Rogue.....

Real Name: Anna Marie (last name unknown)
Affiliation: X-Men
Previous Affiliations: (X-Treme) X-Men, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (II)
Aliases: Anna Raven
Relatives: Owen (father, deceased?), Priscilla (mother, deceased), Carrie (maternal aunt), Mystique (foster mother)
Alternate-X Versions: (AOA), Exiles (New Team), "Phoenix" (Mangaverse), (Mutant X), Ultimate), (The End), (Evolution), Movieverse), (TAS)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced rōg [Perhaps a 16th-century shortened form of roger (with a hard -g-), thieves' slang for a begging vagabond who pretends to be a poor scholar from Oxford or Cambridge, perhaps from Latin rogare "to ask."]; An unprincipled and unsavory person.
Powers: 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 named Cody, and drained his energy and mind. Rogue was found soon afterwards by Mystique, who recognized her abilities and adopted her as a daughter. Rogue lived with Mystique and Destiny for a few years, and became a member of her mother's Brotherhood, engaging in many terrorist activities.

After her battle with Ms. Marvel, however, Rogue retained her opponent's powers of strength, flight, invulnerability, the ability to fly in space without protection, and a precognitive 7th sense, along with most of her psyche. 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 suppresed. 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 Beladonna 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 crystalization 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 wliderness 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 abosrbed 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. Rogue then left the X-Men with some of her teammates in search of Destiny's lost journals.

During an invasion of aliens from another dimension, Rogue begged Sage to use her jump-starting powers to evolve Rogue to a point where she could control all of the various powers inside of her. Sage agreed, and Rogue became a one-woman army, able to use the powers of anyone she had ever absorbed in the past, and exhibit multiple powers at once.

In that same invasion, Rogue was confronted by Vargas, who wanted to kill her to preserve his own life. Vargas showed her a page from one of Destiny's diaries that proved to him that Rogue would kill him. Rogue fought Vargas off and sped to rescue Gambit from the machine that was using him to power a trans-dimensional gate, but the power beam trapped her with him, and they were both stabbed by Vargas. Wounded but livid, Rogue pursued Vargas, ambushing him by replacing his statue of Psylocke and eventually using all her abilities to defeat him (and perhaps kill him, though the exact outcome of their fight is still uncertain). Both Remy and Rogue survived by a near margin, though Rogue was forced to enter the astral plane to force Gambit to live.

Following the repulsion of the invasion, Rogue realized that the Destiny Prophecies are just possibilities and that following them is more dangerous than ignoring them. She also found that she had inherited a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny, and the X-Men retired there to recuperate. Rogue soon left the team with Gambit, since they both emerged powerless from their ordeals, and they wanted to further explore their relationship.

She reconnected with the X-Men while living in Valle Soledas, California, a mixed human-mutant community. Still powerless, she was able to wear less than full coverage, but often kept a temporary skin art design on her arm, courtesy of Paint, as it made her less self-conscious. Rogue helped the X-Men prevent Marie D'Ancanto, a victim of mutant agression from blowing up a mixed club.

Sometime after rejoining the main X-Men team at the Mansion, Rogue regained her powers. She previously had convinced Sage to use her catalyst ability to jump start Gambit's powers, so it seems possible that Sage may then have done the same for Rogue. However, she does not seem to have regained the abilities she got from Ms. Marvel.

Shortly afterwards, Rogue was entangled in a strange set of events near her old hometown, which brought her to find out about her parents' pasts and specifically, what befell her mother. With the help of Campbell, who was in fact a mutant dream, she journeyed into a dream world and stopped her mother from breaching the barriers between that place and our world. Soon after, she saw a news photo of herself, Mystique and Sunfire of which she had no memory, and which was being used to impugn Sunfire's honor. However, Rogue thought that Sunfire was to blame and she traveled to Japan but was ambushed on the jet by Lady Deathstrike. Defeating Deathstrike, Rogue attacked Sunfire, but learned that he is innocent, and they both hunted down the Silver Samurai, whom they figure must be the villain. Rogue and Sunfire try to stop him, but Deathstrike crippled Sunfire and Rogue is captured. A woman named Blindspot then revealed her shared past with Rogue, dating from before the formation of Mystique's Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, when they were a team, and Blindspot was the only one who could touch Rogue, due to the similar nature of their powers. Sunfire then forced Rogue to take his remaining power to avenge his imminent death. Rogue defeated Deathstrike, but Blindspot excised her memories back to her days with the Brotherhood (hoping to get Rogue to stay with her) and she fought the X-Men. However, she deduced what her former friend did and conviced her to let her return to her current life. Rogue was left with Sunfire's power, perhaps permanently.

