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This article is about the X-Men character. For the British/Dutch comic book character of the same name, see Storm (Don Lawrence).
Storm
Detail from the X-Treme X-Men #36 cover.
Art by Salvador Larroca.
Publication information
PublisherMarvel Comics
First appearanceGiant-Size X-Men #1
(May 1975)
Created byLen Wein
Dave Cockrum
In-story information
Alter egoOroro Munroe
SpeciesHuman Mutant
Team affiliationsSecret Avengers
X-Men
Morlocks
Hellfire Club
X-Treme Sanctions Executive
Abilitiesweather control, flight, energy perception, ecological empathy, invulnerable to the effects of the weather and extreme heat and cold, partially immune to psionic attacks, possesses latent natural magic abilities

Storm (real name Ororo Munroe) is a fictional Marvel Comics superhero. Best known as a prominent leader of the X-Men, she is the reigning queen of the fictional nation of Wakanda, a title held by marriage to fellow Marvel Comics superhero Black Panther. She was created by writer Len Wein and artist Dave Cockrum, and first appeared in Giant-Size X-Men #1 (May 1975),[1] becoming one of the first black female superheroes.

Storm has the mutant power to control the weather and can fly at high speeds.[2] She is consistently depicted as a member of some X-Men battalion and often served as the team’s leader from 1980 until 2006, when she became wife to the Black Panther.[3] She has been featured in almost every X-Men animated series and video game and has a theme ride named after her at the Universal Orlando Resort.[4] Academy Award winner Halle Berry portrays Storm in the X-Men films.

Publication history

1970s

Cover to Giant-Size X-Men #1, 1975. Art by Gil Kane & Dave Cockrum. Storm is flying in the top right-hand corner.

Storm, a.k.a. Ororo Munroe first appeared in 1975 in the famous Giant Size X-Men #1 comic, written by Len Wein and pencilled by Dave Cockrum. In this comic, Wein uses a battle against the living island Krakoa to replace the all-WASP, first-generation X-Men of the 1960s with a slew of international X-Men.[1] Storm was an amalgamation of several characters Cockrum intended to use for the Legion of Superheroes. In an 1999 interview, Cockrum said that the original black female of the Legion would have been called The Black Cat. According to him, she had Storm's costume but without the cape, and a cat-like haircut with tufts for ears. However, other female cat characters like Tigra had appeared, so Cockrum redesigned his new character, giving her white hair, the cape, and so created Storm. When colleagues remarked that Storm’s white hair made her look like a grandmother, he just said: “Trust me.”[5]

Chris Claremont, who followed up Wein as the writer of the flagship title Uncanny X-Men in 1975, embraced Storm and started writing many notable X-Men stories, among them the God Loves, Man Kills and Dark Phoenix Saga arcs, which respectively served as base for the films X2 and X-Men 3. In both arcs, Storm is written as a major supporting character. This was a harbinger of things to come, as Claremont stayed the main writer of that comic book for the next 16 years and consequentially wrote the most of the publications containing Storm.

In Uncanny X-Men #102 (December 1976), Claremont established Storm’s backstory. Ororo's mother, N'Dare, is 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, in which Storm's Egyptian ancestor, Ashake, is expert. N'Dare falls in love with and marries African American photojournalist David Munroe. They move to Harlem in uptown New York City, where she becomes pregnant with Ororo and bears her, and then to Egypt during the Suez War, where they are killed in a botched aircraft attack and leave six-year-old Ororo as an orphan. There, her violent claustrophobia is also established, result of being buried under tons of rubble after that attack. She then becomes a skilled thief in Cairo under the benign Achmed el-Gibar, and wanders into the Serengeti as a young woman. There, she is worshipped as a goddess before Professor X recruits her for the X-Men.[6]

Claremont further fleshed out Storm’s backstory in Uncanny X-Men #117 (January 1979). He retroactively adds that Professor X, who had recruited her in Giant Size X-Men #1 of 1975, already meets her when she is a child street thief in Cairo. As Ororo grows up on the streets and becomes a proficient thief under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar, one of her most notable victims was Charles Francis Xavier, the later Professor X. He uses his mental powers to prevent her escape, and also recognizes the child has a unique mind that requires further examination. However, Xavier is attacked mentally by Amahl Farouk, the Shadow King. The two men are preoccupied enough with their battle to allow the girl to escape. Both however recall her later.[7]

