Rogue (Marvel Comics)
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Publisher | Marvel Comics | ||||||||||||||||||||||
First appearance | Avengers Annual #10 (1981) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Created by | Chris Claremont Michael Golden | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Alter ego | Anna Marie LeBeau (maiden name unknown)[1][2] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Species | Human mutant | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of origin | Caldecott County, Mississippi, United States[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Partnerships | Gambit | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Notable aliases | Anna Raven[5] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rogue is a character appearing in
Rogue's early history was only revealed over twenty years after her introduction in her self-titled solo series. The backstory written by Robert Rodi established her real name as Anna Marie, though her surname remains unknown. A runaway from the fictional Caldecott County, Mississippi, Rogue is adopted by Mystique and Destiny and inducted into the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. She permanently absorbs Ms. Marvel's psyche and Kree powers and, fearing for her sanity, defects from the Brotherhood to join the X-Men to use her powers for good. Although she would later gain full control of her mutant abilities, Rogue considers them a curse for many years as they prevent her from getting close to others, including her on-off love interest and eventual husband, Gambit. A white streak that runs through her hair and gloves that enable her to regulate her powers serve as Rogue's visual motif.
Often listed as one of the most notable and powerful female characters in Marvel Comics, Rogue has been adapted in various
Publication history
Rogue was first slated to appear in Ms. Marvel #25 in 1979 (and artwork for the first half of the story was completed),[6] but the book's abrupt cancellation left her original introduction story unpublished for over a decade until it was printed in Marvel Super Heroes #11 in 1992, where she absorbed her current powers permanently from Ms. Marvel.[7] Rogue's first published appearance was in Avengers Annual #10 (1981).[8][9][10] Her second appearance and first cover appearance was Rom #31 (Jun 1982) tied with Uncanny X-Men #158 (Jun 1982), but #158 is also her first X-Book appearance. She next appeared as an antagonist in Dazzler #22-24 (Aug-Oct 1982) before joining the X-Men in Uncanny X-Men #171 (1983). Rogue has also had two miniseries and one ongoing title.
Rogue's real name and early history were not revealed until more than 20 years after her introduction. Until the backstory provided by Robert Rodi in the ongoing Rogue series, begun in September 2004, her background was only hinted at. This resulted in Rodi's version of Rogue's origins inadvertently conflicting with earlier information. In X-Men Unlimited #4, Scott Lobdell indicates that Rogue ran away from her father after her mutant powers manifested, but in Uncanny X-Men #182, Rogue reflects that she never knew her father because he had left before she was born, and several issues, including Uncanny X-Men #178 and X-Men #93, indicate that Rogue was taken in by Mystique and Destiny before her mutation became active.
Chris Claremont said in June 2016 that, had he not left Marvel in 1991, Mystique would have been Rogue's real mother. It is a storyline that appeared in a 2009 run of the series X-Men Forever.[11] Claremont also revealed that Rogue's physical appearance was originally intended to be modeled on Grace Jones; however, artist Michael Golden did not know what Jones looked like.[11]
Rogue was a regular character in Uncanny Avengers (2012), beginning with issue #1.
Fictional character biography
Early life
Her parents, Owen and Priscilla, were married early in their relationship and lived in a back-to-nature
At some point, Rogue grows close to a boy named Cody Robbins. During their flirtation, Cody impulsively kisses her, at which point her latent mutant power to absorb the life energy and psyche of others with skin-to-skin contact emerges. Rogue is traumatized by the experience, and Cody is left in a permanent coma.[14][15] Hence, Rogue wears body-concealing clothing that eliminates the possibility of accidental skin contact. She wishes she "did not have to cover up so much around folks" to protect them from her. She thinks her power is a curse.[16]
Not long after, she is approached by
Brotherhood of Evil Mutants
After Rogue's mutation had emerged,
Rogue and Mystique associated briefly with a mutant named Blindspot, whose power to erase the memories of others by touch somehow counteracts Rogue's mutation enough to allow them to make physical contact safely.[18] Blindspot and Rogue became good friends, but when Mystique decides to sever professional ties with Blindspot, Blindspot erased all memory of her from both Mystique and Rogue.[19]
When Mystique debuts her Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, Destiny advises her to keep Rogue out of the action, advice which proves important when several members of the new Brotherhood are arrested and imprisoned. Mystique concocts a plan to free the other members of the Brotherhood by having Rogue absorb Ms. Marvel's formidable powers.[20] Rogue attacks Ms. Marvel in San Francisco on her front doorstep as she is returning home from grocery shopping.[21] Due to Ms. Marvel's formidable persona, Rogue's struggle to absorb her powers is prolonged, and the transfer of Ms. Marvel's psyche and powers is permanent. Rogue then throws her off the Golden Gate Bridge. She battles the Avengers using her newly acquired powers.[20]
Much later, while at
X-Men
The more Rogue uses her mutant power, the more her mind becomes filled with fragmentary psychic echoes of the people she absorbs.
