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Real Name: Al'ti Vidua

Identity/Class: Extraterrestrial (Shi'ar)

Occupation: Warrior

Group Membership: None (although those under affiliations are an informal team)

Affiliations: Kl'rath, Maker (one of the multiversal duplicates of Reed Richards-1610), Phyllis the Kronan;
    formerly (via duplicity): Future Foundation (Bentley-23, Dragon Man, Korr, Leech, Artie Maddicks, Mik, Onome, Alex Power, Julie Power, Tong, Turg, Vil, Wu); Lyja the Laserfist (also posing as Yondu Udonta)

Enemies: Future Foundation (Bentley-23, Dragon Man, Korr, Leech, Artie Maddicks, Mik, Onome, Alex Power, Julie Power, Tong, Torg, Vil, Wu); Lyja the Laserfist (who officially joined the Future Foundation after this story);
    guards and other inmates at L'ar Gath Five prison;
    presumably numerous enemies from previous encounters.

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: Warbird
    "Murder Bird" and "Scary Bird-Woman" (from Bentley-23)

Base of Operations: Unrevealed
    formerly L'ar Gath Five prison;
    presumably originally from somewhere within the Shi'ar Galaxy;

First Appearance: (Unidentified) Future Foundation#1 (October, 2019);
    (identified) Future Foundation#2 (November, 2019)

Powers/Abilities: As a Shi'ar, Al'ti has supehuman strength, lifting at least 1 ton; however, as a Warbird and something of a Shi'ar variant, she may have significantly greater strength. Her musculature varies significantly and may reflect her manifesting greater strength (artistic license is also possible, but she had the same penciler in Future Foundation#1-3).

    While most Shi'ar lack wings and even "throwbacks" to their ancestry, like Deathbird, have wings under the arms, Al'ti possesses a pair of large white wings sprouting from her back and independent from her arms. While these wings can be spread out to span perhaps 12 or more feet, these can also apparently be retracted/withdrawn into her body, as she has been shown without wings. 

vidua-alti-maker-upper-wings-face    It is unrevealed weather her wings are organic or synthetic. There was not information to indicate they were not part of her body, but it is possible that she could summon them at will, much like her weapons.vidua-alti-maker-full-wings-tiny

    Al'ti is a savage, bloodthirsty (possibly literally), and deadly combatant. She is a highly capable hand-to-hand combatant, but she also uses a pair of daggers, a pair of hook-bladed weapons that can also electrocute an adult into unconsciousness; and a 3' long energy sword.

    As she does not carry all of these weapons at once and she lacks an obvious weapons-storage equipment on her person, it seems likely that she can summon and send back an undetermined number of weapons from some remote, perhaps sub-space or extradimensional location.

    Or perhaps, she can transform her weapon(s) into different forms.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 6')
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 140 lbs.)
Eyes: Solid white (in at least one panel, she appeared to have brown irides)
Hair (Presumably more feather-like): dark brown or black

History:
(Future Foundation#2 (fb) - BTS) - At some point, At'li was imprisoned on the prison planet L'ar Gath Five alongside her allies (see comments), Reed Richards-1610 (aka the Maker, or one of his multiversal counterparts), Kl'rath the Snark, and Phyllis the Kronan.

(Future Foundation#1) - Having detected Reed Richards amongst the prisoners on L'ar Gath Five (during their search for the pieces of the Molecule Man that had been scattered across realities following the Multiversal Secret Wars), Future Foundation traveled there and members Bentley-23, Dragon Man, Alex Power, and Yondu Yudonta (actually the Skrull Lyja) broke into his cell to free him. 

    The prisoner turned out to be Reed Richards-1610, aka the Maker, who was flanked by Phyllis, Kl'rath, and At'li.

(Future Foundation#2) - With Reed-1610 posing as Reed-616, he introduced Phyllis, Kl'rath, and At'li, as beings whom he had met and allied with in the prison, after which -- with their power-dampeners shut down -- he told his rescuers that his companions would help clear the way. Spreading her wings, At'li advised the "little ones" that they should stand back as she would not want them to be coated in the viscera of criminals. Taking to the air and screeching, "Skree!", At'li and her  allies slaughtered criminals and/or guards in their path.vidua-alti-maker-skree

(Future Foundation#2 - BTS) - Bentley-23 told Alex that he needed to make that "scary bird-woman" fall in love with him.