1980s

In the following issues, Claremont portrayed Storm as a serene, independent character. Although Storm initially is written having trouble adjusting to Western culture, e.g. calling the obligation to cover herself up in a public bath "absurd",[8] she earns a lot of respect: in Uncanny X-Men #139 (November 1980), Claremont establishes her as the leader of the X-Men,[3] a position she has held in various incarnations. Claremont also made Storm especially harbour motherly feelings for the youngest X-Man, 13-year old Kitty Pryde. In Marvel Team-Up #100 (December 1980), Claremont wrote a short story in which he retroactively established that Storm, then 12 years old, saves a young Black Panther from racist thugs when they both are in Kenya.[9] This story would later become a base for later writers to establish a deeper relationship between both characters.[10]

Cover to Uncanny X-Men #170. Storm (r.) battles Callisto for leadership of the Morlocks. Art by Paul Smith.

In the early eighties, adventures of Storm written by Claremont included a space opera arc, in which the X-Men fight parasitic beings called the Brood. Storm is infected with a Brood egg and contemplates suicide, but then experiences a last-minute save by the benign whale-like Acanti aliens.[11] In the following arc, Claremont further established Storm's character strength. He wrote a story in which Storm's fellow X-Man Angel is abducted by a rogue mutant group called the Morlocks. The X-Men are hopelessly outnumbered, and Storm is rendered sick by the Morlock called Plague. Only one solution is left, namely if an X-Man defeats their leader Callisto in a duel to the death. At first, Storm's colleague Nightcrawler wants to battle her, but Storm states she leads the X-Men, and fights Callisto. Despite being violently sick, she defeats Callisto, beats her by impaling her through the heart and almost kills her.[12]

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Cover to Uncanny X-Men #223, featuring Storm in her punk look. Art by Kerry Gammill.

In Uncanny X-Men #173, October 1983, a notable move was made by changing Storm's outward appearance. Writer Claremont and artist Paul Smith created a new look, abandoning her old costume for black leather top and pants, and changing her former veil of white hair into a punk Mohawk.[13] In the story, Storm's outlook on life darkens after her struggles with the Brood. These changes 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. To flesh out Storm’s love life, Claremont wrote an arc in which fellow X-Man Forge develops a mutant power neutralizing gun. The intended target is another fellow X-Man, Rogue, who had been written by Claremont as a character with a criminal backstory. Therefore, she is still believed to be a terrorist, and in addition recently has attacked S.H.I.E.L.D agents. When the shady U.S. government operative Henry Gyrich aims at Rogue, he accidentally hits Storm, taking away her powers. Forge saves Storm from death and takes her back to his home in Dallas, Texas to recover. With his help, she adjusts to life without her powers, and they slowly fall in love. Then, Storm overhears a phone conversation between Forge and Gyrich, and finds out Forge built the weapon that took her powers. She is heartbroken and leaves him.[14]

However, Claremont continued to write her as a strong character, letting a depowered Storm win against Cyclops for the leadership of the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #201 (1986).[15] In the late eighties, Claremont wrote arcs in which Storm temporarily joins the shady Hellfire Club (1987),[16] is trapped in another dimension with Forge and regains her elemental powers as well as her long hair,[17] is captured and rendered amnesiac by the evil robot Nanny,[18] is hunted by the evil telepath Shadow King and framed for murder,[19] and finally returns to thieving before regaining her memories back.[20] In the following arc, The X-Tinction Agenda, she is kidnapped to the mutant-exploiting fictional nation of Genosha and is temporarily transformed into a brainwashed mutate, but then regains her memory.[21]

1990s

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A panel from Uncanny X-Men #226, featuring Storm and Forge in an intimate embrace. Art by Marc Silvestri.

In October 1991, the X-Men franchise was relaunched, centering on the new eponymous X-Men (vol. 2) comic. Claremont wrote Storm as the leader as the X-Men's Gold Team; the other team, Blue, is led by her colleague Cyclops, the X-Man she once has succeeded as a leader. When Claremont left the X-Men comic after 16 years since his debut in Uncanny X-Men #94 (1975),[22] he was replaced by Jim Lee, who continued portraying her as a strong leader. In the sister title Uncanny X-Men, now under Scott Lobdell, Lobdell continued on the romance between Storm and Forge. Lobdell made Forge propose to Storm in 1992. Storm hesitates and is about to say yes, but misinterpreting her reaction, he rescinds his offer before Storm can say yes.[23] Lobdell waited until November 1993 before he let a deeply hurt Storm and Forge make up with each other.[24] In 1995, Lobdell continued with an arc which pitted the X-Men against the Morlocks again. As Claremont did with Callisto in 1983, Lobdell let Storm end the battle by mortally wounding her opponent at the heart again. This time, Storm rips out one heart of the two-hearted Morlock girl Marrow, who had fixed a bomb to it.[25] In February 1996, Storm got her first miniseries, the eponymous Storm. In these four issues, Ellis wrote a story in which Storm is sucked into an alternate dimension and pitted against villain Mikhail Rasputin.[26]

2000s

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Cover to Uncanny X-Men #449. Art by Greg Land.

