Who Is Thermal? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Thermal is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Molly Peterson, with over 3 comic issue appearances. Member of Simon Trask's Mutant Liberation Front. Pretends to be a mutant.

Who is Thermal?

Origin In order to deal with the mutant right's activist Reverend William Conover , Simon Trask , head of the anti-mutant organization known as Humanity's Last Stand, formed his own version of the Mutant Liberation Front , allowing him to capture Conover and discredit mutants at the same time. Molly Peterson was given superhuman abilities through artificial means and became a member of this fake MLF team under the name Thermal. Creation Thermal was created by John Ostrander , Tom Lyle , and Robert Jones . Major Story Arcs Total X-Tinction Unmasked When Carl Denti , an FBI agent otherwise known as the X-Cutioner, claimed to have evidence that the MLF were not actually mutants, Thermal was among those MLF members who were sent to apprehend him. Thermal took part in battling the Punisher and SHIELD agent Kymberly Taylor who were defending Denti, but the MLF ultimately succeeded in capturing him, and brought him to the Humanity's Last Stand compound, unaware this was part of the Punisher's plan. Dead To Rights Escaping the compound, Denti was able to lead the Punisher and Taylor to it, and together they battled the MLF once again. Thermal took part in defending the compound along her f.

Key facts

Thermal is of human origin and first appeared in "Total X-Tinction Part 4: Unmasked". The character is published by Marvel. With 3 recorded issue appearances, Thermal ranks among the most featured characters in comics.