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Here is a look at the six X-Men members who the Black Vortex empowered, and how it increased their powers.
6) Storm
Up first is Storm, one of the most respected leaders in X-Men history. On her own, she is an Omega-level mutant and one of the most powerful in history. She has powers over the weather, and there is no limit to what she can do concerning the elements. She is also a goddess, and that makes her powers even more impressive. With the Black Vortex, she was shown powers on an even greater scale.
When Storm looked into the Black Vortex, she saw herself wielding more powers than she ever imagined. In reality, she became the Goddess of Thunder. She could ride solar winds between stars in space and had enough power inside her to destroy entire worlds. However, Storm is an incredibly disciplined hero, and she rejected the power and tried to convince everyone to destroy the Black Vortex.
5) Beast
If any X-Men hero had the highest chance to be swayed by the Black Vortex, it is Beast. No formerly beloved hero fell harder than Beast in Marvel Comics. From the moment he used time travel on the young X-Men and stranded them in the present to the moment where he decided to attempt genocide as the leader of X-Force, Beast became the most corrupted X-Men hero in ages.
Beast’s thirst for knowledge and scientific curiosity is greater than any morality he once had, so his idea of empowerment by the Black Vortex was hard to shake. Beast looked into the Black Vortex while his teammates were debating destroying it. He gained the ultimate intelligence, the ability to see the entire multiverse and the nature of reality. It was a rare chance where he realized he was in the wrong and rejected the Black Vortex.
4) Angel
Archangel has accepted great power before. When he lost his wings as a member of X-Factor, he was almost killed in a plane bombing and was saved by Apocalypse. When offered to become a Horseman as Death, he agreed to become an Archangel, and it changed him forever. He had another chance with the Black Vortex.
However, this wasn’t the Angel who gave himself to Apocalypse. This was the time-displaced Angel, the one that Beast stranded in the present. He submitted to the Black Vortex and gained more power than before, with wings of cosmic energy that turned him into fire. Unlike Beast and Storm, he kept his powers and became very similar to Archangel. Kid Cable finally showed up and saved him, taking his powers away and returning him to his own era.
