Storm

Ororo Munroe was born in New York City as a Kenyan Tribal Princess to her mother the queen and her father an African American photographer. While living along the Suez Canal in Egypt her home was crashed into by a stray plane and her mother and father were killed. She was left buried for days under the rubble of the house and there she developed very intense claustrophobia. It is so intense that if left in a small room she will cower into the fetal position and have a breakdown. She is rescued by the theif lord Achmed, she becomes a very accomplished thief before moving to the Serengeti.
She becomes a member of a tribe in the Serengeti where she develops her powers to control the weather. She deveops these powers to a great exent and becomes worshiped as a rain goddess by the tribe. Then she becomes a member of the Xmen team.
She has the power to control all forms of weather over quite a large area of land and is known to use her powers when she gets quite emotional. Her power extends to catastrophic proportions and she can sometimes control entire ecosystems on a cosmic level. See controls temperature, all forms of precipitation, humidity, generate lightning and other electromagnetic phenomena. She also has quite a grasp over various atmospheric pressures. She incites forms of meteorologic tempests, like hurricanes, and tornados and she can also disipate weather.

She has also demonstrated the control over natural occurences such as solar winds, cosmic storms, ocean currents, and electromagnetic fields.

Storm becomes the deputy leader of the Xmen and Xaviers right hand. She is for a time outranked by Cyclops and for a time it portrays storm as being in love with Xavier but later is downplayed as a father daughter type relationship. After Xaviers death in the Xmen three movie, Cyclops has gone away because he is depressed over Jeans death, she then becomes the new leader of the Xmen school.

Iceman

The suave superhero we all ogle at in the xmen movies, iceman, is none other than Robert Drake. Also known as Bobby.
His mutant powers developed during his teenage years, he was on a date with his girlfriend when the school bully tries to ruin it by taking his girl. Bobby gets pushed in the chest so he pushes back and all of the sudden the other guy is frozen solid. After no way to explain how he did it, Bobby was taken down to the station where he was going to spend the night in a jail cell. He gets broken out by Scott and Professor X who then take him home. His parents decide that it would be best if he would go to the school for a while. That was the last time Bobby ever sees his parents.
Iceman has the power to dramatically lower the thermal energy of water vapor in his general area and thus it freezes into ice. He doesn't just create ice like people think and he can't conjure water he simple just lowers the energy of what is there. He can project an ice like armor around himself that he uses as defense against attacks.
During his time at the school Bobby falls for the mysterious and crazy Rogue. She can absorb someone else's power for a short amount of time, rendering them useless. There were many many problems during that relationship, arising from Bobby's fear to open up to anyone with Rogue's insecurities about touching people because it starts to take there ability to perform life functions.
Bobby during one of the rough patches in his relationship with Rogue, falls in love with Kitty and after seeing them ice skate together Rogue leaves the school and goes to get the mutant cure shot. Kitty and Bobby date for sometime before she finds out that he had started emailing Rogue again, then she dumps him. Rogue return to the school without her powers but with Gambits powers. They hook up now that they can further their relationship... they fall for each other again until Rogue's old powers return.
Iceman's biggest enemy is Pyro, a member of Magneto's team. Pyro has the power to control fire, though he can not conjure fire. They were previous best friends before they developed mutant powers and now they have conflicting interests. This a truly classical display of ice versus fire.

Nightcrawler

This is one of the coolest mutants of the x-men, he's blue and he's crazy.
Nightcrawlers actual name is Kurt Wagner and of course he didn't have any of his powers at the time, but he still had his blue appearance. He was found half-dead on the side of a street by his foster mother Margali Szardos, who turned out to be a sorceress and gypsy queen. His alleged father, Eric Wagner and mother where found a short distance away from him dead.
Later on in his life it was proven that his mother was none other than Raven Darkholme, aka Mystique, and his father was the warlord Azael. Mystique through Kurt into a river because a crowd had found out about him. He was saved by his father and given to the Margali, a lover of his fathers. Wagner was raised at the circus where his foster mother worked and was treated like a normal individual there despite his appearance.
He had a large amount of natural talent for acrobatics, and since his body was shaped in a way that he would be perfect he became the shows star acrobat. The people of the crowds loved him and assumed he was just a normal human in an acrobatic costume.
The circus came under new owner ship and the new owner hated Kurt, so he made him part of the circus' freak show where he was drugged in order to prevent escape. He escaped by the help of another mutant and went looking for his foster-brother who had gone insane. Kurt accidentally killed his foster brother while trying to stop his insane rage and was chased by a mob that blamed him for the recent killings of many children and women. Charles Xavier, leader of the X-men saved Kurt's life and asked him to join the X-men.
Kurt discovered that he had the ability to teleport. He practiced with his ability, and figured out that the larger distance he teleported the more tired he became and that he had to have a clear view of the spot he wanted to teleport in mind or he might end up teleporting inside a solid object and injuring or killing himself. When he teleported it left a small bang of air rushing into the rip that he had just created. With more and more practice he found out out that the teleporting drained less and less out of him.
Nightcrawler is an extremely religious man and a devout Catholic. Since he has blue colored skin that makes it really hard to attend masses without freaking everyone out. The x-men designed a tool that created a hologram that made him look like an actual normal human and he wears it when he attends church services. He wanted to become a priest but was denied a number of times.
Nightcrawler had two best friends in the mutant world, Kitty Pride, whom he used to date and Peter, also known as Colossus. Peter came out to Kurt in one of the later episodes and Kurt being uncomfortable with him being gay left for a time, but then returned and accepted him.

