Rogue

Origin and history

Anna Marie’s journey begins in Caldecott County, Mississippi, where she was born to the beautiful Priscilla and her lover Owen. Her parents married far to early in their relationship and were plagued by their mistake constantly.  In an attempt to fix their decaying relationship, Priscilla became pregnant with their first child.  Nine months later she gave birth to a baby girl that that she named Anna Marie.  Unfortunately the young couple was whisked into a nature-loving commune where they joined in on an insane plan to reach the Far Banks, a dreamland from Native American mythology, where the rules of the physical world no longer applied. The commune hired a shaman to take them to the Far Banks, but something went horribly wrong during the ceremony. Owen had planned to sacrifice Priscilla to the spirits of the Far Banks, but she took control of them and angrily closed the mystical place behind her as she vanished. Grief stricken Owen pleaded with Priscilla’s sister Carrie to aid him in raising his daughter. Anna Marie, who had been nicknamed Rogue, didn’t have a happy or even pleasant childhood with her aunt. Carrie was rough on her in an attempt to prevent her from making the same mistakes her mother made. Though Anna did not go entirely with out love as her beauty, like her mothers, was well recognized by the boys of her town. There was one boy in particular that was blessed with her affection, his name was Cody Robbins.

It was with him one night under a full moon during their first kiss that she first manifested her powers, leaving her first love in a lifelong coma. Cody’s father and some of the towns folk ambushed Anna’s home, while Owen fought off the mob Anna stole one of his guns and ran as far as she could into swamp. She was seen and chased by a small part of the mob. While looking at her followers, Anna ran into a stranger and fell unconscious. She never saw how she was rescued by the time-traveling  Cable, as he quickly dealt with the mutant-haters and had already left before Anna regained consciousness. While in the swamps holding her father’s gun she stumbled upon by a beautiful woman named Raven Darkholme ( Mystique).

Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Brotherhood Costume

Anna frequently tested her limits. Mystique often needed to keep her in line, as Anna took her powers too lightly and enjoyed the use of her abilities for fun. Anna also dyed her naturally white streak brown, only two replace it with two white streaks on her temples, apparently in an attempt to look older. She felt pressured by Mystique to join her terrorist group, The  Brotherhood Of Evil Mutants; but Anna wanted a normal life. When Anna was dared to kiss a boy named Freddy, her powers kicked in and she drained him of his life force too. After that she would never speak to him again, and with no sign of a normal life ever being possible she joined Mystique in the Brotherhood.

During their final mission together, they were hired to travel to Japan and break into the house of Lord Dark Wind, the father of  Lady Deathstrike, where they were to steal his plans for the adamantium bonding process. In order to succeed they had to team-up with  Sunfire. During the mission, Sunfire was knocked out and Anna took his solar powers. She loved flying and wanted to keep the abilities, but they too faded, however not before Anna destroyed major parts of Dark Wind’s estate. Although they hadn’t accomplished their actual mission, the Brotherhood still classified this as a victory, and to celebrate it Blindspot took a picture of Mystique, Anna, and Sunfire with Dark Wind’s burning property in the background. Back home though, Mystique had enough of Blindspot and exiled her from the group. In order to protect herself, Blindspot erased Mystique’s, Anna’s, and everyone else’s memory of her to move on without being recognized. Life went on for Rogue, Mystique and Destiny as if nothing had happened. In time, Destiny received precognitive visions that warned her about the Avenger known as  Ms. Marvel costing Rogue her soul one day.

Ms. Marvel and the struggle

Rogue steals her powers and then some

During this incident, Anna learned that Carol had returned and was now living in San Francisco. Unaware that this would cause the danger that Destiny had predicted, she tracked down Danvers, and battled her on the Golden Gate Bridge. Carol resisted Anna’s powers like nobody before but something went wrong. Anna found that, somehow, her metabolism had permanently retained Ms. Marvel's mind and powers. Fearing for her own sanity and identity as she kept hearing Carol's voice in her head, Anna threw Danvers’ body off the bridge. Hoping that her physical death would also kill the voice in her head, unfortunately for Anna, she was rescued by  Spider-Woman, who brought Carol to a hospital where Charles Xavier ( Professor X) could partially restore her memories. Under Mystique’s guidance, Anna proceeded to attack the  Avengers one by one, absorbing the powers of  Thor and  Captain America, with Raven impersonating  Nick Fury; she tried to free the rest of the Brotherhood from prison. The remaining Avengers and Spider-Woman managed to prevent the breakout. As most of her stolen powers were already fading, Anna escaped with Mystique to avoid being captured as well.

Several weeks later, the X-Men sneaked into the Pentagon with Carol to delete their data files. They ran into Rogue in one of the corridors who was there thanks to Mystique's secret identity as a government agent. A fight started and Rogue absorbed both  Wolverine and  Storm’s powers. After regaining consciousness, Storm created an air vortex to carry Rogue away as she did not want to endanger the Pentagon personnel by a fight. Soon after, Mystique tried once more to release her teammates from prison. Anna and Mystique easily defeated the guards, but  ROM (the Spaceknight), discovered the breakout. He easily rendered the  Blob,  Pyro and  Avalanche unconscious because they fought in an unorganized manner. Mystique angrily decided to leave them in prison for a while longer.

