Post by Rogue on Jul 28, 2006 23:50:50 GMT -5
Codename: Rogue
Real Name: Unknown,goes by many aliases
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Clothing: Rogue prefers to wear any kind of clothing that won't allow much skin-to-skin contact. And of course,she wears gloves any time. Her training suit is:
(which is also one of her combat suits).
Another one of her combat suits would be *looks at the Appearance pic*
Powers: Rogue is a mutant with the ability to temporarily absorb the memories, thoughts, and abilities (including superhuman abilities) of others via skin-to-skin contact. She cannot absorb the traits of energy beings (like Wonder Man, who is made of ionic energy), machines (like the Vision, a synthezoid), or cyborgs (such as Lady Deathstrike and the Prime Sentinels), and certain aliens (such as the Impossible Man, Magus of the Technarchy, Mojo, and the Silver Surfer) and powerful mystical entites (like Loki and Mephisto) have proved partially or wholly immune. This transference usually causes the victim to fall unconscious and/or become weakened, but it can kill if it is prolonged. The duration of this drain varies according to the length of time that the contact is maintained; the generally accepted ratio is 60 seconds of absorbed abilities for every 1 second of skin-to-skin contact. Prolonged contact also can result in a permanent impression of the template she absorbed. She has also on occasion used the powers and abilities of many beings simultaneously -- when fighting Nimrod in Uncanny X-Men #194, she temporarily absorbed and used the powers of Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat.
Early in her career, Rogue permanently absorbed the powers of Ms. Marvel, gaining superhuman strength, flight, near-invulnerability, and a "seventh sense". When she was recently depowered, she lost these and while her natural absorption power returned, her Ms. Marvel-spawned powers did not.
It is also hinted that she has/had mind probing immunity, however it must be noted that this could've been due to the presence of Carol Danvers' personality in her mind at the time, which made both personas immune to telepathy. But now that Rogue is free of that persona, this immunity may no longer apply. Another way that she has been able to block out a telepath is by using all the memories of people she's absorbed to confuse the telepath.
In her travels with the X-Treme X-Men, Rogue was effectively a one-woman army. During the event called Maximum Security, Rogue was touched by a dying Skrull girl named Z'Cann who needed to pass on vital information to Professor Xavier; in addition to touching Rogue, Z'Cann also used telepathy to boost Rogue's absorption powers. The result was Rogue's new ability to recall any template she had ever absorbed, in addition to the Ms. Marvel powers which always stayed "on." When she first developed this power, Rogue would sometimes randomly sprout claws, steel skin, or even optic blasts. Through meditation she was able to gain a limited amount of control the templates from haphazardly manifesting. Prior to a fight with Vargas, Rogue had Sage accelerate the development of her mutant powers, which led to Rogue being able to willingly choose which of the many powers she had absorbed in the past she would like to use. Later on in X-Treme X-Men, Rogue lost all of her powers, including this one.
Most recently, she permanently absorbed a large portion of the powers of the Japanese mutant superhero Sunfire as he was dying. She now has his power to absorb solar energy and convert it into ionized plasma. She can channel her solar powers through her hands as streams of fiery thermal energy, which can burn through almost anything. She can focus her energies inward to boost her strength to superhuman levels (though not to the level she possessed when she had Ms. Marvel's powers), or project it outward to surround herself in a protective force field aura. She can fly once more, now by directing her burning aura downwards in a focused jet of flame to propel herself through the air like a missile.
In the Age of Apocalypse reality, her powers are based on magnetism due to the fact she absorbed half the powers of the AoA Polaris. AoA Rogue can control magnetic fields to move, lift, and manipulate ferrous metals. She can surround herself with a magnetic field that is the same polarity as the Earth's own magnetic field, causing the Earth to push her into the air (by magnetic levitation) thereby letting her fly at high speeds. She can use her magnetic powers to increase the energy of her movements, thus giving her super strength.
