4. Heat Wave
Mick Rory was a real…hothead. He was a bit…hot under the collar. He didn’t have a very…warm personalit—okay, I’ll stop.
Rory was a strange child, always obsessed with being hot. He’d wear heavy winter parkas in the summer to stay hot. He was bullied by other children, obviously, including an incident where he was locked in a meat freezer. Rory responding by escalating to full-blown pyromania, eventually burning down his parents’ house with them inside. He fled to the circus, where he thrived as a fire eater. Until he burned the circus down too. You…you should be noticing a pattern by this point.
He eventually noticed the Rogues in Central City, more specifically Captain Cold. Realizing he could mask his sickness as a supervillain gimmick, he joined up with the Rogues, where he often came into conflict with Captain Cold. But he’s usually the sickest of the Rogues.
He truly is…hot stuff.
