Holocaust/Pyre
First Appearance: Blood Syndicate #1, April 1993
Created by: Dwayne McDuffie, Ivan Velez Jr. and Denys Cowan
Nationality: American
Team Affiliations: Blood Syndicate and Star Chamber
Legal Status: U.S citizen with criminal record
Weight: 250 lbs Height: 6’7
Eyes: Black Hair: Black
Known Relatives: Unknown
Skills and abilities: Skilled street fighter.
Powers: Increased durability and Strength able to go toe to toe with Superboy. His primary power is Pyrokinesis, able to start and control all kinds of flames or fires. His body is also hotter than a normal human one enabling to to start fires with saliva and even his blood. He is also immune to fire and heat. On occasion he has been shown to blow things up by heating them from within.
Biography
Leonard smalls Jr. was the son of Dakota mayor and her husband Leonard Sr. He was always a sadistic and cold man who on his sixteenth birthday killed his father with his own hands. After this he joined a local gang where he made plans to take over the Dakota underground. He was the only one from his group to survive the big bang, he then joined the blood syndicate but unlike them was cruel, power hungry and sadistic. Everything came to a head when he challenged Tech-9 for leadership and lost. Cast out he turned to a life of crime and joined a gang and clashed with Static. After the original blood syndicate disbanded he created a new one with members from the original and his new gang. Here he tried to take over Dakota and clashed with Icon. Later on he clashed with Black Lightning who had shut down his casino he was defeated again and later clashed with Static shock and the teen titans.
June 8th, 2011 at 7:51 pm
[...] Blackest Night he joins a new Justice League and saves the titans from the villain Holocaust. Victor later ships Static off to Cadmus when he is [...]
June 9th, 2011 at 4:14 pm
[...] the outsiders and aiding Green Arrow. Jefferson later used his pull in Washington to stop criminal Holocaust from building a casino. He was then asked to step down and he did. Holocaust [...]
August 31st, 2011 at 12:07 am
[...] lead him into conflict with Icon and Rocket though they later called a truce. He later clashed with Holocaust over leadership of the team, he defeated him and maintained leadership and saved Icon from an [...]
September 5th, 2011 at 8:01 pm
[...] they secure it, in the drug room Flashback steals a handful of cocaine without anyone realizing. Holocaust burns down the building despite being told by Wise son to just torch the drugs. While the rest of [...]
September 6th, 2011 at 3:20 am
[...] dealt with other super-being now super-villains who gained powers from the Big Bang most notably, Holocaust. He formed a friendship with fellow teen hero Rocket and even Icon and Hardware. He dealt with his [...]
December 10th, 2011 at 10:58 pm
[...] killed. To compensate for the nightmares which haunted her she turned to cocaine use. When Holocaust left the team she remained with her friends under the leadership of Wise Son. After [...]
February 2nd, 2013 at 3:22 pm
[...] Holocaust- Arguably the most noteworthy Villain in Dakota [...]
February 13th, 2013 at 4:50 pm
[...] the team and even successfully defended his leadership mantle from the more physically powerful Holocaust/Pyre. His powers were unstable however and his body liquefied soon after killing him instantly. He was [...]
February 14th, 2013 at 3:51 am
[...] Mayor of Dakota. She’s most well known for being the mother of Holocaust and for being the one who approached Alva technologies for the experimental gas used at the Big [...]
February 24th, 2013 at 2:07 am
[...] Holocaust [...]
May 9th, 2013 at 2:32 am
[...] look great and bring to mind such great in the black hero pantheon as Static/Virgil Hawkins and Holocaust both created by the late, great Dwayne Mcduffie for the now defunct Milestone [...]