The team meets up with Wolverine in
Overhearing a frantic message from Carol Danvers' former lover Michael Rossi causes the Danvers persona to become active. Under Danvers' control, Rogue invades a S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier to rescue Rossi. Her natural persona fights to regain control, rapidly switching back and forth between the two personalities. Though Rogue ultimately regains control, the incident leaves her wracked with guilt over what she did to Carol Danvers.[34]
To defeat Adversary, the X-Men's physical and spiritual essences are used as fuel for Forge's energy star, which closes the doorway to Adversary's plane of existence. Roma, a prisoner of Adversary and guardian of the Multiverse, recreates the fallen X-Men from scratch, making her own minor alterations. Now, invisible to cameras and all forms of detection equipment, the X-Men resettle to Australia, defeating the Reavers and claiming their base in the Outback as a new base of operations.[35]
The X-Men use their new status to attack anti-mutant threats around the world. The island nation of Genosha's superpowered agents, the Press Gang, capture Rogue and Wolverine, and Wipeout fully cancels their abilities. Rogue is then sexually molested by her guards. She withdraws into her subconscious, and the Carol Danvers persona takes advantage of her distress by assuming control.[25]
The Danvers personality eventually grows so strong that Carol replaces Rogue's standard X-Men costume with Ms. Marvel's uniform during battle, as well as redecorating Rogue's room to her own tastes without her permission.[36]
Return
Sacrificing herself to stop
Rogue and Magneto join forces with
The X-Men later divide into two teams to make better use of their large number of active members; Rogue is assigned to the Blue Team, under the leadership of Cyclops and alongside new X-Man Gambit. Upon his arrival, Gambit flirts with each of the female members of the team; however, Rogue immediately catches his eye, and he makes no secret of his romantic desire for her.[43] The development of Rogue and Gambit's relationship is slow and rocky, partly as a result of her inability to control her powers and partly as a result of long-term issues with previous relationships on Gambit's part.[volume & issue needed]
As an act of penance, Rogue continues to visit Cody Robbins at a hospice run by a religious order. He is later abducted by assassins sent by Gambit's ex-wife,
It is eventually revealed that Mystique had two sons: the now-deceased anti-mutant politician
Following the supposed "death" of Cyclops, the X-Men team undergoes major changes, among them Rogue being made the team's new field commander. Her even temper and years of X-Men service make her an ideal leader and she continues to lead the team until Storm returns.[46]
When the Galactic Council transforms Earth into a maximum-security penal colony for hundreds of extraterrestrial criminals, Rogue absorbs the attributes of Z'Cann; a mutant, telepathic Skrull who had joined Cadre K, Xavier's Skrull equivalent to the X-Men. Z'Cann purposely touches Rogue to activate her mutant abilities, as the two evade bounty hunters. Z'Cann uses her telepathy to amplify Rogue's capacity to assimilate memories, causing her powers to mutate.[47] Henceforth, Rogue is able to "recall" previously absorbed powers,[volume & issue needed] but also finds it increasingly difficult to control which powers manifest and when, typically possessing Wolverine's healing factor and claws, Cyclops' optic blasts and her natural strength.
X-Treme X-Men team
Rogue is part of the
During Khan's invasion, Rogue is also confronted by
Following the repulsion of the invasion, Rogue realizes that Destiny's prophecies are only possibilities and that trying to follow them is more dangerous than ignoring them. She also learns that she inherited a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny, as well as a sizable fortune, and the X-Treme X-Men team retire there to recuperate. Rogue soon leaves the team with Gambit. After emerging powerless from their ordeals, the two want to explore their relationship further.[50]
After life on the road, the couple ends up living in a beach house in Valle Soleada, a town where mutants and humans coexist peacefully. She works as a motorcycle mechanic, while Gambit is often "on the road" (implying he is thieving or on missions with Storm). She subsequently receives a visit from
Back to the X-Men
Rogue and Gambit return to the X-Men as part of Marvel's
As described in her own miniseries, Rogue then travels down south to save a young mutant girl from her powers. While there, she meets Campbell St. Ange, a young man immune to Rogue's lethal touch. Also while there, Rogue forcibly absorbs knowledge from her Aunt Carrie that explains that Rogue's mother traveled to the Far Banks, a dream-realm, to stop her father from getting there. Rogue encounters the incorporeal spirit of her mother therein and absorbs her memories. After the reunion, her mother's trapped spirit can finally move on. Rogue subsequently goes back to her Aunt Carrie and makes amends with her.[53]
Rogue then returns to the X-Men and confronts the monstrous Golgotha (large space creatures with telepathic abilities that induce insanity in some by bringing out and, to some extent, amplifying people's emotions). As the result of Golgotha influence, Rogue and Gambit get into a fight about the reality of their relationship with Rogue's uncontrollable powers. He claims if they were always able to touch, Rogue would have been "just another one-night stand," that they would have parted much sooner, before leaving. Amplified under the influence of Golgotha, Wolverine's hidden emotions come out, revealing to Rogue he desires her in a romantic/sexual way and, in fact, always had. He and Rogue passionately kiss, until both her power affect him, and Emma Frost telepathically interrupts.[54]
While on a trip to Japan to investigate an incriminating photo of her and Sunfire engaged in criminal activities, Rogue and Sunfire learn that Rogue's former friend and Brotherhood teammate, Blindspot, erased their memories of the event. In this storyline, Rogue accidentally and permanently absorbs Sunfire's fire abilities (who lost his legs to Lady Deathstrike and does not want to live).[55]
Later, back at the X-Mansion, Emma Frost tries to help Rogue and Gambit by providing telepathic relationship counseling, but their relationship continues to be problematic. Rogue then discovers Gambit is being seduced by the student called Foxx. It is later revealed, however, that
Blood of Apocalypse
In the events that followed
Endangered Species: Rogue's X-Men
As Professor Xavier goes into space with
Mystique seemingly tries to repair her relationship with Rogue, but is rebuffed.[volume & issue needed] Rogue's team defeats the group known as the Children of the Vault.[volume & issue needed] Afterward, Rogue declares that her team will leave the X-Mansion.[volume & issue needed]
Rogue is hospitalized after a battle with Pandemic.
