Inferno (Inhuman)
Inferno is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Dante Pertuz
After checking on his mother, he was prepared to go for one of his night time music gigs at a wedding in order to bring money to the household. It was then that the Terrigen Cloud came upon their home in Illinois. This caused him and his mother to be enveloped in cocoons due to the Inhuman genes in their body. However, his mother lacked a strong Inhuman genome causing her to die within the cocoon whilst Dante emerged with powers. At that point, their home was broken into by an Inhuman called Lash who was seeking strong members of their kind whilst eliminating those he deemed weak. Lash had wanted to take Dante with him to be among his tribe but Pertuz was angered at Lash's disparaging comments about his mothers death and attacked the villain. Their fight was then interrupted by Queen Medusa of Attilan who helped force Lash to flee the scene though he had told Dante that he had a choice of joining the other tribes. Medusa then used her hair to douse the flames around Dante to prevent him from hurting himself any further where she offered to take him to her kingdom to help him. (Inhuman v1 #1) They Pertuz family were taken to New Attilan where the Chief Medical officer Vinatos intended to dissect Dante's mothers remains in order to learn about the Terrigen Cloud's content. However, Dante and his sister attempted to fight him off with Queen Medusa intervening to stop any dissection from taking place. To help him, Gorgon took responsibility to train the young Dante in the use of his abilities. (Inhuman v1 #2) Given a red and black skin-tight costume, Dante continued training with Gorgon, learning better control over his flames. Gorgon invited him to choose a new name for himself, and Gabby suggested the name Inferno, which Dante loved. Medusa entered and offered Inferno a chance to join in on getting revenge on Lash, and he agreed, though he and Gabby wanted the chance to go and bury their mother. Medusa promised to make sure Gabby's medical bills were taken care of during her pregnancy. Inferno joined Medusa, Lineage, Gorgon, Triton, and others in travelling to Orollan, the headquarters of Lash, and they faced off with members of the Tribe, including Mother Bones, Grove, Kacy, and Korvostax. Ignoring orders, Inferno tried to kill Lash in a fiery ball, but Lash easily redirected the energy, then Kacy blew out Inferno's flames. As Medusa ended the battle, Inferno, realizing he'd nearly killed someone, befriended Korvostax, whose name was Jason, and he returned to Attilan with them. (Inhuman v1 #3) In New Attilan, Inferno was star-struck when Medusa introduced him to Thor. When human civilians opened fire on them, Inferno changed to his fire form, but he saw Elejea get hit with a bullet. Inferno was sent to summon Vinatos to heal Elejea. Inferno checked in with Jason during his training with Gorgon, then Lineage entered the room with beers, offering to teach Jason the truth about his family. (Inhuman v1 #4)
Inferno spent time at a crowded nightclub alongside his fellow NuHuman acquaintance Jason, attempting to ease the tension between them by cracking a series of lighthearted jokes. His attempts at humor failed to lift Jason's spirits, as his companion remained deeply sullen, emotionally distressed, and entirely unable to adjust to the radical, sudden alteration of his physical identity following their recent transformations. While Dante Pertuz focused on helping his peer cope with the psychological weight of their new lives, broader political turmoil unfolded away from the club as Queen Medusa confronted a tense and dangerous proposition from the manipulative former Inhuman king known as the Unspoken, who demanded her hand in marriage as a condition to reclaim his ancient throne. (Inhuman v1 #5)
Dante Pertuz operated covertly along the opposite shoreline of New Attilan, carefully monitoring the occupied city alongside Flint and Naja to gather critical military intelligence on the Unspoken's occupying army. Once Naja utilized her wings to fly the trio directly across the water under the cover of darkness, Dante Pertuz aggressively deployed his localized plasma capabilities to incinerate a security checkpoint, successfully melting a steel door and neutralizing the stationed guards to breach the inner complex. Rushing into the medical wing to secure his heavily pregnant sister, Gabriela, Dante Pertuz coordinated with the Royal healer, Vinatos, who quickly detailed the secret history of the Unspoken's original reign. Dante Pertuz eagerly joined a counter-offensive