Storm.....

Real Name: Queen Ororo Munroe of Wakanda
Affiliation: Fantastic Four, Royal House of Wakanda
Previous Affiliations: X-Men, X-Treme Sanctions Executive , (X-Treme) X-Men, Morlocks (Leader)
Aliases: Mutate #20
Relatives: David (father, deceased), N'dare (mother, deceased), Ainet (foster-mother), Harriet (paternal grandmother), Paternal Grandfather (unnamed), Paternal Aunt (unnamed, deceased), David (cousin), Maternal Grandmother (unnamed), Colonel Shetani (maternal uncle), Ashake (ancient ancestor)
Alternate-X Versions: (Age of Apocalypse), (Days of Future Past), Queen Ororo (Earth X), (Limbo), (Mangaverse), (Movieverse), Bloodstorm (Mutant X), (Ultimate), (Evolution), (TAS)
Codename Etymology: Pronounced stôrm [From Old English st¨rm]; Strong winds with rain or snow, often with lightning.
Powers & History: 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. 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. She is also an excellent thief and lockpicker, talents learned during her childhood as an orphan thief in Cairo under the tutelage of Achmed El-Gibar. Ororo was his favorite, but after a while she left Cairo and ended up working with other theives led by a man they simply called "Teacher." During this period Ororo was chased by white hunters who had heard of her burgeoning powers, and she was rescued by T'Challa, the prince of Wakanda who would one day become the Black Panther. Though the two teens shared a whirlwind romance, they parted ways and did not see each other for years.

Ororo 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. Still, she led the X-Men, and even defeated Cyclops in a Danger Room combat session when he tried to take control of the team.

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.

Early on in their mission, Storm agreed to help a number of Saurid refugees travel to the Savage Land. The mission was ambushed by the Savage Land Mutates, and Storm was captured by Brainchild. Brainchild brainwashed Storm and also genetically maniuplated her body to revert her to a more feral state, complete with fangs and claws, and sent her to attack the X-Men. Though the X-Men helped Storm break Brainchild's hold on her, Storm was concerned about lingering effects, though since she was somehow returned to normal, she seems fine.

Then, while stopping an inter-dimensional invasion in Madripoor, Storm was brutally betrayed and slashed in the spine by Viper. Fortunately, the invading leader, Khan was smitten with Storm and brought her to his dimension where the advanced medicine saved her life. Though Khan wanted Storm to be his queen, she eventually escaped with the rest of her X-Men. Since then she has been recovering well under Wolverine's guidance, but she still pushes the envelope too far too often, leaving her at risk for permanent paralysis. And though Storm's team and their whereabouts were now known to Professor X and she has had contact with some of his staff, Storm maintained her team's independence, hoping to focus on protecting humans from mutants.

Some time later, Storm visited Yukio in Japan and became embroiled in a ring of fighting competitions organized by Masque. She was drugged and manipulated to become the Arena's champion, battling Callisto and then nearly being forced to kill Yukio before she re-asserted control over her mind. She eventually fought Masque and won, becoming the overall leader of the Arena, which she left in Callisto's hands.

Returning to the X-Men, Storm led them against Elias Bogan and freed Rachel Summers from his thrall. She also proposed and received approval from Val Cooper and Alexei Vashin for a mutant police force called the X.S.E. (X-Treme Sanctions Executive), which operated for some time in conjunction with a multi-national governmental task force. However, following Magneto IV's attack on New York, Storm returned her team to the rebuilt X-Mansion, taking up residence in the carriage house. Storm still ran the X.S.E., dispatching Nightcrawler to deal with certain supernatural menaces in New York and the other members to deal with X-23 and mutant-related crimes. Along the way she seemed to be flirting with both Wolverine and Nightcrawler, but went out more with Logan, though it seemed to be platonic.

Then, on a mission to Africa to deal with mutated animals, Ororo ran into the Black Panther again. T'Challa appeared to miss Ororo and attempted to woo her, but she rejected him, AFTER planting a huge kiss on him. Rather than return to the United States, though, Storm remained in Africa, seeing the need of the common people for a protector "goddess."