Starfire Timeline
This timeline is designed to detail the exploits of Starfire (Koriand’r) throughout different eras of comic book history. These summaries are here to help make reading about Starfire easier. For more information regarding our timeline project, see our about page here.
This timeline is heavily based on our “Starfire Reading Order“. Non-indented sections correspond with Starfire’s “Essential” storyline while indented sections correspond with Starfire’s “Extra” storyline. Make sure to check out our reading order here for more information.
New 52
With the beginning of the New 52, the DC Universe’s continuity was restarted. Most of Starfire’s history is wiped out, though her relationship with Dick Grayson and history as a slave seem to remain intact. She starts the New 52 living a life of total seclusion on an island retreat, until she meets Jason Todd and her adventures begin.
Also be sure to view the New 52 era of our “Starfire Reading Order“.
REDemption
Starfire has recently abandoned her old life and traded it in for a life of ease on an island paradise. However, before too long, Jason Todd washes up on her island and she rescues him. Jason gets her involved in adventures once more and she helps him save Roy Harper, Jason’s old friend. Starfire quickly beings a sexual relationship with Roy. The three friends then form a tentative alliance and agree to accompany one another on adventures.
This leads Starfire to accompany Jason on a mission to hunt down an ancient evil called the Untitled. The warrior monks who trained Jason were all recently killed by the Untitled and Jason wants to know why. Their investigation leads them to a small town in Colorado. While there, Starfire and Roy are attacked by a creature named Crux. Crux used to be a man, however, when his parents were killed by a crashing alien spaceship, he swore vengeance against aliens and used technology to enhance his own biology. Starfire and Roy defeat the monster and steal his ship, which they use to chart off on their next adventure.
This storyline extends through issues #1-7 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1: REDemption (Review).
Night of the Owls
Starfire and the Outlaws return to Gotham to save a children’s hospital from Suzie Su, a targeting the hospital to draw out Red Hood. After the Outlaws quickly defeat her, she comes face to face with Jason Todd and admits that she’ll never stop coming after him. Jason responds by shooting her in the head.
Shortly after, the Outlaws pick up a radio signal from Alfred Pennyworth, who is asking for help in fighting the Court of the Owls. Starfire and Roy help by fighting Mr. Freeze, who regrets the work he did to help the Court. Meanwhile, Jason kills one of the Court’s Talons.
This storyline extends through issues #8-9 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 2: The Starfire (Review).
Protector of the People
Starfire is, very briefly, visited by a emissary of Helspont. He warns her of an upcoming conflict and asks that she be ready to serve Helspont when the time comes. He then disappears without a trace.
This story is found in Superman Vol. 3 Annual #1. This issue is collected in Superman Vol. 2: Secrets and Lies (Review).
The Starfire
Starfire and Roy Harper are spending a quiet night together while Jason Todd goes on a date with a girl named Isabel. Their peaceful night soon ends when a giant alien, and old friend of Starfire, appears and asks Starfire for help. Starfire accepts and the Outlaws teleport onto the alien’s ship, accidentally bringing Isabel with them. When there, they learn that this ship’s crew used to be under Starfire’s command and that they are all close friends. They came to her because Starfire’s home planet is under attack by hostile aliens, called the Blight.
At first, Starfire is unsure if she wants to help her home planet, since they were the ones who sold her into slavery in order to achieve planetary peace. However, her growing feelings for Roy help soften her heart and she decides to rescues her sister, Komand’r, from Blight imprisonment. From here, they wage an short, but intense, war on the Blight, in which one of Starfire’s crew sacrificing himself in order to further protect her. In the end, Starfire kills the Blight’s leader and frees the planet of Tamaran. The Outlaws head back to Earth, Starfire has a short talk with Superman about Helspont, and Isabel is attacked by the Joker.
This storyline extends through issues #10-14 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 2: The Starfire (Review).
Death of the Family
Starfire and Roy Harper are beginning to deepen their relationship and have really begun to care for one another. However, their peaceful time together is cut short when they learn that Jason Todd has been captured by the Joker, who is also in the process of creating havoc throughout Gotham City. They quickly leave the island and head to Gotham, where they are forced to team up with the Teen Titans.
The team-up is successful and the heroes are able to drive back Joker’s forces. Eventually, Starfire and Roy meet back up with Jason, who has gone through an ordeal at Joker’s hand. The Outlaws make a brief stop at Wayne Manor, where Starfire avoids confronting her old flame, Dick Grayson. While there, Jason is briefly incapacitated by a trap Joker left in his helmet.
