: Little buddy!!
: Technically, he's not your little buddy, he's Dominic Petros' little buddy. Todd 'n I are YOUR little buddies, Lance! XD
: Yeah, and because this is Rosiel's bio for him for Pyromania*, it's horribly long. O.o That's just a warning, yo.
: I feel so loved!! XD I get a longer bio than the characters who are actually in Evolution!

Name: St. John Allerdyce
Age: I'm guessing somewhere between 25-35 (I doubt he was older than 35 at the time of his death)
Height: 5'10"
Weight: A whopping 150 pounds! :D
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Blonde!
Nifty Mutant Power: Johnnyboy can manipulate flames! XD He can increase/decrease it to any size, shape, intensity, etc. that he wants. He�s pretty cool like dat. However, he can�t actually create flame, or at least he couldn�t until the legacy virus made his powers (and himself >.<) go crazy. That and he could in AoA. Of course, he died in BOTH of the issues where he generated fire, so I�m guessing it�s not very good for his health ;P Anyway, while he�s immune to fire under his control, he�s NOT immune to fire he�s not controlling, soooo yeah, the guy can be burned. ^^; Oh, and if you distract him or turn his attention away from the fire, it�ll immediately revert back to its normal size, shape, etc. I find this amusing. (*poke poke* Pyro: �Whaaa?� *poof!* �Damn it!�)
Affiliation: (currently) None, because he�s dead. >.< (formerly) Brotherhood of Evil Mutants/Freedom Force
First Appearance: Uncanny X-Men 141 (final appearance: Cable 87)
Fave Quote: "Thank you, Pyro. You saved us." "That I did, an' in fine style, too!" (Longshot and Pyro in UXM 226>

"Gahh! Bloody rot!" (I think it's funny, hehehe, even if he's like freaking out in the not-funny way in this ish)

"I'll never know if my new book's a bestseller." "I'm sorry I brought you to this, Pyro." "Break o' the games, luv. Knew that when I signed on. Worse ways to go than with friends--" (Pyro, Mystique, then Pyro again in UXM 255. They think they're gonna die; ain't that sweet? :D)

Random Crap: St. John Allerdyce was born and raised in Sydney, Australia. Ain�t that cute? I think it�s cute! Anyway! When his powers emerged, he didn�t exactly feel driven to do anything with them (because of this, some people call him �unambitious�, which, considering what he achieved WITHOUT his powers, is pretty inaccurate. ~_~ I mean, COME ON! Not all mutants have to be driven to don a spandex uniform and fight evil/good! I think it�s neat that he lived a normal, successful life with regular humans!), so he kind of went on with his life pretty normally. Well, about as normal a life as a journalist wandering around Vietnam and Indonesia and probably other places around South Asia COULD have. Anyway, he saw a lot of cool shit, and started writing novels about it (and he wrote what Marvel [I�m pretty sure his official bio said that. I wouldn�t know now because they took it down. The bastards] calls �torrid Gothic Romances�. XD). Apparently, his novels were pretty good, since the English-speaking peoples just ate �em up. Still, critics hated him (don�t they hate most entertaining writers anyway?) and probably trashed his work quite a bit, but that doesn�t matter because the public liked his books anyway (see! He�s not unambitious!)

Anyway, nobody really knows how or why, but basically, St. John met Mystique and joined her version of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants (which is kind of weird and illogical for him to do. After all, he had an established career and he never cared about his powers before... Of course, that�s why this is a little mystery :D I�m guessing he and Mystique had sex or something, and in the middle she was like �Join the Brotherhood!� and he was like �YES! Wait. What?� I dunno... I think Chris Claremont knows, though :D). And so, Johnny became a member of the BoEM, where Rogue flirted with him (according to his chronology on the kick-assy Freedom Force site which will be in the links section once I get it up. I don�t have the issue yet, so I don�t know. But I WANT to see it!); Avalanche thought he was annoying, but then became his best friend; and Blob tried to bully him. And after a couple of failed missions, the BoEM realized how times were probably gonna get tougher for mutants. And so, for government pardons, they became...

FREEDOM FORCE! America�s government-employed mutant group thingie! So, Freedom Force (consisting of Mystique, Destiny, Avalanche, Blob, Pyro, Crimson Commando, Spiral, Stonewall, Super Sabre, and Spiderwoman, though not all at once) played the government�s game-- though somewhat reluctantly. Apparently, none of them really cared about being �good-guys�. :D That is, except for Pyro and the geezers (er, I mean the WWII veteran trio O.o), who seemed to enjoy playing hero once in a while.

