Who Is Heatstroke? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Heatstroke is a DC Comics comic book character, the alter ego of Joanne, with over 68 comic issue appearances. Heatstroke is a member of the Masters of Disaster, a mercenary group for hire with meta-human abilities based on the destructive elements. She has the domain of fire,able to emanate heat and fire and fly on thermal drifts.

Who is Heatstroke?

Origin Deadly love The redheaded beauty named Joanne and taking up the masked title of Heatstroke is a bit of a mystery. It is known that she and her fellow member Coldsnap of the mercenary group Masters of Disaster were at onetime lovers and continued to have a love connection. Apparently Coldsnap experimented on their genetic makeup and changed them, giving Joanne the meta-human powers over heat and fire around her. However Joanne could not control her own body temperature, and since Coldsnap had given himself cold based abilities neither could touch each other anymore. In hopes to gather enough wealth to be able to somehow reverse their conditions or at least allow them to control them better they took on the identity's of Heatstroke and Coldsnap. Selling themselves as mercenaries for hire they only joined the Masters of Disaster in order to gain enough money to find a cure and return to being lovers once more. The Masters were out of commission for a while, imprisoned in the Slab. When Geo-Force was wrongly arrested, he too was put in the Slab, inspiring the Masters to engineer a jailbreak.

Key facts

Heatstroke is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Enter: The Masters of Disaster!". The character is published by DC Comics. With 68 recorded issue appearances, Heatstroke ranks among the most featured characters in comics.