Personality: Rogue is a great friend as well as a great and valued teammate. She could be your closest friend,yet at the same time be so distant.
History: (comic book history) Rogue has no memory of her biological parents (though the backstory is examined in "Rogue" #1-6). Instead, she grew up with her extended family in the vicinity of Caldecott County, a fictional county in Mississippi. During that time, she befriended Cody Robbins. When Cody impulsively kissed her, Rogue's mutant powers emerged for the first time. Upon skin-to-skin contact, Rogue fully absorbed Cody's consciousness, memories, strengths, and weaknesses. Cody fell into a coma which lasted for years. In a later issue, Cody emerges from the coma thanks to aliens who wanted to use him in a plot to abduct Rogue. Rogue was so confused and overwhelmed by the experience that she too collapsed. The two were found days later by a search group composed of locals. Rogue, now revealed as a mutant, fled her home community, having earned the name "Rogue" because of the threat the community believed her to represent. The shape-shifting mutant Mystique discovered Rogue living in a remote, wooded area wielding a shotgun. Mystique sought Rogue on the recommendation of Destiny, a clairvoyant psychic who foresaw Rogue as important. Mystique soon became Rogue's unofficial foster mother.
Mystique and Destiny, both professional criminals, raised Rogue for close to a decade and trained her to be a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Rogue fought alongside the Brotherhood against many superheroes, including the X-Men, Rom, Dazzler and the Avengers and was a devastating enemy to them all. During this time, she encountered the superhero Ms. Marvel (a.k.a. Carol Danvers). Rogue and Ms. Marvel fought and, through prolonged contact during which Ms. Marvel fought valiantly to retain her consciousness, Rogue absorbed Ms. Marvel's alien-based powers and memories permanently. Rogue gained Ms. Marvel's incredible strength, near-invulnerability, the power of flight, and a rarely-used mild form of ESP referred to as a "seventh sense" (though this last ability has been largely forgotten).
Rogue has never been able to control her absorption power; any skin-to-skin contact activates it. Rogue sometimes retains residual memories of the people she touches. After having absorbed Ms. Marvel's life force and gaining her personality and powers permanently, she began to go through a life-changing period. She was now "remembering" the comparatively more-normal childhood that Carol Danvers had lived and seeing the wrong-doings of Mystique and her team for what they were. She was also feeling as though she was losing her own personality in the mix of residual memories, sometimes entirely succumbing to the Carol Danvers personality. She began to dislike the life she was leading more and more, but feared losing herself forever in the absorbed memories of others.
Desperate, she turned to Professor Charles Xavier and the X-Men (X-Men #171). Xavier's charity towards all mutants led him to welcome her into his home, regardless of his team having previously fought Rogue and in spite of the X-Men's own strong disagreements. He psychically examined her and invited her to join the X-Men and live at the mansion.
Her initial months with the team were rough and some of the team even threatened to leave if she was allowed to stay, but Professor Xavier reminded them of their ideals as X-Men and they gave her a chance. She first earned Wolverine's trust by saving the life of his fiancée, and over time earned the respect of all the X-Men and eventually became a valued, trusted member of the team.
Among the X-men, Rogue's life improved, but she continued to struggle with Carol Danvers' residual personality until Rogue was pulled through the mystical gateway known as the Siege Perilous, where she was judged by otherdimensional forces with the promise of a "new life." Returned to Earth, Rogue was purged of the remaining portions of Carol's personality, truly becoming her own woman again, but was also temporarily stripped of her powers for a time (notably, she also became more physically attractive, although whether or not this came about simply as a result of Jim Lee's art style is questionable). Rogue ended up powerless in the Savage Land, where she was taken in by Magneto. The two briefly toyed with a romance. Rogue ultimately saw through Magneto's noble facade when he killed the high priestess Zaladane, who had amassed an army of Savage Land natives. Rogue's perception of her potential lover shaken, she returned to the X-Mansion. When Rogue regained her powers, she fully returned to the X-Men.
