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** In addition, other ''Firestorm'' characters have appeared elsewhere in the franchise. Felicity Smoak (Creator/EmilyBettRickards), an antagonistic businesswoman who became Ronnie's stepmother in the comics, is a regular character on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and is unconnected to Firestorm (and as of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot, the comics have followed suit and {{Transplant}}ed her to ComicBook/GreenArrow's comic). Meanwhile, Caitlin Snow (Creator/DaniellePanabaker) appears on ''The Flash'' as a member of the Flash's support team and, during the first season, Ronnie's fiancée; beginning with Season Three she begins struggling with her comics persona of Killer Frost as a SuperpoweredEvilSide.
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** In addition, other ''Firestorm'' characters have appeared elsewhere in the franchise. Felicity Smoak (Creator/EmilyBettRickards), an antagonistic businesswoman who became Ronnie's stepmother in the comics, is a regular character on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and is unconnected to Firestorm (and as of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ComicBook/New52 reboot, the comics have followed suit and {{Transplant}}ed her to ComicBook/GreenArrow's comic).comic in ''ComicBook/GreenArrow2011''). Meanwhile, Caitlin Snow (Creator/DaniellePanabaker) appears on ''The Flash'' as a member of the Flash's support team and, during the first season, Ronnie's fiancée; beginning with Season Three she begins struggling with her comics persona of Killer Frost as a SuperpoweredEvilSide.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Felicity Smoak, who became Ronnie's stepmother in the second series, is another example, as she began appearing in ''{{Series/Arrow}}'''s first season without any connection to Firestorm. Since then, she has become an integral part of ''Arrow'' and has been added to the ComicBook/New52 ComicBook/GreenArrow as a character similar to her TV counterpart, but separate from Firestorm.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Felicity Smoak, who became Ronnie's stepmother in the second series, is another example, as she began appearing in ''{{Series/Arrow}}'''s first season without any connection to Firestorm. Since then, she has become an integral part of ''Arrow'' and has been added to the ComicBook/New52 ComicBook/GreenArrow ComicBook/{{Green Arrow|2011}} as a character similar to her TV counterpart, but separate from Firestorm.
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''Firestorm'' is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/GerryConway in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]], as part of the "[=DC=] Explosion", a large push of new characters and comics series in the dawn of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. His first appearance was in ''Firestorm'' vol. 1 #1 (March, 1978). Unfortunately, this was also one of the titles canceled in the "[=DC=] Implosion", ending with issue #5 (November, 1978). But the character survived, first appearing in back-ups in ComicBook/TheFlash comics, then joining the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and finally returning to his own book. ''Fury of Firestorm'' (later renamed ''Firestorm the Nuclear Man'') lasted for 100 issues, running from June, 1982 to August, 1990. A third Firestorm series was launched in 2004, with a [[LegacyCharacter new character in the costume]], and ran for three years. A fourth series, ''The Fury of Firestorm'' vol. 2, started in September 2011, as part of DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch.
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''Firestorm'' is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/GerryConway in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]], as part of the "[=DC=] Explosion", a large push of new characters and comics series in the dawn of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks.MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. His first appearance was in ''Firestorm'' vol. 1 #1 (March, 1978). Unfortunately, this was also one of the titles canceled in the "[=DC=] Implosion", ending with issue #5 (November, 1978). But the character survived, first appearing in back-ups in ComicBook/TheFlash comics, then joining the ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and finally returning to his own book. ''Fury of Firestorm'' (later renamed ''Firestorm the Nuclear Man'') lasted for 100 issues, running from June, 1982 to August, 1990. A third Firestorm series was launched in 2004, with a [[LegacyCharacter new character in the costume]], and ran for three years. A fourth series, ''The Fury of Firestorm'' vol. 2, started in September 2011, as part of DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch.
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* When Ronnie was in the hospital dying of leukemia, Stein returned and cured him. This also had the effect of sparking Ronnie's [[MetaOrigin meta-gene]] and granting him the powers of the original Firestorm without the need to fuse with anybody. Ronnie resumed being a superhero until he was killed during ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.
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* When Ronnie was in the hospital dying of leukemia, Stein returned and cured him. This also had the effect of sparking Ronnie's [[MetaOrigin meta-gene]] and granting him the powers of the original Firestorm without the need to fuse with anybody. Ronnie resumed being a superhero until he was killed during ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis2004''.
