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..Storm has the mutant power to control the weather, including lightning, rain, snow, and wind, which she can use to make herself to fly. Storm was a street orphan in Cairo, Egypt before her powers manifested. Afterwards, she traveled to Kenya, where she was worshipped as a goddess, but joined the X-Men to fight for people who barely considered her human. She was consistently a member of some X-Men battalion from 1975 until 2005, longer than any other character. She often served as the team’s leader. 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, blue eyes and a natural gift for sorcery. N'Dare fell in love with and married African American photojournalist David Munroe. A young Ororo with her parents. Art by Mike Mayhew.Ororo was born in Manhattan, New York City. When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb (or a military plane crashing during a bombing attack) destroyed their home and killed Ororo's parents; although the original version of this story stated that the bomb was dropped by a jet of the Israeli Air Force during the Suez Crisis of 1956, later stories have revised the bombing first to an event of the Six-Day War of 1967 and then 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. The orphan Ororo grew up on the streets and became a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. To this day she is an excellent pickpocket and lockpick. One of her most notable victims was Charles Francis Xavier, the later Professor X. He used his mental powers to prevent her escape. He also recognized the child to have a unique mind that would require further examination. However, Xavier was attacked mentally by Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King. The two men were preoccupied enough with their battle to allow the girl to escape. Both however would recall her later. Shortly after her twelfth birthday, Ororo felt something drawing her to the south of Africa. She left Cairo by foot and started traveling. She soon attempted hitchhiking. However, the first man who offered her a ride attempted to rape her. Using her knife to protect herself, she killed the man in self-defense. She was horrified by her act and swore to never take another human life. Ororo would reconsider that oath in adult life. Ororo continued her solitary trek for a year. She nearly died from dehydration while crossing the Sahara. Her journey brought her about 2000 miles south of Cairo. During the journey, new powers emerged within her. Ororo proved to be a mutant with the power to control the weather. Those powers would prove useful in her first heroic battle. Ororo witnessed Andreas de Ruyter and men of the South African Army in the process of kidnapping a young boy, slightly older than her. Ororo saved the boy and learned his identity. He was Prince T'Challa of Wakanda. The South Africans would have used their hostage to blackmail his father T'Chaka, the Black Panther. The two youths continued their journey together and fell in love. However, they soon had to part ways. Storm wanted to continue her journey of self-discovery. T'Challa felt bound by duty to return to Wakanda and train to succeed his father. Storm's journey next brought her to the Kenyan portion of Serengeti, the land of her ancestors. There, Ororo called out to the Goddess of her ancestors and was rewarded with a vision of her adult self. Though Storm continues to swear by the Goddess, no name has ever been given to this deity. Current speculation is that this Goddess is Gaia who has made multiple appearances in the Marvel Universe. Ororo came to use her powers to help the native tribes and their efforts in agriculture. She came to be worshipped by them as their "goddess of life." However her powers came with a price. Because her subconscious mind affected the weather around her, Ororo had to detach herself from passionate emotions to avoid causing needless harm. She spent years exploring her powers with the help of Ainet, a tribal elder who became her surrogate mother. Ororo reached her maturity while still in the role of a tribal goddess. There, she was found by her old victim Charles Francis Xavier, who invited her to join his second team of X-Men. Their first mission involved rescuing the original X-Men from the mutant ecosystem inhabiting the Pacific island of Krakoa. Storm was able to combine her powers with those of her teammates and send the entire island to outer space. Although Storm initially had trouble adjusting to Western culture, particularly the sort represented by her sometimes-vicious teammate Wolverine, she found a home and family among the X-Men such as Jean Grey and Piotr Rasputin who became not only her best friends, but also a surrogate sister and brother. In time, she revealed herself to be a capable leader and became leader of the X-Men when its longtime leader, Cyclops left the group. When the young Shadowcat joined the X-Men, Storm formed a very close, almost maternal bond with her. Around this time, the X-Men spent a long time in space battling the Brood, an alien race, in which she and the others unknowingly became host to future Broods. This left Ororo with a dilemma, to kill the growing Brood within her and break a vow she made when young or to allow it to transform her into another Brood. In the end she escaped out into space deciding to kill herself. This effectively killed the Brood within her but left her vulnerable in space. Fortunately she was rescued by whale like creatures called the Acanti who could communicate telepathically. Spending so much time away from planet Earth severed the deep psychic connection Storm had with her home planet, prompting a period of much soul searching. Storm went through some profound personal changes because of this inner conflict, which resulted in her becoming more aggressive and violent. This led to her cutting her hair in a mohawk and wearing leather clothing - changes that alienated her from Shadowcat for a time. Storm was influenced in this by a lover of Wolverine's, Yukio, who became one of her dearest friends; some fans believe the two were lovers, though given Marvel's policies of the time, this possibility was never more than implied. She also fought Callisto for