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Speaker 1: Hey, this is Annie and Samantha, and welcome to stuff

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Speaker 1: I never told you a production of iHeartRadio. And welcome

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Speaker 1: to another edition of the sub Sub Sub Sub segment

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Speaker 1: Fictional Women around the World. And I'm just going to

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Speaker 1: say I've been putting this one off, oh because it's huge. Oh,

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Speaker 1: but we're finally doing an episode on Storm from the

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Speaker 1: X Men. Now that being said, this character does have

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Speaker 1: an enormous history, and not just a fictional one, but

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Speaker 1: one that reflects societal touchstones at the time. She was

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Speaker 1: written like the US Civil rights movement, a lot of

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Speaker 1: social movements. So I think we should do a full

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Speaker 1: length episode on her and all the stuff around her.

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Speaker 1: But for now, we're doing a condensed segment, all right,

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Speaker 1: and best let's see. Don't test me. I do love Storms.

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Speaker 1: She was one of my favorite She was one of

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Speaker 1: my favorite X Men for sure. But on top of

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Speaker 1: that standard Marvel disclaimer, Oh my gosh, reboots, Red cons

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Speaker 1: so many conflicting narratives multiverses there is no way we

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Speaker 1: could possibly cover them all here or even in a

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Speaker 1: full length episode. To be honest, I'll talk about her

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Speaker 1: accent changes in the actual show. No, I don't talk

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Speaker 1: much about the movies in here, honestly. Okay, okay, but yes,

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Speaker 1: that is something we could revisit. Yeah, I will say this,

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Speaker 1: We're largely focusing on her earlier stories. Okay, And if

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Speaker 1: you didn't know, I'm always curious if someone will be like, oh,

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Speaker 1: I've never heard of X Men. X Men is a

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Speaker 1: huge property with over twelve movies I think, and now

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Speaker 1: Disney is involved, so who knows what's going to happen.

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Speaker 1: A ton of comics, of which Storm appeared in over

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Speaker 1: seven five hundred of them. She's in games, she's the products,

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Speaker 1: et cetera. She is a popular character. She's in all

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Speaker 1: kinds of things. With all that said, Storm is one

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Speaker 1: of the most powerful mutants in the X Men universe,

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Speaker 1: with the ability to control the weather. They are actually

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Speaker 1: really fun limitations she has that I love. It's like

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Speaker 1: about atmospheric pressure and stuff. Oh so nerdy. She was

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Speaker 1: first introduced as a character in nineteen seventy five's giant

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Speaker 1: sized X Men Number one comic, developed by writers and

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Speaker 1: artists Lynn Wine and Dave Cockrum. This comic was looking

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Speaker 1: to revamp the X Men franchise and renew interest, and

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Speaker 1: one way they were going about doing that was introducing

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Speaker 1: new mutants, and a lot of them were multinational and multicultural.

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Speaker 1: You can imagine some of them were better representations than others,

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Speaker 1: but Storm was one. Later Chris Claremont took over writing

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Speaker 1: of this character and gets a lot of credit for

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Speaker 1: her earlier storylines. So for the origin story, Storm was

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Speaker 1: born Aroa Monroe in New York. Her mother was a

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Speaker 1: Kenyan woman descended from royalty, while her father was an

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Speaker 1: African American photographer. As a baby, she and her parents

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Speaker 1: moved to Cairo, and at the age of five, her

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Speaker 1: parents died after a plane crashed into their home. I

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Speaker 1: don't remember that. The crash buried her and her dead parents,

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Speaker 1: her alive parents dead, and left her with claustrophobia that

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Speaker 1: she would continue to struggle with for the rest of

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Speaker 1: her life. It took her three days to dig herself out,

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Speaker 1: so pretty grim origin story. From there, she survived by

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Speaker 1: pickpocketing on the streets of Cairo until she eventually traveled

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Speaker 1: to Kenya and discovered her ability to control the weather.

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Speaker 1: Some of this is kind of, like I said, a

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Speaker 1: lot's happening in these comics, so some of the timeline

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Speaker 1: is a little messy. She then started to use her

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Speaker 1: powers to do things like water the crops for the

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Speaker 1: local so she was really respected. Eventually, word got out

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Speaker 1: to Professor ex leader of the X Men, and he

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Speaker 1: recruited her to join. After she tried to pickpocket in

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Speaker 1: he was like, think, I know where you should go,

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Speaker 1: and this is where she learned she's descended from a

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Speaker 1: line of African women who were mutants. Just to break

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Speaker 1: down her powers a bit, because they are pretty cool.

