Hummingbird (comics)
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| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
Scarlet Spider vol. 2 #1 (January 2012) |
| Created by |
Ryan Stegman (artist) Christopher Yost (writer) Carlo Barberi (costume designer) |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Aracely Penalba |
| Team affiliations | New Warriors |
| Abilities | Manipulation of emotions Telepathy Self-powered levitation Invoking and hurtling sacred fire |
Hummingbird is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. She made her debut in the 2012 Scarlet Spider comic book series written by Christopher Yost.
Created by artist Ryan Stegman and writer Christopher Yost, she first appeared in Scarlet Spider vol. 2 #1. She took on the superhero identity of Hummingbird during Scarlet Spider vol. 2 #17, with artist Carlo Barberi designing her costume.
Along with Kaine, the Scarlet Spider, she joined the New Warriors on the 2014 Volume 5 version of the team.
Born as María Aracely Josefina Penalba de las Heras, she is originally from an unspecified location in Mexico. However, she may be the reincarnation of the Aztec God of War Huitzilopochtli and has been labeled as a demigod by the High Evolutionary.
She has no recollection of her life previous to her arrival to Houston, Texas with the exception of the event that took her there: her kidnapping and forced trafficking at the hands of the Lobo Cartel and the singular circumstances of it.
The story of Aracely starts in darkness, among the dead. Buried in a pile of corpses of her fellow passengers and barely alive, she was the only survivor of a botched human trafficking operation by the Lobo Cartel, who had smuggled them from Mexico to Houston's harbor inside a truck's shipping container.
Outside the container, members of Lobo Cartel were discussing with another group the last-minute details of the exchange of money for people – ignorant of the true condition of their "merchandise" – when they were interrupted by an unknown assailant: Kaine, who assumed they were just drug dealers he could steal money from, picked them off one by one. Upon scaring away the criminals and collecting the money that was meant to be the payment, Kaine noticed the odor coming from the metallic crate and opened it, finding within a scene frighteningly similar to one of his earliest memories: a mound of crammed rotting bodies and a person (Aracely) who, just like him back then, clung to life.
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