Scirocco (City of Villains)

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caption=Scirocco
comic_color=background:#8080ff
character_name=Scirocco
real_name=Imad Malak
publisher=Image Comics
debut="City of Heroes
creators=Sean Michael Fish
alliance_color=background:#ffc0c0
alliances=Arachnos
powers=Manipulation of lightning, manipulation of wind, the Blade of Serafina|

Scirocco is both a hero and a villain in the "City of Heroes" universe.

Scirocco was the name given to a great hero who controlled the powers of the storm and the winds, similar to the wind he was named after. A hero in Paragon City in the 1980s also held the name of "Scirocco" in honor of the long dead hero of the Middle East. His powers came from a group of monks who kept the Temple of the Four Winds. The current Scirocco, a man named Imad Malak, found the tomb of the hero, including all of the former heroes greatest magics, the bottle of a djinn named Serafina, and a magical scimitar named after the djinn. He, too, was later chosen to take up the mantle of the Scirocco of the Four Winds by the monks, until he turned on them and eventually became one of the higher ranked officials in the Arachnos organization under Lord Recluse. During his time in Arachnos, he has brought the villainess Irena Rudenko, also known as Ice Mistral, under his wing as she too holds the power of the Temple of the Four Winds and has gone mad with its power.

Today, Scirocco leads the legions of Mu Mystics that are used as Arachnos' magical soldiers. For Villains in "City of Villains" that prove themselves to him, he grants them some of the powers of the Mu, including the ability to conjure lightning and lead a small squadron of Mu Mystics for their own uses.