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''Firestorm'' is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/GerryConway in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]], as part of the "[=DC=] Explosion", a large push of new characters and comics series in the dawn of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. His first appearance was in ''Firestorm'' vol. 1 #1 (March, 1978). Unfortunately, this was also one of the titles canceled in the "[=DC=] Implosion", ending with issue #5 (November, 1978). But the character survived, first appearing in back-ups in Franchise/TheFlash comics, then joining the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and finally returning to his own book. ''Fury of Firestorm'' (later renamed ''Firestorm the Nuclear Man'') lasted for 100 issues, running from June, 1982 to August, 1990. A third Firestorm series was launched in 2004, with a [[LegacyCharacter new character in the costume]], and ran for three years. A fourth series, ''The Fury of Firestorm'' vol. 2, started in September 2011, as part of DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch.
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''Firestorm'' is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/GerryConway in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]], as part of the "[=DC=] Explosion", a large push of new characters and comics series in the dawn of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. His first appearance was in ''Firestorm'' vol. 1 #1 (March, 1978). Unfortunately, this was also one of the titles canceled in the "[=DC=] Implosion", ending with issue #5 (November, 1978). But the character survived, first appearing in back-ups in Franchise/TheFlash ComicBook/TheFlash comics, then joining the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and finally returning to his own book. ''Fury of Firestorm'' (later renamed ''Firestorm the Nuclear Man'') lasted for 100 issues, running from June, 1982 to August, 1990. A third Firestorm series was launched in 2004, with a [[LegacyCharacter new character in the costume]], and ran for three years. A fourth series, ''The Fury of Firestorm'' vol. 2, started in September 2011, as part of DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch.
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* The above seems to have been rendered CanonDiscontinuity by ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'', since in ''Comicbook/DoomsdayClock'', not only is Firestorm now back to being Ronnie and Dr Stein, but it's claimed they always were, and Ronnie reacts to learning that Stein created the Firestorm Matrix deliberately as though it's new information, rather than the central point of his previous book. Jason isn't even mentioned.
* A story in ''Comicbook/LazarusPlanet: Legends Reborn'' then upended the status quo again, with Stein now in a coma after the Lazarus Rain affects the merger and Ronnie merging with a S.T.A.R. scientist named Dr Ramirez ... then learning they can't seperate without the same thing happening.
* A story in ''Comicbook/LazarusPlanet: Legends Reborn'' then upended the status quo again, with Stein now in a coma after the Lazarus Rain affects the merger and Ronnie merging with a S.T.A.R. scientist named Dr Ramirez ... then learning they can't seperate without the same thing happening.
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* The above seems to have been rendered CanonDiscontinuity by ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'', ''ComicBook/DCRebirth'', since in ''Comicbook/DoomsdayClock'', ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'', not only is Firestorm now back to being Ronnie and Dr Stein, but it's claimed they always were, and Ronnie reacts to learning that Stein created the Firestorm Matrix deliberately as though it's new information, rather than the central point of his previous book. Jason isn't even mentioned.
* A story in''Comicbook/LazarusPlanet: ''ComicBook/LazarusPlanet: Legends Reborn'' then upended the status quo again, with Stein now in a coma after the Lazarus Rain affects the merger and Ronnie merging with a S.T.A.R. scientist named Dr Ramirez ... then learning they can't seperate without the same thing happening.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: With ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', of sorts. DC Comics wanted to get in on the "wimpy college student imbued with power", with a touch of BlessedWithSuck.
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* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: With ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'', of sorts. DC Comics wanted to get in on the "wimpy college student imbued with power", with a touch of BlessedWithSuck.
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* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': Jason (Orgie Banks) and Dr. Stein (Creator/FredTatasciore)
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* BitchInSheepsClothing: Clarissa Stein (nee Clemens), Martin Stein's ex-wife.
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* The above seems to have been rendered CanonDiscontinuity by ''Comicbook/DCRebirth'', since in ''Comicbook/DoomsdayClock'', not only is Firestorm now back to being Ronnie and Dr Stein, but it's claimed they always were, and Ronnie reacts to learning that Stein created the Firestorm Matrix deliberately as though it's new information, rather than the central point of his previous book. Jason isn't even mentioned.
* A story in ''Comicbook/LazarusPlanet: Legends Reborn'' then upended the status quo again, with Stein now in a coma after the Lazarus Rain affects the merger and Ronnie merging with a S.T.A.R. scientist named Dr Ramirez ... then learning they can't seperate without the same thing happening.
