Songbird
Gaia name: Skuld HJG
Character Name: Melissa Joan Gold
Aliases: Screaming Mimi, Mimi Schwartz, Margie Green
Codename: Songbird
Alignment: Good
Gender: Female
Height: 5' 5"
Weight: 145 lbs.
Eyes: Green
Hair: Red with white streaks
Equipment:
Sound Carapace: At the death of Angar the Screamer her scream of anguish lasted 43 minutes, until it destroyed her vocal powers. All powers now come from the carapace created by Techno [Fixer] from technology stolen from Klaw. The following powers are possible through the carapace:
Flight: Songbird can also create wings of solid sound which allow her to fly at 200 mph. She can safely move in closed areas like cities.
Object creation: She can create solid objects of solid sound. Her shapes are rapidly becoming more complex. She has a power stunt where she will throw sonic weapons like knives or large blunt objects. She can also use sonic constructs for grappling attacks.
Sonic Blasts: Songbird can fire Incredible intensity sonic force blasts that can project up to twenty tons of force.
Sonic Stun: She can fire an stun pulse in a 360 degree arc.
Sonic Force Field: Songbird can project an incredible force field.
Floating Disk: Songbird can create a glowing platform of solid light. The disc is a part of Songbird's Power and has no independent existence beyond her. The disc can automatically support Songbird and additional mass. The disk supports ten tons, and flies at Excellent airspeed.
Limitations:
Songbird's constructs are only considered to have one-fourth strength against sonic attacks.
Klaw can drain power from Songbird's harness, because of their similar technology. This attack will cause physical pain.
The collapse of her sound constructs can cause feedback in Songbird's harness. In the event of the destruction of one of her constructs she must might be stunned as a result.
Talents:
Wrestling and Acrobatics
Bio:
Melissa Gold began her career as a super-villain under the name Screaming Mimi with the Grapplers and Masters Of Evil. She has since then been trying to redeem herself by joining the Thunderbolts. When Melissa was young, she did not experience the best childhood. Her mother had gone to prison for robbery and her father was a drunk. It did not help that many of her peers teased her until one one day she she simply couldn't take anymore of it. So she ended up running away from home and living on the streets, creating a tough personality. She also took up her mothers name of Mimi and as she got older, she became involved with a criminal named Mike. He set her up by reporting her to police with stolen goods, causing her to be arrested and sent to jail, just like her mother. Once there she met Marian Pouncy. Marian got Mimi involved in masked wrestling and she soon joined a team called the the Grapplers. The Grapplers became renowned for their colorful personalities and ringside antics, but the wrestling federation denied them the opportunity to make the amount of money their male counterparts made. When the group decided to turn to crime in order to make more money, they were tried and jailed after a defeat by the hero known as Quasar. Once the Grapplers were free, they found that without them, the world of female wrestling had slown to a halt. So they continued to commit crime in order to generate income until two members, Titania and Letha, were killed. After the teams disolution, Melissa met Helmut Zemo who let her join the Masters of Evil. Here she met someone by the name of Angar the Screamer. The two became close since they had similar powers, however one day Angar was killed during a robbery and died in Melissa's arms. This caused Mimi to become so upset that she screamed for 43 minutes until she nearly destroyed her vocal cords. Zemo later got The Fixer to give her a technology that would recreate some of her powers, while allowing her to now make sound into constructs that had some properties of solid objects, including wings allowing her to fly. That's when the Masters of Evil became known as the Thunderbolts (as part of an elaborate plan to acquire the Fantastic Four's technology, among other things) and Mimi began going by Songbird. In that time she fell in love with Abe Jenkins, (the former Beetle) who was also her trainer. Songbird later rebelled against Zemo so she and the rest of her team could show that they had indeed reformed. But after that MACH-IV went to jail to prove his good intentions, the Thunderbolts disbanded, leaving Songbird to go to jail as well, until she joined the newer version of the Thunderbolts with MACH-IV.
