Johnny hit his lowest point when Tommy Hanson, a young fan of his, set himself on fire in an attempt to be more like his hero. Hearing of the boy's death, Johnny considered retiring as the Human Torch, but the Beyonder managed to talk him out of it. Johnny's old feelings for Crystal slowly returned, but his love for Alicia enabled him to resist temptation, and Crystal eventually left the team. Despite their long and intimate relationship, Johnny was horrified to discover that the Alicia he loved and married was not the true Alicia Masters, but a Skrull imposter named Lyja.
Originally sent to infiltrate and destroy the Fantastic Four, Lyja truly fell in love with Johnny and joined the Fantastic Four in confronting Paibok , the Skrull who had kidnapped the real Alicia. Lyja seemingly sacrificed her life to protect Johnny, but her former lover Paibok nursed her back to health. Trying to move on from yet another failed relationship, Johnny enrolled at Empire State University ; but Devos , Paibok, and even Lyja attacked Johnny at ESU, forcing his powers to go nova, burning down a large section of the campus.
Lyja returned to Johnny's life again, tricking him into believing she was carrying his baby. When this proved a lie as well, Johnny left her again. Johnny briefly joined his nephew Franklin 's Fantastic Force team, where he battled his virtually omnipotent extra-dimensional counterpart Vangaard formerly Gaard , convincing him to abandon his mission of eliminating redundant realities by showing him the hero he could become.
After Franklin Richards created Counter-Earth and rescued the Fantastic Four, Avengers, and several other heroes from death at the hands of Onslaught , Roma deemed Franklin too powerful to ignore, and sent Technet and the Captain Britain Corps to retrieve him.
The Human Torch convinced Roma that Franklin's family, the Fantastic Four, would be able to nurture him so that he would not grow up to be a danger to the Omniverse. This Nova betrayed Johnny and gave the Nullifier to her master, Abraxas, but even that couldn't save Abraxas after Galactus joined the fight. Following the battle, Susan found herself pregnant again, and, with Reed off battling the Hidden Ones, Johnny was forced to seek help from Dr.
Doom when problems with the pregnancy threatened Sue's life. Doom saved both Sue and her daughter, Valeria. Seeking an acting career, Johnny was cast as the Rawhide Kid in a summer blockbuster; but it was eventually decided he wasn't ready for the role, which was given to Lon Zelig actually the Super-Skrull.
Johnny also spent some time as a firefighter at the behest of his former classmate, Mike Snow; but when Snow moved away after his wife turned out to be a psychotic arsonist and seemingly died, Johnny left the job though he later returned to the profession during a period when the Fantastic Four was short on cash.
Although initially in over his head, Johnny was able to stop a manufacturer from stealing the secret of Reed's Unstable Molecule suits, and began to warm up to both the job and his co-worker, Jian Fetta. Unfortunately, after a major battle with Doom, Reed attempted to claim Latveria for the Fantastic Four, an act that turned the United States government against them. To escape trial, the group was forced to sell many of their patents and holdings to the government, which left Johnny's wallet much emptier than usual and sent his popularity plummeting.
Seeking help from the least popular person he could think of, Johnny contacted Spider-Man, who tried to cheer Johnny up by bringing him to a water park, where they were attacked by Hydro-Man. Easily defeating the villain and rescuing the park's popular mascot, Johnny found his popularity rising once more. Johnny also began to converse with a new girl over the internet and hit it off when he finally met her. This girl, Cole, turned out to be the daughter of one of Johnny's oldest enemies, the Wizard; but although she was sent to trick the Fantastic Four, Cole actually helped lead them to the Wizard's lair, where they battled him and his new Frightful Four.
The Wizard escaped and took Cole with him, but Johnny remained hopeful about meeting her again. An alien named Zius later came to Earth, the location of the one being in the universe who could nullify his Galactus-proof planet-cloaking invisibility shield, Susan Richards. Zius threatened to destroy the planet if Sue did not sacrifice herself, but Reed used his power gun to switch her powers with Johnny's and tricked Zius into leaving the planet.
As he left orbit, Galactus destroyed Zius's spaceship and claimed Johnny as his new Herald. Unwilling to lead Galactus to populated worlds, Johnny used his new powers to analyze Galactus and, with the help of the Fantastic Four and Quasar , managed to transform Galactus back into humanoid form. Johnny's power cosmic faded, but during Reed's subsequent efforts to reverse Sue and Johnny's power switch, a remnant of the power caused a flare-up that temporarily sent the Fantastic Four's powers into four random New Yorkers.
The super-human Civil War split the team once again. Johnny was beaten into a brief coma during a visit to a nightclub, sparked by anger over the Stamford disaster. After the death of Bill Foster [68] during a battle between the two factions, Johnny went with his sister, Sue, to join Captain America 's " Secret Avengers ".
