Jonathan Storm (Earth-121698)

"A higher calling like getting girls and making money?" "Is there any higher?"

- Reed Richards and Johnny Storm

Jonathan "Johnny" Storm, also known as the Human Torch, is a member of the Fantastic Four.

Fantastic Four
When Johnny got hit by the cosmic radiation that gave the Fantastic Four their powers, Johnny gained the power of fire generation and flight.

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
When Sue and Reed's wedding was interrupted by the Silver Surfer, Johnny pursued the Surfer and lost the subsequent confrontation. Due to his contact with the Surfer, Johnny was thereafter able to switch powers with any of his teammates through physical contact, though this wears eventually wears off.

Character traits
Johnny Storm differs from his fellow teammates by being very immature and hedonistic. He is into extreme sports and enjoys thrills, however foolhardy or poorly thought out they may be.

Powers

 * Fire Manipulation: Johnny was shown to be capable of blasting fire and manipulating the fire in a very limited way.
 * Plasma Form: Johnny can encompass himself entirely in fire.
 * Flight: Johnny can fly very fast, at least as fast as a missile and close to the Silver Surfer<s atmospheric flight speed.
 * Super Nova: Johnny can use his plasma form to create a miniature super nova around his body around 1,000,000 degrees in heat.
 * Heat Immunity: Johnny is completely immune to heat.
 * Fire Immunity: Johnny is completely immune to fire.

Former Powers
At one point Johnny had all the powers of the Fantastic Four on top of his own.
 * The Thing;
 * Superhuman Strength: Ben has shown sufficient strength to heft a firetruck (weighing about 100 tons), and when pushing himself, a large building structure (weighing about 1 000 tons) with Sue leveling it.
 * Superhuman Durability: Ben has easily survived a transport smashing into him on a bridge, bullets with ease, Doctor Doom's punches.
 * Fire Immunity: Ben is virtually immune to fire, being capable of taking multiple fireballs to the face from Johnny.
 * Superhuman Stamina: Ben can physically exert himself for much longer than the average person.
 * Mister Fantastic;
 * Expanding: Reed has been shown to be able to expand any part of his anatomy at least 1,000 feet.
 * Contracting: Reed has shown to be capable of contracting at least his hand under a doorway which is locked.
 * Physical Immunity: Due to the nature of Reed's powers he is nearly,and almost completely immune to striking and submission holds and can even turn submission holds against his opponents as seen when Ben tried to beat him and couldn't.
 * Superhuman Flexibility: He is for obvious reasons superhumanly flexible capable of twisting, and bending his body in an inhuman fashion.
 * Invisible Woman:
 * Invisibility: Susan is able to become completely invisible.
 * Force Fields: Susan is able to create force fields to do a variety of things, such as, stop explosions or fire from expanding, level a large building structure so Ben could lift it back into place.

Abilities

 * Semi-Skilled Pilot: Johnny is a very contradicting pilot, in the manner that he at times flies very well like when he flew the Fantasti-Jet and at other times he doesn't like when he crashed a flight simulator.
 * Skilled Combatant: Johnny has used his powers very well in combat situations.

Relationships

 * Susan Richards - Sister
 * Ben Grimm - Ally
 * Reed Richards - Brother-In-Law
 * Victor Von Doom - Enemy
 * Silver Surfer - Enemy turned Ally

Appearances/Actors

 * Story series (2 films)
 * Fantastic Four (First appearance) - Chris Evans
 * Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer - Chris Evans

Behind the scenes

 * Paul Walker was considered for the part of Johnny Storm.

Trivia

 * Chris Evans was initially sceptical of accepting the role of Captain America when it was offered to him in early 2010, going so far as to turn it down three times. The main reason for this was because he was afraid that people would compare him the Human Torch role, and didn't want people to think he was juggling two different superheroes at once. However, since Evans had previously gone on record to say he didn't think that a third Fantastic Four film would be made, he finally decided to take the role.