Rogue

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Rogue is a member of the X-Men. She initially chose not to join the team after being attacked by its members, though she later found out it was Mystique who posed as them during the attacks and joined the group shortly after finding this out.

History

Formation of the Brotherhood

Discovering her powers

Rogue discovered her powers when she attended a dance. There she chose not to socialize with the other attendees until she was approached by Cody, who happened to have a crush on her. He asked her to a dance and she accepted after some hesitation. When the pair danced, his friend Ty tried to get the two closer to each other and pushed Cody into her. He apologized and touched her arm as he tried helping her up.

He then was knocked out as Rogue began to have memories of his childhood and take on his abilities. Rogue was unaware of what was happening to her and while Ty tried to stop her from leaving, she easily was able to get away from him. Now possessing Cody's strength, she easily pushed him out of the way and he even remarked that he had felt the same type of push from Cody. She began to run away as X-Men founder Charles Xavier detected her on Cerebro.

Once he and the X-Men arrived there, Mystique began to take steps necessary to keeping her from trusting the group. She shape-shifted into Wolverine while Rogue was in Cody's house and attacked her. As Rogue ran away, she turned into Storm and attacked her. During the attacks on her by Mystique, Irene tried to get her to come with her and went along with Mystique's plan, referring to the X-Men as mutant "hunters." Rogue was deeply confused by what was going on, but took Irene's hand out of her trust for her.

Rogue then saw the real Wolverine, along with Nightcrawler and Shadowcat. She ran away from the three, instructing Irene to do the same thing and Nightcrawler convinced Wolverine to allow him to talk to her without his presence, given that she was terrified of him. Nightcrawler confronted her and using his Image inducer, gave off the appearance of a normal person interested in helping her. Rogue started to believe in him and stopped running until Shadowcat pushed her down.

She quickly got Kitty off of her and in the commotion, touched Nightcrawler. She gained his abilities and teleported away. She enjoyed his powers momentarily, as she soon fell and wished that she did not have to go through what was happening to her. Jean Grey confronted her and Rogue instantly knew who she was. Rogue reacted with great fear, but Jean calmed her down by stating that if she knew who she was then she knew she would not harm her. Jean gave her a communicator and tried to appeal to her, attempting to make herself an ally of the newly-powered mutant by asking for her to call her whenever she feels the need to. She did well before Storm came. Rogue recognized Storm from when Mystique attacked her using her form and ran off. Storm noticed Rogue being scared of her, but was like Wolverine before her, unaware that Mystique had attacked her using her form.

She was then confronted by Mystique, who took on the forms of both Jean and Cyclops. As Jean, Mystique made reference to what the real Jean had said, stating that she guessed some people just would not be helped. Mystique had both overheard and viewed Jean as she spoke with Rogue. When she came across the real Cyclops, she pushed him down. She also tried to get away from a concerned Jean, who came across her following her encounter with Mystique posing as her and Cyclops and tried to help her by asking if she was hurt and telling her not to move. Rogue backed away in response, under the belief that the real Jean and Mystique posing as Jean were one in the same.

She was approached by Storm. The latter asked for her to tell the group what was wrong and stated the team were her friends. Rogue touched her and gained her abilities. She was in the air and briefly caused a problem for Cyclops and Jean before teleporting away. The group ended with their attempts to recruit her, as Charles put it, she would have to come of her own free will or not at all and also since the group needed to care for their members injured during the unsuccessful attempt to recruit her. Soon after, she was enrolled at Bayville High School. After speaking with Principal Darkholme, she walked out of her office and pulled out the communicator Jean gave her, looking on.

Saving Jean

Rogue and Scott, Cyclops of the X-Men, shared a class together. The two were partnered after being the only two students who did not have a partner yet and were assigned to read Shakespeare lines. Scott asked her if she was okay with the pairing and she asserted that she was not afraid of him. During lunch, Scott and Kurt laughed at him being partnered with Rogue, the two's laughter about Rogue being mistaken by Blob to be about him. He slipped and caused an incident before falling and being laughed at by others, causing him to get angry and start a food fight. In the commotion, he nearly hit Jean before Scott came to her assistance and Blob came to his senses.

Rogue watched outside of the cafeteria as Scott defended Jean and hid as he came out, to ensure that he would not see her watching him. She confronted him over what happened and noticed that the X-Men watched after each other. The conversation between the pair was cut short by Principal Darkholme, who insisted they get to class. As the two went their separate ways, Scott told Rogue to bring her book with the lines to the park after school. During their meeting at the park, Scott recited his lines as Rogue said they confirmed he was a charmer.

While Scott asserted that he was just reading his lines, Rogue began to relate that she wished she was able to get close to someone. In the meantime, Blob kidnapped Jean and following getting out of her unconscious state, she contacted Charles with her telepathy. Nightcrawler was sent by Wolverine to retrieve Scott, teleporting in on him while he and Rogue were speaking about how she felt. Despite Nightcrawler apologizing for interrupting them, Rogue stated that he was like an "annoying little brother."

After Nightcrawler informed Scott that Jean had been kidnapped, Scott asked Rogue if she had known anything about the kidnapping. Rogue confirmed she had not and said that she still would not have told him if she had known. Scott told her he hoped she could live with her conscience, words that hung by Rogue as she appeared to combat Blob following the latter defeating both Cyclops and Wolverine. She absorbed Cyclops's powers and charged in as Blob was preparing to harm Jean. Blob did not know what her powers were, which she introduced to him as she absorbed his abilities.