Civil War
Songbird with the new Thunderbolts during the superhuman Civil War, the Thunderbolts were assigned by the government to locate and arrest unregistered Heroes. The Thunderbolts then became a way for former villains to redeem themselves if they agreed to participate in the program. Norman Osborn became the leader of this assignment and demoted Melissa, stating that she was too moralistic, thus giving her position away to Moonstone. Songbird was against this idea and dislikes most of the teams villainous members, however, she remains on the team for fear of imprisonment. She also noted that, in the field, Moonstone is a less-than-capable leader and has at times taken the lead anyway, such as when the team attempts to capture the Steel Spider. Here, Songbird is forced to take command when Moonstone is injured, and misleads Bullseye into believing that he is able to escape, causing him to become paralyzed. After the team returns to the Thunderbolts mountain, Songbird berates Moonstone and the teams performance, although Osborn has no desire to listen to her complaints.
When four psychic super villains invade the Thunderbolts mountain, they manipulate Osborn into returning to his Green Goblin persona and force him to rampage through the base, killing a handful of the human soldiers that work there. The psychics then convince Melissa into defeating Osborn herself, hoping that the two of them will kill each other. Songbird manages to defeat Osborn without killing him, although she is extremely exhausted after the battle. After the team recovers, she demands that Osborn allow her to lead the Thunderbolts, or else she will release the security tapes that reveal him killing the humans as the Green Goblin. Once Osborn agrees, Songbird leaves the office with a smile on her face, until Norman tells her that Bullseye had been heard stating that a little bird (implying Melissa) told him he was free in order to have him injured during the Arizona mission.
Dark Reign
Natasha assisting SongbirdAfter the Secret Invasion, Osborn is given control over HAMMER and makes the Thunderbolts into her own personal hit squad. However, Songbird is still a liability, so Moonstone and Bullseye plot to have her killed, but only after they manipulate her into sending her only ally, the Radioactive Man, back to China. Songbird is then hunted by Bullseye and Venom, although she manages to evade them both and even blows up a section of the mountain. She ultimately escapes with the aid of the Swordsman who helps her fake her own death and go into hiding. Now free from Osborn's machinations, but well-aware of what his new status as Director of HAMMER means, Melissa plans to thwart Osborn's plans anyway she can.
She reappears in the public eye when she stops HAMMER forces from performing a forced relocation of homeless people in Cleveland, Ohio. She punishes a HAMMER officer who harmed a homeless war veteran, and then proceeds to defeat the entire HAMMER unit. She then flies off with a plan in mind: to bring together the old band of Thunderbolts together and deal with the team of killers Norman had assembled as the new Thunderbolts.
Her first stop is to seek Abe (Mach IV) and Norbert (Fixer), who are working on the Mach V version of the flight armor. Abe pledges to help her, and gives her the location of Chen. Melissa kisses him in thanks before leaving. Some time later, she is intercepted and fired upon by the Thunderbolts on board their jet. She grabs a missile in midair, and sends it back into the Thunderstrike. The explosion sends the plane crashing, but stuns her enough to send her to the ground. Still stunned, she is taken by surprise by Norman's Black Widow ( Yelena Belova), who points a gun at her head. She is even more surprised when the Black Widow says that she's extracting Songbird to safety. Melissa remains skeptical, until the Black Widow reveals that she's not really Yelena, but rather Natasha Romanova.
Barely surviving the crash the duo try and escape into the woods but have a run in with Mister X. After defeating him and eluding the rest of the Thunderbolts the two go to a meeting place where they are suppose to meet Nick Fury.
After they reach Fury meeting area the group were apparently followed by Ant Man and captured by the Thunderbolts. When returned to the T-bolts base Fury was revealed to be a LMD and Natasha and Melissa are ordered by Norman to be integrated and exposed of. At this moment Headsman, Paladin, and Ghost help free the two escape where they are saved by Abe in Mach armor.
Heroic Age
Current, Songbird is a warden of the girls side of the Raft, with a new haircut and outfit. Along with Mach V, Fixer and new leader Luke Cage, they recruit criminals to the Thunderbolts program for a chance of redemption. When Luke Cage enlisted Moonstone into the program, Songbird questioned him, which quickly lead to Luke Cage pointing out that she was just like Moonstone at one point.
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