Sparring

For the first about nine months in your Tae Kwon Do life, your main goal is to learn the basics and be able to competently accomplish many of the various techniques the we use in Tae Kwon Do. You then set out on the journey of perfecting your technique. We are taught never to use our techniques on another person unless put in a life threatening situation or someone else is in need of our protection or help.

Sparring is one of my favorite Tae Kwon Do activities, there is nothing else like pushing yourself to the extremes. Finding out exactly how fast you are and how fast your opponent is. You learn to react off of your opponent so much quicker than you thought you could. Everything is a quick fluid moment. You must learn to relax in order to be the best that you can be.

You exchange kicks back and forth, like testing the waters. You need to learn about your opponents, find his flaws and see if he can find yours. You learn to counter off of him and you find out if he's as good as he says he is. When you finally sense a familiarity with his style, or he does with yours, that's when the battle finally begins.

You rush at him with all your might, hopeing to scare him with a show of your talent. If that doesn't work you try and try again, because if your opponent shows fear you've basically won the battle hands down. As you duck and dodge kicks, you might get kicked lightly but nothing to distract you from your goal. Bam, you get an opening in on him, you sense him losing track. You follow through with another kick and then another. He senses the battle is being leaned towards in your favorite, so he moves out of the way. Then it gets really dangerous because he starts to plot his revenge.

He at you know with not only technique and expertise, but with rage and other emotions. Hopefully he will over-do-it and let his emotions cloud his mind, but if not you had better get ready. You pinpoint the precise moment for you to make your move and as it comes, you lash out like a whip. Your feet tangle and it becomes a struggle for power and pride. The one that lasts the longest will win, and hopefully it will not be him. You see him tire a little and he sets his guard down a little. Suddenly he comes in with his last burst and then he's lost focus. You counter with some of your left over strength and then "Whack!" the match is won, you get your hand held high and you know that you still can play the game.

Everytime I spar, I learn more and more about myself and about how I can better myself. Not everytime is a winning time, and not everytime is a losing time. Sometimes the winner is actually the loser. When I lose I automatically motivate myself to try a lot harder the next time. I always take away something from my opponent and you will surely see me in class the next day trying to figure out what went wrong for me during that match, and I wil indefinately be improving on whatever I can, whenever I can.

Starfire

Starfire's true name is Koriand'r, she is a Princess of Tamaran, and is in line to become Queen. Her name Starfire is a translation from her true name. Her older sister, as an infant, developed a disease that did not allow her to develop her ability to harness solar energy and thus she lost her right to the throne. This harnessed her resentment for her sister and a very fierce sibling rivalry between the two. The two were sent off to be trained as fighters and during a sparring exercise Blackfire attempted to murder her sister and thus Blackfire was expelled from the school they attended. Blackfire then swore vengeance on Starfire.

Blackfire betrayed the Tamaran planet by telling of her her planets defenses to the Citadel, the Tamarans enemies. The Citadel crushed their planet and Starfire became her sisters slave. She ended up killing one of her captors and was ordered to be captured and executed, but fortunately her sister and her were captured and brought to a Psion research ship, where they were tortured as the slien scientists preformed numerous expirements on them. Starfire was able to escape from the ship, but she went back to save her sister even though her sister was trying to murder her. Her sister wasn't grateful at all and she attacked Starfire as soon as she was released. Thats when Starfire met up with the other members of the new teen titans and they helped her to kill off the people that were chasing her and trying to capture her.
Starfire also has a younger brother named Wildfire. During one of the episodes he was sent to Earth to live with Starfire, but kidnapped by Blackfire, she sent a villian in disguise as him to kill Starfire. Her parents died as a result of thinking that now they have lost both of their daughters.

In tv series Starfire is seen to have a crush on Robin, and their relationship is hinted at, especially when they kissed during one of the episodes. In the comic book series Starfire had already been married twice when Dick Grayson asked her to marry him. She agreed and they were set to be wed, but Raven, who was evil at this point murdered the priest on their wedding day and planted seeds of good in Starfire. Starfire was so overwhelmed by all of the bad she left Earth and broke up with Dick Grayson.

Raven

One of the most interesting characters of all of the Titans, she has to be my personal favorite Teen Titan. She was first introduced in the early 80's, she's an empath that can separate her soul self from herself and can control it with her emotions and mantra. Her life is broken into three different segments, her first life was spent on the temple Azarath, her second life she wore white robes and was known as white raven, her third life is her current life, where she has her young body back.

