In January 2016, Mick and Snart were recruited by Rip Hunter into the Legends, a time travelling team of superheroes dedicated to hunting down Vandal Savage and preventing his uprising in 2166. Considered "supervillains" in comparison to the rest of their team, Mick and Snart were seen as outcasts. Though both initially joined to exploit the potentials of time travel Snart came to be genuine about the cause whereas Mick did not, leading to a falling out between them when Mick betrayed the team to time pirates for his own safety. As a result Snart was forced to maroon Mick in an unknown time period, but he was found by the Time Masters and brainwashed into becoming a temporal bounty hunter named Chronos.
Publication Information
- Flash : Mick Rory
- Multiverse : Earth One
- Version : The Flash Series
- Known As :
- Heat Wave
- Pyromaniac and the criminal partner
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- Relative :
- Unnamed : Mother
- Dick Rory : Father
- Affiliation : Legends
- Gender : Male
- Origin : Earth One
- Season : The Flash
- First Appeareance : The Flash Season 1 Episod 4 : Going Rogue
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- Voice Actor : Steven Blum : Chronos
- Main View : Full Episod
Targeted by the Pilgrim
At a young age Mick developed a fascination and obsession with fire. In 1990 Mick accidentally lit fire to his family's house and rushed to safety without warning his family, which led to them being killed. At a safe distance Mick watched in horror of what he did and fascination of the flames, but was soon approached by the The Pilgrim trying to kill him for his future deeds. However The Atom arrives to save him and the Legends bring him to the Waverider, claiming to work for a secret organization called A.R.G.U.S..
Life of crime
While at juvie, Mick met fourteen-year-old Leonard Snart. Mick stepped in when the older kids started beating him up and has been standing up for him since. In 2014, Mick was working on a job with Snart, however it went wrong. Half of Rory's body was burnt in a resulting fire, and despite being taken to the hospital for medical attention, he escaped from the ambulance and fled.
Teaming up with Captain Cold
Later that year, Snart gave him a handheld flamethrower and offered to work a few more jobs with him in Central City. Mick, pleased at the offer and the heat gun, gladly accepted. Snart had him learn how to fix up the flamethrower when needed, which proved handy. The two men began by crashing through a frozen door in to a building. Snart had hoped to wait for The Flash, rather than steal the expensive cars inside, though he failed to appear, resulting in them leaving the scene.
Aiding Rip Hunter
One year later, Snart and his partner Mick Rory conducted a heist on Central City Bullion exchange and making their escape in a mini-van when they were intercepted by Rip Hunter, who took them to Star City alongside the other heroes. At first, he was a helpful member of the team, working alongside the others, but tensions began to arise as time went on, such as when he attempted to stay behind in a possible 2046 where Star City was conquered by various gangs.
Hunting Rip Hunter's team
Mick was found by the Time Masters and brought to the Vanishing Point. Mick was brainwashed and trained over the course of lifetimes, as time in the Vanishing Point works differently than it does on Earth, and eventually became the very bounty hunter he and his former team had been fleeing from, Chronos.
Reformation
As a member of Rip Hunter's team once again, Mick proved himself an efficient fighter, with additional knowledge of time travel and the Time Masters organization, both of which helped when the team was hunted by the Pilgrim. He informed the others that the Pilgrim would see that they were all eliminated by targeting their younger selves in the past so that they never were able to be part of the team that Rip formed.
Protecting the timeline
After defeating the Time Masters and Savage, Mick decided to join the efforts to protect the timeline along with the Rip's team. The team members, now calling themselves the Legends, have embarked on many adventures, dealing with the consequences of historical aberrations that would arise throughout time due to the efforts of time pirates and other rogue time travelers. One such aberration would take the team on an adventure to the 17th century France, where Mick posed as one of the Royal Guard Musketeers to protect the royal family against blaster-wielding assassins, presumably armed by time pirates.
Searching for Rip and the Rex's killer
When Ray and Nate fell out of the ship and into the temporal zone, they ended up falling into Feudal Japan. Mick argued with Vixen, telling her that he would risk his life to save them as they would do the same for him; he also voiced his belief that they would find ninjas in Japan. Sara backed him up, due to her past with the League of Assassins. Much to Mick's joy, he found out that the shogun had ninjas under his command; he asked them not to fight as would feel bad about burning them.