* A story in ''Comicbook/LazarusPlanet: Legends Reborn'' then upended the status quo again, with Stein now in a coma after the Lazarus Rain affects the merger and Ronnie merging with a S.T.A.R. scientist named Dr Ramirez ... then learning they can't seperate without the same thing happening.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Felicity Smoak, who became Ronnie's stepmother in the second series, is another example, as she began appearing in ''{{Series/Arrow}}'''s first season without any connection to Firestorm. Since then, she has become an integral part of ''Arrow'' and has been added to the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ComicBook/{{Green Arrow}} as a character similar to her TV counterpart, but separate from Firestorm.
* BreakoutVillain: Firestorm's ArchEnemy Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', as well as several video games and animated movies. The kicker? She appeared in most of these WITHOUT Firestorm. The only adaptations she appeared in that also included Firestorm were ''The Brave and the Bold'' and ''The Flash''.
* BreakoutVillain: Firestorm's ArchEnemy Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', as well as several video games and animated movies. The kicker? She appeared in most of these WITHOUT Firestorm. The only adaptations she appeared in that also included Firestorm were ''The Brave and the Bold'' and ''The Flash''.
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* BreakoutCharacter: Felicity Smoak, who became Ronnie's stepmother in the second series, is another example, as she began appearing in ''{{Series/Arrow}}'''s first season without any connection to Firestorm. Since then, she has become an integral part of ''Arrow'' and has been added to the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ComicBook/{{Green Arrow}} ComicBook/New52 ComicBook/GreenArrow as a character similar to her TV counterpart, but separate from Firestorm.
* BreakoutVillain: Firestorm's ArchEnemy Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', as well as several video games and animated movies. The kicker? She appeared in most of these WITHOUT Firestorm. The only adaptations she appeared in that also included Firestorm were ''The Brave and the Bold'' and ''The Flash''.
* BreakoutVillain: Firestorm's ArchEnemy Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and
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* OddCouple: Jason, the somewhat uptight nerd, and Ronnie, the hard-partying jock. Made even more explicit in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold, where Jason is portrayed as a scrawny weakling, while Ronnie is a muscular dimwit.
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* OddCouple: Jason, the somewhat uptight nerd, and Ronnie, the hard-partying jock. Made even more explicit in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold, ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', where Jason is portrayed as a scrawny weakling, while Ronnie is a muscular dimwit.
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* ShoutOut: In the [[MissingEpisode Cancelled Comic Cavalcade story]], there's a sailor with many of [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye's]] characteristics, such as the hat and corn-cob pipe, named Segar (after Popeye's creator, E. C. Segar).
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* ShoutOut: In the [[MissingEpisode Cancelled Comic Cavalcade story]], there's a sailor with many of [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye's]] ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'s characteristics, such as the hat and corn-cob pipe, named Segar (after Popeye's creator, E. C. Segar).
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* ILoveNuclearPower:
** Creates Firestorm, Firehawk, Multiplex, Tokamak, Typhoon, Pozhar, and the Pionic Man.
** The New 52 reboot has turned the series into a metaphor for a nuclear arms race.
** Creates Firestorm, Firehawk, Multiplex, Tokamak, Typhoon, Pozhar, and the Pionic Man.
** The New 52 reboot has turned the series into a metaphor for a nuclear arms race.
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* RadiationInducedSuperpowers: Creates Firestorm, Firehawk, Multiplex, Tokamak, Typhoon, Pozhar, and the Pionic Man.
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* RingsOfActivation: Whenever Firestorm uses his powers, Rutherford's model of the atom sometimes manifests around his hands.
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* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: John Ostrander's run on the title created the elemental mythos and focused on environmental issues rather than superheroics
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* ''The Fury of Firestorm'': In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, the series was rebooted so that Ronnie and Jason are just now getting caught up in an international arms race regarding "the Firestorm Protocols", which Dr. Stein was involved in. Each one can become an individual Firestorm on their own, and they are just two of several Firestorms worldwide including [[MetaOrigin Pozhar and Firehawk]].
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* ''The Fury of Firestorm'': In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, the series was rebooted so that Ronnie and Jason are just now getting caught up in an international arms race regarding "the Firestorm Protocols", which Dr. Stein was involved in. Each one can become an individual Firestorm on their own, and they are just two of several Firestorms worldwide including [[MetaOrigin Pozhar and Firehawk]].
Firehawk]]. After sixteen issues of this, the previous idea of Ronnie and Jason merging was restored.
* AbortedArc: ''The Fury of Firestorm'' has two of them.
** First off, the big bad is a terrorist producing his own, ''evil'' versions of Firestorm. After issue sixteen, this just stops, despite the idea of someone with that kind of power running around seems like a... big deal.
** On a lesser case, the first few issues has a villainous henchwoman who gets caught in the blast of Jason and Ronnie becoming Fury, which causes her to start freezing everything around her, apparently on her way to becoming the ''New 52'' version of Killer Frost. Then she vanishes, never to be heard from again, superseded as Killer Frost by Caitlin Snow.
