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| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends "The Triumph of the Green Goblin (September 12, 1981)" |
| First comic appearance | Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends #1 (December 1981) (non-canon) Uncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985) (first canon appearance) |
| Created by | John Romita Sr.[1] Rick Hoberg[2] Dennis Marks[3] |
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| Alter ego | Angelica "Angel" Jones |
| Species | Human mutant |
| Team affiliations | Avengers Hellions New Warriors Orchis[4] The 198 X-Men Young Allies (Heroic Age) West Coast Avengers |
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Firestar (Angelica "Angel"Jones) is asuperhero appearing inmedia includingAmerican comic books published byMarvel Comics. Created byJohn Romita Sr.,[1]Rick Hoberg,[2] andDennis Marks,[3] the character first appeared in 1981 on theNBC animated television seriesSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends.[5] Firestar has the ability to generate and manipulatemicrowave radiation, allowing her to fly and create intense heat and flames. In the comics, she has acted as a solo hero and also as a member of theHellions,New Warriors,Avengers, andX-Men.
Firestar – spelled as Fire-Star – was created for theNBCanimated seriesSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends,[6] withKathy Garver providing her voice. This version of the character has the ability to control heat in all its forms, as stated in the 1981Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends one-shot comic.
The creators had wanted to use theHuman Torch, but the rights to the character were tied up.[7] Firestar's pre-production names included Heatwave, Starblaze, and Firefly.Dennis Marks, one of the original writers ofSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends, stated in a 2002 interview that he had come up with the name of Fire-Star's alias, Angelica Jones, taken from one of his old girlfriends.[3]
In the series, Fire-Star is identified as a former member of theX-Men, along withIceman, with whom she occasionally appears to have a flirtatious relationship, and with whom she is sometimes seen on dates. At times, she dates Peter Parker (Spider-Man) as well, resulting in a relaxedlove triangle of sorts.[8] Fire-Star also has a one-episode romance withSunfire.[episode needed]
Her origin is explained in "A Fire-Star is Born."[9] Young Angelica Jones was subject to constant bullying by a schoolmate named Bonnie, who calls her "Miss Angelica Jinx" on account of mysterious events that occur in Angelica's presence, which unbeknownst to Bonnie and others around Angelica, are triggered by her newly emerging powers, of which Angelica is gradually becoming aware. As Angelica becomes fully aware that she is a mutant with superhuman abilities, she saves her father at one point during an accident while disguised.[episode needed]
Early in her senior year of high school, Bonnie and her boyfriend framed Angelica for the theft of a school trophy, causing Dean Wilmer to temporarily suspend Angelica from school. A strong need to correct this situation leads Angelica to become Fire-Star for the first time. She finds proof of Bonnie's deception, retrieved the missing trophy, and compels Bonnie to confess, which justifies her expulsion from school. She is later approached byCyclops,Angel, and Iceman to join the X-Men. She accepted and was seen helping them againstMagneto and theSentinels.[episode needed]
The animated series and theone-shotSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends comic book[10] (which adapted an episode for print) are not considered part of standardMarvel Universecontinuity. However, the 2006 one-shot comicSpider-Man Family: Amazing Friends (August 2006) features an in-continuity story, "Opposites Attack!", in which the three superheroes work as a short-lived team. This story takes place shortly after the up-and-coming hero Firestar becomes a founding member of theNew Warriors.
Firestar's first in-continuity comic book appearance was inUncanny X-Men #193 (May 1985).[11] She next appeared in her own mini-series, which presented her definitive, in-continuity origin.[12] TheFirestar four issue mini-series depicts events both before and after Firestar's appearance inUncanny X-Men #193, showing her development from a shy, insecure girl afraid of her developing powers to a confident young woman capable of easily defeatingEmma Frost.
The mini-series also established that Firestar's powers were microwave-based, rather than the more common fire-generation power that her animated counterpart displayed; the comic-book Firestar essentially harnesses ambient microwave radiation from her environment, making her powers far stronger in an environment such as space, where the concentration of microwaves is much greater than within a planetary atmosphere.