This storyline extends through issues #15-18 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1 and issues #16 of Teen Titans Vol. 4. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 3: Death of the Family (Review).
The League of Assassins
Jason Todd has voluntarily wiped nearly all of his memories, which Starfire and Roy Harper learn was done so that Jason could forget about the Joker. Roy also learns that Starfire has a perfect memory but that she chooses to forget her past in order to avoid the pain. This causes a major strain in the relationship between the two. Soon afterword, Jason is taken by the League of Assassins. In response, Roy begins working with the Untitled to free Jason from the Assassins.
This leads to an epic battle in the Assassins’ underground city. The Untitled are trying to reach the source of their power, the Well of Sins, which is located at the heart of the city. Jason is able to stop them by taking control of the League. However, Ra’s al Ghul appears and takes the power of the Well for himself. He nearly defeats them all but Jason regains his memories (the loss of which was actually part of a larger plan) and is able to use a technique from his past in order to remove Ra’s al Ghul’s new powers. The storyline ends with Essence taking the power of the Well for herself and using it as a force for good, which involves rebuilding the All-Caste.
This storyline extends through issues #19-27 and Annual #1 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. All of these issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 4: League of Assassins (Review), except for issue #27, which is collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 5: The Big Picture (Review).
The Big Picture
After a brief “vacation”, in which the Outlaws unintentionally became involved shutting down another criminal, the Outlaws are individually keeping themselves busy. This is interrupted when aliens steal Starfire’s old ship, while Roy Harper is still on board. Starfire and Jason Todd immediately begin a rescue plan by stealing a ship from an old Blackhawks base. They then use this ship to steal another ship, this time from S.H.A.D.E. They arrive in space just in time to see Roy defeat his alien captors.
The rescue is cut short when Lobo appears and easily takes down Roy. He explains that he will be using the nanotechnology aboard the ship to destroy a sun and use the newly formed black hole as an energy weapon. However, Starfire and Red Hood are able to momentarily distract Lobo. Roy reprograms the nanotechnology to disassemble Lobo and his crew, reassembling them on another ship. The Outlaws return to Earth while Lobo looks at Roy’s tinkering as a potential new weapon.
This storyline extends through issues #28-31 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 5: The Big Picture (Review).
Without Honor or Humanity
In a solo adventure, Starfire has infiltrated a community of slaves and is urging them to rebel. She is forceful and even frightening in her actions. Eventually, the slaveowners are alerted to her actions and she is forced to fight them. After defeating them, she learns that one of the slaves alerted the slaveowners. The slave said she did it because Starfire scares her and everyone wants her to leave. Starfire is sad to hear this and returns home without freeing the people she wanted to.
This story is told in issue #18 of DC Universe Presents Vol. 1. This issue is collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 5: The Big Picture (Review) or DC Universe Presents Vol. 3: Black Lightning and Blue Devil.
Secret Origins
This story recaps Starfire’s history before coming to Earth. It shows how her planet was invaded and her sister was forced to send Starfire away in order to achieve peace. It then details how Starfire’s powers were manifested through cruel experimentation and how she escaped her life of slavery.
This story is told in issue #2 of Secret Origins Vol. 3. This issue is collected in Secret Origins Vol. 1.
Under Fire
Starfire arrives in Metropolis and attempts to kill what appears to be an innocent man. Superman temporarily stops her but the man transforms into an alien monster, which Starfire then destroys. They learn that these monsters have been injecting humans with Daemonite DNA, thus creating more monsters. They stop the Daemonites that they are able to find but fear that more are on the way.
Meanwhile, in space, Starfire’s sister reports to Helspont that the Daemonite mission did not go as planned.
This storyline extends through issues #28-29 of Superman Vol. 3. These issues are collected in Superman Vol. 5: Under Fire (Review).
Lost and Found
This storyline starts out with the Outlaws stopping a group of criminals from dropping a nuclear bomb on Washington D.C. After doing so, they spend a brief moment talking as friends before being kidnapped by S.H.A.D.E. Dr. Kirk Langstrom explains that they were kidnapped for altruistic purposes, as S.H.A.D.E. needed to determine why a destroyed spaceship is emitting a message asking for Starfire. Starfire examines the ship and flies away in horror.
