called Gold Team.
The arrival of the new X-Man, Bishop, from the future, put further strain on the relationship between Storm and Forge, a relationship that was already on the rocks. Forge proposed to Storm, but Ororo hesitated. As Jean Grey refused to tell Forge about Storm’s true feelings, Forge became convinced that Storm didn’t love him and could never be a complete person outside the X-Men. Therefore, he retracted his proposal and left to help Mystique, who seemed to be on the verge of losing her mind at the time. Ironically, Storm would have said “yes.”
Some time later, Storm’s leadership of the few remaining Morlocks was once more called into question, when the Morlocks, possessed by one of their own, went berserk. The X-Men were able to get the situation temporarily under control. However, Colossus’ mad brother, Mikhail Rasputin, assumed leadership of the underground community. His first decision was to destroy the tunnel wall, flooding the Alley and all connected tunnels, apparently killing himself and all Morlocks.
Storm learned that the news of the death of the Morlocks had been premature – actually Mikhail had transported them to another harsh dimension, where time passed faster. Children had grown up in the time, since the X-Men saw them last, and some of them –calling themselves Gene Nation - under the leadership of a teenage girl named Marrow – wanted revenge on the humans who had shunned the Morlocks. They planned another massacre on the Anniversary of the Morlock Massacre. Storm confronted Marrow, who had put a bomb into her heart with which she intended to kill their human hostages, in single combat and cut out the girl’s heart, before the bomb could explode.
Unaware of the fact that Marrow had survived, as she actually had two hearts, Storm was deeply troubled by that decision. She also felt that her entire life consisted only of short-term solutions and that she was incapable of making working long-term decisions. Remembering the Morlocks and how she failed them, she celebrated the Ceremony of Light as a remembrance ritual in the Morlock tunnels, only to be teleported away.
Mikhail Rasputin, who had become a completely insane, Darwinian despot, faked Storm’s death and transported her to his other dimension, where she was to become “mother” to the Morlocks, just as he considered themselves their father. Storm learned that Rasputin actually backed Gene Nation. Eventually, she forced him to return all the surviving Morlocks back to Earth and gave the Gene Nation members a choice. She’d transport them to the African village she had been to on her travels while she was powerless. The village had become impoverished through neglect and they could help to rebuild it – or else.
Newly energized, Storm presented a new look to her teammates. During that time Storm also called off her on-again-off again relationship with Forge for good, since she couldn’t imagine a long-term future with him.
She started a romance with Wolverine, but was betrayed by her new lover and one of her dearest friends, Jean. Storm realized Logan's feelings for Jean, and although Logan seemed to harbor genuine feelings for Ororo as well, it hurt her relationship with both Jean and Logan. Although the kiss is the result of personal trauma in Jean's life and compounded by temporary amnesia, the damage is done. Over time the issue is addressed, but no resolution was really attained as the next mission beckoned.
The interruption was a battle that Storm oversaw as leader during the Washington D.C. massacre. It saw Magneto and his Brotherhood cripple Washington (with aid of stolen Sentinels), and the attack killed hundreds of innocent lives and also claimed the President of the U.S.. To further complicate matters, Apocalypse showed up with former allies Psylocke and Archangel at his side as his new Horsemen, a hurtful betrayal that shocked the entire team. The X-Men barely escaped, but were able to thwart their enemies.
Thanks to this tragic event, it brought on the Mutant Registration Act, sending already simmering human/mutant relations to an all-out boil, culminating in the attempted assasination of Professor Xavier (which left him in a coma-like state).
Most recently, Storm has suffered from a lack of confidence and has noticed a confusing flux in her control over her mutant abilities, and has even contemplated her worth as a leader of the X-Men.
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(Please refer to "Welcome to New York" to reference where this scene starts. I hope referencing an old thread is appropriate.)
The mob seemed to be getting restles, and Storm knew it wouldn't be much longer before they too made it through her windy defense. The others had all made it safely down the manhole, and although she wanted to lead them to safety, Storm knew that her work here wasn't finished. She could feel her power waning slowly, and therefore had to act quickly.
She moved her attention from the misty shroud being used to disguise the mutants' escape and instead shot an arctic blast toward the manhole. A thick, icy web wove itself over the opening, creating an ample wall of ice between the fleeing mutants and the mob. Unfortunately, it meant that she, too, had now been seperated from her companions.
The fog disappated completely, and Storm stood defiant against the throng of hate-mongering citizens. The mob seemed stunned by the outpouring of varied mutant power they had witnessed in the past few minutes, and it was evident that their hatred was riddled with mounting insecurity.
"I mean you no harm," Storm announced firmly. "Leave now and stop this madness."
"She's one of them!" a tatooed youth retorted. "She's a mutie, too!" The crowd was teeming with anger, anxiety, and blinding hatred.
"Yes," Storm affirmed, "but I assure you I am one "
mutie" you don't need to tangle with." The word "mutie" felt venomous upon her tongue, and she had emphasized it to ensure that the crowd realized she wasn't to be taken lightly. Storm knew that even if she wasn't at full-power anymore, she still knew a thing or two about intimidation. She'd have to tactfully diffuse the mob in whatever means possible.
"She's just an old lady," taunted another. A few snickers were heard amongst the crowd.
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Old lady?" Storm thought, taken aback. What was it today? As if being called Ma'am weren't bad enough, "Old Lady" was certainly overkill. Her eyes whitened to pearls, and a crackle of electricity sprinkled from her fingertips like a firecracker.
The stunned crowd took a collective step back. Their uneasiness grew noticeably, and Storm couldn't help but notice that the crowd seemed to have thinned since the initial onslaught.
"I won't ask you again," Storm warned. "You may have started this foolish pursuit with a little boy, but this is one old lady who isn't in the mood to play games." On cue, a deep roll of thunder echoed between the massive city buildings, rumbling the ground beneath their feet.
"She's not even worth it," the tatooed punk decided for the group.
They all seemd to agree and slowly dispearsed as the electricity continued to crackle from Storm's taunting fingertips. A few stragglers remained for a minute, but a raised eyebrow with another crash of thunder sent them high-tailing, too.
Finally she was left alone in the back alleyway. Her expression softened, and she let out a soft sigh as the tension left her body. She glanced over at the ice-topped manhole and hoped that her rescued refugees had made it to safety as well.
Ororo adjusted her tribal pendant so it sat evenly across her chest and brushed the wayward flecks of ice from her pantsuit. She thought of pursuing the others to make sure they had indeed escaped without a hitch, but remembered the true reason she had come to the city today. There was a grave matter at hand, and certain real-life issues needed to be addressed. She made her way back to the Toyota Solara and headed toward Mr. Nelson's office.
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