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Posted on 03/15/2004 1:45:41 PM PST by HairOfTheDog
I didn't know there was such a thing as a pleasant dystopia!--sounds creative :)
Uh-oh--I didn't just summon the spirit of Hillary Clinton, did I? :)
LOL!
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Yep--in the Wolverine and Kitty Pryde Limited Series :)
Wolverine went because his wife was a yakuza leader. The yakuza play a big role in the X-Men's history.
And also, Wolverine himself was trained as a samurai.
I hope not! Hang on...*sniffs air* Nope, we got lucky. I can detect no "stanky cankle aroma" and there are no black pant suits anywhere!
Here's a summary of just her pre-X-Men career:
History: Storm is the descendant of an ancient line of African priestesses, all of whom have white hair, blue eyes, and the potential to wield magic. Her mother, N'Dare, was the princess of a tribe in Kenya. She married the American photojournalist David Munroe and moved with him to Manhattan, where Ororo was born.
When Ororo was six months old, she and her parents moved to Cairo, Egypt. Five years later, a bomb destroyed their home. Ororo's parents were killed, but she survived, buried under rubble near her mother's body. This traumatizing effect left Ororo with the severe claustrophobia that still afflicts her today.
Homeless and orphaned, Ororo, came under the tutelage of master thief Achmed el-Gibar. She became his prize pupil in thievery and in picking locks.
Years later, feeling a strong urge to go south, Ororo journeyed alone across the Sahara Desert and finally reached her ancestors' homeland, the Serengeti Plain, which lies in the modern nations of Kenya and Tanzania. By this time her mutant power to control the weather had emerged, and she used them to help the local tribes, who worshipped her as a goddess.
Ororo remained with the tribes for years until Professor Charles Xavier recruited her into the new team of X-Men he was assembling. She was given the code name "Storm" after her power to affect the weather. Except for brief periods away from the team, Storm has remained in the X-Men ever since and shares leadership of the X-Men with Cyclops.
You mean like what would happen if the Democratic Party created their version of a socialistic utopia?
One amusing bit the movie has is these 'ticket-dispensers' that fine you for bad language.
LOL! Sounds funny--I may have to see that :)
The movies didn't really develop her character much. She's had some interesting adventures. For instance, one time Colossus was getting beat by this villain who could absorb any brute force you threw at him and hit you back with it, but Storm figured out a way around that by making the air around him freeze :) Another time Dracula was summoning lightning bolts at the X-Men, but Storm one-upped him :) She's probably the most potentially powerful X-Man after Phoenix and Professor X.
I'd take the bigger allowance given a choice! :) Although I've saved a lot of money by speedreading things at Barnes and Nobles :)
Janet Reno--yikes! Isn't she on the AMC horror movie tonight? :)
You do NOT want to do that.
Even her house is creepy. All overgrown and hidden from the road. She lives right behind a funeral home, believe it or not! Ugh!
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