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STORM
Earth-295

Real Name: Ororo Munroe

Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-295), human mutant, naturalized citizen of the United States, former citizen of Kenia

Occupation: Servant of Weapon Omega, former Freedom fighter

Group Membership: None
    formerly Black Legion (Beta Red, Blob/Fred Dukes, Demon-Ock, Grimm Chamber, Iron Ghost, Manphibian, Orange Hulk, Weapon Omega/Logan, White Cloak, Zombie Sentry/Robert Reynolds), formerly X-Men (Beak/Barnell Bohusk, Banshee/Sean Cassidy, Blink/Clarice Ferguson, Dazzler/Alison Blaire, Exodus/Bennett du Paris, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Magneto/Erik Magnus Lensherr, Morph/Kevin Sidney, M.O.D.O.K./'Charles Xavier', Nightcrawler/Kurt Darkholme, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Rogue/Anna Marie Lensherr, Scarlet Witch/Wanda Maximoff Lensherr, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Silver Samurai/Kenuicho Harada, Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida, Weapon X/Logan, Wild Child/Kyle Gibney, Wolfsbane/Rahne Sinclair, Quicksilver/Pietro Maximoff-Lensherr, X-23/Kirika Yashida, Xorn/Paige Guthrie)

Affiliations: Achmed El-Gibar, Angel (Warren Worthington III), Bishop, Bova, Peter Corbeau, Destiny (Irene Adler), Forge, Generation Next (Chamber/Jonothon Starsmore, Colossus/Peter Rasputin, Husk/Paige Guthrie, Know-It-All/Claudia, Mondo, Shadowcat/Kitty Pryde, Skin/Angelo Espinosa, Vincente/Vincente Simetta), Jeremy Graves, Robert Kelly, Mystique (Raven Darkholme), Nanny, Illyana Rasputin, prelate Scott Summers, X-Ternals (Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Jubilee/Jubilation Lee, Lila Cheney), Charles Francis Xavier

Enemies: Abyss (Nils Styger), Apocalypse (En Sabah Nur), Brotherhood of Chaos (Arclight, Copycat/Vanessa Carlysle, Madison Jeffries, Spyne, Yeti), Candra's Heralds (Candra, Death, Gideon, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, War), Dark Beast (Hank McCoy), The Guthries (Amazon/Elizabeth Guthrie, Cannonball/Sam Guthrie, Icarus/Josh Guthrie), Hellions (Catseye/Sharon Smith, Roulette/Jennifer Stavros, Tarot/Marie-Ange Colbert, unidentified others), Holocaust (Nemesis), Infinites, Morlocks (Annalee, Feral, Leech, Marrow, unidentified others), Mr. Sinister (Nathaniel Essex), Madri (Jamie Madrox), Prelate Delgado, Prelate Unus, Shadow King, Sinister Six (Cloak/Ty Johnson, Dagger/Tandy Bowen, Phoenix/Jean Grey, Sauron/Karl Lykos, Sonique/Terry Rourke), Wolverine, X-Force of Earth-616 (Deadpool/Wade Wilson, E.V.A., Fantomex, Psylocke/Betsy Braddock, Wolverine/James Howlett), X-Men (Gambit/Remy LeBeau, Gateway, Jean Grey, Iceman/Bobby Drake, Magneto/Erik Magnus Lensherr, M.O.D.O.K./"Charles Xavier", Nightcrawler/Kurt Darkholme, Rogue/Anna Marie Lensherr, Sabretooth/Victor Creed, Silver Samurai/Kenuicho Harada, Sunfire/Shiro Yoshida, Wild Child/Kyle Gibney, X-23/Kirika Yashida)
    formerly Weapon Omega (Logan)

Known Relatives: David Munroe (father, deceased), N'Dare Munroe (mother, deceased)

Aliases: "Orordius" (as Weapon Omega's servant), 'Windrider' (common nickname), "Stormy" (nickname used by Iceman), "O" (nickname used by Sabretooth), "Ro" (nickname used by Weapon X)

