Firestorm (Jason Rusch) (DC Comics)

==Summary==
Jason Rusch was a seventeen-year-old living in Detroit, who wanted nothing more than to escape his home city. He lived with his father, who had turned abusive after he lost his hand in an industrial accident. His mother left his father sometime after the accident, leaving the young Jason with his father. With the loss of a job, he needed to fund college, Jason turned to a local thug for money, accepting a job as a courier. It was on that job that he encountered the Firestorm matrix, searching for a new host after Raymond's death. In the aftermath, Jason struggled to cope with his new identity and powers a struggle that led to the death of the man who'd hired him.
Firestorm was fatally wounded in the line of duty during Infinite Crisis, but Jason was rescued by Martin Stein, still alive in space as the Fire Elemental. Martin linked with Jason in a variation of the merge, promising him a new Firestorm body to let him return to battle. Accepting Martin's offer, Jason asked him to become the permanent second member of the Firestorm Matrix. Sensing his "errors", including Mick's death, were the result of his youth and lack of experience, he sought the experience and maturity of the elder Professor Stein. Martin refused at first, but Jason managed to find a spark of humanity in the distanced and apparently cold Martin, his sorrow for both Ronnie's death, and the deaths of a planet of aliens he had watched over. Martin finally accepted Jason's request, thus ensuring both a new Firestorm body and the reconstruction of human bodies for both Jason and Martin.
When Gehenna's father disappeared, she turned to Jason for help, as the only other person she knew. Jason agreed to help Gehenna find her father, only to find it was Henry Hewitt, the supervillain Tokomak. He had given Gehenna to the Society, knowing that Firestorm would rescue her and that in time, she would seek Firestorm out. In an attempt to restore his lost powers, Tokomak had arranged to set off nuclear explosions worldwide, intending to collect and absorb the energy into himself. Jason managed to stop him, leaving Tokomak on the verge of death.
==Powers and Stats==
Tier: At most | | . via Big Bang
Key: Firestorm (Pre-Infinite Crisis) | Firestorm (Post-Infinite Crisis) | Firestorm (Jason Rusch + Ronnie Raymond)
Name: Jason Thomas Rusch, Ronald Roy "Ronnie" Raymond, The Nuclear Man, Flamehead
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: At least 18 (Jason Rusch), 20's (Ronnie Raymond), 67 (Martin Stein), 7 (Gehenna)
Classification: Human, Metahuman, Matrix composed of two transmuted humans that fuse together, Member of the Justice League
Powers and Abilities: 
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|-|Firestorm (Pre-Infinite Crisis)=Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Multiple Selves (All types), Regeneration (Low-Mid if the person he's merged with doesn't get used up; Regenerated from being stabbed and being impaled through his chest), Flight, Fire Manipulation, Transmutation, Energy Projection, Matter Manipulation, Self-Sustenance, Heat Manipulation, Energy Manipulation, Absorption (Can absorb anyone near him into the Firestorm Matrix), Danmaku (Melted Killer Frost's ice instantly), Radiation Manipulation (Dampend radiation on a ship with a burst reactor), Enhanced Senses and Information Analysis (Can see the molecular structure of things), Biological Manipulation (Cured Killer Frost of a terminal illness by using another human as a template and superimposing the healthy parts onto herFirestorm (2004) #8), Statistics Amplification (Empowered Killer Frost), Ice Manipulation (Turned multiple Multiplex clones to ice), Power Absorption (Absorbed Killer Frost's powersFirestorm (2004) #10), minor Precognition (The Firestorm Matrix allows its hosts to access the past and future lives of the atoms within it), Shapeshifting (Capable of altering his own apperance), Resistance to Extreme Heat, Cold, Radiation, Telepathy (Martian Manhunter has difficulty reading his thoughts) and Matter Manipulation (Unaffected by a Particle Accelerator)
|-|Firestorm (Post-Infinite Crisis)=Same as before, Density Manipulation allows him Intangibility, Extrasensory Perception (Can see across different dimensional spectrums, so he can see invisible opponents), Telepathy (Phased into John Stewarts brain and established a psychic link), Earth Manipulation (Controlled the ground to hold Mammoth), Size Manipulation (Can shrink his size to a molecular level), Black Hole Creation (The feedback from affecting organic material unleashed a dozen or more wormholes that were trapping all heat in the vicinity in a quantum loopFirestorm (2004) #32)
|-|Firestorm (Jason Rusch + Ronnie Raymond)=All previous powers, as well as seemingly all the powers of Ronnie Raymond's Firestorm, Teleportation (Teleported to the Anti-Matter universeBrightest Day Vol 1 #10)
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Attack Potency: At most Solar System level (More powerful than Ronnie ever was.Firestorm (2004) #12 Temporarily downed an OMAC drone,Firestorm (2004) #18 which are durable enough to take attacks from Superman, Supergirl, and John Stewart. Seemingly took out Black Adam in an explosionVillains United #4) | Solar System level (Fought and defeated an amplified Kalibak, who casually stomped Orion.Firestorm (2004) #35 One-shot CheetahJustice League of America Vol 2 #15) | Solar System level (Should be superior to Ronnie and Jason's Firestorms individually). Universe level via Big Bang (If agitated, there is a higher chance of Firestorm triggering a Big Bang, destroying everything in the universe)
Speed: Massively FTL+ combat speed, Sub-Relativistic flight speed (Can fly from another planet to the Moon in a brief amount of timeFirestorm (2004) #5) | Massively FTL+ combat speed (Comparable to Orion), Sub-Relativistic flight speed | Massively FTL+ combat speed, Sub-Relativistic flight speed
Lifting Strength: Unknown | Unknown | Unknown
Striking Strength: Unknown | Solar System level (Hurt Kalibak) | Solar System level
Durability: Unknown (While weakened, took a beating from the Royal Flush gang) | Solar System level (An energy blast from Firehawk does nothing) | Solar System level. Universe level when unleashing a Big Bang (When agitated, the Big Bang he generates comes from his own body, destroying the universe but not himself)
Stamina: Superhuman (Able to fly extremely long distances without getting tired) | Superhuman | Superhuman
Range: Standard Melee Range physically. Several Meters with Fire Manipulation. Several Kilometers with Fusion Blasts | Standard Melee Range physically. Several Meters with Fire Manipulation. Several Kilometers with Fusion Blasts | Standard Melee Range physically. Several Meters with Fire Manipulation. Several Kilometers with nuclear blasts. Universal with the Big Bang
Standard Equipment: None Notable
Intelligence: Average. Jason is an average high school student. Martin Stein is at least a Genius, as one of the most intelligent scientists on the DC Comics version of Earth. Ronnie Raymond is a successful high school student. Gehenna is a child and most of her memory is fuzzy
Weaknesses: The person he's merged with is a backup power-source, which has the side effect of burning them out | None Notable | An agitated state will increase the chances of triggering a New Big Bang
Notes: 
*Before making any changes to this page, please read and follow the Power-scaling Rules for Marvel and DC Comics.
*At emotional equilibrium, the chances of a Big Bang are near zero. If agitated, the chances are one in a million, maybe one in a hundred thousand.
*Due to Ronnie's and Jason's merging as Firestorm having limited appearances before the New 52, he is unable to scale to those he did prior.
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==References==
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