Not just girl who makes clouds.
Girl who was literally worshipped as a goddess in her native land for making clouds.
Oh wait. I’ve seen this one!
I’m just going to assume the hidden bit is the deaf because we’re famously perfect
And here we see X-Men perfectly illustrating the disparity between the larger disability community (Storm) and the chronic illness community (Rogue). One wants society to accept & respect them & their various different needs, which is surely a noble cause, while the other would like to NOT BE IN PAIN EVERY FUCKING DAY, which is just as important but often gets shouted down by non-ill disabled people who only want to talk about disability as a social construct.
Exactly haha
I mean, she wasn’t worshipped for making clouds, she was worshipped for having literal godlike control over the weather at any scale from room-sized to planetary.
Meanwhile Rogue has to deal with not only killing everything she touches (for long enough; she mostly just renders them unconscious), but also (temporarily, in most cases) absorbing their memories and personality, to the point that if it weren’t for Xavier she wouldn’t even know which memories and personality are her own.
I mean, sure, it’s a metaphor for the civil rights movement and all that, but you can only stretch the metaphor so far.
Even Xavier didn’t hesitate to send Logan to murder the kid who had the misfortune of having just got the power to instantly, automatically, and unwillingly kill anything in a several kilometre radius.
Certainly would’ve been nice to have a cure in that case, or Rogue’s, or so many other mutants’ who weren’t born lucky enough to be X-Men material.
Girl worshipped as a goddess and probably the single strongest person on the planet.
When that movie came out, no one I knew thought Strom was in the right. We were all pissed that no one stood up for her in the scene. The director is insane. Also a sex pest apparently.
And apparently has zero understanding of the source material. Rogue has never touched anyone without harming them since she was a teen. Why wouldn’t you want that fixed?
No, they got that right in the movies. The director knew full well that Rogue could never have an intimate relationship with someone.
Why Rogue didn’t reach out and choke her right then I’ll never know.
No need to choke when you can kill with a touch
She can’t do that without absorbing the victim’s memories and personality to the point she can barely tell which were her own, which she really doesn’t enjoy.
Plus, she also absorbs any abilities and powers they have… which, to be fair do come with a manual of sorts (the aforementioned memories and personality), if she can get past the confusion… but doing it with Ororo Munroe might be too risky, since any loss of control could lead to her unwittingly killing everyone around her, and / or messing up the weather for the whole continent…
How much Rogue and third parties are damaged by Rogue using her powers is largely up to the individual writer
Same-same, bare hand on throat
Rogue: world champion at bareknuckle brawling.
Plus then she could hurl lightning at the other “privilege powers” mutants.
