Firestorm (New 52)

*"Are you kidding me? With the power I have, I'm going in there with guns blazing!"*

## **Summary**

**Firestorm** is a unique and powerful superhero (Sometimes heroes) in the DC Comics universe, formed by the fusion of two individuals, football upstart **Ronnie Raymond** and up-and-coming physicist **Jason Rusch**. When exposed to the energies of the Firestorm Matrix, the duo merges into a single being with the ability to manipulate matter and generate nuclear energy, becoming the Nuclear Man known as Firestorm. Though this fusion was attained after their original use of their powers made them both into two incomplete Firestorms. As Firestorm, Ronnie and Jason possess an array of extraordinary abilities, including matter transmutation, energy projection, flight, and superhuman strength. They must work together to control their powers effectively, with Ronnie providing the raw power and Jason contributing his scientific knowledge and expertise. In the New 52, Firestorm's character undergoes several changes, including the details of their origin story, their relationships with other characters in the DC Comics universe, and their involvement with various teams and organizations. Throughout their adventures, Firestorm faces numerous adversaries, such as Multiplex, Killer Frost, and the Crime Syndicate, while also forming alliances with other characters, including fellow members of the Justice League and the extended superhero community. The dynamic between Ronnie and Jason is central to Firestorm's character, as they learn to work together, balance their personal lives with their superhero responsibilities, and master the incredible powers granted by the Firestorm Matrix. As Firestorm, they consistently demonstrate their resourcefulness, resilience, and determination, making them a formidable and fascinating presence in the world of DC Comics. In the Prime Earth New 52, Firestorm's storylines explore the challenges of their dual existence, their ongoing battles against powerful enemies, and their struggle to control and understand the full extent of the Firestorm Matrix. Eventually, Jason Rusch loses his connection to the matrix, and **Dr. Martin Stein** takes his place as Ronnie's partner in the Firestorm entity.

## Incomplete Ronnie Raymond

### Debut

Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men #1(November, 2011)

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Beats back some soldiers before Jason is held at gunpoint.
* Tackles another Firestorm through the side of a stadium and through a bus, and smears him across a road.
* Knocks back Pozhar with a punch.
* Jason and Ronnie clashing causes a blast that destroys the nearby area, the blast large enough to completely encompass the lake and nearby forest.

#### Energy Blasts

* Blasts Jason through a concrete wall, then blasting some hands that are grabbing his feet made from the floor and then blasting his way out of the school.
* Blasts Helix, the blasts reaching far into the air.
* Disintegrates the torso of a rogue Firestorm with a blast.
* Kills off a bunch of rogue Firestorms with a spiral blast.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks being stomped to the ground by Helix, thrown into the air with a swing, and then slammed back into the ground.
* Tanks being smacked into the ground of a stadium hard enough to create a crater.
* Tanks being slammed into the ground face-first by Pozhar, then kicked around.
* Survives falling from high into the air into the ground while being depowered.

#### Explosive

* Unaffected by a Firestorm self-destructing, the blast destroying an entire stadium.

#### Transmutation

* Resists being withered to dust by Pozhar.
* Survives being used in an experiment to draw on his Firestorm powers, the moment he is disconnected disintegrating his hand.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Dodges gunfire from multiple shooters.
* Dodges gunfire from some windows that come at a surprise.
* Jason and Ronnie brawl while quickly flying through the city.
* Blasts away some missiles from an anti-air gun, although the dozens of missiles eventually overwhelm him.
* Ronnie, Pozhar, and Rakshasi take on an army of rogue Firestorms.

#### Travel

* Causes sonic booms when he flies away from the debris of a failed mission.

### **Misc:**

#### Nuclear Fire

* Approaching a hotel in anger causes much of the building, the area, and the parked cards to ignite and suddenly burn. When he ends up in a pool, the water starts to boil almost immediately.
* Flying into a lake causes the lake to be immediately boiled into vapor.
* Creates a new hand to replace his lost one with one made of energy.

## **Complete Ronnie Raymond**

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Ronnie and Jason avoid attacks from Helix before fusing, Firestorm then easily flying circles around him when not dealing with trying to manage two sets of thoughts at once.

