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Real Name: Unrevealed (Marie?)
Occupation: Adventurer
Legal Status: None
Identity: U.S. citizen with no known criminal record, sought by SHIELD for murder (a charge for which she was framed)
Identity: Secret
Place of Birth: Unknown location in Caldecott County, Mississippi
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: None
Base of Operations: Great Central Desert, Australia
Past Group Affiliations: X-Men, former member of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants II
Known Powers:
Power Absorption: Whenever Rogue touches another character, flesh-to-flesh, she absorbs that person’s memories, any talents and powers, and even some degree of the victim’s personality. Each round of contact gives her these abilities for 4 rounds. As long as Rogue possesses a victim’s powers, that victim goes into a catatonic state and cannot be awakened. For each round past the first of contact, Rogue must make a Psyche FEAT roll or she totally absorbs the victim’s memories and powers, leaving the victim a mental blank. Each time Rouge absorbs another personality in such a manner, her Psyche is reduced one rank. When it reaches Feeble, she goes insane and becomes an NPC.
Rogue’s power works uncontrollably on anyone she comes in contact with. She can absorb more than one victim simultaneously, giving her the highest ability scores and most useful powers of those available. To some degree she also takes on the appearance of those victims she absorbs who are visually distinctive. For instance, while using Nightcrawler’s powers, her skin becomes the same color. Her mass remains constant, however, so she cannot duplicate gross physical appendages such as the Angel’s wings or the Blob’s sheer mass.
Rogue cannot absorb powers from non-humans, including artificial and mechanical beings. It should be noted that Wonder Man, a being of pure energy in human form, is beyond her ability to affect.
To date, the only individual whom Rogue has completely absorbed is Ms.
Marvel. All of Rogue’s other powers are those of Ms. Marvel.
Flight: Rogue can fly at Excellent Air Speed (10 areas/round).
Body Armor: Rogue has Incredible protection against physical and energy attacks.
Metabolic Resistance: Rogue has Amazing resistance to drugs and
disease.
Combat Sense: Rogue has a “seventh sense” that allows her to
make an Incredible Intuition FEAT roll to sense danger and react appropriately.
The power works automatically and no Karma can be spent on the roll.
Split Personality: The presence of Ms. Marvel’s thought and
memories provides Rogue with CL1 000 protection against mental probes and direct
attacks (although not related effects such as Illusions). If she is in a
situation familiar to Ms. Marvel but not herself, Rogue must make a Psyche FEAT
roll or Ms. Marvel’s personality becomes dominant for 110 minutes.
Talents:
Rogue speaks Russian.
Contacts:
Rogue was adopted by Mystique of the second Brotherhood of Evil, and considers the woman her mother. She is still on good terms with Mystique, as the latter realized that she could not help Rogue with her uncontrollable power. Mystique currently believes her to be dead, however.
Role-Playing Notes:
Rogue tends toward cockiness, but has matured during her time with the X-Men. She is straightforward and prefers direct attacks. She is extremely sensitive to the possibility of coming into contact with other people, preferring to rely on her Ms. Marvel abilities in combat. Originally viewed with suspicion by the other X-Men, she is now a core member of the new group.
History:
Very little is known about Rogue’s life before she discovered her superhuman power, not even her real name. She grew up in Caldecott County, Mississippi, near the banks of the Mississippi River. One day she was kissing a boy named Cody Robbins under a tree by the river. When she kissed him, he fell unconscious, and she discovered that her mind was filled with Robbins’ memories. Unable to shut them out, she fled. After a while, Robbins’ memories faded away in her mind, but this is how Rogue began to learn that she had developed the mutant power to absorb a person’s memories and abilities by touching him or her with her bare skin. Moreover, she learned that she could not control this ability. Rogue joined the second Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, whose leader, Mystique, came to regard her as a surrogate daughter. (The second Brotherhood became known as Freedom Force after Rogue left the group.) Mystique assigned Rogue to ambush the costumed adventurer known as Ms. Marvel (the original, now called Binary) and to absorb the latter’s superhuman powers so that Rogue could use them in an attempt to free other members of the Brotherhood from prison. Rogue battled Ms. Marvel and absorbed her memories and superhuman powers, but something went wrong, and the transfer became permanent, rather than temporary, as is usual with Rogue. Hence, Rogue now permanently possesses the superhuman powers, and memories of the original Ms. Marvel, and Carol Danvers, the first Ms. Marvel, has permanently lost those powers (although, with the aid of Professor Charles Xavier, she has regained most of her memories). In absorbing Ms. Marvel’s powers and memories, Rogue, going temporarily insane, threw the defeated, unconscious Danvers from the Golden Gate Bridge, the site of their battle. Danvers, however, survived.
As a member of the Brotherhood, Rogue battled the X-Men, the Avengers, the original Spider-Woman, the Dazzler, and Rom. However, Rogue was anguished over the fact that she could not control her absorption power. Moreover, she feared she was going insane because she could not rid herself of Carol Danvers’ memories and emotional patterns, and often was unsure whether her emotional reactions were her own or Danvers’. The Brotherhood was unable to provide her with sufficient help, and so, in anguish, she begged Professor Charles Xavier, mentor of her enemies, the X-Men, for aid. Xavier admitted her into the X-Men on a provisional basis, but she quickly proved herself to be a loyal, brave, and capable member of the team. She is now a full-fledged member of the X-Men, regarded as a friend by her teammates. Although she has still not learned how to control her absorption power (if indeed it is at all possible for her to learn how to do so), the emotional support Rogue has found from her fellow X-Men has greatly helped her state of mind.