Out of Context Panels to add Context to Storm and Wolverine's Relationship

[auggie18]

Man, he must go through that stuff by the bucketload.



Wolverine better not be doing that with any of his other students.



A little bit of follow-up to the whole Rachel thing.



Not really a Storm/Wolverine moment, but I wanted to include it anyway. Honestly, this is one of my favorite incarnations of the X-Men. There was really good team chemistry here.



Pretty sure this is from the X-Men/Fantastic Four crossover, in which the X-Men go to Doctor Doom to get his help fixing Kitty after her injuries during the Mutant Massacre. Man, people tend to go to Dr Doom with their problems a lot.



Aw.




Oh Storm. That hair. It does not look good.



I'm a married woman, you know.

Well, for now.




This sorta feels like their "iconic kiss." Also, much love for the height difference.



D'aw...





Careful, Logan. Only you can prevent forest fires.



Ha, I just love the expression on his face here.


Honestly, I'm a little torn on the Storm/Wolverine relationship. On one hand, they're got some real chemistry and a great bank and forth. On the other hand, they work really well as friends and it's nice to see a solid platonic friendship between a man and a woman.
 

Comments

[starwolf_oakley]

Cyclops and Storm had a similar near-smooch at the very end of GOD LOVES, MAN KILLS.

[greenmask]

Gambit and Storm had a shore-up-your-physical-strength kiss a while back too.

[ravenrants]

Wasn't there some romantic-ish things happening with Nightcrawler, too, once upon an issue? Like around the same time they were flirting with the idea of Kurt/Rachel?

[greenmask]

I don't recall any, but I haven;t actually read that many Nightcrawler appearances.

But I wouldn't be surprised, because Storm's a very warm, physical, demonstrative friend. We could probably find panels that would provide about as much grounds for a relationship with any number of her core X-comrades; I don't think she has more with Logan than with anyone else.

[xakko]

there definitely was.

Claremont was trying to set up a love dodecahedron right around the time of the scene with Logan and Ororo hitting the Broadway show. IIRC, Kurt had danced with Ororo and then kissed Rachel during a pirate Danger Room scene. Kurt and Logan later talked about how they weren't supposed to talk about their feelings.

[chieflewal]

Also Forge. And... oh god. Storm is now ruined for me.

[cloudsinvenice]

Thanks for this - I like the era that most of these come from but I don't think I've read those comics. Agreed on the chemistry - it's just a really nice period for the X-Men all-round, with some classic story arcs.

[greenmask]

They have a sometimes Romantic but generally unromantic relationship, is my perception. I don't really like the thought of it blossoming but maybe it'll be solidly written.

[greenmask]

If Storm was male I bet they would be shipped all over the place, I guess

[mrstatham]

It still really doesn't answer my problem with how Aaron decided to structure the issue, though. To me, it almost feels like StormxWolverine only happened at the end of WATXM#24 because T'Challa specifically asked her not to be with him. And, again, that lends it some manner of revenge overtones to me that, generally, feel utterly wrong for a character like Ororo.

[greenmask]

Maybe T'Challa saying "no!" and young Jean being on the scene were dual straws that broke the camel's back, the camel being the thought that they've 'wasted' years going after other people when they have this secret yearning for each other (apparently)?

Better than revenge, anyway.

[mrstatham]

Unfortunately you've probably written up a better explanation for the matter than Aaron ever could.

[greenmask]

That's me! Unchained talent.

[rainspirit]

Why isn't Storm allowed to be petty? She only pretended to be a goddess. And considering the above history, it's not the only reason.

[greenmask]

It just doesn't seem in character for her to be petty.

[mrstatham]

Because when, in her history, has she been shown to be petty?

[theflames]

Not having a history of pettiness isn't grounds for not being able to be petty every now and again... characters, filled out characters might be petty if the situation just rubs them that way.

[theflames]

I mean... he ANNULLED their marriage on the spot. Gotta leave some burns.

[lorriek]

Sounds like a good reason to try out being petty to me. I can't understand how Storm can even be civil to T'Challa. I could not if I was her.

[lorriek]

I didn't realize there would be such a kerfuffle over Logan/Storm. I assumed they had a friends with benefits thing going on for years. I haven't read nearly enough X-Men, but I've certainly seen scans of the "evidence" of the relationship before. Wolverine may be a jerk and his characterization a puzzlement, but he and Ororo have believable chemistry.

[auggie18]

I think it was less about the relationship and more about the abruptness of the thing. It didn't feel all that natural, just sorta like BAM! Her marriage did also just end. And her ex-husband was all "promise me you won't hook up with HIM" out of nowhere.


I think the big thing that threw people was how weirdly forced it felt.

[bewareofgeek]

I think I know why Logan likes "The Boy From Oz".

[raspberryrain]

He wishes he were tall and Australian?

[bewareofgeek]

Oddly enough, when Wolverine was first animated (in an episode of Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends) he WAS Australian. Pretty tall, too:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPZ5FpCHc80

[cainofdreaming]

Is that Longshot, wearing not much at all, in the Davis' scan?

[auggie18]

Sure enough!

[cainofdreaming]

Well, stupid sexy Flanders Longshot and all that, but Davis draws some pretty people.

[marghammerman]

I don't per se have a problem with Logan and Ororo having a friends-with-benefits situation; they've definitely had a certain kind of bond over the years, as evinced back in Ororo's original mohawk days in particular. But part of me is a tad bitter because I still wish that years-ago flirtation with Storm and Nightcrawler had gotten resolved (one way or another). I mean, one of these scans even references that--it's Kurt and his then-girlfriend that Ororo is distractedly eyeing in that "Boy from Oz" scene. But now Kurt's dead so... I'm just gonna go ahead and assume Logan and Ororo are thrown into each other's arms based on their shared regret about not getting a piece of that when they had the chance ;)

[glprime]

I'd have to say Friends With Benefits really seems the best way to interpret their longstanding relationship. They can be as close as they want, but still have those lingering feelings for other paramours.

[sevarem]

I was never sold on Wolverine/Storm as a pairing, but I LOVE their friendship. I'd prefer it be kept a friendship. There seems to be few examples in media of a man and a woman starting off as friends and STAYING that way.

[drmcninja]

Its not going to last. Im not sure why, but I just get that overwhelming feeling of it being temporary. I think, maybe, because as badass as Storm has always been, this post-2005 Logan is totally not her thing. Just not compatible.

But that feeilng also requires that any and all writers give one rat's ass about past characterization, so who knows?