Post by Storm on Apr 8, 2009 2:24:48 GMT -7
Name: Storm
Alter Ego/Birth Name: Ororo Munroe
Current Name/Title: Queen Ororo Munroe of Wakanda
Aliases: Windrider, The Weather Witch, Mistress of the Elements, 'Ro, O, High Priestess, Princess of N'Dare, Queen of Wakanda
Codename Etymology: Pronounced stôrm (From Old English st¨rm); Strong winds with rain or snow, often with lightning.
Species: Human Mutant (Homo Superior)
Eye Color: When she is not using her powers, they're blue, when she is using her powers, they're blind white (without pupils).
Hair: white
Weight: 127 lbs.
Height: 5'11
Relatives: David (father, deceased), N'dare (mother, deceased), Ainet (foster-mother), Harriet (paternal grandmother), Paternal Grandfather (unnamed), Paternal Aunt (unnamed, deceased), David (cousin), Maternal Grandmother (unnamed), Colonel Shetani (maternal uncle), Ashake (ancient ancestor)
Place Of Birth: New York City
Alternate-X Versions: (Age of Apocalypse), (Days of Future Past), Queen Ororo (Earth X), (Limbo), (Mangaverse), (Movieverse), Bloodstorm (Mutant X), (Ultimate), (Evolution), (TAS)
Notable Affiliations: X-Men X-Treme Sanctions Executive , (X-Treme) X-Men , Morlocks (Leader), Fantastic Four, Royal House of Wakanda, Secret Avenger, Hellfire Club, X-Treme Sanctions Executive, leader of the X-Men Gold Strike Force
Other Occupations: Adventurer, "Goddess" to an African tribe, master thief.
Notable Love Interests: Forge, Quicksilver, T'Challa
Hobbies: Gardening
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Wolverine.
Special skills: Extraordinary ability at picking locks, excellent marksman with handguns. She often carries lock picks.
Abilities/Powers: Weather manipulation - can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation (Rain, snow, sleet, hail or fog); able to generate winds in varying degrees of intensity, up to hurricane force; she can raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity; induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena; disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Flight - flight speed: Subsonic (when propelled by winds). Energy perception, Ecological empathy, Resistance to the effects of the weather and extreme heat and cold, Latent natural magic abilities.
Special limitations: Storm's psionic powers over the weather are affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control of her emotions, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Also, Storm suffers from severe claustrophobia.
Brief History: Storm is descended from an ancient line of African priestesses, all with the potential to wield magic. Her mother, the princess of a tribe in Kenya, married an American photojournalist and moved with him to Manhattan. When Ororo was 6 months old, she and her parents relocated to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing experience left Ororo with severe claustrophobia, which still afflicts her today. Homeless and orphaned, she came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. Ororo soon became his prize pupil.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to head south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert. Finally, she reached her ancestors' homeland: the Serengeti Plain, straddling the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time, her mutant ability to manipulate the weather had emerged; she used it to aid the local tribes, who worshipped her as a deity. Ororo played goddess for several years -- until the telepathic, telekinetic Professor Charles Xavier recruited her to help rescue his team of mutant adventurers, the original X-Men, from the island-being known as Krakoa.
Hated and feared for her strange and frightening powers -- not worshipped, as she had been in Africa -- Ororo joined Professor X and his charges in defense of a world on the brink of genetic war. Except for brief periods away from the team, she has remained an X-Man ever since -- even enduring the temporary loss of her mutant abilities to lead the Children of the Atom into battle.
For a time, Storm's loyalties were divided between the X-Men and the Morlocks. Ororo became leader of the underground community of mutants when she fought Callisto, who had gathered together the social outcasts in the sewers beneath New York City, and defeated her in single combat. But during one of Storm's frequent absences from the Morlocks tunnels, the majority of the population was slaughtered by the Marauders -- a team of superhuman assassins employed by the mysterious Mr. Sinister, an obsessed geneticist working to create the world's most powerful mutant. The X-Men were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape the Marauders on their own. Still, news of the massacre sent Storm reeling; she blamed herself for not being there during the Morlocks' time of need.
Storm left the X-Mansion once again to lead a team of mutants in search of the diaries of the blind mutant seer known as Destiny, which map out human history.