Searching for new allies, Mystique, Destiny and Rogue found  Hybrid (a half-human, half-Dire Wraith) and offered to team up with him against their common enemies, Rom and the X-Men. In combat with Rom, Rogue touched his Galadorian armor and absorbed some of his inherent nobility in the process. When Hybrid revealed his plans to turn the entire Earth, including mutants, into his slaves and cattle, the mutant trio opposed him before fleeing. While Rom battled Hybrid alone, Rogue showed potential for goodness for the first time as she went against Mystique’s orders, finding she could not bring herself to leave without helping the Spaceknight.

Wanting revenge on the X-Men for having spoiled their plan to assassinate Senator  Robert Kelly, Mystique and her partners assaulted  Angel. During the fight, Rogue was supposed to absorb the knowledge of the X-Men’s whereabouts from Angel’s mind but she did not want to use her powers on him, as the wings were a physical mutation and Rogue feared what effect that would have on her. While distracted with their own problems,  Dazzler took Rogue and Mystique by surprise with her light powers. Rogue then developed a grudge against her, the woman who had everything she wanted. Having been a fan of her music before, she now saw that Alison Blaire also had a controllable mutant power and a beautiful boyfriend.

Slowly, the personality and memories that Rogue had permanently absorbed from Ms. Marvel began to overpower her mind, affecting her control and her sanity. Finally, after seeing that Mystique clearly couldn't aid her she turned to Charles Xavier and his X-Men.

Becoming an X-Man: A fresh start

Rogue's greatest foes being her only hope she asked for help. Xavier telepathically examined her and found that she was genuine in her request and agreed to take her in, despite the X-Men's insistence to do otherwise. Their major concern was the effects it would have on Carol Danvers, now using the alias and new powers of Binary, she had been living at the mansion ever since Rogue had attacked her. When she returned home, Carol knocked Rogue through the roof and straight into orbit, before announcing that she would leave if Rogue were allowed to stay. She then followed the  Starjammers invitation to accompany them to outer space, as she no longer had any emotional ties to her friends and family holding her back – all because of Rogue.

Shortly after moving into the X-Men's headquarters, Rogue changed her hair back to its original style with the single white streak, to reflect her inner change and to support the idea of a fresh start. Naturally, the X-Men were suspicious of the former enemy among their ranks, especially Wolverine, who was good friends with Carol. However, slowly but surely, Rogue gained the X-Men’s trust, by risking her own life to save Wolverine’s fiancé,  Mariko Yashida.

Naturally, Mystique noticed that Rogue had left the house and, before long, she tried to get her daughter back. While the Brotherhood kept the rest of the X-Men busy, Mystique infiltrated the mansion and knocked out Xavier. Believing that he must have mentally controlled Anna to make her abandon the Brotherhood, but after Rogue stated that it was her own choice to join the X-Men, considering that Xavier might be her last chance to control her power, Mystique reluctantly agreed and left.

Checking the mansion’s answering machine after returning from a mission, Rogue found a message from Colonel Mike Rossi, asking for help. Hearing the voice of the former lover of Ms. Marvel, Rogue immediately went to help him and rescued him from the  SHIELD Helicarrier. Without realizing it, she accessed memories and personality traits of Carol Danvers, even her voice and accent changed. Finally, after snapping out of it, she understood the full amount of her crime for the first time. She had stolen the very identity of Carol Danvers; emotions, personality and memories – everything that had made her the person she was, was forever lost to Carol and locked away in Rogue’s head. After being framed for murder, the government planned to use a prototype power neutralizer on Rogue.

Mystique learned of this in her guise as a governmental employee and, Destiny predicting the danger. They alerted Storm to Rogue’s whereabouts, as she had run back to her native area in Mississippi, feeling unable to deal with her life. After she had found her, Storm and Rogue finally sorted out their differences and Ororo proved her trust by volunteering to let Rogue absorb her power. Amazed by the way Storm saw the world in energy patterns, Rogue was tempted to permanently absorb the weather abilities but resisted, not wanting to betray the trust placed in her. Suddenly  Henry Gyrich and his forces attacked and it became painfully clear that Mystique had not revealed the full extent of Destiny’s vision. Whoever would come to Rogue’s aid would have to take her place and it was now Storm who was hit by the power dampening blast meant for Rogue.

With Storm incapable,  Nightcrawler became temporary leader of the team, and he tried to test Rogue for the seventh sense that Ms. Marvel had possessed. After his randomly teleporting and tickling her, Rogue was so annoyed that she finally hit the exact spot where Kurt would next appear. It seemed that she was only able to manifest this vague ability under great stress, and she had absolutely no interest to develop this ability any further.

When attacked by  Nimrod, the X-Men were almost defeated. Buried under the rubble of a construction site, Rogue saw no other chance than to absorb the powers of her unconscious teammates all at once, even though it meant to risk permanent disfigurement by absorbing physical attributes like Nightcrawler’s tail and the steel skin of  Colossus. The gamble worked, as Nimrod was confused by Rogue’s use of multiple mutant signatures at once. Since after the fight Rogue’s changed form reverted back to her regular appearance, she no longer had reservations against using her powers on physical mutations.

During the  Mutant Massacre, history seemed to repeat itself. Rogue was temporarily rendered vulnerable by  Scrambler’s power canceling effect and, as she was about to be hit with one of  Harpoon’s energy lances  Kitty Pryde jumped in between, believing to phase both of them to safety. Yet, the energy spear interacted with Kitty’s intangible form, leaving her stuck in phased state. Rogue was saved, but once again at the price of a teammate being harmed.