### **Misc:**

#### Nuclear Fire

* Burns a metal locker with a punch when his powers are slowly reawakening.

## Incomplete Jason Rusch

### Debut

Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men #1(November, 2011)

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Knocks some security on their asses.
* Jason and Ronnie clashing causes a blast that destroys the nearby area, the blast large enough to completely encompass the lake and nearby forest.
* Flips August General in Iron by tugging a carpet he made under him.

#### Transmutation Constructs

* Captures some soldiers in a metal snake, earth hand, and barbed wire rope.

#### Energy Blasts

* Disintegrates a rogue Firestorm with a blast.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks being sent flying by a swing from Helix and then slammed back into the ground.
* Tanks a punch from Ronnie while both are depowered.
* Tanks being tackled by Firehawk in the air and then clashing with her.

#### Explosive

* Unaffected by a Firestorm self-destructing, the blast destroying an entire stadium.
* Tanks being blasted by August General in Iron, handling it better once he sees it coming.

#### Transmutation

* Disintegrates bullets coming at him.
* Telekinetically controls the earth under a girl to lift her up to take her to a hospital.
* Tanks an energy blast from a rogue Firestorm.
* Creates an energy shield to block blasts from Scorn.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Dodges gunfire from multiple shooters.
* Disintegrates bullets coming at him.
* Jason and Ronnie brawl while quickly flying through the city.
* Jason and Firehawk fight in the air, the two flying above the clouds in the time it takes for them to have a short conversation.
* Creates an energy shield to block blasts from Scorn.

### **Misc:**

#### Inorganic Transmutation

* Creates hands from the floor of the school to grab Ronnie's feet.
* Turns guns to roses.
* Blasts a couple of soldiers, atomically dismantling all of their clothes and gear.
* Turns a bullet in a girl's head into oxygen.
* Turns guns to broomsticks.
* Turns some terrorists' guns into balloons.
* Jason and Firehawk working together are able to turn an explosive blast that is about to blow up the Eiffel Tower mostly into roses. Much of the blast still going off to destabilize the tower. Then turning the ground under August General in Iron into a carpet. Then flash-freezing a rogue Firestorm.
* Creates a decoy to distract Firehawk while he flies away.

#### Organic Transmutation

* Helps some flowers bloom, then using the earth to lasso an old lady carrying radioactive material.

## **Complete Jason Rusch**

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Ronnie and Jason avoid attacks from Helix before fusing, Firestorm then easily flying circles around him when not dealing with trying to manage two sets of thoughts at once.

### **Misc:**

#### Inorganic Transmutation

* Accidentally turns lab gear and a girl's phone to balloons when he accidentally reawakens the Firestorm powers.

## **Fury**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Throws a school bus at fleeing soldiers.
* Helix and Fury brawl for a while, mostly even until Fury manages to rip his head off.

#### Atomic Whips

* Slices a soldier's arm clean off with a whip.
* Decapitates Helix.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Helix and Fury brawl for a while, mostly even until Fury manages to rip his head off.

#### Piercing

* Seemingly unbothered by being shot by a rifle.

### **Misc:**

#### Physiology

* Is created when Ronnie and Jason fuse without the ability to fully control their powers.

## **Raymond/Rusch**

### **Defense:**

#### Energy

* Gets knocked out but is not that physically harmed by the blast he made from turning Helix into a bomb, the blast large enough to light up a chunk of the planet.

Tanks a blast from Deathstorm but is made unstable.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Ronnie and Jason avoid attacks from Helix before fusing, Firestorm then easily flying circles around him when not dealing with trying to manage two sets of thoughts at once.

#### Travel

* Travels from the ground to the outer atmosphere to blow up Helix in a short time.

### **Misc:**

#### Organic Manipulation

* Surrounds Helix in ice, contains him in a ball, shrinks him to fit within his palms, and then blows him up in atmosphere, the blast lighting up a chunk of the planet.

* Detects a sliver of Kryptonite that was implanted in Superman's brain by examining him.

