Heat Wave
Heat Wave is a comic book character that first appeared in The Flash #140One of the Flash's greatest enemies, Heatwave is usually a member of the Rogues. He has tried to reform but cannot control his pyromania.
History
Mick Rory was obsessed with fire from his childhood. He would stare at flames, and try to hold them He even set his house on fire and couldn’t take his eyes of the flames long enough to run to a neighbor for help. Before that, he had wanted to be a fireman.
His uncle raised him after that
At school, Heat Wave always wore winter clothes inside. The kids made fun on this. This led to a friend locking him in a walk-in freezer as a joke during a school field trip. Mick escaped, and was compelled to lock his friend in his house, and set it on fire. Mick often cited this freezer incident (leaving his friend’s part out of it) as a trauma that left him with an intense fear of cold.
He ran away from home, eventually joining a circus as a fire-eater. He was happy and thought he had his obsession under control, but it broke loose again, and he burned down the circus.
Rory was inspired by the Rogues to channel his obsession into a new identity. He invented a handgun-sized flamethrower and wore an asbestos suit and committed crimes under the identity of Heat Wave. When they met at a bank robbery, Captain Cold invited Heat Wave to join the Rogues.
Heat Wave eventually decided to be good after the events of Underworld Unleashed. He began working as a firefighting consultant, using his knowledge of heat and flames from his former criminal career.
Still struggling with his pyromania, he began working for the F.B.I. alongside other reformed rogues
The F.B.I. project failed. On the group’s first mission, the Top returned to undo the programming that had caused most of them to reform. Heat Wave rejoined the Rogues. He then joins the Secret Society, led by Alexander Luthor.
One Year Later
He is next seen being recuited by Inertia to team up against Bart Allen. He is one of the rogues the deliver the killing blow to Bart. He freaks out about what he and the Rogues have done and flees only to be captured by Captain Boomerang alongside Weather Wizard. He is sent to "hell planet" Salvation with the other Rogues. When the conflict starts he sides with Luthor. When they beat J"onn he's worried about killing another hero, claiming that they will kill them with rusty razors. He returns to earth with the villains who are still alive. Later he hears Libra's offer and (off-panel) rejects it. When he hears Inertia free he decides with his fellow Rogues to kill him for their troubles. He and the other Rogues find Paul Gambi seriously injured by a group of Libra's men called the "new" rogues. He recieves a new improved costume from Gambi. Heat Wave defeats his "new" rogue counterpart, Burn. Captain Cold has him kill Cold's father. While Libra tries to hypnotize the Rogues, Captain Cold tells him to watch a nearby fire. When they are fighting Inertia, he melts his boots, making him unable to move. He then helps the other Rogues kill Inertia.
Heat Wave meets with the Human Flame, who wants to buy one of Heat Wave's guns. Heat Wave is appalled by the small amount of money he is offered, and beats up the Human Flame. On his way out he blows up the fireworks factory they were meeting in, with the Human Flame still inside.
Powers and Abilities
Heat Wave has no meta-human abilities. However, he constructed a heat gun that can create fire of over 900 degrees. He also has a high, but not superhuman, tolerance of heat.
Other versions
Tanget Comics/Earth-9 he is mentioned as a weather-manipulating villain defeated by that earth's superman.In Superman beyond a version of Heat Wave appears.
Other media
He briefly appears in the Justice League Unlimited a nimated series.He appears in the DC Universe Online.
| Super Name: | Heat Wave |
| Real Name: | Mick Rory |
| Aliases: |
Mick Rory Rory Calhoun Heatwave Heat-Wave |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Gender: | Male |
| Character Type: | Human |
| 1st Appearance: | The Flash #140 |
| Appears in: | 98 issues |
| Birthday: | |
| Died: |


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