Marvel Comics/Firestar

**Firestar** (Angelica "Angel" Jones) is a mutant from *Marvel Comics*.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Electromagnetism Manipulation:** 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. Firestar continually absorbs microwave energy from her environment, including from the stars, and continually broadcasts it at low levels.

In order for her to use her microwave energy for specific purposes, Firestar must first mentally concentrate, thus causing the microwaves to swirl about her body, creating a visible aura around her. In order to project the microwave energy around her towards a specific target, she must mentally "push" some of the energy swirling around her towards that target. She can focus her microwaves on a specific target and cause them to burst into flame, explode, or melt.

The nature of Firestar's power grants her the capacity for large-scale descruction. However, she typically limits how much of her power she accesses out of fear of permanently damaging the planet, its atmosphere, and the electromagnetic field. In space, she is far less inhibited and can access greater levels of ambient electromagnetic energy to fuel her powres. 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.

* **Heat Generation:** Firestar can use her microwave energy to generate intense heat. At this point, she has shown able to 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 right through the hole she had melted without pausing.
* **Flight:** By super-heating the air around her, she can surround herself with an aura of flaming plasma, and if she projects 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 metal form high into the air.
* **Electronic Disruption:** She can also sense microwave signals (such as cell phone signals or even remote control devices) and disrupt electronics with her own microwave emissions.
* **Power 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 Darkling). She is not immune to psychic assault, but when using her microwave powers at a high level, she is capable of disrupting it though.
* **Radiation Resistance:** 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 own 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 become functionally immune to microwave radiation.

## Equipment

* **Firestar Uniform:** Firestar wears a full-body sheath of microcircuitry designed by Hank Pym that is worn under her uniform. This suit siphons off and absorbs excess microwave emissions to protect her physiology from her own radiation that was affecting her cells and diverted it in such a way that would "kick start" her natural immunity to her powers.