While she was gone, a new member had joined the X-Men, Gambit. Rogue and Gambit were immediately attracted to each other and quickly fell in love. Rogue and Gambit's relationship has been strained, much thanks to her inability to control her absorption power and his dishonesty but they have stayed together, regardless. Incidentally, Cody Robbins, the first person to fall victim to Rogue's powers, was later killed by Gambit's ex-wife Belladonna.
It was eventually revealed that Mystique had two sons: the now-deceased anti-mutant politician Graydon Creed and Rogue's long-time teammate, Nightcrawler. Rogue and Nightcrawler consider themselves to be siblings, although the revelation has not particularly altered their friendship.
When the Galactic Council transformed Earth into a maximus-security penal colony for hundreds of extraterrestrial criminals, Rogue absorbed the attributes of Z'Cann -- a telepathic alien shapeshifter who had joined Cadre K, Xavier's Skrull equivalent to the X-Men. Z'Cann purposely touched Rogue to activate the mutant's abilities as the two evaded bounty hunters. Z'Cann used her telepathy to amplify Rogue's capacity to assimilate memories, causing her powers to mutate.
During an invasion of aliens from another dimension, Rogue begged Sage to use her jump-starting powers to evolve Rogue to a point where she could control all of the various powers inside of her. Sage agreed, and Rogue became a one-woman army, able to use the powers of anyone she had absorbed in the past, and exhibited multiple powers at once.
In that same invasion, Rogue was confronted by Vargas who was said to be "a new species altogether". Vargas wanted to kill her to preserve his own life; he showed her a page from one of Destiny's diaries that indicated Rogue would kill him. Rogue fought Vargas off and sped to rescue Gambit from the machine that was using him to power a trans-dimensional gate. The power beam trapped her with him and they were both stabbed by Vargas. Wounded but still alive, Rogue pursued Vargas, ambushing him by replacing his statue of Psylocke and eventually using all her abilities to defeat him (and perhaps kill him, though the exact outcome of their fight is still uncertain). Both Gambit and Rogue survived by a near margin, though Rogue had to enter the astral plane to force Gambit to live.
Following the repulsion of the invasion, Rogue realized that the Destiny Prophecies were only possibilities and that trying to follow them was more dangerous than ignoring them. She also learned that she had inherited a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny, as well as a sizeable fortune, and the X-Men retired there to recuperate. Rogue soon left the team with Gambit, since they both emerged powerless from their ordeals and wanted to further explore their relationship.
While on the road, Rogue and Gambit met some mutants who hated normal humans. Rogue asked them to leave, but they provoked a fight, and Gambit and Rogue (both powerless) fought them. They lost, and their opponents destroyed Rogue's bike. Shortly thereafter, Rogue and Gambit met a young mutant going by the name of Paint, who possessed the power to "paint" tattoos by touch alone. Rogue complimented Paint on her tattoos and in return, Paint gave Rogue some tattoos of her own.
Rogue ended up staying at a beach house in Valle Soleada, a town wherein mutants and humans coexisted peacefully. She subsequently received a visit from Bishop and Sage and, after a series of events involving an investigation into the murder of a human girl's family, Rogue and Gambit sign up with Bishop and Sage to help stop Sage's enemy and former boss Elias Bogan. After the battle Rogue asked Sage to restore Gambit's abilities, which she did.
Rogue and Gambit returned to the X-Men. Over time, Rogue's own abilities returned naturally. However, she no longer possessed the abilities she had absorbed from Ms. Marvel. Rogue and Gambit were both put on Havok's team. On their first mission back, the X-Men battled against a Chinese mutant team to rescue Xorn. They succeeded and brought Xorn back to the X-Mansion with them.
The X-Men then faced a new Brotherhood in Philadelphia. The Brotherhood followed them back to the Mansion and attacked them at home. Rogue notably fought Black Tom Cassidy, while the other X-Men fought off the rest of the Brotherhood. Black Tom almost killed Rogue, but she was saved by Northstar.
