#he really might just beat me at being the number one pyro enjoyer lmao

[sharkzippo]

“A lot of time has passed, and he's been through a lot. So, you see that in the-- It's not meant to be a situation where he was ripped straight from Professor X's Academy and, like, time traveled. This is a Pyro who has somehow been banished to this 'Mad Max' wasteland, and he's in this hellish limbo for who knows how long. But you can see, just by his physical appearance, that he's been through the wringer. So it is the established Pyro, but he's been through a lot since we last saw him."

“It's like a penal colony. They all get shipped off to this place, and they're imprisoned there, and she's like, I don't know, a cross between a warden and the toughest guy on the cellblock who everyone has to do what they say. So yeah, I think there's definitely not a lot of warmth there. I think there's a lot of resentment, and he's had to live under her thumb for a very long time, and then he finally gets an opportunity to get the shank in there while she's distracted, and he does.”

“They say in the movie he's hoping to get released from The Void. And the way I thought of it was, I think it's something similar to 'The Matrix,' where the character played by Joey Pantoliano makes a deal that he'll kill all of his friends if he can be relocated to his dream version of The Matrix. So my idea was that Pyro struck some similar bargain with Paradox, saying like, 'Alright, I'll do this for you, but you have to ship me off to another multiverse where I can live the way I want to live and be who I want to be.”

- Aaron Stanford, thedirect.com