The team moves to Rogue's hometown of Caldecott for Rogue to recover. As Cyclops and Emma Frost arrive to help Rogue cope with the immensity of the voices in her mind. Marauders arrive, seeking Destiny's diaries. As part of the attack, it is revealed that Mystique is working with the Marauders and for Mister Sinister. Mystique shoots Rogue and takes her back to Mister Sinister's base, who only keeps Rogue alive because she holds all the information of Destiny's diaries within her mind.[62] Gambit, who joined the Marauders and Mister Sinister again, is protective of Rogue, accusing Mystique of being too careless in how she captured her. Standing over Rogue, trying to get her to wake up (after she fell into a trance, overcome by the minds she absorbed), Gambit expresses his apologies for what he did before rejoining Sinister. While in her coma-like state, Rogue has dream-like flashes of memories, seeing her relationship with Gambit, and the millions of minds she absorbed, before briefly waking up and recognizing Gambit. She tells him she had a nightmare, before spouting incoherent words and mysterious coordinates.[63]
Messiah Complex
The X-Men attacks the Marauders' Antarctic base to rescue Rogue and the mysterious mutant baby who is at the center of Messiah Complex. However, the baby eventually takes precedence and the X-Men do not recover (or even see) Rogue.[volume & issue needed]
Mister Sinister, now in possession of the mutant baby, relocates the Marauders to Muir Island. While standing by Rogue's bedside, Mystique is visited by Mister Sinister, who tells her that there will be no cure for Rogue and she will eventually die. Without warning, Mystique ambushes Sinister and shoves his face onto Rogue's. The instant contact seemingly kills Sinister.[64]
Mystique, in keeping with the words of Destiny's diaries, places the baby's face in direct contact with Rogue's, with the understanding that Rogue will awaken from her comatose state. The baby is not affected by Rogue, who awakens shortly after. Realizing what Mystique did at the risk of killing the baby, Rogue says she is tired of people's lives being destroyed by Mystique and grabs Mystique's face barehanded, fully absorbing her powers and consciousness and incapacitating her. However, she immediately regrets her action after realizing that the baby deleted all the consciousnesses she had previously absorbed, along with Strain 88, so that now Mystique is the only one in her head. She says she needs to be alone and tells Gambit not to follow her.[65]
Being cured
Rogue takes some time off from the X-Men and travels around the Australian Outback on a motorcycle.[66] She returns to the X-Men's former headquarters in Maynards Plains, Australia. Once there, she has a conversation with Mystique (a part of Rogue's psyche), telling her that no one else can help her with her powers and that it was down to her to figure out how to control them.
One day, a woman appears in town, claiming to be an
Rogue then wandered to the fake Tokyo Tower and tried to find the institute, deducing that the projections around her were changing at 10-minute intervals, altering the environment around her. However, Rogue did not get far as she ended up in Antarctica, witnessing the moment she abandoned Gambit after his trial. She regretted her decisions there, telling Mystique that she really had not moved on. It was at that point that Cody Robbins appeared before Rogue, repeating his greeting from the night her powers manifested. Rogue just stared at him in shock.[69]
Eventually, the Professor, Gambit, and a group of Shi'ar pirates managed to shut down Danger. The pirates, in turn, attacked the Professor, as their intent was to kidnap him and Danger for bounty. In the meantime, Rogue enters the scene and attacks the pirates, but is defeated. However, the Professor reactivates Danger and she defeats the pirates in turn. After this, it was revealed that Rogue's powers never truly developed past their initial "nascent" stage, which was the reason why her powers never functioned properly. The Professor, now aware of this fact, used his telepathy to tear down the mental walls that kept Rogue's powers from developing (the walls were created as a side effect every time she absorbed other people, starting with Cody and even more so with Ms. Marvel) and removed the persistent mental echo of Mystique. Finally, Rogue kissed Gambit, with no ill side effect, revealing that she was finally in control of her absorption power.[70]
Utopia
Rogue, Gambit, and Danger decide to go to San Francisco to regroup with the other X-Men. On their way there they are intercepted by Pixie, who teleports them into the city, which is in a state of chaos due to the anti-mutant and pro-mutant movements. Cyclops admonishes Rogue for her disappearance and sends all three out to locate several missing students and bring them home. During their mission, Rogue faces off against the new Ms. Marvel; finding that she cannot touch her opponent, Rogue resorts to a trick and flees the site.[71]
Later on she joins Gambit, who has been injured by Ares, along with Danger. Ares does not take her seriously and dismisses her both as an opponent and her attempts to calm things down. This results in Rogue grabbing Ares and absorbing his powers. Ares is dismissive of her attempt and claims that she cannot absorb him, a boast that proves wrong as she weakens him enough for Gambit to blast him, leaving him bloody and stunned. Having for the moment absorbed some of Ares' power, she easily dispatches a small group of H.A.M.M.E.R. agents with superhuman strength and proceeds to steal their tank, along with Gambit and Danger, to find the rest of the students.[72]
Rogue finds Trance as her powers are flaring out of control, creating powerful and uncontrollable bio-electric blasts. Rogue tries to help calm Trance and help her gain control when Ms. Marvel appears to fight against Rogue. After taking out Gambit and Danger, Rogue and Ms. Marvel fight; Rogue is losing until Trance regains control and jumps in to help Rogue. Trance learns that her astral form is able to punch Ms. Marvel when they are both intangible. After Gambit stuns Ms. Marvel, they teleport back to base, where Trance receives medical attention.[73]
