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This article is about Andrew Jackson, the real agent Pyro. You may be looking for Andrea Jackson Orange, who disguised herself as Pyro.
"Just remember that! There's nothing quite like the lust for revenge, for when the world burns you, you burn the world back! You just want to set the world on fire! You laugh as everything is absorbed into a blazing inferno! Arson and pyromania become your best friends as you kindle, char, inflame, and ignite! You burn up the world, and you're really a fright! And only then will Builder know that He should have known better than to hand you combustible lemons!"
— Pyro

Andrew Jackson, also known as Pyro, is a Dino Attack agent who specializes in using flamethrowers.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Andrew Jackson was a firefighter in LEGO Town. He was happily married to his wife and had three children: Andrea, Jack, and Steven. However, Andrew Jackson and Andrea fell out with each other during the latter's teenage years, culminating in Andrea eloping with her lover Samantha Orange, causing the homophobic Andrew to disown his daughter.

Dino Attack[]

In the initial Dino Attack, Andrew Jackson's neighborhood was infested with Mutant Lizards, and the fire-breathing breed was responsible for burning down his home with his wife and two sons still inside. Driven to the point of insanity, Andrew Jackson swore vengeance and later joined the Dino Attack Team under the codename "Pyro".

Pyro participated in the LEGO Island campaign, during which he participated in the battle in Captain Click's cave. He and his flamethrower made a deadly duo and a formidable adversary to the XERRD scientists and Inferno henchmen; however, it was ineffective against the Brickspider Bot v1.0. Pyro was then brought into the Torn World, where he helped in building a walkway and then defended the team from attacking XERRD scientists and Inferno henchmen.

After the mission ended, Pyro returned to LEGO City and Dino Attack Headquarters, where he was assigned to the Second Headquarters Squad. He worked together with Engineer and Medic to gather resources from Gold City's mine. It was his job to protect Engineer and Medic by keeping mutants at bay with his flamethrower. The narrow tunnels of the mine worked to his advantage, as they allowed him to ambush his enemies around corners.

In the Second Headquarters Squad's major offensive strike, Pyro was part of the front lines, where he put his flamethrower to good use by clearing away the Hybrids who dared come close. When the Hybrids retaliated, Pyro kept them at bay and protected the rest of the Squad, but ultimately he was pushed back as well. He helped defend the Dino Attack Outpost from any Hybrids that approached.

When Pyro first met Clint Wayne, he dispatched a group of Mutant Lizards and a Mutant Raptor with his flamethrower. He was then noticeably offended when Clint thought that he was a woman, but his muffled complaints were not understood by anyone. Pyro later assisted his teammates in pushing the bomb cart before Engineer fixed its engine.

After Fort Legoredo was destroyed, Pyro returned with the Second Headquarters Squad to Dino Attack Headquarters to celebrate their victory. During the victory celebration, Pyro shared a few drinks with Demoman and became too intoxicated to help his teammates in the search for XERRD's mole. Andrea Jackson Orange, to protect her father from the mole, locked Pyro in his room, took his flame-retardant suit and flamethrower, and posed as agent Pyro throughout the duration of the mole hunt.

When Andrew Jackson returned to consciousness, he was infuriated to discover his belongings missing. During the final battle, Andrew Jackson ran out into the battlefield, demanding to know who took his gear. Because he kept yelling over the radio while others were trying to coordinate a strategy, his fellow Dino Attack agents asked an elite agent piloting a T-1 Typhoon to pick him up and escort him out of the battlefield. Aboard the helicopter, Andrew Jackson recognized Rex from the LEGO Island mission and lectured him about his lust for revenge, inspiring Rex to do the same.

Upon his return to Dino Attack Headquarters, Andrew Jackson was escorted by a pair of Dino Attack agents to be brought to a Teleport Pad and evacuated to Antarctica, but along the way a series of explosions killed his teammates and left much of headquarters in ruin. Andrew Jackson, using a pair of burning brooms to defend himself, made his way through the wrecked building and encountered the Third Headquarters Squad, including Andrea Jackson Orange still posing as agent Pyro.

Infuriated, Andrew Jackson attacked the Third Headquarters Squad but was quickly defeated. He recognized Andrea as his daughter and, when he attempted to scold her for stealing his gear, was told that Andrea's own family was killed in the initial Dino Attack and she wanted to help protect her father. Realizing that Andrea was the only family he had left, Andrew Jackson forgave her. Once again resuming the mantle of agent Pyro, Andrew Jackson joined the Third Headquarters Squad and fought against the invading Mutant Dinos throughout the remainder of the final battle.

