Rogue (comics)

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Rogue's name

Rogue was one of the few comic book characters whose real name has never been revealed. This has been an increasingly controversial topic, especially in recent months. In the film X-Men, Rogue claims to Wolverine that her name is Marie. She appears to be living a typical teenager's lifestyle with a couple that are credited with the last name of D'Ancanto and call her Marie, but the last name is not confirmed as Rogue's in the film itself and no history of the couple is provided, so no information is known for sure as to what relationship they are to Rogue or what her "real" name is in that history. Rogue is simply called "Rogue" throughout the movie, even by Wolverine, as she had always been in the comic books.

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After the movies, X-Men writer Chris Claremont introduced a non-super-powered human character named Marie D'Ancanto in the series X-Treme X-Men, in which Rogue also appears. In this series, Rogue and Gambit had both lost their powers for a while after a battle in which Rogue saved Gambit's life. They had left the X-Men and Rogue was found by some fellow team members living a "normal" life and having taken up the alias of "Anna Raven". A movie poster of Anna Paquin's Oscar-winning film, "The Piano", filled an entire wall of Rogue's home and she tells her friends she is "going by" the name of "Anna". Later, a solo Rogue series provided the answer to this dilema. While she went on a mission to her birthtown, Caldecott, Mississippi, she finds her aunt, who suddenly calls her "Anna Marie". This name is confirmed to be her real name in the sixth issue when she appears in dream realm called "the Far Banks", on which she found out that the queen of the realm, who is no other than her real mother, named her by the same name that her aunt did in the first issue, "Anna Marie". In yet another alternate reality, the comic Ultimate X-Men has Rogue giving her real name as "Marianne" in issue #53. While various comics, cartoon series, and movies she has been referred to as Anna, Anna-Marie, and Marie.

Related Topics:
X-Treme X-Men - Ultimate X-Men

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