Rogue then traveled down south to save a young mutant girl from her powers. While there, she met Campbell St. Ange, a young man who was immune to Rogue's lethal touch. Also while there, Rogue forcibly absorbed knowledge from her Aunt Carrie that explained that Rogue's mother had traveled to the Far Banks, a dream-realm, to stop her father from getting there himself. Rogue encountered the incorporeal spirit of her mother therein, and absorbed her memories. After the reunion, her mother's trapped spirit could finally move on. Rogue subsequently went back to her Aunt Carrie and made amends with her.
Rogue then returned to the X-Men and had to fight against the monstrous Golgotha, large creatures with limited telepathic abilities. During this ordeal, Rogue and Gambit got into a fight, and he leaves. Wolverine then reveals he's always had feelings for Rogue, and kisses her. While recovering from Logan's mind, Rogue received a call from Emma Frost, who was trying to kill Havok, mistakenly thinking Havok to be Cyclops. Rogue absorbed both Havok and Polaris' powers when the X-Men fought a herd of Golgotha in space.
She later gained Sunfire's powers after absorbing them when he was dying, subsequent to his battle with Lady Deathstrike, who amputated both his legs. (Rogue #9-12).
Rogue returned to the Mansion and found that Gambit was being seduced by the latest X-Kid Foxx. Foxx was actually Mystique in disguise, who sought to break up Gambit and Rogue. She believed she had found someone better for Rogue, her associate Pulse and was not particularly fond of Gambit. The X-Men voted and Mystique was allowed to be a probationary member of the X-Men, a decision neither Rogue nor Gambit liked. Gambit later was transformed by Apocalypse into the new Death and twice tried to kill Rogue. With Havok leaving soon to join Professor X out in space, Rogue has become the leader of the remaining X-Men on his squad, the roster consisting of Iceman, Cannonball, Cable, Sabretooth, and Mystique.
Team Affiliates: X-Men
Real Name: Unknown,goes by many aliases
Age: 21
Gender: Female
Appearance:
Clothing: Rogue prefers to wear any kind of clothing that won't allow much skin-to-skin contact. And of course,she wears gloves any time. Her training suit is:
(which is also one of her combat suits).
Another one of her combat suits would be *looks at the Appearance pic*
Powers: Rogue is a mutant with the ability to temporarily absorb the memories, thoughts, and abilities (including superhuman abilities) of others via skin-to-skin contact. She cannot absorb the traits of energy beings (like Wonder Man, who is made of ionic energy), machines (like the Vision, a synthezoid), or cyborgs (such as Lady Deathstrike and the Prime Sentinels), and certain aliens (such as the Impossible Man, Magus of the Technarchy, Mojo, and the Silver Surfer) and powerful mystical entites (like Loki and Mephisto) have proved partially or wholly immune. This transference usually causes the victim to fall unconscious and/or become weakened, but it can kill if it is prolonged. The duration of this drain varies according to the length of time that the contact is maintained; the generally accepted ratio is 60 seconds of absorbed abilities for every 1 second of skin-to-skin contact. Prolonged contact also can result in a permanent impression of the template she absorbed. She has also on occasion used the powers and abilities of many beings simultaneously -- when fighting Nimrod in Uncanny X-Men #194, she temporarily absorbed and used the powers of Colossus, Nightcrawler, and Shadowcat.
Early in her career, Rogue permanently absorbed the powers of Ms. Marvel, gaining superhuman strength, flight, near-invulnerability, and a "seventh sense". When she was recently depowered, she lost these and while her natural absorption power returned, her Ms. Marvel-spawned powers did not.
It is also hinted that she has/had mind probing immunity, however it must be noted that this could've been due to the presence of Carol Danvers' personality in her mind at the time, which made both personas immune to telepathy. But now that Rogue is free of that persona, this immunity may no longer apply. Another way that she has been able to block out a telepath is by using all the memories of people she's absorbed to confuse the telepath.
