Blackfire tt5/5/2023 ![]() ![]() (Blackfire’s starbolt color is also how I justify Mar’i having pink starbolts. I like to do fun things with it in fanfic and headcanons, though. So, Blackfire looks very different for symbolism and logistics. In the comics, Karras had brown hair and his sister, Xyannis, had turqoisey-blue eyes, and of course there’s Blackfire, who originally I think just had darker red hair but in the DCnU she definitely has black hair. After cheering up Starfire, they charge the spacecraft its gonna be a great girl power moment. An alien gunship emerges, and the girls realize they must stop this before it begins. Plus, by making all the other Tamaraneans so uniform the artists didn’t need to create much more of a culture than was already presented through Starfire. DARK HORSE COMICS ISSUE 4 MANOR 31 TM CULLEN B UNN FIRE IN THE BL 0 OD BRIAN HUR TT T Y LE R CRO O KM WRITTENBY PUBLISHER CULLEN BUNN AND BRIAN HURTT MIKE. Blackfire has gone ahead with the invasion, opening a huge light beam portal in the middle of Jump City. It just solidified her presence as a villain, really. The other Tamaraneans are also purposefully colored like Starfire to give us a sense of togetherness, where Blackfire is the outlier. ![]() They also borrowed her look from the comics, where she has darker hair than Starfire, although she has the same eye color. Giving Blackfire purple starbolts also helped to let us know which shot belonged to which sister during fights. It would have been way too confusing to introduce a character so similar to Starfire at the beginning of the show. The real and boring answer is because we needed the color coded bad guy for the episode Sisters. Blackfire, also known in the comics as Komandr first appeared in New Teen Titans 22 (written by Marv Wolfman, with artwork by George Pérez, Romeo Tangal and Adrienne Roy). Haha! I love this question because this bothers me too! ![]()
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