Ororo Munroe/Logan Howlett

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Pairing
Pairing: Ororo Munroe/Logan Howlett, Ororo Munroe/Logan
Storm/Wolverine
Alternative name(s): RoLo, Stormverine
Gender category: Het, M/F
Fandom: X-Men (comics), X-Men: Evolution, X-Men Movieverse, Wolverine and the X-Men
Canonical?: Yes, in some universes
Prevalence: Common
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"illustration of Logan on his knees looking defeated, Ororo also on her knees has her arms wrapped around his neck and shoulders, Logan has arm wrapped around her waist"
Ororo and Logan, fan art by LadyKenora (2007). The styling of Logan is based off his movieverse counterpart, while Ororo looks inspired by early comics. As of January 2019, this piece has over 5400 views on deviantart
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Ororo/Logan, also known as RoLo, is the het pairing of Logan Howlett (Wolverine) and Ororo Munroe (Storm) from the X-Men series and its adaptations. Well known within X-Men fandom, they appear to have reached the height of their popularity in the early 2000s, although, there are still many fans of the pairing.

With the constant changes within the comics fandom and the various adaptations many new fans are being introduced to the pairing, and are inspired to create fanworks that explore their friends to lovers dynamic, their domestic home life within the X-mansion, and various kinks.

Canon

In the early comics Logan and Ororo were often shown to have a flirty relationship. They even kissed once in Uncanny X-Men Annual #11 (1987), but their relationship never progressed beyond friendship. Many fans trace their love for the pairing to One Man's Worth, an episode in X-Men: The Animated Series, that showed Logan and Ororo in a romantic relationship in an alternative universe. A similar storyline was seen in the original movieverse, when once again, it was shown that Logan and Ororo were together in an alternative universe. The late 2010s comics storyline had Ororo begin a romantic relationship with Logan after her divorce from T'Challa.

Fandom

The peak popularity for this pairing appears to be the late 1990s to early 2000s, but there are still many devoted fans of the pairing, and newer comics storylines and adaptations often draws in new fans. According to AO3 in 2023, this pairing is the most popular het ship for Ororo and the third most popular het ship for Logan[1].

Common Tropes in Fanworks

  • Hurt/Comfort: there doesn't seem to be a strong preference for who experiences the hurt and who provides the comfort. Because they are both high powered mutants fans will often have to come up with creative ways to hurt them in their fanworks. Many fanworks will focus solely on the comfort aspect and have the pair comforting each other after canon or fanon traumatic events, or will be more about emotional hurt/comfort.
  • Friends to Lovers: because of their canonical friendship many fanworks explore the possibility of that friendship deepening.
  • Mundane AU: alternative universes where they do not have their mutant powers. It is not unusual to have all the X-Men still be friends in these stories, and Ororo and Logan would first meet under different circumstances.
  • Domestic Fic: their everyday lives as a couple, often living at the X-mansion and teaching at Xavier's school
  • Futurefic: where they are in an established relationship, sometimes married with children
  • BDSM: femdom is not uncommon. In some fanworks there is also the exploration of kinks, often with Ororo using her powers to control weather elements like temperature and electricity in the bedroom. It is also not unusual in fanworks to have Ororo cause spontaneous weather events during climax, like thunderstorms or snowstorms.
  • Jean Bashing: many stories will portray Jean Grey in a very negative light, often contrasting how poorly Jean treated Logan against how well Ororo would treat him

Terminology

Their ship name, RoLo, comes from combining two letters of each of their names, OroRO/LOgan. Who first coined the term is unknown, and although there have been other ship names throughout the years, this is the one most commonly used[2]

Fan Comments

I've always thought that there's an admirable level of trust and mutual respect despite having so many clashing ideals between them, giving them an understanding of each other that few others can claim to have. And because of that, I think they suit each other really well.[3]

One of the things I liked about the Storm/Wolverine romance is the complete lack of ‘smouldering desire/angst’ with a side order of animal lust it contained. It was an adult relationship between two people that respected and trusted each other, who had a romantic love born out of that mutual respect (and of course physical attraction. Sexual romance is hard to do without a reciprocal physical attraction).

In nearly every way it was the antithesis of Wolverine’s relationship with Jean, and different from most of Storm’s previous romantic entanglements too.

It was refreshingly simple, down to earth and adult. Very realistic, for a cape book.[4]

Fanworks

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Fanvids

  • Beyond Freedom by darkscanner, a mix of the different animated series and some comics
  • Patience by xxLornyTunesxx
  • Secrets by victorwonder, X-Men: The Animated Series, focused on "One Man's Worth"

Meta

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These mailing lists were on Yahoo! Groups and have since gone defunct:

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References

  1. ^ According to a search of the AO3 stats done for these characters on November 23, 2023
  2. ^ "fyeahstormandwolvie FAQ". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23.
  3. ^ "Fan, LycheeLoving. Storm and Wolverine Love Appreciation, posted 05 November 2014 to Comic Book Resources forum". Archived from the original on 2019-02-23.
  4. ^ "Comment by johnnylawgottagun on a fyeahstormandwolvie Tumblr post, Nov 21, 2014". Archived from the original on 2024-12-12.
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