In her travels with the X-Treme X-Men, Rogue was effectively a one-woman army. During the event called Maximum Security, Rogue was touched by a dying Skrull girl named Z'Cann who needed to pass on vital information to Professor Xavier; in addition to touching Rogue, Z'Cann also used telepathy to boost Rogue's absorption powers. The result was Rogue's new ability to recall any template she had ever absorbed, in addition to the Ms. Marvel powers which always stayed "on." When she first developed this power, Rogue would sometimes randomly sprout claws, steel skin, or even optic blasts. Through meditation she was able to gain a limited amount of control the templates from haphazardly manifesting. Prior to a fight with Vargas, Rogue had Sage accelerate the development of her mutant powers, which led to Rogue being able to willingly choose which of the many powers she had absorbed in the past she would like to use. Later on in X-Treme X-Men, Rogue lost all of her powers, including this one.
Most recently, she permanently absorbed a large portion of the powers of the Japanese mutant superhero Sunfire as he was dying. She now has his power to absorb solar energy and convert it into ionized plasma. She can channel her solar powers through her hands as streams of fiery thermal energy, which can burn through almost anything. She can focus her energies inward to boost her strength to superhuman levels (though not to the level she possessed when she had Ms. Marvel's powers), or project it outward to surround herself in a protective force field aura. She can fly once more, now by directing her burning aura downwards in a focused jet of flame to propel herself through the air like a missile.
In the Age of Apocalypse reality, her powers are based on magnetism due to the fact she absorbed half the powers of the AoA Polaris. AoA Rogue can control magnetic fields to move, lift, and manipulate ferrous metals. She can surround herself with a magnetic field that is the same polarity as the Earth's own magnetic field, causing the Earth to push her into the air (by magnetic levitation) thereby letting her fly at high speeds. She can use her magnetic powers to increase the energy of her movements, thus giving her super strength.
Personality: Rogue is a great friend as well as a great and valued teammate. She could be your closest friend,yet at the same time be so distant.
History: (comic book history) Rogue has no memory of her biological parents (though the backstory is examined in "Rogue" #1-6). Instead, she grew up with her extended family in the vicinity of Caldecott County, a fictional county in Mississippi. During that time, she befriended Cody Robbins. When Cody impulsively kissed her, Rogue's mutant powers emerged for the first time. Upon skin-to-skin contact, Rogue fully absorbed Cody's consciousness, memories, strengths, and weaknesses. Cody fell into a coma which lasted for years. In a later issue, Cody emerges from the coma thanks to aliens who wanted to use him in a plot to abduct Rogue. Rogue was so confused and overwhelmed by the experience that she too collapsed. The two were found days later by a search group composed of locals. Rogue, now revealed as a mutant, fled her home community, having earned the name "Rogue" because of the threat the community believed her to represent. The shape-shifting mutant Mystique discovered Rogue living in a remote, wooded area wielding a shotgun. Mystique sought Rogue on the recommendation of Destiny, a clairvoyant psychic who foresaw Rogue as important. Mystique soon became Rogue's unofficial foster mother.
Mystique and Destiny, both professional criminals, raised Rogue for close to a decade and trained her to be a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. Rogue fought alongside the Brotherhood against many superheroes, including the X-Men, Rom, Dazzler and the Avengers and was a devastating enemy to them all. During this time, she encountered the superhero Ms. Marvel (a.k.a. Carol Danvers). Rogue and Ms. Marvel fought and, through prolonged contact during which Ms. Marvel fought valiantly to retain her consciousness, Rogue absorbed Ms. Marvel's alien-based powers and memories permanently. Rogue gained Ms. Marvel's incredible strength, near-invulnerability, the power of flight, and a rarely-used mild form of ESP referred to as a "seventh sense" (though this last ability has been largely forgotten).
