Yes: she needs weather for her powers to work
No: She percieves energy and her manipulation of this results in weather phenomenon
I dont know.
if Claremont mentioned she hasnt become a goddess yet years ago and then many years later a subsequent writer creates another story adding to this with it ending with her becoming a true goddess that is character development.
if a writer years ago mentioned she is a potential omega level mutant and then a subsequent story fulfills this through a new story that is character development.
I'm not surprised. when you have a current xmen writer tell you her to see energy and control those energies is a retcon and they find it difficult to show her do things other than lightning and wind these responses actually make sense.
that is not at all what they were trying to convey lololol.
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Truthfully, I'm not shocked by his limited understanding of Storm's power...it seems to be the norm for most X-writes these days.
The time of writers actually thinking about the way character's powers work has gone the way of the Dodobird. Which is even sadder when you consider most of the data can be found in Marvel's own handbooks.
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I'm in the minority as a Storm fan, but I never felt she should be an energy manipulator. Just weather. That's why her name is Storm. All these other feats and goddess-hood stuff doesn't really impress me. One of the reasons I even became a fan of hers was because of the weather manipulation and I was really into meteorology growing up.
Last edited by Celestial; 07-06-2018 at 02:18 PM.
This^^ completely. She’s absolutely an energy manipulator, but the word “energy” is extremely vague. She can’t just turn light energy from a bulb into something else. She has to have huge limitations on the whole manipulation of energy spectrum, otherwise she would be crazy OP and boring. Her energy manipulation powers pertain to weather phenomena and that in itself paints a pretty broad picture when we are including things like solar winds lol. I would say she cannot just manipulate any sort of energy she feels like. That doesn’t make any sense. But is she just moving around atmospheric pressure to create storms? No
Her powers are based in electro-magnetic manipulation and telekinesis. Almost all her big showing come from using these powers.
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The bolded is a very important distinction. One which I've always agreed with.
Storm's perview is weather so rightly, she would be able able to manipulate those 'energies' within the context of weather. Where it gets tricky, is when those energy matrices overlap outside of weather control...for example, magnetic fields. As was discussed before, she may be able to see and affect (to a limited degree) magnetic fields because it is an integral, natural aspect of Earth but she certainly cannot (doesn't) wield it at Magneto's level. At least not without some physical backlash. Don't get me wrong, potentially she could but...potentialities are always vague and not at all relevant in the here and now.
Last edited by Devaishwarya; 07-06-2018 at 09:08 AM.
Storm doesn't manipulate ALL energy, just the Energy that governs weather systems. She is basically a walking talking Meteorologist.
Exactly. It's frustrating but yet expected that people think the way they do. Now the only thing that is surprising is that even after being presented evidence that contradict the idea she is just a weather manipulator or needs weather to use her power people still argue otherwise. This is the part that is confusing to me.
As a storm fan though, you do acknowledge she was always written as an energy manipulator though right? And how does her name define what her abilities are? You have shadowcat, psylocke, marvel girl, white queen, etc. A codename by no means should be the barometer by which a characters' powers operate.
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its not generally restricted to weather. I can list a whole list of showings she has done that doewnr correlate to weather at all. such as shutting down sinisters brain, healing the trion dimension, commanding the energies of the galactic core, creating a solar wind blast in space to destroy a sentinel, shutting down the power to a skrull space ship... need I go on?
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