just because she can control the weather
doesn’t mean she’s got a sunny
disposition welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we will explore the comic book
origins of Ororo Munroe otherwise known
as storm I’d like you to meet Aurora
Munro also called storm storm what do
they call you
wheels as with most comic book
characters there are often reimagining
and different versions to a character’s
past we’ve chosen to primarily follow
the storyline which unfolded in 1975’s
giant-size x-men number one which was
then expanded upon in 1976 is uncanny
x-men number 102 this x-men member with
the power to manipulate the elements was
first introduced when Professor Xavier
went on a recruiting spree to build an
all-new team in the mid 70s as a result
this superhero was introduced to the
x-men comics as part of a new character
lineup to prevent the team from having
an all-male cast at the same time the
white-haired but youthful mutant was
shown to be a priestess wielding
so-called magical powers in Kenya
referred to as Aurora great goddess of
the storm the locals would journey to
visit her and beg her to help them
control the weather
hearing their plight she would ease the
local droughts so they could grow their
crops when using her powers storms eyes
went from crystal blue to pure white
once auroral finished demonstrating her
power having flown up with the winds
summoning lightning and a massive
downpour she returned to the ground to
find Charles Xavier waiting for her he
had arrived to both witness her powers
and asked for her help it was at this
point that Xavier admitted that though
she had clearly everything including
local admirers
she was needed to protect mankind he
admitted that it would be difficult but
she could make a real difference in the
world
sensing his sincerity she reluctantly
joined his cause taking on the alternate
name of storm the following year storms
backstory was finally fully established
during an encounter between the x-men
team and the juggernaut during that
grueling ambush storm was gripped with
fear and panic relapsing into
long-forgotten traumatic memories while
her friends did battle it was shown that
she was one of a long line of African
witch priestesses while her father was a
photojournalist this flashback to her
infancy also revealed that as a
six-month-old child her parents moved
from Harlem to Egypt in the summer of
1951 it was a short time later that her
parents died during the Suez war
otherwise known as the second
arab-israeli war when a downed jet
crashed into their family home storm
managed to survive the incident but was
left alone in the wreckage alongside the
bodies of her dead parents following
this she grew up on the streets
surviving thanks to befriending a street
thief that showed her his ways by the
time she was 12 she had traveled from
Egypt to the Sahara making the 2,000
mile journey by foot stumbling upon a
lush tropical paradise she made it her
home living a solitary life under the
guise of a goddess thanks to her powers
while attempting to forget her
troublesome past meanwhile back in the
present
Xavier sensed that she and the other
x-men had been ambushed by the
juggernaut with the x-men team all but
defeated she was being used as part of a
trap intended to catch and kill Charles
Xavier however when he arrived and used
his mind powers to battle the evil
mutants a blaster fire blew
in the castle wall allowing storm to see
the sky and summon her power to save the
day in the years that followed storm
grew to become a much more self-assured
and courageous member of the team
she’s also gone through various visual
reimagining x’ including a rather
controversial punk revival not just a
mainstay of the x-men comic books storm
has become a staple of almost everything
x-men related from the various cartoon
series to the video games storm was
finally given the big-screen treatment
when Halle Berry was cast as the iconic
character in the live-action x-men movie
series
are you a fan of this stormy tempered
mutant superhero for more informative
comic book origins be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com you know what happens
to a toad when it’s struck by lightning
same thing it happens to everything else
you
doesn’t mean she’s got a sunny
disposition welcome to watchmojo.com and
today we will explore the comic book
origins of Ororo Munroe otherwise known
as storm I’d like you to meet Aurora
Munro also called storm storm what do
they call you
wheels as with most comic book
characters there are often reimagining
and different versions to a character’s
past we’ve chosen to primarily follow
the storyline which unfolded in 1975’s
giant-size x-men number one which was
then expanded upon in 1976 is uncanny
x-men number 102 this x-men member with
the power to manipulate the elements was
first introduced when Professor Xavier
went on a recruiting spree to build an
all-new team in the mid 70s as a result
this superhero was introduced to the
x-men comics as part of a new character
lineup to prevent the team from having
an all-male cast at the same time the
white-haired but youthful mutant was
shown to be a priestess wielding
so-called magical powers in Kenya
referred to as Aurora great goddess of
the storm the locals would journey to
visit her and beg her to help them
control the weather
hearing their plight she would ease the
local droughts so they could grow their
crops when using her powers storms eyes
went from crystal blue to pure white
once auroral finished demonstrating her
power having flown up with the winds
summoning lightning and a massive
downpour she returned to the ground to
find Charles Xavier waiting for her he
had arrived to both witness her powers
and asked for her help it was at this
point that Xavier admitted that though
she had clearly everything including
local admirers
she was needed to protect mankind he
admitted that it would be difficult but
she could make a real difference in the
world
sensing his sincerity she reluctantly
joined his cause taking on the alternate
name of storm the following year storms
backstory was finally fully established
during an encounter between the x-men
team and the juggernaut during that
grueling ambush storm was gripped with
fear and panic relapsing into
long-forgotten traumatic memories while
her friends did battle it was shown that
she was one of a long line of African
witch priestesses while her father was a
photojournalist this flashback to her
infancy also revealed that as a
six-month-old child her parents moved
from Harlem to Egypt in the summer of
1951 it was a short time later that her
parents died during the Suez war
otherwise known as the second
arab-israeli war when a downed jet
crashed into their family home storm
managed to survive the incident but was
left alone in the wreckage alongside the
bodies of her dead parents following
this she grew up on the streets
surviving thanks to befriending a street
thief that showed her his ways by the
time she was 12 she had traveled from
Egypt to the Sahara making the 2,000
mile journey by foot stumbling upon a
lush tropical paradise she made it her
home living a solitary life under the
guise of a goddess thanks to her powers
while attempting to forget her
troublesome past meanwhile back in the
present
Xavier sensed that she and the other
x-men had been ambushed by the
juggernaut with the x-men team all but
defeated she was being used as part of a
trap intended to catch and kill Charles
Xavier however when he arrived and used
his mind powers to battle the evil
mutants a blaster fire blew
in the castle wall allowing storm to see
the sky and summon her power to save the
day in the years that followed storm
grew to become a much more self-assured
and courageous member of the team
she’s also gone through various visual
reimagining x’ including a rather
controversial punk revival not just a
mainstay of the x-men comic books storm
has become a staple of almost everything
x-men related from the various cartoon
series to the video games storm was
finally given the big-screen treatment
when Halle Berry was cast as the iconic
character in the live-action x-men movie
series
are you a fan of this stormy tempered
mutant superhero for more informative
comic book origins be sure to subscribe
to watchmojo.com you know what happens
to a toad when it’s struck by lightning
same thing it happens to everything else
you
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