She destroyed Stormcaster with its own power, but the hammer's story wasn't quite over. While Storm was briefly tempted to abandon Earth and re-embrace godhood, potentially ruling over Asgard alongside Loki, Storm realized that the guy so evil that his very existence prompted the Avengers to get together was probably not on the level. Like Thor's Mjolnir, Stormcaster allowed Ororo to transform into an armored Asgardian form, and it not only restored her ability to control the weather, but Stormcaster granted her all of Thor's other considerable abilities, as well. After kidnapping a depowered Storm while she was hanging out with the New Mutants, Loki created a magic hammer named Stormcaster and gave it to Ororo. Shockingly, Ororo agreed, and she took the codename Storm as a member of the all-new X-Men.Īs you might expect, this was all part of a plot by - who else? - Loki, who was once again attempting to to embarrass and/or murder Thor. He informed her that she wasn't, in fact, a goddess (rude) but a mutant, and that her powers could be better used by blowing up giant purple robots with lightning bolts. Thanks to plenty of people talking about the living goddess who was controlling the weather, he didn't have any trouble tracking down the kid he'd met in Cairo all those years ago. Charles Xavier, having lost his original students after sending them on a mission to the living island of Krakoa - and having secretly lost a second team that he sent after them, which we wouldn't find out about until 2006 - was putting together a new group of mutants for a rescue mission. Even though Ororo came to believe it herself, she used her powers benevolently, helping out not just the group that had taken her in but the entire surrounding area.Įventually, of course, someone came along to tell her differently. Perhaps surprisingly, worshiping a teenager as a god actually worked out pretty well for everyone involved. By this point, Ororo's powers had fully manifested, and even without any training, her innate control over the weather was a staggering sight to behold. Eventually, after working through it, the fear would become less intense, but she still definitely prefers being out in the open. Even as a member of the X-Men, the idea of being buried alive would remain her greatest fear, and it would stand as one of her very few weaknesses, causing her to be paralyzed in horror even in the heat of battle. When she awoke from being knocked out, she realized that she'd been buried alive with her parents' dead bodies, passing out again before waking up to dig herself out, a torturous process that took three days.Īs you might expect, this was an incredibly traumatic event for the young mutant, leaving her with an intense claustrophobia that would plague her throughout her adult life. The disaster killed both David and N'Daré, and while Ororo survived, she was left buried underneath the rubble. When Storm was only six years old, a fighter jet was shot down over Cairo, and in the kind of bad luck that seems to plague Marvel's merry mutants, it crashed directly into the Munroes' home.