Marvel Confirms Iconic Avengers Hero Is Rogue's Sister
Nicolas Ayala is a Senior Writer for the Comics team at ScreenRant, with over five years of experience writing about Superhero media, action movies, and TV shows.
Rogue has a new sibling figure besides the X-Men's Nightcrawler and Monet; and this time, it's an Avenger. Sibling relationships in Marvel are rarely simple, since shared bloodlines can create lifelong rivalries as often as they create unshakable bonds. Cyclops and Havok have spent much of their lives divided by their different approaches to leadership, while Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver have strengthened their sibling relationship through years of surviving persecution together, and Colossus and Magik have protected each other since childhood.
Rogue's relationship with Mystique and Nightcrawler is especially complex. Mystique became the closest thing Rogue had to a mother, and Rogue developed a profound attachment to her even though Mystique's influence pushed her toward increasingly dangerous choices. Mystique's affection was genuine in its own way, but it was influenced by an intense desire to manipulate Rogue. After joining the X-Men, Kurt Wagner was simply one of Rogue's fellow X-Men at first, but their friendship gradually developed into an affectionate sibling-like bond right as Marvel revealed that Mystique was actually Kurt's biological mother, making Rogue and Nightcrawler adoptive siblings in one sense and half-siblings through Mystique in another.
Rogue has long left her villainous origins behind, though certain reminders of her early days as an Avengers villain will forever stay with her, considering she derives her immense physical power from Carol Danvers.
Captain Marvel: Dark Past #5; Written By Paul Jenkins; Art By Lucas Werneck & Rod Fernandes
After giving him multiple chances to end the fight peacefully, Carol Danvers taps into her Binary form to defeat Desecrator and strip him of his strength enhancements in Captain Marvel: Dark Past #5. Having overcome the emotional pain of reliving her memories while fighting Desecrator, Carol visits her father's grave in order to close this chapter of her life for good. To her surprise, Rogue arrives with Emma Frost, and she offers to return her stolen memory of Carol's father to its original owner. Rogue had kept the memory of Joe Danvers telling Carol he's proud of her, feeling as though it was a memory of her own.
Carol refuses the memory and tells Rogue she can keep it, and finally, after so many years, Rogue and Captain Marvel fully leave their unfortunate first encounter behind to hug each other as sisters. Of course, Rogue continues to be an only child, biologically speaking, but she now finds a new sibling figure in Captain Marvel, who shares her deepest memory of her late father with the X-Men hero who once was one of her fiercest enemies. Meanwhile, Carol Danvers gains a new superhero she can trust when Jessica Drew a.k.a. Spider-Woman isn't around to help her.
Rogue Has A Large Non-Biological Family
Rogue Is At The Very Heart Of The X-Men
Rogue's evolution from a lonely, easily manipulated runaway into one of the X-Men's most self-assured leaders is inseparable from the family she built around herself. Rogue has forgiven Mystique for her manipulative upbringing, but developed a much closer bond with Mystique's biological son Nightcrawler, with whom she has lived countless adventures. Monet St Croix herself considers Rogue her spiritual sister, having fought together in various teams like Banshee’s X-Corps, a branch of the X-Corporation, and Krakoa's X-Corp. Their personalities can clash, but their years-long affection gives Rogue multiple connections that go beyond blood.
Rogue's relationship with Remy LeBeau has also connected Rogue to Gambit's own extended circle, while her years alongside the X-Men have given her mentor and apprentice relationships that continue beyond individual team rosters. Captain Marvel is perhaps her most complicated connection, since Carol Danvers' memories and powers were involuntarily absorbed by Rogue during their famous confrontation, leaving Rogue with Carol's identity in her consciousness for years. Their reconciliation in Captain Marvel: Dark Past finally quells Rogue's guilt and creates a new family bond, with Emma Frost as its witness.
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Captain Marvel: Dark Past #5 is now available from Marvel Comics
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