Personality

Rogue is an uncertain and insecure teenager. She isolates herself from other people because of her mutant ability, which prevents her from making any physical contact with people as doing so will cause them to fall into a coma, an issue she mentioned to "Risty" unaware it was really Raven in disguise.

Rogue's isolation leads her to be petulant, sarcastic and alarmingly defensive. As a result of her isolation, Rogue has trouble trusting people. Since joining the X-Men, Rogue has become closest with her roommate, Kitty, and maintains a crush on the X-Men's field leader, Scott. A feat that is only one-sided as Scott already had feelings for Jean and eventually got with her, much to Rogue's dismay.

Slowly after getting over Scott, even though she still wasn't fully over him, Rogue found herself almost drawn to Gambit even aware he was allied with Erik. Both were orphans whose adoptive parents only sought to use their abilities for their own benefit rather than their "children". Due to their encounters often ending in trouble, Rogue and Gambit eventually settled on being just friends.

Despite her quiet and insecure nature, she is quite intelligent given that she was placed in the year ahead and put into classes with Scott who is just a year older than she is. When Hank recited a quote from Hamlet, Rogue was able to recognise the work by Shakespeare.

Physical appearance

Rogue is a goth girl with pale, white skin and a slender build. She has light grey eyes and auburn hair which has a noticeable white streak that goes down the front of her hair. She wears thick, purple eyeshadow that go around both of her eyes and has matching lipstick, she's 5'8. She also has a very thick southern accent.

Outfits

Rogue's original outfit consists of a sheer long-sleeved green blouse over a black halter top, a short black leather skirt, and black leggings. She wears thick combat boots and accessorizes with a thick, black choker with silver studs and matching bracelets on her wrists. To prevent accidental comas, Rogue also wears black gloves.

In her second outfit, she wears a dark, purple halter top, long purple gloves that come up to about her shoulders, and a knee length skirt covered with a white chain that hangs around her waist. She also wears knee high boots, and a light purple scarf around her neck that goes down to her chest.

Her third outfit is more of her style with a purple overshirt that is tied around the waist. Under it, she wears a darker purple vest with almost thick sleeves that go above her shoulders. She wears black jeans that tear at her knee caps. Her shoes are a pair of black and white trainers.

Her X-Men uniform consists of a dark, navy blue bodysuit. Gold platelets with the "X" logo are located on one of her shoulders while a green platelet goes around her bust area. A gold utility belt, also marking the "X" logo, goes around her waist, while small platelets protect her knees. Knee-high boots are worn for shoes, and thick, brown gloves worn on both hands.

Powers and Abilities

Rogue has the ability to absorb the life force, memories, personality, abilities and powers of other living beings through direct contact though the ability to do so is only temporary. The longer she spends in contact, the longer she retains and expands the absorbed powers. If the contact lasts for a long time it can leave its victim in a coma or possibly kill them. She can possess the powers of several superhuman people at the same time. No upper limit has yet been determined for the number of superhuman beings whose power she can simultaneously hold, or for the amount of power she can absorb such as when there was no limit to Fred's strength once Rogue absorbed his powers. Furthermore, she can keep previously absorbed memories and personalities buried in her mind and also store the absorbed powers and abilities, being able to access them at another time although this eventually lead to her losing control and all the identities of those she absorbed fighting to gain control. If they are a mutant, she also absorbs their powers such as being able to utilise Scott's optic blasts, Storm's weather manipulation, Pietro's speed, Mystique's shapeshifting, etc. One notable affect is that if she touches someone with a notable appearance such as Sabretooth, she will also gain some of those attributes such as the former's rugged appearance. Due to her ability, Rogue never leaves the Institute without her pair of gloves to prevent that from happening as well as wearing as much clothing as possible so she cannot do skin-to-skin contact with anyone. As of Dark Horizon I, she was able to absorb the powers of the X-Men, the Brotherhood of Mutants and The Acolytes though against her own will.