Marvel Comics/Songbird

**Songbird** (Melissa Joan Gold) was a troubled runaway who was born to an alcoholic father and an incarcerated mother. To survive on the streets, Gold developed a hard edge to her personality and eventually found work as a costumed wrestler. At some point during her career as a wrestler, her vocal cords were bionically enhanced by the Roxxon Oil Company, and she underwent a Power Broker augmentation.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Sound Manipulation:** After burning out her original vocal sound-based abilities, Songbird was given a set of vocal cord implants and an external harness that allows her to produce a number of effects, including:

* **Sonic Blasts:** She can generate powerful sonic blasts.
* **Force Field Generation:** She can generate sonic force fields.
* **Energy Constructs:** She can create solid objects from sound, including battering rams, pincers, and platforms.
	+ **Flight:** By creating wings out of pure sound energy, Songbird can propel herself through the air at great speeds. She can most likely reach supersonic speeds.
* **Vocal Persuasion:** Songbird can generate high pitched sonic vibrations that are subtle enough to avoid them being consciously detected by others. These allow her to influence the actions of others.

**Enhanced Strength:** After undergoing her treatments, Songbird's musculature, skeletal structure, and connective tissues have all been drastically strengthened and augmented. As a result, she possesses superhuman strength. At her peak, she could lift about two tons.

**Enhanced Speed:** The superior energy output and force of her muscles enables her to run and move at speeds that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

**Enhanced Stamina:** Songbird's muscles are more efficient than those of an ordinary human. As a result, they produce less fatigue toxins during physical activity than those of normal humans. At her peak, she can exert herself for several hours before the build-up of fatigue toxins in her bloodstream begins to impair her.

**Enhanced Durability:** Songbird's bodily tissues are tougher and more resistant to some forms of physical injury than those of a normal human. Her body is able to withstand great impacts and blunt force trauma. She can withstand impacts, such as falling from several stories or being repeatedly struck with superhuman force, that would severely injure or kill a normal human with little to no injury to herself.

**Enhanced Agility:** Songbird's agility, balance, and bodily coordination are enhanced to levels that are beyond the natural physical limits of the finest human athlete.

**Enhanced Reflexes:** Her reflexes are similarly enhanced and are superior to those of the finest human athlete.

#### Former Powers

**Sonic Scream:** Technicians from the Roxxon Oil Company bionically altered and greatly enhanced Songbird's vocal cords. She could emit a high-pitch scream sufficient to drown out the sound made by a jet engine if it were to be within a few feet of a person.

**Sound Manipulation:** Songbird could alter her vocal cords so that every note on the scale that she screamed would induce a different effect on those that heard it.

* **Blindness Inducement:** An A cord could result in temporary blindness to those who heard the note.
* **Happiness Inducement:** A B cord could result in others feeling an extreme sense of euphoria.
* **Hallucination Inducement:** A high C cord resulted in people experiencing vivid visual hallucinations.
* **Anxiety Inducement:** A low C cord resulted in people experiencing low levels of anxiety and shortness of breath while a D cord caused high levels of anxiety and panic attacks.
* **Dizziness Inducement:** An E cord caused dizziness and vertigo.
* **Nausea Inducement:** An F cord resulted in nausea and stomach cramping.
* **Headache Inducement:** A G cord usually resulted in severe headaches and fatigue.

### Abilities

* **Hand-to-Hand Combat:** Songbird has extensive training in hand-to-hand combat, particularly wrestling. Although she burned out her original powers, she still has her superhuman physical attributes, making her a more effective hand-to-hand combatant.