January 26th, 2012

blackfemalesuperheroes:

I’ve reached 100 followers! :D So, in honor of that, I am posting the most popular black lady in the Comic Universe:

Storm

The queen bee of the superhero game, Storm first appeared in Giant Size X-Men # 1 in May 1975. Storm was created using different characters that were originally intended to be used in the Legion Of Superheroes comic book. During an interview in 1999, Len Wein explained that the original black female character of Legion would have been named The Black Cat(HM! Sound familiar to anyone?!?! BLACK CAT!) and wore a similar costume to Storm but without the cape and sported cat-like haircut and ears. However, due to other female cat-like characters like Tigra appearing, Dave Cockrum decided to re-design the new character and give her white hair and a black cape and the name Storm. Storm is a descendant of an ancient royal line of white-haired, blue-eyed sorceresses (possibly mutants), who get their defining features every five generations. Her royal heritage can be traced back since the dawn of humanity and her family’s kingdom lies hidden in the Great Rift Valley of Africa, the valley that spawned the human race itself. The power in her family is transferred from mother to daughter.

Her mother, Princess N’Dare, rebelled against their tradition as she felt that she was forced to do the role that was given to her. She then married an American photojournalist, David Munroe, and they lived in Manhattan. They moved to Cairo, Egypt when Ororo was still an infant. When Ororo was five, she and her family were caught in an Arab-Israeli conflict. Her parents were killed and Ororo ended up buried under rubble next to her mother’s body. Because of this, Ororo has a life long struggle to overcome her severe claustrophobia. Ororo was never sought after by her own people in fear of her safety as her own uncle, Shetani, who felt left out and wanted to rule, threatened that he would kill Ororo should her people even try to find her. Storm, by birth, is the rightful heir to her family’s kingdom and to the oldest royal family on the face of the Earth. As an orphan in Cairo, Ororo was forced to live on the streets. She was taken in by Achmed El-Gibar who taught her the many skills of thievery and hand to hand combat. While in Cairo, Storm has her first encounter with Charles Xavier, a powerful telepath who would go on form the team of mutants called the X-Men. Through Ororo’s attempt to pick Xavier’s pocket, Charles meets the Shadow King. Storm also proves her skills as a thief by stealing a rare ruby-colored gem, the so-called “heart of eternal darkness” against Achmed’s orders.

Years later, it would be discovered that this stone contained the essence of the immortal mutant Candra. Years later, Ororo leaves Egypt and returns to her ancestral homeland of Kenya. On the way there, Ororo accepts a ride with a man who attempts to rape her. Ororo killed the man with a knife, but swears never to take a life again. After nearly dying of thirst in the Sahara desert, Ororo learns that she has the power to control the weather. She also learns that South Africans, under the leadership of Andreas de Ruyter, were trying to kidnap Prince T’Challa of Wakanda, who was a little older than her. Storm uses her powers to help him escape, and the two travel together for a while, growing attracted to each other, but Ororo’s dream and T’Challa’s duty meant they couldn’t be together yet. Making her home in the Serengeti Plain in Kenya, Storm calls out to her goddess and is answered with the sight of a shining figure of a woman, who resembles her.

Adopted as a goddess of life by the local tribes, Storm helps however she can, with her powers. The connection between the weather and her emotional state lead her to detach herself from stronger emotions as far as possible to protect the people. An elderly tribal woman, Ainet, helps her learn how to responsibly use her complex powers. When a threat arises from a fellow mutant called Deluge, who had wrested control over the weather from her in an attempt to revenge himself on humanity. Ororo managed to destroy Deluge and disperse the storm with the help of the X-Men, stranded in Kenya at that time. The X-Men inform Professor X about this promising mutant, however, he already knows of her, but hadn’t contacted her before because he thought the cultural shock would be too much for her to handle.

Eventually however, Xavier is left with no choice but to contact Ororo and ask her assistance in rescuing the X-Men, explaining to her that she was not a goddess but a mutant. Ororo agrees to join the X-Men and returns to live in America. The new X-Men’s first mission tasks them with rescuing the original X-Men from the living island of Krakoa. Acclimatizing to life in America, Ororo was naive in the ways of the modern world; for example, she had no idea why there was any need for clothing, if one didn’t feel cold. Storm quickly makes friends among the X-Men, regarding them as a family, with an especially strong bond of friendship with Jean Grey, who helped Ororo to buy a new wardrobe. It was during one of their shopping tours that Jean learned of Storm’s severe claustrophobia when the two women were chasing a thief into a subway station.

Although she is known as the most bad-ass women in the superhero game, her one weakness is being claustrophobic. She has even lost control of her powers because of claustrophobic attacks from her enemies, but over time, she has learned to somewhat control her fears.

She is also married to Black Panther.

Names she goes by:

Ororo Munroe

Beautiful Windrider

Weather Witch

Mistress of the Elements

High Priestess

Goddess of the Plains

Mutate #20

Queen Ororo

White Queen

Ororo Komos Wakandas

La Reine Storm

There are multiple upon multiple versions of storm due to other earths/comic versions. If you were to image google storm, the list would be infinite and her costume and appearance in each picture would be different.

I’m just giggling at the fact that Storm was suppose to be Black Cat. lol :)

∞12:06 pm, reblogged  by barbiebones ∩73
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    I’m just giggling...Black Cat. lol :)
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    #Look at this awesome bio #can I just link this to all the apps I need to submit ever for Storm
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    I need this to be the next X-Men Origins movie.
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    One of these days I’m going to do a kick-ass cosplay of Storm.