Invasion!
The Legends received a distress call from Team Flash in 2016. Leaving Steel and Vixen to guard the Waverider, the original members of the Legends meet at the Star Labs hanger with both Team Flash and Team Arrow. Flash had even brought an ally from Earth 38, the alien hero Supergirl. It turns out that the Earth was being threatened by the alien race known as the Dominators.
The Legion of Doom
The team next went to Chicago in the 1920s, after finding out Al Capone wasn't sent to jail for tax evasion. At the same time, Mick began seeing visions of Leonard Snart, who mocked him for continuing to stay with the team despite there being no more advantages for selfish needs. Mick used his expertise of the criminal life to help them try getting close to Al Capone, but soon found the plan backfired as the aberration was a trap set by the Legion of Doom, who wanted the amulet Thawne had tried to steal before, along with one in Rip's study. The team was forced to give up the amulets to the syndicate to save Stein.
A temporary alliance shift
The Spear of Destiny reassembled itself, proving immune to Mick burning it. They go to get the blood of Christ to destroy the Spear, meeting the Legends again. And this time, Snart isn't a hallucination; he's a member of the Legion of Doom and from 2014. Mick is convinced by Snart to side with Legion to get whatever he desires as the Legends don't care about him. Mick is syawed and joins the Legion. Together, they create an alternate reality, where the Legends are powerless or work for them. Mick owns half of Central City with Snart, and all heroes are dead.
Back to reason
Despite all this is new advantage that offered him this new reality, Mick did not appreciate at all that. One day he and Leonard went burgled the bank of Central City that belonged to Leonard which made the steering, according to Mick absolutely ridiculous because no one would try to prevent them from committing their flight even the cops did not intervene. Later, Eobard summoned the duo to Star-labs asking them to keep an eye on Malcolm, which exasperates Mick as he hates to receive orders from Thwane.
Temporary retirement
After Rip and his new organization have repaired the damage caused to Los Angeles by anachronisms and fired the Legends, Mick went to Aruba about six months later. There, Mick enjoyed the beach quietly until Julius Caesar appeared in front of him on horseback. After capturing the Roman emperor, Mick called Sara and warned him of the situation. As he waited for the others, Mick listened to Caesar talk about his youth and then tried to take his gold until Caesar hit him with his head and released his bonds.
Using the Fire Totem
On board the Waverider, Sara took possession of the Death Totem and falls under the control of Mallus. Mick and Amaya try to stop him but were beaten and the heat gun was destroyed by Sara. As she prepares to complete them, Wally arrives and saves them thanks to her Super Speed. Later, Amaya gives the Fire Totem to Mick, who is a little reticent but finally convinced by Amaya ends up putting it on and acquires power over fire.
Possible future
At some unknown time period Mick met Rex Tyler, a member of Justice Society of America, and sent him to warn Rip's team against entering the Waverider providing him the current-time Waverider.[14] However, that event was altered when Eobard Thawne erased Rex Tyler from the timeline, changing the circumstances of Rex's meeting with the Legends.
Heat Wave
- Heat Wave
- Origin : Earth One
- Version : The Flash Series
- Type : Member Of Legend
- Known as : Mick Rory
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- Appearances : The Flash Series
Fire Totem : Mick's powers came from the Fire Totem, a totem that channels and harnesses the power of fire.
- Pyrokinesis : The Fire Totem granted Mick with the power to summon fire and manipulate flames, manipulating them in whichever way he desired, such as firing it from his hands in bursts, or simply creating an open flame in his palm. He is also able to control fire separate from him as demonstrated during his struggle with the Mallus-possessed Sara.
- Fire blasts : The Totem allows Mick to be capable of releasing offensive and defensive blasts of fire. Mick has great control over this power, as he is not only capable of channeling this power through his hands, but can also channel his flames from his anus, as Zari implied to Amaya that Mick entertains himself by igniting his own flatulence.
- Heat generation : The Totem allows Mick to heat certian things like popcorn.
- Expert marksman : Mick has the skill to hit multiple police officers, and enemies at a time. He also could handle regular weapons such as revolvers, as he did in the Old West.