When Blob lunged at her, she fired an optic blast at him, sending him through the roof and into a junkyard. She stayed with Jean, Wolverine and Cyclops as the rest of the X-Men arrived. She explained to a coming to his senses Cyclops that she had only taken a short term dosage of his powers and expected that he should return to normal soon. Cyclops complimented her, but she denied his compliment and when Jean asked why she helped her, she said she did not know and ran off. Jean tried to chase after her, but Wolverine stopped her, insisting that she was not ready. Sometime after, she sat outside Principal Darkholme's office as she spoke with Magneto about Quicksilver.

Alternate dimension

While reading her Dracula novel, she overheard Nightcrawler teleport and went to the room he was in to see if he was alright. The room had been destroyed by an explosion, which set off as he arrived. She found a device which was not destroyed in the blast. Nightcrawler tried to take it from her, but she refused to let go off it.

Things took a turn for the worse when she blasted him with it accidentally, seemingly vaporizing him. In actuality, he had been sent to an alternate dimension, where he met Forge, the creator of the device who had been trapped in the alternate dimension for decades and was seeking to return to his own. Rogue tried discarding of the device and was seen by Toad. She threatened him and walked away as the device rested in the trash. Toad took it out and began using it. Rogue was unsure of what had happened to Nightcrawler and became suspicious of her having murdered him when Jean tried using her telekinesis to find him, to no avail.

Jean and Scott got into a confrontation with Lance and Blob, which ended with the pair being taken by Principal Darkholme to her office. The three walked in, and found the office's furniture had been removed. Principal Darkholme ran out to find her furniture and Jean and Scott looked outside and noticed Toad using the device.

The pair chose to confront Toad on him using the device and whether or not he had anything to do with what happened to Nightcrawler. He put up a chase, but was stopped in his tracks by Spyke. The X-Men began interrogating him and he kept denying a role in what happened to Nightcrawler. Rogue then showed up and confirmed he had nothing to do with Nightcrawler's sudden absence and she stated that she had.

Rogue threatened that if the group did not leave Toad alone, they would not find Nightcrawler. The team agreed to leave Toad alone and the team went with her to the site Nightcrawler disappeared. She got into a conflict with Cyclops, who threatened her and in turn she stated that he would never find Nightcrawler if he stated threatening her. The group tried understanding the device, which they were torn between resetting or destroying. Forge built Nightcrawler a device that allowed him to teleport back to their dimension and he tried to tell the group to reset the device and not destroy it before teleporting back to the alternate dimension, as he only had a second to warn them.

The X-Men and Rogue were given confirmation that he was still alive. Rogue was surprised and the five concluded rightfully that the device should be reseted. After the device was reseted, it opened a portal and the group saw Nightcrawler and Forge. The pair could not return to their dimension due to needing more energy to return and the pair went off to get some more. The Brotherhood then arrived and Avalanche told Rogue that the group had been sent by Mystique to find her. Cyclops asked if she was with them and Rogue stated that he had his friends and she had hers, but it was not her fight and left. The group succeeded in getting Nightcrawler back and were watched by Rogue as they left the room.

Joining the X-Men

The X-Men had a training exercise featuring Rogue, which she was included in by Charles, who believed her inclusion would be a genuine surprise for the team. It was for Cyclops, who called for the training simulation to be stopped and questioned how they could still be trying to recruit her when they included her in their training exercises. At Bayville High School, Scott discussed the matter with Jean and outright mentioned the training exercise having her in it, a mention Mystique overheard as Principal Darkholme.

She went to Rogue while she was training and staring at Scott through the window, and told her he would never be her friend. Rogue stated she was not interested in him and Principal Darkholme told her of the training exercise with her included as an enemy. Rogue questioned why they would do that, and Principal Darkholme stated it was time she remembered who her true friends were and wished her well on the trip, dropping her a bag before departing.

Rogue replaced Jean on the snow trip and as she stepped onto the bus, she smirked at Cyclops. On the way to the mountain while everyone is on the bus, it started snowing. While the students are cheerful about it, their instructor stated they would have to turn back if they got too much of it. The students expressed disappointment. Rogue suggested to the teacher that the group ride their snowmobiles up to the cave. The students agreed with her and their instructor chose to do this.

Rogue challenged Scott to a race while the pair were driving over to the cave, which he accepted and she won. Their teacher gave a lesson on geology to the students, during which Rogue left and was followed by Scott. She confronted him after he called out for her and asked what he wanted from her. She called for the truth while he stated that he wanted a friendship with her, and made it clear she knew of the training exercise with her in it that the X-Men had before he came to school.

Scott stated the group was not who she thought they were and said she had been lied to, as well as offering her a position on the team. She declined as the two were joined by Paul, who approached the pair and informed them that their instructor was looking for them. Rogue tried using Paul as evidence of who Scott's real friends were and betted that he had never practiced fighting him. Paul told her she would lose that bet as he morphed into Mystique.

She revealed her identity as Principal Darkholme to the two and pushed Scott over a ledge. Rogue tried to save him and when she failed, she turned to Mystique and questioned her motives. Mystique said she was protecting her and morphed into Paul as she put her hand out for Rogue so the two could rejoin the rest of the group and lie that Scott had accidentally died during the trip. Rogue grabbed her hand and started absorbing her powers.

With that one grab, Rogue learned that Mystique, using her shapeshifting ability, had transformed into members of the X-Men to attack her and convince her the group was trying to harm her, as she was unaware of who they really were. Following Mystique passing out, Rogue apologized to a none-present Scott and tried to make amends by saving him from falling. Mystique tried to throw a boulder on the pair and the two fell into the river below.

