Warbird (X-Men)
Warbird is a female extraterrestrial comic character who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Ava'Dara Naganandini was a female member of the Shi'ar who was born on the Throneworld and grew up in Sky Slums of Chandilar. She came into existence 22 seasons ago in a slavewomb of a conquered slave at the Breedmart warehouse in the Flesh Bazaar District. Her 'father' was an automated seed sprinkler and her 'mother' was one of the thousands of frozen eggs harvested each month from female factory workers as part of their government-mandated body-tax. Warbird's birth mother was an alien slave brought from a conquered world whose body wasn't meant to birth a Shi'ar and so she died after giving birth to Ava'Dara. Ava'Dara worked in a war factory and learned how to assemble a pulse cannon before she learned how to talk. Ava'Dara loved to draw as a child but she would burn her drawings as she considered what she liked wasn't the way of the Shi'ar. She trained and gained the Warbird title in an academy. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #13)
Warbird arrived with Kid Gladiator to Earth on the first day for school. During an attack on the Jean Grey School of Higher Learning by Krakoa, Warbird fought Krakoa and the Frankenstein monsters. When Iceman formed a group of ice-clones to fight Frankenstein monsters, Warbird showed some romantic interest in one of the ice-clones. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 v1 #2)
Warbird tried to stop Kid Gladiator from entering Kitty's body but failed. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 v1 #5) When she entered Kitty's body along with the other X-Men, they found Kid Gladiator only to lose him again. When they found him again, they discovered that he was not himself, as the Brood turned him into one of them. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 v1 #6) Warbird and Iceman were left to hold Kid Gladiator while Beast tried to destroy the egg sac inside the infested Kitty. After Kid Gladiator used his heat vision on Iceman's head, Iceman responded by restoring his face and beating Kid Gladiator up, to which Warbird asked him to stop. Later on, Warbird confessed to Bobby that she considered him to be, without a doubt, the most vigorous male she had encountered since arriving to Earth and asked him if he ever conducted "mating rituals" with someone while trapped inside another being and surrounded by flesh-eating monster aliens, because she had once; to which Bobby answered with a low voice that it was a good time for Kid Gladiator to melt off his ears. After the egg sac was destroyed and Kid Gladiator was subdued, the team left Kitty's body through her mouth. While Kitty was taken by S.W.O.R.D. to be cured of the remained Brood inside her, she kissed Bobby while Warbird was watching and she did not seem too happy about it. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 v1 #7)
She received a transmission from Lord Gladiator but cosmic interference prevented her from understanding the contents of the message. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #9)
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Ava'Dara Naganandini was a beautiful young female member of the Shi'ar race with white feathery hair. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #9) When she was operating as a Shi'ar agent, she came to be designated as Warbird Delta. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #13)
Since birth, her life had been an endless parade of combat and murder that was said to be the dream of any true Shi'ar yet she remained unfulfilled. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #9) From birth, she was raised in the belief to kill and die in service to the Imperium with her desiring to be a Warbird as well as the greatest of their number. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #13)
Her father was an automated seed sprinkler and her mother was one of a thousand frozen eggs harvested each month from female factory workers as part of the government mandated body-taxes. She then gestated within a slave womb that was a conquered alien slave brought to Chandilar whose body was not capable of birthing a Shi'ar child. Thus, she emerged from the alien where her birth killed the slavewomb. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #13)
Powers and abilities
Within the Shi'ar Imperium, she was a soldier who had attained the position of royal Warbird who had reached the rank of Deathbringer grade where she was a servant of the Emperor and protector of their seed. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #9)
She was noted to be deployed on missions by Control where she dealt with various threats to the empire which included from terrorist cells. Some of her targets were captured and sent to the torture priests in order for intelligence to be extracted from hem. (Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #13)
Notes
- Warbird was created by Jason Aaron and Chris Bachalo where she made her first appearance in Wolverine and the X-Men v1 #1 (December, 2011).
- The character has no relation to Carol Danvers who adopted the name of Warbird at one point.
Alternate Versions
- In Old Man Quill v1 #6 (2019), an alternate version of Warbird appeared in the Wastelands reality that was designated as Earth-807128 in the Multiverse. This version had become a member of the Universal Church of Truth alongside the rest of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. She accompanied Gladiator to Earth as they hunted down Star-Lord to Earth set fifty years in the future where the worlds superheroes were killed by its supervillains that now ruled the desolate landscape. Warbird and her compatriots mission was to stop Star-Lord from reaching the Baxter Building and acquiring the Ultimate Nullifier.
In other media
Video games
- In X-Men: Battle of the Atom, Warbird appeared as a playable card in the setting of the card-based video game.
Appearances
- Wolverine and the X-Men v1: (2011)
- Astonishing X-Men v3:
- Old Man Quill v1:
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