A pyromaniac, Garfield Lynns, also known as Firefly, began as a FX Artist at Panessa Studios, until he ended up laid off by Tomaso Panessa, the owner, largely due to the financial failure of the film The Inferno, despite critical acclaim. In response, Lynns committed his first murder against his former employer by burning him with nitroglycerine from his flask with a match. He then became a petty criminal, but soon graduated to major crimes as a terrorist that centered around arson, and torched huge parts of Gotham City in the process. But Lynn's fires soon raged out of his control, and left him horribly scarred by one of his own blazes.