Firestorm was featured in The CW's Arrowverse, portrayed by Robbie Amell,[3] Victor Garber,[4] and Franz Drameh (as Jefferson Jackson) mainly in The Flash and Legends of Tomorrow.

Conway further elaborated, "I'd been playing around with the idea of a teenage superhero for DC, who could sort of fill the hole that had been left in my heart by leaving Spider-Man behind.

I'd been thinking about the tropes — one of which was the meek, mild alter ego, the brainy kid who, in wish fulfillment, gets superpowers, is extremely powerful… able to do things that he hadn't been able to do before.

[9] This led to a series of eight-page stories in the back of The Flash (issues 289–304; with art by George Pérez, Jim Starlin and others), and a revival of a monthly Firestorm comic in 1982.

The Fury of Firestorm: The Nuclear Men, a series starring Raymond and Rusch, ran from 2012 to 2013 as part of The New 52 continuity reboot.

[citation needed] Introduced in Firestorm Volume 2, this included Black Bison, Plastique, 2000 Committee, Hyena, the Assassination Bureau, Enforcer, Mindboggler, Breathtaker, Pozhar, Sand Demon, Shadowstorm, Shango, Slipknot, Stalnoivolk, Tokamak, Weasel, and Zuggernaut.

[citation needed] Other enemies introduced later in publication included Bolt (Blue Devil #6), Brimstone (Legends #1), Naiad (Firestorm, the Nuclear Man #90), and Deathstorm (Brightest Day #10).

High school student Ronnie Raymond and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Martin Stein were caught in an accident that allowed them to fuse into Firestorm.

[1] Stein was initially completely unaware of their dual identity, leaving him concerned about his unusual disappearances and blackouts, but Ronnie was eventually able to convince him of the truth, allowing them to bond as separate individuals rather than as parts of a whole.

When Conway left the series in 1986, John Ostrander (with artist Joe Brozowski) began writing the Firestorm stories.

His first major story arc pitted Firestorm against the world as the hero, acting on a suggestion from a terminally ill Professor Stein, demanded that the United States and the Soviet Union destroy all of their nuclear weapons.

[12] After confrontations with the Justice League and most of his enemies, Firestorm faced the Russian nuclear superhero Pozhar in the Nevada desert, where an atomic bomb was dropped on them.

Raymond and Arkadin were returned to their old lives, and Stein as Firestorm is exiled to deep space in the process of saving the Earth.

It took the combined might of the Justice League led by Captain Atom, and the returned elemental Firestorm, to restore Ronnie's health.

Firestorm began to appear regularly in a number of DC titles, though lacking the guidance and knowledge necessary to use his skills wisely.

After the original team returned, Firestorm stayed on as a reserve member and participated in events such as a team-up with the Justice Society of America (in JLA/JSA: Virtue and Vice) and the crossover story JLA/Avengers.

Flanked by the D.O.L.L.I.s, a group of cyborg soldiers of limited cognitive ability, the Pupil questioned Stein about the secrets of the universe.

Jason is a college freshman at New York City's Columbus University and seems to have ties with Dani Sharpe, a member of the senior staff at LexCorp.

Firehawk later introduced Jason to Pozhar, a Russian superhero who was once a part of the Firestorm Matrix; together, the trio takes on a newly reborn Tokamak.

[1] Initially, he could not affect organic matter without painful, even lethal, feedback (i.e., fatal biophysical disruption or even localized particle motion phenomena like extreme changes in the weather).

With old and new variations, the organic limitation does not extend to his own person, as its users can molecularly change their driver self at will, allowing them to regenerate lost or damaged bodily tissue, boost immune systems, shape-shift, increase physical capabilities and survive indefinitely without food, sleep, water or air.

[26] Capacities as such produce superhuman levels of strength, durability, stamina and resistance to injury great enough to challenge the New Gods or surviving the rigors of outer space and sitting near the inner corona above the Sun's photosphere without discomfort.

[30] Rusch has shown he can spontaneously warp himself and others he had previously merged with to his specific location, triggering the neural pathway connection and allowing the gestalt to access each other's knowledge and memories to better utilize Firestorm's capabilities.

It was also shown that The Matrix shares a kinship to the Quantum Field in some way, enabling Firestorm users to derive its power for subatomic transmutation and manipulation.

Its merging properties can place a large burden on the user; Firestorm runs the risk of reaching critical mass and detonating.

[41] An evil version of Firestorm called Deathstorm was created by Geoff Johns and Peter Tomasi during the Blackest Night event.

[46] He attempts to manipulate Raymond and Rusch into fighting, which would destabilize the Firestorm Matrix and destroy the universe, before being killed by the Life Entity.