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Firebird (PG)

Betsy Stacey
Nov 16, 2017
2 min read

History:

Bonita Juarez was walking across the desert near Albuquerque, New Mexico when a huge ball of cold fire plummeted out of the sky and struck the sand a mere ten feet from where she stood. As she was bathed in its extraterrestrial radiation, Juarez soon discovered that she had acquired a vast amount of energy-wielding powers.

Believing the fireball to be a manifestation of the American Indian legend of the Firebird, Juarez fashioned herself a costume and decided to use her powers to help the people of the Southwestern United States under the name of Firebird.

Rangers:

Firebird after intercepting a shortwave distress call that intercepted a shortwave distress call meant that was meant for the Avengers, she encountered other superhuman crime fighters. After handling the menace of the Corrupter, the five champions, Firebird, Red Wolf, Shooting Star, Texas Twister, and Night Rider, decided to band together whenever threatened by a menace that was too large for them to handle individually as the team the Rangers. However, due to various Rangers being geographically scattered across the Southwest of America, their gatherings were infrequent.

The West Coast Avengers:

When an encounter with the sorcerer Master Pandemonium took Firebird to the West Coast Avengers, she assisted the team in their battle against him. Mockingbird wanted her for membership in the West Coast Avengers, but Hawkeye was more interested in a more famous applicant, the Thing. After working with the Avengers for several weeks, Firebird left without joining the team.

Sometime later, when the Avengers came looking for her to ask if she would join them, Firebird was starting a spiritual journey and her to briefly adopted the name La Espirita. As Espirita, she returned to the West Coast Avengers' headquarters just in time to stop Henry Pym from committing suicide. However, the rest of the West Coast Avengers had been lost in time by this point. Together, Espirita and Pym found the time-lost Avengers' message and rescued them and helped defeat the villainous alien computer, Dominus. Espirita did not stay with the Avengers very long. However, she did part with in good company and presumably accepted their membership offer, as she often served as a reserve Avenger after that.

Bonita was later captured by various assembled aliens, who revealed to her that the flaming fireball that gave her powers was merely an alien child's discarded experiment. Briefly engaging in a crisis of faith, Bonita nonetheless decided that God was still responsible for her powers, but she still returned to her other code-name, Firebird.

She even appeared among the assembled Avengers at various membership meetings. In addition, Firebird was also called in to help clean up their headquarters at that time, Hydrobase. This was during the so-called "Acts of Vengeance" affair, which set her and a group of other female Avengers up against several berserk androids.

Firebird retains her Avengers status, and while preferring to adventure in the Southwest and do social work, she has teamed up with them for various adventures. Among these and most notably was when the Avengers reformed after many of their number were then believed to be dead, the Avengers and the Thunderbolts teamed up to stop the alien Dominex.