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* AntagonistInMourning: She fell into a state of anger and despair when Firestorm went missing during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', believing her chance of finding a cure to her heat vampirism was gone.

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* AntagonistInMourning: She fell into a state of anger and despair when Firestorm went missing during ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', ''ComicBook/{{Forever Evil|2013}}'', believing her chance of finding a cure to her heat vampirism was gone.
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* {{Retcon}}: ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' claims [[spoiler:he was actually a government plant all along, becoming Firestorm included.]]

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* {{Retcon}}: ''ComicBook/DoomsdayClock'' claims [[spoiler:he was actually a government plant all along, becoming Firestorm included. Given that this is shown to Ronnie by Doctor Manhattan, it should be taken with a grain of salt as a ''recent'' retcon that Manhattan himself orchestrated when he mutilated the DCU.]]

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* KilledOffForReal: He was captured by Deathstroke and killed by the newest Tattooed Man to prove his loyalty to his villainous Titans team.

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* KilledOffForReal: He was captured by Deathstroke and killed by the newest Tattooed Man to prove avenge the death of his loyalty to his villainous Titans team.son.


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* WouldHurtAChild: Sometime in-between ''Final Crisis Aftermath: Ink'' and ''Titans: Villains for Hire'', he murdered Tattooed Man's son Leon. Tattooed Man thus joined Deathstroke's bastard Titans team in exchange for getting to kill Slipknot.

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* AmazonChaser: Pre-Crisis, Ronnie often tried to start a relationship with Power Girl whenever there was a JSA / JLA team-up.



* ArtisticLicenseBiology: She is supposed to be a [[HalfHumanHybrid humanoid hyena hybrid]], but bears no similarities to actual hyena, looking more like a standard werewolf, albeit with penchant to [[TheHyena laugh all the time]]. Oddly enough, her very first appearance was slightly closer to the source material.
* CurbStompBattle: Her initial incarnation used to dish these out to Firestorm like candy. During their first fight, he was unable to land a single hit on her, while Hyena was beating him up without much effort. He only managed to save his neck by bringing down an electric pylon ([[LookBehindYou behind her back]]) onto her.

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* ArtisticLicenseBiology: She is supposed to be a [[HalfHumanHybrid humanoid hyena human-hyena hybrid]], but bears no similarities to actual hyena, looking more like a standard werewolf, albeit with penchant to for [[TheHyena laugh laughing all the time]]. Oddly enough, her very first appearance was slightly closer to the source material.
* CurbStompBattle: Her initial incarnation used to dish these out to Firestorm like candy. During their first fight, he was unable to land a single hit on her, while Hyena was beating him up without much effort. He only managed to save his neck by bringing down an electric pylon ([[LookBehindYou behind her back]]) onto on her.


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* EvenEvilHasStandards: She was brought into the Secret Society of Super-Villains as part of a plot by the Ultra-Humanite to destroy Earth-One. When she learned about this, she gets the other villains from Earth-One to save the heroes so they can thwart the Humanite.


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* {{Retcon}}:
** The origin of Caitlin Snow establishes the New 52 reality version of Louise to have been dead from the start, murdered by her colleagues at S.T.A.R. Labs. Come ''Doomsday Clock'', she pops up alive again.
** Speaking of, ''Doomsday Clock'' also claims she's actually a government agent who's only been ''pretending'' to be a murderous supervillain.
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* IntangibleMan: One of her powers.
* {{Retgone}}: Another victim of the big ''Flashpoint'' erasure, though she returned with ''Doomsday Clock''.

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* IntangibleMan: {{Intangibility}}: One of her powers.
* {{Retgone}}: RetGone: Another victim of the big ''Flashpoint'' erasure, though she returned with ''Doomsday Clock''.

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* HotForTeacher: When Crystal Frost was a student at Hudson University, she fell in love with one of her professors, Martin Stein. Stein however, rejected Frost's affections.