After her initial miniseries, the character appeared in a five-part serialized story in issues #82–87 of the anthology seriesMarvel Comics Presents. She subsequently joined the New Warriors, as a regular character inAvengers, and the informal all-female team "Marvel Divas".
After the specialFirestar one-shot issue (April 2010), Firestar returned to full-time superheroics as a character in the short-lived comic seriesYoung Allies.[13][14] Firestar appears as a main character in theI Am an Avenger comic book mini-series.
Firestar was one of the feature characters in the 2011 six-issue limited seriesFear Itself: Youth in Revolt.
At the 2013San Diego Comic-Con, Firestar was announced "to take her place as a major X-Men character for the first time" starring in the new comic bookAmazing X-Men in November 2013.[15][16]
Firestar played prominent role in the 2023 "Fall of X" storyline. At the storyline's inception, Firestar is announced as a full member of the main X-Men team for the first time following a reader vote.[volume & issue needed] During the course of the story, she selflessly plays a double agent role in the villainous organizationOrchis, allowing the world and her teammates to believe she has betrayed mutantkind, on instructions fromJean Grey.[volume & issue needed]
A lonely girl raised by her widowed father Bartholomew and paternal grandmother, Angelica Jones discovered that she possessedmutant powers. After her grandmother's death by heart failure and her revelation that she was a mutant, her father sent Angelica to theMassachusetts Academy.[17] TheHellfire Club's original White QueenEmma Frost began training Angelica in the use of her powers for the Hellfire Club'steam of young mutants. She was never sent on field missions with the other Hellions, however, because of her lack of control over her lethal powers and because the White Queen wished to instill cruelty and callousness in Firestar's personality, and befriending other young mutants would work against that goal. The White Queen manipulated Angelica into perceiving Frost as a loving mother figure, unaware that Frost was secretly grooming her to be a potential assassin and bodyguard. Angelica did meet theNew Mutants at a Massachusetts Academy dance and, with the White Queen's telepathic prompting, formed a crush onCannonball.[18]
Firestar was later emotionally manipulated byEmpath, and accompanied theHellionsThunderbird, Empath andRoulette on a mission against theX-Men, in which Thunderbird sought revenge on Xavier, thinking him responsible for hisbrother's death. Angelica felt terrible guilt over the incident once she was free of Empath's power, however. Professor Xavier offered her a place at the Xavier School, but although she declined out of loyalty to the White Queen, she was touched and pleased by the offer.[19]
While a student of the Massachusetts Academy, Angelica had Hellfire mercenary Randall Chase assigned to her as a bodyguard. Growing close to Angelica, Randall eventually began to suspect the White Queen's true motives and was to be terminated. He escaped, mortally wounded, and managed to warn Angelica of Frost's duplicity just before he died. In retaliation, Jones attacked and defeated the White Queen, and decimated the hidden training complex beneath Frost's Massachusetts Academy. Afterwards, she returned to living with her father (as she was still a minor at the time) but kept the unique costume and identity of Firestar given to her by Frost.[20]
Firestar was later to become one of the few surviving original Hellions after most members were murdered byTrevor Fitzroy.[21] She, Warpath and Empath were the only members of the team not present during the massacre. Firestar and Warpath (accompanied by Warpath's X-Force teammate and Firestar's former love interest Cannonball), travelled to Nova Roma inBrazil to inform Empath and former New MutantMagma of their teammates' deaths. The trio then went to the Massachusetts Academy where they removed the few remaining files on record of the Hellions' existence.[22]
Shortly after her resignation from the Massachusetts Academy, Firestar became a founding member of theNew Warriors when she was invited (or rather blackmailed) byNight Thrasher into joining, and helped them battleTerrax.[23] She also aided Night Thrasher againstMidnight's Fire.[24] She also helpedThor defeat theJuggernaut alongside the New Warriors.[25] The team battled theMad Thinker andPrimus,[26] and then battledPsionex.[27]
