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Name: Beatriz da Costa
Group: Justice League International
First Appearance: DC Comics Presents #46
(June, 1982)

Beatriz "Bea" Bonilla da Costa, alias Fire, is a Brazilian pyrokinetic heroine. She's been a member of the Global Guardians, the Justice League International and Checkmate.

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa started as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 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 a pyroplasmic explosion. The accident, which granted her fire-based super-human powers, prompted her to assume the identity of the Green Fury and join the international superhero team the Global Guardians.

Shortly after changing her name to the Green Flame, the Guardians' UN funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation of the Justice League International. Beatriz talked her teammate and friend Icemaiden into joining her in approaching the Justice League 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 own name to simply "Ice."

She served the longest continuous term of any Justice League International 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 situation reminiscent of her former interactions with Ice, forced herself into the reluctant role of "babysitter" for the woefully naïve teenager super heroine.

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.

Description
Name: Beatriz da Costa
Group: Justice League International
First Appearance: DC Comics Presents #46
(June, 1982)

Beatriz "Bea" Bonilla da Costa, alias Fire, is a Brazilian pyrokinetic heroine. She's been a member of the Global Guardians, the Justice League International and Checkmate.

Beatriz Bonilla da Costa started as an amateur model on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 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 a pyroplasmic explosion. The accident, which granted her fire-based super-human powers, prompted her to assume the identity of the Green Fury and join the international superhero team the Global Guardians.

Shortly after changing her name to the Green Flame, the Guardians' UN funding was withdrawn in the wake of the formation of the Justice League International. Beatriz talked her teammate and friend Icemaiden into joining her in approaching the Justice League 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 own name to simply "Ice."

She served the longest continuous term of any Justice League International 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 situation reminiscent of her former interactions with Ice, forced herself into the reluctant role of "babysitter" for the woefully naïve teenager super heroine.

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.