** First off, the big bad is a terrorist producing his own, ''evil'' versions of Firestorm. After issue sixteen, this just stops, despite the idea of someone with that kind of power running around seems like a... big deal.
** On a lesser case, the first few issues has a villainous henchwoman who gets caught in the blast of Jason and Ronnie becoming Fury, which causes her to start freezing everything around her, apparently on her way to becoming the ''New 52'' version of Killer Frost. Then she vanishes, never to be heard from again, superseded as Killer Frost by Caitlin Snow.
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* BadassBookworm: Stein by himself verges on this from time to time. He isn't particularly formidable, but multiple characters refer to him as the most courageous and noble of the characters who form part of Firestorm.
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* BadassBookworm: BadassBookworm:
** Stein by himself verges on this from time to time. He isn't particularly formidable, but multiple characters refer to him as the most courageous and noble of the characters who form part of Firestorm.
** Stein by himself verges on this from time to time. He isn't particularly formidable, but multiple characters refer to him as the most courageous and noble of the characters who form part of Firestorm.
* EvilKnockoff: ''Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men'' has evil Firestorms, who differ from the heroic Firestorms in that they have sickly green glowing flame hair. Also, they're terrorists.
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** And''how''.''how''.
** In ''The Fury of Firestorm'', Jason and Ronnie start off as independent Firestorms, who can merge into a titanic, monstrous being called "Fury". Later, Jason merges with Firehawk to make another fusion called Scorn, and Pozhar merges with Ronnie to make "Wrath".
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** In ''The Fury of Firestorm'', Jason and Ronnie start off as independent Firestorms, who can merge into a titanic, monstrous being called "Fury". Later, Jason merges with Firehawk to make another fusion called Scorn, and Pozhar merges with Ronnie to make "Wrath".
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** Creates Firestorm, Firehawk, Multiplex, Tokamak, Typhoon, Pozhar, and the Pionic Man.
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''Firestorm'' is a Creator/DCComics character created by Creator/GerryConway in the late [[TheSeventies 1970s]], as part of the "[=DC=] Explosion", a large push of new characters and comics series in the dawn of UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks. His first appearance was in ''Firestorm'' vol. 1 #1 (March, 1978). Unfortunately, this was also one of the titles canceled in the "[=DC=] Implosion", ending with issue #5 (November, 1978). But the character survived, first appearing in back-ups in Franchise/TheFlash comics, then joining the Franchise/JusticeLeagueOfAmerica, and finally returning to his own book. ''Fury of Firestorm'' (later renamed ''Firestorm the Nuclear Man'') lasted for 100 issues, running from June, 1982 to August, 1990. A third Firestorm series was launched in 2004, with a [[LegacyCharacter new character in the costume]], and ran for three years. A fourth series, ''The Fury of Firestorm'' vol. 2, started in September 2011, as part of DC's ComicBook/{{New 52}} relaunch.
Firestorm is usually a composite character, with two or more individual characters making up the Firestorm identity, fused together in what is called the "Firestorm matrix". The resulting being has the abilities to rearrange the atomic and molecular structure of objects, fire nuclear "fusion blasts", [[{{Flight}} fly]], and [[IntangibleMan phase through solid matter]]. At will, the members can separate and resume their normal lives; usually this is instigated by the dominant personality.
The exact "membership" of the Firestorm matrix has changed from time to time in the comics:
* The original makeup was high school student Ronald "Ronnie" Raymond and Professor Martin Stein. Caught in the blast when a nuclear reactor Stein was working on was sabotaged and exploded, the two were fused together into a single being, whom Ronnie dubbed Firestorm. Because Stein was unconscious when the explosion occurred, he takes a passive role in the composite, acting as an advisor to Ronnie, who controls Firestorm.
* After Firestorm and the Russian hero Pozhar (Mikhail Arkadin) were hit by a nuclear bomb, the new Firestorm was composed of Ronnie, Mikhail, and a third personality based on the now-amnesiac Martin Stein. This third personality was in charge, with Ronnie and Mikhail both acting as advisors. An African man named Jama was also part of this combination for a few issues.
* When a Russian experiment created the fire being Svarozhich, it was revealed that Firestorm had been intended to be [[DoingInTheScientist Earth's fire elemental]], and that it was necessary to resume this role to prevent the creature from running rampant. As a result, Ronnie and Mikhail fused with Svarozhich permanently, and were unable to separate. Stein was not a part of this incarnation of Firestorm. The fusion had its own personality as Earth's fire elemental, and was more concerned with the environment than with heroics.
