| Ronnie Raymond | Pre-Crisis • Post-Crisis • Arrowverse • Justice League Action |
|---|---|
| Jason Rusch | Post-Crisis |
| “ | When People see me. They probably think, "What a lucky guy. he's the nuclear man. he can fly through walls. He can zap metal into plastic, water into wine. He can do anything he wants, anything at all." I wish. When you got power like mine...You don't own your life anymore. If you want to help people, you do it on their time, not yours...When they need you, not when you need them. That's just the way it is. There've been times when I was tired, times when playing "Hero" was the last thing I wanted to do...Times when I just wanted to be alone with my girl, watching a movie or taking a walk... And I'd hear a cry for help... And what else could I do but answer it? Sure, I want the glory, but if the glory stopped tomorrow, your honor, I'd still answer that cry for help. Because I've got this power. And if I didn't use it to help people... How could I face myself? | „ |
| ~ Ronnie Raymond during his trial. |
Summary
The original Firestorm was distinguished by his integrated dual identity. High school student Ronnie Raymond and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Stein were caught in a nuclear accident that allowed them to fuse into the "nuclear man" Firestorm. Due to Stein's being unconscious during the accident, Raymond was prominently in command of the Firestorm form with Stein as a voice of reason inside his mind. The banter between the two was a hallmark of their adventures.
After the accident that created him, Firestorm took to defending New York from such threats as Multiplex (created in the same nuclear accident that produced Firestorm) and Killer Frost. His list of enemies also included such generally forgotten foes as the Hyena, Zuggernaut, Typhoon, Silver Deer and Black Bison. Their adventures began with the teenaged Raymond adjusting to his newfound role and later delved into the issue of the nuclear arms race and Firestorm's role as an "elemental." Upon graduation from high school, Raymond entered college in Pittsburgh, where Stein had been hired as a professor.
After the Crisis, Firestorm was pitted against the world, as the hero, acting on a suggestion from a terminally ill Stein, demanded the United States and the Soviet Union destroy all of their nuclear weapons. After tussles with the Justice League and most of his enemies, Firestorm faced off against a Russian nuclear man named Pozhar in the Nevada desert, where they had an atomic bomb dropped on them. When the smoke cleared, a new Firestorm was created who was made up of Raymond and the Russian, Mikhail Arkadin (the Russian superhero Pozhar), but controlled by the disembodied amnesiac mind of Stein.
Raymond was killed during the Identity Crisis. During a battle with Shadow Thief, Raymond was impaled by the Shining Knight's sword, which the Shadow Thief had stolen. The magical sword ruptured the containment field, resulting in Firestorm's body exploding and his residual essence funneling into the body of Jason Rusch, the new host of the Firestorm Matrix.
Following the events of Brightest Day, a revived Ronnie Raymond and Jason Rusch are able to fully bond with the Matrix, reaching a final stage.