Bio: If it has an atmosphere, Storm can control it. Once worshipped as a goddess in Africa, Ororo can generate or disperse all forms of weather, including, wind, rain, typhoons, flash-floods, lightning, hurricanes, snow, sleet, hail, you get the idea. Her body automatically adjusts itself to the surrounding temperature and she can use herself as a lightning rod to channel lightning through her body. Her greatest weakness is an intense claustrophobia, which she developed as a child, while she was buried in her collapsed home following the air raid that killed her parents. She is also an excellent thief and lockpicker, talents learned during her childhood as an orphan thief in Cairo under the tutelage of Achmed El-Gibar. Ororo was his favorite, but after a while she left Cairo and ended up working with other theives led by a man they simply called "Teacher." During this period Ororo was chased by white hunters who had heard of her burgeoning powers, and she was rescued by T'Challa, the prince of Wakanda who would one day become the Black Panther. Though the two teens shared a whirlwind romance, they parted ways and did not see each other for years.
Ororo then traveled the desert until she came to a tribe in Kenya suffering from drought. She used her powers to help them, and they revered her as a goddess, a role she played until Charles Xavier came to invite her to join his new X-Men. After Cyclops left the team, Storm took over as field leader. A few months later, Storm was shot with a Neutralizer, a weapon invented by the techno-genius known as Forge that erased her mutant ability. In truth, the powers were still there, but Ororo couldn't access them. In times of intense stress, however, the weather would respond to her emotions, although she never realized it. Still, she led the X-Men, and even defeated Cyclops in a Danger Room combat session when he tried to take control of the team.
Storm regained her powers when the Adversary sent her and Forge to an alternate dimension, so they wouldn't interfere with his plan to destroy the world. In the seclusion of an empty world, Forge was able to build an anti-Neutralizer. Storm and Forge were lovers almost from the moment they met, despite his invention of the Neutralizer, and Forge eventually proposed to Ororo. However, he retracted his offer when he realized that Ororo could never be a complete person outside of the X-Men, at least not at that point in time. Storm has undergone two major physiological changes: first, she was abducted by Nanny II and regressed to childhood, with little control over her powers. Later, when she and some of the New Mutants were captured by the Genoshans, Storm was turned into a mutate slave designated #20. However, the Genegineer who transformed her programmed a failsafe that restored her mind and regrew her to adulthood when she touched Cyclops. She was also able to restore all the other X-Men's powers, which had been nullified by Wipeout. That ability was a one-shot deal; she does not possess it any more. Storm then returned to the X-Men and led one of the strike teams for a long time. 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. Along the way she seemed to be flirting with both Wolverine and Nightcrawler, but went out more with Logan, though it seemed to be platonic.
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."
In the House of M reality warp, Ororo was Queen of the Kingdom of Kenya, and in charge of a large part of Africa. She was wooed by Quicksilver, whose father Magneto wanted to solidify Ororo's support for his leadership. However, Ororo remained independent, as she was secretly working with other monarchs to mitigate Magneto's influence and protect his main rival, T'Challa of Wakanda. T'Challa also tried to woo Storm, but she rejected him as well. Ororo traveled often to New York, where she searched for a gown by Janet Van Dyne for Magneto's birthday, and appeared on the talk show Alison, decrying Magneto's prejudicial policies. During the birthday bash, heroes who had been woken to the true reality by Layla Miller converged on Genosha, and Storm was brought out of the reality warp.
Following M-Day, Storm remained in Africa, trying to protect as many humans and ex-mutants as possible. Soon she was joined by Wolverine, who helped her follow up on the murders of some of the remaining mutants. Then, surprisingly, T'Challa found Storm in a village she had just liberated from slavers, and asked her to marry him! Storm went to think about it, and called in the X-Men to help depose Colonel Shetani, the warlord who had been killing the ex-mutants. She discovered that he was her uncle, her mother's brother who had rejected his tribal life. Once he was deposed, she was able to locate her mother's village and meet her grandmother, reconnecting her with her ancestry. She then met with T'Challa's mother, and the two seemed to hit it off. Ororo finally said "yes" to T'Challa and they began to plan the wedding, inviting heads of state and famous Africans around the world. T'Challa even tracked down Ororo's American grandparents, the Munroes and their grandson, and he and Storm visited them to deliver a personal invitation.
After a very interesting honeymoon with stops in Attilan, Atlantis and Latveria, Storm and T'Challa became embroiled in the conflict around the SHRA when they traveled to New York. They claimed diplomatic immunity but eventually sided with the anti-Reg forces led by Captain America. After Cap's surrender, though, most of the heroes were granted amnesty and reconciled. Storm and T'Challa were asked by Reed and Sue Richards to fill in for them on the Fantastic Four while the Richardses worked on theire marriage. They moved into the Baxter Building and worked with Thing and the Human Torch II. Storm was then alerted to problems with the Morlocks so she joined the X-Men as they investigated.