plot orchestrated by Vinatos to systematically eliminate the remaining palace sentries, but the tactical infiltration completely fell apart when the Unspoken personally intercepted the group and brutally murdered Vinatos. Enraged by the sudden execution, Dante Pertuz unleashed a massive, concentrated blast of high-temperature fire that severely weakened the ancient king's physical form, enabling Naja to deliver a decisive knockout blow. The extreme energy output caused Dante Pertuz to instantly collapse into unconsciousness as his human skin rapidly scabbed over into a shell of flaming molten rock, though his sacrifice successfully paved the way for Queen Medusa to be permanently liberated from captivity. (Inhuman v1 #6)
Inferno spent time trying to heal his severely blistered skin following intense physical strain, but his recovery was interrupted when he accepted a high-stakes combat assignment from the military commander Gorgon. After checking on his pregnant sister Gabriela while she rested alongside Naja, Dante Pertuz joined Gorgon and Frank McGee to step directly into the localized teleportation jaw of Eldrac the Door. Materialising instantly within the frozen terrain of the Himalayan Alps, he joined a targeted rescue operation to retrieve King Black Bolt, who had been found enthralled under the mental subjugation of his malicious brother Maximus. Upon arrival, Dante Pertuz observed Maximus preparing to force the captive king to plunge to his death from a steep cliffside. Overwhelmed by extreme fear and psychological anxiety regarding his unstable pyrokinetic abilities, Dante Pertuz found himself completely paralyzed and unable to manifest his signature plasma flames to engage the enemy. His operational freeze forced Frank McGee to independently step forward and discharge a massive, blinding flash of energy to disorient the villain, but Maximus still managed to command Black Bolt to vocalise a series of words. Dante Pertuz and Gorgon immediately hunkered down against the frozen ground to shield themselves as Black Bolt's destructive sonic screams triggered a succession of massive, earth-shattering detonations across the mountain peaks, leaving the team to navigate the explosive aftermath while their teammate moved in to neutralize the mastermind. (Inhuman v1 #8) Dante stood alongside his sister Gabriela Pertuz, Gorgon, Naja, Frank McGee, and a delegation of NuHumans to attend a solemn memorial service honoring Vinatos, the fallen Inhuman physician. Gathered under the guidance of the attendant Elejea on the grounds of New Attilan, his mourning process was violently interrupted by the sudden, hostile arrival of Queen Medusa, whose morality and personality had been radically altered by a powerful inversion spell. Operating with extreme, uncharacteristic cruelty, the monarch openly mocked the grief of her subjects and utilized her psychokinetic hair to aggressively seize Vinatos' casket, callously hurling the coffin directly into the surrounding river to show total contempt for her people. Dante Pertuz was forced to witness this shocking desecration of their respected healer while standing alongside his peers, absorbing the terrifying reality of their queen's sudden descent into tyrannical rule as the escalating geopolitical crisis threatened to fracture the internal security and moral alignment of the entire Inhuman population. (Inhuman v1 #9)
Dante Pertuz remained inside the confines of New Attilan to allow his severely charred and blistered skin to gradually heal following his recent physical overexertion. His isolated period of rest was abruptly interrupted when the military commander Gorgon approached him directly to secure a strategic favor. Seeking to bypass the main digital network of New Attilan which was currently under the absolute scrutiny of the personality where an inverted and increasingly tyrannical Queen Medusa requested to borrow Dante Pertuz’s civilian mobile telephone to make an unmonitored external transmission. Dante Pertuz initially demonstrated profound hesitation and anxiety regarding the request, explicitly reminding the veteran commander that he and his pregnant sister Gabriela Pertuz desperately needed the safety and refuge provided by the city. Despite his deep fears of compromising their domestic status or drawing the severe wrath of the royal crown, Dante Pertuz ultimately yielded to Gorgon's earnest reassurance and surrendered his personal communication device to assist the commander’s covert operations. (Inhuman v1 #10) Inferno stood alongside Frank McGee, Naja, and Flint to actively organize the municipal