Firestorm

A superhero and a member of the Justice League.

## Description

### Appearance

**Firestorm** was created in a nuclear accident that caused the fusion of the teenager called Ronald 'Ronnie' Raymond (a high school junior) with the more elderly Professor Stein to make "the world's first nuclear-powered superhero". Firestorm speaks with the voice of Ronald and has his personality, but the Professor still exists as a voice and image in his (Firestorm's) mind and with whom he talks out aloud. He wears his traditional red-and-orange costume and has the appearance of a normal person except that there are flames issuing from his head in place of hair perhaps to indicate that there is something of an ongoing nuclear reaction about him. The fire is sometimes heard to make a rustling sound.

### Personality

He is one of the series' comedy characters and as a person is young and very talkative but his conversation can be beside-the-point. Firestorm is inexperienced which often leads him to make mistakes that he has to correct, or just get into situations that he cannot handle, leading him to seek the Professor's technical advice. He often cries out, "The heat is on!" when going into action, and can be referred to as the "Nuclear Man", though Harley Quinn prefers "Sparky".

### Powers

Firestorm's power is said to be, "the ability to manipulate matter at the sub-atomic level," and he adds that he, "rearranges molecules." On a limited scale, he can effectively change anything inanimate into anything else that is inanimate and, although he cannot transform living matter, can manipulate anything else that is organic. For instance he can make a gun dissolve into sand or a concrete block turn into marshmallows, and to make a substance that he is not familiar with (like alien kryptonite), he only needs to study a sample. More frivolously, he can create a slice of pizza from thin air and eat it. Most of this is done by projecting yellow energy beams (sometimes preceded by images of the atomic symbol) from the palms of his hands at the target.

For something more substantial - like an area of ground - he needs to touch it directly. He is also able to absorb energy and make use of it, e.g. he can intercept ray blasts and redirect them back at their source.

Firestorm can pass through an object like a wall or a window without damaging it by reforming it behind him, but sometimes melting a large hole is simpler.

He is able to float in the air - presumably by manipulating its molecules - and can fly at speed using jets of flame issuing from either his heels or the entire rear side of his body and legs.

Firestorm is occasionally seen in his original form of Ronald either in flashback or during a temporary split with the Professor.

The union of these two is explained as a "system" (but not a 'matrix' as elsewhere) and as such can be hacked into by Mister Terrific's 'T-Spheres'. This causes the split which is reversed by the two characters simply making contact.

### Relationships

Stargirl twice shows a romantic interest in him, and although he responds there is no on-going liaison between them. At another time, he flirts with the villainous Killer Frost who knows him beforehand and calls him "Stormy".

## Appearances

6. Nuclear Family Values
18. Field Trip
20. Freezer Burn
23. Double Cross
25. Garden of Evil
29. Mxy's Mix-Up
34. The Cube Root
37. The Ringer (cameo)
38. Forget Me Not
45. Race Against Crime (cameo)
Short 3. Chemistry
Short 4. Good Cop, Bat Cop
Short 13. True Colors