Height: 5 ft. 1 in.
Weight: 101 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red
Real Name: Angelica Jones
1st App.: Uncanny X-Men #193
Identity: Secret
Team/Family: Member of the Avengers, Former Member of the New Warriors.
Occupation: Student
Legal Status: Citizen of the United States with no criminal record
Place of Birth: Unrevealed
Marital status: Single
Known Relatives: Bartholomew Jones (father), Grandmother (unnamed, deceased)
Group Affiliation: New Warriors, Hellions, Avengers, Formerly Avengers
Queen's Vengeance, Triune Understanding
Base of Operations: Massachusetts Academy, Snow
Valley, Massachusetts
First Appearance: X-MEN #193 (out of continuity) Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends #1, (in continuity) Uncanny X-Men #193
Known Allies: New Warriors, Justice, X-Force
Major Enemies: White Queen I, Hellfire Club, Psionex, Force Of Nature
Education: High school
Powers: Microwave generation
History: Angelica Jones was a thirteen-year-old high school student who fell victim to a series of misfortunes. She was badly treated by other girls at her school, her
beloved grandmother died suddenly, and Angelica was frightened to discover that she herself was manifesting a strange superhuman power to generate great heat.
With her grandmother gone. Angelica lived alone with her father, who was unable to cope with helping Angelica deal with her new power. Angelica was desperately confused, lonely, and miserable.
In Spiderman and his Amazing Friends she is a college student who also operates as a superheroine. She shares a house with her friends Peter Parker/Spiderman and Robert Drake/Iceman. She is a mutant with the power to fly and throw fire beams from her hands. Peter and Robert are actually interested in more than a casual friendship, but she is not interested.
Angelica was in fact a mutant, and her newly emerging mutant ability caused her presence to be detected by Cerebro, a machine designed by Professor Charles Xavier, founder of the X-Men, for the purpose of locating superhumanly powerful mutants. Cerebro functions by detecting the unusual waves of psionic energy emitted by all superhumanly powerful mutants. Angelica's presence was also registered by Mutivac, a similar machine employed by Emma Frost, the White Queen of the Inner Circle of the Hellfire Club. Xavier and the X-Men attempted to pinpoint the unknown mutant's location in order to recruit her for Xavier's school, where he trained mutants in using their powers. Meanwhile, Frost did the same, hoping to enlist the unknown mutant in her school, where she could train her to use her powers in order to serve the sinister purposes of the Inner Circle. Frost reached Angelica and her father only moments before the X-Men could. Frost, in her public role as headmistress of the Massachusetts Academy, a renowned private school, persuaded Angelica's father to send her there to receive the special help she needed.
A year later Angelica had made great progress in developing the use of her powers under the White Queen's guidance. Angelica remained an innocent, unaware of the true malevolent nature of the Hellfire Club and the White Queen. Angelica found some happiness at the Massachusetts Academy, and she was very grateful to Frost for the kindness she often showed her. Frost gave Angelica the code name of Firestar.
Thunderbird, one of the Hellions, a team of adolescent mutants being trained by Frost, sought vengeance on Xavier and the X-Men for the death of his brother, the original Thunderbird, who had been killed in action while serving with the X-Men. Two other Hellions, Empath and Roulette, decided to help Thunderbird against the X-Men despite his refusal of their assistance. Empath used his power to control the emotions of others to force Firestar to fall in love with him so deeply that she would do anything he asked. He thus forced her to participate in the three Hellions' attack on the X-Men, whom Frost had taught Angelica to regard as enemies, at the military base at Cheyenne Mountain, Colorado. However, the X-Men defeated Firestar, Empath, and Roulette, and Thunderbird realized he was wrong to want vengeance on Xavier and the X-Men.
Firestar, once free of Empath's control, felt despair and guilt over having helped the Hellions cause so much trouble at Cheyenne Mountain. She was pleased and touched, however, when Xavier offered to admit her into his school. She refused, though, out of loyalty to Frost, and returned to the Massachusetts Academy.