(Future Foundation#2 - BTS) - Watching Maker's allies in action, Alex Power, Dragon Man, and "Yondu" questioned the identity of this Reed.

(Future Foundation#2) - After At'li tore a hole through a giant green alien, she asked her rescuers why they hesitated and if they had breached the prison only to watch the former inmates free themselves. After Alex Power explained that they were trying to hurt as few of the prisoners as possible, At'li spoke with Maker and explained their heroic nature. In response, the Maker instructed his allies to cease the wanton violence and escort Alex and his young charges back to their ship; he further advised them that they did not want to be present when the security system came back on line, and he quietly told At'li that once he had obtained the pieces of the Molecule Man, they would drop their benevolent facade and flush Power out an air lock. In response, At'li stated, "Soon we shall claim our new empire."vidua-alti-maker-ff3-vs-robots

    Bently-23 subsequently introduced At'li to the Moloids Korr, Mik, Tong, and Turg; mutants Artie and Leech; and Wakandan prodigy Onome. Although the Moloids questioned the murderous behavior of Richards' companions, the Maker cowed them into backing off. However, as Powers subsequently spoke to Richards, Onome's alternate reality-being detector beeped, confirming suspicions that he was not Reed Richards-616.

(Future Foundation#2 - BTS) - Bentley-23 was distraught that he was going to have to fight his "new girlfriend."

(Future Foundation#2) - After the prison's security system came back on, Maker and his allies dropped their ruse and prepared to shanghai the whole ship. With all doubts removed, the rest of Freedom Force then prepared to assault the Maker and his allies, but the confrontation was disrupted by the sudden arrival of Julie Power and Bucky/Rikki Barnes (another alternate reality prisoner they had located and freed).

(Future Foundation#3) - Al'ti was silent as Rikki revealed her history and previous confrontation with the Maker. Alex Power subsequently convinced Maker to form a truce until they could get clear of the prison planet's security measures. As she joined the efforts to fight off the security measure, Al'ti exclaimed how she adored stabbing robots, as it was so much more challenging than stabbing fleshy creatures, leading Dragon Man to advise her to keep her knives away from him.

    She subsequently advised her allies of convenience that each tiny bot must be murdered separately, and she shared that this was the infinite murder of which she had dreamed. As Alex and Maker argued, Al'ti suggested that the escape would go more quickly if they all aided her in destroying their foes instead of bickering like hatchlings; she further commented that if they were Warbirds, the empress would have executed them for incompetence. She ultimately helped the others fight off the security measures and reach the Future Foundation's ship, after which Onome blew the massive robot hand that reached for them.vidua-alti-maker-ff4-vs-rikki

(Future Foundation#4) - Having slain Kl'rath and adopted his form, Lyja provoked a confrontation with Future Foundation, during which Al'ti put her energy sword to Bentley's neck and told the others to throw down their firearms or she would pain the room with the hatchling's blood.

    However, Rikki convinced Al'ti that since, as a Shi'ar Warbird she had proven herself against the strongest in the empire, that Al'ti should face her instead of a child; and she threatened to "pluck you like the turkey you are." Disregarding Maker's insistence that she worked for him and not engage in such a challenge, she hurled Bentley-23 away, telling the "little creampuff" to run away and hide, as she would have him for dessert when she was ready.

    Al'ti assaulted Rikki, and when Maker called for help from Alex Power, even though Rikki had her on her back, Al'ti spun her two bladed weapons together and hurled them at Alex. Lyja (Still posing as Kl'rath) had to reveal her true alliance and grab the weapons to save Alex, although they she was stunned as they electrocuted her.

    When Tong the Moloid arrived with the Molecule Man fragment the Reed-1610 had been seeking, leading him, Phyllis, and At'li to leave the battle to pursue Tong, who then used illusions to make it appear as if there were three forms of herself, causing them to split up to go after each form.

