The Magnobird

### Likes

Eating, killing, insects, picking on smaller creatures, sleeping, taking care of her egg, motherhood, hunting.

### Dislikes

The Worlds Colliders, disturbances, her egg being harmed or stolen, being followed.

### Goal

To protect her egg from predators.

**The Magnobird** is main antagonist in the episode "The Good Egg", and the mother of the egg she is protecting from becoming dinner for the Worlds Colliders. She is a carnivorous, colossal, ferocious, flightless, alien bird dinosaur, that makes her debut in the animated series. The magnobird also does not have a set name, and is referred to by the name of her species.

## **Background**

### **Distinctive features**

The bird is a heavyweight, vicious and visually intimidating. She has dull-victoria violet coloured feathers. Her body mainly represents the anatomy of an ostrich and a spinosaurus, and is bipedal and vaguely avian, but flightless, has short feathered arms and metres taller. Her rough feathers stand out with an endeavour blue coating and a bushy tail and hair made up of patchy kingfisher daisy violet hairs. Her eyes are fully bloodshot , with small, dark red irises.

Her right eye is seemingly blinded due to her massive scar from her lip to her head. Her beak is extremely scarred, with sharp, long and short teeth attached to her beck. She has small, dull spikes on her neck and end of her tails. Her overall build withstands any other land predator on its hind legs. Her eyes bulge out of her head, with deep black eyebags beneath her eyes. The bird typically stands upright or hunched out with the weight of her neck.

### **Behaviour and traits**

She is oviparous, cunning, acrobatic and impetuous. And as a single mother defending an egg, her innate instincts and extreme agility is used mercilessly against scavengers and predators. The egg she has to protect needs to be kept warm by the parent to hatch, and she seems to take the parental responsibility seriously, as any other avian would. When hunting prey, she lacks use in her short arms, and uses her feet and large beak to kill, eat or attack an opponent.

However, her excellence in protection and defence is polemic towards her attention instability. The bird tends to get side-tracked whenever something intrigues her, putting her egg at risk. She can act brutally hostile or immensely destructive at best whenever a predator is attacking her. Overall, the bird is a strong, cunning and fearless figure of parentship, as she would put herself in danger to save her egg. This bravery is seen when she tries to stop Steven and Lapis from stealing her egg whilst on a river, as she risks her life on the edge of a waterfall trying to save it.

## **Role**

During the majority of The Good Egg, the bird is seen gathering food for her egg once it hatches. She easily evades capture by Spinel, Steven, Junior and Peridot by running them off a cliff into a swamp. Later, she attacks Peridot and Garnet within a stampeding crowd of tusked ones after they failed to attract she with an insect costume. Later, Steven and Lapis take her egg to the river, expecting her to fall off it trying to get it back. The plan fails as the increase in current prompts an immediate and violent reaction, making her launch a tree at them.

The bird progressively becomes more hostile as Steven, Spinel and Peridot try again to take the egg again by hoisting countless traps. She outsmarts Peridot and sends Spinel flinging into a mountain when their plan fails. During the night, she chases Steven through a geyser chasm, assuming he is slow enough to be easily caught. She is confused by the multiple Steven's she encounters after Junior gives him a double cherry to slow her down. Later, the bird's egg is surrendered back to her and she walks off into the distance with her hatchling.

## **Powers and abilities**

The Magnobird has various natural abilities.

* **Agility**: She can run at a fast pace. This is better seen when she is chasing Spinel and Peridot
	+ **Nimbility and latency**: The bird can dodge obstacles at high pace, as her reaction time is impeccable.
* **Enhanced vision**: The bird has excellent sight, though being partially blind in one eye. This is better seen when she spots Lapis and Steven on a log in the river, holding her egg.
* **Intelligence**: She was capable of outsmarting the Worlds Colliders' plans. This is seen when she, in cold blood, throws a tree stump directly at Steven and Lapis in the river, causing the team fall into a swamp pit off a cliff, and then tries to eat Peridot when she dresses as prey.
* **Stealth**: Though she exceeds in height, she can be extremely stealthy. Her speed also compliments this. This is seen much clearly when she appears from the dark abyss when Spinel and Peridot climb down a rope. Her cover was mainly blown by her heavy breathing as a response to her hunting instincts and her anger.

## **Trivia**

* The bird's design is inspired by the Turkeyfish from The Croods. Though, they sounds she makes are from the Bear Owl.
* The Magnobird protects her egg, when usually father avians do the parenting while the mother is away.