The team battled the secondStar Thief andStane International'sMandroids. With teammatesMarvel Boy andNamorita, and the Star Thief, she launched into space aboard a Stane rocket.[28] They encountered theInhumans and theWatcher on the Moon. With the help ofBlack Bolt and the Star Thief, she destroyed the Stane rocket containinghazardous waste.[29]
Back on Earth, the New Warriors battled theForce of Nature in a Brazilian jungle, and rescued teammateSpeedball's mother.[30] The New Warriors also battled theWhite Queen and her Hellions.[31]
Eventually, she fell in love and became engaged to teammate Vance Astrovik (also known asJustice, formerlyMarvel Boy).[32] She later discovered that using her microwave powers could eventually render herinfertile.[33]
During a revenge scheme by a gang of thugs called the Poison Memories, Firestar's father was shot in the chest.[34] He nearly died but recovered.[35] Firestar also faced a time without Vance, as he had to serve a prison term for the involuntary slaying of his own abusive father.[36]
Firestar also provided vital assistance in helping Spider-Man tackleCarnage during "Maximum Carnage", when he was also forced to ally himself withVenom,Black Cat andMorbius to stop Carnage's reign of slaughter. Her microwave power proved the only weapon truly effective against Carnage following his 'upgrade'—his vulnerability to sonics having been weakened—but she still refused to kill Carnage, even to stop his murders.[37] For a time, she was briefly attracted to Spider-Man's clone,Ben Reilly, when he joined the New Warriors under the identity of the Scarlet Spider,[38] but their relationship never went beyond an interest due to Firestar's engagement to Justice and Reilly's secrecy causing him to avoid revealing his identity.
Firestar and Justice eventually left the New Warriors together. Some time later the two joined theAvengers after an alternate-universe adventure and a struggle againstMorgan le Fay.[39] Firestar helped demonstrate her fitness for the position when she and Vance took downWhirlwind, a villain that had foiled most of the other Avengers at once.[40]
Firestar demonstrated a more restrained fashion sense, refusing to wear a cleavage-baring costume designed by theWasp. Though she is seen wearing exactly that costume in an Avengers promo poster and in some early Avengers appearances, she quickly altered the costume to be more modest, which was consistent with her personality.[41]
During this period,Hank Pym determined that the cause of her potential infertility was that her natural immunity to the effects of her own powers (which all mutants possess) had never fully developed. He designed a costume for her that would siphon off the excess radiation, give her natural immunity the opportunity to manifest fully and heal the damage already done.[42] After a distinguished tenure with the Avengers, including going undercover in a bizarre cult,[43][44][45] facing a horde ofUltron robots,[46] and struggling againstKang the Conqueror's takeover of modern-day Earth,[47] she and Justice left the Avengers. She also made a tentative peace with Emma Frost during this time.[48]
Angelica started college and enjoyed a "normal life",[49] but she abandoned wedding preparations, leaving Vance with all of the responsibility. When Vance confronted her about this, she confessed that she needed more life experience before settling into married life. Vance left in anger and presumably ended their engagement.[50]
Firestar is one of the few mutants left on the planet with her powers intact after theScarlet Witch altered reality anddecimated the mutant population.[51] Firestar was not among the New Warriors who died in the catastrophe that sparked the events ofCivil War. She was presumed to be among the Warriors who confronted the operator of an anti-Warriors hate site created in the wake of the catastrophe, revealed to be former Warriors member Carlton LaFroyge (Hindsight Lad).[52] She is seen flying in the background, above the confrontation.
Firestar responded to theSuperhuman Registration Act by effectively retiring from her career as a costumed hero.[53] She was seen as part of a New Warriors reunion of sorts with Nova and Justice, with whom she seems to be on good terms again.