Base of Operations: Weapon Omega's lair;
    formerly the Xavier Institute, Washington D.C.;
    formerly the Xavier estate, the Dead Zone (formerly known as Westchester, New York);
    formerly the underground X-Compound, Kentucky;
    formerly the mountains of New Mexico;
    formerly Mount Wundagore, Transia;
    formerly the Pens, Apocalypse Island;
    formerly Windrider Nation, Africa;
    formerly Cairo, Egypt

First Appearance: X-Men Alpha I#1 (February, 1995)

Powers/Abilities: Storm possesses the mutant ability to control the weather and manipulate atmospheric phenomena. She can generate and direct lightning, summon winds, control temperature, and create various forms of precipitation. Her connection to the Earth's electromagnetic field enhances her perception of weather patterns, allowing her to sense changes in the atmosphere and respond instantaneously. Her lightning can disrupt electrical systems. She can fly by riding wind currents and has enhanced reflexes and durability, making her a formidable opponent in both aerial and ground combat. Storm is a skilled hand-to-hand combatant, a capable medic and a strategist with years of extensive combat experience. She is a skilled lock-pick and thief. Storm has a stylized, black lightning shaped tattoo over the left side of her face. After being turned to living stone by Weapon Omega, she gained enhanced durability.

Height: 5'11
Weight: 127 lbs.
Eyes: Blue
Hair: White

History:

(Amazing X-Men I#4 (fb) - BTS) - After the death of her parents, young Ororo Munroe survived as an orphan on the streets of Cairo. She fell in with a gang of street urchins mentored by Achmed El Gibar, the master thief of Cairo.

(X-Men II#41 (fb) - BTS) - Ororo had an encounter with Charles Xavier when she tried to pick his pocket, only to find he was a telepath who used his powers to make her stop.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse I#1) - During puberty, Ororo felt the urge to leave Egypt and travel deeper into Africa. When her weather control powers manifested, she was treated as a goddess.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse I#1) - Following the rise of Apocalypse, the continent of Africa was in disarray. Storm rose up and declared herself the Windrider. She carved out a small area of Africa as her own and intended to keep it safe from the strife of the war between humans and mutants.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse I#1) - Storm's actions drew attention of Apocalypse who attacked her new nation and brought the windrider to her knees. Ororo was captured, branded with a facial tattoo and put in the care of Sinister and the Dark Beast. They were instructed to remake her into a warrior that Apocalypse called Storm.

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse I#1) - In the Dark Beast's labs, Storm was tortured and subjected to the mind-warping telepathy of the Shadow King. Able to fight off his telepathy, her struggle summoned a storm of such great strength that power across Apocalypse's lands was knocked out. During this outage, a sympathetic Prelate Scott Summers helped her escape (see comments).

(Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse I#1) - Storm escaped to Europe. There, she was eventually confronted by Quicksilver who she assumed was an operative of Apocalypse. Quicksilver eventually earned her trust and asked her to join Magneto's X-Men on Mount Wundagore. Accepting his offer, Ororo kept the name Storm to remind her of what she had been through.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1 (fb) - BTS) - To ensure his young wards had the best possible chance of survival, Magneto proved to be a stern, often brutal taskmaster. He subjected Storm and the others to daily, rigorous training exercises in a combat simulator his students dubbed 'The Killing Zone'.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto surprised Storm and the others by shifting the Killing Zone to level four after he caught them celebrating the fact they had just beaten its third level. He then shocked them even more by introducing Weapon X as their newest, most dangerous member. Logan immediately proved this by succumbing to a berserker rage that the inexperienced telepath Jean Grey managed to temper with Magneto's guidance. Only a few short hours later, they went on their first mission to the United States when Apocalypse and his heralds attacked Cape Citadel to claim the United States' nuclear stockpile.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto led the X-Men in opposing Candra's forces who attacked to buy Gideon time to gain control of the nuclear missiles. While Magneto went inside to stop Gideon, Storm and the others focused on Candra and her troops. Storm found herself in aerial combat with the Horseman Death and forced to summon lightning to take down her opponent. She did so with great reservations, praying to the goddess that she had not killed Death. After Candra and his underlings were defeated, Apocalypse showed himself briefly to gloat while ordering his ship to fire on the young mutants and Sabretooth, who earlier had betrayed his command.