Nation-X
As Utopia has become a safe haven for mutants, the entire population were on high alert following an attack on the X-Men by
Unable to enter Emplate's cross-dimensional base, Rogue absorbs Trance's astral projection ability to enter the dimension and save Bling. As she investigates his lighthouse home for clues to Bling's whereabouts, Rogue was attacked by psychoplasmic ghosts. After fighting them off, she rescues Bling from Emplate.[74]
Rogue also protects the students during an attack by a
Necrosha
In an attempt to finally achieve godhood,
Post-Siege
Following the Siege of Asgard, Rogue was present at the funeral of Robert Reynolds, the Sentry. She stated that Reynolds was immune to the ill effects of her power and that, in a time in her past when she could touch no one else, she had at least one intimate encounter with him.[79] However, between two episodes of psychic blocks that caused Reynolds to completely forget his life as the Sentry, when he regained those memories for a few days, he contacted Charles Xavier telepathically and did not recognize Rogue when he "saw" her through that telepathic bond.[volume & issue needed]
Second Coming
During the event in which Cable and
For a while their tactic works, leaving Cable, along with some of the X-Men, to fend off Bastion's troops. In the meantime, Kurt, along with Rogue and Hope, teleports across the United States towards Utopia. This, however, exerts him to such a degree that he has to rest for a moment; they are soon confronted by Bastion himself. Seeing no alternative, Rogue attacks him, hoping to buy enough time for Kurt and Hope to flee, but Bastion is able to hit Kurt with an energy blast that knocks him out. Channeling Colossus's strength, further enhancing it with Betsy's telekinesis and using the individual claw sets of Logan and X-23 along with their healing factors, Rogue is able to inflict massive damage to Bastion. However, Bastion is able to repair himself and overpower Rogue with an energy discharge which briefly incapacitates her. Unable to do anything, she watches with horror as Bastion fatally impales Kurt with his arm.[81]
Rogue is appointed Hope's protector while on Utopia and allows her to participate in the final battle, where Hope eventually destroys Bastion. Her actions and choices put Hope in danger and ultimately results in Cyclops suspending Rogue from active duty. She, however, remain as Hope's protector and accompanies her to Alaska in search of her real family.[82]
Collision
Rogue, along with Magneto, Alani Ryan, and
Post "Age of X"
After the events of the "Age of X" storyline, Rogue decides not to wipe her memories. Gambit admits the extent of his feelings for her, but is also frustrated by her indecisiveness. He tells her that it is better they are apart until she decides to be with him for good and that he would be waiting for her when she is ready.[86] She becomes torn between her feelings for Gambit and Magneto. After Rogue confronts Magneto about his past, she spends a night with him, promising nothing else.[87] Afterwards, Rogue joins Professor X, Frenzy, Legion, Magneto, and Gambit on a mission to capture several of Legion's personalities that escaped after Age of X. The final battle with Legion's personality Styx results in Rogue temporarily absorbing many of Legion's powers, which led her to finding the location of Havok, Polaris, and Marvel Girl; the mutants that were left in space after the X-Men's mission to stop Vulcan.[88]
After the events of "Schism", Rogue chooses to be on Wolverine's team, noting to Cyclops that he has reached a point where his previous willingness to question his decisions has been replaced by an inability to accept when he might be wrong. She returns to Westchester, New York with Wolverine's team to start the Jean Grey School for Higher Learning.[89]
Avengers vs. X-Men
Although Rogue was initially neutral in the war between the Avengers and the X-Men, when the Jean Grey School was surrounded by the She-Hulk, the Moon Knight, and the Falcon to stop other X-Men from joining Cyclops' team, Rogue was forced into action when some students attacked the She-Hulk,[90] declaring her allegiance to Cyclops after Iron Man sent a remote-controlled armor to attack the school.[91] However, Rogue swiftly changed sides again when she witnessed Magik — now empowered by one-fifth of the Phoenix Force — imprison Ms. Marvel in a portion of Limbo that she had brought to Earth.[92] Magik briefly banished Rogue to another world for her defiance,[93] but Rogue was able to return home after helping to resolve a conflict between two alien races, having learned that the leaders of both sides were prolonging the war to keep their populations down to a manageable level.[94] Having returned to Earth, Rogue served as the X-Men's representative when appealing to the Avengers for asylum from the increasingly dictatorial Cyclops.[95] In the aftermath, she helped rescue civilians caught in the crossfire, but finally ended her relationship with Magneto.[volume & issue needed]
Uncanny Avengers
Rogue attends Xavier's funeral alongside Wolverine. Later, after seeing the
It is later revealed that the instigator behind the attack on Rogue and the Scarlet Witch was the Red Skull, who has since fused his and Xavier's brains to give him access to his tremendous mental powers.[97] Despite the Skull's attempts to control them, he is eventually defeated by the 'Avengers Unity' team — including Captain America, Thor, Wolverine and Havok — but manages to escape.[volume & issue needed] In the aftermath, Rogue accepts membership of the team, seeing it as the best way to continue Xavier's dream, but notes that she will still not forgive the Scarlet Witch for her actions.[98]
The team makes their debut as the Avengers Unity Squad (which also contains
She was later seen fighting alongside Captain America with the Avengers A.I.[100]
