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I'm going to have to agree here. when she first when punk it was fueled by the changes she was experiencing after killing a brood, returning to earth to find her communion with the earth, being angry with Xavier for deciding to become an xman, and then of course "killing" callisto. she was going through so many earth-shattering changes internally that a drastic change externally made the most sense. It all had purpose. Now whenever it's used its feok the perspective of creating nostalgia or looking cool, which for me at least it does none of that.
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https://culturess.com/2019/02/21/mar...torm-together/
The question is does Black Panther and Storm need to be together. The author's answer is that Ororo should be allowed to be Ororo. Unfortunately I dont think the author is aware that before they were married they were childhood friends. Therefore, even if you somehow keep Ororos interactions with Tchalla purely platonic their mythos' are still very much intertwined.
So I'm gonna disagree with the premise of the article based upon this.
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I just like their backstories and I like seeing the different interpretations of Storm. They certainly are nowhere near as interesting as her 616 main continuity version, but every now and then I find a few that I like: HoM Storm was interesting. Her Marvel Manga-verse counterpart was fun too.
We are the Dora Milaje. We are the daughters of the 18 tribes of Wakanda. We are the teeth of the Panther God. Out of 10,000 years of sweat and bloodshed and battle are we born. We are the women of this ancient land. Deadliest of the species. And our time has come!
I have my theories but i primarily believe that it has to do with he being a black female character. After Claremont left there seem to be a purposeful effort to push her far to the background and limit her to only being an Xman. I can never forget what Forge told her before he broke off his engagement to her:
This is what she has always been, just an Xman. In fact many of the other character when discussed are referenced by their actual name while Ororo is generally referenced as Storm. A bigger example of this is when Professor Xavier tells Logan in DoFP to find Jean, Scott, and Storm. In a medium filled with white characters written by white males it should not be a surprised that being an Xman is all she will ever be. That is until we got black writers who saw to elevate her beyond just making her an Xman. Hudlin made her queen, Harvey made her connection to Harlem go deeper than just her father being from there, Coates made Ororo a goddess worshipped by the most advanced nation in the Marvel Universe. It was these black writers that wanted to make her more than just an Xman and going beyond the status quo. I personally dont see her influence changing unless the xoffices become more diverse or she is allowed to be written on other books such as Shuri and Black Panther. I hate to think what would be of Ororo if Coates had not taken an interest in the character.
gurl jalysia!!! I think you was right about that being an AU storm. I'll never doubt you again lol.
I never read HoM not her manga-verse counterpart. Any images of that one?
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Honestly it doesn't matter to me whether she's with T'Challa or not when she comes to the MCU. I'm really more concerned with them finding the right actress and having the right story for her and not pushing her in the background for other characters. If she does end up with him hopefully the story make sense, but they don't even have to be romantically involved. Like you said, they have history together.
It's like that in the comics for me as well. I like seeing her interact with others outside the X-Verse, whether in the X-Men book or another. Seeing her working with Natasha in her book, War Machine, Stark, etc interests me. For all the main X-Men right now, I feel staying solely in the X-Verse stifles them.
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Exactly. That scan of what Forge was saying to her spoke volumes to me. She's so much more than just an X-Man but she can't get past "being an X-Man." This woman has so much potential but the writers have no idea what to do with her, or don't care to do anything with her. I like that she's in Shuri's book as it helps get her exposure to a wider audience but she's not really doing anything. She's just....there. This last issue I was more interested in Shuri and Stark and their damn equations lol.
lolol no you didnt say you was more interested in their equations lolol I'm dead.
as much as I hated how forge treated her, what he said represents how she is treated by the xoffices. She is treated as just an Xman. Either as a surrogate mother to the xkids, or as one of the xmen friends, or as leader of the xmen but very rarely does her relationships extend beyond the xmen or anything related to being a mutant. As you said there is so much there that has been unexplored it just takes a writer or writers having the interest in her. Her magical potential, her family lineage (both maternal royalty and father's side), her untapped mutant abilities, her being a black woman in America and the world, etc. Just look at the push she has been getting by the writers in the BP mythos. She was in Black Panther and the Crew, World of Wakanda, Shuri, Black Panther, Rise of the Panther and in ways that was meaningful and impactful to those stories. Unfortunately this may not last forever. We need the xoffices to take a more active interest in her or let her be utilized more outside their books.
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