Sunfire

Marvel’s Sunfire is Japan’s premier superhero. He is essentially to Japan what Superman and Captain America are to America – and he’s a really interesting character to boot.

His real name is Shiro Yoshida and he was born to a mother who suffered radiation poisoning after the Hiroshima bombing. As a result, he developed radiation-based powers – solar radiation to be specific.

His powers include flight, the ability to fire plasma blasts, the ability to view infrared radiation and immunity to most types of radiation.

He is an arrogant, stubborn and temperamental character who works best on his own, but he has been a part of the likes of the X-Men and the Avengers Unity Squad for brief periods and it would be interesting to see how his personality affected a movie version of a superhero team (he’s also been one of Apocalypse’s Horsemen).