Rogue absorbs Wolverine's powers and is told to stop the Scarlet Witch, who is seemingly helping the Apocalypse Twins, but in reality, she plans to use her powers to bring as many of Earth's heroes as she possibly can to defeat the Twins.[101] Wolverine tells her that no one is to be killed if it can be helped, but upon seeing Wanda, Rogue goes into a berserker rage and murders her. Rogue is then killed by the recently re-resurrected Grim Reaper, who had been revived once again by the Apocalypse Twins to be one of their four horsemen of death.[102] Her death was undone when Havok and the surviving members of the Unity Squad were sent from the future by Kang to stop the Twins from destroying Earth, their minds projected back into their past selves so that they could not only warn Rogue what was to come, but then arranged for her to absorb the powers of numerous superheroes to give her the strength to hold the Celestial back. Rogue also finally made peace with Wanda and forgave her.[103][29] After the crisis was over, Rogue was in the process of being driven mad by all the heroes Rogue had absorbed (all of the Avengers and the X-Men). The Scarlet Witch cast a spell to return those powers to their owners, although Rogue still retained the powers and the very essence that she absorbed from Wonder Man.[104] She has also lost her ability to freely touch others.[105]
X-Men (vol. 4)
In 2013, Marvel revealed a new comic book simply named X-Men. Written by
AXIS and return to the Uncanny Avengers
After her resurrection, Rogue took part in AXIS with the X-Men, her powers allowing her to sense the aspect of Professor X that remained within the Red Skull.[107] During this time, the AUD was disbanded when various heroes underwent a moral inversion due to a spell cast by Doctor Doom and the Scarlet Witch to stop the telepathic Red Skull. In the aftermath, the Unity Division was reformed, with Rogue as leader of the team.[108][109]
All-New, All-Different Marvel
Following the Incursions, Rogue remains as the field leader of the Avengers Unity Squad, although she accepts Steve Rogers' official oversight and recommendations for membership, such as Deadpool. She is also depicted as suffering side-effects from the mass terrigenesis, requiring regular injections to stop herself from becoming ill or dying.[110] When various Avengers are brainwashed into civilian lives in the community of Pleasant Hill – a S.H.I.E.L.D. project to 'reprogram' supervillains into regular civilians using fragments of a Cosmic Cube that has since gained sentience – Rogue's new identity of Claire sees through the deception thanks to telepathic training provided by Professor X, allowing her mind to plant various clues that lead her to the rest of the team.[111] The same training helps her to resist telepathic attacks by the Red Skull who is keen to use her powers.[112] Later on, the Red Skull attempts to mount a new attack on the team and Rogue succumbs, but Deadpool is able to resist the telepathic attack long enough to get Magneto's old helmet on Rogue so that she can resist the Skull's telepathy.[113] Rogue subsequently takes the Skull to a new facility where Beast is able to extract the uniquely Xavier elements from the Skull's brain, depriving him of Xavier's telepathy. Rogue and Johnny Storm incinerate the brain, rebelling against the orders of the HYDRA Captain America. Absorbing Deadpool results in the return of Wonder Man (whom she had previously absorbed).[114] She seems to have at least partially gained control of her powers, as seen when she touches Johnny Storm and is held by Wonder Man.[115][116] She fights against the HYDRA forces in Washington D.C. during the dictatorship of HYDRA Captain America.[117] She resumes her relationship with Johnny Storm[118] and avenges his apparent death by killing Corvus Glaive.[119]
Return to the X-Men
Rogue returns to the Xavier Institute for Mutant Outreach and Education in New York after the incarceration of
While in space, their honeymoon is interrupted when they receive a message from Kitty Pryde about a secret package that they must find; however, the unknown package involves the Shi'ar Empire and several others are after it as well.[124][125] They soon discover that the package is actually Xandra, who is the bio-engineered daughter of Xavier and Lilandra who can take any form at will.[126] The newlyweds are soon caught by the Shi'ar but are able to free themselves; with the help of Cerise and the Starjammers, they escape. Having read Rogue's mind, Xandra offers to fix her abilities so she can touch anyone; however, Rogue refuses; when Gambit questions her, she explains that the last time it happened, she never learned to control it herself. The ground is interrupted by the Imperial Guard and by Deathbird and a fight ensues.[127] Realizing they are losing the fight, Xandra uses her abilities to make everyone think she and Rogue were killed; after the Imperial Guard and Deathbird leave, they return, only to have Rogue's ability become uncontrollable, as she can now absorb memories without touching anyone. Xandra explains that her powers have evolved, Rogue will have to learn to control it on her own; Gambit and Rogue return to Earth.[128]
During the holiday season, Gambit and Rogue are pulled into the Mojoverse.
Powers and abilities
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Rogue has been depicted as possessing different abilities in her appearances over the decades.
Mutant powers
Rogue possesses the mutant ability to absorb the psyche and abilities of another human being (or members of some sapient alien races) through skin contact.[132] Rogue can absorb the memories, knowledge, talents, personality and physical abilities (whether superhuman or not) of the person she touches, as well as occasionally duplicating in herself physical characteristics of her victim.[133][134][135][136] The victim loses those abilities and memories for exactly the amount of time that Rogue possesses them. This absorption usually leaves the victim weakened and sometimes renders them unconscious. Their powers may also be temporarily weakened or removed. Rogue's power is constantly active, rendering her incapable of touching others without the absorption process taking place. However, Rogue's inability to control her powers is presented as psychological in nature. During the times when the Ms. Marvel personality would overtake her psyche, she was able to touch people freely.[137]
If Rogue holds on to her victim for too long, the transfer may become permanent, leaving the victim nearly dead, as it occurs with Ms. Marvel.
