Fire

After the Crisis on Infinite Earths, her history was altered so that she had followed an unusual career path.

Renamed Beatriz Bonilla da Costa, she started as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio, then becoming a showgirl and stage performer before finding herself serving as a top secret agent for Brazilian government's SNI (Serviço Nacional de Informações - National Information Service), actually Abin (Agência Brasileira de Inteligência - Brazilian Intelligence Agency).

In the course of one of her missions, Beatriz was trapped in a pyroplasmic explosion that endowed her with the unusual power of being able to exhale an eight-inch burst of fire.

She assumed the identity of the Green Fury, and then soon changed it again to Green Flame.

She joined the international superhero team the Global Guardians, of which she was a long-standing, loyal member.

She first met the American heroes Infinity, Inc. while on a mission to Canada.

Shortly after changing her name to Green Flame, the Guardians' United Nations funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation the Justice League International.

Beatriz convinced her teammate and best friend Icemaiden into joining her to apply for Justice League International membership.

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.

As a result of the "gene bomb" detonated by the alien Dominators, Fire's powers were dramatically increased, but were less reliable for a time.

Fire always assumed a big sister role with Ice, watching out for her and her interactions with the "real" world.

For example, Fire stepped in when Ice did not realize she was being stalked by a delusional fan.

However, Fire herself makes mistakes, such as torching the cash she'd just saved while foiling a bank robbery.

Beatriz remained with the Justice League International for the remainder of its existence — in fact she served the longest tenure of any JLI member.

During this time, she was also trained in the arts of battle by Big Barda.

In the battle against Doomsday, Bea lost her powers by taxing them to their limits while trying to blast Doomsday, in effect "her fire went out".

She remained with the team but by the time she returned in Justice League America #88, it was too late to help prevent her best friend's death, as Ice was killed by the Overmaster.

As Beatriz tried to cope with this loss, she briefly had a romantic relationship with Ice's former lover, Guy Gardner, and a longer one with Nuklon.

When the first Icemaiden, Sigrid Nansen, joined the League in place of Tora, Fire befriended her.

However, their friendship was tainted by Bea's irrational grief-driven behavior, and Sigrid's romantic attraction to Bea.

When this League collapsed, Beatriz returned to Brazil, and tried to re-establish herself as the country's main protector.

This met with varied success, which she blamed partly on the Martian Manhunter's prominence in the Southern hemisphere.

Fire eventually tried to retire from being a superhero and establish a career as an internet glamor girl when Maxwell Lord talks 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 sharing an apartment with Mary Marvel and, in a characterization reminiscent of her relationship with Tora, became a reluctant "babysitter" for the naive teenager.

In one adventure with the Super Buddies, Fire and the others were given the opportunity to rescue Ice's spirit from Hell (or a similar dimension).

Yet like in the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, Fire could not resist looking behind her at Tora, which caused Ice's 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.

Later, during her time in the group, she encounters an alternate universe version of Ice.

The Super Buddies did not realize that Maxwell Lord was also secretly the Black King of Checkmate.

After the Buddies' dissolution, Bea became an agent of Checkmate as well.

It has not been revealed whether Lord recruited her.

Regardless, she helps Booster Gold and Guy Gardner find the connection between Lord and the death of the Blue Beetle.

She joins her former JLI teammates against a group of OMACs.

She is badly wounded, but is saved by the sacrifice of Dimitri Pushkin, the Rocket Red.

During the "Infinite Crisis," created by Alexander Luthor, Beatriz returns to her espionage roots by joining Amanda Waller, who took over Checkmate after Lord's death.

One of Fire's first missions was to retrieve the A.I., Brother Eye, which had crashed down in Southern Saudi Arabia.

This plan was thwarted by Sasha Bordeaux, also formerly of Checkmate.

She appears later, criticizing Booster for his shameless self-promotion while the search continues for the missing superheroes.

She is also on hand at a memorial for Ralph Dibny's wife, Sue.

Nearly one year later, after the Crisis, Checkmate was reformed under the supervision of the United Nations and Beatriz became the Black King's Knight.

Though she no longer reported to Waller (who was made White Queen), Waller blackmailed Bea with evidence against her father and forced Bea to perform covert assassinations.

Waller had previously implied that Beatriz actually enjoyed the violence and depravity that was a part of her job.

It was revealed that as a girl Bea had been trained to kill by her father.

Despite her past as a dutiful soldier and daughter, Bea expressed remorse over taking part in a Checkmate mission that resulted in the deaths of as many as 50 Kobra agents, many of whom were immolated by Fire herself.

Waller once again blackmailed Fire into covering up a coup in Santa Prisca.

There, Fire killed Colonel Computron for Waller in order to protect her father, who, in the mid-1970s, under a right wing military dictatorship, had ordered thousands of innocent deaths in Operation Condor, a US-supported South American anti-communist program that involved assassinations, torture and forced disappearances. He was never caught and Beatriz had always kept his secret.

When the murder of Computron was exposed by fellow Knight Tommy Jagger, Fire was jailed.

After a visit from her superior, the Black King, Col.

Taleb Beni Khalid-Isr, Beatriz agreed to turn over her father to international authorities for war crimes.

Khalid had convinced her to act as the superhero that he'd chosen for his Knight.

In Checkmate #16, after years of anguish and grief over the loss of her friend and ally Ice, Fire is at last reunited with her after the long-deceased hero is miraculously resurrected in the pages of Birds of Prey.

Their renewed relationship, never shown on panel, is referenced again when Ice, accepting a date on Oa with her lover Guy Gardner, refuses his proposal to cohabit on Oa claiming how she decided to get her life together, on Earth, with some help from Beatriz herself.

Gardner claims that Fire is manipulating Tora.

Fire appears as one of the central characters in Justice League: Generation Lost, a maxi-series that takes place during the wider Brightest Day event.

At the start of the series, Fire is recruited as part of a massive group of superheroes tasked with hunting down the JLI's founder and Ted Kord's murderer, Maxwell Lord.

During an encounter with Max at the Justice League's former New York headquarters, Fire is rendered unconscious alongside Ice, Booster Gold, and Captain Atom.

The former Justice League members awake to discover that Lord has used his mental abilities to erase his existence from the minds of every single human on the planet, save for those present at the embassy.

After she tries to tell Wonder Woman of her killing of Lord, Wonder Woman refuses to believe it.

Fire discovers that Max has mentally influenced the world into believing that Checkmate has dismissed her for failing her psychological evaluation.

Afterward, Fire encounters Lord in JLI headquarters.

After mind-controlling Fire and then Booster Gold to prevent them from stopping him, he ports from the old JLI embassy back to Checkmate.

Before they can figure out their next move, the base comes under attack by the Creature Commandos. Caught while powered down, Fire is shown having been shot several times.

Fire is able to heal by using the bandages of the medic mummy of the Creature Commandos, but is unable to keep Blue Beetle from being kidnapped by Maxwell Lord.

While the team deals with the apparent loss of Blue Beetle, Fire bonds with Gavril Ivanovich the current Rocket Red and the two grow close, eventually sharing a passionate kiss.

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