Pyrokinesis
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The Human Torch of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four can harmlessly envelop himself in flame at will ("Flame on!"), which allows him to fly, shoot flame offensively, and absorb heat energy.
Pyrokinesis is the postulated or fictional psi ability to excite the atoms within an object, possibly creating enough energy to ignite the object. Pyrokinesis would be a minor form of psychokinesis, similar to poltergeist activity. Stephen King's story Firestarter prominently features use of pyrokinesis. In fantastic science fiction and superhero comic books, a pyrokinetic is a person capable of generating flames from thin air, not requiring the consumption of oxygen or combustible objects to maintain the flames. Pyrokinetics in fiction have been depicted as able to increase the temperature in their proximity, create flames, and endure extreme heat and flame without being harmed.
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Fictional pyrokinetics
Comics
- The Black Queen of Marvel Comics' Hellfire Club from the X-Men series
- Firebird of Marvel Comics' Avengers
- Firestar of Marvel Comics's Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends and X-Men
- Holocaust (a.k.a. Pyre) of the Milestone Comics title Blood Syndicate.
- The Human Torch of Marvel Comics' Fantastic Four
- Lee Jackson and Jerry Montrose (Pyre) comic book series by J. Michael Straczynski Rising Stars
- Liz Sherman of the comic book-turned-movie Hellboy (2004)
- Pyro of Marvel Comics' Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (He can only control fire, but not create fire)
- Magma of Marvel Comics' New Mutants and X-Men
- Rusty Collins of Marvel Comics' X-Factor
- Typhoid Mary, from Marvel Comics' Daredevil
- Fire of DC Comics' Justice League
- Firehawk of DC Comics
Films
- Carter of the sci-fi movie Yesterday's Target (1996)
- Charlene McGee of the movie Firestarter (1984)
- Jack-Jack Parr in The Incredibles and Jack-Jack Attack
- Junko Aoki of the Japanese horror movie Kurosufaia (2000)
- Sam Kramer of the movie Spontaneous Combustion (movie) (1990)
- Wallace and Walter Foudroyant, main characters of the romantic comedy Wilder Napalm (1993)
- Warren Peace of the movie Sky High (2005)
Manga and Animation
- Hikaru Shidou of the manga and anime Magic Knight Rayearth
- Hot-Streak of the animated TV series Static Shock
- Roy Mustang of the anime Full Metal Alchemist
- Sailor Mars of the Sailor Moon Series
- Sena Robin of the anime Witch Hunter Robin
- Starfire of the animated TV series Teen Titans
- Volcana of the animated TV series Superman
- Hotspot of the animated TV series Teen Titans
- Pheonix Ikki of the animated and manga series of Saint Seiya
- Karen Kasumi of the manga, anime TV series and movie X/1999
Novel
- Charlene McGee of the Stephen King novel Firestarter
Video Games
- Iori Yagami and Kyo Kusanagi from The King of Fighters videogames.
- Lobelia Carlini of the video game series Sakura Wars
- Mario and Luigi of the Super Mario Bros. series, when empowered by Fire Flowers.
- Raz (Short for Razputin) in Psychonauts learns to use pyrokinesis among with other psychic abilities like telekinesis (also known as psychokinesis) and clairvoyance.
- Gill from Street Fighter 3 uses a projectile attack while calling out "Pyrokinesis!".
- In System Shock 2 the player can use his PSI Amp to project fireballs if they have the ability.
- Parasite Eve 2
- Psi Ops: The Mindgate Conspiracy. In this game, the player throws a wall of fire from his hand.
- The Diablo series and expansions contain numerous pyrokinetic spells available to all the heroes and in some of the monsters.
- Darrio Bossi, one of the main antagonists of Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow, is a pyrokinetic, whose powers increase by several magnitudes midway through the game when he is magically linked to a powerful fire demon named Agnui.
