Unironically how is Storm not more popular? She has cool powers, is hot as frick, and is a member of the X-Men but yet she doesn't seem to take off as much as she should.
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Unironically how is Storm not more popular?
I saw her in some recent comic and she ugly as frick. they should draw her hotter instead of this sassy strong black woman thing.
She looks fine in X-Men Red, though.
>that face
>fine
Fricking vile
on the covers maybe
but she's too skinny for her BoA outfit imo
>she is ugly
>in recent comic
she's not popular because she was an x-men
x-men embargo really tore apart x-men's relevancy in pop culture
All X-Men are hindered by their team/brand association. This has nothing to do with movie rights autism. The fact is no one thinks Storm or Rogue as individual heroines, but rather X-Men members. That's sort of their strength and unfortunate weakness. Plus Storm herself isn't all that compelling of a character. She just has cool powers
This, Someone was super butthurt that they couldn't use Wolverine or any X-Men so they tried (and failed) to make Eternals and Inhumans a thing.
Long live Inhumanity
>x-men embargo really tore apart x-men's relevancy in pop culture
There were movies happening that whole time. Movies with Storm in them. X-Men's relevancy in pop culture declined into irrelevancy because their movies were getting utterly mogged by other comic book movies, and other characters got more popular, not because of a brief period in the mid 2010s when Marvel wouldn't license them for T-shirts or video games.
This, pretty really overestimate the embargo. They still had multiple books and the fox movies. They just weren't in the cartoons and games. Neither of which were particularly popular. None of that shit had any effect on the casual fan.
>They just weren't in the cartoons and games.
And if they had cartoons during the 2010s, they would have been as bad and forgettable as the other Marvel cartoons of the decade. Nothing was lost.
>X-books sell well
The main X-Men book, Wolverine and X-Force have been selling decently, most of the other books seem to end up selling like C-tier Marvel books after their early issues. It looks like most of the newest launches actually have "X-Men" in their title in an attempt to stop this from happening.
>I don't know how waifugays convinced themselves that storm/jean or kitty are great characters that should be getting the Carol Danvers push.
Though none of them have ever actually worked as solo characters, the idea that all of Marvel's best heroines are from the X-Men books is well-entrenched in the minds of fandom. Whether it's ever been true or not, a lot of people believe it.
her marriage to black panther was forced and ruined her
She is not interesting enough nor popular enough to carry a solo book. Her overall power set also works better in a team setting. Majority of the solo capeshit books are heroes that relies on a physical skill or have superhuman physical attributes. Only exception is probably Green Lantern but that book might as well be dead given it's current situation.
She's one of the most popular X-men but you have to the remember the X-men are an ensemble. Outside of Wolverine it is rare to see any of them pushed for solo popularity. A lot of people want to blame embargo but even at the height of X-men popularity in the 80s and 90s they weren't pushing induvial members. They will never push Jean/Storm to be the wonder woman of Marvel because they are not solo characters. Also her attempt at a solo sold worse than Karnak's mini. Kurt and mag's solo weren't much better. Clearly X-gays aren't getting behind solo when it isn't Cable or the SNIKT family.
She wasn't on the main team for like a decade since Morrison tossed her out in his run, then they sold her off to Black Panther for a while. Most writers now just can't seem to figure out something new to do with her so they just keep replaying her greatest hits from Claremonts run.
>She don't need no powers
>Queen
>Punk mohawk
Don't forget goddess thing that got memed from her being worshipped by some people because of her powers to Coates and Ewing playing it completely straight like a thor style god.
When people say they like X-Men characters what they really mean is that they like X-character dynamics. I'd be really interested to know what percentage of the people who buy Wolverine buy the rest of the X-line and how Wolverine sales fluctuate based on how closely tied-in the book is with the rest of the X-line.
It'd make for a great character flaw that Storm has started buying into her hype and let it go to her head.
>It'd make for a great character flaw that Storm has started buying into her hype and let it go to her head.
Claremont literally did that already.
>Morrison tossed her out in his run
Morrison's run is praised as the most progressive, but his main cast is all white north americans. Just funny to think about.
>since Morrison tossed her out in his run,
That was due to Claremont wanting her for X-Treme X-men
Storm is too much of a good girl. Her personality is a bit too serious and she has too much of a strong sense of responsibility. Kind of like Cyclops before he went Rightclops. Her type of character is important for a group book, but she can't carry her own story. Girls with an edge like Rogue, Jean or Magik, or even just "normal girls" like Kitty are more interesting as characters.