Powers and Stats
Tier: 10-A | 2-C | 2-C. 3-A via Big Bang
Key: Ronnie Raymond | Firestorm (Ronnie Raymond + Other Person) | Firestorm (Jason Rusch + Ronnie Raymond)
Name: Ronald Roy "Ronnie" Raymond, Jason Rusch, Flamehead, Clemens, Cliff Carmichael, Doreen Day, Jefferson Jackson, Louise Lincoln
Origin: DC Comics
Gender: Male
Age: 20's (Ronnie Raymond), 67 (Martin Stein), At least 18 (Jason Rusch)
Classification: Human, Metahuman, Matrix composed of two transmuted humans that fuse together, Member of the Justice League
Powers and Abilities:
Limited Teleportation, Transformation and Fusionism (Via Instantaneous Fusion; Elements tied to the Firestorm Matrix can transform from their normal human forms into Firestorm)
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Flight, Fire Manipulation, Transmutation, Energy Projection, Matter Manipulation, Telepathy, Self-Sustenance, Heat Manipulation, Energy Manipulation and Absorption, Forcefield Creation, Danmaku (Melted Killer Frost's ice instantly), Density Manipulation allows him Intangibility, Extrasensory Perception, Enhanced Senses and Information Analysis, Explosion Manipulation, Air Manipulation (Suffocated Multiplex, and his clones), Sleep Manipulation (Can fire out blasts that can put someone to sleep), Earth Manipulation (Controlled the ground to hold Mammoth), Biological Manipulation (Cured Killer Frost of a terminal illness by using another human as a template and superimposing the healthy parts onto her), Ice Manipulation, Power Nullification (Cancelled out an energy blast), Size Manipulation (Can shrink his size to a molecular level), Power Absorption (Absorbed Killer Frost's powers), Resistance to Extreme Heat and Cold
All previous powers, as well as seemingly all the powers of Jason Rusch's Firestorm, Teleportation (Teleported to the Anti-Matter universe[1])
Attack Potency: Athlete level (Is a trained athlete) | Low Multiverse level (Should be comparable to Wonder Girl) | Low Multiverse level (Should be superior than 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[1])
Speed: Athletic Human, Speed of Light with Instantaneous Fusion (Their fusion process occurs at the speed of light[2]) | Massively FTL+ combat speed (Able to react to Darkseid's Omega Beams), Sub-Relativistic flight speed (Can fly from another planet to the Moon in a brief amount of time) | Massively FTL+ combat speed, Sub-Relativistic flight speed
Lifting Strength: Athletic Human | Unknown | Unknown
Striking Strength: Athlete level | Low Multiverse level | Low Multiverse level
Durability: Athlete level | Low Multiverse level (Withstood hits from Captain Atom) | Low Multiverse level (When agitated, the Big Bang he generates comes from his own body, destroying the universe but not himself[1])
Stamina: Superhuman (Able to fly extremely long distances without getting tired) | Unknown
Range: Standard Melee Range physically. Several Meters with Fire Manipulation. Several Kilometers with nuclear 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: Above Average. Ronnie is a successful high school student. Martin Stein is at least a Genius, as one of the most intelligent scientists on the DC Comics version of Earth. Jason Rusch is an average high school student
Weaknesses: Needs to concentrate really hard to know what structure he needs to make. Cannot affect organic matter, and if he tries, he gets harmed by harmful energy feedback | An agitated state will increase the chances of triggering a New Big Bang
Notable Attacks/Techniques
- Molecular Reconstruction: Firestorm has one main ability which all other stem from. Firestorm can break down and reapply subatomic particles as well as break up the molecular structure of elements and rearrange them. To do this the element must know the exact elemental make-up of the object or human. Most Firestorms cannot affect living tissue but it is possible though very unstable.
- Density Control: Firestorm has complete control over molecules and as such can change the density of solids, liquids and gases to as light as hydrogen or as heavy as uranium. Although he has direct control over an object's density he can use this ability on himself and only himself and affect living tissue to pass through objects.
- Matrix Memory Recall: Elements tied to the Firestorm Matrix can access the memories of each and every single being that has ever been fused into the Matrix. New elements are allowed to automatically download surface information.
- Energy Manipulation:
- Energy Projection: Firestorm can project massive amounts of different amount of energies. Naturally occurring energy projected by Firestorm are "Nuclear Blasts" however elements can project a number of different energies at will, such as Kryptonite energy.
- Energy Absorption: Firestorm can absorb massive amounts of energy as well as being able to absorb many different types of energy. Most commonly the elements and energies associate with life and the human body are absorbed.
- Forcefield Creation: Firestorm can create energy shields and energy forcefields to deflect and stop attacks, like energy beams and punches
- Quark Vision: The ability to see extremely small objects and images down to the subatomic level.
- Self-Sustenance: Elements tied to the Firestorm Matrix can survive in space unaided, never need to eat to sustain life and never truly need another element to be processed or broken down by their bodies.
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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