Post-War[]

With the Dino Attack war at an end, Andrew Jackson's mental state left him too dangerous and volatile to be a part of society again. As such, for his own safety and the safety of others, Andrew was committed to a psychiatric hospital and could not even attend his daughter's wedding. By 2020, Andrew had shown strong enough recovery that he was released from the institution. However, he is required to take heavy medication, seek continued therapy, and attend weekly Arsonists Anonymous meetings. He was also forcibly retired from the fire department.

In November 2020, Andrew Jackson's condominium was visited by Erik Paulson, who came to inform him about a mysterious phone call suggesting that XERRD's mole was still at large. Although Andrew expressed regret for his inability to stop the mole from assassinating the Second Headquarters Squad, he declined Erik's request for help, believing that he could not afford to risk being institutionalized again.

Alternate Histories[]

Timeline 2004-A[]

In 2004, Andrew Jackson was wearing his gas mask and responding to the scene of an emergency when the LEGO planet was hit by the Time Freeze and Evil Ogel took over the world. Although World City was shelled by Mind-Control Orbs during Ogel's takeover, Jackson was protected by his gas mask, and he since became obsessive about wearing it at all times. As one of the few survivors, Jackson joined the Resistance as a freedom fighter.

In 2020, Andrew Jackson was part of a Resistance cell including Connors, Rose, Shacklebolt, Giles, Clyde, and Wayne. On June 9, they were discovered by a Trooper Drone patrol and were forced to battle at an apartment building. When a Scorpion Orb Launcher arrived and the battle turned hopeless, Jackson took off his gas mask and gave it to Rose, ensuring that she would be protected from Mind-Control Orb gas while she escaped through the air ventilation system. After Rose left, Andrew Jackson was either turned into an Ogel Drone or killed himself with a grenade.

Abilities and Traits[]

If it involves fire, Pyro knows how to use it. His weapon of choice is a flamethrower, which he mercilessly uses to keep enemies at bay. He is also very skilled at ambushes.

Pyro is known for constantly rambling all the time, but his dialogue is usually reduced to unintelligible mumbling due to his voice being muffled by his balaclava and helmet. After the death of his family, Pyro was driven to near-insanity, and his poor mental health drove him to become a pyromaniac, giving in to the urges to see the world burn. Pyro constantly lusts for revenge, wishing to repay the pain he suffered unto the Mutant Dinos. Despite his homophobia and bigoted views, Pyro felt newfound appreciation for his daughter Andrea as a result of losing the rest of his family to the Dino Attack; he still struggles to accept her sexuality, but is willing to overlook it.

After the war, Andrew Jackson has taken up gardening and painting, as well as smoking medicinal cannabis, in an effort to quell his rage. However, he now suffers from depression, and he describes his current life as dull and lifeless due to all the measures taken to control his pyromania. Despite this, he remains somewhat unhinged, and has no regrets for what he did as agent Pyro.

Quotes[]

"Right, I was far from the only one to join the Dino Attack Team with a personal grudge. Everybody on the team was slaughtering those damned lizards by the dozen, and I was simply doing my part to help build the pyre. And yet, a lot of our teammates looked at me like I was a murderous psychopath. But with you guys in the Second Headquarters Squad, I felt like I fit in, like I belonged."
— Andrew Jackson
"The fire has never gone out. It's just an ember now, but it's still burning."
"If yeh were to do it all over an' be agent Pyro again... would yeh?"
"Hell yeah. I'd burn it all down in an instant."
— Andrew Jackson and Erik Paulson

Trivia[]

  • Pyro is based upon the Pyro of Team Fortress 2. He shares his real name, Andrew Jackson, with the seventh President of the United States, referencing the fact that the original BLU Pyro was Abraham Lincoln.
  • PeabodySam originally intended for Pyro to be male, with "A.J. Orange" being short for "Andrew Jackson Orange", and describing Pyro's actual appearance as an ugly man who was pale, sweaty, dirty, and unshaven. When Atton Rand chose to unmask Pyro, he decided to make Pyro a woman. However, as Atton Rand's depiction of Pyro's personality was radically different from that of PeabodySam, PeabodySam decided to make Andrew "Pyro" Jackson and Andrea Jackson Orange into two separate characters, giving full ownership of the latter to Atton Rand.
  • In version 1.1 of the Director's Cut, Pyro's codename was changed to Fireman.
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