In X-Treme X-Men, conceived by a newly-reinstated Chris Claremont in July 2001, Storm was written the leader of this team of more street-wise X-Men,[27] as opposed to its sister titles, Uncanny X-Men and New X-Men, which featured more straight-laced X-Men. In the period until its end in issue #46 (June 2004), Claremont continued to write her as the central character. Storm enjoys a brief flirtation with younger fellow X-Man Slipstream, and is kidnapped by the intergalactic warlord Khan. Khan wants to make her his queen, but Storm defeats him. In the series, she also becomes leader of the fictional X-Treme Sanctions Executive, a special police task force of mutants policing mutants given worldwide authority.[28]

In the aftermath of the 2005 House of M storyline of Brian Michael Bendis, 98% of the mutants lost their powers due to the Scarlet Witch's magicks. However, Storm did not lose hers.[29] Also in that year, the miniseries Ororo: Before the Storm of Mark Sumerak retold her backstory in more detail, concentrating on her relationship with surrogate father figure Achmed el-Gibar when she was a child.[30]

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The marriage of Storm and the Black Panther. Front cover for Black Panther #18 (2006), by Frank Cho.

In the following year, Marvel Comics announced that Ororo would marry fellow African super hero Black Panther. Collaborating writer Eric Jerome Dickey explained that it was a move to explicitly target the female and African-American audience.[31] Expanding on the relationship that Storm had with Black Panther, Dickey stated that Storm and fellow African superhero Black Panther were lovers when they were teenagers.[32] Though the events of Storm's relationship with Black Panther were never written beforehand, the initial meeting of the characters was retconned without explanation. Initially, in Marvel Team-Up #100 (1980), Storm is seen at age twelve rescuing Black Panther from a white racist called Andreas de Ruyter, [9] but in Dickey's miniseries, a young T'Challa saves a 12 year old Storm from de Ruyter and his brother. A Black Panther #24 (2006) flashback is ambiguous when it comes to the physical aspect of their first meeting, while the miniseries has Ororo lose her virginity to T'Challa a few days after they meet.[33] Collaborating writer Axel Alonso, editor of Black Panther, has stated: "Eric's story, for all intents and purposes (...) is Ororo's origin story."Cite error: A <ref> tag is missing the closing </ref> (see the help page).. Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada was highly supportive of this marriage, stating it was the Marvel Comics equivalent of the marriage of "Lady Diana and Prince Charles", and he expected both characters to emerge strengthened.[34] Quesada's prediction has begun to be born out in Black Panther story arc that followed Storm and T'Challa's wedding where the newly married couple go on a World Tour, meeting with other known royalties such as Doctor Doom, Namor, as well as the Black Bolt of the Inhumans. Storm and Black Panther become members of the Fantastic Four alongside the Human Torch and the Thing in May 2007.[35]

Fictional character biography

Ever since her inception in 1975, Storm's biography has largely stayed the same. The main framework was laid by Chris Claremont, who fleshed out her backstory in the issues Uncanny X-Men #102 (1976)[6] and Uncanny X-Men #117 (1979)[36]. Some reinterpretations were made by in 2005 and 2006, where writers Mark Sumerak and Eric Jermone Dickey respectively rewrote part of her early history in the miniseries Ororo: Before the Storm[30] and Storm (vol. 2).[32]

