5 Things Live Action Storm MUST Get Right! 

I don’t necessarily care if they show her as being overpowered. I just want her powerful presence. Like the way Angela Basset acted as Queen Romonda.

Storm is so interesting, she deserves her own movie. Or at least an 8 episodes of her own show.

Oh and she is a beast at hand to hand combat. I wanna see storm kicking butt in the movies for once. More focus on storm in all ways.

Grace Jones from the 80s would have made a great Storm. Also we need those blue eyes and white eyebrows to be comic book accurate.

She's already played Starfire in the live action "Titans" but Anna Diop was made to play Storm. She's got my vote.

YES TO ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING SAID HERE I do hold a soft spot for the 2000's X-Men films because that's where I met and fell in love with Storm but, there is no denying that they did her DIRTY. I don't trust Disney MCU to do her character justice but I'm praying for a miracle that somehow they don't mess her up even further 🙏💙⚡

You preached on this one. Gave a whole sermon.

LETS ALSO NOT FORGET, storm is a master of physical combat. She beat tarn the uncaring without her powers and that’s not the only time she put the beat down on someone without powers.

Based on your points: 1. Storm's heritage would be so interesting to explore, especially establishing the distinction between African and African-American cultures. I do wonder if they'd try to just make her American instead, or just have her grow up in America from a younger age. 2. A big fear of mine is Storm being OP. If she has so many abilities she can easily channel, it means she's gonna win each fight relatively easily or be nerfed depending on the situation. I'd like for her to slowly escalate her powers, with there being a cap so she isn't unstoppable. 3. Storm's been depicted many ways, and while I'm a fan of her more gentle presence, her confidence and power needs to be acknowledged. 4. I'm iffy about this; goddess Storm (fantasy) and X-Men Storm (sci-fi) feel like two characters in one. There's not much distinction from what part of her powers are magic and what are mutant, which in my opinion, kinda undermines the mutant situation, similar to Wanda. Plus IDK if the MCU has mastered magic yet, so saying she's an evolved human just works better, imo. 5. Fox did Halle (and even besides Hugh) dirty in the X-films. Fancasting-wise, I'd like Anna Diop to play Storm, given I enjoyed her as Starfire. And just gonna throw it out there: hoping the MCU gives me a Storm/Nightcrawler romance. It's been hinted at A LOT, and it's my ideal pairing for her.

Can we get Storm in her 1st costume ?! Thats what i want. 😍

Tell me why in every movie they literally forget to get her hair and eyes correct. Her hair is really full and thick in the comics and reminds you of big fluffy clouds. Then her eyes,they are literally ice to sky blue cat eyes. And she is 5'11" but 6'2" with heals on,why get these specific details wrong in literally literally every movie. Storm is my favorite character from the X-Men. As a mixed kid growing up she was my first view of a person of color in comics I felt really proud of this,not to say I didn't like storm in the movies but still. Details people, details. Please get it right next time. And stop holding her back on her powers.

One Storm's most Powerful presence is her Voice. It's a Voice of a Boss not a Barbie Halle Berry hated her as the role

Literally HELL YES to everything you said👏🏾I want so much better for Storm in her cinema depictions.

I really hope in the MCU they learn from the mistakes of the Fox X men and not make the X men just a Wolverine Movie. Give the other X men like Storm and Cyclops there time in the spotlight.

If it was in the early 90s. Iman would be perfect as Storm. Right now it would be Jodie Turner Smith!!!! She is statuesque and looks regal!

They need to get her Height right as she is 5'11 in the comics she could look Cyclops in his eye

What always ticks me off, is that te writers know very little of science and have no Idea that Storm can blast you with air from the upper Stratosphere or lower Troposphere with the icy temperature of -108 degrees F, ( -78 C), or bring down the air from the Thermosphere or Exosphere with temperatures ranging between 500-2,000 degrees F. and "instacook" an enemy. she could also condense moisture in the air in your lungs and make you drown on dry land, or cause you to suffocate by removing the moisture until your lungs can't function., she can make you pass out by giving you low oxygen air (stratospheric), but, warmed air. The whole thing is that she wouldn't need to kill anyone with any of these effects she could just make them very uncomfortable.