Rogue has never been able to control her absorption power; any skin-to-skin contact activates it. Rogue sometimes retains residual memories of the people she touches. After having absorbed Ms. Marvel's life force and gaining her personality and powers permanently, she began to go through a life-changing period. She was now "remembering" the comparatively more-normal childhood that Carol Danvers had lived and seeing the wrong-doings of Mystique and her team for what they were. She was also feeling as though she was losing her own personality in the mix of residual memories, sometimes entirely succumbing to the Carol Danvers personality. She began to dislike the life she was leading more and more, but feared losing herself forever in the absorbed memories of others.
Desperate, she turned to Professor Charles Xavier and the X-Men (X-Men #171). Xavier's charity towards all mutants led him to welcome her into his home, regardless of his team having previously fought Rogue and in spite of the X-Men's own strong disagreements. He psychically examined her and invited her to join the X-Men and live at the mansion.
Her initial months with the team were rough and some of the team even threatened to leave if she was allowed to stay, but Professor Xavier reminded them of their ideals as X-Men and they gave her a chance. She first earned Wolverine's trust by saving the life of his fiancée, and over time earned the respect of all the X-Men and eventually became a valued, trusted member of the team.
Among the X-men, Rogue's life improved, but she continued to struggle with Carol Danvers' residual personality until Rogue was pulled through the mystical gateway known as the Siege Perilous, where she was judged by otherdimensional forces with the promise of a "new life." Returned to Earth, Rogue was purged of the remaining portions of Carol's personality, truly becoming her own woman again, but was also temporarily stripped of her powers for a time (notably, she also became more physically attractive, although whether or not this came about simply as a result of Jim Lee's art style is questionable). Rogue ended up powerless in the Savage Land, where she was taken in by Magneto. The two briefly toyed with a romance. Rogue ultimately saw through Magneto's noble facade when he killed the high priestess Zaladane, who had amassed an army of Savage Land natives. Rogue's perception of her potential lover shaken, she returned to the X-Mansion. When Rogue regained her powers, she fully returned to the X-Men.
While she was gone, a new member had joined the X-Men, Gambit. Rogue and Gambit were immediately attracted to each other and quickly fell in love. Rogue and Gambit's relationship has been strained, much thanks to her inability to control her absorption power and his dishonesty but they have stayed together, regardless. Incidentally, Cody Robbins, the first person to fall victim to Rogue's powers, was later killed by Gambit's ex-wife Belladonna.
It was eventually revealed that Mystique had two sons: the now-deceased anti-mutant politician Graydon Creed and Rogue's long-time teammate, Nightcrawler. Rogue and Nightcrawler consider themselves to be siblings, although the revelation has not particularly altered their friendship.
When the Galactic Council transformed Earth into a maximus-security penal colony for hundreds of extraterrestrial criminals, Rogue absorbed the attributes of Z'Cann -- a telepathic alien shapeshifter who had joined Cadre K, Xavier's Skrull equivalent to the X-Men. Z'Cann purposely touched Rogue to activate the mutant's abilities as the two evaded bounty hunters. Z'Cann used her telepathy to amplify Rogue's capacity to assimilate memories, causing her powers to mutate.
During an invasion of aliens from another dimension, Rogue begged Sage to use her jump-starting powers to evolve Rogue to a point where she could control all of the various powers inside of her. Sage agreed, and Rogue became a one-woman army, able to use the powers of anyone she had absorbed in the past, and exhibited multiple powers at once.
In that same invasion, Rogue was confronted by Vargas who was said to be "a new species altogether". Vargas wanted to kill her to preserve his own life; he showed her a page from one of Destiny's diaries that indicated Rogue would kill him. Rogue fought Vargas off and sped to rescue Gambit from the machine that was using him to power a trans-dimensional gate. The power beam trapped her with him and they were both stabbed by Vargas. Wounded but still alive, Rogue pursued Vargas, ambushing him by replacing his statue of Psylocke and eventually using all her abilities to defeat him (and perhaps kill him, though the exact outcome of their fight is still uncertain). Both Gambit and Rogue survived by a near margin, though Rogue had to enter the astral plane to force Gambit to live.
