About Storm

Storm Comic Book History

Once worshiped in Africa as a storm goddess, Ororo Munroe possesses the psionic ability to manipulate the weather. As a member of the X-Men, she uses her unique genetic gifts in service of a world that hates and fears mutantkind.

Real name: Ororo Munroe
Occupation: Adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal status: Native-born citizen of the United States with no criminal record. She probably has a criminal record in Egypt, but under her full real name.
Place of birth: New York City
Group affiliation: X-Men
Base of operations: Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters, Salem Center, Westchester County, New York
First appearance: GIANT SIZE X-MEN #1
Height: 5' 11''
Weight: 127 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White

Known superhuman powers: Storm is a mutant with the psionic ability to manipulate the weather. She can stimulate the creation of any form of precipitation -- rain, snow, sleet, hail or fog -- and generate winds in varying degrees of intensity, up to hurricane force. Also, her mutation enables her to raise or lower the humidity and temperature in her immediate vicinity, induce lightning and other electrical atmospheric phenomena, and disperse natural storms so as to create clear change.
 

History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.  When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, their home was destroyed by a bomb. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today. Homeless and orphaned, Ororo came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil in thievery and in picking locks. Years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert and finally reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain, which lies in the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged, and she used them to help the local tribes, who worshipped her as a goddess. Ororo remained with the tribes for years until Professor Charles Xavier recruited her into the new team of X-Men he was assembling. She was given the code-name "Storm" after her power to affect the weather. Except for brief periods away from the team, Storm has remained in the X-Men ever since and shares leadership of the X-Men with Cyclops.

Information taken from Marvel Inc.

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