After coming into contact with the supervillain Pandemic, Rogue's powers are upgraded for a brief time into an instant death touch.[141] Using her upgraded powers, Rogue absorbs the Hecatomb and the psyches within it, putting her into a coma.[141]
As Rogue absorbs the total psyche of a person, there is a risk of a personality overwhelming her and taking control of her body. Remnants, or "echoes", of victims whose memories she absorbs remain buried in her subconscious indefinitely, and occasionally make their presences known.[citation needed]
Fully developed mutant abilities
Following the conclusion of Messiah Complex, Rogue's slate is wiped clean. The touch of mutant baby
Following the events of X-Men: Legacy, Rogue appears to be able to activate her powers at will, as opposed to them being constantly active, as demonstrated when she kisses
She uses this new control during her fight with the Avengers, making the Falcon and the She-Hulk immediately unconscious and absorbing their powers without any negative feedback (although she does acquire She-Hulk's green skin).[145]
The new twist allows Rogue to prompt those she touches with skin-to-skin contact for consent. Rogue's victim can either resist the absorption and suffer, like originally with Rogue's powers, or instead submit to the absorption. Rogue uses this twist extensively in the Legacy series: when aiding the victims of a subway collapse, absorbing all rescuers' abilities in X-Men Legacy #274,[146] and when quelling a riot in a prison of mutants, absorbing the existence of some mutant-volunteers in X-Men Legacy #275.[147]
During Uncanny Avengers, Rogue uses her powers to absorb the energies of numerous superheroes to oppose the Celestial Executioner, stating that she had "been practicing"; she even absorbs the ionic energy-based powers of Wonder Man (whom she had been previously unable to absorb).[103] However, apparently due to the scale of the energies she absorbs in the process, Rogue's powers revert to their original state, unable to touch anyone without absorbing them automatically, and she retains Wonder Man's psyche and powers.[105]
Anna's powers undergo another change during a battle with the Shi'ar Imperial Guard and a decanting faction of radicals led by Deathbird. Still having no control over her abilities, she develops the capacity to drain life energy and supernatural skills from other living beings from a distance, eliminating the need to physically touch anyone for her siphoning powers to take effect.[128] Rogue eventually dives into her own subconsciousness, realizing that she has been purposefully limiting her own abilities out of personal fear. She regains control of her life force and can willingly initiate the ranged mass absorption effect.[131]
In the reboot of X-Men with the release of House of X and Powers of X, Rogue's power absorption is once again lethal. She easily kills Apocalypse with mere skin-to-skin touch. The result of her power absorption is that she gets Apocalypse's blue skin, although the effect disappears not long after.[148]
Ms. Marvel powers
As a young woman, Rogue permanently absorbs the superhuman powers and the psyche of Carol Danvers, the original Ms. Marvel.[20][149] This provides her with superhuman strength, stamina, durability, reflexes, speed and a seventh sense.[10][132] She is able to repel bullets and fly at sub-sonic speeds, much like Ms. Marvel. In addition, she possesses an amalgamated mutant human/Kree physiology that renders her resistant to most toxins and poisons, with the added effect of making her virtually invulnerable.[150]
Rogue also gains a precognitive "seventh sense" that enables her to unconsciously predict an enemy's move during battle. She uses this ability to predict where
When she possesses Carol Danvers' psyche, her "dual" psyche made her highly resistant to telepathic probes, even those of Charles Xavier.[4] The Ms. Marvel psyche is eventually separated from Rogue's in a subsequent issue,[151][152] and destroyed by Magneto.[153]
Powerless
For a time Rogue loses all of her powers, including her original mutant ones, after a fight with the mysterious warrior
She still possesses a "fluid genome" that enables Sage to use her as a conduit through which to channel the mutant powers of the X-Treme X-Men team in a fight against Bogan.[154]
Sunfire powers
In the short-lived volume 3 of her self-titled series (2004–2005), Rogue absorbs a large portion of the mutant Sunfire's solar-absorption based powers. In addition to her own natural mutant abilities, Rogue projects intense heat and flame, envelops her body in a fiery aura, exercises immunity to heat and radiation, and flies.[155]
Wonder Man powers
In the ongoing comics, Rogue possesses Wonder Man's essence, including his powers and psyche. Her organic tissues are permeated with ionic energy, granting her an array of superhuman abilities. She possesses superhuman strength sufficient enough to lift well over 100 tons, as well as some degree of superhuman speed, agility and reflexes. In addition, Rogue is virtually invulnerable to damage and is capable of flying at high speeds. Rogue's eyes glow in the dark and her vision extends somewhat into the infrared spectrum, allowing her to see in the dark. Her new ionic physiology also grants her a form of immortality, protecting her from age and disease.[156]
Natural skills
Rogue has knowledge of unarmed combat. She has also receives training from Professor X to protect herself against even subtle telepathic attacks. This training allows her to escape Kobik's reprogramming of various Avengers and villains to reassemble her teammates against this new threat when even experienced telepaths like Cable are trapped in the illusion.[111]
Real name
For the first two decades of the character's existence, Rogue's real name was unrevealed; in X-Men #24 (Sept. 1993), she tries to reveal it to
These two names were combined to create Rogue's real name, which was finally established as "Anna Marie" in issue #2 of her 2004 ongoing series.[12] The name was subsequently listed in Rogue's profile in the X-Men 2005 issue of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe [157] and has been consistently used to refer Rogue both by other characters and by Rogue herself ever since.
Rogue's surname remains unknown; alternate-universe versions of the character have used the name "Anna Raven" (Exiles #99, Oct. 2007) and "Anna Marie Darkholme" (Secrets of the House of M, Jul. 2005) Chris Claremont used the name "Anna Marie Raven" in reference to Rogue in non-diegetic establishing text in X-Men Forever: Alpha (May, 2009).