Angelica was later contacted by the hero Night Thrasher to join with other teenage super humans to form the New Warriors. She joined with them for a long tenure, gradually developing a romantic relationship with Marvel Boy (later, Justice.) After many months, Angelica learned that her powers were slowly causing her to become sterile and she began to use her powers more sparingly and to a lesser extent.
Angelica and Justice were brought to the Avengers by their fellow New Warrior Rage, who was an association of the hero team. The three helped the Avengers reform after a period of long disbanding, and Angelica and Justice captured the villain Whirlwind to prove their worth to the team. They were accepted as reserve members under the tutelage of Avenger Hawkeye, and soon graduated to full membership status. Angelica was initially reticent about her role with the team, but she remained with them out of sympathy for Justice who was enamored of the team. She shared her medical problem with the team and was helped by Dr. Henry Pym who eventually cured her. Angelica felt increasingly a part of the team, and when Speedball tried to get her and Justice to rejoin the Warriors, they declined.
Angelica accepted Justice's proposal, and the two left active Avenger duty to explore their relationship before marriage.
Strength level: Firestar possesses the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in regular exercise.
Known Superhuman Powers: Firestar is a mutant who possesses the superhuman ability to project microwave energy, which she can utilize in different ways. Microwaves are comparatively short waves of electromagnetic energy. Firestar continually absorbs microwave energy from her environment, including microwave energy from the stars, and continually broadcasts it at low levels.
In order to use her microwave energy for specific purposes, Firestar must mentally concentrate, thus causing the microwaves to swirl about her body, creating a visible aura around her. In order to project the microwave energy towards a specific target, she must mentally "push" some of the energy swirling around her towards that target.
At present Firestar is still in the process of learning how to use her powers. Moreover, she is still quite young, and the strength of her powers will surely increase as she reaches adulthood. Hence, the full extent of Firestar's powers has yet to be determined.
Firestar can use her microwave energy to generate intense heat. At this point she can already melt a metal object the size of a cannon almost instantly. She has flown towards a thick wall of solid rock and melted through it so quickly that she could continue flying right through the hole she had melted without pausing.
By mentally "pushing" microwave energy behind or beneath herself for propulsion, Firestar can fly. Her maximum speed has yet to be established, but she can already fly quite swiftly and maneuver in flight quite well. She can generate enough propulsive force to carry considerable weights to great heights at high speed. For example, she has carried Colossus, in his metal-like form, which weighs 500 pounds, high into the air.
Although microwave energy can be lethal to ordinary humans, Firestar is apparently immune to its harmful effects.
Powers: Superhuman ability to project Microwave energy...Can generate intense heat & melt many objects...Also has the ability to fly by mentally "pushing" microwave energy beneath herself for propulsion...She is also immune to any harmful effects of microwave energy.
Spidey's Friend?: Yes, they even made some non-marvel universe cartoon in the 80's which starred both of them!
Firestar was originally brought into the Hellions team by Emma Frost, then the White Queen of the Hellfire Club, who wanted to train her to be an assassin. Rejecting the White Queen's methods, Firestar ended up joining Night Thrasher's New Warriors team.
She vastly developed her skill in using her mutant power of microwave generation during her time with the New Warriors. Enamoured of Vance Astro, a.k.a. Justice, Firestar joined the Avengers alongside him as reserve members. For a long time, Angel's powers were slowly killing her body through microwave radiation poisoning, a fact which she kept secret from everyone. However, when she finally revealed her problem, she met with Doctor Henry Pym, a.k.a. Giant-Man, who designed her a special suit to wear under her costume which would not only halt her power from harming her, but actually kickstart her natural immunity to it.
When Speedball was reforming the New Warriors, he approached Angelica and Vance to rejoin the team, but they remained with the Avengers after helping to stop Blastaar.
Shortly after, X-51 came to Avengers Mansion seeking help, but when he encountered Firestar and Justice his Sentinel programming took control and he attacked them. Together with the Vision, Angelica and Vance managed to stop X-51.
Firestar eventually took a leave of absence from the Avengers to devote more time to her relationship with Vance. She and Vance later infiltrated the Triune Understanding and were present during the Avengers' climactic battle with Kang the Conqueror.
