Charlie McGee
Background
Charlene "Charlie" McGee is a resident of Virginia. Her father is Andrew McGee and her mother was Vicky McGee. Charlie has the power of pyrokinesis.
During the events of Firestarter (1984) played by Drew Barrymore
Andrew is pushing his way through the crowd in Washington, D.C. while carrying Charlie. Charlie tells Andrew she is scared. Orville Jamieson[ and Mayo get out of their car and start chasing Andrew, but Andrew manages to hail a Taxi Driver and tells the Taxi Driver to take him to the airport. The Taxi Driver at first refuses to take them, but Andrew uses his mind powers to convince the Taxi Driver that he has given him a 500 dollar bill. Andrew falls asleep from exhaustion and has a memory of his past. Andrew wakes up and he and Charlie get out of the taxi at the airport. Andrew tells Charlie that he will have to steal in order for them to be able to get plane tickets, but she tells him stealing is wrong. He tells her that it is one of those lesser of two evils and she understands. Charlie then recalls how she made Vicky scream one time. As they are walking, Charlie overhears Young Serviceman tell Serviceman's Girlfriend he doesn't want anything to do with her, even after she tells him that she is pregnant. Andrew uses his mind powers to make the telephone in the phone booth give him all the change. As the Young Serviceman and Serviceman's Girlfriend continue to argue, Charlie stares at the Young Serviceman and starts his boots on fire with her mind powers. Andrew grabs Charlie and runs out of the airport.
Andrew and Charlie hitch hike and get a ride from Irv Manders. Andrew lies to Irv about his wife just having a baby. Irv invites Andrew and Charlie to eat lunch with him and Norma Manders. After lunch, Charlie goes with Norma to feed the chickens. She senses that The Shop agents are coming for them and she inadvertently starts to heat up the house. Andrew tells Charlie he can stop The Shop agents with her powers. The Shop agents arrive and Orville tells Charlie she will have to come with him. Charlie tells them to leave and Andrew threatens that the same thing that happened to the Young Serviceman will happen to them. Irv comes out with his rifle and tells them to leave and Charlie starts to heat the area up. Knowles and Steinowitz grab Andrew and Irv is shot by an agent. Charlie uses her powers to set Knowles and Steinowitz on fire and then Orville and finally most of the other agents are set on fire and killed. Irv gives Andrew his jeep and Andrew and Charlie drive to Chimney Rock Lake in Tennessee. They stay at Andrew's father's house and Charlie asks if things will ever be normal again. Andrew tells her after they write the letters to the newspapers then they can live a normal life. John Rainbird tracks down Andrew and Charlie and uses a tranquilizer rifle to shoot them with tranquilizer darts, rendering them unconscious. Andrew and Charlie are brought to The Shop and Captain Hollister brings coco to Charlie and she demands to know where Andrew is. Hollister tells her they want to study her powers. After Hollister leaves, Charlie tests her powers to make the coco boil. Charlie is given toys and Rainbird goes into Charlie's room posing as a janitor and tries to make friends with her.
He eventually fools Charlie into being his friend by appealing to her sense of empathy when the power goes out due to a storm and he tells her he is afraid of the dark from his experience from being a POW in Vietnam. Charlie agrees to the tests and Dr. Pynchot has her set wood on fire as the first test. The DSI Technicians notice the intense waves as she conducts the test and how quickly she is able to make the temperature rise. After she passes the test, a DSI technician that was in the room with her runs out and leaves the door open. Rainbird takes Charlie riding after giving her a horse named Necromancer. Hollister continues to test Charlie's abilities and she passes all of the tests and during the tests the DSI Technicians continue to be amazed of her powers to heat the area. After the test, Charlie demands to see Andrew. Andrew writes a note to Charlie telling her they are going to escape soon and has Hollister give it to her. Charlie tells Rainbird about what Andrew wrote. Agent Hunt walks in and tells Charlie he will be taking her to the stables. Hunt brings Charlie to the stables and then Charlie orders Hunt to leave. Rainbird calls to Charlie, but before he can grab her, Andrew and Hollister walk into the barn and Charlie runs to Andrew and they hug. Charlie tells Andrew that Rainbird is there and Andrew tells her the truth about Rainbird. Andrew tells Hollister to kill Rainbird and Rainbird shoots Hollister in the head. Andrew uses his powers to make Rainbird jump and Rainbird shoots Andrew in the neck. Rainbird shoots at Charlie and she melts the bullet and makes him combust. Before dying, Andrew tells Charlie to kill everyone she has to in order to escape and tells her he loves her. Charlie then goes outside the barn after letting the horses out of their stables. She kills Dr. Pynchot by firing a large fireball at him, sends waves of flame that engulf Knowles, kills Hunt with a fireball, engulfs Steinowitz in a wave of fire, shoots a fireball at Bates that makes his body fly into a tree and kills every other member of The Shop, while also destroying all of the buildings. She hitchhikes back to Irv and Norma's and they take her to the New York Times to tell her story.