- Indomitable will : While at times seen as deranged or barbaric, Mick is shown to have a remarkable fortitude, unyielding to seemingly any form of torture, at times even seeming to revel in it. Even the Time Masters admitting their brainwashing of Mick into Chronos the first time was only a partial success. During their second attempt, Mick was shown to be very deceptive, feign being successfully broken fully consumed by his Chronos persona long enough to leave him prime to turn on them. The intensity of his mind was shown even able to overwhelm the mind-control network the Legion was using, freeing all of its victims.
- Master hand-to-hand combatant / Brawler : Despite his unstable and hot-headed demeanor, Mick is a very capable unarmed fighter. When seemingly taken captive by a mafia boss, he and Leonard quickly broke free and killed all of the mafia boss and most of his men with ease. He even proved to be at least on par with Sara Lance. After his training in the Vanishing Point and his "conversion" to Chronos, his fighting abilities appear to have improved significantly as he is able to take out multiple members of the League of Assassins, an entire squad of ninjas in Feudal Japan and defeat a younger Vandal Savage in an unarmed combat, albeit it can be implied that he only did so after Savage was weakened after being exposed to the meteor. He was able to dominate Julius Caesar after that if he attacked it slyly even if the Roman managed to escape after kicking Mick who broke his nose. Mick easily knocked out the Roman emperor in their second encounter with a single punch.
- Peak of human physical condition : Stemming from his violent nature, Mick is in top physical condition, shown to be very muscular. He is very resilient, as he was unyielding to most forms of torture. His strength was to the point where he could casually crush Time Master Declan's skull with a single stomp of his boot. He was able to cash the shots of a Speedster without losing consciousness. He easily knocked out Julius Caesar during their second encounter and even break the nose of the emperor roman in the process.
- Skilled engineer : Like Cold, Rory has shown himself to be adept at mechanical engineering and repairs, as he regularly repairs his heat gun and has memorized the entirety of its design and functionality, being more than capable of repairing the secondary internal fuel chamber without assistance.
- Temporal agent training : After left stranded in time, the Time Masters found Mick and forcibly trained him as one of their agents over a span of countless years. Operating under the alias of "Chronos", Mick became one of their most skilled assassins, well-versed in the various future tech proved by the Time Masters. Also from this, Mick obtained a greater clarity and understanding of the manipulation of time. Like Rip, Mick now has full understanding of the time-space continuum, able to immediately comprehend how any changes in time will effect the rest of the timestream. He has also grown accustomed to time jumps often not feeling any of the side effects.
- Skilled writer : Recently Mick has learnt to be a skilled writer. Making a sci-fi romance novel that is shown to be good according to fellow Legend Zari Tomaz.
- Keen-intellect : Mick has been shown to be skilled in laying out several lethal and nonlethal booby traps to protect his writing from the prying eyes of his teammates. Such traps include a literal bear trap, an electrocution device, and an ink bomb.
- Goggles : Mick also wears a pair of black wraparound goggles, which are designed to protect his eyes from the flashes given off by his heat gun. He has stopped using them, implying that the glare no longer bothers him.
- Heat Gun : Can generate a beam of absolute hot temperature. When fired, the heat gun increases the temperature of the air dramatically, like some sort of "extreme heat wave". This wave achieves "absolute hot", or Klein temperature. When activated, certain lights on it turn red, in contrast to the Cold Gun's blue. The weapon's flame blast projects to any location and burns anything in its path. It appears to have been upgraded over Mick travels with the Legends, as it can knock someone down without any major burns to them.
- Fire Totem : All of Mick's powers came from his necklace, which allow him to summon and manipulate fire.
- Bounty hunter armor : When Mick joined the Time Masters he was trained to be a temporal bounty hunter, when his training ended he was given armor to conceal his identity and keep him protected from enemies. The armor's glove communicator was also used by Ray Palmer and Gideon to send commands to the Time Master HQ, outsmarting the Time Masters' defense systems.
- Bounty hunter rifle : Rory was also armed with a powerful blaster rifle that was able to fire blasts of green energy.
- Bounty hunter timeship : As Chronos, Rory traveled through time on a time ship, hunting temporal criminals and time pirates alike, eventually taking on the members of Rip Hunter's team, that at times included his past self.