Scott saved the two of them from falling into a waterfall and hit his head when the pair fell. Rogue informed an injured Scott that she now knew the truth, and apologized for everything she had done. Rogue, speaking of Mystique, said she had thought the latter cared about her, which Scott stated in return that she may and that adults generally do not trust in kids before passing out. As the pair were antagonized by Mystique, Scott told Rogue that the X-Men were coming but could not find them.

She ordered him to fire an optic blast into the sky, providing a marker of where they were. The group came to them and Wolverine caught both Rogue and Scott as the bridge they were on collapsed. Aboard the Blackbird, Wolverine asked Rogue who's side she was on. She asked in return if she would be thrown off the jet if she did not say the X-Men. After he confirmed she would not, as it was not the group's "style", she answered "You", confirming her new allegiance to the X-Men.

The students confronted Charles over not telling them Mystique's identity and he asked for Rogue's opinion. While Rogue said it was not her place, Kitty and Evan encouraged her to speak. She said honesty was important among a family, which Kitty had said she had become part of. Charles took her words into account and said he would try and be more honest with the students in the future.

Helping Spyke

Rogue and Kitty at the heart of their conflict.

Evan was given a camera to make up for an assignment he had failed, as he would use the camera to film for a project designed to better his grade after his failure with the other assignment. Right after getting the camera, he filmed Wolverine entering the Xavier Mansion. After that, he turned his attention to Rogue and Kitty, involved in an argument. Kitty accused Rogue of trying to steal her novel, which Rogue denied doing. Kitty's evidence, finding the novel in her locker, was rebuked by Rogue, who stated the book came in her possession through a series of people giving the book to another person, she being the last of those to receive the book.

Kitty did not believe her and as she tried to assert her opinion that Rogue had stolen her book, she bumped into Jason and dropped her materials. After the latter helped her with getting them, she thanked him, being mocked by Rogue while doing so. The pair learned of the Dracula play, which Jason had the main role in. After Jason left, Rogue insulted Kitty, stating what just happened occurred just when she thought Kitty could not get "more pathetic." Kitty insulted her in return, stating that she had a chance at getting casted, unlike Rogue.

Their argument was momentarily ended by Rogue spotting Evan, who had videotaped everything they had said to each other. Rogue asked him what he was doing and threatened that if she saw herself in his film, he would then be called "Spyke-less." Evan casually asked the pair if they would be auditioning for the play. Both confirmed they would and looked at each other angrily as they walked in opposite directions.

After school, Evan went directly to the Xavier Mansion. While en route, he was attacked by Sabretooth. The latter knocked him over and in the time he was done, went into his camera. He found out where Wolverine had been staying, at the Xavier Mansion and recorded a message for him. Evan got back up and planned to confront whoever had knocked him down, but by the time he came back to his senses, Sabretooth was nowhere to be seen. After arriving at the Xavier Mansion, he tried filming Wolverine and Cyclops as they were training. He angered Wolverine in doing this, who went through his camera and found the footage of Sabretooth, who arrived at the mansion as he thanked Evan for giving him the information on where Wolverine resided.

Rogue and Kitty are approached by Evan.

The X-Men came to help Wolverine, Cyclops and Evan. The group easily overpowered Sabretooth, who fled from the mansion. Wolverine's conversation over the confrontation with Charles ended with the pair agreeing that Sabretooth would try taking one of the students hostage and the mansion being put on lockdown until they could resolve the matter. Evan, seeking to defeat Sabretooth on his own, came to Rogue and Kitty while they were arguing. Rogue had asked to use the track for the Dracula play, which she stated Kitty had been using all morning, while the latter reasoned that she had bought it and Rogue should get her own.

The two snapped at Evan as he tried speaking with them and he requested that they help him with his video. The pair left the grounds of the Xavier Mansion, being seen by Sabretooth, who stated that Wolverine was making it too easy to abduct one of the students. The three stopped and started filming and Evan soon became unimpressed with Rogue's dancing skills. Kitty insulted her skills, while Rogue defended them by stating that she and Kitty had their own moves. Evan suggested that the two touch and while both initially objected, they softened to the idea when Evan said they would only get enough to allow Rogue to rip off Kitty's dancing moves.

The pair touched each other with a tap of their fingers and both were visibly bothered by the touch. Rogue reacted and started speaking similarly to Kitty. The pair then began dancing and the three were then attacked by Sabretooth. He succeeded in dispatching of Evan and Rogue and took out Kitty while she looked at their unconscious bodies. Rogue woke up right after Sabretooth took out Kitty and tried attacking him, but could not absorb him due to her arms being spread away.

Rogue after absorbing Sabretooth.

After Wolverine arrived to combat Sabretooth, Rogue was finally able to touch him and defeated him with the touch, though her appearance changed to reflect his. Wolverine called her change in appearance the "finishing touch." Wolverine learned that Evan had planned the encounter and scolded the entire group, stating they could have been killed and grounded all three. When asked how long, Wolverine was unsure, but directed towards Rogue when he said until she got a haircut, in reference to her appearance. Rogue asked what would happen to Sabretooth, who was dropped off in the snow with his memories of what transpired erased by Charles. The X-Men all attended the viewing of Evan's film, which featured Rogue and Kitty dancing.

Juggernaut

Rogue tries ditching survival camp.