In the limited seriesMarvel Divas (which was pitched as "Sex and the City in the Marvel Universe"),[54] it is revealed Angelica's closest friends areBlack Cat,Hellcat andPhoton. At the end of the first issue, Firestar announces she has been diagnosed with cancer.[55] She's later diagnosed byDoctor Strange and theNight Nurse as being in the earlier stages of the illness, provoked seemingly by the same inability to shield herself from her microwave emission powers that is making her infertile.[56] Despite her bravery in dealing with the illness (she asks Patsy to write a book and a blog to relay her experience to other cancer survivors, strongly believing in her ability to heal), and Hank Pym offering her a second opinion (despite Pym actually being abiochemist, and not aphysician), she is still in visible distress; enough forDaimon Hellstrom to approach his ex-wife Patsy, ensuring her fast healing in exchange for Patsy remarrying him (and giving him her soul in the process).[57] Learning about Patsy's brave move to help in her recovery, Angelica and her supportive friends travelled to Hellstrom's dimension to rescue her, thereby rejecting his 'healing' help for Hellcat's freedom and taking her chances against the cancer. After returning to Earth, Angelica had a follow-up exam that revealed her cancer to be in complete remission. During this series, she is a New York University graduate student in art history, specializing in Medieval European art. Due to her chemotherapy, Angelica began to lose her hair. Initially opting for a wig, she decided to cut her hair short instead.[58]
Firestar continues her education while engaging in super heroics part-time. In her one-shot issue, she is wearing a long-haired red wig as her natural hair has not grown back yet.[59]
When theBastards of Evil attack at the World Trade Center Ground Zero, she is the first of New York's heroes to respond. Shortly after, she is joined byGravity,Nomad,Spider-Girl andToro.[60] The five heroes unite to defeat the menace, but are not taken seriously by the established teams (the Fantastic Four and Avengers) to arrive after the battle.[61]
The group worked to track down the Bastards of Evil, Firestar partnering with Gravity while the others pursued independent leads. In addition to tracking the Bastards, Firestar and Gravity begin to patrol the city at night fighting street level crime. During this period, Angelica is dismissive of Nomad and Spider-Girl, which she later regrets as it wasn't that long ago that she was an adolescent super hero.[62][63]
When Nomad and Spider-Girl are captured by the Bastards on their way to meet Gravity and Firestar, Angelica is able to use her microwave powers to track the Bastards and is able to drain the radiation that empowers them. With Gravity's help, she is able to expel the energy harmlessly into space. Nomad suggests that they remain together as the Young Allies, which everyone objects to, and they appear to go their separate ways.[64]
In the final issue ofYoung Allies (issue #6), Emma Frost attempts to recruit Angelica to move to Utopia with the rest of the mutant population. No offer to join the X-Men was explicitly made, but as most of the mutants living in Utopia appear to be on call as needed, it can be assumed that if Firestar moved she would have been available to the team. Angelica refused the offer, eventually burning down Emma's hotel room to be left alone. Gravity and Firestar continue their evening patrols, and Frost suggests that Gravity has a romantic/sexual interest in her. He also appears to recognize her civilian identity when he sees her in a coffee shop, but she does not notice him.[65]
The Young Allies are continuing to operate as a loosely affiliated team to fightOnslaught alongside theSecret Avengers inOnslaught Unleashed, despite the cancellation of their own series.[66] Then Firestar appears at a meeting held byProdigy regarding magical hammers that have crashed into the earth. She and Gravity agree to co-lead an Initiative team to help keep order during the crisis.[67] After Gravity is injured in a fight with Crossbones, she assumes full command until she and Prodigy travel to Las Vegas to assist with the damage control efforts after the Juggernaut's attack on the city and subsequent battle with the Heavy Hitters.[volume & issue needed] Reunited with Gravity, who also went to Las Vegas to confront Heavy Hitters leader Hardball regarding civilian casualties during the fight, Firestar joined Gravity, Hardball and Telemetry on a mission to prevent seismic damage to the area.[volume & issue needed] Believing they were going to die, she and Gravity revealed their secret identities to each other.[volume & issue needed] Following the end of Fear Itself, Firestar has been seen with Gravity and their former Young Allies associate Spider-Girl fighting Hydro Man, indicating the group is still working together.[68]