I saw a pic of Anna Diop and was like, "YEP! That's Ororo Munroe right there!" She's been acting for a bit, but her most recent role was as Starfire in the recent HBO series, Titans. She's stunning and perfect aesthetically. I'll be honest i haven't seen the series, but heard she was very good in the role. Anyone who's watched it, what say u of her acting chops?

I hope Jade is taking her acting classes seriously. She is physically perfect...

A younger iman. Would have been a great storm. Grace Jones too

Don't forget that she should be tall as well. Storm is tall...

I just really hope they give her blue eyes I always loved them and her white hair and blue eyes are such an important look to her, also her love for her body and willingness to show her skin freely

I would really enjoy a Storm series. Every two or so episodes we jump to an older version ending on whoever gets to play her.

Instead of Halle Berry it should have been Angela Bassett during that time.

I’ve always pictured Storm looking like the model Iman from Somalia. She’s absolutely gorgeous!

DeWanda Wise is my ideal choice for Storm. If you cant do the blue eyes, at least hers is the closest. And she has that commanding presence, yet sensual as well.

Omg! Thank you! Thank you, for this video! You were on point with everything! Storm is my favorite since I was little and to see her character diminished in the live action movies hurt my soul.

She needs to be present. The 90s cartoon had her summon some weather and she'd either" A: Faint from exhaustion B: Get hit once and be out the entire fight They dont know what to do with her

I feel the same way about Rogue. I love the friendship between Storm and Rogue. Back in 2000 I was team Bassett to play Storm. The way A.B. carries herself and her voice was perfect. Such a missed opportunity there. I really want to see Storm & Rogue’s awesome powers working together in a battle. They need to make a great Storm, Rogue and Gambit. I hope Marvel gives them all equal importance as Jean, Cyclops & Wolverine. There are so many stories there. Man! Your video got me all worked up, LOL! 😅👍🏼

I think you nailed her description to the letter. I have always thought she never looked like Storm.

Damn I never comment on RU-vid videos. This is fantastic!!!! Thank you. MCU do storm right!

Storm, clyopse, jubilee need own trilogy in mcu

Another thing they need to keep in mind is, is one of her weaknesses is Closterphobia. The very first X-Men movie I felt as if they "Meh" it away when Toad knocked her down the elevator shaft. When she went Hells Bells on Toad after escaping, we should have seen in her mannerisms of said Closterphobia.

I think Storm should get a solo project as well as be introduced in the second X-Men movie. If we see a new T’Challa her relationship with him should be explored along with her rivalry with Callisto. She definitely needs to have a commanding presence and be a good leader when Scott isn’t around or if he eventually dies.

What you said is very true about storm. I'm not expecting anyone from Hollywood to get it right. They've made multiple films about Wolverine. We have the ideas, and the technology. It is up to us to get it done.

I vote for Yetide Badaki. She was great for Bilquis and she would great for Storm.

What people always forget is height storm is a tall statues women it is a very important Integral part of her character a lot of her character bio from the early day till to this day will always mentioned her height that is 5.11 miss mam towers over average people her physical look is that of an actual Goddess imagine by men high cheek bone,define bone and muscle structure so I want Marvel to search for atleast minimum 5.8 actress to play her

Dont forget as leader of The Uncanny X-Men blue team she is also a master strategist. She is not only a top level hand to hand combatant ranked with the likes of Saber Tooth and Wolverine shes also a more than capable field general right up there with characters like Captain America and Cyclops. She can set up a battelfield with the best of them. They often leave out the fact that shes not only a Queen and a Goddess. Shes also a top of the line Soldier capable of giving Steve Rogers a run for his money.

This video was needed, and it's nice to see Strom Fans cause how is she one of the best comic book characters yet still gets dirty. I agree with everything you said, especially LOOKING THE PART

Geezus Khrist that's a lot of Storm videos! The definition of "in your bag"

Come on, SAY THAT SIR!!

