"Last night's episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., "Girl in the Flower Dress," didn't feature many overt comic book callbacks, but it did live firmly in the kind of post-Avengers, post-comic book universe that all the Marvel characters seem to occupy, regardless of medium. And the residents of that universe seem to possess a certain self-referentiality. They know that their lives are like a comic book; we know that their lives are a comic book. Those two subtly different understandings can twine together pretty well, in the hands of a good writer…and dip into the unintentionally parodic in the hands of a hack. How is S.H.I.E.L.D. doing on that score? Eh, up to you. I'm just here to point out the comic book references.
Manipulation of fire and heat has been a familiar power-set in Marvel comics. The mutant Sunfire was a member of the X-Men; Pyro joined their enemies the somewhat-on-the-nosedly-named Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. (Sunfire was atomic-powered and Pyro could only shape and control existing flames instead of creating his own. Poor bastard had to wear a flamethrower.) Of course…you've also got your Firebird, your Firestar, your Magma (I know, tectonics, not fire, but still.)
Whoever our mystery Big Bads are, they seem to be experimenting with Extremis, the stuff that turned people into bombs in Iron Man 3. Pyrokinesis apparently provides a solution to that side effect, which is a cool offshoot. But the comic book antecedent of Extremis conferred a different power set, essentially making a normal person so fast and durable that he or she could take on an armored Iron Man in a fight and win. And not explode. The existence of Extremis convinced Tony Stark to radically redesign the Iron Man armor, which had become massive and clunky, so that it would mostly exist as nanoparticles stored in his bone marrow…"
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