* With the Earth threatened by a minion of ComicBook/{{Darkseid}} inhabiting the sun, Firestorm needed a way to get off-planet (as the elemental was bound to the Earth). Releasing Ronnie and Mikhail from the matrix, Svarozhich took Stein -- revealed as the original intended recipient of the elemental powers -- into orbit and detonated, re-creating Stein as the new Firestorm elemental. Stein dealt with the problem, and then departed Earth.
* When Ronnie was in the hospital dying of leukemia, Stein returned and cured him. This also had the effect of sparking Ronnie's [[MetaOrigin meta-gene]] and granting him the powers of the original Firestorm without the need to fuse with anybody. Ronnie resumed being a superhero until he was killed during ''ComicBook/IdentityCrisis''.
* Upon Ronnie's death, the Firestorm matrix was released and came to rest within Jason Rusch, a young man struggling to get into college. Initially Jason merged with anybody who was convenient ([[DisposableVagrant often homeless people]]), which could be dangerous for them, as his powers were unstable and could "burn them out", killing them. A visit with Martin Stein in outer space led to a regular partnership with Stein, stabilizing the Matrix; he also frequently merged with Firehawk, or his girlfriend Gehenna.
* ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'' ended with Ronnie's resurrection, and a Firestorm comprised of both Ronnie and Jason, who took turns in the driver's seat. It's not without its problems, as the two don't entirely get along.
* ''The Fury of Firestorm'': In the ComicBook/{{New 52}}, the series was rebooted so that Ronnie and Jason are just now getting caught up in an international arms race regarding "the Firestorm Protocols", which Dr. Stein was involved in. Each one can become an individual Firestorm on their own, and they are just two of several Firestorms worldwide including [[MetaOrigin Pozhar and Firehawk]].
!!!Media appearances
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* ''Series/{{Arrowverse}}'':
** ''Series/TheFlash2014'' Season One - Ronnie (Creator/RobbieAmell) and Dr. Stein (Creator/VictorGarber). Jason Rusch also made a brief appearance as one of Stein's students.
** ''Series/LegendsOfTomorrow'' Seasons One to Three - Jefferson "Jax" Jackson (Franz Drameh) and Dr. Stein; with Jax being a CompositeCharacter of various comic characters (Ronnie's athleticism, Jason's ethnicity and status as Ronnie's replacement, and the name of one of Ronnie's friends).
** ''WesternAnimation/{{Vixen}}'' Season Two - The Jax/Dr. Stein incarnation makes a guest appearance.
** In addition, other ''Firestorm'' characters have appeared elsewhere in the franchise. Felicity Smoak (Creator/EmilyBettRickards), an antagonistic businesswoman who became Ronnie's stepmother in the comics, is a regular character on ''Series/{{Arrow}}'' and is unconnected to Firestorm (and as of the ComicBook/{{New 52}} reboot, the comics have followed suit and {{Transplant}}ed her to ComicBook/GreenArrow's comic). Meanwhile, Caitlin Snow (Creator/DaniellePanabaker) appears on ''The Flash'' as a member of the Flash's support team and, during the first season, Ronnie's fiancée; beginning with Season Three she begins struggling with her comics persona of Killer Frost as a SuperpoweredEvilSide.
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* ''VideoGame/Injustice2'': Jason (Orgie Banks) and Dr. Stein (Creator/FredTatasciore)
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* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'' (the ''[[MerchandiseDriven Super Powers]]'' era) - Ronnie (Mark Taylor) and Dr. Stein (Olan Soule in ''Legendary Super Powers'' and Ken Sansom in ''Galactic Guardians'')
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueCrisisOnTwoEarths'' - Jason (Cedric Yarbrough). It's not clear who his fusion partner is or if he even has one.
* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' - Jason (Tyler James Williams) and Ronnie (Creator/BillFagerbakke)
* ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' - Ronnie (P.J. Byrne) and Dr. Stein (Creator/StephenTobolowsky)
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* EightiesHair: Ronnie, since it was the Eighties.
* AbusiveParent: Alvin Rusch, Jason's father, has hit him on occasion.
* ActionGirl: Firehawk
* TheAlcoholic: Martin Stein fell into this early on after the explosion, due to his (to him) unexplained blackout periods (see Laser Guided Amnesia, below). When Ronnie finally explained what was happening, he started to pull himself back together.
* AlliterativeName: Ronnie Raymond and Cliff Carmichael. There's also Doreen Day, Brittany Brandon, Henry Hewitt, David Drake and Jefferson Jackson.
