Sunfire (comics)
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Sunfire
Art by Alan Davis |
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance | Uncanny X-Men #64 (January 1970) |
| Created by |
Roy Thomas (writer) Don Heck (artist) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Shiro Yoshida |
| Species | Human Mutant and Human Mutate |
| Team affiliations |
Avengers Unity Squad X-Men Horsemen of Apocalypse Death's Champions Pacific Overlords X-Corporation Mumbai The Twelve Big Hero 6 Marauders |
| Notable aliases | Famine |
| Abilities |
As Horsemen of Famine:
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As Horsemen of Famine:
Sunfire (Shiro Yoshida (吉田 四郎 Yoshida Shirō?)) is a fictional superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Sunfire is a mutant and former member of the X-Men.
Sunfire is a temperamental and arrogant Japanese mutant who can generate superheated plasma and fly. Not suited for teamwork, Sunfire was only briefly a member of the X-Men and has kept limited ties to the team since. He has had some presence in the greater Marvel Universe.
Roy Thomas recalled that, during his first run on X-Men,
I wanted to add a young Japanese or Japanese-American whose mother had been at Hiroshima or Nagasaki, as a corresponding character to the X-Men, whose parents were, at that time, assumed to have been at the Manhattan Project. Stan [Lee, X-Men editor/co-creator] didn't give me any good reason [for rejecting the character] - he just didn't want to, I think... I didn't bring it up again, but when I came back to the book, with Neal Adams, I created Sunfire, who is pretty much the character I had wanted to do some years earlier. I didn't make him an X-Man right away. By that time, Stan gave me a little more free reign [sic]. In fact, he was included in Giant Size X-Men #1, along with Banshee, precisely because I had gone around creating some 'international mutants,' with the goal of expanding the team at some time. I thought the X-Men shouldn't all be white Americans.
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