The X-Men were shipped off to a survival training camp, after having the option of survival training there or with Wolverine. Attending the training camp alongside the X-Men were the Brotherhood and non-mutant teenagers. Following a speech by their instructor Sergeant Hawk, the X-Men began to express their dislike with being sent to the camp. Rogue planned on going AWOL and asked if anyone knew how to hot-wire a school bus before being stopped by Scott, who assured her the group would not be washing out in front of the entire school.

The team went off grumbling and Rogue participated in several training exercises, later joining the X-Men in supporting Scott as he raced against Lance. The latter used his powers and still lost due to Scott using his in retaliation. The Brotherhood confronted the X-Men over Scott's victory and claimed he had cheated. Toad insisted that Scott had stolen the first place ribbon, which Rogue said she would pin to his forehead since he wanted it so badly. The two groups argued inaudibly and were broken up by Sergeant Hawk, who made the two groups do push ups.

He assigned for them to race each other to the top of a mountain and get to the flag before the other group. While both Pietro and Kurt could get to the flag ahead of everyone else in the group, Sergeant Hawk stated that the group would have to be photographed together. The X-Men made their way to the top while the Brotherhood did the same thing, choosing to go through an abandoned mine and end up getting trapped inside thanks to Lance using his powers.

Rogue and Shadowcat move in on Juggernaut.

The X-Men assisted them in getting out and Kurt and Pietro grabbed the flag just as Storm arrived in the Blackbird. She informed them that their respective leaders, Charles and Mystique, were in danger. Mystique had released Charles's half-brother, Juggernaut, from his containment to retrieve Cerebro. Once he destroyed it, she lashed out at him and he turned his attention to her and nearly grabbed Charles as Jean stopped him upon the X-Men and the Brotherhood arriving at the mansion.

The two groups worked to remove Juggernaut's helmet. Rogue and Shadowcat phased through a wall in the Danger Room, where the confrontation took place and undid two locks on his helmet. After the group succeeded in removing his helmet, Charles used his telepathy to defeat Juggernaut using his mind. Juggernaut was returned to his place of containment following his defeat.

Nightmares

Rogue got off the phone with a friend the night before finals and went to sleep. In her dreams, she saw a baby in the arms of a woman who referred to a man as a "monster" and asked what he had done to him. The woman was then chased by wolves and she ultimately dropped the baby into a river by accident during the pursuit. After Jean and Scott came to comfort her, Rogue explained her dreams started when she moved to the institute. Rogue had a some difficulty in describing her dream and was most visibly upset over the baby, who she admitted she did not see the face of but seemed to "know him somehow" as she looked at Nightcrawler.

He asked her why she was looking at him. Rogue instantly identified Nightcrawler as the baby and after some further thinking, she confirmed it was him. She explained what happened in the dream to him and after he asked her if she thought that was him, Rogue questioned why she was having the dream. Jean figured that Charles could assist them, but opted to do it in the morning until Charles revealed he had been listening in on them with his telepathy and concluded that Rogue's dreams were important before requesting that she and Nightcrawler go with Jean to the library.

Rogue has her mind entered by Charles.

In the library, Nightcrawler explained his adoptive parents had never said anything about him being fished out of a river. Charles chose to start with Rogue, since she was the one who had the dream. He asked Rogue to sit by him and concentrate on the dream after she asked if him going in her mind was going to hurt and saw the dream for himself, discovering it was a repressed memory. Nightcrawler and Rogue both questioned why Nightcrawler was not having the dream since he was featured in it, which Charles was not sure of but assumed she must have touched someone familiar with Kurt's origins.

Nightcrawler brought himself up as the person Charles was referring to, recalling that Rogue had touched him when they first met. Charles chose to not go through Nightcrawler's memories instantly, but promised to do it the following day after school. He knew the memories were that of Mystique and confronted her over the matter at school the next day.

Shortly after their meeting, Kurt ran out of class eager to return to the Xavier Mansion so Charles could search his mind. Rogue came up to him and she asked him if he was sure he wanted to go through with learning about his past. Kurt stated that he always felt his adoptive parents were keeping something from him and Rogue reasoned that they may have been trying to protect him, angering Kurt and causing him to lash out at her before teleporting away.

Scott and Jean approached her following the conflict between her and Kurt. She told the pair that Kurt was still "worked up" about the previous night and the three went off to go find him. Mystique, posing as a student, overheard the group and arranged for Pietro to go to the Xavier Mansion and deliver a envelope to Kurt. She believed that he would be able to enter and exit the mansion without being detected, a theory which proved to be false when Charles sensed him using his telepathy. Nightcrawler got the letter, which called for him to meet up at the construction site of a mall if he wanted to find out the truth. He accepted the letter's request and went to the site.

Rogue using Avalanche's powers to try and stop Mystique from leaving.

There Mystique revealed her identity as his mother and the two were intercepted by the Brotherhood, who had "higher orders" to ensure certain questions were not answered. The group defeated Nightcrawler with great ease and the X-Men arrived right after. Rogue stopped Avalanche from using his powers. Rogue confronted Mystique as she tried to leave, stating that she and Kurt had a few more questions they needed her to answer. She said it was far too late for answers and despite Rogue's attempt to keep her at bay by using Avalanche's powers, Mystique succeeded in fleeing using her morphing ability.

At the Xavier Mansion, she spoke with Kurt, who expressed outright shock that Mystique was his mother. Rogue tried reassuring him that there might be a chance she was not, given that she was a "disturbed" woman and suggested that she may have just been messing with him. While Nightcrawler tried to get her to admit the two had a resemblance, Rogue urged him to wait for Charles to get more answers for him, but Kurt could not help but feel Charles knew more than he was willing to tell. Rogue said it may be for a good reason and the two made a pact to search for answers together. Rogue left when she had to continue packing and exchanged goodbyes with Kurt before leaving, shedding and wiping away a single tear while doing so.