Through Nick Fury 's connections, the two were given new identities as husband and wife, which they accepted with understandable reluctance. Johnny and the Thing continued to serve on the team again, but this time with the Black Panther and his new wife Storm filling in while Reed and Sue took some time to reconcile. When Johnny confronted the Skrull, she revealed herself to be his old flame, Lyja, who had been trying to keep them out of harm's way.
When Ben, Johnny, Franklin, Val, and the Tinkerer were ready to leave the Negative Zone she refused to leave, because she wanted to find out who she was. While Reed and Sue were gone from the Baxter Building of their own important missions, a group known as the Cult of the Negative Zone successfully made their way into the building and breached the portal to the Negative Zone. Once inside, the cult managed to unleash what seemed to be an endless army of Annihilus Insectoid Soldiers upon Johnny, the currently powerless Ben, and the kids of the Future Foundation.
Franklin revealed that he had his powers back by destroying the army and the group pushed into the Negative Zone , where the only way to hold the army off from getting through the door was to lock the door from their side and randomize the code so no one could get in or out. Ben was prepared to make the sacrifice, but Johnny threw him through the portal as he regained his powers. Annihilus demanded that Johnny opened the portal to Earth, but he refused and was killed.
Johnny with the Light Brigade and enslaved Annihilus. Three times Johnny was resurrected by worms-healers, but every time he burned them before they had time to recover his body and he died again and again.
Finally, worms have been able to recover his body, and Johnny was sent to prison, where he met with the Light Brigade. After that Johnny opened a portal to the Baxter Building and they all returned to Earth. Then Johnny gathered the team drawing with fire the symbolical "4" at the sky above the Baxter Building.
Reed, Sue, Ben and Peter boarded one of the Annihilation Wave's ships controlled by Johnny, who used the rest of the ships to battle the Kree army until the Inhumans asked to finish them by their own hand. That moment, the Mad Celestials appeared to destroy this universe. Although the team tried to use the Hub a weapon of mass destruction created by the Reeds , they couldn't defeat the Mad Celestials.
Then, a future version of Franklin and Valeria appeared as part of Nathaniel Richards 's plan. Fantastic showed a new secondary headquarters called Foundation and new costumes were given to the members of the Future Foundation, as part of the reformation of the Fantastic Four. When New York was invaded by monsters from the Counter-Earth, Johnny Storm sacrificed his powers in order to stop them. His wife Sue rushed next to him to use her invisible force field to protect them both but to no avail.
Guessing that the radiation would pass through the force field just as light does Reed wrapped his malleable body around Sue and saved her from harm by taking the brunt of it himself and was crippled. Unable to drop her force field for even an instant Sue was forced to remain in the Negative Zone. Reed remained with her and built a suspended animation tank for her that would automatically maintain her force field while she remained in stasis.
Eventually an entire space station was build around Sue to protect her and allow Reed to work on closing the rift inch by tortuous inch. The public was told nothing of what happened to Reed and Sue. With Reed and Sue incapacitated John was forced to finally grow up.
He assumed the leadership of the Fantastic Five has since shown himself to be mature and capable in both that role and as a father. Even so, this has almost happened on at least one occasion. The Wingless Wizard penetrated the deception surrounding Big Brain and managed to get himself and a lackey inside the Fantastistation.
He was stopped by the security system and placed in suspended animation. Recently Reed has adopted a humaniform design for Big Brain V2. Johnny Storm is a slenderly built, blond, young male often seen in a suit or in the blue FF-uniform. As the Human Torch he resembles a fully burning humanoid in reddish flames with his features only slightly visible. When much less experienced with his powers his flame form was much less focused and changed between yellow, orange and red fire colors.
Usually the first to dive into battle or try to right wrongs, Johnny Storm is the adventuresome spirit of the Fantastic Four. Johnny normally has good control over his powers, but if someone he loves is threatened or killed, he may lose his temper and lash out. Anyone who dares to harm one of the other FF members, especially his sister Sue, is likely to get the Torch flaming mad pun intended.
His hobbies includes flying around the city, dating women, flirting, attending various public events, jesting around and tormenting the Thing and driving really fast hotrods. Despite his many romantic setbacks over the years, Johnny believes in true love, and he pursues this goal with considerable zeal. Johnny survived the crash, though only barely, but quickly recovered and discovered that he had developed powerful flame-based abilities.
His power and courage easily won him an early spot with the Teen Titans, but he broke with them a few short years later over an argument with visiting Russian hero Starfire later known as Red Star.
