Storm was commanded to steal the Montesi Formula and was opposed by a possessed Kitty and Colossus. With the aid of the X-Men, Dracula was defeated. Soon after, the X-Men encountered the underground community of mutants, known as the Morlocks , who had kidnapped one of their former members, Angel. To save her friend, Storm challenged the Morlock leader, Callisto , to a duel and bested her in hand-to-hand combat.
As a result, Storm became leader of the Morlocks and she ordered them to cease their hostilities against the surface-dwelling humans. A friend of Wolverine's, Yukio was the most carefree spirit that Ororo had ever met and the two became fast friends. Yukio influenced a major rebellious change in Storm's attitude towards life and she took to wearing leather and shaved her hair into a Mohawk.
After, the team battled the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, and the Morlocks. Storm later had her powers accidentally neutralized by Henry Gyrich with a gun invented by the mutant machinist, named Forge , who took it upon himself to nurse Storm back to health. Naze faked his demise at the barbed tongue of a Dire Wraith, letting it assume his identity and then fall under the mental control of the Adversary , sparing Naze from this fate. Storm subsequently quit the X-Men and returned to Africa, where she finally came to terms with losing her mutant ability.
When the Wraith home world, Wraithworld , began to approach Earth through hyperspace, the X-Men went to aid Rom and, with the help of Forge, banished them from existence. Xavier's newest team of young mutants, the New Mutants , in rescuing the body of Karma from being possessed by the Shadow King. During which time, the New Mutants met one of Storm's ancestors, Ashake , who helped the heroes return to their own time.
While vacationing with the kids later, the group was subsequently captured by the Asgardian trickster God , Loki. After witnessing her battle hordes of demons, [69] Loki sought to use Storm in one of his schemes to discredit his half-brother, the Thunder God Thor , by giving her a hammer, Stormcaster , that would restore her abilities and making her the new Goddess of Thunder.
Storm returned to the X-Men and defeated Fenris, then later found herself being challenged to a duel for leadership of the team by Cyclops. Despite her still being powerless, Storm won and Cyclops quit the team. After defeating the Commando in combat, Storm decided that the X-Men would be more proactive and attack their enemies before they are attacked.
The union between the Hellfire Club and the X-Men would give the X-Men access to all of the Hellfire Club's government secrets and protect the school, if the Marauders were to attack again. Storm decided that, in order to safeguard their friends and families from their many enemies, the X-Men must fake their deaths and become an underground proactive strike force. After Havok showed up to check on the X-Men, Storm ordered Psylocke to erase the event from his memory, but, due to Professor Xavier's mental defenses, he remembered and, after an initial battle, Havok asked Magneto to accept him as an X-Men and joined the team.
The team was later abducted by Horde , to use as his lackeys to retrieve the Crystal of Ultimate Vision, of which he wore a shard on his forehead.
As the X-Men progressed through it, the citadel created illusions of each of their most powerful desire. Only Storm, Wolverine, and Psylocke were able to resist and, empowered to godhood, Wolverine rejected the god-like power and returned the X-Men and their friends home.
Unwilling to watch her die, Magneto went to Reed Richards Mr. Fantastic of the Fantastic Four to use a device that Mr. Fantastic had built to save Shadowcat. Doom presented his assistance and, under duress, Storm accepted. Doom and Mr. Soon, Storm realized that she needed her powers restored and so she sought out Forge for his help. Ororo found Forge's old mentor Naze instead, who informed her that Forge had been corrupted by his nemesis, the Adversary, and was seeking to destroy the world.
Unbeknownst to Storm, the Adversary had actually corrupted the Naze look-alike after the battle with the Dire Wraiths. Storm stabbed Forge in the chest, but then realized that he had been attempting to close the portal, not open it.
Storm and Forge spent a year on an alternate Earth, during which time they made peace and admitted their love for one another. During this time, Ororo grew her hair long again. Forge used components from his cybernetic leg to fashion a new device that restored Storm's ability to use her powers, which she then used to energize a portal back to their own world. Ororo was released and, with the X-Men, gave her life to imprison the Adversary, with a spell used from Forge.
