Snowbird

Origin

Snowbird

In ancient times the Eskimo Gods of the North battled the Great Beasts for the fate of the world. After being exiled they looked for a champion to battle the Beasts if ever they arose. Nelvanna, goddess of the Northern Lights, appeared to the man Richard Easton and convinced him to mate with her. Afterwards was returned to Earth, he believed he was only gone for one night while in reality it was 9 years. The realization of this eventually drove him insane. When Nelvanna was about to give birth she sought the assistance of Dr. Michael Twoyoungmen to act as a midwife. Sensing the child's unstableness (the result of being a transmorph) the young shaman bound it to the Earth allowing it to have a human form. The child, whom he named Narya, went to live with him and aged at a surprisingly rapid rate. Twoyoungmen taught her the ways of the Earth and how to use her powers. Narya had the ability to assume the form of any animal native to , super strength, flight, pre cognition and post cognition and she can also sense mystical and magical energies.

Dr. Twoyoungmen was visited by his friends, Guardian and Vindicator, the founder of Alpha Flight. After discovering Narya's powers they invited her and her foster father to join the group. Dr. Twoyoungmen was given the name Shaman. Narya was given the name Snowbird and assumed the public identity of Anne McKenzie, a records keeper with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. While working there she met and fell in love with Doug Thompon. The two married and conceived a child which angered the Eskimo Gods. When she went to the along with Shaman to give birth the resulting magical energies awoke Pestilence. Her newborn was possessed by the evil being and rapidly grew up. Pestilence was eventually defeated and driven away while still possessing her sons body. After being exiled by the Gods she sought to redeem herself in their eyes and regain entrance to . This angered her husband and when she did not seek out her possessed son he left her to find him alone. 

Snowbird and Shaman later found Pestilence in an abandoned mining town with the help of Doug Thompson, who had been given a fatal disease by the evil being. During the ensuing battle Snowbird killed her child and was slain by Vindicator. After her death she was forgiven by the Gods and allowed entrance to the afterlife. She refused until they allowed her husband and child to enter with her.  

Snowbird is sent by her Grandfather Hodiak to join Athena's God-Squad in order to defeat the Skrulls deities Sl'gur't and Kly'bn. While traveling through the Skrulls assimilated Gods, Snow Bird decided to end her loneliness by sleeping with Hercules. During a battle against with a group of skrull gods she transforms to Neooqtoq the Ravager deadliest of the Great beast of the North for a long time and loses her mind,killing anything in her way. At the last moment she transform to a cloud of mosquitos, honoring her fallen comrades by fighting on. She returns and impales the skrull god Kly'bn on the spine of the slain God-eater Demogorge. At the end she carries a weeping Hercules and Amadeus back to earth in a form of a Great White bird.

Powers

Snowbird transforms

Snowbird can mystically assume  the form of a female human, as well as that of any animal native to northern Canada, gaining each animal's special abilities and attributes such as strength and speed. She has shown to transform into a swarm of mosquitos, Tanaraq, wendigo, wolverine (and killed wendigo)and Neooqtoq.  If she retains an animal shape for too long, her personality may be overcome by the form she is using. Snowbird also has mystical senses that allow her to detect magical energies, sense the presence of great mystical evil, and achieve limited postcognition she can perceive events that happened  in her current location within the past six hours but only she can see the events. Her connection to the Gods gives her a limited precognitive ability. Snowbird has the ability of flight she also possesses superhuman strength at one ton, advanced cellular rejuvination and stamina in her human form. 
 
She's also able to resist teleportation as seen when talisman tried to teleport her back and failed, mental ability to compel others to aid her against the Great Beast. Snowbird is capable of instantly healing herself called the Healing Glow as shown after her battle against the Great Beast Kolomaq.

Snowbird is a fair-hand-to-hand combatant, having been trained by both Puck and Wolverine.

Due to a spell cast by Shaman when she was born, Snowbird's severely weakened when outside Canada's borders.  She has since removed this limitation. 

Characteristics

Status

Alternate Universes

Ultimate Snowbird

In "Marvel Zombies: Dead Days", she is seen as a zombie attacking Cyclops, but then has a pole stabbed through her brain by Magneto.

Appearances in Other Media