Powers: Firestar can generate microwave energy in the form of fire and heat. Her powers have a tremedous range, from very subtle to very destructive. Her powers come from the fact that she is a mutant. Her powers were hurting her in the beginning, but now a days, she can use them without fear.
Origin: A young girl, Angel's powers just started to develop when Emma Frost approached Angel's father about joining the Massachusett's Academy, a prestigous school on the east coast. Angel's heart was broken by the death of her grandmother, and eventually, Angel's father thought it would be best if Angel went to the school. There, Angel became Firestar, one of the Hellions, a group of teenage mutants taught by Emma Frost, secretly the White Queen, who would one day join the Hellfire Club's Inner Circle.
History: Firestar's time with the Hellions was short, but it changed her life forever. After she faced the noble X-Men alongside her other Hellions, Firestar decided that the evil ways of the Hellions were not her own. She left the group, hoping to live a normal life with her father. However, her part caught up with her all too soon.
Night Trasher was creating a group of young super-heroes and hacking into the Academy's computer, he learned of Firestar. Along with his new found teammates, they tricked Firestar into joining them by threatening to tell her father. She joined the group, and soon, despite the brutal way she forced to join, she soon loved to be called a New Warrior.
It was one New Warrior in particular that made the transition rather simple for the shy Firestar. The lad called Marvel Boy had quickly stolen Firestar's heart, even before she ever saw his true face or heard his true name. The two soon became inseperable.
But hard times were ahead. Marvel Boy was also a mutant, and his step-father often beat him up because of it. Once, Marvel Boy's anger got the best of him and he accidently killed his step-father. Firestar was summoned as a character witness, and her father was there, for he uncovered the truth that his daughter was in fact the super-heroine Firestar. Her father was not angry, but in his one way, he was proud of her.
But Marvel Boy's fate was not a happy one. While not charged of murder, he was put in jail for negligent homicide. The Warriors tried to save him, but Marvel Boy refused, saying he was not above justice. Firestar remained alongside the Warriors, even though her heart was with Marvel Boy.
Firestar's powers contiued to develop, and Firestar faced off with her past when the New Warriors fought with the Hellions. Months later, the Hellions were killed in a horrific battle with Trevor Fitzroy. Firestar and Warpath, now a member of X-Force, traveled to Nova Roma, to tell Empath and Magma of the news of their teammates's deaths. Firestar was deeply saddened by the death's of her friends.
Soon, Marvel Boy was let out of jail for good behaviour, and taking the name Justice, he quickly re-joined the New Warriors, playing the evil Shinobi Shaw for a fool. The New Warriors, X-Force, and others soon were caught in what became known as Child's Play, where the Upstarts hunted down the former members of the New Mutants and Hellions. Firestar was targeted, but her teammates rescued her with Justice's help. The two resumed their love affair, but decided that sex was best left until marriage.
Soon after, Firestar learned that her powers were slowly eating away her chance to have children. Firestar and Justice decided that someday soon, they wanted to have a family, before it was too late. They were engaged.
The New Warriors drifted apart, but Firestar and Justice stayed together. Soon, Justice got the chance of a lifetime. Alongside their teammate Rage, the two journeyed to Avengers Mansion, and fought with them to stop Morgan LeFay. After the attack, the two were out defeating Whirlwind, while the Avengers's founders were deciding on a new team line-up. Justice desperately wanted to be a part of the team.
Hawkeye was watching as they defeated Whirlwind, and when the trio arrived back at the mansion, Hawkeye declared that they should both be Avengers. However, Hawkeye's spot was the only one left open. Captain America himself then offered Justice and Firestar the chance to be reserve Avengers.
They both leapt at the chance, and their lives were happy. Dr. Henry Pym even managed to help Firestar cure her problem with her powers. The couple moved into the Avengers Mansion, and stayed for several months. However, after Justice broke his leg, the two decided to take a break when the chance arose. Currently, they are working as inside agents for the Avengers in the Triune Understanding, hoping to undercover the cult's sinsiter plot.