Anna Marie, better known as Rogue, is one of the main protagonists of 1992-97 animated superhero series X-Men: The Animated Series and its 2024 sequel series, X-Men '97, as well as a guest character in Spider-Man: The Animated Series.
She is a Southern Belle and mutant member of the X-Men, who can possess the uncontrollable ability to absorb and take the memories, powers, and energy of those she touches.
She is voiced by Lenore Zann.
Personality[]
Rogue is a beautiful, attractive, and smart woman with a great sense of humor, a heart of gold, an independent nature, and a lot of spirit. She is usually show to have an attitude of good-natured irreverence. Rogue sometimes referred to everyone including even her enemies as “hon” and “sugar” and spoke in a sassy Southern accent. She was also a bit of a flirt and flirted with any man she found to be her type such as Cyclops, Colossus, Archangel, and Spider-Man during her time as a hero.
She has proven herself to be a valuable asset of the X-Men and examples of her heroic deeds include her attempt to confront Magneto during his attack on Metro Chemical Plant, the crushing of the Sentinels in order to save Senator Robert Kelly’s life, the defeat of Mister Sinister and the Nasty Boys in Savage Land, the help she gave the other X-Men when they temporarily worked together with the Shi'ar Princess Lilandra to avoid the crisis involving the M’Kraan Crystal and the Dark Phoenix, and her three run-ins with Apocalypse.
Biography[]
X-Men: The Animated Series[]
Rogue was born, grew up, and went to school in the Southern United States of America. When she was thirteen years old she put her first boyfriend Cody in a coma for three days when her absorption powers manifested during her first kiss. After her father harshly disowned her for who she was and her being a mutant, Rogue ran away from home and wandered around for sometime. She was found in a bus station by Mystique, who was a powerful shapeshifter disguised as a middle-aged woman. She offered a meal and a hot bath to Rogue and she took her up on her offer.
Mystique, who Rogue called "Mama," adopted her and became the mother to Rogue that she had never known (unintentionally making Rogue Sabretooth’s stepdaughter as she and Sabretooth were together as husband and wife once). She fed Rogue, clothed her, kept a roof over her head, raised her, saw her as her own daughter, taught her how to use her mutant powers to absorb people’s abilities and memories and steal other mutants’ powers, and would have her steal Avalanche and Pyro’s mutant powers from them for practice. Through Mama, Rogue joined the Brotherhood of Mutants and worked alongside Avalanche, the Blob, Mama, and Pyro using her special abilities to steal documents and valuable weapons for several years.
In order to help Rogue gain control of her powers, Raven took her to an associate of hers, Magneto, who had set himself up in the Savage Land. Magneto agreed to help train Rogue, and she quickly became infatuated with him. The two began a romantic relationship after realizing that his magnetic powers allowed him to touch her. However, Rogue soon realized that their relationship could not bear the weight of their demons, prompting them to end things.
Hoping to enhance her adopted daughter’s abilities and get her nemesis out of her way once and for all, Mama set a nearly fatal trap for her arch-enemy the local super heroine Ms. Marvel. She had Rogue attempt to steal a jet and fly it out of the military base it was in and during the mission she encountered Ms. Marvel, who had come to stop them. Ms. Marvel and Rogue fought and once the superhero had retaken control of the jet from her, she grabbed her and held onto her for too long on Mama's orders. Rogue acquired enhanced reflexes, flight, invulnerability, and superhuman strength, after she had permanently absorbed Ms. Marvel’s superhuman powers and put her into a permanent coma. Unfortunately, she had also absorbed Ms. Marvel’s mind in the process. Rogue was nearly driven insane when Ms. Marvel’s mind began to attack her mentally and cause her to suffer from delusions of her haunting her in her waking state. Eventually they became too much for her to bear and in an effort to escape from Ms. Marvel and the knowledge of what she had done to her, Rogue ran away from Mystique. After this, Rogue left the Brotherhood. Professor X felt Rogue’s anguish and despair and contacted her telepathically and she found him. He was able to block her most painful memories including her unwitting assault of Ms. Marvel and restore her peace of mind, which quieted her. Rogue reformed and became one of Professor Xavier’s students and joined the X-Men. Mystique was furious to discover that Rogue was gone and vowed to get her back from Professor Xavier but she never did.
X-Men '97[]
Powers and Abilities[]
Rogue has the ability to absorb energy from other living beings by touching them as well as temporarily gain mutant powers and thoughts. However this makes it difficult for her to be in contact with anyone unless she has her gloves for protection.
After taking most of Ms. Marvel's powers permanently, it gave her the power of flight, superhuman strength and invulnerability.
Trivia[]
- In her green and yellow costume that has a leather jacket, Rogue is virtually interchangeable with her early 1990s incarnation in the original comics.
- It is shown that Rogue is in her mid twenties during the series.
- While it was known that she had been a member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants in the original show, in X-Men '97 added the arguably contentious retcon that she had a sexual relationship with Magneto, even though she would have been in her teens during it. Regardless, the physical intimacy was possible due to Magneto's power over magnetic fields that allowed him to nullify her involuntary absorption powers.
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