Red Volcano

Red Volcano

Red Volcano and Professor Ivo, DC Universe #0,
artist Aaron Lopresti
Publication information
Publisher DC Comics
First appearance DC Universe #0
(April 2008)
Created by Grant Morrison (writer)
Gail Simone (writer)
Aaron Lopresti (artist)
In-story information
Species Android
Team affiliations Secret Society of Super Villains
Abilities Heat generation, flight, enhanced strength, advanced intellect

Red Volcano is a fictional character, a comic book android supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in DC Universe #0 (April 2008), and was created by Grant Morrison, Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti.

Publication history

Red Volcano debuted in DC Universe #0, and returned in 2009's Red Tornado mini-series.[1]

Fictional character biography

Red Volcano was created by Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow. Ivo uses him as an aide during his tenure as part of the Secret Society of Super Villains.[2] He helps Ivo in collecting soil samples from various regions of Earth where acts of genocide took place over the past 100 years. This is a plot to create a golem called Genocide. Following the Final Crisis, he was with Cheetah's Secret Society of Super Villains.

During the events of the Red Tornado miniseries, it is revealed that the Red Volcano is one of three other androids that were created besides the Red Tornado, the first of which was the Red Torpedo, a female water elemental who was the first of the four,[3] and much later the Red Inferno, a fire elemental designed to look much younger than the other four.[4] Of the four "siblings" representing the elements, the Red Volcano is an earth elemental who can manipulate molten rock and magma. The Volcano lacks the humanity or conscience that his "siblings" have, going so far as to torture his creator into revealing the whereabouts of the other two robots. When Morrow tells him where the Red Inferno is, the Volcano heads for the child robot's home neighborhood and mercilessly murders the Inferno's adopted parents and destroys the entire neighborhood. He then takes the distraught Inferno with him into the atmosphere, telling him that the government was responsible for killing his parents in order to get him to destroy orbiting satellites and wreak havoc.

Powers and abilities

Red Volcano possesses heat generating abilities. He is also shown wearing a cape made of molten rock.

He also has super-strength and flight, and has also demonstrated geokinesis to a great extent.

In other media

Television

References

  1. "Blog | DC Comics | The Source: The Official Blog of DC Comics". Dcublog.dccomics.com. Retrieved 2013-02-13.
  2. DC Universe #0 (June 2008)
  3. Red Tornado (vol.2) #1-2
  4. Red Tornado (vol.2) #3
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