(X-Men Chronicles I#1) - Magneto protected his team from Ship's blast by projecting a wide-range magnetic pulse. After Apocalypse left, he congratulated the X-Men on their first successful mission. But by the time they returned home to Wundagore, Storm and the others had to mourn the loss of one of her own. In their absence, Apocalypse's son Nemesis had attacked Wundagore, resulting in the death of Wanda Maximoff.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) ) - Storm attended the service for Wanda Maximoff who was laid to rest on Mount Wundagore. She comforted Quicksilver who was understandably heartbroken over the loss of his sister.

(X-Man I#3 (fb) ) - Storm enjoyed a whirlwind romance with the mutant inventor Forge who had allied himself with Magneto during the early days of Apocalypse's rise to power. Their relationship, though passionate, did not last.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2 (fb) - BTS) - Storm and Quicksilver grew ever closer during their time as X-Men. Their friendship eventually blossomed into love, but they respected each other's boundaries. She did not tell him how to use his super speed, while he refrained from commenting on how she controlled the weather.

(X-Men Chronicles I#2) - Storm was present when Weapon X and Jean Grey left the team over a falling out with Magneto who had decided to abandon Jean during a recent mission. Magneto forced the remaining X-Men to stay combat ready, taking Storm and the others to Denver to fight off a horde of bandits. During the mission, one of the criminals injured Magneto with a ceramic blade. Storm was on hand to bandage his wounds once they returned to their New Mexico headquarters. She was none too pleased with Magnus when he insisted to ignore his wounds in favor of leading a late night training session. The team later faced Apocalypse's agent Wolverine who proved immune to all their powers, even Storm's elemental strength was not enough to defeat him. In the end, Gambit won the day by blasting the villain far away.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - When Colossus froze during a mission in Africa, it became clear that he had lost the will to fight. Peter explained himself to Storm, Magneto and Quicksilver who were concerned for their teammate and the fact that he had now become a liability in the field.

(Blink I#4) - Storm and the other X-Men were delighted when Blink returned to them after an unplanned solo adventure to the Negative Zone.

(Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1) - Apocalypse took special interest in Storm when he compiled his Chosen files. En Sabah Nur deemed the wind rider worthy of survival, though he openly wondered why she continued to deny the simple truth about herself: she was a goddess who should not concern herself with the fate of mere mortals.

(X-Men Alpha I#1) - Storm joined the X-Men on a mission to Seattle to try and stop the cullings carried out by Apocalypse's Infinite troops. When they engaged Prelate Unus and his forces, Storm's lightning proved crucial in disabling their cybernetic opponents. Together, they helped save the mysterious mutant Bishop who claimed to know Magneto. They took him home to the Xavier Estate in the Dead Zone near Apocalypse Island.

(Astonishing X-Men I#1) - Later that night, Storm attended Magneto's briefing during which he and the other X-Men learned of Bishop's claims that their reality was a mistake that had to be corrected. Storm had a hard time believing Magneto could be this upset by the ramblings of this strange madman, but their discussion was cut short by the arrival of Blink and Sunfire who teleported in to escape Apocalypse's forces. Storm used her weather powers to disperse Sunfire's afterblast while Blink tried to close her teleportal. Before she could, prelate Delgado poked his head through, thereby instantly pinpointing the location of the X-Men's base. After killing Delgado with her powers, Blink helped Sunfire report their findings: the cullings hd resumed on a massive scale and were being carried out by Holocaust himself.

(Amazing X-Men I#1 (fb) - BTS) - While Rogue and her teak took the X-Men's shuttle to Chicago to try and stop Holocaust, Storm joined Quicksilver's squad in preparation for a very different mission. They were tasked by Magneto to go to Maine to help the Eurasian Human High Council evacuate as many humans as possible. Magneto had agreed to assist their approaching Sentinel evacuation fleet which was bound to arrive in Maine.