However, the Omniversal Guardian, named Roma, restored the X-Men to life and freed the Adversary under the notion that there could be no order without chaos. The events had been broadcast over a live television news feed and the world believed the heroes to be dead. After being resurrected, the X-Men decided to use the opportunity to go underground and keep their rebirth secret.
The X-Men resurfaced in Australia , where they defeated the Reavers. Roma appeared and presented them with the Siege Perilous , a gem that created a portal which granted any person who walked through it judgment and a new chance at life, with a new career, home, and so forth and had magically made them invisible to any sort of mechanical perception.
Storm made another change in her outfit, replacing her leather jacket with a black suit with a lighting bolt across her chest. After Storm's Cameo Crystal sensed a disturbance, Storm left in the middle of the night without explanation to the Savage Land. Upon arrival, the Savage Land was scorched and barren and the X-Men followed and battled Garrok, in the armor of Terminus. Soon after, the X-Men were ambushed at their hideout, by the crazed scientist known as Nanny and her partner, the Orphan-Maker.
After attempting to flee, Storm chased Nanny's craft and was caught in tentacles, while Havok fired a plasma burst and downed the craft. Nanny used her technology to de-age Storm to her pre-teens and strip her memories, so as to better sway the mutant to her cause.
However, Storm fought back and overloaded Nanny's device. Once more a child with no memories of her life as an X-Man, the young Storm returned to her life as a thief. On one caper, Ororo found herself the target of the psychic being known as the Shadow King, but was saved by a fellow mutant and thief, named Gambit.
The pair formed a partnership and, after Storm regained her memories, she took Gambit to meet the X-Men. Storm was eventually restored to adulthood after the X-Men were captured by agents of the island nation of Genosha who used mutants as slaves.
Storm underwent the mutate transformation process, however, the Genoshan Genegineer and Chief Magistrate were members of a rebel faction. They restored Storm's body and mind, and the X-Men were able to defeat their aggressors. Soon after, the X-Men were reformed into two separate strike teams, with Cyclops and Storm as co-leaders. Forge still asked Storm to marry him, but she hesitated on giving a reply. Forge was left thinking she did not truly love him and he left before she could respond with a "yes.
Scott, Bobby, Ororo, and Logan mysteriously awakened in an area unfamiliar to them. They appeared to have suffered a battle, but had no memory of the events. Scott and the other X-Men found that they were being tested by Onslaught. After finally defeating Post , they were teleported back to the mansion. Xavier, most of Earth's heroes were lost for a time. Months later, the eternal mutant Apocalypse made a bid for power by gathering together The Twelve , a group of mutants prophesied to usher in a golden age for their kind that counted Storm amongst their number.
Apocalypse was defeated, but not before the ultimate extent of Storm's mutant power was revealed in an alternate future wherein that future's version of her had evolved into a wholly elemental being. Not long after, Storm and five of her teammates formed a splinter group of X-Men, cutting all ties with the rest of the team to search for the diaries of the blind mutant seer Destiny that mapped the future of mutants. During a mission in Australia , Storm was reunited with Gambit who sought to obtain her mother's ruby.
It was revealed that the ruby was part of a set that, when empowered, could open a portal between dimensions. Several of the gems had already gone missing, and Gambit wished to ensure that Storm's ruby remained safe.
At that moment, the other-dimensional warrior named Shaitan attacked, capturing Gambit and stealing the ruby. Shaitan used the gems and Gambit's mutant ability to empower them, thus opening a portal allowing the armies of his master, Khan , to pass through and invade Earth.
Storm's X-Men opposed the invaders, but she was seriously injured by Madripoor 's ruling crime lord Viper and was subsequently taken prisoner by Khan himself. The warlord intended for Storm to be his queen and commanded his physicians to heal her. Storm attempted to seduce Khan into calling off his invasion whilst her teammates fought to close the portal. Khan's other concubines grew jealous of Storm's advances and attempted to kill her.
