Storm (Marvel)

Ororo Munroe, better known as Storm, is a major protagonist in Marvel Comics, being one of main characters and core members of the X-Men. A trusted ally of Professor Xavier, she is one of the older students and her experience and powerful, weather-based powers comes in handy when dealing with dangerous villains.
Since her debut in the comics, she has appeared in numerous media. In the X-Men animated series, she was voiced by Iona Morris, and then Alison Sealy-Smith, as Kirsten Williamson voiced her in X-Men: Evolution. In the X-Men films, she was portrayed by Halle Berry (who also played Jinx) and Catwoman), and Alexandra Shipp younger.
She was created by the late Len Wein, and the late Dave Cockrum, and first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 in April of 1975.
==Overview==
===Background===
Ororo Munroe was orphaned when her diplomatic parents were killed and was subsequently raised as a thief on the streets of Cairo. Young Ororo was used as a pawn by the crime lord Amahl Farouk, a powerful and domineering man living in Egypt. Ororo would get the attention of a tourist named Charles Xavier by picking his pocket. Xavier followed Ororo back to Amahl Farouk 's parlor where he was immediately able to pick Farouk out as a psychic like him.
The two engaged in telepathic conversation which quickly turned to a psychic duel when Farouk revealed his true name "The Shadow King" and his plans to enslave others as he had done to Ororo. Xavier won the duel and locked Shadow King on the Astral Plane where he would remain psychically captive for years. Amahl Farouk's vacant body slumped over in it's chair and Charles left to speak with Ororo.
Charles told Ororo she had been psychically compelled to do Farouk's bidding but was free. Xavier had been on a quest to find himself touring the world but after meeting Shadow King, seeing how he had abused his powers and seeing young Ororo left confused and destitute as a result, Xavier decided the best thing for him to do was to make sure mutants had a safe nurturing environment to grow-up in, starting with Ororo.
Xavier returned to the US and put his money together to create a school called the Xavier Institute for the Gifted and invited Ororo Monroe to join. Ororo still had little idea of what had gone on as she had spent her youth being routinely controlled, but sensing Xavier's intent was genuine she accepted the invitation and became one of his earliest students.
After her mutant powers manifested, she decided to take a sabbatical from the Xavier Institute and to re-visit Africa and her home country of Kenya. While in Kenya Ororo set herself up as a benevolent force in Africa and was even worshiped by locals as a goddess. After years of insensitive aid to Kenyan natives, Ororo was re-visited by Xavier to be formally recruited as a member of his second X-Men team. 
Since that time Ororo has taken on the code name "Storm" and has evolved into one of the X-Men's most deployed, respected, and powerful members. She is currently married to Black Panther and thus serves as Queen of Wakanda, but their marriage would later be annulled.
==Biography==
===Early Life===
Ororo Monroe was born in Manhattan, New York to the photojournalist David Monroe and Kenyan princess N'Daré, whom came from a line of priestess. Unbeknownst to Ororo or her parents, she was born with the mutant gene, which granted her the ability to control and manipulate the weather. When she was six months old, her family moved to Cairo, Egypt, where David and N'Daré were killed by a plane that crashed into their home. Ororo survived the incident, but developed claustrophobia due to being buried under rubble and being near her mother's corpse. Needing to survive, Monroe became a thief under the tutelage of Achmed El Gibár, whom comsindered the child his prized pupil.
At some point in her youth, Ororo encountered the mutant Charles Xavier when attempting to pock pocket him, but failed since he used his telepathic powers to stop it. She was able to escape when Xavier's enemy Amahl Farouk attacked him, and Charles decided not to bring her in despite discovering she was a mutant herself. Once she reached the age of twelve, Ororo left Cairo after feeling the urge to head south, and met the Wakandan prince T'Challa. The two developed romantic feelings for each other, but T'Challa couldn't stay with Ororo due to his duties to his home. Around this time, Monroe's mutant powers developed, able to control the weather when wandering across the Sahara desert.
Reaching the the Kilimanjaro Valley, Ororo was taken in by the tribal leader Ainet, who taught her how to use her powers. Due to her mutant abilities, she was considered a goddess by the tribe, and was worshipped by several people within the area.
