3 ms·

I don't understand what you mean by Storm being strong or not strong. She's a claustrophobic mutant with massive self-esteem issues that have to be overcome in

I don't understand what you mean by Storm being strong or not strong. She's a claustrophobic mutant with massive self-esteem issues that have to be overcome in order to provide effective team leadership. The thing about Storm's story is that it's unexceptional amongst the X-Men. The essential narrative of X-Men is "teenagers have growing pains", so self-esteem issues are the stories' bread and butter. The other essential narrative, that of fearing and Othering a group for ambiguously poor reasons, is one which Storm could provide an interesting voice for if any of her writers weren't busy making her the token black girl. The dialogue between Xavier and Magneto is reminiscent MLK Jr. versus Malcolm X (not exactly, of course, but I'd be unsurprised if this was a direct inspiration).

tokipin 13y ago
As I said, I've never seen the movies (or read the comic books, for that matter), so I don't know what in the bonkers you're saying. It's just the fact that it was a female character being portrayed in a particular way. I probably should have been clearer about that.
- saraid216 13y ago
  I don't understand how you even know who Storm is.
  - tokipin 13y ago
    Yea, it is weird. The dream was probably inspired by an X-Men trailer I must have seen, but I don't know why Storm was singled out. Though I've had enough practice with dreams to know the recursive detail-filling manner in which my brain makes them, so the answer is probably mundane, like maybe I saw two bright things and my brain knew that Storm's eyes glow bright so it filled in the rest with Storm.
yummyfajitas 13y ago
Xavier and Magneto were a direct allegory to MLK Jr. vs Malcolm X, and general 1960's American racial issues (early comic books involved mutants getting lynched). This was the direct intention of the original writers way back in 60's when it was first written. Interestingly, the recent X-Men movies don't generally fall into the SFC archetype, at least no more than is required by the nature of the X-Men. Most of the on-screen characters are just "shoots X out of their Y" - Storm, Cyclops, Pyro, Iceman, etc. Of the 3 characters of any gender with any depth at all (Wolverine, Magneto, Rogue), the female is definitely not an SFC.

tokipin 13y ago

As I said, I've never seen the movies (or read the comic books, for that matter), so I don't know what in the bonkers you're saying. It's just the fact that it was a female character being portrayed in a particular way. I probably should have been clearer about that.

saraid216 13y ago
I don't understand how you even know who Storm is.
- tokipin 13y ago
  Yea, it is weird. The dream was probably inspired by an X-Men trailer I must have seen, but I don't know why Storm was singled out. Though I've had enough practice with dreams to know the recursive detail-filling manner in which my brain makes them, so the answer is probably mundane, like maybe I saw two bright things and my brain knew that Storm's eyes glow bright so it filled in the rest with Storm.

yummyfajitas 13y ago

Xavier and Magneto were a direct allegory to MLK Jr. vs Malcolm X, and general 1960's American racial issues (early comic books involved mutants getting lynched). This was the direct intention of the original writers way back in 60's when it was first written. Interestingly, the recent X-Men movies don't generally fall into the SFC archetype, at least no more than is required by the nature of the X-Men. Most of the on-screen characters are just "shoots X out of their Y" - Storm, Cyclops, Pyro, Iceman, etc. Of the 3 characters of any gender with any depth at all (Wolverine, Magneto, Rogue), the female is definitely not an SFC.