#&& ororo munroe

[andrew-garfielld]

STORM wielding Mjolnir as The Goddess of Thunder in ‘WHAT IF…?’ SEASON 3 Official Trailer

[ponderosa121]

X-men. Logan/Ororo. Good morning. Join me in enjoying one of my all time top five Logan ships. 💛⚡️ (bonus smooch on Bsky)

[ariel-seagull-wings]

@maedelin

With how much focus she has received since the beginning of the Krakoa era, what are your thoughts on Storm ? And do you agree on the perception that she's becoming something of a Mary Sue?

I’m going to start with a mini-rant about the Mary Sue.

To the extent that there is any validity to the term at all, it is solely and exclusively within the realm of fanfiction. A Mary Sue is an OC (original character) whose supposed annoying omni-competence is really secondary to the main problem with the character, which is that they warp the narrative away from the main characters of the source material - Kirk and Spock or Picard and Data stop doing things that drive the plot, and instead just stand around asking "where's Poochie?"

Outside of fanfiction and in the realm of the media that gives rise to fanfiction, a prominent character who is incredibly talented and powerful and who makes the plot center around them is called a fucking protagonist - so no, Rey isn’t a Mary Sue, Carol Danvers isn’t a Mary Sue, Katniss Everdeen isn't a Mary Sue - none of them are Mary Sues and anyone who claims otherwise is showing that they have deep-seated Issues with female protagonists in their fiction.

Is Storm a Mary Sue?

Even if we weren't talking about the most prominent black woman character in fiction, I would consider this question pretty damn offensive, both because no one would ever ask this question about a male character and - in a franchise packed to the gills with hyper-powerful women who make the plots revolve around them and who even get the complementary Love Triangle - no one sends me asks about any of those (white) women.

But to answer your question: no, Storm is not a Mary Sue - she's the main character of the X-Men.

See, when Chris Claremont took over X-Men in 1975, he did so with a brand-new cast of characters, the so-called "All-New, All-Different X-Men." In no small part because they were far more diverse and more colorful than the O5 (suburban WASPs one and all), most of these characters would become break-out stars and the core of the X-Men from that day to this.

However, Claremont didn't vibe with all of the All-New X-Men equally: he had Sunfire quit the team (repeatedly), he killed off Thunderbird for shock value (a death that has only been reversed this last year), he would have killed off Wolverine if John Byrne hadn't stopped him (Claremont would later turn around on Logan once he worked out his voice), etc.

But one character that he vibed with right from the beginning was Ororo Monroe. From the very beginning, Claremont's Storm is the most powerful of the All-New X-Men, both in terms of her powers and in terms of her personality, being the only person who can face down Logan. At the same time, she's complicated by her struggles with crippling claustrophobia caused by the Suez Crisis-induced trauma of her childhood.

After a few years, Claremont tired of the African Nature Goddess routine and had Storm experience an almost total transformation that nonetheless was completely grounded in her character. Feeling overly limited by the total emotional control required of her powers, Ororo undergoes a subtextual lesbian awakening in Tokyo's underground punk scene and emerges out the other side a free spirit, leader of the X-Men, and Queen of the Morlocks.

In his most audacious move in LifeDeath I and II, Claremont had Storm lose her powers thanks to Forge's anti-mutant tech - and then defeat Cyclops in a duel for command of the X-Men without her powers - and then regain her powers in an epic cycle that saw the X-Men die and be reborn as outlaw heroes in the Australian Outback.

In sum, Storm was clearly Claremont's favorite character and, as a result had the most interesting character journey over his 16-year run on X-Men.

Storm in Krakoa

And then Storm basically lay fallow for almost thirty years. In no small part due to the pioneering work done by Claremont with this character, later writers were frankly too intimidated to touch the character and so starting in the 90s, Storm was increasingly sidelined in the comics in favor of the characters that were commercially "hot" at the time - Wolverine and Gambit, especially.

In the 2000s, the most significant thing to happen to Storm was her marriage to T'challa. While I think Reggie Hudlin had mostly good intentions with this decision - he wanted to create a black power couple at Marvel and thus put together Marvel's most prominent black man and black woman into a relationship - the result was to make Storm a supporting character in Black Panther comics, rather than a main character in X-Men comics.

I would argue that it is only recently with the advent of Al Ewing as a major writer in the X-office with S.W.O.R.D, X-Men Red, and Storm and the Brotherhood of Mutants that we've gotten a writer who's not afraid to write Storm as she deserves to be written - as the most powerful of the X-Men, the Regent of Arrako and the Voice of Sol, the standard-bearer of Magneto's legacy, and a woman trying to balance the demands of two planets and her own desires.

[liquorwrist]

I just wanted to draw jubilee and ororo and a cat.

(Inspired by that one cat morph post that’s inspired by this cat morph post from guyzone and window-to-oblivion)

[crazyaboutto]

Storm in What If...? Season 3

I'm literally gagged! The Goddess Queen is in a Marvel content that isn't directly mutant related like X-Men 97!

Alison Sealy-Smith's voice commends such Goddess aura!

[fixationrambles37]

New image of Storm revealed for Marvels upcoming What If?.. Season 3!!

[maynam]

[sbd-laytall]

Their relationship is so cute and pure.

Nightcrawler (2014) #1, #3

[merrymarvelite]

Cover of the Day: X-Men #115 (November, 1978) Art by John Byrne, Terry Austin, Danny Crespi, Michael Higgins

[wwprice1]

Rachel recounts her terrible future and the X-Men recommit themselves to the dream.

[monkeyqueen22]

Wolverine: First Class #01

[eternalmoonlight19]

Kitty and her two gay moms.

[headcannonsandotherthings]

Even more X-Men headcannons

Again, most of these are dumb but my X-Men hyperfixation is still going strong! (Also this is me coping with the election results 🥲)

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Morph has an entire closet dedicated to Halloween costumes. They take Halloween so seriously.

Jean is THAT person who would decorate for Christmas as soon as it hits November 1st.

Jubilee bullies the ugly villagers off of her Animal Crossing village.

Jubilee got Gambit into Cooking Mama, and to say he would be obsessed would be an understatement.

All of them would watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade, mostly for the Broadway performances.

One year, they even decided to go to the parade, and it was chaotic in the best way possible.

Once Morph and Logan were at a history museum for a mission and they kept asking Logan if it was historically accurate.

Storm would drink the medicinal ball tea from Starbucks.

Gambit's motto for the younger team members/students is "Do as I say, not as I do."

Jean would wear Chanel No. 5 or Miss Dior (something like that).

Morph would have trolled Trump supporters on Twitter just to get a reaction out of them… and it works every single time

Rogue loves Dolly Parton. You cannot tell me otherwise.

So much so that Remy took Rogue to Dollywood one year for her birthday and it was the happiest day of her life. (Besides her wedding day).

[strangenewwords]

Marauders #20 (2019)

[liquorwrist]

prof x in the city

[farsight-the-char]

At Lucca, met with @duss005 and painted together. (Auction link in the comment) Lil Marvel X Lil DC (Peach Momoko X Dustin Nguyen)