(Amazing X-Men I#1 - BTS) - Because Sentinels were programmed to attack all mutants, the X-Men first had to introduce a computer virus into their mainframes that would cloak them from their sensors. The team devised a strategy to breach a Sentinel's defenses, using Dazzler's hard light powers to practice on a holo-copy of the robot. Their plan all hinged on Storm using lightning to initially disrupt the Sentinel's sensors, leaving the others an opening to breach the robot's mainframe and insert the disc with the virus.

(Amazing X-Men I#1) - After three trial runs, observed by Bishop, young Charles Lensherr and his robotic Nanny, the X-Men continued to come up a few seconds short which troubled the team to no end. Magneto had little patience for their excuses and got ready to send them off to Maine anyway. There was a brief discussion on how to get there now that Rogue had taken their only shuttle. Iceman wanted to convert his teammates to moisture and fast travel that way. Banshee proposed that he, Storm and Exodus carried the others there. Magneto decided on a third option: he allowed the massively powerful psionic Exodus to remember he had the ability to teleport. Moments later, the team arrived in Maine to start their mission.

(Amazing X-Men I#1) - While the others infiltrated the crowd of thousands of human refugees waiting to be evacuated, Storm headed to the coast of Newfoundland to create weather phenomena that would obscure the Sentinels' approach. Flying under the radar of the defense monitoring tower, she summoned hurricane level winds, twenty feet high swells and lightning storms to hamper communications. Her work helped to allow the Sentinel fleet to pass by undetected. They were unaware that the Madri and the Brotherhood of Chaos were hiding among them.

(Amazing X-Men I#2) - Storm returned to her teammates in time to save them from the Sentinels that had been turned against the X-Men by the Brotherhood's technopath Madison Jeffries. Finding themselves outgunned, the Madri and the Brotherhood fled.

(Amazing X-Men I#2 - BTS) - Banshee chased after the Madri, locating their ship and Apocalypse's latest Horseman Abyss who had kidnapped the young human refugee Jeremy Graves. Banshee offered himself in return for the boy's release, but Abyss demanded to see his old opponent Quicksilver instead.

(Amazing X-Men I#2) - Banshee returned to his teammates to tell the others of Abyss' demands. They were then hit by Abyss' long distance psionic assault, targeted at the nearby human encampment that caused dozens of people to shriek out in agony. This alone was reason for Pietro to go and fight Abyss, but Storm insisted that she accompanied him. Once they reached the Madri ship, Storm was the first to encounter the still form of Jeremy Graves. While she tended to the boy, Abyss made his presence known, mocking and lambasting the X-Men for wasting their potential as mutants by helping humans. Quicksilver was unimpressed with the villain's boasting and used his super speed to force Abyss' tendril-like body into his own dimensional portal. Abyss was unable to stop himself from disappearing. Storm and Quicksilver reunited Jeremy with his parents.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 - BTS) - Storm and the others assisted with the ongoing Sentinel evacuation effort. Afterwards, they used the Madri's ship to fly back to the Xavier Estate, unaware that the place had been attacked by Apocalypse and his Infinites who kidnapped Magneto and Bishop.

(Amazing X-Men I#3) - As soon as Storm and her teammates landed, the signs of battle became obvious. Finding Magneto's abandoned helmet among the destroyed Infinites told them everything they needed to know, even before Iceman discovered the corpse of the teleporting Infinite Vanisher in the Morlock tunnels. Banshee examined the body and concluded he died from laser fire from Nanny's weapons array. Quicksilver ordered Exodus and Dazzler into the tunnels to look for Charles and sent Iceman out to find Rogue.

(Amazing X-Men I#3 - BTS) - Storm and Banshee waited at the estate while Quicksilver rushed out to Apocalypse Island to shake down shady businessman Angel (Warren Worthington) for information on Magneto and Bishop's whereabouts.

(Amazing X-Men I#3) - Quicksilver returned to his two teammates with troubling information: Bishop and Magneto had been separated, forcing him to choose whether to save his father or a stranger. Because he knew Bishop was vitally important to Magneto's plans, he took Storm and Banshee to Quebec where Bishop was being interrogated at the Madri Temple.