Despite her injuries, Storm prevailed and escaped, rejoining her team mates as they destroyed the portal. During her subsequent recuperation, which required her to undertake physical therapy to heal her back and legs, Storm and her team were asked back to the mansion to rejoin the core X-Men team.
Storm declined, however, believing that there was still work for her team to do. During a world summit to address the increasing hostilities between humans and mutants, Storm offered her X-Men team's services to the United Nations as a global mutant police force, the X-Treme Sanctions Executive. Storm's first mission would be a solo one as she was charged with infiltrating and exposing an underground slave-trading network that forced mutants to fight in gladiator-style arenas.
When the X-Men journeyed to Niganda to investigate reports of mutant animals, they ran into Black Panther. At the end of the mission, Storm stayed in Niganda to help the mutants affected there. Following the events of "M-Day," when the majority of the world's mutants lost their powers, Storm left the X-Men to return to Africa in order to safeguard depowered mutants. During this time she came into conflict with an African Colonel named Shetani, who was hunting down and killing depowered mutants in search of Storm.
When she finally confronted him, he revealed to her that he was her uncle. Afterward, Shetani told Storm of a hidden village in Northwest Kenya where she met her grandmother for the first time.
This finally prompted her to accept the Black Panther's marriage proposal. At the wedding of Storm and the Black Panther, Iron Man and Captain America showed up but leaving before the ceremony because neither of them could stand the sight of each other. A role he believed she was born to play. When they were married, their essences were taken to the spirit world to seek the approval of the Panther God. Storm soon found she couldn't use her power in this plane. The Panther God accepted her into T'Challa's family.
After a two week honeymoon, Storm entered into the world of international diplomacy at her husband's side. The initial stages of their "world tour" brought the royal couple to Latveria, Attilan and Atlantis , and the discussion always turned towards America, and the potential international consequences of their Superhuman Registration Act. However, the president's staff refused to even meet with the royal couple until Storm signed the Registration Act.
As a powered American citizen, they explained, Ororo might technically be considered in violation of the Act if she did not. Refusing to be pressured into this decision, Storm and the Black Panther left without getting their meeting. A trigger-happy Sentinel pilot initiated a skirmish with the couple outside the White House where pro- and anti-registration demonstrators had gathered, prompting T'Challa and Storm to declare something must be done about the Act.
Ororo and T'Challa remained in New York at the Wakandan Embassy , hoping to appeal to the United Nations and foreign powers to put international pressure on America to discontinue their current path. Meanwhile, Wakanda began covertly providing support to Captain America and his " Secret Avengers ," fighting as unregistered vigilantes in opposition to the Act. Ororo faced off against the cyborg clone of Thor created under the Registration Act. Although not a true god, the Thor clone's power was tremendous, and his lightning strikes destroyed the Wakandan Embassy as Storm fought to buy the staff time to evacuate.
The people were saved, but the building was a complete loss. When Captain America surrendered in the wake of the heroes' battle, Ororo and T'Challa were left to continue their protests against the Superhuman Registration Act alone.
Ororo, Warpath , and Hepzibah journeyed underground to stop Masque from disfiguring humans. After being rescued by Nightcrawler and Professor Xavier, they had Masque undo all of the damage. Ororo and her husband later returned home, where the Wakandans had realized that the Skrulls had infiltrated their population. When the first ground troops arrived and were shot down, a ground battle commenced.
T'Challa ordered Storm to "stick to the plan" and departed quickly, leaving her husband behind. The Skrulls were led to believe that they had captured Storm and her husband, when in fact that the Ororo and T'Challa they had were Skrulls. The true Storm and Black Panther killed the head of the army sent after them, K'vvvr , and sent the ship back to the Skrull homeworld, full of dead Skrulls and with a message written in blood: "This is what happens when you invade Wakanda".