Conflict with Kitty

She and Kitty had a conflict early in the morning when Rogue was doing her hair and Kitty came into the bathroom with her, phasing through the door despite it being locked and there being a sign which read "OCCUPIED". Rogue confronted her about walking in on her and after Kitty made a remark, Rogue slammed the door in her face.

As Kitty wrote to her parents while in Rogue's presence, she wrote that it was not easy to get close to her, nor healthy. The X-Men then came in and proceeded to make noise as they got their breakfast. While walking past Kitty, Rogue questioned Kurt. After Shadowcat returned to the Xavier Mansion, the latter had Kurt block the dining room off from the others so she could write. While everyone was annoyed and complained, he swore she would soon be finished.

Asteroid M

Magneto finished construction of Asteroid M, an asteroid where he planned for mutants to have sanctuary on, including members of the X-Men and Brotherhood, provided they defeat a member of the other team in combat. At the same time, Charles detected Alex Summers, the long believed dead brother of Cyclops who had already been met by Magneto. He informed Scott that his brother was still alive and the pair left with Wolverine to meet Alex in Honolulu, Hawaii. The three left behind the rest of the X-Men, and Rogue, Kurt, Kitty and Evan arrived in the hangar room to discover the group had went on without them.

Nightcrawler proposed that the group go to the nearby beach. Rogue left a note for Jean, who had been taken to Asteroid M after defeating Toad, and the four left the mansion. While leaving, they were seen by Mystique. She informed the Brotherhood of them leaving the mansion and the group attacked the X-Men while en route to the beach. The group fell onto the beach thanks to Blob and were made by Avalanche to go inside the sand.

The Brotherhood believed they had defeated the X-Men easily, but they found out that was not the case as Rogue and Nightcrawler teleported to the top and attacked Toad and Avalanche. Nightcrawler was defeated by Avalanche while Rogue easily defeated Toad. She would turn out to be the only member of the four to defeat their Brotherhood counterpart, as both Kitty and Evan were defeated by Blob and Quicksilver.

Rogue planned to combat the Brotherhood on her own, but Avalanche stopped her from doing this. He informed her that she had already won and soon after the group was picked by four pods, which took them to Asteroid M. There, Rogue was placed in stasis and put alongside Storm and Jean, the other two X-Men who had defeated their opponent from the Brotherhood. The three were seen by Charles as he arrived at the Asteroid, and he asserted they had been abducted not rescued, as Magneto claimed.

The three were joined by Charles as the X-Men in stasis when he tried telling Cyclops of Magneto's true intentions and all four were out of stasis when they witnessed Cyclops and Alex go through Magneto's enhancer and become stronger and undergo a change in physical appearance. The group were freed by Wolverine, after he arrived with the rest of the X-Men and Toad and Mystique. Rogue and Storm were instructed by Charles to ready the jet while he and Jean tried to help Alex and Cyclops escape from the debris.

During a confrontation between Spyke and Quicksilver, Rogue got involved and absorbed Quicksilver's speed as she touched him. She used his powers from that point and met up with Storm to inform her that Wolverine was still fighting Sabretooth and Cyclops and Alex were still trapped under the debris. Rogue and Storm joined the X-Men on the Blackbird and the group along with the Brotherhood were saved by Cyclops and Alex, who destroyed Asteroid M by using their powers. Rogue, standing beside the other X-Men, looked off into the snow after Charles told Alex the group would be willing to help him whenever his powers manifested on their own.

Pre-Mutant Revelation

New school year

Rogue returned to Bayville High School for the new school year and attended the school assembly introducing the students to Robert Kelly, the school's new principal. During the assembly, she helped Risty with her classes and the introduced themselves to each other. She attended the girl's soccer game that night, where the Brotherhood revealed their identities as mutants and also exposed the X-Men. Rogue remarked that the team was busted as the Brotherhood began to cause damages to the field and the X-Men moved in to stop them. Rogue absorbed Blob as he was causing trouble, remarking that she was going to get "big and stupid". After the battle, Charles used his telepathy to enter the minds of everyone there and erase their memories of seeing the mutants, but passed out while trying to remove Robert Kelly's, the school's new principal, memories of the events.

Saving Jean

Jean was awarded the MVP Soccer Award during an early assembly in the school year and while her fellow X-Men applauded her, Rogue remained silent. Risty confronted her on this and Rogue reasoned that Jean had enough people "gushing" over her. As Jean tried giving her acceptance speech, she read Rogue's mind unwillingly and heard the latter express her dislike for her, as well as question why she had begun looking at her. Jean then tried returning to her speech, but heard more voices and eventually everyone in the assembly.

Following this, Rogue attended Duncan Matthews's party with Risty. The latter noticed her not speaking with anyone and Rogue stated that where she was from, people like her did not party with people like them, referring to the other people in the party as well as a remark Risty had made earlier. Scott then arrived, to which Rogue took note of and he challenged Duncan in a ping pong match. Rogue then began leaving, telling Risty that she was done with Jean's popularity contest.

Risty voiced her belief that Rogue had a crush on Scott, which she denied. Rogue and Risty left the party and after their departure, Jean threw Scott off of a balcony using her telekinesis. He landed in a pool because of this and returned to the mansion soaking wet. Rogue and Risty walked in on Scott, Jean, Charles and Kurt and Rogue noted that the four had stopped speaking when the two entered the room and started staring at them. Risty took note of Scott's soaking and when Kitty came in by phasing, she questioned her on where she came from.