(Amazing X-Men I#4) - Arriving in Quebec, Storm boldly forced her way into the temple, crashing through the ceiling of their main interrogation area. She took care of the clergymen by flash freezing them while making sure Bishop was surrounded by warmer air. He looked on in amazement as she produced a set of lock-picks from her costume and easily unlocked his restraints. When Ororo wondered if the Storm from his reality was really so different from her, he confessed that there really wasn't that much difference at all (see comments).

(Amazing X-Men I#4 - BTS) - While Storm freed Bishop from the religious order, Banshee and Quicksilver sneaked into the temple to look for Jamie Madrox, whose mutant cloning abilities were used by Apocalypse to create the Madri.

(Amazing X-Men I#4) - Storm and Bishop soon found themselves overwhelmed by the seemingly endless Madri forces that came pouring out from the depths of their cloister.

(Amazing X-Men I#4 - BTS) - Storm and Bishop were saved when Jamie Madrox willed himself to death, causing all his clones to instantly turn into mindless shells.

(Amazing X-Men I#4) - Storm and her teammates returned with Bishop to the Xavier Estate where they found Rogue's team and the various allies that Magneto had sent on missions. Together, they vowed to take the fight to Apocalypse and rescue their leader (see comments).

(Exiles I#60 (fb) ) - While the final confrontation with Apocalypse was going on, the Eurasian Human High Council launched their nuclear bombs to wipe out North America. Storm and Sunfire watched the bombs fall from the sky.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (fb) - BTS) - Moments before impact, the nuclear bombs were mysteriously deactivated and dismantled. Everyone assumed Magneto had saved them all, it actually was the dying Jean Grey who had accessed the Phoenix force. Storm and the others praised Magneto for his heroism and for the sake of everyone, he decided to embrace the lie.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1) - Over the next year, Ororo helped Magneto go from resistance leader to the acting director of mutant affairs serving under the newly elected president Robert Kelly. Storm stepped up and became team leader even as the X-Men moved to the new Xavier Institute in Washington D.C., There, they began their new mission: hunting down and capturing everyone who worked for Apocalypse.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2 (fb) ) - Storm and the X-Men met Kirika Yashida, the daughter of Weapon X and Mariko who had been captured by Mr. Sinister and kept in his lab in a stasis pod marked X-23. Once revived, it became clear she was a mutant with powers similar to her father's. Magneto took her in, oversaw her training and even granted her request to have adamantium grafted to her skeleton and bone claws.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#1) - Storm led the X-Men in a televised raid on the Massachusetts Academy to take out the Hellions. Magneto used the footage of his team's performance to show the media what he had accomplished as director of mutant affairs. She later joined Magneto and her teammates for dinner in Washington.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2) - Storm and the X-Men were accompanied by Magneto for a mission to New York City to offer the Morlocks amnesty.  However, after years of serving as lab animals for Apocalypse, they were understandably wary of authority figures. When Marrow and Feral attacked Xorn and Silver Samurai, Storm was told by Magneto to use her powers to settle matters. Unfortunately, she was exposed to the power dampening Leech. The X-Men were only able to regain the upper hand after Ororo knocked Leech out, allowing them to capture the Morlocks while making sure their wounded were treated.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3) - While Magneto was away on a mission, the X-Men enjoyed some downtime. A friendly, albeit rowdy game of football was interrupted when Cerebro detected the brain patterns of wanted criminals Sam, Josh en Elizabeth Guthrie near the White House. Storm led the X-Men to apprehend the trio, but she was swatted out of the sky by the size changing Elizabeth. Storm quickly recovered and called down lightning that struck down both Elizabeth and her winged brother Josh. The Guthries then retreated from the scene.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3 - BTS) - The X-Men were unaware that the Guthries' attack on the White House was a planned distraction. At the Xavier Institute, the X-Men's newest recruit Xorn revealed herself to be their sister Paige, eager to have her revenge on the team for abandoning her when she was their student. Paige took down Rogue and chained up young Charles Lensherr.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3) - When the X-Men returned home, they were greeted by Paige and her siblings, ready for round two.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4) - Storm ordered Paige and her family to stand down, but in the end it was the return of Magneto that turned the tide. He killed all of Paige's siblings, leaving Kirika to slay his former student. In her dying moments, Paige forced Magneto to confess the lie he had been perpetuating for over a year: it wasn't him who stopped the nuclear attack: it was Jean Grey who was still alive and in the hands of Mr. Sinister..