According to the established Marvel canon, Ororo Munroe is the child of Kenyan princess N’Dare and African-American photographer David Munroe. While stationed in Egypt during the Suez War, a fighter jet crashes into her parents’ house, killing them. Buried under tons of rubble, Ororo survives, but is orphaned and left with intense claustrophobia.[6] In Cairo, she is picked up by the benign street lord Achmed el-Gibar and becomes a prolific thief;[30] among her victims is her future mentor Professor X.[36] Following an inner urge, she wanders off into the Serengeti as a teenager and meets T’Challa, her future husband. Despite strong mutual feelings, the two part again.[9][32] In the desert, Ororo develops her weather control powers and is worshipped as a rain goddess, before Professor X recruits her into the X-Men. Ororo receives the code name “Storm” and establishes herself as a strong, serene character.[1] She eventually supplants her colleague Cyclops as leader of the X-Men,[3] a role she fills out during most of her time as a superhero. Concerning her personal life, she is for a longer time romantically involved with fellow X-Man Forge, and even considers marrying him before breaking up.[23] After 98% of the mutants of the world lose their powers, Storm leaves the X-Men to go to Africa, rekindles her relationship with T’Challa – now known as the African superhero Black Panther – marries him and becomes the queen of his kingdom of Wakanda.[37]

Historical significance

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Detail from the variant cover of Black Panther #18.
Art by Michael Turner.
See also: African characters in comics

In historical perspective, Storm deserves mention because she became one of the first black superheroes in the big two comic book houses, Marvel Comics and DC Comics as has remained one of the most successful black superheroes ever since. Within these two companies, her 1974 debut was only preceded by a few male black characters. In Marvel Comics, preceding characters were Gabe Jones (debuted in 1963), Black Panther (1966) and Spider-Man supporting characters Joe Robertson (1967) and Luke Cage (1972). In DC Comics, she was preceded by Teen Titans member Mal Duncan who debuted in 1970 and Green Lantern wielder John Stewart (1971), but she preceded DC's other black heroes, Tyroc who debuted in 1976, and Black Lightning who debuted in 1977.

Storm shares characteristic similarities with Lt. Uhura from the popular science fiction series Star Trek, who first appeared nine years before in 1966. Uhura is also a black female, has a similar name and is also written as a character with Kenyan origins. In an 2003 essay, PopMatters columnist Lynne D. Johnson regards them as the two prime examples of black female pop culture figures. In her text, she makes the point that despite best intentions, popular culture often depicts black women in a stereotyped way: either as a talented, but harmless entertainer (Uhura) or as a tough, highly attractive enforcer (Storm).[38] However, in 2006, Marvel Comics editor-in-chief Joe Quesada called Storm "one of the greatest female characters ever and certainly the greatest African character ever conceived".[39]

Powers and abilities

Storm is a mutant with the psionic ability to control the weather. When using her powers, artists have consistently depicted that her eyes illuminate a white color and aura. Storm has the power to control both cosmic storms and ocean currents in addition to her terestrial weather manipulating abilities. Her character displayed these abilities in various issues of Uncanny X-Men. She manipulated the solar wind to destroy a Sentinel and summoned the power of a galactic core to purge her body of a Brood embryo that was implanted in her during a major story-arc in which the X-Men were in outer space.[2]

Storm has the ability to control wind, lightning, summon all manner of precipitation, reduce or raise the temperature of her environment and use winds to fly at high speeds. Her powers also work the other way, enabling her to calm all weather and precipitations. Storm has used her abilities to manipulate ocean currents and tides on several occasions. Storm is also portrayed as highly immune to the effects of all weather, most notably lightning and extreme heat and cold, and she can alter her visual perceptions so as to see the universe as multi-colored energy patterns and the factors behind weather. She can also coalesce the toxic pollutants in the atmosphere and allow them to perciptate out as acid rain or toxic fog. She can also create poweful downbursts. Her abilities are limited by her willpower and strength of her body.[2]

Since Chris Claremont established her backstory in Uncanny X-Men #102 (December 1976), Storm is consistently portrayed as a skilled thief and a gifted hand-to-hand fighter, trained by Wolverine, and having defeated both Callisto and the Crimson Commando, both highly experienced fighters, in single combat. She is fluent in both Arabic and Swahili. Storm always carries with her a set of lock-picks and her ancestral ruby, which is capable of inter-dimensional transportation with the help of Ororo's lightning.[2] In addition, Storm is emotionally attuned to the weather and her surrounding natural environment. As a consequence, her character is often shown suppressing extreme feelings due to her emotional state having a direct effect on the weather. She has also been shown to sense the dynamics of the natural world, as she has done so on more than one occasion; she once felt a diseased and dying tree on the mansion grounds, the gravitational exertion of the moon on the tides, as well as the incorrect motion of a hurricane in the Northern Hemisphere.[2] In Black Panther #21 (2006), writer Reginald Hudlin hinted her to be an Omega-level mutant, a fictional description for mutants of the ultimate power level. He let Iron Man discuss this with sentinels at the end of the comic.[40] Marvel writer, Chris Claremont had previously hinted at this power level by letting the X-Men compare her to the world-devouring Phoenix, the term Omega Mutant having not then been coined.