Wolverine's use of his claws in front of Risty forced Charles to have Rogue excuse her. Risty left and Rogue returned inside the mansion, where Charles apologized but cautioned that visits must be scheduled ahead of time. Rogue assured him that she would not have anymore friends over and stared at Jean as she thought the latter was treated better than her. Jean responded to this accusation out loud by stating that Charles did not treat her any differently from Rogue and the latter confronted her over going through her mind.

Despite Jean's apology, Rogue marched upstairs angrily. Jean had a breakdown the following day with her powers, which resulted in her being taken back to the mansion, where her abilities went entirely out of control and forced the group to assemble to confront her. Rogue suggested during the team's strategizing that she use her absorption to take away some of her power and despite Charles's initial reluctance to the idea, he eventually agreed with her.

Arcade

Charles had to leave the Xavier Mansion in care of Scott and Jean when Juggernaut's cell began to act faulty. With Charles away, Kitty introduced the idea of throwing a party, which Kurt and Evan supported. Rogue informed the three that despite Charles being away, they still could not throw it, since Scott and Jean would not allow them. They realized this and the group's conspiring caused Scott and Jean to be stranded away from the mansion.

While the team partied, Kitty's friend Weber Tork got into the Cerebro room and started to access the Danger Room. Rogue overheard the room's activity and she accompanied Nightcrawler, Shadowcat and Spyke to the training room. After Nightcrawler teleported inside, he was taken out and the rest of the group went in after him, being attacked instantly. While Rogue and Spyke managed to avoid most of Arcade's attacks, Shadowcat was knocked out and the pair tried getting to her as Arcade sent two large metal balls to come at them from both directions. The four were saved when Nightcrawler teleported them to safety.

He then sent a flamethrower in both directions of the fleeing group. Rogue was saved by Shadowcat, who phased her and herself through a wall. Arcade activated DEFCON 4 and the mansion underwent lockdown. Cyclops and Jean returned at this time and the pair made their way into the mansion despite heavy attacks from its automated defenses. The two met up with the rest of the group and the entire team was attacked by Arcade once more. Nightcrawler teleported Rogue into the Cerebro room, where she touched Arcade without him seeing her and knocked him out, bringing about an end to his mayhem.

Beast

Rogue participated in a training exercise, where Spyke was supposed to have her "back." She was taken down while the group was trying to get to a lever, but was carried by Cyclops to the finish line and remarked that it was embarrassing being carried. The pair failed to reach the finish line in time and when Spyke arrived late, she was among the group as they expressed their disappointment with him. Mr. McCoy lost control over his urges and after drinking a serum, transformed into a beast. She joined Nightcrawler and Storm in pursuing him and the three briefly lost him before encountering him again right before he left to go to the amphitheater, where he was restored to his normal mental state by Charles and Spyke. He joined the X-Men, under the codename "Beast".

Angel

During the winter season, the majority of the X-Men were prepared to leave the mansion to spend Christmas with their families. Rogue, Charles, Beast and Scott were the exceptions. The day before everyone was supposed to leave, Rogue went up to Scott and told him it would be lonely when everyone left. She used the conversation as an opportunity to give Scott a gift, which he opened. The remaining X-Men waved to the rest of the group as they departed.

News of an angel going around and doing good deeds spread to the X-Men and Rogue dismissed the idea of the angel being a demon, which Scott had proposed and identified Beast's quoting of Shakespeare. Charles expressed his concern that the angel was a mutant and that his acts could lead to the expose of mutants and suggested that someone should go into the city and try recruiting him.

Rogue volunteered herself and Scott, stating that she was getting tired of just sitting around the mansion. The pair went around town and spoke to different people who had interacted with or sighted the angel. While getting coffee, Rogue expressed her positive opinion of what she had heard of the angel and when Scott admitted that he believed the chances of finding Angel were pretty slim, Rogue brought up the pair being able to get out of the mansion and suggested they do something fun while away.

When Scott asked her what she had in mind, she recalled seeing a music store around there and reminded him that he still owed her a gift. Scott then told her of his past beliefs in a guardian angel looking over him and his brother all the years they had been separated from each other.

While in the music store, Rogue and Scott overheard two teenagers speaking about the angel and the pictures taken of him on the Brooklyn bridge. Angel had tried saving a little girl after she fell of the bridge and while succeeding in doing so, he was made to make her fall again by Magneto. The two went to the County Hospital, where they asked the workers at the desk about contacting her parents and they mentioned them praying at a church.

As they were given this information, Angel walked past them and dropped a feather while in disguise. Rogue saw this and the two chased after him but he flew away. Angel flew to the church where the parents were praying and Magneto confronted him. The latter tried to get him to join the Brotherhood, but Angel refused and Magneto tried capturing him. Rogue and Cyclops arrived and intervened by the latter shooting Magneto away long enough for the pair to free Angel.

Magneto returned and after Angel seemingly left, Rogue remarked that a simple thanking would have been nice. After Magneto was made to fall by Cyclops with assistance from a returning Angel, Rogue went up to him and absorbed his powers. As Magneto fled, Rogue gave chase and despite him using his powers to keep her at bay, she kept using his abilities to continue the pursuit. Magneto nearly killed her when he slammed a pillar into the Stark Enterprises building she was in front of, though she managed to get away before it could strike her.

