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Starfire is a superheroine created by Marv Wolfman and George Pérez appearing in American comic books created by DC Comics.She debuted in a preview story inserted within DC Comics Presents #26 (October, 1980).
The story describes the narrator walking along the beach early one morning in the pre-dawn twilight, when he sees a man picking up a starfish off the sand and throwing it into the sea. The narrator is observant and subtle, but skeptical; he has seen many "collectors" on the beach, killing countless sea creatures for their shells.
Starfire gathers the worlds' heroes and reveals that, according to Tamaranean history, Titan is a prison for a parasitic alien entity known as the "Necrostar"; Starfire explains to the heroes that the Necrostar eradicated half of a planet the last time it was free, only being driven back by the intervention of Starro the Conqueror. Beast Boy ...
Red Star as he appears in Teen Titans. A young Red Star appears in Teen Titans, voiced by Jason Marsden. [10] This version is an honorary member of the Teen Titans who gained his powers from a secret government project and chose to live in an abandoned nuclear power plant due to lacking control over them.
In fiction, an origin story is an account or backstory revealing how a character or group of people become a protagonist or antagonist. In American comic books , it also refers to how characters gained their superpowers and/or the circumstances under which they became superheroes or supervillains .
Starfire is a science fiction novel by author Paul Preuss. First published in February 1988, [ 1 ] it is about a group of NASA astronauts on a mission to an asteroid which is falling into the Sun. According to the novel's afterword, Preuss and Gary Gutierrez , special visual effects supervisor on the films The Right Stuff and Top Gun , first ...
The character's series took place on a strange alien world. Starfire was the first DC heroine to receive her own title since Supergirl in 1972. Her series lasted only eight issues. According to this original series, Starfire's world was long ago involved in a civil war between two castes: the warrior-priests and the Lightning Lords . Unable to ...
A superhero is most often the protagonist of superhero fiction. However, some titles, such as Marvels by Kurt Busiek and Alex Ross, use superheroes as secondary characters.A superhero (sometimes rendered super-hero or super hero) is a type of stock character possessing "extraordinary or superhuman powers" and dedicated to protecting the public.