Wikipedia Storm: (Comics version)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_%28Marvel_Comics%29
Alter Ego/Birth Name: Ororo Munroe
Current Name/Title: Queen Ororo Munroe of Wakanda
Aliases: Windrider, The Weather Witch, Mistress of the Elements, 'Ro, O, High Priestess, Princess of N'Dare, Queen of Wakanda
Codename Etymology: Pronounced stôrm (From Old English st¨rm); Strong winds with rain or snow, often with lightning.
Species: Human Mutant (Homo Superior)
Eye Color: When she is not using her powers, they're blue, when she is using her powers, they're blind white (without pupils).
Hair: white
Weight: 127 lbs.
Height: 5'11
Relatives: David (father, deceased), N'dare (mother, deceased), Ainet (foster-mother), Harriet (paternal grandmother), Paternal Grandfather (unnamed), Paternal Aunt (unnamed, deceased), David (cousin), Maternal Grandmother (unnamed), Colonel Shetani (maternal uncle), Ashake (ancient ancestor)
Place Of Birth: New York City
Alternate-X Versions: (Age of Apocalypse), (Days of Future Past), Queen Ororo (Earth X), (Limbo), (Mangaverse), (Movieverse), Bloodstorm (Mutant X), (Ultimate), (Evolution), (TAS)
Notable Affiliations: X-Men X-Treme Sanctions Executive , (X-Treme) X-Men , Morlocks (Leader), Fantastic Four, Royal House of Wakanda, Secret Avenger, Hellfire Club, X-Treme Sanctions Executive, leader of the X-Men Gold Strike Force
Other Occupations: Adventurer, "Goddess" to an African tribe, master thief.
Notable Love Interests: Forge, Quicksilver, T'Challa
Hobbies: Gardening
Fighting skills: Excellent hand-to-hand combatant, trained by Wolverine.
Special skills: Extraordinary ability at picking locks, excellent marksman with handguns. She often carries lock picks.
Abilities/Powers: Weather manipulation - can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation (Rain, snow, sleet, hail or fog); able to generate winds in varying degrees of intensity, up to hurricane force; she can raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity; induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena; disperse natural storms so as to create clear change. Flight - flight speed: Subsonic (when propelled by winds). Energy perception, Ecological empathy, Resistance to the effects of the weather and extreme heat and cold, Latent natural magic abilities.
Special limitations: Storm's psionic powers over the weather are affected by her emotions; hence, if she does not maintain control of her emotions, a fit of rage might induce a destructive storm. Also, Storm suffers from severe claustrophobia.
Brief History: Storm is descended from an ancient line of African priestesses, all with the potential to wield magic. Her mother, the princess of a tribe in Kenya, married an American photojournalist and moved with him to Manhattan. When Ororo was 6 months old, she and her parents relocated to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing experience left Ororo with severe claustrophobia, which still afflicts her today. Homeless and orphaned, she came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. Ororo soon became his prize pupil.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to head south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert. Finally, she reached her ancestors' homeland: the Serengeti Plain, straddling the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time, her mutant ability to manipulate the weather had emerged; she used it to aid the local tribes, who worshipped her as a deity. Ororo played goddess for several years -- until the telepathic, telekinetic Professor Charles Xavier recruited her to help rescue his team of mutant adventurers, the original X-Men, from the island-being known as Krakoa.
Hated and feared for her strange and frightening powers -- not worshipped, as she had been in Africa -- Ororo joined Professor X and his charges in defense of a world on the brink of genetic war. Except for brief periods away from the team, she has remained an X-Man ever since -- even enduring the temporary loss of her mutant abilities to lead the Children of the Atom into battle.
For a time, Storm's loyalties were divided between the X-Men and the Morlocks. Ororo became leader of the underground community of mutants when she fought Callisto, who had gathered together the social outcasts in the sewers beneath New York City, and defeated her in single combat. But during one of Storm's frequent absences from the Morlocks tunnels, the majority of the population was slaughtered by the Marauders -- a team of superhuman assassins employed by the mysterious Mr. Sinister, an obsessed geneticist working to create the world's most powerful mutant. The X-Men were able to help some of the Morlocks to safety, and a considerable number managed to escape the Marauders on their own. Still, news of the massacre sent Storm reeling; she blamed herself for not being there during the Morlocks' time of need.
Storm left the X-Mansion once again to lead a team of mutants in search of the diaries of the blind mutant seer known as Destiny, which map out human history.
