Embracing one’s differences from everyone else can be a hard thing to do, especially when it feels almost as if everyone is constantly judging. The X-Men were created to inspire their readers to truly be themselves, having a host of people that all were different but used their powers to help save the planet. This of course included Storm and many of her allies. Even with them not being widely accepted by the people without mutations, they did their best to save those in danger. Storm and the other X-Men serve as great role models for people to be themselves no matter the adversity they face from the rest of society.
Storm was introduced in the first issue of Giant Size X-Men from Marvel Comics and written by Linda Fite. It was released in
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They are different and humanity fears them for their differences. The mutants are just normal people who have a gene in that awakened that grant them the powers they have. Humans have tried to kill them off the point of extinction many times but have always failed (Whitbrook). They always come back to save the very people that are always trying to kill them though, to do that better thing. Storm is in fact the one making the decision to help those trying to hurt her being the “sometimes leader of the X-Men” (Levine). It’s truly a testament to who she is as a character.
They are showing all their readers that it’s okay to be different and even though they get picked on for being different it’s great to be the better person and hope those who are in need. She was also a diverse new character giving more young people someone who looked like them to relate to and become a role model for them. Stan Lee himself has said (qtd. in Cavna)
“I wanted to do a [comic] that would point out the injustice and wrongheadedness of bigotry. As for their powers, I took the easy way out; instead of dreaming up some complicated explanation for each, I simply wrote: ‘They were born that way. They were mutants’ — and that was