Marvel Character Spotlight - Snowbird

Marvel Spotlight for this week is the hero Snowbird, also known as Narya.

A long, long time ago, the goddess of the Northern Lights had a kid with a human. She was made to prevent the Great Beasts from returning to Earth, and the leader of the Gods had made a barrier that only a halfling could pass, so the child was necessary. Michael Twoyoungmen was there to help the baby be born, and then he took the girl in.

Too bad she weakens if she leaves Canada's borders.

So, anyway, this guy took her in and she aged really quickly, and they were both recruited into Alpha Flight. She got the name Anne McKenzie as well, so she officially had a secret identity.

She fell in love, had a kid, and died a bit later. But that's not the interesting part.

No, she pulls a Green Arrow on us and comes back from the dead!

She comes back with a new body (because her old one was given to her teammate somehow...) and is no longer restricted to Canada's borders.

Then her marriage crumbled too.

So, we have one sad half-goddess to take care of.

I don't know. I like her; she seems interesting.

Ah, well, that's the Spotlight of a character you don't hear about all too often.

Marvel Character Spotlight: Pixie

Megan Gwynn was a normal Welsh teenager...except that she was actually a mutant. When she was in an accident involving her bike and a car, she manifested rainbow colored wings that allowed her to fly. She enrolled in the Xavier Institute under the name of Pixie and worked under Wolfsbane.

After the events of M-Day, she was one of the 27 students to not lose her powers.

In the events of Limbo, she used her other powers for the first time, releasing a "pixie dust" that gave hallucinations to the demons attacking the small group of students that she was with, including Blindfold, a girl she didn't like much. The mutant hero Magik took part of Pixie's soul, which left black magic in the hole, making her much less innocent than she had previously been, including the turning of her pink hair partially black.

Pixie was to be taught by Doctor Strange in the ways of the mystical arts.

She had many issues with her teleportation powers that she learned from Magik, as well, and was there when Professor X was killed.

Her wings now appear dead and blackened.

For the full story on Pixie, take a look around the Marvel Database page on her. There are some good pictures.
See you next Sunday for another Marvel Character Spotlight.

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