Following the repulsion of the invasion, Rogue realized that the Destiny Prophecies were only possibilities and that trying to follow them was more dangerous than ignoring them. She also learned that she had inherited a mansion in New Orleans from Destiny, as well as a sizeable fortune, and the X-Men retired there to recuperate. Rogue soon left the team with Gambit, since they both emerged powerless from their ordeals and wanted to further explore their relationship.
While on the road, Rogue and Gambit met some mutants who hated normal humans. Rogue asked them to leave, but they provoked a fight, and Gambit and Rogue (both powerless) fought them. They lost, and their opponents destroyed Rogue's bike. Shortly thereafter, Rogue and Gambit met a young mutant going by the name of Paint, who possessed the power to "paint" tattoos by touch alone. Rogue complimented Paint on her tattoos and in return, Paint gave Rogue some tattoos of her own.
Rogue ended up staying at a beach house in Valle Soleada, a town wherein mutants and humans coexisted peacefully. She subsequently received a visit from Bishop and Sage and, after a series of events involving an investigation into the murder of a human girl's family, Rogue and Gambit sign up with Bishop and Sage to help stop Sage's enemy and former boss Elias Bogan. After the battle Rogue asked Sage to restore Gambit's abilities, which she did.
Rogue and Gambit returned to the X-Men. Over time, Rogue's own abilities returned naturally. However, she no longer possessed the abilities she had absorbed from Ms. Marvel. Rogue and Gambit were both put on Havok's team. On their first mission back, the X-Men battled against a Chinese mutant team to rescue Xorn. They succeeded and brought Xorn back to the X-Mansion with them.
The X-Men then faced a new Brotherhood in Philadelphia. The Brotherhood followed them back to the Mansion and attacked them at home. Rogue notably fought Black Tom Cassidy, while the other X-Men fought off the rest of the Brotherhood. Black Tom almost killed Rogue, but she was saved by Northstar.
Rogue then traveled down south to save a young mutant girl from her powers. While there, she met Campbell St. Ange, a young man who was immune to Rogue's lethal touch. Also while there, Rogue forcibly absorbed knowledge from her Aunt Carrie that explained that Rogue's mother had traveled to the Far Banks, a dream-realm, to stop her father from getting there himself. Rogue encountered the incorporeal spirit of her mother therein, and absorbed her memories. After the reunion, her mother's trapped spirit could finally move on. Rogue subsequently went back to her Aunt Carrie and made amends with her.
Rogue then returned to the X-Men and had to fight against the monstrous Golgotha, large creatures with limited telepathic abilities. During this ordeal, Rogue and Gambit got into a fight, and he leaves. Wolverine then reveals he's always had feelings for Rogue, and kisses her. While recovering from Logan's mind, Rogue received a call from Emma Frost, who was trying to kill Havok, mistakenly thinking Havok to be Cyclops. Rogue absorbed both Havok and Polaris' powers when the X-Men fought a herd of Golgotha in space.
She later gained Sunfire's powers after absorbing them when he was dying, subsequent to his battle with Lady Deathstrike, who amputated both his legs. (Rogue #9-12).
Rogue returned to the Mansion and found that Gambit was being seduced by the latest X-Kid Foxx. Foxx was actually Mystique in disguise, who sought to break up Gambit and Rogue. She believed she had found someone better for Rogue, her associate Pulse and was not particularly fond of Gambit. The X-Men voted and Mystique was allowed to be a probationary member of the X-Men, a decision neither Rogue nor Gambit liked. Gambit later was transformed by Apocalypse into the new Death and twice tried to kill Rogue. With Havok leaving soon to join Professor X out in space, Rogue has become the leader of the remaining X-Men on his squad, the roster consisting of Iceman, Cannonball, Cable, Sabretooth, and Mystique.
Team Affiliates: X-Men