>Jean
>edge
Jean is the most plain jane boring member of the team. Her personality is replaced with being overpowered and having a constant love triangle.
>Storm is too much of a good girl. Her personality is a bit too serious and she has too much of a strong sense of responsibility.
havent read anything with storm in a while, huh?
Krakoa is shit so can't blame him.
She was a strong black women who existed before 2014, which prevents libtards from pretending diversity is brand new while simultaneously arguing all art is leftist
None of the X-men are as popular as they used to be, if they ever make a MCU X-men movie they’ll all explode in popularity
There's no way they won't make one, just curipus on how they'll introduce them.
>MCU X-men movie
I wonder who'd they pick for the team. I feel like they'd leave out Wolverine at least in the first one.
>if they ever make a MCU X-men movie they’ll all explode in popularity
This didn't happen when the X-Men movies had zero competition, and getting normies to care about a reboot of characters they didn't care about the first time around is going to be harder than getting them to interested in seeing a movie about some character they've never heard of before.
Blame Marvel for not jumping on that train when the X-Men were at their most popular back in the 90s, and not pushing anyone else but Wolverine all over the fricking place.
Marvel only uses its female characters as plot devices or for shallow virtue signalling.
Outside of the X-Men, she has nothing going for her. She's a great character but she doesn't have the power to sell a book on her own.
It’s because she’s such a core member of the X-men , she really isn’t allowed to do anything outside of them and it’s holding her back
the black panther's wife shit didn't help her at all
Did anyone even like that?
It's weird because she seems too powerful to not have her own prominent things, plus she has a unique look.
You can say that about a lot of the X-men characters yet they never catch on in solo works.
because, team books are just generally better for drama. Spider-Man is pretty much the exception, cause Batman and Superman are rather about drama.
Yeha that's true
>how is Storm not more popular?
because the sjw dont care with existing black characters .
They are too busy converting white characters in black .
I miss the 90's and her grandiose speeches
no good comics, fanbase full of gays and blacks who don't read comics, comic fans clap when only when she has feats which are always boring
yah i clapped so hard when she kicked vulcan's ass
Claremont left X-Men, it's as simple as that. Everyone else just sidelines her
Literally just lack of secondary media. We got Halle Berry in the movies, a matronly storm in xmen unlimited and then basically nothing else since.
She was the dumbest b***h in the movies.
Her anime incarnation was based on her, she looked cute.
for me it's because her hair looks like that of a grandma and her eyes make her look a bit souless, maybe if she had a marvel movie I could connect with her.
She is not interesting as a character
Massively overwanked by waifugays including claremont, in state of repeating plotlines. Her fanbase is the definition of vocal minority.
What metric are you using OP? X-books sell well and X-gays notoriously hate when there characters get taken so you aren't going to see Storm starring in some random event or being advertised out of the X-books.
She doesn't have much to offer. You know it's bad when Ewing struggles to find anything for her to besides power wanking shit for the last two books while brand carries the plot. That man came up with shit for America Chavez. I don't know how waifugays convinced themselves that storm/jean or kitty are great characters that should be getting the Carol Danvers push.
She's kind of a got a god complex.
I don’t know how Claremont was the only one who could write her well. I like what all she’s been doing in the HOXPOX era. The reveal that she was queen of the solar system was fantastic
>The reveal that she was queen of the solar system was fantastic
Then she had to physically fight for the right to be Queen almost 24/7, and then months later she gave up the throne to be part of the new Brotherhood of Mutants with Magneto.
Dammit I just realized they went from Asteroid M to Planet M(ars).
Storm didn't give up her seat, she's still on Mars ruling council. Magneto is also on the council now, since he killed Tarn.
D*sney has spent the last decade systematically burying her brand. The X-Men are such a nonentity these days that no one cared when they made Wolverine gay. This was once the most popular man in comics. If no one cares about him anymore, what chance does Storm have?
They reinterpreted her character in a wat that less people found entertaining. Before, her weather goddess shtick was an act, a chance for her to cut loose from the calm and collected leader type to go full anime protag and dazzle readers . Modern writers seem to have interpreted that as being super serious all the time and completely buying into their own hype. Which is still fun, but doesn't stand out when that describes all your teammates as well.