Storm. Art by Alan Davis. Storm (Ororo Munroe) is a Marvel Comics superhero and a prominent member of the X-Men. She first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975).
Storm has the mutant power to control the weather, including lightning, wind, rain and snow, and using the wind to fly.
History
Storm, as dressed in her first few appearances. Art by Dave Cockrum. Ororo's mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya and the descendant of a long line of Africans with white-hair and blue eyes. N'Dare fell in love with and married American photojournalist David Munroe. Ororo was born in Manhattan in the United States, and when Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt.
Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home and killed Ororo's parents; although the original version of this story stated that the bomb was dropped by an Israeli jet during the Suez Crisis, later stories have revised the bombing to an unnamed military conflict. Ororo was trapped in the collapsed building alongside her dead mother, a traumatic experience that would ultimately leave her with a severe case of claustrophobia. Ororo grew up on the streets and became a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar.
As a teenager, she proved to be a mutant with the power to control the weather. Reaching maturity, she moved deeper into Africa, where she became worshipped as a goddess. Here she was found by Charles Xavier, who invited her to join his second team of X-Men. Ororo accepted, taking the code-name Storm.
Although Storm initially had trouble adjusting to Western culture, particularly the sort represented by her sometimes-vicious teammate Wolverine, Storm found a home and family among the X-Men. Moreover, she revealed herself to be a capable leader, and became leader of the X-Men when its longtime leader, Cyclops, married and left the group.
Storm's mid-1980s look. Art by Paul Smith. Storm lost her powers for a while, though they were eventually restored. She also had an on-again, off-again romance with the mutant Forge. Storm first broke up with Forge when she discovered the neutralizer gun used to erase her powers was created by him, though she later forgave him. Forge once proposed to Storm, but got cold feet and backed down.
Later, she was transformed into a child and returned to stealing, when she met Gambit. She brought him to the team and was restored to her adult state later in Genosha.
Storm later led a group of X-Men outside of the mansion in the search for Destiny's diaries, the Books of Truth. On this search, she enjoyed a brief flirtation with Slipstream and was kidnapped by the intergalactic warlord Khan who wanted to make her his queen. Despite being badly injured, she was rescued and brought back to Earth to recover by Wolverine. Storm continued to lead the group even after Destiny's diaries were rendered inert because she did not approve of the way Xavier was running the mansion. The group returned after the mansion was destroyed by someone posing as Magneto to help in the rebuilding process. Storm now remains there, where she heads the X.S.E., a special police task force of mutants policing mutants given worldwide authority.
Television and film
Halle Berry as Storm and Alan Cumming as Nightcrawler in X2 (2003) Storm, voiced by Alison Sealy-Smith, was featured in the X-Men animated series of the mid-1990s and guest starred on a few episodes of the Spider-Man animated series.
In the animated TV series X-Men: Evolution, Storm was portrayed as a teacher at Professor X's Xavier Institute, and was voiced by Kristen Williamson.
She was played by Halle Berry in the movies X-Men (2000) and X2 (2003). Despite a high-profile actress like Berry in the role, in both these movies, Storm recieved little screen time and took a backseat to characters such as Wolverine and Jean Grey.
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