* AlternateCompanyEquivalent: With ''Franchise/SpiderMan'', of sorts. DC Comics wanted to get in on the "wimpy college student imbued with power", with a touch of BlessedWithSuck.
* AtomicSuperpower: Firestorm can absorb radiation and nuclear fallout, transmute elements at the atomic level and fire nuclear "fusion blasts" (concussive/destructive nuclear energy blasts).
* BadassBookworm: Stein by himself verges on this from time to time. He isn't particularly formidable, but multiple characters refer to him as the most courageous and noble of the characters who form part of Firestorm.
** He once took out Hector Hammond after Hammond had managed to defeat the entire JLA.
** Cliff Carmichael is a villainous example, having great intelligence and working out over the summer to be able to fight Ronnie
* BeastMan: Or woman, as the case may be. The two versions of the Hyena, one woman, one man, who become raging were-hyenas.
* BitchInSheepsClothing: Clarissa Stein (nee Clemens), Martin Stein's ex-wife.
* BookDumb: Ronnie, by his own admission. Stein thinks he's too hard on himself.
* BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins: Villains Black Bison and Silver Deer both sport versions of this look.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Lorraine Reilly was kidnapped and subjected to extensive programming to kill Firestorm (and transformed into Firehawk to have the ability to do so). She threw it off, but not before a fight.
* BreakoutCharacter: Felicity Smoak, who became Ronnie's stepmother in the second series, is another example, as she began appearing in ''{{Series/Arrow}}'''s first season without any connection to Firestorm. Since then, she has become an integral part of ''Arrow'' and has been added to the ComicBook/{{New 52}} ComicBook/{{Green Arrow}} as a character similar to her TV counterpart, but separate from Firestorm.
* BreakoutVillain: Firestorm's ArchEnemy Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice'', as well as several video games and animated movies. The kicker? She appeared in most of these WITHOUT Firestorm. The only adaptations she appeared in that also included Firestorm were ''The Brave and the Bold'' and ''The Flash''.
** Impressively enough, ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'' breaks this mold with Firestorm's [[DatingCatwoman affection for the frosty villainess]] being center focus of the fittingly named, episode ''Freezer Burn''.
* TheCape: Ronnie, Martin, Mikhail, and Firehawk. Jason's learning.
* CruelAndUnusualDeath: Poor, poor Gehenna.
* DamselInDistress: Lorraine Reilly, during the kidnapping that turns her into Firehawk.
* DeathIsCheap: Even while dead, Ronnie briefly comes back during the Jason era due to the matrix storing his personality. Later he comes back for real.
* DefeatByModesty: Ronnie defeats Plastique by vaporizing her clothes (in front of TV cameras!), both because it amuses him and because it's a convenient way to separate her from the bombs on her suit. He later does this to a woman who is suing him for damages out of spite... she goes on to marry his father. Awkward.
* DisposableVagrant: Jason initially merges with homeless people when he needs to become Firestorm; this can put their lives at risk of being "burned out" by the matrix's power.
* DisproportionateRetribution: Firestorm using his powers to strip Plastique naked and leaving her to be laughed at in public while he took the bombs her suit carried to be disposed of elsewhere could be seen as taking it too far. Then again, she was going to blow up lots of innocent people so you can't feel too bad for her.
* DistaffCounterpart: Lorraine Reilly is turned into Firehawk by being forcibly subjected to the same type of reactor meltdown that created Firestorm. Her powers are similar, but are more focused on nuclear fire than molecular restructuring.
* DoingInTheScientist: Partly. John Ostrander's run revealed that Firestorm was really Earth's fire elemental, and that the nuclear explosion should have killed Ronnie if not for his own meta-gene.
* DrFakenstein: Martin Stein. Not exactly a MadScientist, but some people think of him as such. Must be the family name.
* DyingToBeReplaced: Ronnie for Jason, and subsequently Gehenna for Ronnie.
* EasyAmnesia: When Firestorm is caught in the nuclear blast that first changes the membership of the matrix, Stein is both cured of his cancer and left amnesiac.
* EinsteinHair: Professor Stein has acquired this in the 2004 run.
* ElementalBaggage: Usually how Typhoon is defeated.
* ElementalEmbodiment: As noted above, one of the character's phases.
* ElementalPowers: Besides the elemental phase, there's the villain Typhoon, who has powers over sea storms.
* EnemyWithout: Shadowstorm for the elemental Firestorm, Deathstorm for the Ronnie/Jason fusion.
* EnergyAbsorption
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Killer Frost in a nutshell. Her first incarnation was a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, but the second one was completely AxeCrazy.
