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· Comics / Marvel / X-Men
By the end of the Shadow King fight, Storm has been through losing her powers, getting them back, losing her adult body and recovering that too. She's led the team from the mansion, through Dallas and Australia, and back into another crisis...
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Then Nanny takes even more away from her. Storm is reduced to a child's body, loses much of her memory, and the X-Men believe she's dead again. The young Ororo falls back on stealing to survive. That's where her childhood skills become usef...
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Forge eventually restores Storm's powers during the Fall of the Mutants story. By then, they've been through enough together that getting the lightning back is only part of what needs sorting out. In Dallas, the X-Men give their lives so Fo...
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The Mutant Massacre is where the responsibility for the Morlocks becomes almost unbearable. Storm fought for the right to lead them. Now people are dying in their tunnels, and the X-Men get badly hurt trying to help. Nightcrawler is in a co...
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Lifedeath II, in #198, gets Storm away from the mansion and puts her beside Shani, a pregnant woman trying to get home. Ororo is still struggling, but somebody else needs help right in front of her. Helping with the birth gives her somethin...
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Losing her powers in #185 is brutal because Storm gets hit trying to protect Rogue. The government has brought a weapon to take Rogue's powers away, and Ororo ends up paying for it. Forge takes care of her afterward. They get close, and the...
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The Morlocks force Storm to show a side of herself the others aren't used to seeing. In Uncanny #170, she fights Callisto with a knife, without relying on her powers, and wins control of the Morlocks. Angel's life is at stake. Callisto has...
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Storm's powers affect a lot more than the person she's aiming at. Wind, lightning, rain, temperature, all of that can change the entire fight. She can move people, protect them or make an area almost impossible for the enemy to operate in....
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Storm has already had several very different lives before Xavier finds her in Giant-Size X-Men #1. She's been an orphan in Cairo, a thief, and a woman people worship because she can bring them rain. Then Xavier asks her to leave and help re...
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The Wolverine who teams up with Wade is a different Wolverine. The Logan who died is still dead, which the opening makes extremely clear when Wade digs him up. The new Logan survives repeated stabbing and shooting during their fights. By th...
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By Logan, wounds linger and his body is failing. The adamantium inside him is poisoning him. He is still capable of things an ordinary person couldn't survive, but he can't keep recovering as he once did. The green serum temporarily lets hi...
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Days of Future Past uses Logan's healing to explain why his mind can survive being sent back so much farther than the others. It's a very different use of the power from closing cuts. Kitty is doing something to his consciousness that a nor...
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The Silver Samurai cuts through Logan's adamantium claws and starts draining his healing ability. After Mariko intervenes, Logan grows bone claws and uses them against Yashida. He doesn't regrow the adamantium coating with them. That's an i...
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The Wolverine opens with Logan shielding Yashida during the bombing of Nagasaki. He's badly burned and regenerates. He has taken cover in a well. That's important. The film shows him surviving the blast and burns in that situation, not stan...
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X-Men Origins: Wolverine shows Logan surviving long before the adamantium procedure. The power is why his body can get through the procedure, rather than something the metal gives him. That distinction matters because the skeleton and the h...
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At the end of The Last Stand, Logan approaches Jean while her power is stripping flesh off him. His body keeps repairing the damage as he moves toward her. That's a much bigger display than a wound closing after a fight. He's recovering whi...
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At Bobby's house in X2, a police officer shoots Logan in the forehead. Logan falls. Later, the bullet is pushed out and the wound closes, and he gets back up. Both parts count. The healing is impressive, but he is out of the action for a wh...
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In the first X-Men, Logan accidentally stabs Rogue when she wakes him from a nightmare. She touches him and takes his healing ability, saving herself while leaving him in bad shape. At the Statue of Liberty, he deliberately lets her do it a...
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SPOILERS for the X-Men and Wolverine movies, including Logan and Deadpool & Wolverine. Wolverine's healing factor gets him through some ridiculous injuries in the movies. It also fails to protect him from things people sometimes assume it w...
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Logan has history with Ogun that Kitty doesn't. That makes him useful, but it also makes this personal in ways he has to deal with himself. Defeating an old teacher doesn't erase what that teacher once meant to him. Kitty has to cope with s...
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