#### Firestorm Matrix

* Deathstorm disrupting his Matrix makes him accidentally absorb the rest of the Justice League and allies in the area except Batman and Cyborg.

## **Helix**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Stomps Ronnie to the ground and sends Jason flying with a swing, then sends Ronnie flying with a swing., then sends both flying back into the ground with a slam
* Helix and Fury brawl for a while, mostly even until Fury manages to rip his head off.

### **Defense:**

#### Energy

* Seemingly no-sells being blasted by Ronnie.

#### Blunt

* Helix and Fury brawl for a while, mostly even until Fury manages to rip his head off.

## **Pozhar**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Sends Ronnie and Jason flying by landing near them, then slamming Ronnie into the ground face-first, then sending him flying into a boulder and cratering it.
* Rips the roof off a building.
* Rakshasi and Pozhar brawl.

#### Energy Blasts

* Blasts apart a shipping plane.
* Destroys and disintegrates multiple other Firestorms with ease.
* Blows away Rakshasi with a blast.

#### Transmutation Constructs

* Impales another Firestorm with a metal sickle made from the air.
* Captures Jason in vines.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* Tanks punches from another Firestorm.
* Tanks hits from Ronnie.
* Rakshasi and Pozhar brawl.

#### Energy

* Tanks being blasted by Rakshasi into a shipping container.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Bullies Jason and Ronnie at the same time.
* Takes on an army of Firestorms himself with ease.
* Rakshasi and Pozhar brawl.
* Ronnie, Pozhar, and Rakshasi take on an army of rogue Firestorms.

### **Misc:**

#### Inorganic Transmutation

* Creates a metal sickle from the air.
* Disintegrates much of the compound and the equipment in the lab used to experiment on Ronnie

#### Organic Transmutation

* Causes another Firestorm to rupture and fade into dust from a wound.
* Hits another rogue Firestorm with a transmutation that causes him to wither to a skeleton and then dust in seconds.
* Creates and grows vines from the earth to capture Jason, then forcibly depowers Ronnie.
* Withers away a couple of Firestorms and a scientist experimenting on Ronnie.
* Turns another civilian to dust.

## **Scorn**

### **Defense:**

#### Energy

* Tanks blasts from Jason.
* Tanks hits from Jason, Hurricane, and Firehawk at the same time.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Fights Jason on even ground.
* Takes on Jason, Hurricane, and Firehawk at the same time.

### **Misc:**

#### Physiology

* Is created from the fusion of Ronnie and Pozhar.

#### Organic Transmutation

* Sets Hurricane to explode and wither with a hit.

## **Firehawk**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* Tackles Jason in the air and carries him into the air.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Jason and Firehawk fight in the air, the two flying above the clouds in the time it takes for them to have a short conversation.
* Tackles Jason away from a falling steel beam from the collapsing Eiffel Tower.
* Catches up to and stops Jason as he tries to fly to Ronnie.

### **Misc:**

#### Energy Manipulation

* Absorbs a ball of energy that Jason creates.
* Creates a horse made of Firestorm energy.
* Jason and Firehawk working together are able to turn an explosive blast that is about to blow up the Eiffel Tower mostly into roses. Much of the blast still going off to destabilize the tower.
* Recreates and manipulates Dr. Stein's lab equipment to try to learn how it all worked and what was being done.

## **Hurricane**

### **Misc:**

#### Inorganic Transmutation

* Transmutes parts of the Eiffel Tower to stop it from collapsing from a blast.

## **Wrath**

### **Output:**

#### Physical Strength

* OMAC and the Wrath Firestorm brawl until Wrath disappears from instability.

### **Defense:**

#### Blunt

* OMAC and the Wrath Firestorm brawl until Wrath disappears from instability.

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* OMAC and the Wrath Firestorm brawl until Wrath disappears from instability.

### **Misc:**

#### Physiology

* Is created from the fusion of Jason and Firehawk, the body made of energy.

## **Rakshasi**

### **Speed:**

#### Combat

* Rakshasi and Pozhar brawl.
* Ronnie, Pozhar, and Rakshasi take on an army of rogue Firestorms.