JOHNNY STORM --- a.k.a. the HUMAN TORCH --- OPEN!
“Johnny Storm... The Human Torch... ...not a thief... not a spoiled kid... not a quitter... ...a hero.“
Johnny’s life started out uneventfully, until his mother died in a car crash. His father Dr. Franklin Storm took her death hard. He took up gambling and drinking eventually ending up in jail for murder. Johnny and his older sister Sue were taken in by their aunt Marygay in Glenville. Despite his mother’s accident, Johnny found himself drawn to cars. In a short time he developed his skills in order to be an expert mechanic.
He didn’t need super-powers to start his career as a hero. While a teenager he rescued two of his friends from a burning building. His adventures really started when he evaded being taken over as a human host for the demonic Zarathos. It took the help of his teenage crush Cammy Brandeis’s Uncle archeologist Max Parrish to escape that fate.
What really changed Johnny’s life was not the connection he made with his young crush, but the one Sue did with hers. Their Aunt had a boarder, a Reed Richards that Susan Storm developed a crush on. Her feelings persisted as they grew older. When Reed faced opposition to his plans to launch the experimental starship he built into space, Sue and Johnny helped him along with Ben Grimm. They launched the ship before funding could be completely withdrawn.
The flight was successful, with one very vital error. Reed failed to adequately shield the main cabin against cosmic radiation. A Solar flare caused a chain reaction that led the ship to being bombarded with it. The ship crashed to earth and the four found themselves changed in all sorts of fantastic ways. Johnny’s new abilities gave him the ability to be covered in flame. He could fly and have various forms of control over fire. He took the name Human Torch in tribute to a WWII hero.
The four joined together as a team called the Fantastic Four. Between Reed’s expertise in dimensions and dimensional travel, plus having their own spaceship, many of their battles occurred not on Earth. Some occurred on Earths of different dimensions. This put them off world for many of our Earth’s fights. That does not preclude them from getting involved when needed. Their fights on earth often dealing with Victor Von Doom’s intense hatred for Reed, and infatuation with Sue, that caused trouble for the team.
With the Accords focusing on the Avengers, they don’t currently cover the Fantastic Four. However many have their sights on the team to put them under global regulation as well. Johnny and his sister Sue falling on the anti-accords side of the argument, causing some tension in the team. Attending college in New York City, Johnny continues to work as a mechanic for the Fantastic Four.
Abilities:
Pyrogenesis: The Human Torch possessed the mental ability to control ambient heat energy and the physical ability to transform his entire body, or portions of his body into a fiery, plasma-like state of will.
His fired based abilities give him flight, pyrokinesis, nova flame, plasma form, and thermokinesis.
Expert mechanic, since his teens, Johnny was able to totally overhaul a car's transmission by the age of 15. His design and mechanical acumen go into the creation of the FF’s vehicles and he is an expert driver.
FC: Lucas Till












