Scorch

Chan Ho Yin was a Hong Kong street magician who developed pyrotechnic powers.

Biography
Chan Ho Yin was a native of Hong Kong. Taking after his idol, Harry Houdini, Chan made his living performing street magic for locals and tourists.

Several years ago, Chan realized that he had developed pyrotechnic abilities when a dish towel burst into flames in his hands. The origin of Chan's abilities is still under investigation, but he was a nearby resident when the decommissioned Wan Tai nuclear power plant caught fire. There are no other cases of powers developing near Wan Tai.

Chan came to the attention of S.H.I.E.L.D. when informants saw him using his abilities in his street show, lighting a torch with his pinkie. S.H.I.E.L.D. assigned him a case worker, Hong Kong based agent Kwan, who recommended that Chan not use his abilities in public. Kwan violated this arrangement on at least three different occasions.

in 2013, Chan was approached by a woman named Raina, who offered to increase his power and give him the fame that he craved. She suggested that he take the alias of "Scorch" to further his fame. However, Raina was just using him to further her own ends and the ends of her mysterious employers.

After being captured by Raina, Chan was taken to a nearby lab, where he was injected with the Centipede serum by the doctor known only as "Debbie". The serum increased Chan's powers, and due to special platelets in his blood, he did not detonate like other users of the process. Having gotten what they needed from Chan, Debbie ordered that Chan's blood be completely drained from his body.

Chan escaped from the lab before this could be accomplished, and upon confronting Debbie, incinerated her, reducing her to ashes within seconds. It was at this time that Chan encounte4d a S.H.I.E.L.D. extraction team led by Kwan and agent Phil Coulson.

Chan was growing more mentally unstable by the minute (possibly as side-effect of the serum as the same thing happened to Michael Peterson) and attacked the S.H.I.E.L.D. agents, killing Kwan.

Coulson attempted to shoot tranquilizer darts at Kwan, but he vaporized them on approach. Seeing no other option, Coulson ordered agent Melinda May to inject him with a larger dose of Centipede, which caused him to overload and detonate, killing him.