Cultural impact and legacy
Critical reception
Martyn Warren of
George Marston of
Accolades
- In 2006, IGN ranked Rogue 4th in their "Top Ten X-Babes" list[166] and 5th in their "Top 25 X-Men" list.[167]
- In 2008, CBR.com ranked Rogue 1st in their "Top 50 X-Men of All Time" list.[168]
- In 2011, Comics Buyer's Guide ranked Rogue 10th in their "100 Sexiest Women in Comics" list.[169]
- In 2011, IGN ranked Rogue 5th in their "Top 25 X-Men" list.[170]
- In 2014, BuzzFeed ranked Rogue 5th in their "95 X-Men Members Ranked From Worst To Best" list.[164]
- In 2015, Bustle ranked Rogue 11th in their "14 Female Superheroes Who Deserve Stardom" list.[171]
- In 2015, Entertainment Weekly ranked Rogue 4th in their "Let's rank every X-Man ever" list.[160]
- In 2017, Comicbook.com ranked Rogue 8th in their "10 Best X-Men" list.[172]
- In 2018,
- In 2018, GameSpot ranked Rogue 28th in their "50 Most Important Superheroes" list.[175]
- In 2019, Mashable ranked Rogue 2nd in their "8 Badass Women of Marvel We Cannot Stop Fangirling Over" list.[176]
- In 2019, Comicbook.com ranked Rogue 37th in their "50 Most Important Superheroes Ever" list.[177]
- In 2020, Scary Mommy included Rogue in their "195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[178]
- In 2021,
- In 2021, Women in the World ranked Rogue 15th in their "Best Female Marvel Characters" list.[181]
- In 2021, Screen Rant ranked Rogue 1st in their "Marvel Comics: The 10 Greatest Redemptions" list,[182] 4th in their "The 10 Strongest X-Men" list,[183] and ranked Rogue and Gambit 9th in their "10 Best Relationships in The X-Men Comics" list.[184]
- In 2022,
- In 2022, Sportskeeda ranked Rogue 6th in their "10 best X-Men characters who also joined the Avengers" list.[187]
- In 2022, Newsarama ranked Rogue 10th in their "Best X-Men members of all time" list.[188]
- In 2022, Screen Rant ranked Rogue 2nd in their "Top 10 X-Men, Ranked by Fighting Skills" list,[189] 5th in their "10 Best X-Men Characters Created By Chris Claremont" list,[190] 6th in their "10 Best Marvel Comics Characters That Went From Villain To Friend" list,[191] and included her in their "10 Most Powerful X-Men" list.[192]
- In 2022, MovieWeb ranked Rogue 6th in their "X-Men Characters That Need Redemption In The MCU" list.[193]
- In 2022, Digital Trends ranked Rogue 9th in their "Marvel's most powerful mutants" list.[194]
- In 2023, CBR.com ranked Rogue 6th in their "10 Most Fashionable Marvel Heroes" list.[195]
Literary reception
Volumes
Rogue - 2004
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Rogue #1 was the 26th best selling comic book in July 2004.[196][197][198]
Rogue & Gambit - 2018
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Rogue & Gambit #1 was the 38th best selling comic book in January 2018.[199][200] Rogue & Gambit #1 was the 478th best selling comic book in 2018.[201][202][203]
CBR Staff of
Mr. & Mrs. X - 2018
According to Diamond Comic Distributors, Mr. & Mrs. X #1 was the 15th best selling comic book in July 2018.[206][207][208][209] Mr. & Mrs. X #1 was the 141st best selling comic book in 2018.[210][211]
Jamie Lovett of
Other versions
Age of Apocalypse
In the
Age of Ultron
In the "
Age of X
Rogue appears in the "
Amalgam Comics
In the
Exiles
In the
House of M
The
Marvel 1602
A version of Rogue appears in the Marvel 1602 spin-off "Angela: Witchunter".
Marvel Noir
Rogue appears in
Marvel Zombies
During the Ultimate Fantastic Four crossover where the Ultimate Universe's Fantastic Four visit the Marvel Zombies Universe, Rogue is seen as a zombified hero in one of the panels before the infection spread out.[226]
Mutant X
In this darker reality, Rogue operates with a smaller X-Team consisting of Magneto, Nightcrawler, Polaris, Quicksilver,
Prelude to Deadpool Corps
In issue #2, Deadpool visits a world where Rogue and Jean Grey are orphaned kids at an orphanage run by Emma Frost. At a dance where Professor X and Emma's orphans can have fun, Rogue can be seen calling Kidpool (a kid version of Deadpool who attends the Professor X Orphanage for Troubled Kids) a dork.[volume & issue needed]
Professor W's X-Men
Rogue has defected from the X-Men in this series to join
Ultimate Marvel
In the Ultimate Marvel continuity, Rogue is first introduced in the story arc Return to Weapon X[228] as a prisoner of Weapon X and she worked with the Juggernaut and Nightcrawler. In this version, her name appears to be Marian Carlyle.[229] Her powers are exploited to steal sensitive information on the location and layout of the Xavier Institute for Gifted Children. Using this information, agents of Weapon X storm the school and capture the X-Men. Rogue is released along with the X-Men, the Juggernaut, and Nightcrawler, when a combination of the Brotherhood of Mutant Supremacy and S.H.I.E.L.D rescues them and destroys Weapon X's facility. Though offered a place on the X-Men, she joins the Brotherhood. She later joins the X-Men in the Return of the King arc.[230]
In the Cry Wolf story arc,[231] the X-Men are attacked by Gambit who kidnaps Rogue and takes her to his employers, Andreas and Andrea von Strucker. They hope to use her powers for "corporate espionage". In exchange for her help, they promise her they will help her control her powers through a power-dampening material they had developed. She turns them down, feeling that her powers are her penance. Rebuked, they attack Rogue and Gambit. She touches both of them and uses their powers to fend off their guards. The X-Men arrive to take her back, but she turns them down and leaves with Gambit.[232]
Rogue does not appear again until Ultimate X-Men Annual #1, in which she and Gambit fight the Juggernaut. Gambit sacrifices himself to save Rogue and she kisses him as he dies at his request. With this kiss, she takes his powers that seemingly override her own, ridding her of her 'death touch' through several of the books (this also affects Rogue's appearance, as she acquires black eyes with red irises). In the subsequent story arc Date Night,[233] Rogue decides to rekindle her relationship with the Iceman after she loses her virginity to him (something possible due to her being able to touch him now).[234]
During Ultimate X-Men Annual #2, Rogue speaks to Professor Xavier about her concerns regarding Gambit's powers still remaining. Xavier theorizes this is only a temporary change and her powers will return within time. Towards the end of the Annual, Rogue touches a delusional Nightcrawler and her old powers re-emerge, causing her to start teleporting randomly, and she loses Gambit's power, sending her back into the shell of hiding her skin, much to her and the Iceman's dismay.[235]
During Ultimate X-Men #77, she loses her arm during a fight with Cable. However, after absorbing some of Wolverine's healing power, her arm appears to grow back.[236]
In Ultimate X-Men #80, Cyclops disbands the X-Men following Xavier's death. Rogue stays with the Iceman at the Xavier Institute as a student. Xavier later returns and reveals himself to be alive. Rogue once again becomes an X-Man. At the end of Ultimate X-Men, a
In Ultimate X-Men #95, she reveals that when her father got drunk he would molest her. Once when he tried to touch her, she took his life. She also appears to have found out who Vindicator was, but before she could elaborate, Vindicator took her out.[237]
Addicted to Banshee, Colossus' X-Men began to acquire more Banshee from the
After the
What If?
