10 X-Men Characters Most SHAFTED By The Movies

6. Storm

X Men Storm
Fox

Storm is high-key one of the best X-Men going, but (surprise, surprise) she wasn't handled well in the films. The fact that they managed to do this while having Oscar-winning actress Halle Berry in the role makes this all the more bemusing.

Gifted with the power to manipulate the weather, Ororo Munroe has been considered an omega-level mutant on multiple occasions and is often depicted as a leader of the X-Men. There are few characters in the Marvel Universe that can boast as big a role as her, and though she's featured in every main entry in the X-Men series barring First Class, she's yet to really receive the treatment befitting a hero of her stature.

Storm does of course grow into the team's leader come The Last Stand, but before that, she was never really treated as such. Further still, the material Berry had to work with just wasn't up to scratch, with the actress having had to deliver by far one of the worst one-liners ever to have graced the medium in the first X-Men's final act.

Poor Toad.

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