I think her characteristics and how she holds herself(commanfing presences). Angela Bassett would of been the perfect Storm but she played Black Panthers mother.

Please we need a browner storm 😢

Her and Poison Ivy both deserve a lot more respect in the films.

Despite her age, Iman would've been a great Storm, back in the day. "The Look" should've been listed 1st, as that's the 1st thing we'll all notice. Storm doesn't have a "strong face", she just doesn't have a "babyface". Her face is more angular & not rounded like Halle Berry's. Plus I hate how Storm's supposed to be the tallest "main" X-woman, yet she was so short in the horrid "FoX-Men" movies (which they did the opposite for Logan). IDK about all the OLM & magic stuff, since it's more of a "recent" development in her character and/or woefully underutilized, so she won't be too O.P.. Her powers in X-TAS would suffice for the silver screen. Plus characters are almost always "under-power" to make them more suitable to the media that is movies (we don't want another "FoX-Men" moment where they had to sideline characters like Quicksilver, who're too OP for the story to be compelling). I believe the MCU will do far better w/ Storm than the "FoX-Men" ever did. At the very least, I think they wouldn't "light-wash" her & would even make her a more prominent character (esp. w/ the success of Black Panther). The MCU did more w/ black characters than the "FoX-Men" movies ever did w/ Storm, the least of which was giving them a more convincing complexion.

Damn dude great Job!!!!

Very good my guy. Ororo is omega in weather and for people to understand that because of the energies of weather she controls she is omega in Electric, Electromagnetic, Kinetic, Thermal, Radiant, and Chemical. Aside from atmospheric storms, she can manipulate the electrical forces in your brain, your heart as the guy said, in machines and channel is through her body and intensify up to a uncalculated hotter degree. With kinetic wind pressure she can cause you to go deaf as he said but also remove the air from your body to suffocate you. She can boil and pressure you from the inside and explode you. She can freeze that air inside you and also freeze your organs because of the air surrounding them. She manipulate molecules in water by separating them to allow oxygen under water to breath. She can wind pressure fire so intensely removing the oxygen to put it out. With thermal she can cause a heat stroke as he said but literally freeze your entire being to a zero degree level and shatter you. She can burn your skin with the pressure of wind/heat. With radiant, she can manipulate solar energy to intensify winds causing solar winds and her electricity. Her power over the electrical forces are truly uncalculated. She has complete control of the forces inside her that she can use her on electrical energy to NEGATE other energy such as anyone using their energy power to try to subdue hers or drain her. She also can create a pressure field and has also use her own electrical energy to keep another alive and charge. She control the forces of nature and people confuse that with just weather only. She is spiritually connected to the life forces of a planet she connects with. In particular not only the atmosphere but the earth living organisms. She is mentally aware of the growth and life of them. She don't just use her energy as burst and it just let it does what it does, she actually mentally understands how to intensify or abate it to do her WILL. People have no clue how bad she is and why she is in fact the most dangerous. I haven't even explained everything she can do.

God I completely agree, 100%. You ain’t telling no lies. Just subscribed, notifications till on!!!

I love everything u said. It's just try but I still love the actress that was in X-Men as storm early 2000❤

When she controlled an inter-dimensional storm, it was from a timeline where she was 100s of years old and was amped by another mutant.

That’s Brilliantly Awesome!

No lie, this video gained you a new sub, and i never thought about this before. Angela Bassett really REALLY does give off Storm vibes, and im willing to bet she would play that part well! That being said, i cant think off the top of my head, who in this generation of actresses could both look and pull the part to near perfection.

Storm has always been omega level but was always nerfed due to writers bias and racism. Let's call a spade a spade people, Storm is mother nature incarnate and some. Jade Cargill would be a perfect casting 👌

You ain’t neva lied ❤❤❤🙌🏾🙌🏾💆🏾‍♀️

Your absolutely right they stay depowering her. Honestly she is like the most powerful mutant .

And not changing her accent from movie to movie. Though Storm will be in the 3rd season of What If... so there's a chance there.

2:25 agree they always seem to just remember she choose lightning and can fly (again the reason why I like one scene from X2 is because is different )

I completely agree. They need to give her a series in order to really give her story justice.

