SNOWBIRD
Earth-92131
Real Name: Narya
Identity/Class: Alternate Earth (Earth-92131) demigoddess (Inua)
Occupation: Adventurer
Group Membership: Alpha Flight (Aurora/Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, Northstar/Jean-Paul Beaubier, Puck/Eugene Judd, Sasquatch/Walter Langkowski, Shaman/Michael Twoyoungmen, Vindicator/James Hudson)
Affiliations: Department H, Heather Hudson, Wolverine (Logan);
formerly General Chasen
Enemies: General Chasen
Known Relatives: None
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: Canada
First Appearance: X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (November 20, 1993)
Powers/Abilities: Snowbird is an Inua demigoddess metamorph who can change her form into a pale white version of any creature native to the Canadian Arctic. When she transforms she gains all the strength and special abilities of what she transforms into. Snowbird usually chooses the form of a female human being in which she has blonde hair and blue eyes, in this form she has superhuman strength, stamina, durability, agility and reflexes.
Height: 5'10" (presumably same as her 616 counterpart)
Weight: 145 lbs. (presumably same as her 616 counterpart)
Eyes: White
Hair: Blond
History:
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (fb) - BTS) - Snowbird was drafted onto Canada's premiere superhero team by General Chasen of Department H. They became known as Alpha Flight, consisting of Aurora, Northstar, Puck, Sasquatch, Shaman, Vindicator and Wolverine.
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (fb) - BTS) - Wolverine left Alpha Flight for unknown reasons, moving to the United States where he joined the X-Men.
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (fb) - BTS) - The years following Wolverine's defection, Department H and General Chasen repeatedly tried to duplicate the process that gave Wolverine his Adamantium skeleton. With the results less than encouraging, Chasen planned to bring Wolverine "home" to examine the mutant. Chasen contacted Alpha Flight, falsely promising to get Wolverine back so he could work with Alpha Flight again. To do so Heather Hudson asked Wolverine to come and meet her in the Canadian wilderness.
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man") - Snowbird and the full force of Alpha Flight witnessed Wolverine's arrival and confronted him. Believing he'd fallen into a trap Wolverine attacked his former teammates who quickly retaliated. During the battle that followed Snowbird attacked Wolverine while transformed as a snow-owl but plummeted into the ground when Wolverine threw sand in her eyes. Wolverine then saved Snowbird from a falling tree which had been destroyed by Vindicator. Not long after the siblings Aurora and Northstar managed to slow Wolverine down long enough for Puck and Sasquatch to strike and take him out. Alpha Flight then brought Wolverine to Department H where General Chasen and Heather Hudson waited to examine the mutant while the team was forced to wait outside.
Curious to learn what they were doing with Wolverine, Snowbird and the others waited outside the lab, eavesdropping, the team learned Chasen wished to remove Wolverine's Adamantium. Appalled, Snowbird and Alpha Flight burst into the lab but were countered by Department H's security androids. As the fight went on, Wolverine managed to free himself and after destroying several androids and chase off General Chasen, tried to flee but was stopped by Vindicator who'd kept a grudge ever since Wolverine's defection. Vindicator tried to stop Wolverine but when Wolverine tried to kill the team's leader he was stopped by Heather Hudson. Promised to spare his life, Wolverine threatened to other members of Alpha Flight he wouldn't hold back if they came after him. Snowbird and the others watched as Wolverine left Department H.
(X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "The Phoenix Saga - Part V: Child of Light") - When Earth suffered a multitude of environmental disasters, Snowbird and Alpha Flight did their best to help the people of Earth. They were seen saving people near ruins in Athens, Greece during a powerful storm. Snowbird, like other heroes of Earth was unaware the disasters were the result of the Shi'ar emperor D'ken using the M'kraan Crystal.
Comments: Created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne;
adapted by Mark Edward Edens and AKOM Productions. (see Appearances list for full list of artists)
Snowbird was voiced by Melissa Sue Anderson.
When, in 2015's Secret Wars, the Multiverse was destroyed following the incursions of planets it appeared as if Reality-92131 was drafted onto Battleworld as the Westchester domain. All Earth-92131 profiles on the Marvel Appendix reflected that information, however, this has since been debunked with the news that the original X-Men: The Animated Series will receive a brand new season to pick up where the original series ended. As such the reality seen in two volumes of X-Men '92 (2015-2017) now have their own reality-designation. The X-Men '92: House of XCII 2022 series was inspired by both the animated series and Hickman's House of X run but is its own separate reality. Nearly thirty years after X-Men: The Animated Series first debuted the new season will appear on Disney+ in fall 2023.
Profile by MarvellousLuke
CLARIFICATIONS:
Snowbird has no known connections to:
images: (without ads)
X-Men The Art and Making of The Animated Series book, p121 (main image, digitally colored by MarvellousLuke)
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (owl)
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (wolf)
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "The Phoenix Saga - Part V: Child of Light" (in Greece)
Appearances:
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "Repo Man" (November 20, 1993) - Lein Wein (writer), Frank Brunner, Mark Lewis (model design), Steve Olds (prop design), Alfredo Alcala, Cesar Magsombol, Claude Denis, Drew Gentle, Frank Squillace, Ric Chavez, Ric Quiroz, Ted Blackman, Tom Soman, Wayne Schultz, Charles Payne (layout design), Patricia Mendelson, Flavia Mitman, Tania Burton, Allyn Conley, Sparky (color key), Dennis Venizelos (color background), Armando Carillo, Dan Veesenmeyer, Don Manuel, Frank Squillace, Greg Garcia, John Fox, Keith Tucker, Larry Houston, Lewis Williams, Michael Swanigan, Pat Agnasin, Patrick Archibald, Romeo Francisco, Tenny Henson, Vic Dachele (storyboard directors), Alan Gibson, Del Barras, Romeo Lopez, Rudy Mesina, Cesar Magsombal, Steve Simone, Abel Laxamana (storyboard cleanup), AKOM Productions (animation studio), Eric Lewald (story editor)
X-Men: The Animated Series cartoon - "The Phoenix Saga - Part V: Child of Light" (September 9, 1994) - Mark Edens (writer), Frank Brunner, Mark Lewis (model design), Darrel Bowen, Russel Chong, Mark Lewis, Steve Olds, Frank Squillace (prop design), Cesar Magsombol, Frank Squillace, Wayne Schulz, Zhaoping Wei (layout design), Trish Mendelson (color key), Philip Kim, Dennis Venizelos (color backgrounds), Sue Peters (animation director), Patrick Archibald, Francis Barrios, Romeo Francisco, Curt Geda, Greg Garcia, Adrian Gonzales, Rick Hoberg, Larry Houston, Jim Janes, Doug Murphy, Tom Nesbitt, Frank Squillace, Michael Swanigan, Dan Veesenmeyer (storyboards), Patrico Aganasin, Abel Laxamana, Mark Lewis, Romeo Lopez, Tec Manalac, Andre Nieves, Phil Stapleton (storyboard cleanup), AKOM Productions (animation studio), Sharon Janis (editor), Eric Lewald (story editor)
First Posted: 12/04/2020
Last Updated: 03/16/2023
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