Another Buddy for the Bat- Firefly Joins the Assassins of ‘Batman: Arkham Origins’

As the recent Bat-tastic trailer from Gamescom revealed, Firefly is the latest addition to Batman: Arkham Origins' menagerie. He joins such wacky funsters as Deathstroke, Deadshot, Black Mask and everyone's favorite, the Joker.

Our youthful, less middle-aged-spread-y Batman has quite the shitstorm to deal with here, as Black Mask offers eight of these nutbags a multi-million dollar reward for dispatching him. We've previously showcased some of the lesser-known assassins in the running, such as Mad Hatter and Copperhead, so hold on to your butts as Firefly makes an entrance for the comic knowledge impaired.

Are you ready to meet DC Comics' resident airborne pyromaniac?

Firefly was first introduced in the comics in 1952, as Garfield Lynns. This visual effects man and general mad, mad bastard had a robbery/arsonist attack thwarted by Batman and Robin, and was all kinds of pissed about it. Escaping the dumbass duo when they became distracted by a firefly (or something, this was fifty years ago and we can scarcely remember what we ate for breakfast), Lynns adopted his typically-camp looking costumed criminal persona.

His specialty was visual illusions and other trickery, though somewhere between him and the second man to don the Firefly suit, Ted Carson, their penchant for good ol' fashioned explosive violence won through. Later, he became convinced that he could read the future in flames, and so decided that the way forward was to burn everything ever. Twice.

This guy's claim to fame includes wooing Bruce Wayne's be-lusted lady, Batwoman, and trying to murder and wear the skin of ex-Robin Nightwing (he was terribly burned in one fire. Picture Harvey Dent in The Dark Knight, but even less lovable). Would you hit on Batman's ladyfriend? You wouldn't. Firefly would, and that's the kind of badass we're dealing with here.

The Firefly we'll fight in Arkham Origins has perhaps the most formidable arsenal of weapons comic book crazy has ever seen. His suit is equipped with missiles, flamethrowers and an array of other happy funtime death-tools. It should make for a spectacular battle.

Incidentally, in true comic book panel style, his flamethrower makes the sound FWASH! It's not quite as masculine as Batman's own KA-POW!WHAMM!ZOK!CRASH! punches (you can't argue with ZOK!, whatever the hell that's supposed to be), but it'll suffice.