Solara

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caption= Solara, as seen "Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects"
comic_color=background:#FFA040
character_name=Solara
real_name=Reiko Kurokaki
publisher=Marvel Comics
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creators=Marvel Comics
alliance_color=background:#FF8020
status=Active
alliances=Imperfects
previous_alliances=
aliases=Published scientist
relatives=biological father-unamed yakuza boss
mother-unamed
adopted father-unamed pysisist
powers=-Fire manipulation
-Superhuman agility
-Flight |

Solara (Reiko Kurokaki) is a fictional character created by Electronic Arts, in conjunction with Marvel Comics, in their first attempt to bring Marvel heroes to a video game platform, "". Her powers are similar, if not identical, to those of Human Torch.

Fictional character biography

In the middle of a ruthless gang war which had kept him underground and away from his wife for a year, the infamous Yakuza leader Kazuya Morimoto discovered that his wife had given birth to a daughter named Reiko. Morimoto went insane with rage because his daughter was born in another man's house. While his wife and the infant Reiko slept, Morimoto poured gasoline in every room and burned the house to the ground. As he drove off, the distant screams of his wife cut through the winter night, but he did not stop.

When the maid returned in the morning, the house has been reduced to smoldering embers. She found baby Reiko miraculously in the middle of the burnt structure without a scratch. Reiko was kept a secret and sent to Cambridge to live with the maid’s sister.

There she grew up with a new identity – and had no idea of her true past. Living a life of seclusion, Reiko was home schooled by her new found family and showed an aptitude for quantum physics. Years later she wrote her doctorate on sub zero combustion. Her writings were defacto standard used by research facilities world wide.

After the theory was taken to scientific trials, Reiko was on the verge of a breakthrough. Instead, a terrible accident destroyed her University laboratory, killing dozens of workers and observers -- including her adoptive parents but once again, Reiko miraculously survived. Was the accident caused by sabotage from her father’s agents? Disgraced and having lost everything, she falls through the cracks, living in a slum and working under an assumed name as a cleaning woman at a community college physics lab, trying in vain to figure out what went wrong and complete her research.

Niles Van Roekel identified Reiko and considered her a prime candidate. She was the daughter of a warrior, well versed in physics & particles, and had a mythical resistance to fire. Roekel gave her the clue to her failed experiment to recruit her and promised to restore her reputation in the scientific community. Without a second thought, Reiko agreed to join his top secret project. Roekel lined her insides with alien crystals and turned her into a human kiln. Now, her body can store high concentrations of energy and release it at targets. Whatever substance is in her vengeful wake is instantly evaporated. Fire was no longer her curse, but her salvation.

During the Imperfect invasion of New York, Solara encountered and fought against Venom. She was beaten but she would later on defeat Daredevil. She then loses to the Human Torch who accompanied Iron Man and other heroes who raided on Roekel's lab.

No other material has been developed for Solara or the rest of the Imperfects since the release of .

Trivia

-Solara's Vanquishing move, "Kiss of Death" is an homage to Sonya Blade of Mortal Kombat's old fatalities in which she would blow a flaming kiss to burn her opponent.