radioboy121
Senior Member
Storm
-------
The problem with Storm was that she was created in a team, that therefore will not inherit all the attention as would another who had their own solo line. Be it that she was in a humane group, she was in practically most circumstances constricted to limiting her abilities that may pose a danger to the people around her, including her teammates.
---Ghost Character---
As said before, she was most often constricted by the scenario she was in that didn't allow her to use the fullest of her powers. Often times, she was shown in smaller enclosed places while other times she would be riddled with many anonymous bystanders. As her powers were relatively boundless in the way they can be described or illustrated unlike many of her teammates, she was often left to handle only a few adversaries and forgotten for the next X number of pages. Sometimes when a large group who she could probably inflict heavily upon showed up, they either ignored her character completely (i.e. first encounter of Imperial Guard, they never even showed her participation), or cancelled her such as taking her powers away earlier (i.e. Avengers vs. X-Men, she was only human) or temporarily killed off (i.e. she was taken out of the pictures when the Reavers showed up). Sometimes, even when single adversary was shown, they conveniently took her out of the picture as Sauron did when he approached her from behind to drain her powers while she was relaxing leisurely.
For such reasons, her powers tend to seem relatively reduced to many people.
---Damage Level---
Unfortunately, she hardly ever uses the full extent of her powers, so it's difficult to evaluate her limits. She often uses her offensive powers at very reduced limits as she does not wish to kill. People have been heard to survive a lightning attack, but there are many different strength levels of lightning attacks as well as the size of them. She has been illustrated to create ones that would be more in resemblance of a static electricity shot, while others close to the width size of a smaller office building.
There is a substantial difference to hurricanes and a tornado. Hurricanes cover a larger area, but tornado are concentrated and therefore more damaging to the area it focuses. When she has showed the use of the power, it was often to use as a transportation means for her and her teammates, while other times just to shift a combatant away, but not destroy. Tornadoes are not as often used, but hurricanes have only been shown to be ineffective when a personal is defined as immovable (i.e. Juggernaut), or they do not follow the physical bounds of law to permit them to follow a different reasoning (i.e. Proteus at being pure energy).
---Flight, Reaction Time---
Storm isn't the fastest flyer, but the best classification is she is a dedicated flyer, and therefore extremely skilled at flying. Being a slower flyer hasn't necessarily been a hinderance for in many other fights, she has shown to use many tricks to be evasive. Reaction time is fickle, as in a fight, her attention is already devoted to her adversary and this should not be a problem, as she faced many opponents with extremely fast speeds before. She has often fallen prey when she was attacked unexpectedly (i.e. flying brood who attacked her after she rescued a damaged plane), but has not always been taken down at just purely fast opponents.
My main concern in a fast flying opponent is not just speed, but flight manueverability. We have seen countless times in comics where a fast speeder might actually overshoot/miss their target of an opponent who is much slower (i.e. Stinger evading and hitting a rushing Superboy). Other cases is mind reaction faster than overall speed, such as Gladiator being taken down by dubious clone Professor X who was only a few feet away. In a fight, Storm would be already aware of the intention of an attack and she doesn't need mental telepathy to know that.
Also on the side note, Thanos did not have enhanced foresight in the first offensive of Infinity Gauntlet, as his purpose to Death was to prove that he can win without the awareness, he became susceptible to sudden attacks such as Wolverine, or of course, Silver Surfer's surprise attack. He only regained his godly insight after his realization of his nearly fatal mistake.
Wonder Woman vs. Thor, Hulk, Juggernaut, Superman to Storm
----------------------------------------------------------
Two keys that they all have is a strong durability and super strength. This will therefore classify how they would be shown if they ever fight. Storm, however uses her storm conjuring in a fight like this and therefore wouldn't resort to physical fights against a heavyweight, unless it all comes down to that.
The difference to some of these other adversaries are this:
Thor has his Mjolnir that gives him a great advantage. This hammer has implanted with it many powers both in close and long distant ranges from teleportation, storm attacks, etc. And also, he's a true god.
Juggernaut has proven to be extremely durable and has only consistently be taken down through mental attacks - a thing that Storm cannot do.
Superman is not overall better in most categories such as strength and speed to Wonder Woman, but also he has x-ray vision to compensate for visual changes as mist and rain, and of course, he has an energy projectile through his eyes.
Hulk is strong, but he can only jump far distances. While in the air, he can be knocked out of course as shown many times, so he's not the best comparison as he lacks the versatility of the others.
Legitimacy outside of comics in an argument
-------------------------------------------
Comics are created by writers who sometimes change a character. However, bios and statistics correlate with the optimal conditions of all the different variations made by the writer, making them illegitimate sources. The Marvel Universe reference guides are a prime example, while Wizard is an evaluation of opinions and they have shown to be bias. Websites are no different.