===The X-Men===
When fighting a mutant known as Deluge, Monroe was assisted by the X-Men, a team formed by Xavier (now known as "Professor X") to protect the world from dangerous foes. After defeating Deluge, Ororo returned to the village, but was later recruited by Xavier to join the X-Men when his students were captured by Krakoa. Meeting the professor, she learned from Charles that she was a mutant instead of a goddess, and she had the responsibility to help others like she did with her tribe. Ororo accepted Xavier's offer, and was given the name "Storm". During her early tenure, Storm became friends with her fellow teammate Jean Grey, and remained on the team when the original members left.
Living in the different world than back in her village, Storm had to cope with the different customs and with her claustrophobia, which nearly cost her when fighting against the Juggernaut. She served the team for many years, and later became their leader when Cyclops left following Jean's supposed demise. While initially unsure that she could lead, Storm found support from her team, and became friends with Kitty Pryde, whom she gave the code name "Sprite". When Cyclops returned, Storm started to doubt herself once more, but regained her confidence and reminded Summers that she was the X-Men's leader.
After defeating Dracula, Storm and the X-Men learned that Angel was kidnapped by the Morlocks, mutants who lived underground and deposed of mankind. Traveling to their community, Storm challenged their leader Callisto to a duel, and upon defeating her opponent, was given the position as the Morlocks' new leader.
==Powers and Abilities==
Storm is an powerful Mutant, She is able to control the weather and atmosphere and is considered to be one of the most powerful mutants on the planet. Infact Storm's inherent raw power and potential has been stated to be nigh-infinite,  or even Incalculable. One of the primary sources of her powers on Earth is the electromagnetic field.
Storm can control the weather itself for a number of effects and can also fly Power to manipulate and control the weather through psionic connection to air currents, water vapor, and natural electrical energy on both large and small scales. Also able to sustain flight at high speeds and resist greater levels of heat and cold without any ill-effects due to her natural mutant ability that lowers body heat in warmer temperatures, and increases body heat in colder temperatures.
Ororo is a mutant. One of the primary sources of her powers is the Earth's electromagnetic field.
Storm has been considered as a potential Omega Level Mutant, Omega-Level potential or even an Omega Mutant.
Atmokinesis: Storm has demonstrated a plethora of abilities, most of which are facets of her power to Weather Manipulation. Storm possesses the psionic ability to control all forms of Weather Manipulation. She has been able to control both Earthly and extraterrestrial ecosystems on several occasions. She can modify the temperature of the environment, control all forms of precipitation, humidity and moisture (at a molecular level), generate lightning and other electromagnetic atmospheric phenomena, and has demonstrated excellent control over atmospheric pressure. She can incite all forms of meteorological tempests, such as tornadoes, thunderstorms, blizzards, and hurricanes as well as mist. She can dissipate such weather to form clear skies as well.
Her precise control over the atmosphere allows her to create special weather effects. She can create precipitation at higher or lower altitudes than normal, make whirlwinds travel pointing lengthwise in any direction, channel ambient electromagnetism through her body to generate electric blasts, flash freeze objects and people, coalesce atmospheric pollutants into acid rain or toxic fog, and, along with her natural ability of flight, summon wind currents strong enough to support her weight to elevate herself (or others) to fly at high altitudes and speeds. Her control is so great that she can even manipulate the air in a person's lungs. She can also control the pressure inside the human inner ear, an ability she uses to cause intense pain. She can also bend light using moisture in the air and her manipulation of mist and fog to appear partially transparent, and in some cases, nearly invisible.
Storm has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include cosmic storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and electromagnetic energy. She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater. While in outer space, she is able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic mediums. Such as when she bent primal cosmic forces to create lightning whilst still healing in the acanti, or when she gathered hydrogen atoms around the silver surfer whilst in space to create an atmosphere around him[citation needed] Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will. she can perceive the stars, planets and even empty space as patterns of force and energy all of which she can control. She once summoned the full power of an entire galactic core which consisted of millions of suns and planets to purge the brood infection within her. what makes this even more staggering was that the entire process of doing this was described to be simple for her.
Storm has also demonstrated the ability to control natural forces that include storms, solar wind, ocean currents, and the electromagnetic energy. She has demonstrated the ability to separate water molecules into oxygen and hydrogen via electrolysis, allowing her to breathe underwater While in outer space, she is able to affect and manipulate the interstellar and intergalactic mediums. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe in terms of energy patterns, detecting the flow of kinetic, thermal and electromagnetic energy behind weather phenomena and can bend this energy to her will.
