Firestar (Marvel Comics)

**Angelica "Angel" Jones**, also known as ***Firestar***, is a mutant who discovered her mutant abilities after a series of unfortunate events created great stress in her life. With her single father unable to cope with helping Firestar deal with her emerging powers, she was sent to the Xavier Institute.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Microwave energy generation:** Firestar has the ability to tap into the Earth's electromagnetic field and convert it into microwave radiation emissions, which she can utilize in different ways. Microwaves are comparatively short waves of electromagnetic energy. Firestar continually absorbs microwave energy from her environment, including microwave energy from the stars and continually broadcasts it at low levels.

* ***Microwave energy manipulation:*** In order to use her microwave energies for specific purposes, Firestar must mentally concentrate, thus causing the microwaves to swirl about her body, creating a visible aura around her. In order to project the microwave energy towards a specific target, she must mentally "push" some of the energy swirling around her towards her target. She can focus microwaves on a specific target and cause it to burst into flame, explode, or melt. She can also sense microwave signals, such as cell phone signals or even remote control devices, and disrupt electronics with her microwave emissions. The nature of Firestar's power grants her the capacity for large-scale destruction. However, she typically limits how much of her own power she accesses for fear of permanently damaging the planet, the atmosphere, and the electromagnetic field. In space, she is far less inhibited and can access greater levels of ambient electromagnetic energy to fuel her powers. She easily produced an attack that injured Garthan Saal when he possessed the energy of the entire Nova Corps and also used her enhanced abilities to power a massive Shi'ar interstellar transport gate with very little effort.
* ***Microwave heat emission:*** Firestar can use her microwave energy to generate intense heat. At this point, she can already melt a metal object the size of a cannon almost instantly. She has flown towards a thick wall of solid rock and melted through it so quickly that she could continue flying through the hole she had melted without pausing.
* ***Microwave flight:*** By super-heating the air around her, she can surround herself with an aura of flaming plasma, and if she project her plasma aura downwards in a tightly-focused stream, she can generate enough upward thrust to fly at high speeds. Her maximum speed has yet to be established, but she can already fly quite swiftly and maneuver in flight quite well. She can generate enough propulsive force to carry considerable weights to great heights at high speeds. For example, she has carried Colossus, in his armored form, which weighs about 500 pounds, high into the air.
* ***Microwave emission immunity:*** Firestar is apparently immune to most of the damaging effects of the microwaves she emits, although she did undergo tests with Hank Pym to make sure. Unlike most mutants, however, her immunity to her power is not complete; she was in danger of rendering herself sterile until a cure was discovered by Pym in the form of a special suit. Pym claimed it would take about six months for the process to be complete and, over time, Firestar appeared to be functionally immune to microwave radiation.
* ***Psionic disruption:*** On rare occasions, Firestar has demonstrated the ability to disrupt the psionic powers of others using her own power (namely, Emma Frost, Empath, and the Darkling). She is not immune to psychic assault, but when using her microwave abilities at a high level, she is capable of disrupting them though.

## Notes

* Firestar was once cloned by Mister Sinister. This clone was alos called Firestar.