Codename: Rogue
Real name: Unknown
Height: 5'8"
Weight: 120 lbs
Place of Birth:
Caldecott County, Mississippi
Relatives: Mystique
(foster mother), Nightcrawler (foster brother), Graydon Creed (foster brother)
Past: Rogue's mutant
power is to absorb the memories, abilities and physical characteristics
of anyone with whom she comes into flesh-to-flesh contact. However, she
has no control over this power, which first manifested when she kissed
a childhood boyfriend Cody, and drained his energy and mind. She was taken
in by Mystique, who became her foster mother; Rogue lived with Mystique
and Destiny for a few years, and became a member of the second Brotherhood
of Evil Mutants, run by Mystique. Mystique's lover, a precognitive mutant
named Destiny, glimpsed the future and warned Mystique that Carol would
be During a mission to break a few of the members of the Brotherhood out
of jail, Rogue battled Ms. Marvel and attempted to steal her powers for
her own use - however, something went wrong and Rogue permanently absorbed
Carol's powers and her psyche, putting Carol into a coma and, and wiping
her mind of her every memory. With the incredible new powers of flight,
super-strength, invulnerability and seventh sense, came an incredible drawback:
Carol's personality (who blamed her for destroying her life). The
conflict of emotions and thoughts raged in her head, until Rogue was nearly
insane. She left her home and sought out the X-Men, who didn't exactly
greet her with open arms. However, Professor X saw that Rogue really needed
help, and that she was sincere, so she was allowed to join the team. After
saving Wolverine's life in Japan, and helping to defeat Mastermind,
Rogue was pretty much accepted by all. Although Rogue never learned to
control her power, she did gain more control over her mind with Xavier's
help. Carol's persona was submerged, but acted as a backup at times when
Rogue's persona was suppressed. She remained with the X-Men through the
Mutant Massacre, the team's death and rebirth in Dallas, and "Inferno,"
getting into a sometimes volatile love triangle with former adversary Dazzler
and Longshot along the way. During a battle with the Master Mold/Nimrod,
Rogue was grabbed by the giant robot, and told Dazzler to laser off its
foot, so that it would fall into the Siege Perilous gateway. When Dazz
did so, the robot was sucked into the portal, but it took Rogue with it.
Months later, Rogue popped back into existence in the Australian town the
X-Men used as a base, now occupied again by the Reavers, and discovered
that the powers and psyche she had absorbed from Ms. Marvel were gone.
She absorbed a little of Gateway, the aborigine teleporter, to find out
the last place he had sent the X-Men, and used his bull-roarer to teleport
to the Savage Land. While there, she was mysteriously attacked by a horribly
degenerated Ms. Marvel. This doppelganger was the part of Ms. Marvel that
Rogue had absorbed, given form by the Siege Perilous, and not the real
Carol Danvers, who had become Binary years before, and who was a member
of the Starjammers. The two women shared one life force, however, so as
one weakened and degenerated, the other grew stronger. Eventually, they
were both felled by Magneto, who sized up the situation and decided to
save Rogue, transferring all of "Ms. Marvel's" energy and powers back to
her. Strangely, Rogue's powers didn't work, even her own absorption ability,
which had worked before the transfer. She joined Magnus is his conflict
against Zaladane, and the two began a relationship the full extent of which
is uncertain. They then teamed up with Ka-Zar and S.H.I.E.L.D. to defeat
Zaladane, who had threatened to take over the world's magnetic field. During
the battle, Rogue's powers returned. After Magneto killed Zaladane, Rogue
went to Muir Island, where she fell under the Shadow King's influence,
and eventually fought against her friends. When the Shadow King was defeated,
Rogue returned to the X-Men and became part of the Blue Team. She met the
new X-Man Gambit and the sparks started to fly, until his wife Belladonna
showed up. Bel almost died fighting the Brood, and when Gambit returned
to New Orleans to find a way to heal her, Rogue went along, and once accidentally
touched Belladonna, seemingly absorbing some of her mind. Although this
was hinted at shortly afterwards, it was never really followed up. Just
before the crystallization of Earth by the M'Kraan Crystal, Rogue finally
kissed Gambit, figuring that the world was about to end anyway, so what
the heck? When Bishop stopped our timeline from being disrupted in the
past, however, Earth was not destroyed, and Gambit wound up in a coma.