After building a new headquarters, Graymalkin Industries , and a brief battle against Magneto and some Sentinel robots, Cyclops sent word to all the world's mutants that San Francisco, which had welcomed the X-Men with open-arms, was now a safe haven for mutantkind and that all were welcomed to join them.
Even as a member of the X-Men, the idea of being buried alive would remain her greatest fear, and it would stand as one of her very few weaknesses, causing her to be paralyzed in horror even in the heat of battle. Eventually, after working through it, the fear would become less intense, but she still definitely prefers being out in the open.
After fleeing from the site of her parents' deaths, and presumably being thought dead herself in the carnage that followed the crash, Ororo found herself homeless on the streets.
Fortunately — for certain definitions of "fortunate" — she was taken in by someone who not only gave her a home but taught her a skilled trade that would provide for her in the present and come in handy in her future career as a super-powered adventurer. Achmed was essentially Cairo's equivalent of Fagin from Oliver Twist , a thief who employed an army of pickpocketing urchins to gather up ill-gotten goods, primarily pilfered from Cairo's many tourists.
Storm, whose brilliant mind was already on display even at a young age, was a natural, and she took to the trade so quickly that she soon became one of Ahchmed's most skilled proteges.
Even once she'd left the life of petty crime that marked her youth behind, she'd continue to use those experiences. For example, her costume is often portrayed as having a hidden set of lockpicks, tools that are especially useful for someone with a particular distaste for being trapped. In the kind of coincidence that happens a lot for the X-Men, one of the tourists unlucky enough to have his pocket picked by Ororo was, of course, Charles Xavier.
Naturally, she didn't get away with this one — mind-readers are, after all, pretty difficult to trick — but despite the fact that he immediately recognized her as a mutant, Xavier didn't offer to take her in and train her to be part of his first class of X-Men. Instead, he was distracted by Cairo's reigning criminal kingpin, Amahl Farouk, who was serving as the human host for the sinister villain called the Shadow King, one of Marvel's scariest villains. Both Xavier and the Shadow King took notice of Ororo at this time, with the Shadow King marking her as a potential victim and tool for future evil and Xavier filing her away as a potential recruit.
After spending years as a thief on the streets of Cairo, Ororo decided to leave the city, feeling what's usually described in the comics as an irresistible urge to wander south in search of her mother's homeland.
The trip took her across the Sahara desert, and while she didn't initially find a new home, she did find someone else who was exploring the world for the first time. His name was T'Challa, and as you may already know, he would grow up to become the Black Panther.
Before he could take up the Black Panther identity and become a king, though, he had to go through a rite of passage, doing his own bit of wandering outside Wakanda as a teenager. While he was doing that, he stumbled across a young girl who was being kidnapped, and after he rescued her, she turned the tables, rescuing him by using her brand new mutant abilities to control the weather.
Over the next few weeks, Ororo and T'Challa would quickly fall in love and begin the kind of passionate romance that only two super-powered teenagers with zero parental supervision can have. Sadly, it didn't last. While their feelings for each other were still very strong, T'Challa's duty to Wakanda came first, and he eventually had to return to his homeland alone.
This wouldn't be the last time they encountered each other, though, and it definitely wouldn't be the end of their romance. After her brief adventures with the future Black Panther, Ororo would finally make it to her mother's home in Kenya, where she was taken in by a woman named Ainet. Ainet would develop a very close bond with the young mutant, and she would regard her as a daughter until she died.
Everyone else in their village, however, regarded Ororo as something very different — a literal goddess. It's not hard to imagine why. By this point, Ororo's powers had fully manifested, and even without any training, her innate control over the weather was a staggering sight to behold. Perhaps surprisingly, worshiping a teenager as a god actually worked out pretty well for everyone involved. Even though Ororo came to believe it herself, she used her powers benevolently, helping out not just the group that had taken her in but the entire surrounding area.