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* HotForTeacher: When Crystal Frost was a student at Hudson University, she fell in love DoesNotLikeMen: She has an extreme hatred of men and froze them solid on sight, even her defense attorney. Granted, her male workers did not treat her with one of her professors, much respect, but she didn't go crazy until Martin Stein. Stein however, rejected Frost's affections. brushed off her advances when she mistook his platonic interest in her for attraction.



* StrawFeminist: She has an extreme hatred of men and froze them solid on sight, even her defense attorney. Granted, her male workers did not treat her with much respect, but she didn't go crazy until Martin Stein brushed off her advances when she mistook his platonic interest in her for attraction.
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No connection whatsoever to a [[Franchise/{{Venom}} certain character]] from Marvel; in fact, this Venom was created two years earlier.

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No connection whatsoever to a [[Franchise/{{Venom}} [[ComicBook/{{Venom}} certain character]] from Marvel; in fact, this Venom was created two years earlier.

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!!!'''AKA:''' Theresa (last name unknown)
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men'' #8 (June, 2012)

Firehawk is one of the International Firestorms created by ZitherTech.
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' Vol 3 #17 (November, 2005)

She is the girlfriend of Firestorm (aka Jason Rusch), who has the ability to teleport and some limited telepathic abilities.
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!!!'''AKA:''' John Ravenhair/Black-Cloud-in-Morning
!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' Vol 2 #1 (June, 1982)
->''"For I am Black Bison! Last defender of a nation too proud to die!"''


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* FamilialBodySnatcher: When his great-grandfather Bison-Black-as-Midnight-Sky was killed, John was possessed by the old man's angry spirit.


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* NemeanSkinning: Wears a bison headress.

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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' #1 (March, 1978)
->''"I'm afraid I've spent most of my life either giving lectures... or wandering through space, talking to myself."''



* RealAwardFictionalCharacter: A Nobel Prize winning physicist.




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' #1 (March, 1978)
->''"Terrific! I ask for help, and you give me a science lecture! You're worse than some of my teachers!"''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' Vol 3 #1 (July, 2004)
->''" That guy is so cool! He's just an ordinary man in a bat suit. I could take his head off in a second! But he's got me shaking!"''




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!!!'''First Appearance:''' ''Firestorm'' Vol 2 #23 (May, 1984)

Felicity Smoak was the stepmother of Ronnie Raymond, the hero known as Firestorm as well as being the manager of a computer company in New York.
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!!!'''First Appearance:''' (as Lorraine) ''The Fury of Firestorm'' #1 (June, 1982); (as Firehawk) ''The Fury of Firestorm'' #17 ( October, 1983)

Firehawk is the daughter of Senator Walter Reilly. She was kidnapped to see if a similar result could be produced as with the development of Firestorm’s powers. These powers did eventually manifest after she was put in a sensory deprivation chamber for an extended period of time. She was then subjected to nuclear radiation which activated her metagene. She was originally pitted against Firestorm as one of his enemies, but he was able to remind her of her past and the two teamed up together against Henry Hewitt who was using the nuclear process to become Tokamak. The two eventually overcame him and became partners.
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* HiredGun: He was hired by Tokamak to fight Firestorm.

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* HiredGun: HiredGuns: He was hired by Tokamak to fight Firestorm.



* HiredGun: Much like her predecessor, she was mostly a mercenary.

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* HiredGun: HiredGuns: Much like her predecessor, she was mostly a mercenary.
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* OneWomanArmy: In "Justice League Vs Suicide Squad", Killer Frost takes out the entire Justice League after absorbing the solar energy in Superman's body.

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* OneWomanArmy: [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]]: In "Justice League Vs Suicide Squad", Killer Frost takes out the entire Justice League after absorbing the solar energy in Superman's body.



* TragicIceCharacter: She was once a brilliant young scientist with a bright future ahead of her and wanted nothing more than to help people. Unfortunately, some of her own coworkers locked her in a thermodynamic machine, intending to kill her. When she emerged, she was unable to generate her own body heat, and now needed to kill others (by freezing them) in order to survive. She becomes a stone-cold supervillain- but all she really wants is to feel warmth again. Thankfully, her story ultimately has a happy ending, as she learns to control her hunger and ends up joining the Justice League of America.