She is the half-breed demon daughter of a human mother, Arella, and the interdimensional demon Trigon, she grew up in an alternate dimension of Azarath. There she was taught to be a pacifist and to control her emotions, because if she showed any emotions her father would continue to gain influence over her. She formed a team called the new Titans, vowed to help her destroy her father before he could escape from his dimension to come over to hers. That was the whole point of the Titans, after a fall out with them her emotion ran ramped enough that her father was able to kidnap her and take her to his dimension. She was eventually rescued by the Titans and with the help of her mother was able to trap her father into an inter-dimensional prison where he has remained.

So she thought, Trigon was able to escape his prison and come to Earth where he then destroyed Azarath. Raven became posessed by Trigon, the Titans were then forced to kill her, but she was resurrected free of her fathers evil.

This became the era of White Raven, she was free of her fathers control and thus she began to use her emotions and she then learned that she had a certain amount of control over other peoples emotions, leading into a plot line of her seducing many of her lovers, including Dick Grayson and the evil Eric Forrester that was trying to use her soul self to regain his humanity. For a time she became posessed by her fathers old demon followers and she became evil, ruining the wedding of two of her friends, Starfire and her old lover Dick Grayson. She was then killed by the titans and her mother tried to create a new body for her.

In her current life, she was forced to leave the titans because of her messed up love for Beast Boy and she lied to the rest of the titans saying it was Beast Boy being not as good a leader as Nightwing.

Teen Titans

If you've seen the tv show "Teen Titans," you will see that dc has clearly been able to produce some well quality cartoons.

The tv series, that was started in 2003, was a huge hit amoungst kids in the US, it was based off of a string of comics back in the 80's. The series ran for five years but was cancelled at the end of the fifth season. There are two comic book spin offs of the series.

The series is based on the lives of five main superheros, Robins (Dick Grayson), Cyborg, Starfire, Raven, and Beast boy, and their was Tera for a season. The series is bascically about how the superheros deal with growing up and facing teenage issues and try to discover more things about themselves.

The Titans make base in the Titan Tower that is located off shore of some island. There they each have their own room and training area, plus a communitive dining facility and hq type area.

Allusions are made to many of the Titans identities, Robin is Dick Grayson, Cyborg is Victor Stone, Raven is Rachel Roth, Beast Boy is Garfield, and Starfire is Koriand'r. The names, while being tried to keep secret were slipped in a few episodes. The protection of their identities goes as far as them being seen sleeping with their costumes on. But they made very obvious allusions to the identities of Robin and Raven, such as the Trapeze scene of his families death being played over in the dreams of Robins and the fact that their has only been one person identified as Raven thus far.

In some episodes of Batman, when asked where Robin, or Dick Grayson was, Batman has replied, "With the Titans for some time."

In one of my favorite episodes of Teen Titans, when Starfire goes missing in another dimension, we see Robin break down and eventually become NightWing for some time. He tries with all his might to get Starfire back, he obviously has feelings for her and this plays a part in later episodes where allusions to a relationship between the two are made. Robin is not the only Titan that seems to have hooked up, many episodes are based on the pain beast boy has, when his "friend" Terra betrays him and the Titans to their enemy, Slade.

Nightwing

Robin and Nightwing, two of my favorite characters from all time. I've decided to do a sort of profile of both. The original Robin, Dick Grayson, was the sidekick of Batman for many years in the world of DC comics, before the character Robin was retired and later on Dick Grayson became Nightwing.

There have been multiple Robins over the course of the Batman series, my favorite being Dick Grayson, but the incarnations of this character afterwards were as follows, Jason Todd, who was murdered by the Joker, Tim Drake, retired, Stephanie Brown, the first female Robin, killed by the super villain, BlackMask, Tim Drake returns as Robin.

Dick Grayson and him family were originally acrobatic preformers that would travel city to city showing off their acrobatics talents. His talents were later used by him to assist the Batman as Robin. His family was brutally murdered but he was saved as a child by Batman and basically raised through all of his teen years by the Batman. His main goal was to avenge his family and help society better itself.

Nightwing branches off of the Dick Grayson line of Robin, after becoming more independent and rebellious towards Batman and not wanting to be a sidekick anymore, Dick Grayson exits the Bat Cave and becomes Nightwing, a very awesome looking character of the Batman family. He is probably my favorite of all of the superheros I've seen, though Green Lantern is up there.

Nightwing uses many different forms of marshal arts to fight bad guys, and many fighting techniques that he picked up from his mentor, Batman, he also uses long sticks which are called Kali sticks that have sheathes attached to the end of them. He is very sharp in the mind and is able to use his keen detective skills to get himself out of many traps.

Ya so basically i love cartoons too much to explain it, it might be actually abnormal. So I've decided to change the direction of my blog and make it so that I am focusing on one of the different sides of my life besides Tae Kwon Do and band, which get boring after a while. I'm going to post about my favorite cartoons/ superheros and do little many profiles of them.