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Speaker 1: Storm cannot create situations that do not exist on Earth.

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Speaker 1: If she's upset, she can accidentally manifest a storm. So

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Speaker 1: her emotional and physical wellbeing play a role in her abilities,

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Speaker 1: and in some instances she can control the air in

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Speaker 1: the human body or the pressure in the human ear.

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Speaker 1: She's also connected to the Earth and can occasionally feel

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Speaker 1: its pain. On top of that, she's really skilled. I know, right,

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Speaker 1: it sucks. Oh, okay, keep going. Yes, no, I had

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Speaker 1: the same reaction. She is also very skilled in combat,

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Speaker 1: weaponry and piloting. Honestly, if I had listed all of

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Speaker 1: her skills it would be forever. But she's all around

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Speaker 1: a good fighter. You want her on your team and yes,

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Speaker 1: condensing here Okay. At one point she lost her powers.

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Speaker 1: At one point, she was married to T'Challa aka Black Panther.

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Speaker 1: It didn't in will. She became a leader of the

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Speaker 1: it well, no, Wolverine did push back against her at first,

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Speaker 1: and then Cyclops came in and was like, I feel

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Speaker 1: like I should be leader. But she won the battle

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Speaker 1: between them, and ultimately people were like, yes, she's the leader,

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Speaker 1: we accept you. She was possessed by Dracula, yes, yes,

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Speaker 1: uh huh, they go places Samantha. Because of her strength,

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Speaker 1: she attracted a lot of enemies who wanted to use

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Speaker 1: her abilities. She was deaged at one point and teamed

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Speaker 1: up with a Gambit, who you probably know is like

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Speaker 1: the New Orleans Gambler mutant. She led a rescue efforts

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Speaker 1: of mutant children. She learned she could become an elemental being.

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Speaker 1: She had a thor like hammer at one point. And yes,

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Speaker 1: there's a multiverse too, so there's lots lots of different storms.

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Speaker 1: But she's I think what they call her Class six,

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Speaker 1: Omega six. She's like one of the most powerful mutants,

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Speaker 1: and this leadership part was really big. She lost her powers,

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Speaker 1: thinks in part to a dude who she was romantically

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Speaker 1: interested in. I might they had kind of a strange relationship.

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Speaker 1: Returned to Africa to sort some things within her, and

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Speaker 1: then returned to challenge Psyclops to a duel, as I said,

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Speaker 1: over who should lead the X Men, and she won

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Speaker 1: without her powers. This was so new at the time

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Speaker 1: to see a black woman leading in mainstream media like this,

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Speaker 1: and she did it even without her abilities. Who this

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Speaker 1: character is often praised as the one that got the

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Speaker 1: ground work, the backstory, and led to her becoming a leader,

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Speaker 1: so like people really put in the work instead of

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Speaker 1: like shoehorning in a token, you know, Like it was like, really,

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Speaker 1: she had a really fascinating story and she had these

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Speaker 1: really interesting powers, and people really liked her. She also

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Speaker 1: became friends with Jean Gray, who helped her acclimate to

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Speaker 1: I don't know if this is true, but one thing

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Speaker 1: I read said she lost her virginity to black panther

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Speaker 1: don't know if that's sure, but I did read that somewhere.

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Speaker 1: No I don't like this either. After that she killed

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Speaker 1: a man after an attempted sexual assault in nineteen eighty three,

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Speaker 1: her look changed drastically, with a white mohawk and a

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Speaker 1: lot of leather. I laughed because apparently the artist was

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Speaker 1: doing a joking riff on mister t who. I realize

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Speaker 1: a lot of people listening might not know, and it stuck.

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Speaker 1: I can't be wrong, right in Oh No, this was

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Speaker 1: for the uncanny X men, and I will say she

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Speaker 1: was not immune to the sexy costume treatment. I can't

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Speaker 1: think of a single woman comic book character who was,

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Speaker 1: off the top of my head. I'm sure someone, but

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Speaker 1: a lot of hers weren't terrible. Some of them were,

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Speaker 1: but a lot of them were okay. But yeah, she

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Speaker 1: was just this hugely impactful character, truly arconic. I'm one

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Speaker 1: of the first black women leaders in this space, and

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Speaker 1: she is really popular to this day, ranks as one

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Speaker 1: of the most popular X men. She's just cool and

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Speaker 1: her powers are cool. She's a good leader with a

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Speaker 1: thoughts you have about this character that you think we

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Speaker 1: should come back to because I do want to do

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