SNOWBIRD: Page 4 of 4

Publication Date: 30th Dec 2007
Written By: Peter Luzifer and Daytripper.
Image Work: Peter Luzifer.
Biography

BIOGRAPHY - Page 4

However, it didn’t end there. Later that night, Pestilence actually managed to get inside Snowbird’s soulless body and dug himself out of the grave to attack Alpha Flight, still in the white Sasquatch form. Fortunately, Walter Langkowski’s soul returned at this moment too, inside the Box robot. He and Pestilence fought each other to a stand-still, until he used an electric charge to shock Pestilence’s spirit out, and it was trapped inside Shaman’s medicine pouch. Langkowski was then free to take over Snowbird’s body, finally having a physical form again after so many months. However upon changing back from Sasquatch to human, he found himself to be a woman, as Snowbird had been female. Regardless, Walter was happy to be alive again, and calling himself Wanda Langkowski he once more served Alpha Flight as Sasquatch. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #45]

Even from the afterlife, Snowbird was still able to contact her friends. The first time she did this was to visit Elizabeth Twoyoungmen in a dream, informing her that she needed to reclaim the Talisman tiara for she was the only one who was meant to wear it, and there was a great danger ahead in Alpha Flight’s near future. During the tiara-swapping melee which occurred when Elizabeth took it from her father Shaman, the evil Dream Queen influenced Wanda Langkowski, aka Sasquatch, to steal the tiara and bring it to her.

Snowbird’s spirit appeared before Wanda and halted her trek towards the Dream Queen. Knowing that Walter/Wanda yearned for the return of his/her manhood, Snowbird helped him transform the body into a simulacrum of his lost one, and finally Wanda became Walter again. Likewise the Dream Queen’s spell controlling Wanda was disrupted. [Alpha Flight (1st series) #67-68]

Snowbird’s story still wasn’t over, as years later, she was discovered alive in an A.I.M. laboratory. Guardian had been kidnapped by A.I.M. and Alpha Flight and Wolverine (or actually the Skrull imposter posing as him) entered the secret base to get him back. On their way out, the heroes found a tank holding there supposingly deceased friend. Naturally they freed her and took her along to Department H, where excessive tests revealed her to be the real deal. The exact circumstances of Narya’s mysterious resurrection have yet to be revealed, though it seems the Arctic Gods had a hand in it. Even more perplexing is what A.I.M were doing with Snowbird in the first place, as they had always been concerned with science, not magic. One file that was found revealed that the A.I.M. saw Snowbird as a link between science and magic, and they may have created two beings siphoned from Narya’s DNA. [Wolverine (2nd series) #143, 172]

[Note: The explanation provided for Snowbird’s being alive in Wolverine (2nd series) #143, that her body’s regenerative powers kicked in while she was lying in her grave, can’t be true, as her grave is empty and her body is still inhabited by Walter Langkowski, aka Sasquatch. Evidently writer Eric Larsen had no knowledge of this. Bitter irony that it is even Walter himself who states the wrong explanation in the issue.]

When she had fully recovered, Snowbird rejoined her friends in Alpha Flight, the restraints once imposed on her due to her immortal status still seem to be gone, as she accompanied several of her teammates to Massachusetts, New York, without any consequences, when a real Sasquatch showed up and harassed Generation X. [Generation X (1st series) #58]

Sometime later, Alpha Flight saved their former teammate Wolverine from the evil sorcerer Mauvais, who had added the curse of the Wendigo to his own might by eating the former Wendigo’s heart. During the battle, Snowbird hoped to best Mauvais by transforming herself into a Wendigo like he, to keep him distracted, while Shaman summoned the Arctic Gods to help them. Eventually Mauvais was banished to the Realm of the Great Beasts. It’s unknown whether this was the purpose Snowbird had been resurrected for or if there still is some greater task ahead for her. [Wolverine (2nd series) #172]

When Alpha Flight was attacked by a demonic shaman, he transformed all of Department H into a hive,  and possessed Sasquatch and Puck, turning them evil. He also got hold of Snowbird, who he transformed into a giant bug-creature like himself and proceeded to rape her. Shaman asked Wolverine for help, and while Logan made his way through the overrun Department H building, Alpha Flight’s resident mystic defeated the demon on another plane of reality. The disturbed Snowbird was freed from the foul being, and she returned to normal, just like her teammates. [Wolverine (2nd series) #179]

A few months later, Snowbird was among the members of Alpha Flight who were brought into conflict with a Plodex spaceark, and captured. Once Sasquatch gathered an all-new all-different Alpha Flight to rescue them, Narya and the original Alpha Flight decided they could be best served by returning the multitude of  Plodex eggs on board the ship to the race's homeworld, and then live and work there raising the new generation of Plodex away from the conquering drives of their predecessors. Snowbird was last seen leaving with Guardian and the others for deep space. Since that time, a time-traveling version of Narya from early in Alpha Flight’s history was summoned into the present by magic, along with several other members original Alpha Flight. Apparently, that version of Snowbird married Yukon Jack, one of the members of Sasquatch’s new team, and returned to his kingdom with him. [Alpha Flight (3rd series) #6, 12]

It seems that the true Alphans eventually returned from space, as some time later when several members of Alpha Flight (a mix of veterans newer recruits alike) were slain in battle with the Collective, the survivors mourned them as if they were truly gone. Fortunately, neither version of Snowbird was among that team, though. [New Avengers (1st series) #16]

Following the Civil War between the super human community in the United States, an influx of villains into Canada prompted the Canadian government to establish a new super-team, Omega Flight. While nothing was mentioned of Snowbird in particular, it was revealed that due to some recent time-travel event, Yukon Jack had sustained neurological damages. [Omega Flight #1] This might be related to the presence of two versions of Snowbird (and some other Alpha Flight members), and, possibly, the heroes from the past being sent back to their own time and place.

During the heroic Omega Flight’s battle against the Great Beasts and the Wrecking Crew, Talisman received many visions, in which a great white owl spoke to her. Though not directly stated this seems to have been Snowbird. The alien Beta Ray Bill, who aided Omega Flight during their first mission, too has been plagued by vision of a giant white owl. [Omega Flight #2] The significance of these sightings has yet to be revealed, though, just like the fate and current whereabouts of both versions of Snowbird.