leadership of the Morlocks and won by stabbing Callisto in the heart. Callisto only managed to survive due to the healing powers of another Morlock. The two remained enemies for awhile, but eventually managed to make up and are now friends. Storm now trusts Callisto enough that she asked Callisto to look after Xavier while he was in Genosha. However her victory over Callisto would lead Storm to fight another Morlock named Marrow years later. Threatening to kill innocent people with a bomb attached to her own heart, Marrow forced Storm to decide if she was able to kill to save other peoples' lives. Storm ripped out Marrow's heart, saving the innocents. How Storm managed with this experience was later shown in the first Storm mini series. Storm had an on-again, off-again romance with the mutant Forge. She first broke up with him when she discovered that the he had created the neutralizer gun used to erase her powers, though she later forgave him. In a battle with the Adversary in Dallas, Storm appeared with her powers fully restored to help the team mates defeat the Adversary. Believed dead by the world, she and her teammates had been resurrected by Roma and transported to Australia. While there, she was transformed in to a child by Nanny, became amnesiac, and returned to thievery, during which time she met Gambit. After regaining her memory, she brought him to the team and was restored to her adult state later in Genosha. Once the X-Men and X-Factor combined forces and split into the Blue and Gold teams, Forge proposed to Storm, but got cold feet and backed out before she could accept, leaving her distraught and in tears. Her past relationship with then-Prince T'Challa a.k.a. the Black Panther has been confirmed to resume before the two wed in the summer of 2006. 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 a younger man, Slipstream and was kidnapped by the intergalactic warlord Khan who wanted to make her his queen. Despite being badly injured, shot by Viper prior to being captured and having to fight off Khan's harem, she managed to defeat Khan with the aid of the X-Treme X-Men who came to rescue her. They brought her back to Earth where she spent time recovering with the aid of 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 to help rebuild the Xavier Institute after the mansion was destroyed by Magneto. From the school, Storm headed the X-Treme Sanctions Executive, a special police task force of mutants policing mutants given worldwide authority. When the X-Men journeyed to Niganda to investigate reports of mutant animals, they ran into Black Panther. At the end of the mission, Storm decided to remain in Niganda. Due to the Scarlet Witch's magicks, 98% of the mutants lost their powers. Storm stayed in Niganda to help the mutants affected there. This change is apparently going to make her a more prominent member of the Marvel Universe according to recent interviews. Ororo is a mutant with the psionic ability of atmokinesis--the ability to manipulate the weather over the entire planet and take flight. When controlling weather elements, her eyes illuminate a white color and aura. She can manifest any degree of wind, temperature, lightning, storm, and all manner of precipitation, tornadoes and hurricanes. Storm actually has the ability to affect the weather on a cosmic scale, but does not because she is very environmentally conscious. Storm has been known to create cosmic turbulence when a Sentinel was about to affect the Earth with a gamma gun to draw a solar flare from the sun to the Earth. She is one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Ororo is a mutant with the psionic ability of atmokinesis--the ability to manipulate the weather over the entire planet and take flight. When controlling weather elements, her eyes illuminate a white color and aura. She can manifest any degree of wind, temperature, lightning, storm, and all manner of precipitation, tornadoes and hurricanes. Storm actually has the ability to affect the weather on a cosmic scale, but does not because she is very environmentally conscious. Storm has been known to create cosmic turbulence when a Sentinel was about to affect the Earth with a gamma gun to draw a solar flare from the sun to the Earth. She is one of the most powerful beings on the planet. Storm is immune to all effects of weather: her body changes to compensate for the extremes she engineered; i.e. her body temperature would rise as she caused her surroundings to become cold. She has the ability to project, focus and aim force blasts of extreme electrical bolts from her hands or the sky using her elemental powers. Storm can alter her visual perceptions so as to see electrical energy patterns in an object and in the air. She can also change the body temperature of anyone by manipulating that temperature and lowering it or raising it. That gives her the stunning ability to drain the electrical energy from mutants brainwaves that will literally cause them to lose power. At times, she has been able to use her ability to manipulate wind in a manner that resembles telekinesis, lifting massive objects and hurling them against opponents. She has even been known to stop projectiles such as bullets by using her ability to manipulate the wind. Not only can she stop most physical attacks with her powers, but she can also generate electric fields, magnetic fields, high-density pressure fields, and even electromagnetic fields. Aside from the abilities granted by her mutation, Ororo is highly intelligent and an able strategist and field commander of the X-Men. She also has some minor telepathic defenses (creating intense electrical currents and indestructable pressure domes that can cut through a mountain.) Her days as a thief have given her mastery of skills normally used by professional thieves, such as stealth, breaking into heavilly fortified areas and picking locks (she always keeps a set of lockpicks in whatever current costume she wears). She is also an excellent combatant in both armed and unarmed combat, having been instructed by Wolverine. Storm is a strong, confident, intelligent, caring, loyal, brave warrior, and most sophisticated and demure member of the X-Men
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