Mockingbird (Marvel Comics)

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Mockingbird
Variant Cover to Secret Invasion #2. Mockingbird is at the right. Art by Leinil Yu.
Publication information
Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	(as Bobbi Morse) Astonishing Tales #6 (June, 1971) (as the Huntress) Marvel Super-Action #1 (January, 1976) (as Mockingbird) Marvel Team-Up #95 (July, 1980)
Created by	Gerry Conway Barry Windsor-Smith
In story information
Alter ego	Barbara "Bobbi" Morse-Barton
Team affiliations	S.H.I.E.L.D. West Coast Avengers Avengers Great Lakes Avengers
Notable aliases	Roberta Morse, Agent 19, the Huntress
Abilities	Superbly trained athlete and gymnast, various unarmed combats, and espionage. Expert with Battle-stave weapon.

Mockingbird (Barbara "Bobbi" Morse-Barton), also known as Huntress is a fictional character, a comic book superheroine from the Marvel Comics universe. Created by writer Gerry Conway and artist Barry Windsor-Smith, the character first appeared (as Bobbi Morse, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.) in Astonishing Tales #6 (June, 1971) and as Mockingbird in Marvel Team-Up #95 (July, 1980).

Contents 1 Fictional character biography 1.1 Early life 1.2 On her own 1.3 Death 1.4 Secret Invasion 2 Powers and abilities 3 Other versions 3.1 House of M 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Fictional character biography

[edit] Early life

Born in San Diego, California, Mockingbird is introduced as a S.H.I.E.L.D. operative. As an espionage agent, S.H.I.E.L.D. sends Bobbi on a mission to contact Ka-Zar. With Paul Allen, she journeys to the Savage Land.^[1] With Ka-Zar and the Man-Thing, she then battles AIM in the Florida Everglades.^[2] Bobbi later journeys back to the Savage Land. Alongside Ka-Zar, she battles Maa-Gorr and El Tigre.^[3] Alongside Shanna, she journeys to the Savage Land once more. Alongside Ka-Zar and Shanna, she battles Grond.^[4] Bobbi briefly takes the identity of the Huntress. She battles the renegade S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Rico Santana.^[5]

Bobbi later assumes the identity of Mockingbird. As Mockingbird, she teams with Spider-Man to battle renegade S.H.I.E.L.D. agent Carl Delandan.^[6] She then meets Hawkeye and helps him against the villainous Crossfire, Silencer, Oddball, and Bombshell. She and Hawkeye grow close and begin a whirlwind romance, which culminates in elopement with him.^[7]. Afterwards, Mockingbird and Hawkeye return to the Avengers, whom Bobbi meets for the first time.^[8] With Hawkeye, Tigra, Wonder Man, and Jim Rhodes as Iron Man, she forms the West Coast Avengers.^[9] Alongside the original Iron Man, Hawkeye, and Tigra, she later battles Doctor Demonicus.^[10]

[edit] On her own

A rift later forms between Hawkeye and Mockingbird following an incident while the West Coast Avengers had time-traveled to 1876. The Phantom Rider (Lincoln Slade) abducts, drugs, and rapes Mockingbird. After breaking free of his control, Mockingbird sought revenge on the Phantom Rider, and allows him to plunge to his death off of a cliff.^[11] She is confronted by the modern-day Phantom Rider. She learns that Hamilton Slade was actually the modern Phantom Rider, and attacks Slade.^[12] Mockingbird becomes separated from Hawkeye, and leaves the Avengers.^[13] For a time she and ex-Avengers Tigra and Moon Knight operate as a small fighting unit. With Tigra, Moon Knight, and Giant-Man, she battled the High Evolutionary.^[14] Alongside Tigra and Moon Knight, she was attacked by the Phantom Rider again.^[15] Hawkeye and Mockingbird later reconcile, and Mockingbird returns to the West Coast Avengers. She later arrested the Digger, causing a rift between the West Coast Avengers and the Night Shift.^[16] Mockingbird later reconciled with the modern Phantom Rider, who was at the time possessed by the spirit of the original Phantom Rider.^[17]

Mockingbird's thought patterns and personality are used by the robot Ultron to create his second robotic 'wife', Alkhema.

[edit] Death

Mockingbird later sacrifices her life to save her husband Hawkeye from Mephisto^[18].

She later returns as a reanimated corpse as part of the Grim Reaper's plot to destroy the Avengers. She is also seen fighting endless battles in a hell^[19], in which she has an opportunity to return to life but turns it down while indicating that she still has a purpose to serve in death.

[edit] Secret Invasion

Mockingbird appears along with a host of other Marvel heroes from a downed Skrull ship. Whether this is indeed the real Mockingbird or a Skrull imposter remains to be seen.^[20] She is able to tell her former husband, Clint Barton, in the guise of Ronin the meaning of "October 12th". She reveals that a couple years prior, she had miscarried. "She and her husband figured" that October 12th would have been the birth date of their child. This is something only the two of them would know.^[21]

[edit] Powers and abilities

Mockingbird was a trained S.H.I.E.L.D. agent, expert in several forms of hand-to-hand combat, and skilled in various martial arts. She was a highly skilled espionage agent and an expert biologist, with a Ph.D in biology. She was an athletic woman and an accomplished acrobat. She was an expert markswoman and gymnast.

Mockingbird's costume was made of synthetic stretch fabric lined with Kevlar. Mockingbird carried a 4-foot battle-staff, composed of two hollow 2-foot steel-alloy poles, like a quarterstaff which could be split in two. She typically carried each half of the staff strapped to each arm, and they were spring-loaded to be released or launched as projectiles. The staff could be used as a bo or javelin or as two short clubs. It can also telescope to an 8-foot vaulter's pole.

[edit] Other versions

[edit] House of M

Bobbi appears as a member of Luke Cage's Human Resistance group nicknamed the "Avengers". She was a former S.H.I.E.L.D. agent who was phased out upon the rise of mutants^[22]. She is romantically involved with Hawkeye ^[23]. She is one of the Avengers, who leaves for Wakanda^[24].

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• http://www.marvel.com/universe/Mockingbird