Espirita
declined full Avengers membership herself, preferring solo activity as
she came to terms with her powers and their spiritual implications;
not long after leaving the Avengers, she resumed her Firebird alias
and learned that the meteoric source of her powers was actually waste
material from a failed alien experiment. This revelation shocked her
at first, but she soon made peace with it since she reasoned that her
powers were still a gift from God, just not so directly given as she
had previously imagined. Her faith in her religion was unshaken, and
she continued to use her powers as a force for good.
Firebird eventually made her Avengers
membership official when she joined most of the other Avengers in
agreeing to serve as part of a large body of on-call Avengers
organized by Captain America. She occasionally served as an Avengers
West reservist thereafter, but never joined the western roster
full-time before it was disbanded by the Avengers. Regardless, the New
Mexico-based Firebird kept in touch with the New York-based Avengers,
participating in the post-Onslaught reorganization of the group and
aiding the team against menaces such as Morgan Le Fay and Dominex,
though she twice declined invitations to join the active roster.
Firebird later accepted a detached
service Avengers assignment at a monitor station outside Slorenia,
where she and the Black Knight worked to study and possibly cure the
imprisoned Bloodwraith. That assignment was interrupted when she and
the Knight helped the active Avengers battle The Presence during the
global war with Kang, and Firebird subsequently volunteered to stay on
with the active roster for the duration of the Kang conflict, partly
to offer counseling to disillusioned Avengers veteran Thor.
She and
Thor developed a bond of sorts as Bonita began to realize that
mysterious side-effects of her superhuman transformation may have made
her immortal, seemingly impossible to kill. While she learned to cope
with the knowledge that she may never die, she helped the immortal
Thor cope with the despair and anxiety he felt regarding the mortality
of his human friends and comrades. Come the end of the war, Firebird
had helped restore Thor's zeal for life on Earth, and he gratefully
saluted her for it. With the resolution of the Kang and Thor
situations, Firebird stepped down to the Avengers reserves and
returned to her social work in New Mexico. When the Avengers disbanded
and reorganized following their conflict with an insane Scarlet Witch,
Firebird did not rejoin the group.
Firebird (Bea, last name unrevealed,
presumably Grey or DaCosta): Judgment League Avengers
member, resigned; member of JLX. An amalgam of X-Men member Phoenix
and DC Comics character Fire, Firebird was a member of the Judgment
League Avengers (a combination of DC's Justice League and Marvel's
Avengers) in the alternate universe of Amalgam Comics (a temporary
merger of DC and Marvel Comics). The character's abilities, appearance
and personality seemed to be a fairly even mixture of the two source
characters. Firebird and several other mutant Judgment League members
formed a renegade team called JLX (a sort of Justice League/X-Men
combination) to advance the cause of mutants.
Espirita (Bonita Juarez):
Alternate alias briefly assumed by Avengers member Firebird when she
was under the mistaken impression that her powers had been conveyed
upon her directly by God himself.
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