( March 2013)Ĭreated by writer Chris Claremont and artist/co-writer John Byrne, the St. Aaron Stanford took over the role in the two 20th Century Fox X-Men films X2, and X-Men: The Last Stand as an Americanized version called John Allerdyce. In the 2000 film X-Men, Pyro was portrayed by Alexander Burton. The assassination is thwarted, and at a later date the Brotherhood become agents of the US government in exchange for a full pardon, and the team becomes known as the Freedom Force. Pyro and the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants are the antagonists in the X-Men story Days of Future Past as they attempt to assassinate Senator Robert Kelly, which in an alternate timeline leads to a dystopic future where Mutants are hunted, killed or captured by the Sentinel robots. Pyro has the mutant power to control fire.
He was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne and introduced in The Uncanny X-Men #141 (January 1981) as part of the Brotherhood of Evil Mutants. John Allerdyce, Pyro is depicted as a recurring enemy of the X-Men and later becomes an agent of the U.S. Pyro is the name of two fictional characters appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics.
