Codename:
Storm
Real name: Ororo
Munroe
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 127 lbs
Place of Birth: New
York City, New York
Relatives: David
(father, deceased), N'dare (mother, deceased), Ainet (foster-mother)
Past: If it has an
atmosphere, Storm can control it. Once worshipped as a goddess in Africa,
Ororo can generate or disperse all forms of weather, including, wind, rain,
typhoons, flash-floods, lightning, hurricanes, snow, sleet, hail, you get
the idea. Her body automatically adjusts itself to the surrounding temperature
and she can use herself as a lightning rod to channel lightning through
her body. She is also an excellent thief and lockpicker, talents learned
during her childhood as an orphan thief in Cairo. Her greatest weakness
is an intense claustrophobia, which she developed as a child, while she
was buried in her collapsed home following the air raid that killed her
parents. Storm then traveled the desert until she came to a tribe in Kenya
suffering from drought. She used her powers to help them, and they revered
her as a goddess, a role she played until Charles Xavier came to invite
her to join his new X-Men. After Cyclops left the team, Storm took over
as field leader. A few months later, Storm was shot with a Neutralizer,
a weapon invented by the techno-genius known as Forge that erased her mutant
ability. In truth, the powers were still there, but Ororo couldn't access
them. In times of intense stress, however, the weather would respond to
her emotions, although she never realized it. Storm regained her powers
when the Adversary sent her and Forge to an alternate dimension, so they
wouldn't interfere with his plan to destroy the world. In the seclusion
of an empty world, Forge was able to build an anti-Neutralizer. Storm and
Forge were lovers almost from the moment they met, despite his invention
of the Neutralizer, and Forge eventually proposed to Ororo. However, he
retracted his offer when he realized that Ororo could never be a complete
person outside of the X-Men, at least not at that point in time. Storm
has undergone two major physiological changes: first, she was abducted
by Nanny II and regressed to childhood, with little control over her powers.
Later, when she and some of the New Mutants were captured by the Genoshans,
Storm was turned into a mutate slave designated #20. However, the Genegineer
who transformed her programmed a failsafe that restored her mind and regrew
her to adulthood when she touched Cyclops. She was also able to restore
all the other X-Men's powers, which had been nullified by Wipeout. That
ability was a one-shot deal; she does not possess it any more. Storm then
returned to the X-Men and led one of the strike teams for a long time.
She only recently took a back seat to her friend Gambit, and only for a
short time at that. She returned to the role of leader when the lost Books
of Truth, prophecies written by the precog Destiny were discovered. Fearful
of the temptation that Xavier would be under should he find out about the
Books, Storm organized a secret mission to find them, taking a number of
her teammates with her, and not telling Professor X.