Firestar applied for a teaching job at theJean Grey School of Higher Learning but when she admitted that she had a thing for Iceman she was rejected asKitty Pryde, the headmistress of the school who was doing the interviewing, was at the time Iceman's girlfriend.[69]
Firestar joined theX-Men as a new teacher in the Jean Grey School assigned to teaching physics. After being dragged to Hell with other members of the X-Men, she was pulled into a quest to search for the deceasedNightcrawler,[70] at one point setting Hell itself on fire to stop a wave of demons attacking her and Iceman, an action that notably impressed Nightcrawler.[71] Later on, after returning to Earth, Firestar and Iceman encounteredSpider-Man.[72] She participated in the containment of a massiveWendigo outbreak in Canada,[73] became a member of the New Tian Strikeforce after Hydra's brief takeover of the USA,[74] and battledX-Man[75] andCarnage.[76]
After the establishment of the mutant colony onKrakoa, Firestar was slated to become a full-time member of the X-Men. Shortly after, however,Orchis attacked the island, slaying several mutants, includingJean Grey. As she lay dying, Grey telepathically instructed Firestar to join Orchis as a mole, leading the other X-Men to believe that she allowed Orchis access to Krakoa.[77] In this role, she was confronted byKitty Pryde[78] and her ex-fiancéJustice.[79] She was eventually exposed, but rescued by Pryde, Emma Frost andSynch to participate in their final strike against Orchis.[80]
However, the trauma of having worked for a mutant-hating organization caused Firestar to sink into an alcohol-drowned depression. In this state, she was invited byJames Rhodes to join the newWest Coast Avengers which he andTony Stark were putting together, which included several former supervillains likeUltron and Blue Bolt in their lineup.[81] In her feeling of fatalism, she made callous mistakes, like injuring people she was supposed to subdue.[82] However, Blue Bolt, after giving her a kiss before willingly returning to prison, managed to talk some sense back into her; a deed which evolved into a mutual romantic attraction.[83]
Firestar is amutant whose body stores ambient radioactive/electromagnetic energy, which she can project and manipulate for various effects.[84][85] As she alters the electromagnetic wavelengths, they form a microwave aura around her body, at which point she mentally "pushes" the microwaves away from herself. Doing this allows her to release heat, light, and radiation into her environment at various intensities.[84] By focusing microwaves on a specific target, she can cause it to burst into flames, explode, or melt. She can project microwave energy blasts, which have a thermo-concussive effect, heating objects to the point of melting or incineration. The superheated and pressurized air created by the directed microwaves produces an impact. Firestar can also sense microwave signals (such as cellular phone signals or remote-control devices) and disrupt electronics with her own microwave emissions. By superheating the air around her, Firestar can generate enough upward thrust to fly at high speeds and lift objects as heavy as the X-ManColossus.[19] Firestar's mutant abilities do not grant her any particular immunity to the effects of intense heat other than that generated by her own microwave powers. During training exercises with Emma Frost in her limited series, she was chastised by her teacher for clumsiness and warned that she could have been "severely burned" by a laser.[86] During a fight between the Avengers and Fantastic Four years later, the Human Torch was afraid of burning her with his own flames.[volume & issue needed] However, she eventually displayed the ability to siphon heat energy and to detect electromagnetic signatures from broadcast transmissions.[63]
Though exposure to high levels of microwave radiation can be harmful or fatal to living beings, Firestar is apparently immune to most of the damaging effects of her powers. Unlike most mutants, her immunity to her own power was not complete; she was in danger of rendering herself sterile until Hank Pym discovered a cure. He designed a suit of micro-circuitry to be worn under her costume that absorbed the excess microwave energy that was affecting her cells and diverted it in a way that would "kick start" her natural immunity to her own powers. Pym claimed it would take about six months for the process to be complete. Over time, Firestar appeared to be functionally immune to microwave radiation.[42] She was later diagnosed with breast cancer, which was attributed to long-term exposure to her own power.[55] Though the cancer is in remission, the current status of her immunity is unknown.[58]
On rare occasion, Firestar has demonstrated the ability to disrupt thepsionic powers of others using her own power (namely,Emma Frost,[20]Empath,[22] and theDarkling).[87] She is not immune to psychic assault, but when using microwave abilities at a high level she is capable of disrupting it. Onslaught,[volume & issue needed] and the Gamesmaster,[volume & issue needed] were both able to use telepathy against her effectively.
