Enough with Captain and Ms. Marvel, Now Is the Time for a Storm Movie

There’s been a lot online chatter about why Disney+’s Ms. Marvel had the lowest audience numbers of all of the Marvel live action series. Most posit that it’s because the character is Pakistani and Muslim and how audiences are still racist, but may I suggest that it’s because  Kamala Khan aka Ms. Marvel is not very well known and certainly not outside comic fandom.

That and she’s the second Ms. Marvel (after Carol Danvers) and she’s basically got Plastic Man’s powers.

And his powers suck.

What I cannot believe is that we haven’t seen a Storm movie.

Like seriously.

Back when Black Panther bowed in theaters, the Daily Beast said:

There’s a moment in Black Panther where Angela Bassett removes her headdress revealing white dreads and I gasped. The Queen mother of Wakanda looked not only regal and powerful, but she also looked like the woman I’d always imagined Storm would grow into—a true depiction of the Marvel Comics’ weather maven who has led the X-Men and ruled Wakanda alongside her once-husband T’Challa.

Maybe Hollywood was never truly ready for Storm until Black Panther. A white wig slapped on Halle Berry and dialogue like, “Do you know what happens to a toad when it’s struck by lightning?” was never going to shake the earth. An attempt to reboot Storm in X-Men: Apocalypse was similarly bankrupt, despite Alexandra Shipp’s likability, as the character barely had any lines. Each attempt to bring arguably Marvel Comics’ most popular female character to the big screen has been one disaster after another.

I hope when we see Storm introduced in the MCU it’s that period where she’s being worshipped as Goddess and she looks ethereal, unknowable, powerful, extra-human, and terrifying.

She should be a complete mystery.

It would be amazing if they revealed her backstory the way Marv Wolfman did Wonder Girl’s in The New Teen Titan’s story “Who is Donna Troy?”