security barriers of New Attilan as a heavily armed corporate military contingent dispatched by the Ennilux Corporation mounted a violent invasion of the city lines. Having spent the preceding days intentionally suppressing his pyrokinetic capabilities, Dante Pertuz formally uncovered the hidden mechanics of his volcanic biology, realizing that his body could only successfully trigger its accelerated cell regeneration and completely heal his severely blistered human skin when he remained entirely removed from channeling active plasma fire. The defensive coordination was suddenly interrupted when King Black Bolt arrived on the battlefield and deployed his devastating sonic vocal powers to instantly obliterate the enemy forces, successfully neutralizing the corporate vanguard and deeply impressing the young benders. Following the swift resolution of the physical conflict, Dante Pertuz joined Naja and Elejea to march to the city perimeter, where he officially welcomed a newly arrived NuHuman named Iso to the safety of the sovereign Inhuman refuge. (Inhuman v1 #12)
Eventually, Medusa's advisor Lineage betrays the Inhumans as he is revealed to be an ally of Lash. As Lineage uses a codex of human and Inhuman DNA to cause the humans of Jersey City to become deranged, Pertuz and his friends aid Ms. Marvel in subduing the city's people until Lineage is killed by Karnak. The battle ends while his sister Gabriella is in labor. Dante goes to Gabriella as her son is born. Dante comforts his nephew who has inherited the Inhuman gene. (Inhuman Annual v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Dante Pertuz was a tall, lean, and athletic youth of Hispanic descent who possessed short, messy dark hair, expressive brown eyes, and a casual, street-smart civilian style. Upon activating his unique genetic mutation, his entire physical form underwent a highly dramatic, supernatural shift, completely morphing into a smoldering, crackling silhouette composed of living volcanic earth and molten rock. In his transformed state, his eyes flared with a blinding crimson light, and his skin took on the texture of darkened, smoking charcoal laced with glowing, deep-orange magma veins that radiated intense thermal heat. Because his debut occurred during a sudden, localized domestic ambush, he possessed no formal superhero costume, armor padding, or distinctive facial mask. Instead, he fought while clad in the scorched, heavily singed remnants of his casual teenage civilian clothes, presenting a menacing and raw visual presence as raw flames and billowing ash continuously drifted off his muscular frame. (Inhuman v1 #1)
He was noted for being a musician but to make ends meet for himself and his family he would play in weddings. (Inhuman v1 #1)
After his Inhuman powers manifested, Dante wanted a cure and return to being a normal human. (Inhuman v1 #2)
Powers and abilities
Dante was shown to be a descendant of the Inhumans though was unaware of his heritage. This meant that enough of his body contained their genome that he was able to undergo Terrigenesis. The transformation came after exposure to the Terrigen Mists that caused his body to be enveloped by a cocoon where upon emergence he gained superpowers. Pertuz's abilities manifested as the ability to cover his body in flames that he could direct at his targets. (Inhuman v1 #1)
Pertuz possessed a highly destructive, geo-ionic mutation that granted him absolute mastery over high-temperature plasmoid fire and localized volcanic elements. He could instantaneously generate and discharge devastating streams of plasma fire from his bare hands, melting through reinforced steel structures and projecting concussive heat blasts capable of driving back powerful superhuman opponents. His pyrokinesis was uniquely tethered to earth manipulation, allowing him to superheat solid ground into molten magma on command and trigger micro-volcanic eruptions directly beneath an adversary's feet. Furthermore, because his cellular biology was fundamentally attuned to this volcanic matrix, he possessed an accelerated, pyroplasmic healing factor that allowed him to effortlessly survive extreme thermal temperatures, shrug off heavy kinetic trauma, and rapidly regenerate severe tissue damage by drawing upon his internal volcanic heat. (Inhuman v1 #1)
At first, he was untrained in his abilities where he would spontaneously combust. This changed when he went to Attilan and underwent training from Gorgon. (Inhuman v1 #2)
Notes
- Inferno was created by Charles Soule and Joe Madureira where he made his first appearance in Inhuman v1 #1 (April, 2014).
