ORIGIN STORY

Ororo Munroe is the child of American photojournalist David Munroe and the Kenyan princess N’Dare. She comes from a line of African priestesses that have white hair, blue eyes and the power to use magic.¹

Ororo was orphaned at the age of five, as her parents died in a plane crash in Cairo, Egypt. Though she survived from the accident, she developed a deep claustrophobia from being buried in the rubble. She was raised by a gang of thieves led by Achmed El Gibar. Ororo became a thief and once attempted to steal from Professor Xavier. At age 12, she decided to journey South. She accepted a ride from a stranger and was nearly raped by him. She managed to kill the man though she swore never to another human life.²

After nearly dying in the Saharan Desert, she saved T’Challa using her weather powers. The two shared romance though it was ended.^3,4 Ororo finally reached her ancestors’ homeland on the Kilimanjaro Valley in Kenya. She was taken in by a tribal woman Ainet who taught her the use of her powers. Soon, Ororo became worshipped by the tribes as a goddess.⁵

ORORO JOINS THE X-MEN

Years later, Ororo helped the X-Men, battle a mutant known as Deluge that used Ororo’s control of weather to destroy humanity. Afterwards, she returned to her tribe.⁶

Months later, however, Professor Xavier was left with no choice but to recruit Storm, as he called her, and other mutants from around the world into the X-Men in order to rescue his original students from the threat of the sentient island being, known as Krakoa. Prof. Xavier explained to Ororo that she was not a “goddess”, but a mutant and had a responsibility to use her abilities to help the world, just as she had helped the local tribes. Curious, Ororo accepted Professor Xavier’s offer and was given the code name “Storm”.

-Ororo Munroe (Earth-616), Marvel Database

ORORO FACES PYRO

Metropolis Battles: Storm vs Pyro

by Patrick Ouandji October 21, 2020

POWERS

WEAKNESSES

• Claustrophobia
• Emotional Influence:
• Naturally Occurring Limitation: 

STORY ARCS

• Rogue Storm.
• Worlds Apart.
• Blood Feud.
• Dancin’ In The Dark.

NOTABLE COMIC BOOK BATTLES

• Storm vs Callisto.