Storm has been shown to be sensitive to the dynamics of the natural world, and her psionic powers over weather are affected by her emotions. One consequence of this connection to nature is that she often suppresses extreme feelings to prevent her emotional state from resulting in violent weather. She has once sensed a diseased and dying tree on the X-Mansion grounds, detected objects within various atmospheric mediums—including water, and sensed the incorrect motion of a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere and the gravitational stress on the tides by the Moon and Sun well as the distortion of a planet's magnetosphere Storm can view the Earth as weather patterns, and is able to precisely recognize her geographic position through interpretations of these patterns Storm's mutant abilities are limited by her willpower and the strength of her body.
==Love-Interests==
*Black Panther
*Wolverine
*Forge
==Portrayals==
===Films===
*In the X-Men films, she was portrayed by Halle Berry (who also played Jinx in Die Another Day, Catwoman in the titular film, Jordan Turner in The Call, Sofia Al-Azwar in John Wick: Chapter 3 - Parabellum, and voiced Cappy in Robots), and Alexandra Shipp.
===Television===
*In Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends, she was voiced by Kathy Garver.
*In X-Men: Pryde of the X-Men, she was voiced by Andi Chapman.
*In the X-Men animated series, she was voiced by Iona Morris and Alison Sealy-Smith.
**Both voice actresses reprised their voice for the character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
*In X-Men: Evolution, she was voiced by Kirsten Williamson.
*In Wolverine and the X-Men, she was voiced by Susan Dailan, who also voiced Haku in Naruto.
**Dailan reprised her voice for the character in Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds and Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.
*In The Super Hero Squad Show, she was voiced by Cree Summer, who also voiced and Susie Carmichael in Rugrats and Abigail Lincoln in Codename Kids Next Door.
*In Black Panther, she was voiced by Jill Scott.
*In Marvel Anime, she was voiced by Aya Hisakawa (who also voiced Yuki Sohma in Fruits Basket and Retsu Unohana in Bleach) and Danielle Nicolet (who also voiced Jacqui Briggs and Sareena in Mortal Kombat X) in the English dub.
**Nicolet reprised her voice for the character in Marvel Avengers: Battle for Earth, Marvel Heroes, and Lego Marvel Super Heroes.
*In Wolverine versus Sabretooth, she was voiced by Kathleen Barr, who also voiced Trixie Lulamoon in My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Jill Valentine in Under the Skin, Spirit of Christmas Present in Barbie: in a Christmas Carol, Lila Test in Johnny Test, and Kevin in Ed, Edd n Eddy.
*In Marvel Powers United VR, she was voiced by Kimberly Brooks, who also voiced Oracle in Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, Buena Girl in ¡Mucha Lucha!, Tally the Cheetah in The Wild Thornberrys Movie, and young Bruce Wayne in Batman: Arkham Asylum.
**Brooks reprised her voice for the character in Marvel Future Revolution.
*In Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3: The Black Order, she was voiced by Mara Junot.
===Video Games===
*In X-Men: Children of the Atom, she was voiced by Catherine Disher, who also voiced Jill Valentine in Resident Evil 3: Nemesis.
**Disher reprised her voice for the character in X-Men vs. Street Fighter.
*In X-Men Legends, she was voiced by Cheryl Carter.
*In X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse, she was voiced by Dawnn Lewis, who also voiced Sheela in Mortal Kombat: Defenders of the Realm.
**Lewis reprised her voice for the character in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2.
*In Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects, she was voiced by Estelle Liebenberg.
*In Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, she was voiced by Tangie Ambrose.
*In X-Men: The Official Game, she was voiced by Debra Wilson, who also voiced Kit in Ratchet & Clank, Sister Buzzard in The Adventures of Br'er Rabbit, and Cere Junda in Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order.
*In Marvel Super Hero Squad Online, she was voiced by Grey DeLisle, who voices Daphne Blake in the Scooby-Doo franchise, and also voiced Mandy in The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, Frankie Foster in Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends, Catwoman in Arkhamverse and Injustice series
==Trivia==
*Her name Ororo means "Beauty".
*She is best friends with Jean Grey.
*Storm has been stated to be a possible Omega Level Mutant.
*One of her weaknesses is claustrophobia after being trapped under rubble as her mother layed dying in Cairo, and suffers from flashbacks when enclosed.
*IGN ranked her as the 8th of the best X-Men.
*Wizard magazine ranked her the 89th greatest comic book character of all time.
*In the Comics Buyer's Guide, she was ranked ranked 30th of the 100 Sexiest Woman in Comics List.
*In the 1990s cartoon, Storm tends to give hammy exposition when using her powers.
* She fought Korra in a season 8 episode of DEATH BATTLE and won.
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