She was hit by the impact and saved from possibly falling to her death by Angel, who she complimented and later spoke with alongside Scott. The pair pitched the X-Men as a group that was dedicated to using their powers for good and fitting in and Magneto's group of mutants as being particularly power hungry. Rogue, Scott and Warren watched the girl Warren had saved earlier wake up and speak of the angel to her parents, saying that he had come to see her. With that, a single tear came to Rogue's eye.

Hungan and Avalanche

Storm was hunted by Hungan, the latter having sworn to return her to her old tribe. Storm acted out during that time, unaware of his activity and Rogue spoke to Risty about this at school. The latter suspiciously mentioned her claustrophobia, which led Rogue to question how she knew about it and become suspicious. Storm was later captured by Hungan and the X-Men went to rescue her, having been pointed in the right direction by Nerombo. The group confronted multiple copies of Hungan and Rogue was hit when Nightcrawler teleported out of the way of an incoming spear.

She had to tear her costume to get away from it. After the group defeated the Hungan copies, Storm attacked them, having become possessed by Hungan. Spyke broke Hungan's staff, which contained Storm's consciousness and allowed her to regain herself. Spyke had previously been scheduled to leave the X-Men and return to his parents, but the act of quick thinking convinced Storm to keep him on the team. The group expressed happiness in him staying until he bragged about his heroism, to which the team playfully mocked him.

The X-Men confronted Avalanche as he arrived at the mansion at night. The latter announced his wishes to join the X-Men, surprising the lot. After he joined, he took part in a training exercise where he was supposed to save Rogue. However, his affections for and interest in Shadowcat led him to save her and also have Rogue remain the water. Cyclops helped her out and reminded Avalanche of his rule breaking. The latter indicated that he did not regret saving Shadowcat over Rogue as he held Shadowcat in his arms and Rogue pushed Avalanche, causing the pair to both fall in the water.

Bayville Sirens

Jean became disillusioned with being treated as the "weaker sex" and formed a group of female mutant fights, dubbed the "Bayville Sirens". Rogue joined the group after its founders Jean, Tabitha, Amara and Kitty, though in the process seemingly made Risty jealous. The group fought crime and became known as vigilantes. Scott figured out their identities by watching the five walk around together during school and scheduled for him and Kurt to follow the group during their next night out.

When Tabitha arrived at the mansion and honked the horn on Lance's jeep, the group shushed her and left the mansion. The group followed after a car stealer in his stolen ride and when he seemingly vanished, Rogue was the first to question what had become of him.

With Wolverine

Walking out of school with Kurt, Rogue expressed her belief that she had failed a history test and questioned why they had to study World War II in the first place. She was then pushed out of the way by a schoolmate and as he walked away from them, she commented on his impoliteness. He then insulted her and Rogue tried getting him to touch her, which would allow her powers to come into effect, but Kurt stopped him from doing so and had his Image inducer broken by the bully's grip.

The bully was surprised at Kurt's appearance and insulted him, with Rogue tossing in her own quips at him. Jean then came to erased the memory of Kurt's true appearance from the bully's mind and as Kurt teleported away, both she and Rogue knew he was depressed. After returning to the X-Mansion, Rogue and Nightcrawler noticed the lights flickering on and off, quickly discovering the cause to be that of Cerebro at full power. The two ran off to "scope it out" and dropped in on Wolverine and Charles.

After the latter could not find Magneto and revealed he had "no idea" where he was, Rogue tried speaking but cut herself off. Wolverine noticed this and Charles had her to come in. Rogue revealed that when she touched Magneto in New York City when he tried kidnapping Angel, she obtained some of his memories and one was of a big metal dome buried in rocks in the Sahara Desert.

Wolverine asked for her to be more specific and Rogue expressed her belief that she would be able to recognize landmarks if she came along and outright said to Wolverine that he would not be able to find the dome if she did not accompany him. Nightcrawler joined them in going to the Sahara Desert due to his teleportation being believed by Charles as a means of getting inside the dome. As the three journeyed to the dome, Nightcrawler called for an official briefing and Rogue referred to Nightcrawler and herself as a "team of two", which caused Wolverine to recall his times with Captain America.

Mesmero

Mesmero began using Jean to act out his deeds of stealing rings. The X-Men were initially unaware of this and went out looking for her.

Dimensional gates

The X-Men were all summoned for a test of Nightcrawler's powers. Rogue met up with Shadowcat as she was walking to the elevator and they began to speak of the upcoming Sadie Hawkins dance. Shadowcat asked if she had asked out Scott yet and warned her that Jean would move in on him. Rogue had not and recalled her dance with Cody as reason for her not attending the dance. Though Shadowcat tried to reassure her by stating that Scott would not touch her since he was aware of her powers, Rogue expressed her disillusion with dancing and not being able to touch.

Jean then caught up to the two and after Shadowcat questioned why they had to be in attendance for the test, Rogue correctly guessed and uttered Jean's explanation as she was stating it herself. Rogue later watched as Taryn asked Scott out and after Risty pointed this out to her, she claimed that she was not going to go in the first place. When Risty suggested that the pair go together, Rogue denied doing this on the explanation that she did not want to "look like a loser" and assured Risty that she did not mean to insult her.

Rogue then had a change of heart and the pair decided to go. Rogue was present at Nightcrawler's next test with his powers, conducted by Forge. Nightcrawler revealed his intentions to teleport to Bayville High's gym to "check out" the decorations for the dance, to which Rogue and Shadowcat turned to each other and smiled afterward. He was accompanied by Wolverine and the pair's trip caused the gym to be the grounds for the dimensional gate that Nightcrawler left behind him to allow the creatures from his teleportations out.

