Beatriz da Costa (New Earth)

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 * Image                  = Beatriz da Costa 002.jpg
 * RealName               = Beatriz Bonilla da Costa
 * CurrentAlias           = Fire
 * Aliases                = Green Fury, Green Flame, Bea
 * Identity               = Secret
 * Affiliation            = former Black Knight of Checkmate; former member of the Global Guardians; former memberf of Justice League International
 * Relatives              = Ramon Corvalho (father)
 * Universe               = New Earth
 * BaseOfOperations       = Mobile; formerly Manhattan, New York City


 * Gender                 = Female
 * Height                 = 5'8"
 * Weight                 = 140 lbs
 * Eyes                   = Green
 * Hair                   = Green
 * UnusualFeatures        = Fire's green hair is a permanent condition related to the origin of her powers. Prior to developing her abilities, Bea's hair was brown.


 * Citizenship            = Brazilian
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = Previously model, presidential bodyguard, Web model, detective, Checkmate Black Knight
 * Education              = Unknown


 * Origin                 = Powers derived through mystical means
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Brazil
 * Creators               = E. Nelson Bridwell; Ramona Fradon; Roy Thomas; Todd McFarlane
 * First                  = DC Comics Presents Vol 1 46

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa followed an unusual career path, starting as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio, then becoming a showgirl and stage performer before finding herself serving as an undercover secret agent for the Brazilian government. In the course of one of her missions, she was exposed to the accident which granted her super-human powers, prompting her to assume the identity of the Green Fury and join the international superhero team the Global Guardians.
 * HistoryText            =

Shortly after changing her name to the Green Flame, the Guardians' UN funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation the Justice League International. Miss da Costa talked her teammate and friend Icemaiden into joining her in approaching the JLI embassy and asking for a job and remarkably, in the wake of Black Canary's resignation and the abduction of several members, the short-handed JLI took them on. Eventually, she once again changed her heroic name, this time to "Fire" in affinity with Icemaiden's shortening of her name to simply Ice.

She served the longest continuous term of any JLI member, including an extended period of depowerment after an encounter with Doomsday, a period which sadly coincided with the death of her best friend, Ice, at the hands of the Overmaster.

She subsequently returned to Brazil, and attempted to establish herself as the country's primary superhero. This met with variable success, which she blamed partly on the Martian Manhunter's visibility in the Southern hemisphere.

Fire had retired from super-heroing to establish a career as an internet glamour girl when Maxwell Lord talked her and several other former JLI members into reforming as a group of "heroes for the common man" called the "Super Buddies". She found herself apartment-sharing with Mary Marvel and, in a characterization reminiscent of her former interactions with Ice, forced herself into the reluctant role of "babysitter" for the woefully naive teenager.

When attempting to rescue Ice's spirit from Hell (or a dimension similar to it), Fire accidentally looked back, causing the spirit to vanish. During the Super Buddies' time in Hell, Etrigan the Demon suggested that it was Fire who was fated to die instead of Ice.

Infinite Crisis
It seems that after the dissolution of the Super Buddies, Fire had returned to her work as detective and secret agent. In that role she helped Booster Gold and Guy Gardner find the connection between Maxwell Lord and Blue Beetle's death. She then took part in an assault by her former teammates from Justice League International and the Super Buddies against a group of OMACs. Badly wounded, she was saved by the sacrifice of Rocket Red. Guy Gardner and Booster Gold took her to a hospital. After recovering, Fire appears as an agent of Amanda Waller.

One Year Later
One Year Later, she joined Checkmate and became the Black King's Knight. Fire displays a notable change in her character as she is now depicted as an assassin and killer. However, Fire regrets taking part in a Checkmate mission in which as many as 50 Kobra personnel were killed, many immolated by Fire herself.


 * Powers                 =

Pyroplasm Form: Originally Beatriz's only power, gained from a saturation by an organic energy source called Pyroplasm, was the ability to breathe a jet of green flame from her mouth (this accident also permanently dyed her hair green as well). During the Invasion cross-over event, the alien Dominators set off a "metagene bomb" in the upper atmosphere which affected all super-powered beings and, after a period of illness, Fire found her powers greatly magnified as an after-effect. The "new" Fire was now able to completely turn into a being of green flame, in which form she could fly and throw devastating blasts, similar to the Human Torch.


 * Pyrokinesis: Fire can create and project green flame. She can also transform her body into living green flame.


 * Intangibility: Solid objects could pass completely through her form without causing injury.


 * Flight: Fire can fly through an act of will.

Covert Ops Agent: Beatriz is also a skilled investigator and espionage agent.
 * Abilities              =

Expert Combatant: Beatriz was also trained by Batman in hand-to-hand combat. Mental Resistance: She has some resistance to mind control due to the fact that, as a native speaker of Portuguese, her mind is resistant to instructions given in English.

Fashion Designer: She is shown to have a marketable fashion sense having at times worked as a fashion designer.

Fire's strength is consistent with that of an adult human female in good physical shape who engages in moderate regular exercise.
 * Strength               =

Emotional Distress: Unfortunately, it took her some time to come to terms with her increased powers, and she often "flamed on" involuntarily when stressed or angry (and sometimes still does), a distressingly common event for a character depicted as having a tendency towards passionate outbursts.
 * Weaknesses             =


 * Equipment              =
 * Transportation         = Self-powered flight.
 * Weapons                =


 * Notes                  =
 * Trivia                 =

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 * Links                  =
 * Fire profile at the Unofficial Guide to the DC Universe