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.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
