"By The Goddess": The Official Storm/Halle Berry Discussion

What I wish we could see is flying and air battles, but watching Spider-Man and the Matrix make me realize it would probably look very fake and very stupid.

I'll go with more lightning strikes, those are always neat.

 

Yes but if Bryan Singer does it right, they won't look fake and stupid. Maybe (in movieverse) Storm hasn't flown at all and doesn't kow that it's part of her powers. It could happen in X3 and amaze everyone.

 

In X1, it was lightning.

In X2, it was tornadoes.

In X3...gotta go bigger, so I say flying, or something really massive.

 

A whirling vortex of destruction full of ice shards and punctuated by flashes of lightning. Imagine a squad of sentinels getting peeled apart like tin cans, with electrical discharges and shorting exposed cicuitry throughout the image.

 

i want everything on da list!!

 

More lightning would be cool. Maybe this time around see her fire a lightning bolt/ static charge? from her hands, instead of summoning lightning from a cloud like we saw in X1.

 

i would like her to fly and do some air battles.

 

In Neverwinter Nights a wizard's spell called "Ice Storm" causes a massive rain of icicles to pummel an area.

It might be itneresting to see Storm do something like that.

 

^Would hail suffice?

 

I don't know, what makes using the spell so cool is watching all the ice shatter around you in clouds of glowing, blue-white frost, it's definitely one of my favorite visual effects in the whole game.

I think hail might end up not looking to different from the snowy wind Storm throws at Sabretooth in X-Men or the "ice-clone" she makes to chill Jason and the Professor out of Cerebro mode in X2.

But it does seem like Storm summoning more real life weather effects than shooting ice or lightning from her hands like in the comics is a trend in the films, and I like that.

So I'm still sticking with idea of some more lightning-summoning and maybe (only if it could be made to look amazingly life-like) flying.

Come to think of it, though, for some reason simply hovering/levitating manages to look fairly good on film (while flying does not) perhaps a sequence where Storm creates an updraft and floats up on it to hover really high in the sky, then channels a massive lightning bolt through herself into something else?

Other manifestations of lightning, like ball lightning and chain lightning might also look good.

 

^ When I mentioned her discharging electricity or static through her arms I was thinking of a quick shot in X1 in which you see currents coursing through her body. In fact when she comes out of the elevator shaft you can see some sparks emanating from her, so it wouldn't be that much of a stretch from what has already been seen.

 

I definitally agree with this. I know that a lot of people, including myself, would really love to see Storm go all out and fly in this movie.
The thing is.... Singer has already shown her character to have a lesser degree of control than is needed for the total "peter pan" type flight. The comic/cartoon fans know that Storm can fly because she is the all powerful master of weather and is able to use air currents to move herself through the air. Fans of the movie alone, however, don't know this. The character given to Storm in the movie is more toned down. She has control of wind currents and such; but only to the extent of flying up an elevator shaft.
If anything, I agree with Phoenix Fire in that they should just have her levitate herself up into the air and summon the weather. I think it would both look really cool and also be justifiable as far as the physics of it all go. I do think, though, that they will take advantage of her ability to hover short distances and show a lot more sequances of her doing so.

 

I think if they include Storm in X3 that they'll definitely have her doing something we've never seen before..

I think flying with lightning bolts may be a bit of a stretch, but with some imagination and the right effects, it could look dazzling,..

-TNC

 

If she does fly, it's have to be done very nicely done...

LIke, she can't just hover, or fly straight. People would critize it like made.

It'd be cool if she formed a twister around her, with lighting coming out of her eyes and crackling all over her body. She'd have to rise in a circular pattern, following the stream of the air, until she was in the center, still wavering and rising up and down. Then the twister moves, and Storm moves along with it...

 

I voted fly and air battle. I do also wanna see Storm throw lightning bolts out of her hands. She can create lightning in the comics. Flight and lightning are things she is well known for doing.

 

That would look really great. That's kind of like what i'm thinking will happen. As long as they don't just give her free reign of flight; ala phoenix style; it will look really great.

 

I jist want to see her create a malestrom- showing the true fury of the storm. Raun, wind and lightning- that would be a great scene to have her fly in too. She's be in complete control of the wind and lightning so she and the storm would be acting like they were one. it could be awesome.

 

I wanna see it like really overcast and rainy and then she makes it sunny out! I think it'd be really cool to show her make it sunny and then say "there, that's better", then she dies cause the villian kills her while she's looking at the sun.

 

Since every time she's used lightening its came from the sky..
(Sabertooth, Toad, Nightcrawler) i doubt its going to come out of her hands next. I think Singer is just having it more believable in that way. Her powers arent evolving like Jeans are.

I would like to see a hail storm or ice nails or something like that occur.
Also if they break into a high security building she could create fog to make alarm lasers visible (ie. 1st x-men cartoon episode).

But basically I dont think most character's powers, that we've seen, would get more powerful. Just my 2 cents

 

She did that in the first movie, as they are approaching the Statue of Liberty she creates a thick fog to conceal the plane.

 

Yeah, so here's a list of things Storm's already done, to make it easier for us to dream up new things:

* Wind gusts - on Sabretooth when he attacks Wolvie's truck in X1, Toad when she glides out of the elevator in X1, part of waking the Professor out of Cerebro in X2.

* Lightning strikes - one Sabretooth in the trainstation in X1, Toad in the Statue of Liberty in X1, Nightcrawler's perch in the church in X2.

* Mist - To cover the jet's approach on Liberty Island in X1.

* Tornadoes - To throw off pursuit in the X2 dog fight.

* Cold - she summons icy winds inside Dark Cerebro in X2.

* Flight - she glides up and out of the elevator shaft in X1, nothing big.

* Thunderstorm - she summons one of these at the end of X2 to help intimidate the President of the United States, though we don't see much.

Some new ideas:

* Rain - though originally intended to summon rain to put Pyro's burning police cars in X2, it was decided that Rogue would solve the problem instead. Ergo, Storm has yet to visibly use rain to any effect.

Perhaps she could use rain, then cold, then wind to trip people up like she did to Jean in the beginning of X-tinction Agenda?

Other uses I can think of are as a visibility reducer or for quenching fires.

* Flying/Air Battle - a more grand sequence in which Storm manages to somehow fly would probably be appreciated by many. I still say it would have to be doen very, very carefully, though.

So far we've discussed her floating skyward in an updraft or lifting herself up in a tornado.

* Hail/Ice Storm - kind of like her antics in Dark Cerebro in X2 but more focussed on pummeling something with chunks of ice.

Hail can be pretty darn big sometimes - like tennis balls and grapefruits. Maybe she can beat someone down with it.

* Chain Lightning - a rare occurence when a stroke of lightning seems to break up into separate beads of electricity which persist for a short period of time.

This might be a neat effect, but it could also just seem strange to those who haven't noticed real chain lightning before.

The more typical understanding of the term "chain lightning" - lightning which jumps from target to target might look better. Just seeing her channel one stroke of lightning through several targets would also be cool.

* Ball Lightning - the actual existence of Ball lightning is scientifically unrecorded, and its verity is debateable. "It is reported to occur with or right after a nearby lightning stroke and is described as a luminous ball of light that floats along fences, rooftops, or through the open air. The jury is still out on ball lightning."

It might be interesting to see this, but it sounds kind of like chain lightning to me, and as its is scientifically unverified, it might be best to leave alone.

 

I'm really warming up to the hail idea.

 

OK minus the idea of her death; I think that would look really cool. I mean the character of Storm portrayed in the movie would do that kind of thing. Great idea!!!

 

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