Jared Morillo

JARED MORILLO

Real Name: Jared Morillo

Class: Human mutate

Occupation: Detective, Department of Metahuman Hostility, KCPD

Group Affiliation: KCPD

Known Relatives: unnamed mother-in-law, unnamed parents, unnamed wife

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: Keystone City, Kansas, formerly Los Angeles, California

First Appearance: Flash II #171 (April, 2001)

Powers: Morillo was a confident and intelligent detective, and was armed with standard KCPD firearms. Morillo had a healing factor, he recovered instantaneously from minor wounds and could heal from injuries that would kill any ordinary human over longer periods of time.

History: (Flash II #171 (fb, BTS), Flash Secret Files #3) - Detective Morillo was chief L.A. homicide detective, and had aspirations of joining the F.B.I. His wife wanted a child so she convinced him to give up his dream of becoming an F.B.I. agent, and they moved from L.A. to Keystone City because Keystone was supposedly safer and had less pollution. Morillo joined the KCPD and offered insights into crimes no one else could because of the sheer number of violent cases he’d already handled. He got a reputation for being arrogant and dismissive towards his fellow officers.

(Flash II #171) - Morillo deduced the truth about the string of murders committed in Keystone by the Children of Cicada, all the victims were people whose lives had been saved in the past by Flash. Morillo brought Flash into his investigation, and had him collect evidence from the dozens of murder scenes.

(Flash II #172, 173) - Officer Chyre punched Detective Morillo because Morillo was keeping him away from the investigation of his partner Jackam’s murder. Their argument was cut short when the precinct was wrecked during a battle between Flash and Magenta. Chyre and Morillo agreed to help each other find the Children of Cicada. They figured that since they were both disliked by the rest of the KCPD they might as well work together. They found Cicada’s inner sanctum, and helped Flash defeat Cicada and the cultists. Morillo was stabbed by Cicada’s knife during the fight, and soon discovered that it somehow imbued him with healing powers.

(Flash II #174) - Morillo and Chyre were made partners and assigned to be the lone members of the newly formed Department of Metahuman Hostility. They collected the remains of Tar Pit after his fight with Flash and handed him over to S.T.A.R. Labs.

(Flash II #175, 176) - Morillo and members of the KCPD responded to a battle between Flash and Weather Wizard, but Weather Wizard easily incapacitated the officers and Morillo was thrown through a window. He was badly cut up, but instantaneously healed, and Morillo was more confounded than happy with his new healing factor. He shot the Weather Wizard, distracting the villain enough for Flash to take him down.

(Flash II #177) - Morillo and Chyre updated Flash about Josh Jackam’s situation; they were still trying to find a home for him.

(Flash: Iron Heights) - When Murmur unleashed the frenzy virus on the population of Iron Heights, Morillo recruited Flash I, Flash III and Pied Piper to get into the Heights, get a sample of the virus and create a vaccine. The heroes succeeded and the virus was stopped cold.

(Flash Secret Files #3) - Morillo and Chyre met their new co-worker, Rogue profiler Hunter Zoloman. Murmur had slaughtered the employees of radio station KKEY, and Hunter did a profile on him that led Chyre, Morillo and Flash to his next target, radio station KKSS. They interrupted Murmur’s attack, but he escaped with help from the Rogues.

(Flash II #178) - Morillo and Chyre responded when Gorilla Grodd broke out of his prison transport. Grodd took them out of action with a psionic blast, and Flash was the one who brought Grodd back into custody.

(Flash II #179) - Morillo and Chyre were at the precinct when Pied Piper was arrested for murdering his parents.

(Flash II #180) - Flash tried to expose Gregory Wolfe’s inhumane treatment of prisoners, and brought Morillo to Iron Heights to show him that the prisoner Fallout was powering the jail. By the time they got there Fallout was gone, and Morillo knew he had no case against Wolfe. Morillo passed Cicada's cell, and the wound Cicada gave him flashed with lightning. Cicada tried to use his connection to Morillo to get Morillo to set him free, but Morillo shook off the influence.

(Flash II #181) - Morillo sent Flash after Fallout, who was unintentionally causing death and destruction in Keystone. Flash brought him in after promising him he’d receive more humane treatment in the Heights. Morillo ha a few drinks with Chyre on Christmas Eve, and told him they were now friends. On his way home Morillo was shot by Plunder, his counterpart from a mirror dimension. Plunder took his place at home and on the KCPD.

