HISTORY: WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE, ORORO MUNROE WAS A MUTANT WITH THE ABILITY TO CONTROL THE WEATHER. IN AFRICA, WHERE SHE GREW UP A THIEF, SHE USED THESE POWERS TO AID LOCAL TRIBES -- AND THEY WORSHIPPED HER AS A GODDESS. WHEN PROFESSOR CHARLES XAVIER APPROACHED HER AND INVITED HER TO JOIN HIS SECOND TEAM OF X-MEN, SHE AGREED, AND RETURNED WITH HIM TO THE UNITED STATES.
         ADOPTING THE CODE-NAME "STORM," SHE BECAME, IN MANY WAYS, THE SOUL OF THE TEAM -- EVEN TO THE EXTENT OF BEING A MOTHER FIGURE TO THE TEENAGE X-MAN, SHADOWCAT (KATHERINE PRYDE, CURRENT WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN). AN ENCOUNTER WITH DRACULA CHANGED ALL OF THAT WHEN HIS BITE KILLED THE WEATHER WITCH, AND SHE ROSE AGAIN AS A VAMPIRE.
         SOON THEREAFTER, BLOODSTORM, AS SHE IS NOW CALLED, LEFT THE X-MEN, SEEKING ANSWERS ABOUT HERSELF AND HER NEW STATE-OF-BEING AS ONE OF THE UNDEAD. IT IS UNKNOWN WHAT SHE EXPERIENCED OR LEARNED DURING THIS SELF-IMPOSED EXILE, BUT SHE DID EVENTUALLY RETURN TO HER MUTANT COMRADES. CHOOSING TO JOIN HAVOK'S TEAM INSTEAD OF MAGNETO'S, BLOODSTORM WAS THE FINAL MEMBER TO ROUND OUT THE ROSTER OF THE SIX.
         WHILE ON THE SURFACE IT SEEMS AS THOUGH ORORO IS NOT MUCH DIFFERENT THAN WHEN SHE WAS ALIVE, IT IS STRONGLY ADVISED THAT ALL S.H.I.E.L.D. AGENTS ARM THEMSELVES AGAINST HER WITH A CRUCIFIX, HOLYWATER, OR SOME OTHER PROTECTIVE OBJECT. BLOODSTORM IS LESS HUMAN THAN HER MUTANT COHORTS, AND IS MORE UNPREDICTABLE IN BATTLE THAN THE REST OF THEM. APPROACH WITH EXTREME CAUTION.

POWERS:
BLOODSTORM RETAINS HER MUTANT POWER OF WEATHER CONTROL, WHICH HAS BEEN AMPLIFIED BY HER VAMPIRIC NATURE. SHE CAN TRANSFORM HER BODY INTO MIST, SUMMON AND CONTROL VERMIN, AND HAS ALSO, ON OCCASION, USED A "HYPNOTIC STARE" TO HOLD HUMANS IN HER THRALL.