Russell Collins


 * Real Name: Russell "Rusty" Collins
 * Current Alias: Rusty Collins
 * Aliases: "Rus", Brother Collins, Prisoner 143-JK/8, Firefist, Agent Jones
 * Affiliation: Formerly Acolytes, Mutant Liberation Front, New Mutants, X-Terminators (founding member), X-Factor (trainee), United States of America Navy
 * Base of Operations: Formerly Avalon; Ship; Portsmouth Naval Prison, Portsmouth, New Hampshire; X-Factor Complex, New York City, New York
 * Alignment: Good
 * Identity: Public Identity
 * Citizenship: American
 * Marital Status: Single
 * Occupation: Cultist; former adventurer, terrorist, sailor, hardware clerk
 * Education: High School dropout, military training, X-Factor training
 * Gender: Male
 * Height: 5'11"
 * Weight: 160 lbs
 * Eyes: Blue
 * Hair: Red
 * Origin: Mutant
 * Universe: Earth-616
 * Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma
 * Place of Death: Avalon Space Station

Powers
Pyrokinesis: A pyrokinetic, Rusty Collins could psionically generate and manipulate heat and flames. The fires he generated often began as flames emanating from his own body, but he could also start fires remotely or shoot jets of flame from one area to another.

Once his fires ignited, he controlled their size, shape and intensity with great precision, and could mentally manipulate his fire's movements. He sometimes used hand gestures such as pointing to help direct his flames, but he could manipulate them without physical gestures if necessary since his power was mental, not physical. His flames were hot enough to burn through concrete, stone or steel with ease, and he could even ig nite and manipulate flames underwater.

With concentration, he could generate heat fields without open flames, such as a wll of intense heat around himself to melt incoming projectiles, or focusing enough heat through his hands to cook food (often making popcorn this way). He could heat most metals enough to reshape them by hand - for instance, twisting iron bars into a metal cable in moments.

While using his powers, he instinctively generated a super-thin, invisible psionic energy field around himself that protected him from heat and flame, but not from other forms of injury. His pyrokinesis had an effective range of at least 20 feet.