Returning to the Mansion, Rogue and Gambit began telepathic therapy sessions with Emma Frost to try and cure their touching problem, but nothing seemed to work. Then one of Gambit's students named Foxx tried to seduce him, and was revealed as being Mystique! Rogue was confused, but Mystique brought her protege Pulse to meet Rogue. Pulse could disrupt Rogue's power and touch her, and Mystique wanted to break up Rogue and Gambit so Rogue could finally have a fulfilling relationship. This backfired when Pulse didn't want to be used, and Rogue stayed with Gambit until the latter's transformation into Death IV. Rogue refused to believe her love was turned, but after Death tried to kill her a few times she started to let go. She still held on to the hope that he would eventually return, but that seemed a slim chance even to her.

Soon afterwards, Rogue worked with Cyclops and Emma to rescue mutants being experimented on by a clinic and afterwards was offered a role as a strike team leader by Cyclops. With the luxury to choose her own team, Rogue put together a motley crew of X-Men and former villains, including Mystique, to stop the Children of the Vault (advanced humans), who had attacked the Mansion. Then Rogue was captured by Pandemic, a former associate of Xavier's who used Rogue's genes to give himself similar powers but wanted more. He infected Rogue with Strain 88 of a virus, nearly killing her. The X-Men got Rogue to Cable's island base Providence to save her life. There she discovered that her touch now killed instead of merely incapacitating. Still weakened, Rogue left the hospital to fight the Shi'ar weapon Hecatomb, and absorbed the eight billion minds the device had stored in its memory. Shaken to her core and barely in control, Rogue was later shot by Mystique, who had infiltrated the X-Men but was working with a subset of Marauders. Mystique took Rogue to Sinister to get his help in curing her mental and physical problems.

However, Sinister's work was interrupted by the arrival of the "Messiah baby" and the subsequent scramble to find her. Eventually, Mystique betrayed and killed Sinister, and Rogue's mind was purged of external influences by the Messiah baby's touch. Unfortunately, Rogue then had to confront Mystique as well, and absorbed her foster mother's mind into her own, in a way almost similar to the Ms. Marvel transferrence. Afterwards, Rogue could "see" and converse with the embedded Mystique persona, and at times could allow the mental image to take control of her body, at which point she could use her shape-shifting abilities.

To clear her head and try to come to terms with all that had happened to her, Rogue traveled to the Australian Outback town once inhabited by the X-Men, hoping for some solitude. However, she was interrupted by a researcher from a university in Melbourne who turned out to be Danger. Danger hoped to use Rogue to either lure Xavier to her or kill Xavier herself, so she constructed a variety of holographic scenarios designed to push Rogue towards an acceptance and evolution of her powers. Danger had computed that Rogue's mind was partitioned due to the trauma of hurting Cody, and had devised a solution that forced Rogue to confront her past. They were interrupted by Xavier, Gambit, and a Shi'ar scavenger ship that had detected Danger's advanced Shi'ar technology. Danger was incapacitated by the Shi'ar, but Rogue managed to fight them off with their own ship. After the aliens' departure Professor X freed Danger from the last of his controls and together they psychically operated on Rogue to remove the mental blocks she had unconsciously set up with every power and memory transfer, in order to allow her powers to mature naturally. After a brief convalescence, Rogue awoke feeling tingly, and Xavier told her she would have to learn how to control herself. She meditated for a few days and finally tested her ability to touch by kissing Gambit, who had remained by her side the whole time. Nothing happened, which meant the process was successful. Rogue accepted Gambit's offer to return to civilization with her, though she asked that he not press her to restore their romance just yet.