(Flash II #185-188) - As Plunder prepared to execute Chyre, Morillo’s regeneration power kicked in and he burst from his grave. He beat Plunder senseless and warned him to stay far away from his wife in the future. Chrye and Morillo went to Central City to see if they could help Flash in his war against the Rogues. They ran into Captain Cold, who wanted to undermine Blacksmith’s leadership of the Rogues, and helped them free Cyborg an the KCPD from one of Mirror Master’s traps. Morillo, Chyre, and Cyborg found Flash, and helped him defeat the Thinker. Morillo and Chyre went to see Hunter Zoloman to see if he had any insight on defeating the Rogues. They found Hunter being held at gunpoint by Plunder, but the officers worked together to defeat him.

(Flash II #189) - Flash checked in with Morillo to make sure he was okay after his encounter with the Rogues, and although Flash was curious how Morillo survived his fight with Plunder, Morillo wasn’t ready to tell Flash about his powers. Morillo told Flash he was going to spend a quiet night with his wife.

(Flash II #191) - A giant beanstalk sprouted in Keystone, courtesy of Brother Grimm, and all Morillo and the KCPD could do was to declare Keystone a no-fly zone. Morillo’s wife was supposed to fly out to see her mother, and he knew his wife would be in a foul mood when he got home. Flash defeated Grimm, and the beanstalk disappeared.

(Flash II #192 (BTS)) - Morillo alerted Flash to a break-in at Iron Heights by Gorilla City gorillas.

(Flash II #194) - Morillo and Chyre staid at Hunter Zoloman’s bedside until he regained consciousness after he was brutally attacked by Gorilla Grodd.

(Flash II #195) - Morillo and Chyre reviewed what Rogues had escaped from Iron Heights after Grodd’s breakout.

(Flash II #196) - Morillo and Chyre went to Keystone’s general hospital when Peek-A-Boo caused chaos in an effort to see her father before he died. Flash convinced her to turn herself in.

(Flash II 199, 200) - Morillo and Chyre responded to an attack on Keystone by Zoom, but were unable to stop him from hospitalizing Linda Park. Flash took down Zoom, but blamed his tragedy on his public identity, so Spectre Hal Jordan made the world forget that Flash was Wally West. Even Wally forgot his own identity, and Morillo and Chyre had their ands full with rogues attacking Keystone once Flash disappeared.

(Flash II #201-204) - Morillo and Chyre tried to apprehend Trickster, who was involve in illegal street racing, but he got away. They discovered the frozen body of KCPD forensic scientist Adam Perkins, and soon realized they had a serial killer on their hands when other KCP officers ended up frozen and murdered. They cornered the killer at a steel mill when Flash returned to the scene and entered the building. Flash was defeated by the killer, but saved by Captain Cold. Morillo an Chyre suspected Cold of the killings, and tried to bring him in, but he escaped.

(Flash II #205) - Morillo and Chyre pursued Weather Wizard, but Morillo enraged him with name calling and he escaped after frying their car with a lightning bolt.

(Flash II #206) - Morillo and Chyre responded when Flash capture Mr. Element, the cop-killer, but by the time they arrived Element had been murdered by Captain Cold, who resented Element framing him for his crimes.

(Flash II #211, 213, 214)-Chyre and Morillo respone to an attack on te New Flash Museum, but by the time they got tere they found Grodd the villain responsible, defeated by Flash an Nightwing. Ashley Zoloman was involved in a serious car crash, and they took Wally West, the KC mechanic who fixe her car, taken in for questioning. He pleaded his innocence, and they released him, but remained suspicious. Wally’s wife had recently left him, but Morillo considered it a possible homicide. Wally later admitted that he accidentally forgot to finish putting her combination valve together, and Morillo’s Captain ordered him and Chyre to keep investigating.

(Flash II #215) - Morillo and Chyre guarded Ashley Zoloman’s hospital room when she woke up from her coma.

(Flash II #216) - Mischevious kids threw paint cans from the top of their builing, hitting Morillo and Chyre’s squad car and smashing its window.

(Flash II #217) - Morillo and Chyre dealt with a crime wave committed by the Rogues as a way to honor their fallen comrade Captain Boomerang.

(Flash II #220) - Morillo and Chyre discussed how to deal with Dr. Alchemy’s attack on the GCPD with Ashley Zoloman.

(Flash II #221, 225) - Morillo and Chyre responded to a citywide battle between the Rogues and Trickster’s reformed Rogues. The battle ended thanks to the Flash, and Chyre and Morillo went to celebrate avoiding a catastrophe by getting a drink.

(Flash II #230) - Morillo and Chyre helped Flash take down Vandal Savage’s metahuman acolytes.

Comments: Created by Geoff Johns & Scott Kollins

Morillo received a profile in Flash Secret Files #3.