As part of her ancestry, Storm also has a natural potential for magic. She also possesses a matrilineal ruby that she uses to transport herself and others across dimensions when needed.

Alternate universes

Ultimate Storm

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Ultimate Storm, in a detail from the cover for Ultimate X-Men #8. Art by Andy Kubert and Richard Isanove.

In the Ultimate Marvel continuity of Ultimate X-Men, created by Mark Millar and Joe Quesada in February 2001, Storm, a.k.a. Ororo Munroe, is a founding member of the X-Men. In his stint until July 2003, Millar created a much more belligerent version of Storm, establishing she was an illegal immigrant from Morocco who steals cars for a living and is located in Harlem before joining the X-Men, referring to her thieving background and her birthplace in the mainstream continuity. In contrast to her original counterpart, she can hardly control her powers at first, the prime example when she passes out after reluctantly summoning a lightning squall in order to destroy fleet of Sentinels.[41] Her main departure from mainstream Storm is her attraction to fellow X-Man Beast, an ape-like mutant whom she loves for his intelligence. However, Millar wrote this as a troubled romance. In this universe, Beast is written as a character with a deep inferiority complex after a lifetime of ridicule, and cannot believe a beautiful girl like Ororo can truly love him. When later writer Brian Michael Bendis killed Beast off in April 2004,[42] Bendis let a grief-stricken Storm drastically alter her appearance. Paralleling the style when Claremont and Smith introduced the punk look for the original Storm, Ultimate Storm now sliced off her thigh length locks, to make for an edgy, punk-esque shorter style and replacing her conservative clothing in favour of revealing leather mini-skirts and dresses, teamed with black heels, trench coats and studded belts.[43] Subsequent writer Brian K. Vaughan wrote Storm to become more predisposed to act as the team's conscience, and letting her start a romance with Wolverine. In the Ultimate X-Men: Shock and Awe arc (2005), he inserted new elements into her backstory by establishing Yuriko "Yuri" Oyama as Storm's archenemy. In this version, Yuriko and Ororo are fellow thiefs, but eventually, Yuriko grows envious of her colleague. Their friendship ends in a motorcycle chase which Ororo halts with a sudden rainstorm. Yuri loses control, has a seemingly fatal collision with a truck and is rebuilt into a cyborg by amoral Dr. Cornelius of the mutant superweapon project Weapon X.[44] As of 2007, UXM writer Robert Kirkman has continued establishing a friendship between Storm and Wolverine in Ultimate X-Men: Date Night (2006).

Miscellaneous versions

Since her inception in 1974, Storm has also made several smaller non-canonical appearances. In the dystopian Days of Future Past storyline of Chris Claremont (1981), Storm is one of the last fighters of the mutant resistance and gets killed by a horde of robot, mutant-hunting Sentinels.[45][46] A year later, in Uncanny X-Men #160 (August 1982, writer Chris Claremont)[47] and in the Magik (Illyana and Storm) limited series (December 1983 - March 1984, writer Chris Claremont),[48] an alternate Storm is introduced, which lives the remaining years of her life in the demonic realm of Limbo. This Storm turns to her heritage of sorcery in old age as her power over the elements waned. She tutors Illyana Rasputin in the use of good magics and battles the demon Belasco over control of Limbo. She is killed by a demonically altered version of Kitty Pryde named Cat.[46]

In the What If series, written by various writers, many unrelated, one-shot alternate universes are presented in which key events of comic book continuity unfold in a different way. In issue #12, Storm has been portrayed as a goddess of Asgard;[49] in issue #40, she stays a thief and refuses to join the X-Men;[50] in issue #74, she is a potential X-Men recruit targeted by Mr. Sinister, written as the shady leader of the X-Men;[51] in issue #79, she is the wielder of the Phoenix force, calling herself Stormphoenix and being the ruthless tyrant of earth, freezing every opposition in the atmosphere;[52] in issue #114 finally, Storm marries a fellow X-Man, the feral Wolverine and bears his daughter Kendall Logan. Kendall becomes the hero known as Torrent, having some of her mother's control over weather as well as her father's feral abilities.[53] As a side note, a relationship between Wolverine and Storm was also shown in the X-Men animated series episode "X-Men: The Animated Series: 'One Man's Worth'" (1995).[54][46]

