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Pyro

Universe
Marvel Universe

Real Name
St. John Allerdyce

Aliases
None

Identity
Secret (known to certain government officials)

Occupation
Former government agent, terrorist, bodyguard, novelist, journalist

Citizenship
Australia (legally deceased)

Place of Birth
Sydney, Australia

Known Relatives
Unidentified grandmother

Group Affiliation
Formerly Freedom Force, Brotherhood of Evil Mutants

Education
College level education

Height
5'10"

Weight
150 lbs.

Eyes
Blue

Hair
Blond

Powers
Pyro was a mutant with the psionic ability to cause any fire he could see within a 100-yard radius of himself to grow in size and intensity and to take on any form that he could imagine, even living creatures. Pyro could then mentally direct a creation to do anything he wished by concentrating, the degree necessary being directly proportionate to the size, power, and intensity of the creation. Pyro was unable to create fire himself.

Abilities
Pyro was an accomplished journalist and novelist.

Weapons
Pyro wore a kerosene-based flame-thrower on his back that could generate a stream of flame of up to 25 feet away.

Paraphernalia
Pyro also wore a specially insulated costume that afforded him a certain degree of protection against fires he did not control.

First Appearance
X-Men #141 (1981)

Origin
Unrevealed

Significant Issues
With Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, attempted to assassinate Senator Kelly, opposed by X-Men, defeated & captured (X-Men #141/Uncanny X-Men #142, 1981); with Freedom Force, arrested Magneto (Uncanny X-Men #199, 1985); with Freedom Force, vs Desert Sword, abandoned in Kuwait (New Mutants Annual #7/Uncanny X-Men Annual #15/X-Factor Annual #6, 1991); revealed to have Legacy Virus (X-Men Annual #2, 1993); prevented assassination of Senator Kelly, succumbed to Legacy Virus (Cable #87, 2001)

St. John Allerdyce was originally a money-hungry young man who drifted from job to job around the South Seas before eventually becoming a journalist for an Australian wire service as well as a popular, if not critically acclaimed, Gothic romance novelist. Allerdyce eventually met the shape-shifting mutant terrorist Mystique and was recruited into her terrorist group, the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants, as Pyro. The Brotherhood’s first public appearance was an attempt to assassinate outspoken anti-mutant activist Senator Robert Kelly, but they were defeated by the team of mutant adventurers the X-Men.

After tiring of being hunted as outlaws, Mystique offered the Brotherhood’s services to the U.S. Government and so they became the government-sponsored Freedom Force team. On their first official mission, they were sent to arrest the self-styled mutant master of magnetism, Magneto. The government ultimately disbanded Freedom Force after a disastrous mission in the Middle East during which they battled the Arabic super-team Desert Sword. Pyro and his teammate the Blob were captured by the Iraqi military and forced to serve as personal bodyguards to the Iraqi commander until the acrobatic mutant Toad bartered for their freedom and they joined his new incarnation of the Brotherhood.

Pyro eventually left the Brotherhood after contracting the deadly mutant-killing Legacy Virus and went to join the mutant “leper colony” for Virus sufferers on the island owned by acclaimed author Jonathan Chambers to ease his pain. Pyro ultimately left and turned to crime to finance a treatment until the Virus caused his powers to begin flaring out of control. Pyro then briefly joined a team of other Virus sufferers in an unsuccessful search for a cure.

Pyro ultimately opposed Mystique and her new Brotherhood during their second attempt on the life of Senator Kelly. Pyro sacrificed his life to stop the assassination, forcing Kelly to rethink his stance. Kelly was later killed whilst giving a pro-mutant speech by a protestor who believed Kelly to be a traitor to the anti-mutant cause.

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