Soon after wards, Dazzler found herself attacked by the  Marauders, and reluctantly joined the X-Men, as she by herself provided a too easy target. To get into shape, Dazzler excessively trained in the Danger Room and Rogue was not too pleased when she learned that Alison was running simulations with Rogue as the villain.

During the  Fall of the Mutants, the X-Men battled a mystical entity known as the  Adversary, who was bent on destroying and remaking the multi-verse. In the final battle, the X-Men's physical and spiritual essences were used as fuel for  Forge's energy star, which closed the doorway to the Adversary’s plane of existence and saved the multi-verse. They, in effect, died.  Roma, a prisoner of the Adversary and guardian of the multi-verse, used her powers to recreate the fallen X-Men from scratch, making her own minor alterations. Now invisible to cameras and all forms of detection equipment, the X-Men resettled to Australia, claiming an abandoned ghost town in the Outback as their new base of operations.

The X-Men used their new status to attack anti-mutant threats around the world, which also brought them in conflict with the island nation of  Genosha. Their own super powered agents, the Press Gang, captured Rogue and Wolverine and the unthinkable happened as  Wipeout fully canceled their abilities. For the first time in years, Rogue was able to experience skin to skin contact, though it now happened against her will.

Thanks to a special form of digitalized teleportation, Rogue arrived naked in the prison of Genosha, and the guards took a few liberties when they put her into a cell. It is widely believed by fans that she was raped by her prison guards, but this has been denied by Chris Claremont, who stated that she has merely touched and roughly handled against her will, which was very traumatizing.

Rogue completely withdrew into her subconscious. There, she found out that some psychic residue had remained of all people she had absorbed and now these phantoms tried to overwhelm her. As Anna was fighting for sanity and control within her mind, unexpected help was provided by the permanently absorbed personality of Carol Danvers. She was more than the psychic residue; in fact, she was as solid and real as Rogue. As Carol, with her spy training, was more suited for escaping from the prison without any superpowers, Rogue let Carol take over.

From then on, Carol and Rogue agreed on a new modus operandi - the two personalities would actually share the body, with each having their times of dominance, or acting as back up when one was rendered unconscious. It also seemed that Carol had no trouble to keep the absorption power under control. While she was using the body, she touched  Psylocke's bare skin without any effect. Evidently, Rogue’s lack of control was strictly psychological in nature.

During  Inferno, the X-Men were demoniacally influenced and started to behave strangely. Rogue was scared by the experience, as it showed her what another presence in her mind could make her do; and after wards she no longer allowed the Ms. Marvel persona to surface, prompting Carol to take control by force. When the X-Women went shopping to California Mall, where they would run into Jubilee ( Jubilee), Carol decided to get a new hairdo in Ms. Marvel style and, later when she picked up some personal belonging from her old apartment, she even made Rogue wear the Ms. Marvel costume.

The two women did not manage to get their difficulties sorted out again, as soon after the X-Men fought an all-out battle with the merged Nimrod/ Master Mold  Sentinel, which ended with the robot being pulled through the Siege Perilous, a mystic gateway that judged all beings and placed them into different lives. On its way into the portal, Nimrod/Master Mold grabbed Rogue, ready to take her along. The X-Men were unsure what to do but, knowing that this was their only chance at victory, Rogue ordered Dazzler to blast both the robot and herself through the Siege. It was said that everyone who entered the magical portal would be judged by the highest of powers, the good and ill of their lives being weighed in the cosmic balance, only to be reborn into a new life without remembering the old one.

Rogue in the Savage Land

However, after being possessed by the  Shadow King, she followed Rogue and continued the battle. Whoever had the upper hand of the battle was healthy, while the other withered away. Rogue was about to give up, since she didn’t want to “kill“ Ms. Marvel for a second time, when suddenly  Magneto stepped in. He rendered both unconscious and, when Rogue woke up, Magneto had used machinery to drain/kill Carol‘s body and restore Rogue to full power, without the Carol personality in her head. Since the power transfer temporarily scrambled her absorption powers, they could touch and realized they felt an attraction for one another.

The pair found themselves caught in a war over the Savage Land, and they tried to aid Shield and  Ka-Zar to defend the land from  Zaladane and the Savage Land Mutates. Rogue‘s abilities (both her own and those of Ms. Marvel) resurfaced halfway during the conflict, right in time to change the odds in their favor. However, their romance ended before it even began when Magneto killed Zaladane in cold blood and declared that he was abandoning Xavier's dream of peaceful coexistence.

As she was unable to contact the X-Men, being busy in  Shi'ar space at the time, Rogue decided to head to Muir Island. However, the supreme telepath known as the Shadow King had taken over the minds of the residents there and Rogue fell under his influence too. Soon, the many residents battled each other in tournaments held by  Moira MacTaggert, much to the delight of the Shadow King, who fed of the negative emotional energies bundled through Polaris.

Once they returned to Earth, the X-Men tried to help, but were captured as well, with only Forge still being free. He developed a neutral spike cannon and psionic catalyst and succeeded in freeing Rogue,  Banshee and Wolverine from the mind control. Together with Xavier and  X-Factor, they were able to free all of the Muir Islanders and defeat the Shadow King for quite some time.

