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Character biography

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa had originally been bequeathed with her powers due to Brazilian mysticism and was the President of Wayne Enterprises' Brazilian Branch. After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, her history was altered so that she had followed an unusual career path, starting as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio, then becoming a showgirl and stage performer before finding herself serving as an undercover secret agent for the Brazilian government. In the course of one of her missions, she was exposed to the accident which granted her super-human powers, prompting her to assume the identity of the Green Fury and join the international superhero team the Global Guardians. Shortly after changing her name to the Green Flame, the Guardians' UN funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation the Justice League International. Miss daCosta talked her teammate and friend Icemaiden into joining her in approaching the JLI embassy and asking for a job and remarkably, in the wake of Black Canary's resignation and the abduction of several members, the short-handed JLI took them on. Eventually, she once again changed her heroic name, this time to "Fire" in affinity with Icemaiden's shortening of her name to simply Ice. Crisis on Infinite Earths was a twelve-issue comic book limited series (identified as a 12 part maxi-series) and crossover event, produced by DC Comics in 1985 in order to simplify their fifty-year-old continuity. ... The Global Guardians are a team of DC Comics superheroes which hail from countries outside of the US. // History The Guardians are similar to the Justice League as they are also committed to fighting crime around the world. ... The Justice League, sometimes called the Justice League of America or JLA for short, is a DC Comics superhero team. ... Black Canary is a female superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... Ice (Tora Olafsdotter) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. ...

She served the longest continuous term of any JLI member, including an extended period of depowerment after an encounter with Doomsday, a period which sadly coincided with the death of her best friend, Ice, at the hands of the Overmaster. Doomsday is the name of a fictional frankenstein-esque supervillain in the Superman comic book series best known for fighting and killing Superman. ... Overmaster is the name of a DC Comics supervillain. ...

Recent events

According to the series Formerly Known as the Justice League, Fire had retired from super-heroing to establish a career as an internet glamour girl when Maxwell Lord talked her and several other former JLI members into reforming as a group of "heroes for the common man" called the "Super Buddies". She found herself apartment-sharing with Mary Marvel and, in a characterization reminiscent of her former interactions with Ice, forced herself into the reluctant role of "babysitter" for the woefully naive teenager. Maxwell Lord is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. ... The Super Buddies are a team of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe who appeared in the six-issue Formerly Known as the Justice League miniseries in 2003, and its 2005 sequel, I Cant Believe Its Not the Justice League (published in JLA Classified). ... Mary Marvel is a fictional character, a superhero derived from the DC Comics (formerly Fawcett Comics) character Captain Marvel. ...

Subsequent publications have partly called into question whether or not the "Super Buddies" still count as official continuity, though Fire and Mary Marvel have been shown to continue to interact. When attempting to rescue Ice's spirit from Hell (or a dimension similar to it), Fire accidentally looked back, causing the spirit to vanish. During the Super Buddies' time in Hell, Etrigan the Demon suggested that it was Fire who was fated to die instead of Ice. Ice (Tora Olafsdotter) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. ... The Demon is a DC Comics superhero series created by comic book master, Jack Kirby. ...

Booster Gold farewell to Bea.

As depicted in The OMAC Project #4, it seems that after the dissolution of the Super Buddies Fire had returned to her work as detective and secret agent. In that role she helped Booster Gold and Guy Gardner to find the connection between Maxwell Lord and Blue Beetle's death. She then took part in an assault by her former teammates from Justice League International and the Super Buddies against a group of OMACs. Badly wounded, she was saved by the sacrifice of Rocket Red. Image File history File links Boosterquits. ... Image File history File links Boosterquits. ... Booster Gold is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... The OMAC Project #1; cover by Jose Ladronn. ... The Super Buddies are a team of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe who appeared in the six-issue Formerly Known as the Justice League miniseries in 2003, and its 2005 sequel, I Cant Believe Its Not the Justice League (published in JLA Classified). ... Booster Gold is a comic book superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... Guy Gardner is a fictional character, a comic book superhero published by DC Comics. ... Maxwell Lord is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe. ... The first and second Blue Beetle. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Super Buddies are a team of comic book superheroes in the DC Comics universe who appeared in the six-issue Formerly Known as the Justice League miniseries in 2003, and its 2005 sequel, I Cant Believe Its Not the Justice League (published in JLA Classified). ... OMACs are an organization of powerful cyborgs that exist in the DC Universe. ... The Rocket Red Brigade is a DC Comics superhero team. ...