Rogue, on the other hand, was found by Iceman down in Florida, wearing
Gambit's coat and trying to steal things. She had absorbed some memories
from Gambit that were so powerful that she blocked them out, and couldn't
figure out what was happening to her. She felt she had to leave the X-Men
for a while, and went on a road trip with Iceman, ending up in Seattle,
where Gambit was waiting, having awoken from his coma and knowing where
his memories would take her. They got into a small fight and broke up.
Rogue went on by herself to a small town, when she rented a room from a
single mother and began work as a hostess in a restaurant. Rogue's civilian
life was short-lived, however, as her landlady went to Humanity's Last
Stand and turned her in, fearing that she might harm her and her boy. Rogue
was captured and brought to the Stand's base. She was about to be tortured
when one of the guards turned on the others, killed them and freed Rogue.
The guard revealed himself to be Joseph, and after clearing up the obvious
case of mistaken identity, the two of them stopped Humanity's Last Stand
from killing its own supporters, and then left to rejoin the X-Men. They
returned in time for Onslaught, and helped defeat the Sentinels that he
unleashed. Afterwards, Rogue found herself somewhat torn between Gambit
and Joseph, especially after Joseph reworked the circuitry from the psi-shielded
Z'Nox chamber to allow her to touch another person while underneath it.
Later that night, the X-Men were taken to the Shi'ar Empire to fight the
Phalanx, and Rogue was infected with the Transmode Virus, whereupon she
confessed that she still loved Gambit. After defeating the Phalanx, the
X-Men were sent home, but their ship crashed and they were captured by
Nanny. For one night, their powers were negated, and Rogue and Gambit were
able to touch and fulfill their relationship. Unfortunately, the next morning
Gambit was put on trial by Erik the Red (Magneto), and he revealed that
he had assembled the Marauders and precipitated the Mutant Massacre. Rogue
was horrified, and although she saved Gambit from the collapsing citadel
when they escaped, she left him half-naked and alone in the Antarctic wilderness
where they had been. Rogue returned to the X-Men but was having dreams
of touching her friends and draining them dry. She found out about a Dr.
Agee who claimed to be able to remove mutant powers, and was about to undergo
the procedure when Mystique showed up and tried to force her out of it.
After a struggle, Rogue finally realized that she couldn't go through with
it, because of the implications for other mutants. She returned to the
Mansion , and continued trying to come to terms with her desires and lack
of control. Then Gambit returned to the team, and the couple continued
to pursue a very "on-again, off-again" relationship. Recently, Rogue was
made field leader of one of the X-Men teams, being the most experienced
member of her squad after Wolverine, who said he's not suited for leadership,
and Nightcrawler, who refused the job, as he was studying to be a priest.
Shortly thereafter, when Earth was turned into a prison planet by the Shi'ar,
Rogue saved a girl from some attacking aliens. The girl turned out to be
Z'Cann, a mutant Skrull who had left for outer space with Professor X after
Cyclops sacrificed himself to stop Apocalypse's ascension to power. Z'Cann
was badly wounded, so to get Xavier's message to Rogue she touched Rogue's
bare skin, using her own telepathic powers to facilitate the memory transfer.
However, due to Rogue's own powers, she absorbed not only Z'Cann's memories
but also her Skrull shape-shifting power. Rogue began uncontrollably manifesting
the powers of various people that she had touched over the years, like
"total recall" of those abilities. Though she eventually got most of those
manifestations under control, she could not get rid of a measure of the
healing factor and the bone claws she had once absorbed from Wolverine.
A few weeks later, Rogue also manifested Cyclops's optic blasts, forcing
her to don a pair of ruby quartz glasses to control them.
Present: Rogue has
since left the X-Men with some of her teammates in search of Destiny's
lost journals.