Storm is an Omega Level Mutant; this means that Ororo Munroe’s powers have an undefinable
upper limit, placing her in a tier of mutants who also wield an extraordinary amount of
power and are crucial to the future of Marvel’s mutant-kind.
Sometimes referred to as the Weather Witch, Storm’s abilities have always posed a great
threat to her foes, but it was only in contemporary comics that she was given the status of an
omega level mutant (which was further confirmed in the recent House of X issue 1).
So today, we’re taking a closer look at what this iconic X-0Men member can do with
our list of the top 10 superpowers you didn’t know Storm had.
10 Atomkinesis Storm has the power to control matter on an
atomic level.
This is the basis of her weather manipulation abilities; she has a psionic ability to control
all forms of weather and ecosystems, modifying and controlling aspects like temperature,
precipitation, humidity and moisture, and can generate lightning and other electromagnetic
atmospheric phenomena, including atmospheric pressure.
And that control is incredibly precise.
9 Telepathic Resistance Sometimes simply referred to as her immense
willpower, Storm has the ability to resist telepathic attacks.
This is actually one of her more interesting abilities, due to the fact that it wasn’t
a part of her genetic mutant skillset.
It was something she learned and honed over the years thanks to being in close proximity
with telepathic mutants who were also part of the X-Men.
Her resistance to telepathic attacks also becomes enhanced thanks to the electromagnetic
forces she manipulates, which can cloud up her foe’s focus.
8 Earth Link Storm has developed a very special psychic
bond with the primal force of Earth’s biosphere.
This elevates her powers to a spiritual level, feeding her spiritual and material sustenance
and creating a vast amount of empathy for living beings.
This is why her emotions can overload her sometimes; not only do her emotions dictate
the strength of her control over the weather, but it can also lead to catastrophic effects
if she can’t maintain control over her feelings.
Anywho, this Earth Link can also sense and detect life force; she can sense things like
dying life forms (she once sensed that a tree was dying on the property of the X Mansion.
She once sensed the Blackbird cutting through the atmosphere even though she was thousands
of miles away.
And she can sense any natural phenomena occurring on the planet, like earthquakes.
7 Magical Potential While we haven’t really seen much of Storm
busting out magical powers, based on her ancestry, there’s evidence that she could potentially
unlock magical abilities.
We’ve seen this become a reality in alternate universes, including when the 616 Illyana
Rasputina aka Magik found herself in the Limbo dimension, where she ran into an alternate
of Storm’s, who would go on to train her in the arts of witchcraft and black magic.
Back to the 616 Storm though; one of her ancestors was a Sorceress Supreme, and other ancestors
of hers worshipped Egyptian gods, specifically Oshtur, the mother of Agamotto, who seems
to favor those of Ororo’s bloodline.
6 Breathe Underwater Storm’s ability to control and manipulate
natural forces extends to the power of separating matter molecules into oxygen and hydrogen
via electrolysis.
This means she can breathe under water, as seen in X-Treme X-Men issue 2.
5 Master Thief Let’s side track a bit here from Storm’s
mutant powers and look at one of her abilities that comes from years of practice and experience;
being a thief!
In her youth, while living in Cairo, Ororo was one of the most proficient thieves, being
able to pick locks, pick pockets, get past advanced security systems, and use her immense
dexterity when in a pickle or needing to escape from somewhere.
This dexterity isn’t just in her hands either; she’s proficient with her toes and mouth,
too.
Get your mind out of the gutter friends.
These skills are ones she keeps honed, and has even passed down to students of hers.
4 Energy Vision This one largely ties into Storm’s Atomkinesis
power.
Storm is able to alter her visual perception of the world around her.
This allows her to see energy patterns with much more clarity, and she can detect the
flow of electromagnetic, kinetic and thermal energy, which she can then bend to her will,
allowing her to do things like create meteorological tempests the likes of thunderstorms, hurricanes,
blizzards, you name it.
But it’s not just the natural world that she can perceive differently.
She can also use this ability on humans, and see others’ nervous systems, which comes
in handy when needed to counter attack.
All of this is possible within a blink of her eyes.
And she can even use it to see in complete darkness.
3 Can Use her Powers in Space When we think of Storm’s vast connection
to nature, we often tie those powers to the environment on Earth.
But Storm can also use her powers in outer space, and has done so in the past.
Whatever planet she’s on, her deep connection to nature allows her to make use of that planet’s
natural energy.
And similar to our previous number concerning her ability to breath under water, because
she can affect and manipulate molecules, along with interstellar and intergalactic mediums,
she theoretically could breathe in outer space, depending on the conditions and the nearby
environment.
2 Teleportation Now we’re getting into some of the more
obscure abilities of Storm’s.
Storm is capable of teleporting.
Sort of.
In Extraordinary X-Men volume 1 issue 16, Storm used energy from witches and wizards
to create a portal out of lightning, and then she used said portal to teleport herself and
others to various realms.
It’s believed that she was able to do this thanks to having that magical ancestry we
mentioned earlier.
This was a part of the Kingdom’s Fall story arc, in which Sapna, a relatively new X-Men
member, was possessed by the World Eater, and Storm and Magik had to work together to
prevent it from claiming the realm of Limbo.
1 Divinity In Storm’s first introduction, she is being
worshipped as a goddess in the Serengeti after her mutant powers appear, which is where she’s
recruited by Professor Xavier in Giant Size X-Men issue 1 in 1975.
The gift of godhood has been based down from Ororo’s ancestors, and the mutant can be
endowed with more power from people’s beliefs and prayers.
The more people who believe in her, the more powerful she becomes (she’s like a weather
santa, but without gifts and a much nicer physique).
In Black Panther issue 172, she became an actual god when the faith of Wakanda helped
her ascend and gave her enough power to defeat the villain Adversary.
She also has been known to invoke the god Oshtur for aid.