Storm (Marvel Comics)

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Storm

Gender	Female
Publisher	Marvel Comics
Origin	New York City
First Appearance	Giant-Size X-Men #1 (1975)
Creator(s)	Len Wein and Dave Cockrum
Alter ego	Ororo Munroe
Aliases	Beautiful Windrider
Abilities	Total control over the weather forces. She can use her power to fly on the winds, shoot lightning from her hands, and control the weather over small specific as well as large regional areas. She has an “empathic connection” to the planet’s weather systems. She is also a master lockpick, thief, pickpocket, escape artist, hand-to-hand fighter.
Affiliations	X-Men, Professor Xavier’s School for Gifted Youngsters, Fantastic Four

Storm is a fictional comic book superhero, owned by Marvel Comics. Storm is a mutant with the power to control all meteorological forces. Though she is most famous for her association with the X-Men, she received a lot of notoriety lately for her marriage to T’Challa, who is the former Avenger the Black Panther and king of the fictional African nation of Wakanda.

Character Origin

Storm is born in New York City to N’dare, a princess of an African tribe living in Kenya, and photojournalist David Munroe. On her mother’s side, Ororo is descended from a long line of African witch-priestesses who all were born with white hair, blue eyes, and strange “magical” abilities.

When she is 6 months old, her parents move to Cairo, where her father is on assignment. Five years later, her parents are killed there in an Arab/Israeli conflict which destroys their Egyptian home and traps Ororo under a pile of rubble. While she eventually frees herself, she has had claustrophobia ever since.

Wandering the streets of Cairo, she is found by Egyptian master-thief Achmed el-Gibar, a Fagin-like character who trains street children to steal for him in return for food and shelter. There she is taught how to pick locks and pockets, and to escape from any trap.

When she is 12, she feels the need to go South, and she travels to her ancestral home on the Serengeti Plains, located in Kenya and Tanzania. She lives there in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. There she meets young T’Challa. The young prince of Wakanda was wandering the world, looking for the man that killed his father. His attraction to her was “instant, undeniable, and all-consuming”. Once they meet they are inseparable, and have many adventures together. For a time, T’Challa loses himself in his relationship with her, forgetting everything else. Eventually, he breaks her heart by leaving her for his responsibilities in Wakanda, and to continue to search for his father’s killer.

She comes into her mutant powers, and begins to use them to help the local African tribes. Ororo’s control of the weather is looked on in awe by the local tribes people, who begin to worship her as a goddess. It is there that Professor X (Dr. Charles Xavier), finds her and convinces her to use her abilities to contribute to the entire world as part of the X-Men. He gave her the code name Storm.

Storm, the X-Man

For years, Storm worked with the X-Men having many adventures and romances. Finally, T’Challa seeks her out and asks her to marry him. Ororo accepts, and becomes the Queen of Wakanda.

Currently, Ororo and T'Challa take the roles of surrogate parents and temporary members of the Fantastic Four, while Reed and Sue Richards are on leave of absence.

Halle Berry portrayed Storm in the recent X-Men live action movie trilogy. For more appearances of the character in other media, see the X-Men article.

Character Origin

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