Bio: If it has an atmosphere, Storm can control it. Once worshipped as a goddess in Africa, Ororo can generate or disperse all forms of weather, including, wind, rain, typhoons, flash-floods, lightning, hurricanes, snow, sleet, hail, you get the idea. Her body automatically adjusts itself to the surrounding temperature and she can use herself as a lightning rod to channel lightning through her body. Her greatest weakness is an intense claustrophobia, which she developed as a child, while she was buried in her collapsed home following the air raid that killed her parents. She is also an excellent thief and lockpicker, talents learned during her childhood as an orphan thief in Cairo under the tutelage of Achmed El-Gibar. Ororo was his favorite, but after a while she left Cairo and ended up working with other theives led by a man they simply called "Teacher." During this period Ororo was chased by white hunters who had heard of her burgeoning powers, and she was rescued by T'Challa, the prince of Wakanda who would one day become the Black Panther. Though the two teens shared a whirlwind romance, they parted ways and did not see each other for years.
Ororo then traveled the desert until she came to a tribe in Kenya suffering from drought. She used her powers to help them, and they revered her as a goddess, a role she played until Charles Xavier came to invite her to join his new X-Men. After Cyclops left the team, Storm took over as field leader. A few months later, Storm was shot with a Neutralizer, a weapon invented by the techno-genius known as Forge that erased her mutant ability. In truth, the powers were still there, but Ororo couldn't access them. In times of intense stress, however, the weather would respond to her emotions, although she never realized it. Still, she led the X-Men, and even defeated Cyclops in a Danger Room combat session when he tried to take control of the team.
Storm regained her powers when the Adversary sent her and Forge to an alternate dimension, so they wouldn't interfere with his plan to destroy the world. In the seclusion of an empty world, Forge was able to build an anti-Neutralizer. Storm and Forge were lovers almost from the moment they met, despite his invention of the Neutralizer, and Forge eventually proposed to Ororo. However, he retracted his offer when he realized that Ororo could never be a complete person outside of the X-Men, at least not at that point in time. Storm has undergone two major physiological changes: first, she was abducted by Nanny II and regressed to childhood, with little control over her powers. Later, when she and some of the New Mutants were captured by the Genoshans, Storm was turned into a mutate slave designated #20. However, the Genegineer who transformed her programmed a failsafe that restored her mind and regrew her to adulthood when she touched Cyclops. She was also able to restore all the other X-Men's powers, which had been nullified by Wipeout. That ability was a one-shot deal; she does not possess it any more. Storm then returned to the X-Men and led one of the strike teams for a long time. 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. Along the way she seemed to be flirting with both Wolverine and Nightcrawler, but went out more with Logan, though it seemed to be platonic.
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."
In the House of M reality warp, Ororo was Queen of the Kingdom of Kenya, and in charge of a large part of Africa. She was wooed by Quicksilver, whose father Magneto wanted to solidify Ororo's support for his leadership. However, Ororo remained independent, as she was secretly working with other monarchs to mitigate Magneto's influence and protect his main rival, T'Challa of Wakanda. T'Challa also tried to woo Storm, but she rejected him as well. Ororo traveled often to New York, where she searched for a gown by Janet Van Dyne for Magneto's birthday, and appeared on the talk show Alison, decrying Magneto's prejudicial policies. During the birthday bash, heroes who had been woken to the true reality by Layla Miller converged on Genosha, and Storm was brought out of the reality warp.
Following M-Day, Storm remained in Africa, trying to protect as many humans and ex-mutants as possible. Soon she was joined by Wolverine, who helped her follow up on the murders of some of the remaining mutants. Then, surprisingly, T'Challa found Storm in a village she had just liberated from slavers, and asked her to marry him! Storm went to think about it, and called in the X-Men to help depose Colonel Shetani, the warlord who had been killing the ex-mutants. She discovered that he was her uncle, her mother's brother who had rejected his tribal life. Once he was deposed, she was able to locate her mother's village and meet her grandmother, reconnecting her with her ancestry. She then met with T'Challa's mother, and the two seemed to hit it off. Ororo finally said "yes" to T'Challa and they began to plan the wedding, inviting heads of state and famous Africans around the world. T'Challa even tracked down Ororo's American grandparents, the Munroes and their grandson, and he and Storm visited them to deliver a personal invitation.
After a very interesting honeymoon with stops in Attilan, Atlantis and Latveria, Storm and T'Challa became embroiled in the conflict around the SHRA when they traveled to New York. They claimed diplomatic immunity but eventually sided with the anti-Reg forces led by Captain America. After Cap's surrender, though, most of the heroes were granted amnesty and reconciled. Storm and T'Challa were asked by Reed and Sue Richards to fill in for them on the Fantastic Four while the Richardses worked on theire marriage. They moved into the Baxter Building and worked with Thing and the Human Torch II. Storm was then alerted to problems with the Morlocks so she joined the X-Men as they investigated.
Wikipedia Storm: (Comics version)
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm_%28Marvel_Comics%29