The X-Men were officially established again, with the original five X-Men and several other former members returning to the fold. In fact there were enough X-Men to divide them into two squads. Rogue was assigned to the Blue Strike Force led by  Cyclops, also including Wolverine,  Beast, Psylocke and  Gambit, who had joined the X-Men during Rogue’s absence. Their first mission of the new team involved battling Magneto, the man she might have loved, but the master of magnetism didn’t listen to any of Rogue’s attempts to convince him to stop the fight and attacked her without remorse.

Gambit was a man of secrets and mysteries. Just like Rogue, he kept his real name secret, only for the time-traveling X-Man,  Bishop, to reveal it as Remy LeBeau and accuse him of becoming a traitor to the team. Though she knew neither man well, Rogue sided with Gambit in this conflict, reasoning that Gambit couldn’t be held accountable for something he had not yet done. However, when later that day a woman showed up at the X-Men’s doorstep, claiming to be Gambit’s wife, she was not sure about trusting Gambit anymore. He explained himself, though, that the woman was Bella Donna Boudreaux, a member of a rivaling guild from New Orleans, and, while Gambit had indeed married her, he had not seen her in many years and considered their relationship long over.

Not much later, Gambit was called back to his home to avenge his brother's death and Rogue accompanied him. During their stay in New Orleans, she accidentally absorbed part of Bella Donna's mind. Along came the memories of the happy times she spent with Gambit – kissing, touching and loving one another – all things denied to Rogue. For a split-second, Rogue was tempted to touch Bella Donna again and permanently absorb it, but she reminded herself that it was wrong and the absorption wore off.

Back in Westchester, Rogue was part of the X-Men team that succeeded in bringing in  Sabretooth, who began living in the detention chambers beneath the mansion. On Rogue‘s annual visit to Cody Robbins' hospital bed, Bella Donna used the Assassin's Guild to kidnap Cody, in retaliation for Rogue stealing part of her mind. Rogue and Gambit followed the Assassins and, in the final battle against Bella Donna and the External, Candra, Cody died, after over a decade being in a coma. Tante Mattie, the Guilds‘ spiritual healer, arranged a last meeting between Cody and Rogue on the astral plane. The boy held no grudges against Anna. In fact, he knew that Rogue was not to blame for not having known about her mutant powers. Before departing to the afterlife, Cody told Rogue to move on.

Both Rogue and Gambit were with the X-Men in Israel when the  M'Kraan Crystal was about to destroy Earth and the rest of the universe as well. Just as the crystal wave struck, Rogue took her final chance and kissed Gambit passionately. However, the crystal wave washed over without effect, and Gambit was left comatose from Rogue's kiss, with Rogue possessing a large part of his memories and dark secrets. It was too much for her to deal with and she ran away to wander the country,  Iceman going with her to keep her company.

After a few days, Gambit awoke from his coma and chased them down. When he found them, Rogue told him that she didn't know exactly what she had seen only that it was something terrible and that it had been haunted him ever since. As Gambit wouldn’t confide in her and outright tell her what his dark secret was, Rogue reasoned that, if they couldn't trust each other, they also couldn't love each other. Rogue moved to South Carolina and began working as a waitress.

Operatives of [[Operation: Zero Tolerance:char:43899]] found her, however. They kidnapped her and were preparing to kill her when one of the OZT soldiers started throwing off magnetic pulses, freeing Rogue and taking down  Bastion. He revealed himself to be  Joseph. Rogue was unsure how to handle the man in front of her, as he seemed to be a de-aged Magneto. They began traveling by car to reach the X-Men, but  Onslaught happened first.

The X-Men and Avengers had teamed up to defeat Onslaught and had learned that Magneto might have caused Xavier's change into Onslaught, somehow. Therefore, an Avengers/X-Men team, consisting of Captain America, Gambit,  Vision,  Iron Man, Thor,  Quicksilver and the  Scarlet Witch, were sent out to find and subdue him. Rogue and Joseph traveled back to New York with the Avengers and X-Men team to confront Onslaught. After Onslaught was destroyed, Rogue and Joseph joined the X-Men.

Shi'Ar uniform

In their battles against the Phalanx,  Deathbird, a member of the Shi’Ar Imperial family and former enemy of the X-Men, accompanied them. Against all odds, they succeeded and Deathbird was taking them back to Earth through a Shi'Ar Stargate when a larger ship destroyed the Stargate and the X-Men crash-landed in Antarctica. There they were confronted by a trio of bounty hunters and Nanny. With their powers negated by an inhibitor field and unable to escape, Rogue and Remy spent their first night together. Albeit prisoners of their enemies, they used the chance to physically express their love to each other.

The next day, Gambit was put on trial by someone wearing the guise of  Erik The Red. The X-Men were joined by  Angel, Psylocke and,  Maggott. During the trial, Rogue and the others learned of Gambit's past dealings with  Mr. Sinister and the Marauders when Rogue was forced to absorb Gambit’s mind. when the X-Men departed to Westchester, Rogue left him in Antarctica, though to a certain degree her decision was influenced by Remy’s own residue personality in her head. He wanted to atone for his crime and deemed this an appropriate punishment.

At one point, Rogue was given the chance to have her powers removed. She had learned of the Agee Institute through TV news and. she found that Dr. Agee really was capable of removing the mutant gene. When Mystique learned of Rogue’s plan, she became rather angry with her daughter. However, despite all of Mystique’s warnings, Rogue still was about to undergo the treatment, only declining in the last instant for one sole reason; she feared that the device would be used on other mutants against their will and, without her strength, she would have had no way to make sure that the apparatus would be destroyed after her operation, She made the decision to destroy the machine, which could have given her a normal life.