Guy Gardner and Booster Gold took her to a hospital. After recovering, Fire appears in The OMAC Project Special, as an agent of Amanda Waller. She has become the Black King's Knight in the new ongoing Checkmate series. In the first issue of the series, Fire displays a notable change in her character as she is now depicted as an assassin and killer, a follow-up to the implication made by Amanda Waller in the OMAC Project Special that not only did she perform such duties during her secret agent days, but that she enjoyed killing. In issue 2 of Checkmate, however, it is indicated that Fire, while she will follow orders to kill, regrets taking part in a Checkmate mission in which as many as 50 Kobra personnel were killed, many immolated by Fire herself.
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Powers and abilities

Originally Beatriz's only power, gained from a saturation by the organic energy source Pyroplasm, was the ability to breathe a jet of green flame from her mouth (this accident also permanently dyed her hair green as well). The fact that this wasn't terribly spectacular (the flame wasn't even a foot long) when compared to the abilities of other Justice Leaguers, especially when contrasted against Fire's bold and aggressive personaity, was a minor running gag in early JLI stories. However the character proved popular and eventually earned an upgrade; during the Invasion cross-over event, the alien Dominators set off a "metagene bomb" in the upper atmosphere which affected all super-powered DC characters and, after a period of illness, Fire found her powers greatly magnified as an after-effect. The "new" Fire was now able to completely turn into a being of green flame, in which form she could fly and throw devastating blasts, similar to the Human Torch. Unfortunately, it took her some time to come to terms with her increased powers, and she often "flamed on" involuntarily when stressed or angry (and sometimes still does), a distressingly common event for a character depicted as having a tendency towards passionate outbursts. Invasion was a three-issue comics crossover event published in late 1988-early 1989 by DC Comics. ... The Human Torch (Jonathan Lowell Spencer Johnny Storm) is a comic book superhero in the Marvel Universe associated with the Fantastic Four. ...

Beatriz is also a skilled investigator and something of a natural seductress (or at least she's aware that her physical appearance grants her some degree of easy influence over others). Somewhat less frequently, she is shown to have a marketable fashion sense (having at times worked as a designer) and to have some resistance to mind control due to the fact that, as a native speaker of Portuguese, her mind is resistant to instructions given in English.

Appearances in other media

Fire appeared in the Justice League of America TV Pilot movie. She was played by Michelle Hurd. Michelle Hurd is an African-American stage, film and television actress. ...

Fire and Ice both made several appearances in the Justice League Unlimited animated series, with Fire having the only speaking appearance of the two. Fire seemed to be a distinct novice within the League, given her nervousness about contradicting senior members. Ice (Tora Olafsdotter) is a fictional character, a superheroine in the DC Comics universe. ... Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was an American animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... An animated series or cartoon series is a television series produced by means of animation. ...

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She and Flash engaged in a relationship of mutual flirting (although Flash was unusually shy about her, implying perhaps a greater interest than might be expected; in a joking conversation, Hawkgirl hints sardonically that Fire and Ice are lesbian). No voice actor was credited for her, but it was later confirmed that Maria Canals, who voices Hawkgirl, supplied Fire's voice. The voice used for Fire is almost identical to another Canals character, Paulina from Danny Phantom. Wally West is a fictional character in the DC Comics Universe, and the current (third) Flash. ... A lesbian is a woman who is aesthetically, sexually, romantically and/or emotionally attracted to other women. ... Maria Canals is a Hispanic actress, born in Miami, Florida, September 28, 1966. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ...

In the Justice League Unlimited episode, "Grudge Match", Fire makes a second appearance. Black Canary and Fire, both under mind control, are pitted against one another in one of Roulette's organized cage matches. Black Canary wins the fight and Fire is seriously injured, although still under mind control. She is seen again at the end of the episode being helped out of the building by other JLU members after Roulette is defeated. Fire has one speaking line in the episode. Justice League Unlimited (or JLU) was an American animated television series produced by and aired on Cartoon Network. ... Black Canary is a female superhero in the DC Comics universe. ... Roulette Roulette is a fictional character, a supervillainess in the DC Comics universe. ...

In the final episode of the Justice League Unlimited, Fire appears in Ice's swimming pool, and they both fly away together to battle evil.