Yetide Badaki is my top pick! She's a fan of Storm too!

get her cat eyes and blue colored eyes right and show her with long white hair and have her with a strong will and show her thinking of herself with african roots and her own garden room

Anna Diop aka Starfire from Titans...perfect storm

Put Storm and Rogue's big rears back in X-Men's 97.

Mr. Fiege, Jade Cargill is your MCU Storm right now.

I would love to see DeWanda Wise portray her in the MCU. I love her facial features and those eyes are so beautiful. I fell in love with her when I saw her in the Netflix movie Someone Great. And she has done action in the movie Jurassic World Dominion. So she is perfect. I hope they cast her as Storm since she was dropped to play Monica Ramboe.

Great video man. I would say I agree with everything you said except Storms look. Storm should be strikingly beautiful and regal. I have never liked some artist give her a harder or masculine look. That's not Storm . Ororo is a stunningly beautiful woman. Statues and exotic . She has beautiful flowing white hair. Eyes that are shaped like a cat and blue. Everything about Storm commands attention. I always thought that Iman's look would have been perfect for Storm.

Who would you fancast storm... mine is cynthia erivo, african, looks regal, elegant, she looks good as storm

With the XCOTA music in the back 🙌🏿. Love my favorite xmen, Storm.

Given most of Storms comic run has long white hair, we have only had one iteration of her like that in all the films. That damn Mohawk has been done to DEATH! I would like to see her as she’s been drawn for most of her time in comics. And she should be a capable mutant. I wanna see her powers matter. I don’t care if it’s just lighting and wind and cold, but if someone is struck by lightning, then it should be effective for heavens sake. If she creates a whole sky full of tornadoes (an awesome scene in X2 btw) then it should be a complete win. We shouldn’t see all this awesomeness and it not actually mean anything or get the job done. THAT has always been the problem with Storm’s abilities in live action. The new x-men films depowered her even more than she was in the original films. So THAT is something else I need to see. Her powers mattering when they work.

they down play the psychic especially phoenix too

Well, now we can have an older storm and finally get our Angela Bassett

Back in the day, I always thought of a young Iman, the model, when I thought of Storm... Definitely the voice..👍

Ain't no one gonna talk about the jade cargill storm in the thumbnail? 😭😭😭

Awesome video! Pity u didnt use any 90s X-men Animated Series clips of Storm, especially in a leadership moment. 💪🏽🌩

Funny how you put up a picture of Jade Cargill.

Teyana Taylor is the only one that can do Storm true justice. Here for it.

She is thee most underrated and underutilized character in the MCU. I believe she is the next Black Panther style character that will draw huge audiences based on everything you just said. Beautiful character with a complex backstory and unique heritage that deserves the right treatment. It will win everyone over.

Jodie Turner-Smith is the only Storm in my book!! I’m mean come on, she has the regal presence and features, statuesque body, right skin tone, great accent.her face is just STUNNING!

If Angela Bassett is up to it I would love to see her in this role - my next choice would be Lupita N’yongo both of Black Panther fame

Let's not forget Storm has blue eyes as well something they tend to leave out

I really love Storm. I was thrilled by the Murlock Story Arc in the comics. She was so great. And yes, her character is most of the time reduced to " sidekick" in newer movies. But I must admit, Halle Berry was not that bad. I liked her more than Jean or Cyclops.

Wait did T'Challa find her family if so which issue is that?

No one cared more about Storm than Chris Claremont….we never give him his flowers…he promoted her to leader of the Xmen…when no one else would take a chance….she never had a better run then the 80s

Jade Cargil needs to land this role as far as look.. Writers need to get Storm’s powers right

Anna Diop would be perfect to cast as storm🌩

They had ol girl making ice cubes in Apocalypse. I wanted to scream

I want her to have the Thor treatment. Let her be the god-tier weather witch she was created to be

If only they actually looked at the source material and tried adapting that to live action

I've been saying for a long time that Jade the wrestler should play Storm in the MCU

Casting Jade Cargill would definitely help

The fact he said that Halle Barry was more “attractive” than thy Queen Angela Bassett is HILARIOUS!!

