Heat Wave

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

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.

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