Unfortunately, Freedom Force couldn�t last forever (good things never last *sigh*). After dealing with the deaths of Destiny and Stonewall (though Pyro seemed to be the only one who cared about the latter�s dying), Freedom Force was sent on a mission (sans Mystique) to Kuwait. There, Super Sabre got his head cut off, Crimson Commando lost his arm and both of his legs, Avalanche went Boom! but was okay (though Commando wasn�t ;p), and... *bum bum bummm* Pyro got the Legacy Virus! Well, probably. Most likely. Apparently, Avalanche felt that Commando�s life was more important than Pyro and Blob, so he left them to die or get their asses kicked in Kuwait. Aminedi, one of the members of Desert Sword (the group that Freedom Force was fighting), probably infected Johnny with Legacy during that time.

Luckily, Blobby and Johnny didn�t bite the dust in Kuwait. They were able to play bodyguard for a bit, and then Toad bailed them out and made them join HIS Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. They ran around playing the villain gig for a while, and things were okay. And then, while hanging around on a boat (hehe! Johnny in speedoes!), Exodus suddenly floats down and babbles and then calls St. John �tainted� (referring to the virus, which none of them knew about yet) and then goes poof. The next time we see Johnny, he�s been reunited with Avalanche (Quoth the Blob: �Are they kissin� yet?� hehe), and we all get to find out that he has the Legacy Virus. He�s also drawn pretty badly towards the end of this issue... The artist, apparently, liked giving everyone the �perpetual squint�. It was bad looking. Plus John looked kinda whiny in one panel...

After that, we got to see many different, wacky versions of Pyro. There was Suicidal Pyro. Homicidal Pyro. Can�t-Control-My-Flames-In-One-Issue-But-I-Look-Perfectly-Healthy-Next-But-NEXT-I -Look-Anorexic-And-Dying Pyro. And Totally-Insane Pyro. Oh, and there was Totally-Normal Pyro, which was kind of weird, really, because... he was like �I have the Legacy Virus!� but he could control his powers perfectly and looked healthy... Oh well! Different writers and artists do different things to him.

Anyway, during this time, he does a lot of crazy things, one of which is robbing a bank and getting shot. He looked pretty cute in the issue, though... I liked his �OW!! This isn�t fair!!� face. Hehe. Anyway, he got all better and ran off. Next, we see him as a spastic lunatic. Blah blah. He comes and goes a lot, really... sometimes for no reason at all (like in the issue with the burning church. What the hell was his purpose there?! He looked freaky, too... and why did he have white eyes? He has pretty BLUE eyes and the virus didn�t, or shouldn�t, change that! Er, but I digress...). And then, finally, after about seven years or so of torment (seven years or so real time), he made his final appearance in Cable 87.

And what happened in Cable 87? He died to save Senator Kelly from getting killed by Post. He turned Post into a crispy-critter by generating his own flame, then begged Senator Kelly to stop the hatred and death between humans and mutants, and then died because the Virus finally took its final toll on him. It was really sad. I almost cried... Anyway, I provided a shitty recap of what happened. Wanna see his death in its full, ultimately pointless glory? Then get the issue. I�m getting tired.

Yes. As great as his death was, as heroic as his death was, the writers decided to play the �Let�s screw Pyro!� game and kill off the Senator an issue later ANYWAY! And then, the Legacy Virus finds its cure through Colossus� sacrifice. Sigh.

To conclude this weird, crappy bio (which does Johnny no justice O.o;), St. John Allerdyce, AKA Pyro, was a great character who, unfortunately, died before he should. He had potential for redemption and everything, but I guess the writers decided he wasn�t an important enough character to keep around. It�s sad. I really would�ve loved to see him get better and join one of the superhero teams as the annoying anti-hero guy (hehe! He could be an X-Man and just bug Wolverine constantly, and... and... be annoying and silly!), but that�s not gonna happen unless he�s resurrected, and I don�t WANT him to be resurrected because that�ll just cheapen his death. You know what I want? I want a Pyro miniseries from before he became a supervillain because I think it�ll be neat and I�ll be the only person to buy it :P Soo, here�s my plan! I graduate college, join Marvel, then sneakily propose this idea to Stan Lee who�ll still be alive because he�s immortal. Ha!! And then it�ll never sell because I�ll be the writer and it�ll just be insane!!! And then Marvel will cancel the series and fire me! Woohoo!! >.<

Personal Opinion: Duhhhh, lookit the bio and tell me what my opinion is.

Evolution: Why the hell isn't he in Evolution?!! He was supposed to be in it, but then he got bumped off for Sauron (which makes NO sense!) and then Sauron got bumped off for Pietro (which is good, even though in a way, Pietro's the reason that Johnny's not in Evo :D). It's STUPID! They even mentioned Johnny in Lance's bio on Marvel!! Does anyone else remember that? It was something like "He [Lance] is easily amused by the immature antics of his buddy Pyro." See! Pyro was gonna be in it and... he was gonna be the immature one in the BH O.o; Anyway, it's not fair that Marvel got my hopes up for seeing my favorite character, and then they don't show him and they take him out of Lance's bio >.> How dare they do that to me! Er... yes. :D I still hope he's gonna show up, because it just irritates me that they totally blew off Avalanche's bestest buddy. >.<