* {{Expy}}: Late 80s villain the Zuggernaut basically ''is'' [[Manga/{{Guyver}} the Guyver]], from how it looks to how it merges with its host.
* FireIceDuo: Firestorm and Killer Frost form one whenever they're together in a story. It doesn't matter if they're allies or enemies.
* FlamingHair: All versions of Firestorm, and Firehawk as well.
* FlyingFirepower: Firestorm possesses the power of the atom, able to fire nuclear energy as well as transmute matter.
* FusionDance: And ''how''.
* GeniusBruiser: When Stein is in the matrix, Firestorm not only has his usual ability to restructure molecules, he now knows what he's doing.
* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: The [[FunWithAcronyms Coalition to Resist Atomic Power]]'s acronym violates the ban on "[p]rofanity, obscenity, smut, vulgarity, or words or symbols which have acquired undesirable meanings" in [[http://cbldf.org/comics-code-revision-of-1971/ the 1971 revision of the Comics Code]].
* GiantPoofySleeves: Part of Ronnie's costume. Jason's initially lacks them, but he adds them back later.
* GoMadFromTheIsolation: Part of the technique to brainwash Lorraine Reilly.
* GrandTheftMe: Strong-willed personalities can take control of the matrix from Jason, leaving him a passenger in his own body.
* HandsOffParenting: Ronnie's father, initially, due to his job. He gets better about it.
* HeterosexualLifePartners: Ronnie and Martin gradually become this, despite the gaps in age and personality
* HilaritySues: Felicity Smoak sues Firestorm after he inadvertently wipes out her company's computers ''twice'' with magnets. She drops the case when Firestorm's speech during the trial both convinces her that his noble intentions outweighed the harm done, and causes her to realize he's her step-son.
* HotbloodedSideburns: Cliff Carmichael, who apparently has had them ''since grade school''
* AnIcePerson: Killer Frost, a recurring villain. Unlike some comic book characters, she doesn't "project cold"; she freezes things by absorbing heat.
** Her first appearance in the original ''Firestorm'' comic was somewhat of a {{Tearjerker}}, casting her as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds of sorts.
* ILoveNuclearPower: Creates Firestorm, Firehawk, Multiplex, Tokamak, Typhoon, Pozhar, and the Pionic Man.
** The New 52 reboot has turned the series into a metaphor for a nuclear arms race.
* InconvenientSummons: Sometimes happens to the one partner in the matrix initiates the change at a time that is inconvenient to the other.
* IntangibleMan: One of Firestorm's basic powers is to phase through matter
* {{Invocation}}: Though she doesn't need to, Lorraine Reilly tends to say "Firehawk!" upon transforming.
* ItHasBeenAnHonor: Professor Stein, who while dying, tells Ronnie that he loved his time as Firestorm, and that he considers Ronnie to be his son.
* {{Jerkass}}: Both Ronnie and Jason can have their moments, but the king of this trope in the series is Cliff Carmichael, who progresses from bullying Ronnie to trying to get him crippled or killed, simply out of schoolyard rivalry.
* JumpedAtTheCall: Ronnie's first inclination when discovering he had powers was to be a superhero.
* KillItWithFire: Averted in the first comic with Killer Frost, Firestorm assumed all he needed to do was "melt" her with a blast of heat. The opposite happened, she ''basked'' it in, smiling. That led to a EurekaMoment on how to deal with her.
* LaserGuidedAmnesia: Initially, because he was unconscious at the time of the explosion, Stein couldn't remember anything he had done while being part of Firestorm. Jason's unwitting partners also suffer this initially.
* LegacyCharacter: Of sorts. There's usually some element of a previous incarnation included in the current makeup. Likewise, there have been no less than three incarnations of Firestorm's archenemy Killer Frost, the second of whom explicitly took up the identity as a tribute to the first.
* LogicalWeakness: His transmutation powers don't work on organic substances because he has to know the atomic structures of the molecules he is transmuting and the atomic structures of the molecules he intends to transmute them to. When its just Ronnie or Jason piloting Firestorm, they're even more limited because neither of them are scientists, and they have to study chemistry to make the most use of their powers. Presumably a superhuman intelligence could overcome this weakness.
** Jason at some point could transmutate organic matter. However, after an early mishap with a superpowered foe left in a OneWingedAngel form, he elected to refrain himself, limiting his powers to non-organic matter again.
