Volcana (DC Comics)

Introduced in the episode "Where There's Smoke", Claire Selton showed an aptitude for pyrokinesis as a teenager. Her parents sent her to Metropolis' Center for Paranormal Studies to help her learn to control and develop her powers, but she was taken by government agents, who "stripped away her past, code-named her Volcana, and tried their hardest to turn her into a living weapon" according to the center's director.

Volcana eventually escaped the agents, became a fugitive, and became a thief to survive. While attempting to leave Metropolis, she encounters and briefly fights Superman before escaping. She later seeks out her fence Donnie, but is captured by agents led by Kurt, the agent who originally kidnapped her. They take her to an underground facility with the intention of selling her to another government for dissection purposes and discovering the source of her powers. Meanwhile, Superman locates and interrogates one of the agents before rescuing Volcana, who destroys the facility and attempts to seek revenge on Kurt. While she inadvertently ignites nearby hydrogen canisters, which explode and stun her, Superman evacuates the facility and takes Volcana to a deserted island where she cannot hurt anyone else, promising to deliver her food from time to time.[1] Volcana also makes a cameo appearance in the episode "Unity", in which she fights Supergirl.

Volcana as she appears in the Justice League two-part episode "Only a Dream" Pt. 1.

As of the Justice League episode "Only a Dream" Pt. 1, Volcana took on more villainous tendencies and was incarcerated in a Metropolis prison before taking advantage of a prison riot to escape alongside Firefly. Additionally, she makes a minor appearance in the episode "Hereafter" Pt. 2 while the government project who kidnapped her is revealed to have been part of Project Cadmus over the course of the series.[2]

As of the Justice League Unlimited episode "To Another Shore", she has developed the ability to fly under her own power and joined Gorilla Grodd's Secret Society. Prior to and during the episodes "Alive!" and "Destroyer", Lex Luthor takes over the Society, but Grodd mounts a mutiny. Volcana sides with the former before Darkseid attacks and kills most of the Society. In response, Luthor, Volcana, and the other survivors join forces with the Justice League to thwart Darkseid's invasion of Earth.

• Volcana appears as a boss in Superman: Shadow of Apokolips, voiced again by Peri Gilpin.
• Volcana appears as a boss in Superman: Countdown to Apokolips, voiced again by Peri Gilpin.

Volcana received a figure in Mattel's Justice League Unlimited tie-in toy line as part of a three-pack with Hawk and Green Arrow.