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Black Superheroes: Becka Munroe, Azari and Kymera

The other day someone thought I was joking when I called Storm a deadbeat mother. So today we're taking a look at Storm's children and where she is in their lives. Here's a hint. Nowhere.

Becka Munroe

Storm was captured and mutated in the Savage Land. Losing part of her humanity and intellect becoming nothing more than a warrior. During this time she became pregnant by an unknown man. Shortly after giving birth she was returned to her normal self. She abandoned Becka (a baby) in the Savage Land and went home. Storm and Becka meet and have no idea about each other. Storm didn't even think of the baby she left to die. Deadbeat. Luckily Becka was found by Colossus' grandson Pavel Rasputin. Who convinced his family to take her in as his adopted sister.

Becka became an expert hunter growing up in the Savage Land. Like her mother she could control weather. However if she used the power for too long she would grow feral. This would allow her to grow claws, tattoos that increased her power and a strong healing factor. These aren't Wolverine type claws, get that idea out of your head. They're more like Sabertooth's finger claws. She headed to the Xavier School for mutants to learn more about her powers. She was however surprisingly shy. She also sleeps with a combat knife underneath her bed because I'd be scared of the dark too if I grew up in the Savage Lands.

She was teamed up with Rico Richards (Reed Richards grandson) Colossus (Pavel) No-Name and Oliver Raven. She was afraid to show them her feral powers so they lost several times in the Danger Room before she told them the truth. They accepted the risk and the team got along well. With Becka having a crush on Rico. Probably could have used Storm to help on that. After a night at the club Becka is attacked by mutant hunters. She goes feral and beats them but is shook up. Oliver helps her cope from the friend zone. No-Name leaves the school to attack Neo and the team attempts to follow along but get lost. Eventually Becka's instincts lead them to No-Name. They're transported to a destroyed Genosha to battle against Shadow-X. Shadow-X is made up of evil versions of the original X-Men. So Becka got beat up by her mom before she accepted her feral side and won.

The team was stranded on Genosha until Beast found them. Why wasn't Storm helping look? Beast took the kids to India to help his friend Sati. Becka got jealous because Rico was attempting to start a relationship with Sati. The crew battles the God Kali. Oliver knows they'll lose so he splits the team up to save them, like One Piece. Becka ends up in the Nilgiri Hills where she starts a new life as Daria and falls in love with a man named Sagid. Eventually the team finds her and gives her the reality check her mother should be there to give her. They defeat Kali and head back to school.

But hey, this is an alternate reality so maybe storm isn't a bad mother in all realities. WRONG

Powers and Abilities

  • Weather Control
    • Just like Storm, Flight, lighting, blizzards, all that but weaker. Just needs practice
  • Feral Mode
    • Claws
    • Healing Factor
    • Tattoos
    • Power Increase
  • Increased Senses'
    • Smell
    • Sight
    • Apparently Intuition is a sense
  • Expert Hunter
Azari T'Challa T'Chacka Evan Duke of Wakanda

Azari is born to Storm and Black Panther in alternate universe where black love remains strong for decades. Tony Stark also created Ultron instead of Ant-Man. Meaning Ultron is even stronger and actually competent. Tony leads the Avengers into battle against Ulton and everyone dies except Tony. Why didn't Tony die? Because he felt bad and ran away. He left the others to die. He felt guilty and took in their kids and raised them as siblings. Azari grew up with Hank Pym Jr. (His best friend and son of Ant-Man and Wasp. He has all their powers), James Rogers (Captain America and Black Widow, all their powers). and Torunn (Daughter of Thor and Sif, flight, Thors durability and limited super strength). Azari has Black Panthers abilities and trains himself based on old footage of Panther. Hank Jr. keeps telling him he's a mutant but Azari doesn't believe it.