Let the Love Begin

After the Magneto War and Joseph's funeral, Rogue was left behind while the other X-Men were abducted for a journey through time and dimensions. She flew to Genosha, now under Magneto’s rule, to try and reason with the man she came to know as a friend once more. Yet, after aiding Quicksilver and the Genosha Cabinet in fighting off the Mutate known as Zealot, Magneto ordered her to leave or face criminal charges.

When the team returned, Professor X began to become mentally unhinged. Xavier pushed the X-Men too far and Storm called in Scott and Jean to reason with the Professor. They failed to help Xavier, who then dissolved the X-Men and told them to go their own way, since he had no use for failures. The majority of the team left on personal vacations and Storm stayed behind to keep Xavier from harming himself. Rogue, Nightcrawler and Kitty Pryde began their vacation in Manhattan.

There, they met up with Mystique, who was on the run from the Japanese government. She was being tracked by  Sunfire, but Rogue managed to convince Shiro that Mystique was innocent of the murders she was being charged with. After settling things with Mystique and Sunfire, they received a call that Wolverine had been killed on the surrogate X-Men's mission to save the Mannites.

At the mansion, Xavier revealed that he had pretended to lose control in order to uncover a traitor in their midst. The traitor was discovered when Wolverine's deceased body reverted to its true form; that of a  Skrull warrior. The true Wolverine had been kidnapped months ago by Skrulls working with Apocalypse, who brainwashed Logan into his Horseman of Death. However, the X-Men were able to snap him out of the mental hold and also stopped Apocalypse’s plans to extract the energies of the mutants only referred to as  The Twelve, which would have granted him omnipotence.

Weeks later, the  High Evolutionary activated an anti-mutation wave that switched off the mutant gene in everyone across the planet. Finally completely normal, Rogue worked for her law degree and tried to get Mystique out of jail. However, Rogue refused to use criminal methods to get her mother out of jail. When the X-Men learned that the anti-mutation wave was going to reverse itself and horribly mutate the entire world Rogue immediately returned to the team to stop the disaster. They raided the Evolutionary's satellite, disabled the anti-mutation field and defeated Sinister, who had been manipulating the Evolutionary. With her powers active again, Mystique soon broke out of prison and she vowed vengeance on Anna for abandoning her in her time of need.

About six months later, Rogue was elected the new field leader for an X-Men squad. She successfully led the X-Men against  The Crimson Pirates, the Goth and the Neo and proved herself to have a good instinct for making hard and risky decisions. Her style varied a lot from Storm’s or Cyclops‘, who usually chose to play it safe.

During the crisis known as  Maximum Security, Earth was turned into a penal colony for alien prisoners. Rogue encountered the Blood Brothers attacking Z'Cann, one of Xavier's  Cadre K. Rogue drove off the attackers but Z'Cann was critically wounded. The Skrull girl deliberately made contact with Rogue, transferring her memories of Xavier's plans to the mutant. With this information, the X-Men managed to meet and rescue Bishop, who had returned from deep space.

Unfortunately, Z'Cann was unfamiliar with Rogue’s powers and, to make sure that the information would be received, she even boosted Rogue’s absorption power with her own telepathy. As a result, her Skrull Deviant genes mixed with Rogue's half-Kree physiology in an unexpected manner. Rogue was now capable of calling forth the memories and abilities of anyone she had absorbed in the past. She could not control this manifestation of her powers and would spontaneously sprout claws, fire optic blasts or adapt organic steel skin.

She gained some self-control through meditative training with Wolverine but, because of the disability her new powers gave her, Rogue stepped down as team leader. Around the same time, Mystique led the Brotherhood in another attempt to kill Senator Kelly and spread the  Legacy Virus to humans only. Rogue, Bishop and Wolverine confronted Mystique on Muir Island. In the fight, it became painfully clear that Mystique still held a grudge against Rogue for having abandoned her in a time of need. She used a blade on Rogue’s gut, causing a serious wound that would have been fatal, if Rogue had been without Wolverine’s healing abilities. Rogue recovered quickly and returned the “favor“ on Mystique, inflicting a similar, critical knife wound. Still, victory was too late, as Moira MacTaggert died because of the injuries received when the Brotherhood blew up her lab complex.

As a result of this conflict, Rogue and the X-Men learned of Destiny's journals, a collection of diaries written by the deceased precognitive that depicted the future of mutantkind.

X-Treme X-Men

X-Treme X-Men

During her time on the  X-Treme X-Men team led by Storm, Rogue requested  Sage to use her powers to help evolve Rogue so she could control the powers that she absorbed. Sage agreed to this and helped out Rogue, enabling Rogue to be able to use any powers that she had absorbed in the past.

When the enemy known as  Vargas foresaw his death at the hands of Rogue, he attempted to get rid of Rogue before she kills him. He ambushes her and speared Rogue, but since Rogue possessed the powers of Wolverine and the  Hulk, she was able to recover. Rogue would confront Vargas in Psylocke's costume and begin battling him. It has not been revealed if Rogue did actually kill Vargas or if she let him leave. After wards Rogue would figure out that Destiny’s future predictions were only probabilities. She also inherits a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny and the X-Treme team would stay there to recuperate from the fight.