As Rogue arrived at the dance, Risty was talking to Jean and approached Rogue right after seeing her. Rogue was surprised by Risty wanting to "troll for boys" and recalled their previous arrangement to just go to the dance, but was dragged along by Risty. As the dance got underway, the dimensional gates opened around the school and the creatures that Nightcrawler encountered during his tests with Forge came out. Rogue tried to get Risty out of harm's way and later confronted a creature by herself.

She tried getting it to touch her, so she could absorb it, but Risty stopped the creature from getting any closer to her and the pair started to run from it until Forge shot it and caused it disappear as he arrived with Scott, Kitty, Jean, Evan and Lance. The group took off following this and Risty questioned Rogue on who Forge was. The creatures were all returned to their dimension by Forge.

Mutants revealed

Charles visited Wanda Maximoff in her mental facility and determined that she could not join the X-Men due to her instability. Mystique then cut their meeting short while posing as a member of the facility's faculty and broke her out. She took her to the Brotherhood and the team joined her at a mall. Rogue was contacted by Charles over this and went to confront the Brotherhood with the X-Men. The group decided to split up. They were individually confronted by members of the Brotherhood. Toad grabbed Cyclops's visor off of his face and Rogue absorbed him, allowing her to return the visor to Cyclops. The X-Men soon were confronted by Wanda, who used her powers to influence theirs. The group was defeated and retreated, being met by Charles outside.

Following the defeat, the X-Men were put through training by Charles, who used several robots in the Danger Room to shoot down members of the group to test their ability to dodge. Rogue was shot during the training and complained about having to train after sitting near the others that were shot. Ultimately, the X-Men all performed horribly during the training session and the entire group was recalled by Charles, who introduced them to the Brotherhood, who he referred to as their new teammates. Cyclops left due to this and the X-Men and Brotherhood left to confront Magneto.

The X-Men were all sent falling into a hole by Magneto, along with the Brotherhood and encountered Bolivar Trask and his men. Once Trask sent out a Sentinel to fight the X-Men and Brotherhood, the two teams were sent back to the surface by Magneto and fought the robot together as they were filmed using their powers by cameramen, exposing themselves as mutants to the entire world. The Sentinel trapped members of the two teams in a green substance that hardened around the person who was shot by it. Rogue and Shadowcat were both shot, though the latter managed to get out while Rogue was taken captive by arriving authorities.

Personality

Rogue had a tough demeanor and was quick to voice her opinions on others, usually in a manner that was not nice and more outright than anyone else. Underneath her exterior, she was troubled by her powers not allowing her to touch others. Her other traits originated from her trying to hide how saddened she really was over knowing that for the rest of her life, she would never be able to touch others.

This was often a reason she thought against attending social functions, which did nothing but remind her of her ability's disability. While she gave off the impression that she did not care about what others thought, that turned out to not be the case, as she often expressed how others would feel about what ever she did.

Her dislike for Jean Grey was deeply rooted in her growing affection for Cyclops. She and Jean were complete opposites and Rogue openly displayed her disdain for the attention Jean received from her abilities and achievements. Despite this, Rogue was able to recognize the latter as a good person and tried saving her when her powers went out of control, which showed her ability to compartmentalize her views on Jean and the reality that she needed to be helped. Rogue did not fail to remember that Jean tried appealing to her when she first gained her abilities.

Rogue did not mind using her powers on those who pushed her, despite knowing the harms it could do to a person, and has been known to bait others into touching her in order for her to absorb them through their own ignorance of her abilities. This spoke of her lack of concern for others, at least those who she felt wronged her. She was compassionate about the well being of others and would openly use her powers whenever the lives of non-mutant humans were threatened. This extended to mutants as well, as she was shown to be very concerned when she believed she had potentially killed Nightcrawler.

Powers and abilities

Rogue's ability to absorb the powers and memories of any person by a single touch made her the powerhouse of the X-Men after she joined. When absorbing a person, she has been shown to gain aspects of their personality or traits from them, such as the physical traits of Sabretooth, Nightcrawler's speaking of the german language, and Shadowcat's way of speaking.

In a few instances, Rogue snuck up behind an opponent to absorb their powers without much resistance and at one time partnered with others to serve as a distraction the subject or help her in some other capacity. She typically makes use of the mutant's abilities shortly after absorbing them, such as when she used Avalanche's, Nightcrawler's, Storm's, Quicksilver's powers all after having just gained them.

Doing this, has been shown to have mixed results, as Rogue does not understand the powers of mutants as well as they do, given it is their own ability and not hers and they have spent more time using it and getting accustomed to the ability. Right after absorbing Nightcrawler, she was able to teleport around. However, when using Storm's powers, she was demonstrated as being particularly confused by them. Apart from her powers, Rogue was shown to have an average intellect.

Trivia

• Rogue and Jean are the only members of the X-Men to wear green.
• Rogue and Cyclops are the only members of the X-Men to fight every member of the Brotherhood at least once.
• Had a fifth season been produced, it has been said that Rogue would have begun a romantic relationship with Cyclops following Jean's transformation by the Phoenix Force.
• Rogue is the only main female X-Men who does not have an open-toed shoe as part of one of her outfits.
• Rogue appears in every episode of the first season after her introduction.
• It was implied in "Rogue Recruit" that Rogue's pale skin tone is a product of her powers.
• Despite starting off with the Brotherhood, Rogue never actually fought with the group against the X-Men.
• Rogue's hair may have served as inspiration for the appearance of Jean Grey in Wolverine and the X-Men.