Superpowers, naught.

I am here, after much discussion with cheryl chen,
in which she ended with 'omg i dont want to talk to you alr zzzzz'
to talk about *drum rolls* superpowers.

The fact and myths.
ok, probably not.
But what I think ARE the facts and myths,
which kind of annuls the idea of a fact,
but still!

Ok, first things first.
Pyrokinetic.
What is it?
We have seen superheroes with pyrokinetic powers
from Johnny Storm in Fantastic Four
to Pyro in the X-Men.
There are deferring magnitudes to their abilites,
While heroes like Johnny Storm has the able to ignite at will, to fly around.
Pyro requires a spark to start a fire, and seems to be unable to fly around.

So, We go back to the word: Pyrokinesis.
According to our dear beloved wikipedia,
It is first coined by author Stephen King (I was surprised too)
Many comics have described it as the ability to 'excite or speed up an object's atoms, increasing their thermal energy until they ignite, not necessarily objects, but also air particles'
In other words, superheores should be able to create flames anywhere, even in the air, and not require a spark.
Which brings us to: Pyro is either a fake, or he is seriously in need of some basic training regarding his powers, or he is merely an aerokinetic(which i will talk about in a second)
As we know, exciting or speeding up atoms of air particles make them hot.
Hot air rises.
What many pyrokinetic superheroes have not considered
is the ability to use THIS power to levitate objects.
by heating up the air underneath objects,
the hot air would rise, and through intense heating
to prevent the hot air from escaping underneath the object,
would be able to levitate the said object.

The only superhero to have used THIS power at any rate
seem to be Johnny from Fantastic Four to fly around,
through creating a pocket of extremely heated air underneath him.

Back to an aerokinetic, a term I coined to possibly explain Pyro's abilities.
What Pyro can do, unlike his name suggests, could have been the ability to
actually manipulate air, even aerial elements, rather than fire itself.
We know flame survives on certain gases, and not on others.
Oxygen would feed the flame, Carbon Dioxide extinguishes it, Methane causes instant combustion.

By being able to actually control what goes where,
It would certainly help to explain Pyro's disturbing half-powers.
He could shift oxygen source from one place to another, and the flame follows.
Pump CO2 into the area to extinguish a flame.
Summon Methane to cause a spark to ignite into a flaming ball of fire
It is also known that 'Pyro can be harmed by any fire that he does not mentally control. '
Which further reinforces this theory as he has NO control over fire,
but merely the air around it, thus being vulnerable to flames from external sources.

It is also known that 'Any of Pyro's fiery creations will immediately revert to ordinary flame if he turns his interest from it.'
Which also serves as evidence to this theory as he controls the shape of the flame through manipulating the structure of the air around the flame.
Thus the moment he stops doing that, they would immediately revert back to their natural state of combustion.

This is probably a post about pyrokinesis as much as it is a post to critisize Pyro, I guess.
I never saw the logic in his powers and him calling him Pyro.

But I guess the greatest reason,
would be I prefer Bobby Drake.

The two of them ain't exactly on the best of terms.

Till next time,
I'm out.