Storm is a very diverse character with a lengthy background. I think fans need to ease off from criticizing every movie adaptation of Storm and learn to enjoy her appearances more. That said, Storm deserves a live action movie and one that doesn’t involve Black Panther who’s always leeching off of her popularity.

Wrestler Jade Cargill is Perfect for the role. In RL, she has a daughter, so there's a family dynamic. Jade is tall being a former college basketball player, standing at 5'10". She's has a beautiful face, an athletic body, thanks to being a former fitness model, and a confidence level that's off the chain. The bonus is that she said that Storm was her favorite comic character. Her opening theme in wrestling is, "A Storm is coming!" Yeah, I think she's the Perfect fit.

Great points, but Storm doesn't need to (and shouldn't be) depicted as Omega level right away. Her initial power set WAS weather control and she had limits, as the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe in the 1980s-1990s explicitly stated. Her power evolution can mirror her character's story arc- she had to overcome her claustrophobia early on. And the mystical elements of her character are recent, those should be explored after the character is established, just like in the comics. There is no need to abbreviate decades of storytelling and present the X-Men (Storm included) as their 2020s versions, those are personas they eventually grow into.

If the X Men movies came out in the 1980s or 1990s Pam Grier, Grace Jones, or Iman would've been perfect to play Storm.

DeWanda Wise is my top pick for live action Storm 🔥🔥🔥

I think they should have casted Sophie Okonedo back in the day. She would have been AMAZING!!!

All good points that sum up all of what Storm is, but the single most important thing about "getting Storm right" is *having a good story to tell focused on Storm* in the first place. The true issue is simply, Storm was not featured, so none of her rich history could really be delved into. Halle having softer features than comics Storm would not have mattered if she had material to sink her teeth into (much like Hugh wasn't 5'3" and gruff). People forget Halle is an award winning talent and simply had no dialog and arc to be anything more than lightning support. Angela Bassett was my hope for Storm as well, but the exact same thing would have happened to her if given the role while Wolverine, Rogue, Xavier, Magneto and Jean were the main focus of the stories. Also, I'd keep her powers limited in her first appearance and delve into them being greater than anyone knew so she stays interesting over time (powers wise) as she is fleshed out (character depth wise). The real question is whether the MCU is prepared to do 2 or 3 concurrent projects with the X-Men to let the focus spread out and not be stuck on Wolverine, Xavier/Magneto and Jean (for example, start with the X-Men's First Class being lost to Krakoa, and have Storm be contacted to gather Xavier's international collaborators to rescue them). The idea would be to have them end up in a place where 2 teams of X-Men exist and a larger community of mutants are rescued from somewhere the world wasn't even aware of. That's enough potential to have something like: 1. Storm: X-Nation (Storm, Xavier plus probably Iceman and Sunfire reintegrating mutants into society) - Big Screen 2. Wolverine's X-Force (after helping Storm rescue the OG team, Wolverine, Nightcrawler and Colossus invite Angel and Beast along and a couple rescues like Shadowkat and Magik to rescue other mutants in distress) - Big Screen 3. Cyclops and Jean with Thunderbird and Banshee, and others are lost in another half to Krakoa: Arakko, and lower budget shenanigans can play out. Disney Plus series. 4. 4 or 5 mutants play hopscotch with these teams and/or non-X teams like the Avengers, new iterations of Guardians, Defenders, etc. and particularly Fantastic Four, to give that franchise some additional pathos.

In casting and writing Storm, the same care the MCU took for Cap, Tony, Thor and Tchalla should be mandatory! Right now I dont care if Angela Basset is cast, she still looks the part anyway. But go ethnic east african(Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia) and regal. Also if she is a side character to Wolverine, Prof, Jean, Rogue even fn Pyro am ok with her being left out of the movies all together lol. How doesnt the MCU care much for its most popular female character, we need a solo Storm movie........ fn Madam Web has a movie lol

Omega level

Me personally, I'd love to see a Storm movie. With the right writing and casting , that could be a Bad-A movie.