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| “ | Flame on! | „ |
| ~ Johnny's famous quote. |
| “ | A new day is dawning. The day of the Fantastic Four! | „ |
| ~ Johnny to the news reporter, naming the team. |
Jonathan "Johnny" Storm, also known as the Human Torch, is one of the two tritagonists (alongside the Invisible Woman) of Tim Story's Fantastic Four film series and a supporting character in the 2024 Marvel Cinematic Universe film Deadpool & Wolverine.
Impulsive and hot-headed, Johnny Storm gained the ability to control fire, cover his body with it and fly after being hit with cosmic rays. Becoming one of the founding members of the team, Johnny worked with his allies in stopping Doctor Doom and Galactus.
He is portrayed by Chris Evans, who would later portray Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Curtis Everett in Snowpiercer, Jack O'Malley in Red One, and also voiced Casey Jones in TMNT and Buzz Lightyear in Lightyear.
Biography[]
Fantastic Four[]
When Johnny got hit by the cosmic radiation that gave the Fantastic Four their powers, Johnny gained the power of fire generation and flight.
Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer[]
When Sue and Reeds wedding was interrupted by the Silver Surfer, Johnny pursued the Surfer and lost the subsequent confrontation. Due to his contact with the Surfer, Johnny was thereafter able to switch powers with any of his teammates through physical contact, though he loses this ability after his second contact with him, just before the Surfer confronted Galactus.
Deadpool & Wolverine []
To maintain the Sacred Timeline, the TVA banished undesirable people and dead worlds to a dimension beyond reality known as the Void.
When Deadpool and Wolverine are sent to the Void, they are found by someone who Wade believed was Steve Rogers/Captain America, due to looking like him; when a convoy of supervillains arrive, it was revealed it wasn't Captain America, but Johnny Storm/The Human Torch, who ignited and flew above to begin raining fire on the villains. However, one of the villains was Pyro, whose control over fire surpassed Johnny's, so the flames were absorbed, leaving Johnny powerless and suffer a painful fall that included a groin hit against a billboard, ending with a face-plant.
The villains take Deadpool, Wolverine, and Johnny into custody, and transport them in the cages towed behind a vehicle. Johnny warned the new arrivals about Cassandra Nova, explaining that there are two factions in the Void, one that she rules with an iron fist, and the other a weaker, smaller resistance.
Upon meeting Nova at her base, Deadpool relayed a lengthy, vulgar, demeaning, and threatening series of sentences that he claimed he was citing from Johnny; the powerless Torch stammered in shock and excuses, arguing that he never said any of the horrible things, and doesn't understand most it anyway. Even so, Nova used her psychic powers to instantly skin him, leaving his unprotected guts and blood to slop onto the ground.
Later, when meeting the resistance made up from the few remaining Legacy Characters, Deadpool claimed that Johnny was like a brother to him and acted to share the group's grief at his death, much to Wolverine's amused disdain, telling everybody that Deadpool is responsible for Johnny's death.
Johnny's death was later avenged when Deadpool and Wolverine managed to overcharge the Time Ripper that would destroy Deadpool's dimension and vaporize Nova, who was using the machine to erase every timeline.
In a post-credit scene, TVA footage revealed that Deadpool hadn't lied, and Johnny indeed said all of the disgusting and threatening things that provoked Nova into killing him.
Character traits[]
Johnny Storm differs from his fellow teammates by being very immature and hedonistic. He is into extreme sports and enjoys thrills, however foolhardy or poorly thought out they may be.
Due to the TVA pruning him to the Void, his previous confidence shifted into being more hostile. The deaths of his family and friends at the hands of Cassandra Nova or the jaws of Alioth also likely contributed to his loss of optimism and hope. His trauma also led him to becoming far more foul-mouthed and vulgar than he was originally, which was likely a coping mechanism for the danger and losses he faced in the Void. Despite his vulgar speech, he remained friendly and likable, which made the other Legacy heroes sincerely mourn his death; considering his denial of his words in the presence of Cassandra, it could be inferred that he typically withheld his more vulgar expressions.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
- Pyrogenesis: Johnny can create, project, shoot, and blast fire from his own body, creating and discharging concussive, explosive force when doing so.
- Pyrokinesis: Johnny was shown to be capable of blasting fire and mentally controlling fire in a very limited way.
- Plasma Form: Johnny can encompass himself entirely in fire.
- Flight: Johnny can fly very fast, at least as fast as a missile and close to the Silver Surfer's atmospheric flight speed.
- Super Nova: Johnny can use his plasma form to create a miniature super nova around his body around [[1]] degrees in heat.
- Superhuman Immunity: Johnny is completely immune to heat/fire.
