Rogue is one in all the most recognizable X-Males characters in popular culture right now, due to her distinctive absorbing powers as a mutant. (To not point out, the world’s want to like a troubled southern belle with skunk hair.)
The primary X-Males film immortalized the risks implicit in Rogue’s energy set in a dramatic scene the place a teenage Anna Marie kisses a boy, just for her mutant powers to activate when their lips contact, leaving him incapacitated moments later. In Marvel Comics, Rogue’s absorbing powers had been the supply of a lot nervousness for her for the first few many years of her profession, as a result of she continually nervous about by accident hurting individuals she cherished via bodily contact. That mentioned, Anna Marie additionally grew to become one in all the most formidable mutant fighters after she absorbed Carol Danvers’ powers in her very first look again in 1981’s Avengers Annual #10, after which later, Marvel Man’s. Fortunately, nonetheless, these days of unintentional siphoning are behind her.
The author of Uncanny X-Males, Gail Simone, confirmed on Bluesky that Rogue’s present powers are “Simon’s” (referring to Simon Williams’ Marvel Man), however that “she has a tiny little bit of Carol [Danvers] nonetheless in her.” Simply to provide you a refresher, Rogue absorbed not solely Marvel Man’s powers, however his complete being in Uncanny Avengers #21 by Rick Remender and Daniel Acuña, since Simon is made up of solely ionic vitality.
This was half of a bigger dialog a few panel from Simone and David Marquez’s Uncanny X-Males, the place Gambit and Rogue are spooning in mattress, unbothered. A fan requested whether or not Rogue’s powers are activated “pores and skin to pores and skin,” to which Simone responded, “She gained management of her siphoning years in the past.”
Simone and Marquez’s Uncanny X-Men trade paperbacks have been promoting nicely, and followers have been loving how Simone has written Rogue and Gambit’s relationship.