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This page covers the Marvel comicbook hero Mockingbird also known as Bobbi , the Huntress , Agent 19 , Barbara Barton . If this is not the page you were looking for check here.
Mockingbird was a SHIELD agent and a founding member of the West Coast Avengers, she was killed while escaping Mephisto's realm
Barbara Morse graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology and passed her Civil Service examination so she could work with her biology professor, Dr. Wilma Calvin, on the government-sponsored project to rediscover the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America. While in the government's employ, Morse's exemplary record came to the attention of SHIELD and she was invited to undertake training in her spare time. A champion gymnast in high school, Morse excelled at both the physical regimen and arts of espionage taught to all field agents. When Dr. Theodore Sallis, a maverick scientist also working on the Super-Soldier project, disappeared, Morse was given her first field assignment: to accompany SHIELD agent Paul Allen, suspected of being a traitor, to the Antarctic paradise known as the Savage Land in order to enlist the services of the hero Ka-Zar to find Sallis. Allen and Morse succeeded in contacting Ka-Zar and took him to the Florida Everglades. Although Sallis was never found (unknown to them he had been transformed into the Man-Thing), Ka-Zar and Morse flushed out a splinter group of the subversive organization AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) who were attempting to steal the Super-Soldier formula and revealed Allen to be a member. SHIELD director Nick Fury assigned Morse to escort Ka-Zar during his stay in civilization, and the two managed to thwart yet another attempt by AIM to seize the Super-Soldier formula. Though Barbara Morse became romantically involved with Ka-Zar, she could not convince him to forsake the Savage Land. Preferring field work over biology, Morse was given another assignment: to trail the subversive El Tigre in South America. Coincidentally, this mission also took her to the Savage Land, where she renewed her acquaintance of Ka-Zar. Completing the assignment with the Jungle Lord's aid, she returned to SHIELD.
Her next assignment was guarding a SHIELD lawyer who was to testify before a Congressional committee investigating some of SHIELD's overseas activities. When the lawyer was killed in a suspicious explosion, the head of the committee, believing the assassination to have been an inside job, asked Morse to work directly for the U. S. government to root out subversives within SHIELD. Dropping out of SHIELD, Morse assumed the costumed identity of the Huntress and, traveling to SHIELD's Mexico City headquarters, managed to expose the corruption of local division chief Rico Santana. From there she began her own investigations into some of SHIELD's other divisional operations, looting databanks and compiling evidence of corruption. Taking the new codename Mockingbird (from an operation for the C.I.A. involving Nick Fury before his own recruitment by SHIELD), Morse planned to take the evidence to Nick Fury himself.
While in SHIELD's Manhattan branch, local director Carl Delandan, himself guilty of numerous infractions, attempted to stop Mockingbird with the unwitting aid of the hero Spider-Man. Although Delandan managed to destroy the microfilm she carried, Mockingbird revealed his treachery to Nick Fury before she was shot by agents acting under Delandan's orders. While she recovered in a private hospital, Nick Fury conducted a vast "housekeeping" sweep through SHIELD's many divisions, exposing dozens of subversives within the ranks. When Mockingbird was released from the hospital, she was decorated for her meritorious service but resigned to become a free agent and adventurer. Her investigation of Cross Technological Enterprises for an unnamed client brought her into conflict with the hero Hawkeye, who was then employed as CTE's security director. She and Hawkeye soon learned that CTE was knowingly manufacturing the components for a machine designed to brainwash superhuman beings with ultrasonics. Antagonistic at first, the two joined forces to thwart the machine's contractor, Crossfire, and his hirelings, Oddball and Bombshell.
Mockingbird proposed to Hawkeye at the successful conclusion of the case and the two eloped. Soon after, Hawkeye was appointed by the hero team Avengers to head the team's new West Coast-based team. Mockingbird agreed to join her husband. and became a member in good standing of the West Coast Avengers for a long tenure. However, in one of the Avenger's exploits, Mockingbird was left behind in the Old West, and at the mercy of that period's Phantom Rider, who used potions and drugs to bend Mockingbird to his will. Coming to her senses, she fought the Rider, but allowed him to fall to his death after he tried unsuccessfully to kill her. Although she was soon rescued by her teammates and brought back to the present, she kept her activities in the past a secret. The Phantom Rider's ghost then began tormenting her, and later convinced Hawkeye that Mockingbird had "murdered" him. The secret exposed, it caused an ethical dispute which ultimately estranged Mockingbird from both Hawkeye and the Avengers.
Mockingbird left with teammates Tigra and Moon Knight, and together they tried to form a team on their own, fighting the forces of the villainous High Evolutionary. Eventually, the three exorcised the ghost of the Phantom Rider with the help of the former Defenders Hellstrom and Hellcat. The three heroes went their separate ways shortly after. At this point, a coalition of world governments duped Mockingbird into organizing the capture of the Avenger Vision, who had just then returned to active duty and previously attempted to take over the world. Realizing her error, Mockingbird helped the Avengers recover the Vision, but her part in the kidnapping fostered the feelings of ill-will, and Mockingbird left once again.
When investigating a Midwestern team of novice adventurers calling themselves the Great Lakes Avengers, Mockingbird was reunited with Hawkeye, who was also investigating the team. The two began to resolve their differences while agreeing to mentor the Great Lakes Avengers. Mockingbird remained with the new team when Hawkeye returned to the Avengers West Coast branch soon after. Eventually this prompted Mockingbird to rejoin as well, this time as reserve member, and, later, as a full active member. By that time, Hawkeye and Mockingbird had realized how much they still loved each other and finally fully reconciled, calling off their divorce before it became final. The couple's renewed bliss proved short-lived, though, when Mockingbird was slain in action by the demon Mephisto when the team were escaping from his realm. Mockingbird had thrown herself in front of Hawkeye to save him from Mephisto's mystic blast of energy. Her soul was trapped to fight eternally in the Arena of Tainted Souls.
Mockingbird was one of several deceased Avengers temporarily resurrected by the villainous Grim Reaper to serve him against the Avengers. She shook off the Reaper's control with her teammates and helped the Avengers defeat him before returning to the realm of the dead once more. Before returning, Mockingbird left a hint to the Avengers based what she had somehow learned regarding a plot of the now-underworld leader Hellstrom. This led to the resurrection of then-deceased Hellcat by Hawkeye and his new team, the Thunderbolts, who were actually attempting to rescue Mockingbird. Later, when Hellcat returned to the underworld embroiled in a plot between Mephisto, Hellstrom, and the alien Dormammu, she tried to convince Mockingbird to escape with her. Mockingbird refused, opting to stay in the Arena of Tainted Souls, implying there was a higher purpose for her to do so.
She is later seen attending a bookclub in the realm of the dead along with Gwen Stacy and Dead Girl.
Powers
While Mockingbird has no superpowers, she is a very accomplished athlete, and her skill in unarmed combat is said to rival that of Captain America. Her trademark weapons are a pair of battle-staves. These staves can be connected at the ends to create a bo staff.
Alternate Realities
Earth-53169
During the House of M Avengers, Mockingbird was seen with Hawkeye during the time of Wanda Maximoff's warping of reality, however she also left on a trip to Africa without Hawkeye after another disagreement between the two. Also, she was one of the survivors seen exiting the Skrull ship that crashed down in the Savage Land.
Earth-2149
In the Marvel Zombies reality Mockingbird was a zombie as most others.
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