Rogue

Origin

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 got pregnant. 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 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

Mystique took Anna home with her where she introduced the teenager to Irene Adler (Destiny), Raven’s lover. In a few short weeks Anna grew to trust the two women, and she would expose herself as a mutant; what was most shocking to her was that her foster mothers were themselves also mutants. With this information she grew to further trust them, and even love them. It was with them that she met her closest friend, another mutant girl her age who called her self Blindspot, and whose powers allowed her to erase anyone’s memories by touching them. Her powers seemed to counteract Anna’s mutation and they were able to safely touch each other, which pleased Anna as she was finally able to touch someone again.

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

X-Men

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 insistences 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 afterwards, 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 afterwards 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.

Savage Land

Weeks later, Rogue emerged in her room in the Australian Outback town with her memory completely intact. At first, she thought that the whole explanation of cosmic balance and second chances was a hoax, but then she discovered that she no longer had Carol‘s abilities and memories. She was now ground-bound and vulnerable. Suddenly she was attacked by Ms. Marvel. It seemed that the Siege Perilous had attempted to separate the two women and provide each one with a body her own, yet there wasn't enough life-force to sustain both of them. Rogue tried to escape through Gateway’s portals to the Savage Land, while Ms. Marvel ended up at Muir Island.

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.

Stryfe‘s assassination attempt on Xavier with a special form of the techno-organic virus united all of the X-Teams to hunt the villain down during the X-Cutioner's Song. In battle with his minions, the Mutant Liberation Front, Rogue’s eyes were damaged by Strobe’s heat blast. Temporarily blinded, Rogue was taken off the active roster and took some time to recover. Her feelings for Gambit grew and, after her sight had returned, the pair spent a romantic night out in New York. Rogue offered to tell Gambit her real name but he declined, saying that names didn't say anything about who a person is.

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.

Rogue was attracted to both Joseph and Gambit, caused intense friction between all three. Later Christmas day, the X-Men confronted Gladiator, leader of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard, who then teleported Beast, Rogue, Joseph, Gambit, Bishop and Trish Tilby to the Shi'Ar Empire to defeat the Phalanx and keep them from destroying the entire Imperium. Among this squad, Beast was the senior member, yet all turned to Rogue for leadership and she filled the expected role.

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.

Driven by guilt, Rogue secretly sneaked out of the mansion and flew to Antarctica to search for Gambit, yet she found no trace of him or the mysterious fortress where the trial took place. Eventually, Gambit ran across some of the X-Men in Japan and returned with them to Westchester, having been granted a second chance.

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 Team

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. Afterwards 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.

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

Rogue by Chris Bachelo

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.

Rogue’s X-Men

When Professor Xavier took some of the X-Men including Havok to go into space after Vulcan, Anna was offered a role as a strike team leader by Cyclops. With the luxury to choose her own team, Anna put together a motley crew of X-Men and former villains, consisting of Iceman, Cannonball, Cable, Sabretooth (who in order to control Rogue injected him with Nano-Sentinels), Lady Mastermind, Karima Shapandar, and Mystique (who she chose because she wanted to personally keep an eye on), to stop the Children of the Vault (advanced humans who had attacked the mansion). After she and her team defeated the Children of the Vault, Anna announced her team’s departure from the mansion. Recently Anna and her squad had to take down a villain named Pandemic, Pandemic's goal was to take Anna's power and add it to his collection of powers that he had already absorbed, he infected her with the disease called strain 88 and it took a very bad effect on her. 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 a new threat was released from within the mind of Lady Mastermind called the Hecatomb. With the other X-Men having a very hard time defeating the Hecatomb (as Sabretooth ran off with there ship ), Cable mind merged with a Shi'Ar species that wanted to destroy the hecatomb, the two had no other choice but to wake Anna from her comatose state of mind. She easily defeated the alien by absorbing its powers and memories since the hecatomb had already taken in so many lives and Shi'Ar species beforehand. Although she has recovered, she now seems to have a hunger to absorb the people around her. As they now were not part of the mansion they took refuge in Mystique’s home, were they were attached by the new Marauders, including Lady Mastermind & Mystique; who shot rogue in the stomach. Things aren’t looking up for Anna, she’s in very bad condition from her gunshot wound, her team now consists of Iceman and Cannonball (though others may still be alive after the explosion, though Emma Frost made it seem that they wouldn’t), and she’s being carried off by the enemies that blind-sided her. Though the reasons for her kidnap are more than a little hazy there’s no doubt that Mystique and her new Marauders have some sinister plan for her, and some other targets possibly including Blindfold.

At the Marauder's base on Muir Island, Mystique and Gambit are concerned about the survival of Rogue, which Sinister confirms, stating that she will soon die. This angers Mystique and she pushes Sinister's face onto Rogue's, killing him instantly. Upon Gambit's arrival with the baby, she states that it was revealed in Destiny's Diaries what she had to do, and she also pushes the baby against Rogue's face but there doesn't seem to be any effect - the baby is unharmed.

Minutes later, she wakes up, the baby having cured her of all the psyches and powers she's absorbed through her life. She tells Mystique that everyone she cares about always get hurt whenever Mystique shows up, and touches her face, supposedly killing her.

Now only having her own and Mystique's psyches in her mind, she then tells Gambit that she needs to be alone and takes off.

She was last seen in Kooroowi Eastern Australia, her destination unrevealed.

Powers

Rouge having absorbed the powers of both Spider-Man and She-Hulk

• Rogue has the mutant 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. But if she holds for too long onto the person from which she drains power, that person will die.

• Rogue had permanently stored Sunfire's power template, but lost it after 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.

• Formerly, 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.

• During a fight with the villain called Vargas, Rogue temporarily lost her abilities. When they returned, she had lost the powers she gained from Ms. Marvel only retaining her power absorbing ability. However, during a recent encounter with the dying sometimes X-Man Sunfire, Rogue permanently absorbed his ability to create fire and fly. The contact needed for rogue to permanently retain Sunfire's powers was to much of a strain on Sunfire's body. After this event Sunfire would spend the rest of his life in a hospital, in a coma.

• It is also worth noting that there are a few people whom Rogue cannot absorb the abilities of. Basically, they can be split in three different groups: non-living or inorganic beings (i.e. robots), some alien species, and individuals with power negation / draining.

Current Powers

She currently only has her own absorption powers, and no additional powers.

Characteristics

Status