ROGUE
Powers: Has the mutant ability to imitate an individuals powers and personality upon skin-to-skin contact. This is an absorbtion process, which leaves the victim a little woozy. Her abilities of flight, super strength, invulnerability, and "Seventh sense" (A danger warning) are abilities permanently absorbed from Ms. Marvel
Significant relatives: None, other than her "Step-mother" Mystique.
The young woman we know only as Rogue first discovered her abilities when she first kissed her boyfriend Cody, who collapsed from the energy drain. Evidently, her family dissowned her, throwing her right into the "caring" arms of Mystique, One of the X-Mens deadlyest foes. Rouge learned a great dispassion for life and joined the Brotherhood of evil Mutants (IV) under Mystiques leadership.
While on a mission, Rogue came into contact with Ms Marvel (Basicly Marvels version of Superman, only a female). Mystique forced Rogue to keep contact. The result was that now Rogue had Ms Marvels powers. And Personality. This "Good guy" persona lead Rouge to quit the Brotherhood. Wanting to fianly be able to control her power, Rogue sought the aid of her enemies, the X-Men.
Rogue would manly use her abilities on the team as the teams 2nd powerhouse (Colossus is numero uno), and would occasionaly absorb Nightcrawlers teleportation or Wolverines healing factor. However, each time she touched someone, she would be more and more afraid to do so until she finaly stoped using her absorption power all together, perfectly content with the flying/super strength deal.
Rogue,after passing through the Seige Perrilous, wound up in the Savage land, only to find that her Ms. Marvel personality had split from her. The two fought, and Rogue almost lost, but Magneto saved her. Rogue had continued to lose and regain her powers sparadicaly. After spending some -achem- quality time with Magneto, S.H.I.E.L.D. came by, and she accepted a lift home. There, she found newcomer Gambit, who tirelessly hit on her. However, her powers of absorbtion (along with Gambits unwillingness to let anyone read his thoughts) made for a... strained relationship.
The Rouge/Gambit ordeal has been one that no one should have to go through. First, it turns out Gambit had a dead wife who was supposed to come back to life. Rouge kicked her ass, but absorbed a lot of her personality in doing so. Then Sabretooth started living in the Mansion and told Rouge the story of when Gambit let the woman he "loved" fall to her death (Who he was actualy using to get a rare artifact). Then, just as it seemed like the world was going to end (see AoA for details), Rouge and Gambit shared a kiss. However, they both survived (The AoA having been negated before it began, so to speak), puting Gambit in a coma and Rouge knowing Gambit's dark secret (Which she buried in her subconcious). She couldn't decode the information, and the two lovers actualy started duking it out. Rouge left the X-Men for a while so she could get her head straightened out.
Under the alias Ms Smith (Gee, how origional...), she rented a room, got a job... and then she got captured by the friends of humanity, where she was saved by Joseph (That young guy everyone thought was Magneto). With the help of the Avengers, the two made it to New York just in time to face Onslaught, and while not hitting Onslaught, they were hitting ON eachother! That cheesed Gambit off to no end. Gambit and Joe eventualy acted like real men and duked it out for Rouges affection. Incidently, she couldn't care less. The two settled thier diffrences. ("Nice left, by the way.")
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However, Joe wasn't about to give up. He used the Z'Nox chamber (A small room that is completly impenetrable psionicly) to temporarly negate Rouges powers, just enough time to give her a christmas gift: A kiss on the forehead. However, Rouge, Joe, Beast, Gambit, Bishop, and Trish Tilby (Beast's woman) were transported into the middle of a Phalanx invasion of the Shi'ar Empire. Rouge then recieved information as to the Phalanx's plans for Earth, but on the way home, everyone ended up in a cave (?) and Rouge evidently forgot all about it. Sans Bishop (Who was taken by Deathbird and believed dead), The X-Men soon encountered some bounty hunters who were instructed to take Gambit. Knowing why, he agreed, and left with them. The reamining X-folks gave chase, only to wind up in a citadel. They were all seperated and captured by "Erik the Red", along with Psylocke, Angel, and Maggott. There, the team learned Gambits dark secret Via a "trial" orchestrated by the Red man. It turns out that Gambit once worked for Mr Sinister, and forcing Rouge to kiss Gambit, everyone found out why. Gambit assembled the Marauders, and was in part responsible for the Mutant Massacre. With that said, "Erik" dissapered, and the Citadel began to collapse. The X-Men escaped via a shadow portal (Courtosy of Psylocke), but left Gambit behind.
Rouge, having absorbed Gambits self-hatred, began to hate Gambit herself. Now finally wanting to rid herself of her powers, she attempted to undergo a "treatment" which would cure her of her mutantcy. However, Mystique ruined the attempt, and convinced Rogue to keep her powers. Rouge was one of four X-Men to stay on the team after everyone else started leaving, but she, along with Wolverine, Storm, and Marrow, were eventualy joined by Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat to stop an attempt by Cerebro (Which had taken sentience and emulated Xavier and some evil X-Men) to steal a satilite from a nuclear rocket (Which would have exploded, killing millions if Cerebro got its way). When Gambit finaly returned, he and Rogue were trying to make up when they were attacked by some crazy green chick, who really pissed Rogue off. The two are officially a couple again, but as seen in "The Magneto War", she still harbors feelings for the master of (animal) Magnetism... |