Rogue's Real Name
Rogue was one of the few comic book characters whose real name had never been revealed, until decades after her first appearance. This was a controversial topic for years. In the films X-Men, X2: X-Men United, and X-Men: The Last Stand, Rogue's real name is Marie and she lives with a couple with the surname of D'Ancanto. In the comics, her chosen name (according to X-Treme X-Men #31) is Anna Raven when her powers are inactive (Raven Darkholme is Mystique's name). The readers came close to finding out her name in X-Men #24 (when she was about to reveal it to Gambit on a date), but the Cajun stopped her before she could finish her sentence.
In the "Going Rogue" arc of her 2004 ongoing series, Rogue's real name is finally established as Anna Marie. Rogue reaches her childhood home of Caldecott County, where her surviving maternal aunt and the shamanistic incarnation of her mother repeatedly refer to her as "Anna Marie"; Gambit also refers to her as "Anna" instead of using the traditional "Rogue," and uses a complete name of "Anna Raven" when asking a motel employee for Rogue, though it could be an instance where Rogue has chosen the surname "Raven" as an alias. Regardless, Rogue learns her true given name at birth was "Anna Marie" from the absorbed memories of her aunt, who helped raise Rogue with Rogue's father after Rogue's mother vanished from their home. Rogue acknowledges the name uttering: "(Anna Marie) Th-that's my name...," right after a shamanistic doppelgänger of Rogue mentions it, and later she says: "I-It's me. Anna," once after finding Gambit in the dream world. Uncanny X-Men 517 and 526 uses the complete name of "Anna Marie" Rogue repetitively, respectively when describing her fighting against Predator 006 at Utopia and before a mission aboard the X-Jet to Alaska; X-Force 26 also does so, and Secrets of the House of M states for Rogue's file the first name of "Anna Marie" and the last name of Darkholme, although the latter again is referring to Mystique's last name. Furthermore, her profile in the latest edition of the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe lists her real name as Anna Marie.
Chris Claremont has also used the name "Anna-Marie Raven" in reference to Rogue in non-diegetic establishing text in X-Men Forever, although it is not clear whether or not the team knows her name, as they do uniformly refer to her as "Rogue."
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