Furthermore, in the Age of Apocalypse universe (created 1995, various writers), Storm is a member of the X-Men, but more streetwise and tough, and her romantic interest is Quicksilver.[46] In another alternate universe, the Mutant X universe (1998 - 2001, written by Howard Mackie), Storm becomes a vampire after being bitten by Dracula, becoming the demonic Bloodstorm.[55][46] In a contemporary alternative universe, the Earth X series (started 1999 by Jim Krueger), Storm is known as "Queen Storm" and is married to Black Panther, something that happens in the mainstream universe seven years later.[56][46] In yet another alternate universe, the world of the House of M by Brian Michael Bendis (2005), Storm is a Kenyan princess. Furthermore, in the Amalgam Comics continuity, John Byrne combined Storm with Wonder Woman to create Amazon (Amalgam Comics). She appeared first in 1996.[57] Finally, in other languages, Storm is known as "Tornade" (French), "Tempesta" (Italian), "Tormenta" (Spanish) or "Tempestade" (Portuguese).

Appearances in other media

Film

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Halle Berry as Storm in X-Men 3

In the X-Men film trilogy, Storm is portrayed by Academy Award-winner Halle Berry in the movies X-Men (2000), X2 (2003) and X-Men: The Last Stand (2006). Despite a high-profile actress like Berry in the role, Storm received little screen time in the first movie and took a backseat to characters such as Wolverine and Jean Grey. In the second film, X2, Storm had more screen time but no real story. Berry rallied for more character development, [58] and her role was enhanced in X-Men 3. In the third movie, Storm takes over as the director of the Xavier Institute, and as the leader of the X-Men.

Television

Storm first made guest appearances on the Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends in the episodes titled "A Firestar Is Born", "The Education of a Superhero" and "The X-Men Adventure". She was voiced by Kathy Garver in "The X-Men Adventure" and Annie Lockhart in "A Firestar Is Born".[59] In 1989, Storm then appeared in a TV pilot that later was released on video in Pryde of the X-Men. Andi Chapman provided her voice here.[60] Her third and longest TV incarnation was in the X-Men animated series of the mid-1990s, where she was originally voiced by Iona Morris for the first five episodes and then Alison Sealy-Smith for the rest of the series.[61] She also guest starred in the Spider-Man: The Animated Series in the 1990s in first the fourth and fifth episodes of Season 2, along with all the rest of the X-Men. Then, at the nearing of the show's finale, Storm appears finally at all of the Secret Wars arc episodes. In the Spider-Man series, Storm was once again voiced by Alison Sealy-Smith, except for the Secret Wars episodes.[62] In her fifth and last TV incarnation, the animated series, X-Men: Evolution, Storm is portrayed as a teacher at Professor X's Xavier Institute and was voiced by Kirsten Williamson. This incarnation parallels the original Storm in many ways, portraying her as the serene second-in-command after Professor X. In this version, she is the aunt of the X-Man, Evan Daniels aka Spyke and a member of the staff at the Xavier Institute. She also is keeper of the X-Mansion's greenhouse.[63]

Video games

Storm has notably appeared in most of the X-Men video games that have been released on various consoles. The most noticeable ones are Marvel vs. Capcom series and the X-Men Mutant Academy games for the Sony PlayStation.[64] In addition, she appeared in X-Men Legends and its sequel X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse for various game systems. She was voiced by Cheryl Carter in X-Men Legends and by Dawnn Lewis in X-Men Legends II: Rise of Apocalypse.[64]

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Storm in Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects.

Furthermore, she also appeared in the EA video game Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects. In this game, she is implanted with an Imperfect chip and becomes evil, but Wolverine, after defeating her, removes the chip from her body allowing her to become a playable character.[64] Storm also played a role in the video game based on the film, X-Men: The Official Game, as a playable character. She is "playable" only in two missions. Her voice is supplied by Debra Wilson.[64] In 2007 finally, Storm was confirmed as a playable character on Marvel: Ultimate Alliance.[64]

Theme park ride

Along with Doctor Doom, the Hulk, the Kingpin and Spider-Man, Storm also has a ride in Marvel Super Hero Island of Universal Studios. The ride, based on a common teacup ride, is called "Storm Force Acceleration". It includes strobe lights which can be seen if ridden after dark. She is the first superheroine and X-Man to have a ride named after her on Marvel Super Hero Island.[4]

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