Rogue and Gambit became powerless and they decided to leave the team in an attempt to help develop their relationship. Rogue and Gambit had a bit of trouble running into mutants that hated homo sapiens, they would start a fight with Rogue and Gambit and beat them. The two of them ended up residing in a beach house at Valle Soleda where both mutants and humans live peacefully together. Bishop and Sage would often visit the couple and eventually they decided to help fight Sage’s enemy, and Sage would restore Gambit’s abilities.

Return to Westchester

Rogue and Gambit returned to the X-Men’s main team while Rogue’s abilities were slowly returning to normal. However, her Ms. Marvel abilities seemed to have been lost. On one mission they were able to successfully save  Xorn and brought him back to the mansion. They also fought a new Brotherhood when they followed them back to the Mansion and attacked them there. Rogue battled  Black Tom Cassidy who almost kills her, but she was saved by  Northstar.

In Rogue’s own series she travels back to the south to save a young mutant girl from her powers. She meets a man named Campbell St. Ange who was immune to Rogue’s touch. During her time in the south she was determined to find out about her mother, forcefully absorbing her Aunt Carrie’s memories to find out what happened. Rogue would eventually encounter her mother’s spirit and set it free, Rogue returns to her Aunt Carrie and tells her that she considers her a mother.

Rogue went to Japan along with Sunfire to investigate a photo of her and Sunfire doing criminal activities. Rogue would learn that Blindspot had erased her memories. Rogue also accidentally absorbs Sunfire’s powers permanently. Blindspot erases Rogue’s memories again which caused Rogue to engage in a battle with the X-Men. Rogue would return to the X-Mansion but finds that Gambit is being seduced by Foxx. It was later revealed that Foxx is actually Mystique who disapproved her relationship with Gambit. Mystique proceeds to try and seduce Gambit by transforming into Rogue. It was not revealed if Gambit did anything but he insisted he did not. When Rogue discovered that it was Mystique trying to seduce Gambit it angered her. Her relationship with Gambit takes a bit of a turn when she finds out he knew about it but failed to tell her. After wards Mystique asks to stay at the mansion and work with the X-Men.

After  M-Day happened Apocalypse was re-awoken. Gambit tried to protect Rogue and the X-Men but was transformed into the new horseman Death. Gambit would proceed to try and kill Rogue twice but soon left with Sunfire to rid of Apocalypse’s brainwash.

Leader of an X-Men Team

When Professor Xavier took some of the X-Men, including  Havok and  Nightcrawler, to go into space after the insane, third Summers brother  Vulcan, Anna was offered a role as a strike team leader by Cyclops.  With the luxury to choose her own team, Rogue quickly put together a motley crew of X-Men and former villains to face off against the  Children of the Vault, time advanced humans who framed the X-Men for their global atrocities and then attacked the mansion.

Her unorthodox lineup consisted of:

• Cannonball, who had been teamed with Rogue multiple times and became a close friend;
  

• Iceman, also a previous teammate;
• Omega Sentinel, a woman Rogue rescued from a research facility;

• Lady Mastermind, also saved from the same research facility and daughter of the original  Mastermind;
• Sabretooth, who served more as a prisoner and was controlled by nano-sentinels injected within his nervous system;
• and  Mystique, who, after being granted probationary X-Men status against Rogue's wishes, was chosen so Rogue could keep a watchful eye on her

After she and her team defeated the Children of the Vault, Anna announced her team’s departure from the mansion.  Cannonball and Cable rewired the Children of the Vault's former home, a large, floating ship named the  Conquistador, as their home base.

For the team's second mission, Anna and her squad had to take down a villain named  Pandemic, who was responsible for the forced experiments taken on Lady Mastermind and Karima Shapandar, the Omega Sentinel.   Pandemic had worked as a physician for the X-Men over the years.  His goal was to take Anna's power and add it to his collection of mutant abilities that he had collected during his career as an ally of the X-Men.  With Rogue's abilities, Pandemic would be able to reach his goal of  immortality by living the lives of almost any person.  To accomplish this, he infected her with a disease called strain 88, which left Rogue in a very bad state of health.  When her squad of X-Men took Pandemic down they freed Anna, but she was too weak to do anything and had to be hospitalized on Cable's island,  Providence.

While on Providence, Lady Mastermind took time off to see a therapist and hypnotist in an effort to deal with her deep-rooted issues.  Under hypnosis, the powerful telepath's guard was presumably lowered and a powerful alien mummudrai called Hetacomb was released from within her mind.  With the other X-Men having a very hard time defeating the Hecatomb and Sabretooth having ran off with their ship, Cable mind merged with a Shi'Ar species that desperately wanted to destroy the destructive Hecatomb creature.  The remaining X-Men had no other choice but to wake Rogue from her comatose state of mind to defeat the alien as it destroyed the population of Providence.  She easily defeated the alien by absorbing its immense power and psyche.  However, since the Hecatomb had already taken in so many lives and Shi'Ar species beforehand, the absorption left over 8 billion minds wandering through her mind.  Although she struggled to a state of recovery and functionality, she gained a hunger to absorb the people around her.

