Full Name: Amara Aquila
Affiliation: X-Men (New Mutants junior class)
Origin: Brazil
Powers: Able to fire flame blasts from her hands, possible geothermal manipulation
Background: Amara Aquilla was born in Brazil, and has been seen spending time with countryman Sunspot and also with Iceman. Maybe she just has a thing for guys named Bobby. With her control of molten lava and the ability to wield flame blasts, Magma is a powerful part of the New Mutants' roster.

At one point, she banded together with Rogue, Boom-Boom, Shadowcat, and Jean Grey to form the crime-fighting Bayville Sirens, the ultimate expression of "girl-power." The five dressed in what could only be described as punk-gothic, and used their abilities to bring down a chop-shop/car theft ring. Immediately afterwards, the group disbanded under threat of arrest for vigilantism (a threat actually made by Mystique in disguise), but the incident has shown that mutants can use their powers for the good of humanity, rather than the destruction that Magneto dreams of.

Magma was the only member of the New Mutants to get out of the Mansion before it sealed itself for Defcon 4 on the "Day of Reckoning." She and Boom-Boom alerted Cyclops to the Mansion's strange behavior, and helped him to narrowly save the rest of the New Mutants.

The next day, after running from the police, Berzerker led most of the New Mutants, except for Iceman, into the Morlock tunnels. They then returned to the X-Men.

Later in the year, Storm decided that the X-Men could use a break, and took most of them on a cruise. During the cruise, after having been outted as mutants, Scott, Jean, Kurt, Kitty, Bobby, Tabitha, and Amara all hopped ship and went to a small, volcanic island, where the habitants actually liked the mutants, rather than feared them. While there, Amara accidently tapped deeper into her powers than she knew she could, and activated the volcano. She was later able to use her powers to shut the volcano off, and the group returned to the ship to face reprimand from Storm.
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