In "What If the X-Men Stayed in Asgard", Rogue is one of the
In "What If Rogue possessed the power of Thor?", Rogue accidentally permanently absorbed
In "What If Mystique had raised Nightcrawler?", Rogue's attempt to free Nightcrawler from the attic where Mystique had kept him to 'protect' him resulted in him being mortally injured by the Brotherhood when they mistook him for an X-Man; Rogue's attempt to use his power to escape resulted in her permanently absorbing Nightcrawler's powers and appearance due to the prolonged contact she maintained.[243]
In What If? (vol. 2) #114, the heroes taken to the Beyonder's Battleworld never returned to Earth. In this reality, Rogue is called Carol, implying that the absorbed Ms. Marvel persona is the dominant consciousness. Because Carol is in control, Rogue's absorption powers are under control and she is married to Captain America. They also have a daughter together named Sarah, who inherited some of her mother's abilities and is known as the Crusader. This version of Rogue appears to have her original mutant powers, as well as Ms. Marvel's powers. It was also shown that she wears Ms. Marvel's costume into battle.[volume & issue needed]
In the What If? story "Bullet Points", in which a single bullet changed the history of
In the "What If Xavier's Secret Second Team had Survived Krakoa?" storyline, Rogue is seen as a member of Vulcan's X-Men. She seems to possess both her own mutant abilities as well as the powers of Ms. Marvel, as she is seen flying and wearing gloves. Her history is presumably the same as her mainstream counterpart, though she wears a blue uniform and yellow gloves rather than her iconic costume.[volume & issue needed]
X-Men: The End
In an alternative future featured in the series
X-Men Forever
In this reality, Rogue has absorbed Nightcrawler's abilities when he gave her mouth-to-mouth, granting her Nightcrawler's skin and tail as well as exceptional athletic abilities, although this has also left Nightcrawler with Rogue's powers and looking like a normal human. Claremont has kept the plot thread from Fall of the Mutants concerning the X-Men's encounter with Roma intact, and so Rogue is still rendered undetectable to cameras, appearing only as a blur on screen or film. While exploring her new powers, Rogue runs into Spider-Man and spends the night fighting crime alongside him; she suggests that they kiss to see if her original abilities have been affected by her transformation, but they are interrupted by a Sentinel attack before they can actually make contact.[244]
In other media
Collected editions
Title | Material collected | Published date | ISBN |
---|---|---|---|
Rogue | Rogue (vol. 1) #1–4 | November 1995 | 978-0752201030 |
X-Men: Gambit & Rogue | Rogue (vol. 1) #1–4 and Gambit (vol. 2) #1–4 | October 2016 | 978-1302902483 |
X Men Icons: Rogue | Rogue (vol. 2) #1-4 | May 2002 | 978-0785108764 |
Rogue Vol. 1: Going Rogue | Rogue (vol. 3) #1–6 | March 2005 | 978-0785113362 |
Rogue Vol. 2: Forget Me Not | Rogue (vol. 3) #7-12 | October 2005 | 978-0785117346 |
Rogue: The Complete Collection | Rogue (vol. 3) #1–12 | September 2015 | 978-0785197218 |
Captain Marvel Vs. Rogue | Avengers Annual #10, Uncanny X-Men #158, 171, 269, Ms. Marvel #9-10, X-Men: Legacy #269-270, Captain Marvel #4-5 and material from Marvel Super-Heroes #11 | June 2021 | 978-1302926519 |
Rogue & Gambit: Ring Of Fire | Rogue & Gambit #1-5 | July 2018 | 978-1302911607 |
Mr. and Mrs. X Vol. 1: Love And Marriage | Mr. and Mrs. X #1-6 | March 2019 | 978-1302913519 |
Mr. and Mrs. X Vol. 2: Gambit and Rogue Forever | Mr. and Mrs. X #6-10 | August 2019 | 978-1302913526 |
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- ^ Uncanny Avengers #8 AU
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- ^ Age of X: Universe #2
- ^ New Mutants #22
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- ^ JLX #1 (April 1996)
- ^ Portfolio Review (promotion to New Exiles, published in Astonishing X-Men #23 (January 2008))
- ^ New Exiles #16 (February 2009)
- ^ New Exiles #10 (October 2008)
- ^ X-Men Noir #1-4 (February–May 2009)
- ^ Ultimate Fantastic Four #22
- ^ Exiles #42 (April 2004)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #7-12 (August 2001 – January 2002)
- ^ Ultimate Comics X-Men #1
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #27-33 (March–July 2003)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #50-53 (October 2003 – January 2004)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #53 (January 2004)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #66-69 (March–June 2006)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #66 (March 2006)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men Annual #2
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #77
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- ^ Ultimate X-Men #97
- ^ Ultimate X-Men #98 (January 2009)
- ^ Ultimate X-Men: Requiem (September 2009)
- ^ What If? (vol. 2) #12
- ^ What If (vol. 2) #66
- ^ What If (vol. 2) #98
- ^ X-Men Forever (vol. 2) #3 (September 2010)
External links
- Rogue at the Marvel Universe wiki
- Rogue Shrine. Comprehensive appearance list and chronology, etc.
- Rogue at the Marvel Database Project (wiki)
- New Generation X
- UncannyXmen.net Spotlight on Rogue at UncannyXMen.net