Rusty Collins
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Russell "Rusty" Collins, fomerly known as Firefist, is a fictional character, a superhero from Marvel Comics. Created by Bob Layton and Jackson Guice, he first appeared in X-Factor #1 (February 1986).
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[edit] Fictional character biography
Rusty Collins was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Raised by his uncle, Rusty joined the US Navy at sixteen years of age. His mutant power, generation of fire, manifested itself violently, burning a woman. Rusty was arrested, but set the arresting officer aflame and escaped.
X-Factor was alerted and came to the aid of Rusty, helping him to control his powers. At this time, he formed a relationship with Skids, a former Morlock. They both participated in X-Factor's trainee team, the X-Terminators. During the Inferno storyline, the X-Terminators teamed up with the New Mutants to help rescue mutant babies from N'astirh, who was using them to help keep open a portal to Limbo. At the conclusion of Inferno, Rusty joined the New Mutants, along with Skids, Rictor and Boom Boom.
Rusty and Skids were separated from the New Mutants for a time when Mystique's Freedom Force attacked them Liberty Island.
Due to a fight with Nuklo and Vulture, Rusty was brought back into the sights of Freedom Force. While attempting to escape, he was severely injured by the Blob. While recovering in the hospital, he and Skids were contacted by members of the Mutant Liberation Front. With soldiers opening fire on them, they felt there was no other choice than to join them.
Shortly after, Rusty and Skids were brainwashed by Stryfe into following him blindly. During this, Rusty almost died at the hands of Cable who attempted to kill him and the rest of the MLF squad he was with. Cable only succeeded in injuring Rusty (but he did kill Sumo). Due the brainwashing, Rusty had no qualms about attacking former team mate Cannonball during the X-Cutioner's Song storyline. At the end of this story, the Mutant Liberation Front were turned over to the authorities.
Shortly after, Rusty and Skids were kidnapped by the Friends of Humanity. While being transported, X-Force (the team created by the former members of the New Mutants), rescued them. Arriving back to their base, X-Force was soon confronted by Exodus. He was inviting original New Mutants Cannonball and Sunspot to Avalon, a "safe haven" for selected mutants. Cannonball refused to go unless all former New Mutants present (Boom Boom, Rictor, Rusty and Skids) were invited also. While Exodus complained that Rusty and Skids were "damaged" due to their brainwashing, he finally acquiesced.
Upon arriving at Avalon, the mutants were taken to "the Savior" (in reality Magneto), who used his powers to undo the brainwashing done to Rusty and Skids. When X-Force arrived to save their friends, Rusty and Skids decided they would stay with Magneto, feeling that they owed him. With thus being done, they joined the Acolytes.
When a mutant body belonging to Holocaust, a "survivor" from the Age of Apocalypse, was discovered floating in space near Avalon. It was brought on board. While on guard duty watching over the thought-to-be frozen body, Rusty's life force was drained by Holocaust, killing him.[1]
[edit] Appearance in other media
A much younger version of Rusty was featured in an episode of X-Men animated series. There he was an orphan whom Cyclops met while visiting his old orphanage in Nebraska. Rusty was finding it hard to control his pyrokenetic powers. A man known as Kilgrave, offered to help and adopted Rusty seemingly out of charity. In reality, Kilgrave, a mutant himself with telepathic abilities, wanted to use Rusty's and several other mutants' (Skids included)powers to take over as governor. Scott was able to snap Rusty and the others out of Kilgrave's hypnotic brainwashing in the end.