As they now were not part of the mansion and the Conquistador missing, the team took refuge in Mystique’s home for Rogue and the rest of the team to rest.  The home, which was also a place where Mystique raised Rogue during her childhood years, flooded back old, kinder memories into Rogue's already disturbed mind.  As Rogue rested, the rest of her team was surprised by an attack by the new  Marauders, which included a betrayal by Lady Mastermind and Mystique; with the latter shooting Rogue in the stomach.  The Marauders take Rogue and the house is destroyed, presumably with the other X-Men presumed still inside.

Messiah Complex

Messiah Complex

As Rogue's comatose body rested in the care of the Marauders, Mystique revealed her decision to jump ship into the mercenary mutant group was so that brilliant geneticist  Mr. Sinister could help her daughter.  Mystique, who possessed knowledge of prophecies told in  Destiny's Diaries, was kept around as a valuable asset in using the information and tracking down the remaining diaries for Sinister.  However, Mystique double-crossed him as well when he refused to put much effort into curing Rogue and pushed his cheek against Rogue's, using Rogue's amplified powers to kill him.

Manifest Destiny

Gaining control over her abilities

Her solitude is interrupted by a woman who claims that she is a social anthropologist from Melbourne University. Rogue lets her have access to the town on the condition that she be left in peace. When the anthropologist interrupts her some time later, asking her about some technological debris she discovered, Rogue claimed to be ignorant despite knowing that it likely came from one of the X-Men's battles with the Reavers. Growing tired of the waiting game, the anthropologist reveals that she knows Rogue's identity. This confirms Rogue's suspicions that the lady wasn't who she pretended to be.

The interaction between the two is interrupted by a third party, a group of Shi'ar seeking to obtain a technological find of great value. Rogue then finds out that her companion isn't Mystique in disguise, as she initially suspected, but rather the A.I. known as Danger. Danger reveals that she originally intended to use Rogue in her latest revenge plot against Xavier for what he did to her. The resulting battle has Rogue, Danger, Professor X, and Gambit working together to force the Shi'ar looters to flee. In the process, Danger resolves her conflict with Professor Xavier, and explains why Rogue never gained control over her powers.

The trauma of the event that sent her first romantic interest into a coma was the first in a series of psychological walls or barriers formed in her mind to help her cope with the guilt. Each absorbed personality built up more walls, until her mind contained so many barriers, it prevented her powers from developing past its stage of infancy.

With this knowledge and Danger's aid, Prof X is able to enter Rogue's mind and bring down those barriers, including destroying the remnant of Mystique that was trapped in Rogue's psyche. When the process concludes, Rogue awakens to feel her skin tingling. She gives herself several hours of meditation as she explores the new sensations of having a free mind, feeling out her gift. When she feels she is ready, she asks Gambit to help her test her control. They kiss, and Gambit doesn't experience any involuntary power drain.

Rogue's only response to at last gaining control of her powers is, "Well, okay then. That seems to be conclusive."

Powers and abilities

Rogue is a mutant with the ability to drain a living being's essence upon physical contact, giving them a biophysical shock while synthesizing into her body their physical skills, memories, personality traits, and superhuman matrices to a varying degree.  Prolonged physical touch could be lethal to whoever she contacts.  After some work with Danger and Professor X  she has gained a degree of her power. Now that she has conscious control of her ability, if she so chooses, she can now physically touch people without unwillingly absorbing their powers or minds.

She also displayed the ability to review templates that she absorbed in the past, though she has not displayed this ability since she her psyche was repaired by Charles Xavier.

There are limitations as to how much power she can absorb. Extremely powerful individuals like Magneto or Ares can remain conscious after Rogue uses her power on them, and even retain what degree of their power Rogue was unable to siphon.

Former abilities:

•  Most recently, Rogue had permanently stored  Sunfire's power template, but lost it following the events of Messiah Complex. Sunfire's powers gave her the ability to ionize matter and transform it into a plasma state, displacing atmospheric gases as nuclear-charged solar fire which she can use as pyrotechnic blasts or to create thermal updrafts for flight.  A personal psionic field shields her from her own radiation emissions and a certain degree of physical impact. She is also capable of infrared vision to view her surroundings as heat signatures and of augmenting her powers by absorbing sunlight or electromagnetic energies.

• She formerly had permanently stored Ms. Marvel's power template, which used to give her flight, superhuman strength, endurance, reflexes, durability, and a seventh sense that allowed her to react instinctively to danger, to anticipate her opponents' moves, and home in on specified objects.

• Contact with an alien shape-shifting  Skrull had upgraded Rogue to a point that she could recall at will past templates that she had absorbed in order to reactivate any power she had taken on in the past, which allowed her to "feel out" the minds of her former imprints, sensing whether they were alive or dead and re-experiencing events from their perspective.

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Alternate Realities

Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse

Earth-295 Age of Apocalypse

Ultimate Rogue

In the Cry Wolf arc (Ultimate X-Men #50-53) , 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. Rogue does not appear again until Ultimate X-Men Annual #1, in which she and Gambit fight 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 overwrite 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" (Ultimate X-Men #66-69), Rogue decides to rekindle her relationship with  Iceman after she loses her virginity to him (something possible due to her being able to touch him now).

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 Iceman's dismay. 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. In Ultimate X-Men #80, Cyclops disbands the X-Men following Xavier's death. Rogue stays with 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 Banshee-enhanced Rogue is seen to be a member of Colossus' team. Her appearance heavily altered, it seems her abilities have been enhanced such that she can call on absorbed abilities, as she has Colossus' armored flesh and Angel's feathered wings extending from her arms. 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.