    Al'ti swung her weapon on her Tong, which proved to be an illusion, Bentley fired his slingshot at her, noting that while he would like to think that there was another universe out there where Al'ti and he had a nice little murder family on a nice little murder farm, he could not let her get away with threatening to kill him. Al'ti mocked Bentley for his weapon's missing her, but it instead put a hole in the ship's hull, and she was pulled against it via explosive decompression. Al'ti warned Bentley that he could not keep her up there forever, but Onome then snared her with a net, leaving her stunned and trapped.
    Bentley took one of her feathers to remember what they had together.

    Phyllis was defeated when the Uhari, Vil and Wu, caused a chamber to fill with water, putting out Phyllis' flame.

(Future Foundation#4 - BTS) - Although Rikki fatally wounded Reed-1610, another Maker then appeared in another ship, claimed the Molecule Man fragment, and blew up the ship containing the Future Foundation, Rikki, Phyllis, and At'li.

(Future Foundation#5 (fb) - BTS) - Bentley-23's pocket dimension saved the Future Foundation (and Lyja), and Julie Power saved Rikki.

Comments: Created by Jeremy Whitley, Will Robson, and Daniele Orlandini.

    Al'ti and Phyllis were not shown following their defeats in Future Foundation#4. They could have been killed in the explosion, or Al'ti may have had access to a force field or teleporter to survive both the explosion and/or being trapped in space, and/or the Maker could have saved one or both of them.
    Both were interesting characters, and I would like to see them again.

    As Al'ti called Reed-1610 "captain," I would think that she, at least, and likely Phyllis and Kl'rath, was/were part of his crew before getting imprisoned on L'ar Gath Five. Phyllis called him boss, but that doesn't necessarily imply TO ME that he led the group before they got to L'ar Gath Five. The matching uniforms of Al'ti and Maker, as well as the partially-shredded uniform for Kl'rath, fits with them having been a pre-existing team.
    If Phyllis was not allied before then, they became allies during their imprisonment.

    Warbirds are apparently some elite Shi'ar bodyguards or warriors, commandos, etc. I don't think we know much about them beyond that.

    Al'ti has a skin tone notably darker than most Shi'ar we have seen thus far. To my knowledge, "Black" Shi'ar (with a skin tone consistent with humans of African descent) have not be shown before.
    The Warbird from the 2021-2022 Marvels series is Black, too…but she’s a hybrid, with her father being Wakandan…so that doesn’t really help.

Warbird (Ava'Dara Naganandini) looks fairly dark skinned some of the time, yet white others. I guess she tans really dark? Can't think of any others off the top of my head.
--Loki

The fact that she has not just wings but wings of a kind that AFAIK we've never seen on a Shi'ar (unlike the "throwback" wings like Deathbird's) before makes her unique in that sense, so perhaps her skin color is meant to be similarly unique. We'd need to know the writer/artist's intent, I guess.--Ronald Byrd

I wonder if Al'ti has any history with either of those other two Warbirds?

    This profile was completed 09/05/2021, but its publication was delayed as it was intended for the Appendix 25th anniversary event.

Profile by Snood.

CLARIFICATIONS:
Al'ti should be distinguished from:

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Future Foundation#1, last page (fullish; feet blocked);
    #2, story pg. 4, panel 3 (spreading wings);
          panel 4 (assaulting criiminal in their pathway);
       pg. 13, panel 1 standing over giant dead alien);
       pg. 16, panel 2 (full, smaller);
    #3, story pg. 12 (including flashback history; flying with weapons);
    #4, story page 5 (including flashbacks), panel 3 (vs. Rikki)

Appearances:
Future Foundation#1 (October, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson (penciler/inker), Daniele Orlandini (inking assistance), Sarah Brunstad (editor)
Future Foundation#2 (November, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson & Paco Diaz (pencilers/inkers), Daniele Orlandini (inking assistance), Sarah Brunstad (editor)
Future Foundation#3 (December, 2019) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Will Robson & Paco Diaz (artists), Sarah Brunstad (editor)
Future Foundation#4 (January, 2020) - Jeremy Whitley (writer), Alti Firmansyah (artist), Sarah Brunstad (editor)

First posted: 09/30/2026
Last updated: 04/16/2026

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