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5) - Storm and the others listened to Magneto's painful recount of the past year and the deal he had made with Mr. Sinister. After his story, the team was divided: Quicksilver was convinced his father only had the best intentions while Wolfsbane was ready to tear him apart. Storm was of a more practical mind: asking for forgiveness is one thing, but sometimes actions speak louder than words. They decided to take the fight to Mr. Sinister, locating his base on Liberty Island thanks to a scent Weapon X picked up off of Paige's corpse. Once there, they faced Mr. Sinister and his Sinister Six including its newest member: Jean Grey.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - While Magneto tangled with Sinister, Storm led the X-Men to defeat the Sinister Six. The team was dealt an early blow when Cloak swallowed up Dazzler, Gambit and Nightcrawler. Storm herself had a hard time dealing with Dagger, but she was aided by the X-Men's latest recruit Psylocke who took over the fight, freeing Storm up to handle Cloak. She hurled bolts of lightning at his darkness, which caused him to release most of his prisoners. Only Gambit remained inside, which led Ororo to ask Quicksilver to rush in and retrieve him. Before he could do so, Pietro spotted Soaron about to attack Magneto from behind. He rushed to stop him, but was fatally wounded instead.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6 - BTS) - Storm cared for her dying lover while the fight against Sinister ended when Jean Grey came to her senses and restrained the villain long enough for Weapon X and Kirika to tear him apart with their claws.

(X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6) - Storm attended Pietro Maximoff's funeral and visited his grave site with the X-Men and Magneto who had agreed to stand trial for his actions. With their leader in jail, Storm, Jean and the others vowed to continue on as X-Men.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13 (fb) - BTS) -When Weapon X was subjected to the Celestial Death Seed that had empowered Apocalypse, he became En Sabah Nur's successor: Weapon Omega. He kidnapped his teammate Storm and used the Seed's power to turn her into a being of living stone. Now known as Orordius, she became his major domo, serving both Weapon Omega and his Black Legion.

(Uncanny X-Force I#13) - Orordius graciously welcomed Weapon Omega home when he had kidnapped his estranged wife, X-Men leader Jean Grey. Logan told her to hold the formalities and to prepare the Death Seed to convert Jean to their side. A little later, the X-Men and Earth-616's Force mounted a rescue effort. Orordius was telepathically knocked out by Psylocke (see comments).

Comments: Created by Len Wein & Dave Cockrum;
    adapted by Scott Lobdell, Mark Waid, Roger Cruz, Steve Epting, Tim Townsend & Dan Panosian.

Considering Earth-295's divergence point from Earth-616 is the death of Charles Xavier, this means that technically Earth-295's Storm largely had the same past as her Earth-616 counterpart. However, since most of this has not (yet) been confirmed on panel, it's not included in the profile.

However, some events in Storm's past that are alluded to *have* been included: Earth-295's Charles Xavier did meet her shortly before he died and like her 616-counterpart she was a skilled lock-pick, a profession she undoubtedly picked up from her days as a street urchin working for Cairo's master thief Achmed El-Gibar.

According to Bishop, Storm isn't really that different from the one he knew on Earth-616... And he's not wrong. Apart from the new, very elegant costume and a more practical haircut, she's pretty much 'our' Storm. Maybe that's the reason she doesn't really get to shine during the original event and only has a peripheral role in the sequels. Sure, she gets a handful of lines and she's always ready to hurl lightning, but for the most part, she's just sort of there in the background...

Ororo even vanishes altogether once the final assault on Apocalypse's citadel begins in X-Men Omega. A decade after the fact, a throwaway flashback panel in Exiles I#60, showed she was outside with Sunfire when the bombs dropped.