Earth-8545 Legacy Virus Merged with Warlock

Earth-1007 Earth Big X Change

 
Earth-1081 Friend of Morph

House of M Rogue

Earth-1009 Rogue

Earth-1298 Mutant X

Earth-1298 Rogue

 
Earth-70105 Bullet Points

 
Earth-94831 Mutant Destruction

 
Earth-902 X-Punks

 
Earth-1038 Retro Men

Earth-9997 Earth X

Earth-95120 Marvel Riot Age of Apocalypse

Rogue was a member of the X-Men led by Magneto. Magneto then split the team so that they would accomplish various missions on fixing the reality.

Roger Fieldston Mutate

Earth-1004 X-Men Revolution

Earth-1025

Rogue was a part of the X-Treme X-Men and had a mission to look for he diary of Destiny, a precognitive mutant who once played an important role in Rogue's past. She then stole some of Destiny's items and gained the precognitive powers ot Destiny. She then used it and found out about an upcoming tidal wave.

Earth-1031

Apocalypse have gave improvements on Professor X's powers to unlock the potentials of mutants but the process have killed him. The X-Men then had separate ways. Rogue have been married with her lover Gambit and both of them used trading cards as weapons.

Earth-41001 X-Men The End

X-Men The End

 
Marvel Noir

Earth by the Marker

 
What if?

Earth-9112 What if the Phoenix Have Not Died and Rose Again?

 
Earth-93600 What if Hulk Had Killed Wolverine?

 
Earth-979 What if Sinister Learned the Greatest Secrets of the Marvel Universe?

Rogue was a member of the X-Men along with her lover Gambit. Following some events, Gambit have betrayed the the team for his companionship with Sinister as he gives the Cerebro files to him. Gambit then returned and found Rogue totally angry with him for his betrayal. Gambit then proposed to her with a ring but declinedShe then followed Gambit in his mission secretly to be able to stop him. Though, Rogue have only touched a ceiling that will almost fall. As she survived from the incident, she conversed with Gambit. Gambit have told her that he have found a cure for Rogue so that she would be able to touch anyone without bringing them into coma. As Rogue proves that Gambit's thought was totally wrong, she have kissed Gambit and she have unconsciously kille Gambit after a lot of life force have been absorbed. She then conquered Sinister and revealed that everything that have heppened to them were just a part of fantasy in a comic book.

Appearances in other media

X-Men: The Animated Series

X-Men: The Animated Series

Rogue first animated appearance was in the  X-Men television series, where she was one of the most important members of the X-Men. In this animated series, she had her absorption powers, as well as Ms. Marvel abilities. She has a love-hate relationship with Gambit throughout most of the series, much like when they first met in the comics, but also shows a more flirtatious attitude towards numerous other characters, such as  Archangel,  Colossus, and during the X-Men's appearance on  Spider-Man: The Animated Series, she flirted with and kissed  Spider-Man (with his mask on). During the series, Rogue almost takes the 'cure' which Apocalypse and Mystique secretly used to make mutants into their slaves. However, Rogue does not take the cure. She is also revisited by Cody, her first boyfriend, and almost runs away with him when she finds that she can touch him. She soon finds out, however, that he was part of a plot to have Rogue become the new leader of the Brood (referred to here as "the Family"). She attempts to convince him to come back with her to the mansion to help reverse his transformation, but fails in her attempts, leaving her to cry on Gambit's shoulder. Rogue was also present when  Lilandra had to take Professor Xavier up to space with her. Rogue was voiced by  Lenore Zann.

 X-Men Evolution

X-Men: Evolution

In the series,  X-Men: Evolution, Rogue is re-imagined as a rebellious, yet deeply insecure, teenager with a stereotypical goth appearance. Her powers make her cynical and reclusive, but truthfully, she is consumed by the desire to get close to the people around her. She was raised by  Mystique and  Destiny, soon being brought into the  Brotherhood of Mutants, but left when she found out that they nurtured her to be a potential weapon. Rogue has a strong interest in  Cyclops, though her feelings for him fade soon after he and  Jean start dating. She is then shown having an interest in  Gambit when they first met, when he kidnapped her, and when she kissed him in the season 3 finale (while under  Mesmero's control). This was one of only two kisses to be seen in the series, the first being between Scarlet Witch and a disguised Toad.

Rogue's energy-absorbing abilities are very strong in this series, nearly driving her insane, but prove vital in the final episode against  Apocalypse. Unlike in other universes, the powers she absorbs never totally fade, and at times, can still use a mutant's power (not always intentional) long after she had absorbed them. At times, she had more control over absorbed powers than their natural owner had (after absorbing Cyclops' power, she did not have to close her eyes). Although this Rogue did not have super-strength or flight abilities, she displays some skill in hand-to-hand combat. She is never shown gaining  Ms. Marvel's abilities, but in Xavier's vision of the future, she is seen flying and not wearing gloves, suggesting contact with Ms. Marvel. She was voiced by Meghan Black.

Wolverine and the X-Men

Wolverine and The X-Men

In Professor Xavier's Days of Future Past, Rogue is dead, and her once good friend Domino is second-head to the future X-Men. It is rumored that her friendship and death, are what led Domino to join Bishop and the others become Days of Future past's Future X-Men. 

X-Men Films

Rogue in the X-Men films