Storm's powers generate a field of static around her body that interferes with telepathic influence. She's not totally immune, but she has better time against Telepaths than most other non-telepaths.
When Storm's eyes turn white, her vision expands past the visible spectrum to all the patterns of energy (Heat, Electricity, etc.) that makes up the weather, creating a riot of colors in the sky that only she can see!
It's such a basic part of her powerset that's never been adapted in literally anything before, but I think we have a chance now: imagine the MCU recreates the plotline where Storm allows Rogue to drain her powers for a bit to understand her better, or even Ororo asks Jean to see through her eyes and that deepens their friendship! Oh, the possibilities...
Did... did Deadline describe Storm as someone 'T'Challa had a son with in the comics'?
Scott and Jean got mini bios. Storm could have been mentioned as 'worshipped as a Goddess in Kenya', or 'leader of several X-teams', 'member of The Avengers' even. Instead, they define her by her relationship with a male character.
Feels like she's being undersold.
Uhh... chile... anyway, so...
I've heard that a lot of people want Storm to feature in political/leadership plotlines, and while that's fine I think Storm shouldn't be limited to things she's already done before because her personality and skills are so flexible that she could do a lot more.
I'd like to see a thief style story with Storm since she hasn't had one of those in a while despite having the skill for it and her powers being surprisingly well suited for it (fog that reduces vision, making security cameras short circuit, etc.)
I just finished rereading LifeDeath pt 2 and something I found really interesting is that the ending suggests that it's Storm's destiny to become the bridge between Mutant and Humankind and the reason I found that so interesting is because that idea actually comes up a couple times throughout Storm's history (Storm started out as the only mutant that had a positive relationship with humanity, Xavier called Storm the bridge when she became Queen of Wakanda, even her recent solo had her respected and beloved by Humanity). Storm clearly has a closer and more positive relationship with Humanity than Scott or Magneto (no shade), and I think out of all the mutant leaders she has the most potential to bridge the gap.
What do you think?
These pictures are more out of order then I intended and it's going to mess up my whole post lol
The Elephant: Storm was being worshipped by local Kenyan tribes peoples before Chuck found her (rediscovered her anyway) and delivered what is the first picture as I am typing this. As a comic written in the year 1975, it's kinda nakedly obvious that this is playing into stereotypes about "backwards" Africans not being able to understand the scientific phenomena that is mutation, and Storm would be wrapped up in that stereotype since she herself honestly believes herself to be a goddess and glares at Xavier when he says she's not.
As you can probably guess, that idea hasn't exactly sat well with modern audiences (an understatement). This gave us the hypercorrection retcon that, apparently, the Uzuri tribe (I think it was stated that Storm was worshipped by multiple tribes but whatever) was well aware Storm was never a goddess but merely played into her delusions in order to get rain from her. This changes Storm's origin story from Africans being unable to understand modern science to a group of humans taking advantage of an orphan mutant girl so they can profit from her powers, until Chuck shows up to "save" her. The implications of that are somehow even worse than the original.
And all of this are before you factor in two very big wrenches -> 1) Ororo was thief living in the modern city of Cairo before she walked to Kenya and was at least decently street smart, which imo makes it fairly unbelievable that she was "crazy" enough to think she had become a goddess just from getting powers and having people butter her up and 2) In modern comics canon, Ororo is a goddess, which means that the local tribes people (and Ororo herself) were correct in the 1975 version and that the tribes people are just as wrong as Xavier in the 2010s version.
So now it's like we somehow have like 10 different interpretations of Ororo's origin story: one where Xavier is a white savior and another where he's playing with forces he doesn't understand, one where the tribes people correctly identified a physical goddess and another where they are just taking advantage of a crazy mutant girl, one version where the wise and intelligent Ororo knows nothing about herself (note: in the 1975 version, Ororo forgot her past as a thief and only remembered after joining the X-Men) and another where she is more correct about her true nature than literally everyone around her. It's actually impressive that all the decades and retcons have made everyone (not named Ororo) in this tale worse lol. Nested within the chaos, there is the 2014 X-Men Annual story where Storm currently doesn't claim to be a goddess, but "plays along" with the tribe's folk because she knows that idea is important to them. And then a friendly ghost informs her that she wasn't responsible for accidentally killing a group of people a long time ago, so that happened.
I have forgotten where I was going with this... so, where do you think we go from here?
Me vague ranting but I feel like so many arguments about Ororo can be summed down to either "I don't understand why she isn't like XYZ characters" or people being mad that she doesn't match their expectations and the idea they have of her in their head. But the thing about Storm is that she is a character that cannot be boiled down into one box, it's almost like a defining characteristic of hers: she's been a thief, then became a goddess, then became leader of the X-Men, then became a punk and later Queen of Wakanda and Voice of Sol! She's a woman who has walked nearly every path, so it's disappointing at times seeing people so focused on which specific box to put her in.
I also see this in Storm's heritage, people constantly fighting over if she's "African" or "African American" when she's clearly meant to be both and it's a good thing that such a unique experience of true Pan-African heritage is so visible within the comic book world. And there's also the fighting over Storm's Mutantness and if she really knows what it's like to be mutant (she does) and the arguments over her magical heritage which I won't get into here lol.
I do wonder, with the media literacy crisis going around, if the reason people fight over which box to put Storm in is because she doesn't perfectly match up to whatever Tv Trope they are trying to slot her under, but I just wish people would see the beauty in complexity and a character that's not always 100% understandable.
I consider Storm's relationship with nature is one of the key parts of her personality and it's nice to see it represented here
Oooh I don't want to be known as that guy that reposts peoples bad hot takes but this pissed me off
So there was a thread where someone asked people's opinions on magic in the X mythos and like clockwork basically everyone there said "I like this, but I don't like Storm being magic". This comment however stood out to me because this guy is basically claiming that Storm's hair and eye color was retconned from mutation to magic when... No?
No, no, no! Storm's mystical white hair and eyes have been canon for over 20 years now (actually over 40 years but it was first confirmed in the 2000s). That fact is repeated so often that it's in Official Marvel Handbooks and other material?! And of course, they backtrack with the "Storm is oh so iconic so she doesn't need magic to overcomplicate her" and notice how that is only ever a problem for Storm? At this point, I think the LARPer fans are worse than Storm haters :/
He's powerful enough to kill Oblivion's M-Body, but Eternal Storm was able to seemingly able to mortally wound him using punches "with an atmospheric pressure that rivals the sun's plasma core", which suggests that his AP (universe+) and defense (Star+) are pretty lopsided.
I found these... opinions in a non-comics focused thread and it stuck out to me how apparently the only thing non comics readers know about Storm was that stuff she said in X3 and they use that to bash her all the time.
But this is the first time I've seen people imply that Storm is an out of touch privileged woman that "doesn't know what it's like to be a mutant" and... huh? Storm was literally an orphan living on the street before she decided to switch to the wilderness?? And the arguments that she doesn't know what it's like to be a mutant (looks human, has extreme powers) can apply to like all of the O5 but Beast basically???
I dunno, something about this stuck me as weird :/
In the classic Claremont Era, Storm demonstrated the ability to control cosmic elements numerous times and soloed Dr. Doom and yet people are still acting like she was always weak until Murewa "turned her into a Mary Sue".
I've even seen people say Storm was an "Alpha Mutant" and that the Krakoan era "ruined" her by making her Omega??? When will the slander end?!