Former Powers[]
Power Transferal: When to Human Torch's phyical contact with the Silver Surfer; he was able to temporarily switch his powers with his respective teammates, by physically touching of being touched; but lost this power after his second contect with the Silver Surfer.
At one point Johnny had all the powers of the Fantastic Four on top of his own. This was only used during his confrontation against Doom who possessed the Surfer's Board.
- The Thing's:
- Superhuman Strength: Ben has shown sufficient strength to heft a firetruck (weighing about 100 tons), and when pushing himself, a large building structure (weighing about 1 000 tons) with Sue leveling it.
- Superhuman Durability: Ben has easily survived a transport smashing into him on a bridge, bullets with ease, Doctor Doom's punches.
- Fire Immunity: Ben is virtually immune to fire, being capable of taking multiple fireballs to the face from Johnny.
- Superhuman Stamina: Ben can physically exert himself for much longer than the average person.
- Mister Fantastic's:
- Expanding: Reed has been shown to be able to expand any part of his anatomy at least 1,000 feet.
- Contracting: Reed has shown to be capable of contracting at least his hand under a doorway which is locked.
- Physical Immunity: Due to the nature of Reed's powers he is nearly,and almost completely immune to striking and submission holds and can even turn submission holds against his opponents as seen when Ben tried to beat him and couldn't.
- Superhuman Flexibility: He is for obvious reasons superhumanly flexible capable of twisting, and bending his body in an inhuman fashion.
- Invisible Woman's:
- Invisibility: Susan is able to become completely invisible.
- Force Fields: Susan is able to create force fields to do a variety of things, such as, stop explosions or fire from expanding, level a large building structure so Ben could lift it back into place.
Abilities[]
- Semi-Skilled Pilot: Johnny is a very contradicting pilot, in the manner that he at times flies very well like when he flew the Fantasti-Jet and at other times he doesn't like when he crashed a flight simulator.
- Skilled Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Johnny has used his powers very well in combat situations.
Weaknesses[]
Suppression of his flames via water (either being underwater or fire extinguisher) or fire retardant. His powers will not work in a low or zero oxygen environment such as the upper atmosphere or outer space. Johnny also has an acute hydrophobia.
Anyone with superior pyrokinesis, such as Pyro who could completely remove Johnny's flames, leaving his powerless for an amount of time unknown, since he never recovered his powers before his gruesome death.
Quotes[]
| “ | To quote a friend of mine... "It's clobbering time!" | „ |
| ~ Johnny's pre-battle line to Doom |
| “ | I have never used any of those words in that order! I don't even know what half of them mean! | „ |
| ~ Facing Cassandra Nova, a terrified Johnny tries to refute Deadpool's recitation of his vulgar threats |
| “ | And I'll tell you who 'her' is: Cassandra Nova. A megalomaniacal, psychotic asshole. A finger licking dead-inside pixie slab of third rate dime-store nut-milk. And I'll tell you what she can do. She can lick my goddamn cinnamon ring clean and kick rocks all the way to bald hell. In fact, I don't give a shit if she removes all my skin and pops me like some nightmarish blood balloon. If the last thing I do in this godforsaken cum-gutter existence is light that fuck-box on fire, I still won't die happy! [...] That's right, Wade. I won't be happy until I've urinated on her freshly barbecued corpse and husk-fucked the charred remains while gargling Juggernaut's juggernuts. And you can quote me. | „ |
| ~ Johnny's monologue to Deadpool and Wolverine after being captured by Cassandra Nova's forces. |
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Trivia[]
- Chris Evans improvised most of his lines in the first movie.
- Evans would have reprised his role for a cameo in Deadpool 2 but was scrapped due to scheduling conflicts. However, Chris Evans ended up reprising the role in Deadpool & Wolverine, in an amusing misdirect due to his association with Steve Rogers, which even Deadpool assumed.
- Evans reprised his role in the 2005 video game. For the bonus levels, Quinton Flynn voiced him.
- Evans after portraying Human Torch, he portrayed Captain America in the Marvel Cinematic Universe since 2011 to 2019.
- During filming of Rise of the Silver Surfer, Stan Lee gave Evans a seal of approval for his performance.
- Johnny Storm was originally going to have a realistic burning visual effect but the filmmakers thought it would be too frightening.
- The sequence of Johnny Storm morphing into a ball of flames and soaring over Manhattan took 4 months to create.
- Chris Evans didn't do much of the motocross scene because it was mostly stunts from a double and he didn't remember half of the complete scene.
- The CGI model for the Human Torch during his flame phase was based on Chris Evans in his Fantastic Four uniform.
- The Human Torch's projectiles are made of a combination between CGI and real fire.
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