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Real Name: Barbara “Bobbi” Morse-Barton
Alias: Agent 19, Huntress
Occupation: Physicist, ex-SHIELD agent, adventurer
Identity: Secret
Legal Status: United States citizen
Place of Birth: San Diego, Calif.
Marital Status: Married
Known Relatives: Clint Barton (a.k.a. Hawkeye, husband)
Base of Operations: Avengers West Compound
Past Group Affiliations: SHIELD, West Coast Avengers
Known Powers:
None
Equipment:
Body Armor: Mockingbird’s Costume gives her Remarkable protection from physical attacks and Excellent protection against fire.
Battle Staves: Mockingbird employs a pair of special battle staves in com bat that allow her to do the following things:
- Used as javelins, they can do Remarkable damage to any tar get up to 4 areas away.
- Spring-loaded holsters fire the staves up to 3 areas to do Excel lent damage. She can catch them when they rebound by making an Agility FEAT.
- When joined together they form an 8-foot-long vaulting pole.
Talents:
Mockingbird has trained extensively for combat. As such, she gains a +1 CS with her staves and a +1 CS to her Agility when Dodging. She also has Remarkable Reason in the fields of Biology, Law Enforcement, Detection, and Espionage
Contacts:
Mockingbird has worked with SHIELD, the Avengers, and especially Hawkeye. In fact, her Popularity is considered Monstrous when she is dealing with SHIELD, Interpol, and government security agencies.
Role-Playing Notes:
Mockingbird is a brilliant scholar and scientist. She possesses a fine analytical mind and a relentless dedication to honesty and justice. Mockingbird forms a perfect team with Hawkeye; her common sense and espionage training take the edge off of Hawkeye’s hot temper and snap judgments.
History:
Barbara Morse graduated from Georgia Institute of Technology with a Ph.D. in biology and passed her Civil Service examination so she could work with her biology professor, Dr. Wilma Calvin, on the government-sponsored project to rediscover the Super-Soldier formula that created Captain America. While in the government’s employ, Morse’s exemplary record came to the attention of SHIELD and she was invited to undertake training in her spare time. A champion gymnast in high school, Morse excelled at both the physical regimen and arts of espionage taught to all field agents. When Dr. Theodore Sallis, a maverick scientist also working on the Super-Soldier project, disappeared, Morse was given her first field assignment: to accompany SHIELD agent Paul Allen, suspected of being a traitor, to the Savage Land in order to enlist the services of Ka-Zar to find Sallis. Allen and Morse succeeded in contacting Ka-Zar and took him to the Florida Everglades.
Although Sallis was never found (unknown to them he had been transformed into the Man-Thing), Ka-Zar and Morse flushed out a splinter group of AIM (Advanced Idea Mechanics) agents who were attempting to steal the Super-Soldier formula and revealed Allen to be a member. SHIELD director Nick Fury assigned Morse to escort Ka-Zar during his stay in civilization, and the two managed to thwart yet another attempt by AIM to seize the Super- Soldier formula. Though Barbara Morse became romantically involved with Ka-Zar, she could not convince him to forsake the Savage Land. Preferring field work over biology, Morse was given another assignment: to trail the subversive El Tigre in South America. Coincidentally, this mission also took her to the Savage Land, where she renewed her acquaintance of Ka-Zar. Completing the assignment with the Jungle Lord’s aid, she returned to SHIELD.
Her next assignment was guarding a SHIELD lawyer who was to testify before a Congressional committee investigating some of SHIELD’s overseas activities. When the lawyer was killed in a suspicious explosion, the head of the commit tee, believing the assassination to have been an inside job, asked Morse to work directly for the U. S. government to root out subversives within SHIELD. Dropping out of SHIELD, Morse assumed the costumed identity of the Huntress and, traveling to SHIELD’s Mexico City headquarters, managed to expose the corruption of local division chief Rico Santana. From there she began her own investigations into some of SHIELD’s other divisional operations, looting data-banks and compiling evidence of corruption. Taking the new code-name Mockingbird (from an operation for the C.I.A. involving Nick Fury before his own recruitment by SHIELD), Morse planned to take the evidence to Nick Fury himself.
While in SHIELD’s Manhattan branch, local director Carl Delandan, himself guilty of numerous infractions, attempted to stop Mockingbird with the unwitting aid of Spider-Man. Although Delandan managed to destroy the microfilm she carried, Mockingbird revealed his treachery to Nick Fury before she was shot by agents acting under Delandan’s orders. While she recovered in a private hospital, Nick Fury conducted a vast “housekeeping” sweep through SHIELD’s many divisions, exposing dozens of subversives within the ranks. When Mockingbird was released from the hospital, she was decorated for her meritorious service but resigned to become a free agent and adventurer.
Her investigation of Cross Techno logical Enterprises for an unnamed cli ent brought her into conflict with Hawkeye, who was then employed as CTE’s security director. She and Hawkeye soon learned that CTE was knowingly manufacturing the components for a machine designed to brain wash superhuman beings with ultrasonics. Antagonistic at first, the two joined forces to thwart the machine’s contractor, Crossfire, and his hirelings, Oddball and Bombshell.
Mockingbird proposed to Hawk- eye at the successful conclusion of the case and the two eloped. When Hawkeye was appointed by then Avengers chairman, the Vision, to head the team’s new West Coast based team, Mockingbird agreed to join her husband. Mockingbird has been a member in good standing of the West Coast Avengers ever since.