One day he's playing hide and seek with Hank Jr. and The Vision Shows up to tell Tony about Ultron. The kids are supposed to stay in their rooms until Tony says come out. Instead they start eavesdropping. They find robotic versions of their parents, because Tony couldn't save the real ones. James accidentally activates the robots which are programmed to stop Ultron. The robots take off to fight Ultron. Why would Tony send robots to fight Ultron? He beats the robots and reprograms them, Allowing Ultron to trace Tony and the kids back to their hideout in the arctic. 

When Ultron attacks Tony puts the kids on a ship pre-programmed to take them to The Savage Lands. Hank and Azari re-program the ship to take them to Ultra City (New York City) which is Ultron's base. The kids meat Francis Barton, all around smart ass and one of Hawkeye's many illegitimate children. He joins the team and argues with James just like Hawkeye and Captain America. The team makes it to Grand Central Station where they get a break.

Azari wants to rescue Tony but Francis says he's probably dead. Old lady Betsy Ross pops up out of nowhere and says "Tony is very much alive." This is all the info they need. The kids start creating a plan to rescue Tony. Not to destroy the giant robot overlord but to save the man who let their parents die. The team heads to Tony but gets trapped. Hank Jr. points out that Azari can use his powers to break locks. He gives up arguing and finally tries. Surprise he really does have powers, even he's shocked. The team continues on and reaches Tony. Before Ultron gets the chance to attack they escape.

Tony tells the kids more about The Avengers. They learn of The Hulk. They decide to use an old ship to go to the dessert and find Bruce Banner who is doing the usual and trying to kill himself and The Hulk. They find Hulk and he tells them "I don't want to be Hulk." Black Panther was a man who did whatever had to be done. Azari activates the distress beacon in the ship they used. Ultron shows up with the robotic Avengers. 

Azari has to take on Black Panther, When Azari gets the best of it, it turns into a panther robot. A robot of an actual panther. Azari is getting beat then remembers his electrical powers and takes down the robot. Bruce sees kids getting beat up and turns into the Hulk. He tears Ultron in half and Torunn throws the carcass into space. The kids go on to form the Young Avengers in this new world.

Storm was a deadbeat because she was dead. I'll give her a pass, she's 1-1.
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Powers and Abilities
  • Electrokinesis 
    • Controls electricity
  • Hand to Hand Combat
    • Trained with videos of Black panther so pretty good
  • Limited versions of his father's enhanced abilities
    • Enhanced Strength
    • Enhanced Durability
    • Healing Factor
    • Enhanced sight
    • Enhanced hearing
    • Enhanced Smell
    • Enhanced Speed
  • Rich
    • Cash rules everything around me
Kymera

This is a real child of Black Panther and Storm. No alternate Earth here. They get back together at some point in the future and have a daughter. This is great news. Black love survives. At some point Magik brought Iceman and Beast to a future where civilization as we know it had crumbled. They meet that future's X-Men and one is Kymera. Kymera is the daughter of Black Panther and Storm. She helps Iceman and Beast return home to fight Atom from her own time. She's usually the cool head in battle. No Becka.

Kymera traveled to her past, our present to battle Atom. Kymera decided to stick around and see how she could help. She develops a relationship with her parents. Then she just stops appearing because I'm assuming Storm didn't care anymore. She probably found out Kymera was her daughter and didn't care. That means Storm is 1-2

Powers and Abilities
  • Hand to Hand Combat
    • Trained by T'Challa
  • Animal Mastery
    • Talks to animals
    • Keeps a panther with her at all times 
Now there are also more alternate universes. One where we don't know anything but Storm and Panther had like 7 kids and one married Luke Cage's daughter. There's also a universe where she has a daughter by Wolverine. We don't talk about that one. Maybe Storm isn't a deadbeat mother. But, she's definitely negligent. Is she the worst mother in comic book history? Hell no. Could she get a baby sitter? Yes. She's not a deadbeat mother. Just a bad one. I don't blame she's usually kicking way too much ass to worry about those kids. She should just pull a Jessica Jones and drop them off with Squirrel Girl. She's way cooler than Jessica Jones anyway. When Storm is the coolest woman in comic book history I guess they have to give her some kind of flaw.

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