Eventually, of course, someone came along to tell her differently. Charles Xavier, having lost his original students after sending them on a mission to the living island of Krakoa — and having secretly lost a second team that he sent after them, which we wouldn't find out about until — was putting together a new group of mutants for a rescue mission.
Thanks to plenty of people talking about the living goddess who was controlling the weather, he didn't have any trouble tracking down the kid he'd met in Cairo all those years ago. He informed her that she wasn't, in fact, a goddess rude but a mutant, and that her powers could be better used by blowing up giant purple robots with lightning bolts. Shockingly, Ororo agreed, and she took the codename Storm as a member of the all-new X-Men.
While she initially had a little bit of difficulty fitting in with the other X-Men largely due to the fact that she kept walking around without any clothes on , Storm quickly acclimated to a life of superheroics as the most powerful member of the team.
In fact, after Cyclops left the X-Men after Jean Grey was executed on the moon for the crime of planetary genocide — you know, X-Men stuff — Storm was named the leader, without any argument from the rest of the team. Sadly, Storm's initial tenure as leader was marked largely by stories about various supervillains having a crush on her, notably including Doctor Doom and Dracula — yes, Dracula — and Ororo having to rebuke their unwanted affections. Doom, as you might expect, didn't respond well to this, and he tried to control Storm by trapping her in her own body via turning her into "living chrome," which triggered her claustrophobia to the point that she conjured up a hurricane that nearly wiped Latveria off the map.
Dracula didn't fare much better in the "romance" department, but he did succeed in briefly turning Storm into a vampire in an attempt to make her his latest bride. The curse was broken by Kitty Pryde, but it did lead to stories of another reality where Storm went full- Twilight on everyone, taking the admittedly over-the-top but still pretty awesome new name of "Bloodstorm. Curious, Ororo accepted Xavier's offer, and was given the codename "Storm".
Storm has always played a very prominent role in the world of the X-Men. In her early days after her first appearance she was a major character in the new team of X-Men following the relaunch of the mutant team in Then perhaps her definitive role was as leader of the X-Men after Professor X went into space with the Starjammers for a time.
She led the team through many huge challenges: the Mutant Massacre and Inferno to name but two, even through a long period when she had lost her powers. During that period her closest male relationship was with Forge, however that somehow never fully matured and ended with the two breaking up. Storm later married Black Panther and taken on a new leadership role in Wakanda. The marriage lasted a long time, but came crashing during Avengers vs. X-Men in which Storm reluctantly took the mutants' side and caused Namor to flood Wakanda.
In July , Storm gained her first ongoing self-titled comic, written by Greg Pak. In , with both Wolverine and Cyclops gone, she leads the whole team again in Extraordinary X-Men. With the rise of the new mutant nation of Krakoa in Jonathan Hickman's X-Men , Storm was selected for one of the twelve seats on the ruling Quiet Council in recognition of her long history of leadership and accomplishments.
She split her time between council business and aiding Kate Pryde's Marauders before being chosen was one of the swordbearers of Krakoa during X of Swords , an event that caused further damage to her relationship with Black Panther and Wakanda when she had to steal Skybreaker from Wakadna's vaults.
In the aftermath of the Arrako and its mutant population being brought to Earth, Storm helped take the lead in the terraforming of Mars into a mutant planet and the transfer of Arrako's population there.
Storm is one of the most popular and recognizable members of the X-Men as well as one of the most recognizable black superheroes, and one of Marvel's most popular female heroes. She has appeared in virtually every media adaptation featuring the X-Men since the 's, including the X-Men animated series, the Marvel vs.
Alexandra Shipp plays a younger version of Storm in Apocalypse and Dark Phoenix as well as a quick cameo in Deadpool 2. Storm additionally has an entire ride centered around her albeit a small-scale one at Universal's Islands of Adventure , called Storm Force Accelatron. Video Games. Community Showcase More. Follow TV Tropes. You need to login to do this.
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