There's a bit of a disconnect between Storm's handbook profile and what we actually see in the comics. According to the handbook, Storm had a whole life ruling her own country and was tying to foster peace between humans and mutants in Africa while Apocalypse was on the rise in the United States. Sounds good, except X-Men Chronicles I#1 already established that Storm was part of Magneto's original class, well before Apocalypse began building his empire and long before people like Dark Beast and prelate Scott Summers were in the picture.

As for her brief stint as the petrified Orordius, a clear reference to Apocalypse's scribe Ozymandias: she only appeared once in Uncanny X-Force I#13. Several online sources claim she was killed, but while it's true that she doesn't appear again... All Psylocke does is make her sleep.

All locations mentioned are Earth-295, unless otherwise specified.

Storm received a profile in Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005

Profile by Norvo

CLARIFICATIONS:
Storm of Earth-295 should not be confused with

Images: (without ads)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4, p1, pan1 (main)
X-Men Chronicles I#1, p5, pan1 (original X-Men uniform)
X-Men Chronicles I#2, p17, pan1 (medic)
Amazing X-Men I#4, p23, pan1 (rebel uniform)
Amazing X-Men I#2, p9, pan5 (disabling Sentinels)
Amazing X-Men I#4, p5, pan4 (freeing Bishop)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5, p16, pan2 (trust but verify)
Uncanny X-Force I#13, p15, pan1 (as Orordius)

Appearances:
X-Men II#41 (February, 1995) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Andy Kubert & Ron Garney (pencils), Matt Ryan (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Alpha I#1 (February, 1995) - Scott Lobdell & Mark Waid (writers), Roger Cruz & Steve Epting (pencils), Tim Townsend & Dan Panosian (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Chronicles I#1 (March, 1995) - Howard Mackie (writer), Terry Dodson (pencils), Klaus Janson (inks), Kelly Corvese (editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#1 (March, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Amazing X-Men I#1 (March, 1995) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Andy Kubert (pencils), Matt Ryan (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Astonishing X-Men I#2 (April, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
Age of Apocalypse: The Chosen I#1 (April, 1995) - Ian Churchill (pencils), Scott Hanna (inks), Jaye Gardner & Kelly Corvese (editors)
Amazing X-Men I#3 (May, 1995) - Fabian Nicieza (writer), Andy Kubert (pencils), Matt Ryan (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Man I#3 (May, 1995) - Jeph Loeb (writer), Steve Skroce (pencils), Mike Sellers, Bud Larosa (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
 Astonishing X-Men I#4 (June, 1995) - Scott Lobdell (writer), Joe Madureira (pencils), Dan Green & Tim Townsend (inks), Bob Harras (editor)
X-Men Chronicles I#2 (June, 1995) - Howard Mackie (writer), Ian Churchill (pencils), Scott Hanna, Al Vey, Bob Wiacek, Steve Moncuse (inks), Kelly Corvese (editor)
Blink I#4 (June, 2001) - Scott Lobdell, Judd Winick (writers), Trevor McCarthy (pencils), Tyson McAdoo, Rodney Ramos, Rick Ketcham (inks), Mark Powers, Pete Franco (editors)
Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe: X-Men - Age of Apocalypse 2005 (March, 2005) - Mike Raicht (writer), Jennifer Grunwald (editor)
Exiles I#60 (May, 2005) - Tony Bedard (writer), Jim Calafiore (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse One-Shot I#1 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Jaime Mendoza (inks), John Barber (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#1 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#2 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Tim Townsend (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#3 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#4 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#5 (May, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
X-Men: Age of Apocalypse I#6 (June, 2005) - Akira Yoshida (writer), Chris Bachalo (pencils), Mark Irwin et al (inks), Mike Marts (editor)
Uncanny X-Force I#13 (October, 2011) - Rick Remender (writer), Mark Brooks (pencils), Mark Brooks & Andrew Currie (pencils & inks), Jody Leheup (editor)

First Posted: 01/05/2025
Last Updated: 01/06/2025

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