Johnny spent several years in solo adventures, only to return to the Titans at the request of former teammate Roy Harper, once known as Speedy, and now known as Arsenal. Since the disbanding of that group of Titans, Johnny has once again gone solo.
The loss of his wife a white Martian spy, who accidentally died, the first time he activated his powers in her presence has made him more serious. Sharing Related articles on Writeups. Tell me more about the game stats. The Human Torch is a powerful energy wielder capable of projecting fire Flame Project , cover himself in a sheath of flame Flame Being , with a maximum duration of 17 hours, as well as control the fire in many different ways Fire Control and derived effects.
A common trick is to control air currents Air Control , although the Torch has to be flying fast in circles or other shapes to do so -1 — often to buffet opponents with heated air for various purposes. A very common tactic is to project balls of fire against an opponent aiming with Accuracy. He can only empty all of his energy at once in an overwhelming attack see Going Nova!
It enables him, but him only -2 , to become more resistant to all physical attacks. Johnny has supreme control over all flames Fire Control and can even create simple objects -2 such as cages out of flame Force Manipulation, with the Limitation that half the active APs of Force Manipulation must be used to give the object Flame Being His constructs are not solid, but rather attack anyone touching them with the APs of Flame Being.
Horton perhaps made the Torch a bit too human. At first glance the android looked human. In fact, he had the same vulnerabilities that humans do. For example, although he's a machine, he can still be drugged as well as rendered unconscious by gas. He's even vulnerable to telepathic assaults. In the Marvel crossover series House of M , all of reality as we knew it was changed. Instead of mutants being hunted and persecuted, they were now the ones in charge of the Earth, and the one in charge of the mutants was Magneto.
Some heroes were different, others didn't exist at all. So what was the Human Torch doing in this warped reality? Was there a Fantastic Four still? In this reality Earth , one of the more popular television shows was Sapien Death Match, in which regular humans fought each other while wearing armor with special abilities. Yup, you guessed it: Johnny Storm was a contestant on Sapien Death Match and wore armor that flamed on in a similar way to when he had powers.
The Fantastic Four has some very famous and iconic enemies. Doctor Doom is one of their biggest adversaries, but the FF have enemies that aren't even from the Earth.
Arguably, the biggest threat the FF faces on a regular basis is the planet-devouring Galactus! However, due to a series of bizarre events, Johnny Storm actually became his Herald! Not only that, he didn't have his flame powers! Galactus at one time had Frankie Raye as his Herald, and she sported flame powers very similar to Johnny.
But when Johnny became Galactus' herald, he had actually switched powers with his sister, Sue, and for a brief period went by the name The Invisible Boy. Johnny betrayed Galactus and with the help of Quasar, the Fantastic Four took away Galactus's awesome powers. Aliens from the Negative Zone were going to invade the Earth. Although Ben Grimm initially volunteers to activate a force field that would trap both Grimm and the aliens in the Negative Zone, it's Johnny that does the deed.
Valiantly, he fight to the death. However, he's later resurrected by Annihilus, who plants insect-creatures in his body to revive him in an attempt to open the portal.
It's only natural that a superhero goes through changes after their initial introduction. The Hulk was always incredible, but when he was first introduced back in his skin was gray, not green. When Johnny Storm was first introduced as the Human Torch in , there was a big difference when compared to who he is today. When Johnny Storm first became the Human Torch after being transformed by cosmic rays, he actually had transformed himself into living flame.
Early versions show him almost as a fire elemental. Eventually it was changed so that Johnny was generating an aura of flame around his human body. The Marvel Cinematic Universe has planted a variety of easter eggs in their movies over the years, hoping that they'll "hatch" in future films. The end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.
The Human Torch was an android that was created in the s. When deprived of oxygen, the Torch wouldn't be able to ignite his body, and he would also go into a stasis mode until enough oxygen was present.
The android dressed in red was clearly seen at a technology fair in the movie, possibly in stasis. Perhaps he'll return in an Invaders movie! We've talked about Johnny's incredible flame and his ability to do unreal amounts of damage with his powers. However, the Human Torch has some amazing control over his abilities. Sure, he can do his nova blast, which releases more energy than a nuclear bomb, but what about times where he exerts extremely finite control over his flame?
He can shape the size and shape of the flame he emits but not necessarily to the degree of the mutant Pyro. On a smaller level, the Human Torch has used his flame power precisely and safely enough to cut a person's hair.
Now that's skill! There have been many attempts to this day to try and recreate the exact formula that transformed weakling Steve Rogers into the iconic Captain America. However, is there a better alternative to the serum that's more accessible?
The blood of the original Human Torch, Jim Hammond, has shown to have miraculous properties. A transfusion of his blood was given to a woman named Jacqueline Falsworth.
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