** See WeaksauceWeakness: Firestorm is as powerful as the smartest brain in his fused makeup is schooled in chemistry and biology. When Doctor Megala controlled the Firestorm Matrix, he beat up ComicBook/CaptainAtom and reshaped Mount Rushmore in his likeness in a whim: the Jason and Ronnie Firestorm had actually to concentrate, study several pictures of Mount Rushmore and envision for long minutes every detail of the monument to restore it. Furthermore, Firestorm is usually able to perform amazing feats when Stein (a true scientist) or Jason (a somewhat accomplished student) are at the helm, but when Ronnie was alone in the matrix he had to rely on external help, his transmutations were simple and haphazardly accomplished and he relied more on physical strength and the occasional energy blasts than the rest of his powers.
* MadScientist: Martin Stein is often perceived this way after the initial disaster (as he designed the reactor). There are plenty of real cases of it, though, such as Killer Frost and Tokamak.
* MaterialMimicry: Jason had a StalkerWithACrush named Casey Krinsky with substance-copying abilities. She is defeated when Firestorm's transmuting abilities interact oddly with hers and accidentally [[TakenForGranite petrify]] her.
* MissingMom: Ronnie's mother died when he was young. Jason's abandoned him after his father's abuse of her.
* TheNudifier: Firestorm did this to Plastique during her first appearance. He vaporised her costume, leaving her naked and humiliated in public, while he took the bombs that had been attached to her costume away to explode in a safer area.
* OddCouple: Jason, the somewhat uptight nerd, and Ronnie, the hard-partying jock. Made even more explicit in WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold, where Jason is portrayed as a scrawny weakling, while Ronnie is a muscular dimwit.
* ParentalSubstitute: Martin Stein, for Ronnie Raymond, at least until Ronnie's relationship with his father is patched up.
* ParentWithNewParamour: Ronnie initially dislikes Felicity Smoak (largely because she's suing Firestorm) and after she marries his father he initially refuses to even call her his step-mother. Later, they bond and he starts calling her "Mom".
* PowerCreepPowerSeep: He can fire nuclear blasts, rearrange the molecular structure of objections, and turn intangible. Sounds invincible to a normal human right? Actually, he was infamously beaten before by Slipknot in the latter's debut appearance, a normal human armed with only ropes.
* PureEnergy: In the form of nuclear blasts.
* RaisedByWolves: Gehenna, being raised in a lab at an accelerated rate.
* RomanticFusion: Jason Rusch and his girlfriend Gehenna gained the ability to merge into the eponymous hero. This was treated with very romantic (and sometimes sexual) undertones between the two.
* SecretIdentity: Maintained by all versions where the component personae can separate.
* SecretKeeper: Ronnie's step-mom figures out he's Firestorm before his dad does.
* SelfDuplication: Multiplex, a villain created during the same accident that originally created Firestorm.
* ShamefulStrip: How he defeated Plastique the first time around.
* ShoutOut: In the [[MissingEpisode Cancelled Comic Cavalcade story]], there's a sailor with many of [[ComicStrip/{{Popeye}} Popeye's]] characteristics, such as the hat and corn-cob pipe, named Segar (after Popeye's creator, E. C. Segar).
* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: John Ostrander's run on the title created the elemental mythos and focused on environmental issues rather than superheroics
* SpiritAdvisor: The role of whoever is in the matrix's "back seat". Represented in comics as a transparent floating head that only the "driver" can hear.
* TeleportersAndTransporters: Gehenna can teleport herself and others.
* {{Transmutation}}: Every character who has taken on the moniker of Firestorm has this ability. The first Firestorm could not affect organic matter but the Jason Rusch incarnation did not have this limitation.
* TwoFirstNames: Ronnie Raymond.
* WeaksauceWeakness: Firestorm can't affect organic material without suffering painful feedback. Also, initially if Firestorm was formed while Stein was missing his glasses, Firestorm would be nearsighted.
** Despite the organic matter limit has been revisited during the years, the one consistent main limit of Firestorm is that Firestorm is as good at using his powers than the smartest fusee in his makeup. While Stein is an accomplished scientist, thus making Firestorm able to achieve complex feats with simple manipulation, Jason, a mere student, is somewhat slower and less competent, but still a force to reckon with. As for Ronnie Raymond? For a short period in which he was the only mind in the Firestorm makeup, he had to rely on The Atom's counseling to do anything remotely useful.
* WhatTheHellHero: Martin's reaction to Ronnie forcing them to become Firestorm on an issue Stein disagreed with. Ronnie's step-mother explicitly draws a parallel to rape. Ronnie is remorseful, but it takes time for the trust to be rebuilt between them.
* WitnessProtection: Why Ronnie's father had them traveling from place to place during Ronnie's youth.
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