| Converted: | y |
| Character Name: | Red Volcano |
| Publisher: | DC Comics |
| Debut: | DC Universe #0 (April 2008) |
| Creators: | Greg Weisman (concept) Kevin VanHook (writer) Grant Morrison (writer) Gail Simone (writer) Aaron Lopresti (artist) |
| Species: | Android |
| Alliances: | Secret Society of Super Villains |
| Powers: | Superhuman strength and durability Genius level intellect Heat generation Large and medium-scale geokinesis |
| Cat: | super |
| Subcat: | DC Comics |
| Villain: | y |
| Sortkey: | Red Volcano |
Red Volcano is a fictional android supervillain published by DC Comics. He first appeared in DC Universe #0 (April 2008), and was created by Kevin VanHook, Grant Morrison, Gail Simone and Aaron Lopresti from a concept by Greg Weisman.
Red Volcano debuted in DC Universe #0, and returned in 2009's Red Tornado mini-series.[1]
Red Volcano was created by Professor Ivo and T.O. Morrow. Ivo uses him as an aide during his tenure as part of the Secret Society of Super Villains.[2] He helps Ivo in collecting soil samples from various regions of Earth where acts of genocide took place over the past 100 years. This is a plot to create a golem called Genocide. Following the Final Crisis, he was with Cheetah's Secret Society of Super Villains.
During the events of the Red Tornado miniseries, Red Volcano is one of three other androids that were created besides Red Tornado, the first of which was Red Torpedo, a female water elemental who was the first of the four,[3] and much later Red Inferno, a fire elemental designed to look much younger than the other four.[4] Of the four "siblings" representing the elements, Red Volcano is an earth elemental who can manipulate molten rock and magma. The Volcano lacks the humanity or conscience that his "siblings" have, going so far as to torture his creator into revealing the whereabouts of the other two robots. When Morrow tells him where the Red Inferno is, the Volcano heads for the child robot's home neighborhood and mercilessly murders the Inferno's adopted parents and destroys the entire neighborhood. He then takes the distraught Inferno with him into the atmosphere, telling him that the government was responsible for killing his parents in order to get him to destroy orbiting satellites and wreak havoc.
Red Volcano possesses heat generating abilities and wears a cape made of molten rock.
He also has super-strength and flight, and also demonstrated geokinesis to a great extent.