The nature of Firestar's power is actually broader than first perceived, not only granting her the capacity for large-scale destruction but a wider range of capacities through nuclear fission interaction. In an alternative future timeline, it is discovered that her true power lies in conducting and channeling the electroweak force to better manipulate electromagnetic spectrum phenomena.[88] Jones typically limits how much of her own power she accesses, fearing that she might permanently damage the planet, its atmosphere, and 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 injuredGarthan Saal when he possessed the energy of the entireNova Corps,[89] and also used her enhanced abilities to power a massiveShi'ar interstellar transport gate with very little effort.[90]
Deirdre Kaye ofScary Mommy called Firestar a "role model" and "truly heroic."[91] Darren Franich ofEntertainment Weekly ranked Firestar 34th in their "Let's rank every Avenger ever" list.[92]CBR.com ranked Firestar 4th in their "10 Most Powerful Members of The New Warriors" list,[93] 8th in their "20 Most Powerful Mutants From The '80s" list,[94]CBR.com ranked Firestar 4th in their "10 Most Powerful Members of The New Warriors" list,[93] and 15th in their "20 Most Powerful Female Members Of The Avengers" list.[95]
In December 2022, Anthony Orland ofDigital Trends called Firestar one of the "12 new Marvel characters we want to see in theSpider-Man 4 movie."[96] Jordan Iacobucci ofScreen Rant included Firestar in their "10 Marvel Superheroes From The ‘80s Who Should Join The MCU" list,[97] while Lukas Shayo named her one of the "10 Iconic New York City-Based Marvel Superheroes We Haven't Seen In The MCU" list.[98]
In July 2022, Marvel Comics announced that Firestar was the winner of the second annual X-Men fan vote.[99][100][101]
Appearing inEdge of Spider-Verse: Web of Fear, Spider-UK (a British Spider-Man who is a member of the Captain Britain Corps) witnesses Morlun kill Spider-Man, as well as Firestar and Iceman lying dead.[volume & issue needed] This universe is an alternate version ofSpider-Man and his Amazing Friends (Earth-1983).[102]
An alternate version of Firestar was forced to join the team known asWeapon X, a group of alternate reality-hopping super-people bound to repair broken worlds. Joining the team,[103] Angelica was soon killed in a mega-blast unleashed by her own powers, opposing the evilHyperion. In the process, her sacrifice also killedSpider.[104] Because her body was reduced to ash, it was not returned to its native universe (Earth-3062).
In issue #3 of this miniseries, she is shown, in flashback, to be among the reserve members of the Avengers answering Colonel America's distress signal (unaware it was a trap), and subsequently leaving the mansion (with fewer people than went in) infected and hungry for human flesh.
Firestar appeared in a flashback detailing the last adventure of the original Avengers. Firestar was among the team members who died in the team's final battle.[105]
In theMutant X Universe, Firestar's powers had evolved to the point where her entire body was composed of microwave energy. She was one of the many people trying to resist the rule ofMadelyne Pryor.[106] She, along with numerous other heroes, died in battle in the final issue ofMutant X.
Firestar appeared inSpider-Man Loves Mary Jane. In the initial Firestar story, Mary Jane watched Spider-Man and Firestar battling crime together and became very jealous. In subsequent issues, Firestar expressed a true romantic interest in Spider-Man. The Firestar story arc took place in issues #16-20 of the series and was compiled indigest format asSpider-Man Loves Mary Jane, Vol. 4. Also, Iceman appears in a few pages of the final issue of the story arc, showcasing a rare comic-book moment in which the "Spider-Friends" are shown together.[107]
Brian Michael Bendis, writer ofUltimate Spider-Man, revealed his intentions to have theUltimate Marvel version of Firestar appear in the book in an interview onComic Book Resources on July 20, 2007. Bendis further stated he had spent 120 issues working toward this and making it an "organic" event and not something "I pulled out of my ass".[108]
Ultimate Firestar makes her debut inUltimate Spider-Man #118, whenLiz Allan claims to be suffering from some bizarre ailment shortly after kissing the Human Torch, and at the close of the issue catches fire while at a beach party with her friends. In the final moments of the story, Liz's body becomes a living mass of flames, signaling her transformation into what could be considered Ultimate Firestar.