Alternate Versions
- In Deadpool & the Mercs for Money v2 #7 (2017), an alternate version of Inferno appeared in the reality designated as Earth-17037 in the Multiverse. Five years after a group of Inhuman zealots attacked mutantkind when Negasonic Teenage Warhead secretly used her reality-altering powers to alter the composition of the Terrigen Cloud roaming the Earth, an act those Inhumans deemed profane, Inferno was one of the members of the Tribe. He was part of a group of Inhumans who tried to capture the Mercs for Money, former teammates of Negasonic Teenage Warhead, at New York City, which had become a demon-plagued ghost town saturated by Terrigen Mist known as Limbo-Town. They were forced to interrupt the fight and leave when the demon presence became overwhelming. Inferno was later present at the Tribe's base when Grid located Negasonic Teenage Warhead by hacking into the systems of Mercs for Money member Machine Man. The Tribe soon teleported to the temple in Cambodia where Negasonic and a group of mutants lived and attacked both them and the Mercs of Money, who had travelled to Cambodia as well. Negasonic intervened in an attempt to reach a ceasefire. However, she was attacked from behind by Lash, who absorbed a portion of Negasonic's energies and tried to kill her. Deadpool's intervention made him the target of Lash's attack, with the backlash proving to be too much for his healing factor, causing him to die shortly after. As the Inhumans prepared to retreat, Negasonic used her powers to travel five years back in time, and stopped her past self, or rather her past self from the Prime Marvel Universe, from altering the composition of the cloud, thus preventing this future from coming to be.
In other media
Television
- In Avengers Assemble, the Inferno Dante appeared in the animated television series third season Ultron Revolution episode "Inhumans Among Us" where he was voiced by actor Antony Del Rio. He was actually a descendant of an Inhuman but unaware of his heritage with him and his family living in Maple Falls in Upstate New York. Later on, an Inhuman ship carrying Seeker and the Alpha Primitives crashed in the nearby mountains, releasing Terrigen Fog that affected Dante. The Avengers and the Inhuman Royal Family find Dante's Terrigen cocoon and fight for its possession until Dante emerges and goes on a rampage. The two parties work together to stop Dante until the Hulk and Lockjaw bring a Terrigen Crystal, which the Avengers and Inhumans use to disperse more Terrigen fog and restore Dante and the Alpha Primitives' minds. Now in control of himself, Dante befriends the Inhumans and lives with them part-time in Attilan. In "The Inhuman Condition," Ultron captures Dante and a group of Inhumans, but they are later freed by the Avengers. In "The Kids Are All Right," Dante and Ms. Marvel join forces with Captain America and Iron Man to fight off an Ultron Sentry before the latter pair give the former a tour of Avengers Tower. When the Ghost attacks, the four heroes work with the Falcon to defeat him. In "Civil War, Part 1: The Fall of Attilan," an imprisoned Maximus brainwashes Dante into losing control to detonate a Terrigen bomb capable of leveling New Attilan. After the Hulk breaks Dante free, the latter turned himself over to politician Truman Marsh, who established an Inhuman Registration Act. In "Civil War, Part 4: Avengers Revolution," Ultron brainwashed Dante and several Inhumans via their Registration disks, but the Hulk subdues Dante so Iron Man can negate the disks' control frequency.
Films
- In Marvel Rising: Secret Warriors, Inferno appeared in the setting of the 2018 animated film where he was voiced by actor Tyler Posey.
Video games
- In Marvel: Future Fight, Inferno appeared as a playable character in the setting of the mobile video game.
- In Marvel's Avengers, Inferno appeared as a supporting character in the setting of the 2020 video game where he was voiced by actor Michael Johnston.
Appearances
- Inhuman v1: (2014)
- Uncanny Inhumans v1:
- Secret Warriors v2:
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