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* TragicIceCharacter: She was once a brilliant young scientist with a bright future ahead of her and wanted nothing more than to help people. Unfortunately, some of her own coworkers locked her in a thermodynamic machine, intending to kill her. When she emerged, she was unable to generate her own body heat, and now needed to kill others (by freezing them) in order to survive. She becomes a stone-cold supervillain- supervillain, but all she really wants is to feel warmth again. Thankfully, her story ultimately has a happy ending, as she learns to control her hunger and ends up joining the Justice League of America.
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* ManipulativeBitch: She manipulated the TragicVillain Mr. Freeze into a relationship with her, only for her to reveal that she had never truly loved him and was using him as a pawn the entire time while they were being carted off to prison. In another story from before the Mr. Freeze incident, she discovered that she had contracted cancer, and manipulated the new Firestorm host Jason Rusch into curing it for her, and then went on a rampage, leading to Firestorm reversing the effects as a form of revenge.

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* ManipulativeBitch: ManipulativeBastard: She manipulated the TragicVillain Mr. Freeze into a relationship with her, only for her to reveal that she had never truly loved him and was using him as a pawn the entire time while they were being carted off to prison. In another story from before the Mr. Freeze incident, she discovered that she had contracted cancer, and manipulated the new Firestorm host Jason Rusch into curing it for her, and then went on a rampage, leading to Firestorm reversing the effects as a form of revenge.
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* KillItWithIce: While it doesn't actually kill her, this is one method for defeating her. Unlike most ice characters, she freezes things by absorbing the heat from them instead of the usual inexplicable 'cold ray', and ''she must do so to stay warm.'' Encasing her in ice cuts off her power supply, and should rightfully be ''more'' dangerous to her than to a normal human. Of course, it's often [[HarmlessFreezing not even dangerous to non-metahumans]].

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* BreakoutCharacter: Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''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 ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'', and ''Series/TheFlash2014''.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Her first incarnation was a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, but the second one was completely AxeCrazy.

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* BreakoutCharacter: Killer Frost has proven popular enough with fans and writers that she has been used in ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'' and ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'', as well as several video games and animated movies. The kicker? She appeared in most of these WITHOUT ''without'' Firestorm. The only adaptations she appeared in that also included Firestorm were ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'', ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueAction'', and ''Series/TheFlash2014''.
* ElementalAbsorption: She absorbs heat in order to power her ice powers. Since you'd expect AnIcePerson to be ''weak'' against fire, this tends to be a dangerous surprise for heroes facing her.
* EvilIsDeathlyCold: Her first incarnation was is a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds, but the second one was is completely AxeCrazy.AxCrazy.
* FeedItWithFire: She fuels her powers by ''absorbing heat'', so blasting her with heat or fire will make her more powerful. Ironically, she can be defeated by freezing her, as it takes away her energy.



** A strange version of this happens on ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', where Killer Frost is brainwashed into helping the heroes, and becomes immensely clingy toward Firestorm (to his [[UnwantedHarem surprise AND dislike]]).

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** A strange version of this happens on ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', where ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'' when Killer Frost is brainwashed into helping the heroes, and becomes immensely clingy toward Firestorm (to his [[UnwantedHarem surprise AND and dislike]]).



* KillItWithFire: Averted. Contrary to others who share her power set, heat did little damage to Killer Frost. In fact, heat was essential to her continued existence. Attacking Killer Frost with a heat based-weapon would only serve to strengthen her.

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* KillItWithFire: Averted. Contrary to others who share her power set, heat did does little damage to Killer Frost. In fact, heat was is essential to her continued existence. Attacking Killer Frost with a heat based-weapon would heat-based weapon only serve serves to strengthen her.




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* VampiricDraining: She can absorb heat in order to strengthen her own powers. She can also do this to ''people'', siphoning their own warmth and freezing them to death. In fact, in the case of Caitlin Snow, she ''has'' to do this in order to keep herself alive.



* AntagonistInMourning: She fell into a state of anger and despair when Firestorm went missing during {{ComicBook/Forever Evil}}, believing her chance of finding a cure to her heat vampirism was gone.