In a flashback, Starfire is shown on a press tour of the galaxy, after leaving her life as a slave. However, the tour is simply a cover so that Starfire can free more slaves. In the present, it is revealed that the destroyed ship was filled with slaves looking for Starfire’s help. Now, Starfire is hunting down her old slave-master, who she now knows is on Earth. She finds him living a normal life and almost kills him but stops when her friends intervene. She leaves the area but the former slave-master kills himself anyway. The storyline ends by showing Starfire passed out from the use of a mysterious drug.
This storyline extends through issues #32-34 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 6: Lost and Found (Review).
Yule be dead for Christmas
Red Hood is trapped in an illusion where he and his friends, Starfire and Roy Harper, are all children. They try to find out the mystery behind Santa’s disappearance and are forced to deal with villains, evil reindeer, and an overbearing Batman. Eventually, Jason is able to break free and discover the entire illusion was created by an alien stranded on Earth as punishment for failing Helspont. He begs Jason to kill him, which Jason does.
This story is told in Annual #2 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. This issue is collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 6: Lost and Found (Review).
Last Call
Roy and Jason find Starfire laying on the beach, passed out from an overdose. They wake her and find her unusually happy. She is also unusually chaotic when the gang goes to track down the criminals behind the attempted Washington D.C. bombing. She becomes so chaotic that she critically burns Roy while attempting to fly away. Starfire drops Roy off at a hospital, where Jason and Green Arrow meet him later. Essence then appears and is able to heal Roy before things get too bad. Meanwhile, Starfire has, once again, overdosed on drugs.
A short while later, Jason and Roy team up with Crux, who is now reformed, in order to find Starfire. They find her in a jungle and learn that her drug addiction was a tactic utilized to learn more about the intergalactic drug trade. This puts them at odds with Helspont, who is planning another invasion of Earth, and Starfire’s sister, who is working with Helspont. However, it turns out Starfire’s sister was only pretending to serve Helspont, as she is instrumental in defeating him. After he is dealt with, Starfire goes to space to care for her sister and the Outlaws part ways on good terms. Though Starfire and Roy express a desire to keep dating, they break up somewhere between this storyline and the “Welcome Home” storyline.
This storyline extends through issues #35-40 of Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 1. These issues are collected in Red Hood and the Outlaws Vol. 7: Last Call (Review).
Welcome Home
Starfire is back on Earth and is tired of being a superhero. She approaches Superman, who suggests that she attempt to live a civilian lifestyle for a while. So Starfire goes to Key West and approaches the town’s sheriff, Stella, about living in the area. After Starfire saves Stella’s brother, Sol, from an intense tropical storm, Stella offers Starfire a room in her own home. All of this helps Starfire in acclimating to her new home, though she is still having a tough time getting used to the customs and the copious amounts of attention she draws in from men.
All of this is complicated by several threats that appear on the island. A giant rock monster comes for a local bartender named Atlee, who is actually a super-powered citizen of an underground world. Starfire and Atlee fight off the monster and become friends. Then, Starfire also has to deal with a man who has the ability to absorb the cancer in others, which seems to be driving him crazy. Finally, she has to fight off an alien bounty hunter. The storyline ends with Dick Grayson landing in Key West.
This storyline extends through DC Sneak Peek: Starfire and issues 1-6 of Starfire Vol. 2. These issues are collected in Starfire Vol. 1: Welcome Home (Review).
A Matter of Time
While Starfire is on a date with Sol, Dick Grayson is, coincidentally, on a mission with Spyral in the same area. When the mission takes a violent turn, Starfire helps out. She is happy to see Dick and even kisses him. However, the two admit they were caught up in the moment and part ways as friends. Starfire returns to Sol and the two kiss.
Then, Atlee begins plans to take Starfire and Stella to visit the underground society where she is from. The three show up there just in time to stop a rebel uprising from destroying the place. While there, they also connect as friends and Stella admits that she is uncomfortable with Starfire dating her brother, since trouble seems to follow Starfire everywhere. This inspires some deep reflection within Starfire and she decides to leave Key West, since she is afraid she is putting everyone in danger. Her new friends are sad to see her go but accept her decision. Starfire leaves her island home full of optimism and ready to face the future.
This storyline extends through issues 7-12 of Starfire Vol. 2. These issues are collected in Starfire Vol. 2: A Matter of Time (Review).
Rebirth
Coming Soon