Hot-Streak

Hot-Streak is a male comic villain who features in Milestone Media.

Biography

Francis Stone was a member of the Firecrackers, one of the gangs in the Big Bang. After becoming exposed to a mutagen at the Big Bang, Stone gained the abilities of pyrokinesis. Renaming himself Hotstreak, he formed his own street gang called the "5-Alarm Crew". He is also indirectly responsible for Virgil Hawkins becoming the superhero Static; Hawkins had come to the Big Bang intending to kill Stone in the confusion, and, although he had realized he couldn't go through with the plan, Hawkins was still in the area when the mutagen was released, and thus gained powers of his own.

He was responsible for bullying Frieda Goren where he intended to win her as a prize in a small skirmish between his gang and another; when the 5-Alarm Crew attempt to get Frieda again, Static and Hotstreak face off against each other. Hotstreak defeats Static when the hero is shocked upon learning his foe's previous identity. After confiding in a rescued Frieda, Static returns to defeat Hotstreak. Hotstreak returns as an enforcer for the white supremacist group "Sons of Odin" (ironic due to his preference for urban rap and slang) to disrupt a gay pride march. After a skirmish with Static, he is shot by Static's friend Rick (who had come out to his friends not long before). . Now in his late 20's, Francis attacks his high school reunion after having just recently been released from prison. Going by the new name of Firewheel, Francis rampages through the reunion, claiming that he realized that Static is most likely one of his old classmates. After Static arrives and defeats Francis, he flees the scene, only to attack the school again the next evening during a football game. During his final battle with Static, Francis is finally defeated after being struck by a goalpost the hero had thrown using his magnetic abilities.

Overview

Powers and abilities

Hotstreak's powers are super speed and the psionic ability to manipulate flame by channeling the friction he accumulated by moving at high speeds (the air friction he creates by his extreme speed allows him to generate intense flame; in the DC Comics-produced Milestone trading card series, it is called "Hyper-kinetic Pyrokinesis"). He is able to shape the flame as he desires, increasing or decreasing its heat, intensity, and size—hence the newly assumed handle of "Hotstreak."

Notes

• Hot-Streak was created by Dwayne McDuffie where he made his first appearance in Static v1 #1 (April, 1993).

In other media

Television

• In Static Shock, Hot-Streak appeared as an antagonist in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Danny Cooksey.

Appearances

• Static v1:
• Static Shock v1:

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