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* AntagonistInMourning: She fell into a state of anger and despair when Firestorm went missing during {{ComicBook/Forever Evil}}, ''ComicBook/ForeverEvil'', believing her chance of finding a cure to her heat vampirism was gone.



* HiddenDepths: Most characters, including even ''Eclipso'', are surprised by the fact that she has a desire to make a positive difference. On a more mundane note, she enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles and is apparently a fan of {{Series/Happy Days}}.
* HorrorHunger: She has an incessant hunger for organic heat, which requires her to absorb body heat from others- without doing so, she'll freeze to death. The process is nearly always fatal to those she targets, though she later learns to control it in a way that isn't dangerous to the person she's absorbing heat from.

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* HiddenDepths: Most characters, including even ''Eclipso'', are surprised by the fact that she has a desire to make a positive difference. On a more mundane note, she enjoys doing jigsaw puzzles and is apparently a fan of {{Series/Happy Days}}.
''Series/HappyDays''.
* HorrorHunger: She has an incessant hunger for organic heat, which requires her to absorb body heat from others- others -- without doing so, she'll freeze to death. The process is nearly always fatal to those she targets, though she later learns to control it in a way that isn't dangerous to the person she's absorbing heat from.



* PairTheSmartOnes: ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth'' paired her with fellow scientist [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ryan Choi]].
* PlotAllergy: In ''Tis The Season To Be Freezin''', she puts cinnamon in Firestorm's mug of hot chocolate after he mentioned he liked it. Because he still doesn't trust her, he assumes she's trying to poison him and switches their drinks...only to find out that she's allergic to cinnamon. Luckily, he was able to use his powers to create an antihistamine for her.

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* PairTheSmartOnes: ''ComicBook/JusticeLeagueOfAmericaRebirth'' paired pairs her with fellow scientist [[ComicBook/TheAtom Ryan Choi]].
* PlotAllergy: In ''Tis The Season To Be Freezin''', she puts cinnamon in Firestorm's mug of hot chocolate after he mentioned he liked it. Because he still doesn't trust her, he assumes she's trying to poison him and switches their drinks... only to find out that she's allergic to cinnamon. Luckily, he was able to use his powers to create an antihistamine for her. her.
* ReformedButRejected: The 2021 Christmas annual, ''Tis The Season To Be Freezin''', has her reconnect with Firestorm, who's reluctant to believe she's changed and even believes that her attempt at being friendly (offering him hot chocolate) is actually an attempt at ''poisoning him.'' Fortunately he soon [[{{Pun}} warms up to her]] after she helps him take down the Royal Flush Gang.



* ReformedButRejected: The 2021 Christmas annual, ''Tis The Season To Be Freezin''', has her reconnect with Firestorm, who's reluctant to believe she's changed and even believes that her attempt at being friendly (offering him hot chocolate) is actually an attempt at ''poisoning him.'' Fortunately he soon [[{{Pun}} warms up to her]] after she helps him take down the Royal Flush Gang.
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* UncertainDoom: Firehawk loses her while fighting in a collapsing building. Firehawk emerges, Silver Deer does not. While it's ambiguous enough that Silver Deer could have easily returned, she never did.
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* DeadpanSnarker: Prone to making wisecracks, particularly in Firestorm mode, much like Peter Parker's quip quota went up when he was in his ComicBook/SpiderMan costume.

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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Gets "recruited" by the Monitor during the Crisis, and then the Psycho-Pirate uses his powers to futz with her mind so she won't just try to kill everyone around her.



* TheBusCameBack: She finally returned to the main continuity during ''Doomsday Clock''.

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* BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood: Gets "recruited" by the Monitor during the Crisis, and then the Psycho-Pirate uses his powers to futz with her mind so she won't just try to kill everyone around her.
* TheBusCameBack: She finally returned to the main continuity during ''Doomsday Clock''.
* CostumeEvolution: Originally, she wore the same dress as her predecessor, sometime post crisis she adopted her unique "one piece bathing suit with fur trim" look.

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