The next issue (#119) deals with Liz as she tried to come to grips with her powers. The Human Torch is forced to deal with a call from the Fantastic Four, while Shadowcat is grounded, leaving only Iceman and Spider-Man able to go after Liz, an homage to theSpider-Man and His Amazing Friends television series. After some friendly banter, Magneto shows up, asking Liz to come with him so that he can take her to her biological father. Unsure of what to do, Liz goes home to confront her mother who reveals that her uncle Frank is in fact her real father. Magneto and the X-Men, summoned by Spider-Man, then show up asking Liz to side with one of them. Liz chooses neither and flees to Mary Jane's house.
Spider-Man quickly follows her there, and to convince her of his words, he reveals his true identity. She is greatly moved by this and refers to him as an "amazing friend". Swayed, Liz then thinks it might be cool to join the X-Men, leaving for the mansion alongside Iceman. The issue ends with a flashback that reveals that Liz's father is in fact theBlob. It was revealed inUltimate X-Men #94 that Liz has chosen the codename Firestar, and has some control of her powers.
Liz Allan was believed to have been missing in action after Ultimatum, but survived and is featured inUltimate X beginning with issue #4.[109] In this issue, it is revealed she, her mother and her newfound half-brother Teddy (and son of the Blob) try to make a fresh start in California. She often teases Teddy because, as she says, he reminds her of her father, though her mother speculates it might be because he reminds her of what she is. When Teddy's friend kills the high school's principal, Teddy's powers manifest, and the situation goes awry. When approached by Jean Grey's Tomorrow People and Quicksilver's Brotherhood, Liz chooses to follow Jean whereas Teddy joins Quicksilver.[volume & issue needed] After briefly working with the team,[volume & issue needed] she settles in Tian, a safe haven for mutants,[volume & issue needed] until its destruction.[volume & issue needed] She then rejoins the X-Men.[volume & issue needed] She also attended a small party that commemorated Peter a few years after his death with Iceman and Human Torch.[volume & issue needed]
A specially designed mutant amalgam by the designation, Chimera, used Angelica Jones' DNA template in the production and implementation by the Quiet Council after it'd been corrupted bySinister's machinations.[110] The Fusee entity utilized Firestar's Nuclear Fission & Weak Force alternation powers in conjunction with the genetic gifts pertaining to other gene donors in its function as a living dirty bomb, meant to shatter planets during Krakoa's galactic conquests.
In 1987, Firestar appeared as a guest in Marvel Comics' live reenactment ofSpider-Man's wedding toMary Jane Watson.[citation needed]
Firestar has been merchandised in various forms. In 1994, a Firestar Real Heros cup was available atPizza Hut.Wizard Entertainment introduced a Firestar action figure offered inToyfare Magazine #2 in 1997.Wizkids marketed Firestar HeroClix figurines (set of 4) in November 2004.Art Asylum produced a Firestar Minimate action figure in 2005. In December 2007, Diamond Select released a 6-inch Firestar minibust. Firestar is featured on cards in theMarvel Universe Trading Cards Series 1 (1990, card #85), Series 2 (1991, cards #32 and 156), Series 3 (1992, card #174), Series 4 (1993, card #20), and Series 5 (1994, cards #20 and 73). Firestar was also included in a number of T-shirts, posters, and art prints featuring New Warriors.[118] In February 2021 Hasbro released a 6” Marvel Legends action figure of Firestar.[119]
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| Marvel Divas | Marvel Divas #1–4 | January 2010 | 978-0785131779 |
The network wanted the series to feature the Fantastic Four's Human Torch, but he was off-limits due to licensing conflicts.
In 1982, the animated Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends TV show aired "A Fire-Star is Born," the origin of Firestar and how she gained her powers.
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