Hummingbird (Marvel)
Hummingbird is a female comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Maria Aracely Josefina Penalba de las Heras was a young Mexican girl who was believed to had become the reincarnation of the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli. (Scarlet Spider v2 #14) To fulfill a prophecy and make Aztec underworld of Mictlan rise, the enigmatic Coyote apparently had Aracely's parents killed, and put her in with a truckload of illegal migrants the Lobo Cartel had sold to Roxxon for human testing. He ordered his men to leave the truck to bake in the desert sun for a day before taking it to Houston. As the rest of the people in the truck roasted alive, Aracely survived, but the trauma rendered her amnesiac. As she suffered, she heard a voice that promised her she would survive this ordeal - and that afterwards, she would make the world bleed. (Scarlet Spider v2 #15) Smuggled into Houston, Texas, everyone in the shipping container died except for Aracely, who was discovered barely clinging to life by the renegade Spider-Man clone Kaine. He brought her to Park Plaza Hospital, where she was treated by Dr. Donald Meland. She regained consciousness, bereft of her memories, just in time for the flame-wielding Salamander to attack the hospital, searching for her. (Scarlet Spider v2 #1) Aracely fled the Salamander, but he cornered her. Amused that she had no idea why he was going to kill her, Salamander prepared to land the final blow, but Kaine arrived, in a purloined Spider-Man costume, and took on the Salamander. The Salamander soon set him on fire; the Salamander pursued her again, and she fled, running into Kaine, who had been extinguished by the hospital's sprinklers. He tackled the villain out the window and defeated him in the streets of Houston, away from the hospital. Aracely returned to her bed, and began to recover. Kaine visited her that night, and was told by Dr. Meland and his husband, police officer Wally Layton, who told him that, as an illegal, she would be deported back to Mexico, where her enemies could find her - and that while the police could not do anything about it, a vigilante could. Kaine left, but after a short time he returned to take Aracely away to his hotel penthouse. (Scarlet Spider v2 #2)
Aracely was discovered in a state of harrowing vulnerability, trapped inside a sealed shipping container at the Houston shipping docks. She was the sole survivor of a brutal human trafficking operation, having endured the suffocation and death of her fellow captives before being pulled from the darkness by the Scarlet Spider. Despite her fragile physical condition and the trauma of her ordeal, she exhibited a cryptic, otherworldly alertness, speaking in fragmented Spanish and uttering prophetic warnings that hinted at a divine or supernatural nature far beyond that of a normal teenager. She showed a startling lack of fear toward her grim surroundings, instead fixating on Kaine with an uncanny, intuitive gaze as if she could perceive the darkness within his soul. Even as she was rushed to a medical facility, she maintained a disconcerting composure, acting less like a victim and more like a being whose mind was tuned to a frequency unreachable by those around her. (Scarlet Spider v2 #3) Aracely remained in a state of fragile recovery within a hospital bed, yet she began to display a disconcerting mental acuity that defied her physical trauma. She exhibited a cryptic and playful inquisitiveness when she utilized her burgeoning empathic abilities to 'read' the turbulent emotions of the Scarlet Spider, casually commenting on his internal darkness with a bluntness that caught him off guard. Despite her status as a victim of human trafficking, she showed a fearless, almost predatory curiosity, focusing her attention on the moral complexities of her rescuer rather than her own safety. She spent much of this encounter acting as a mystical provocateur, uttering fragmented Spanish phrases and alluding to ancient Aztec omens that hinted at her true identity as a vessel for a divine spirit. Her actions were marked by a strange, detached whimsy, as if she viewed the gritty reality of the medical ward as merely a backdrop for a much grander, supernatural narrative. This solidified her role as a telepathic enigma, a girl who was far more dangerous and knowledgeable than her diminutive and battered form initially suggested. (Scarlet Spider v2 #4)
Aracely remained at the apartment of Officer Layton while Kaine investigated a human trafficking ring involving a group of extremists known as the Watchdogs. She spent the majority of the issue in a state of high anxiety and emotional distress, as she continued to recover from the trauma of being smuggled into the country inside a shipping container. During her time at the apartment, she experienced vivid, fragmented flashbacks of her past in Mexico, which were accompanied by cryptic and frightening internal dialogue that hinted at a deeper, supernatural origin for her emerging abilities. She struggled to process the overwhelming empathic input she received from those around her, particularly the intense anger and guilt radiating from Kaine. Her actions were largely stationary, but her internal experience was characterized by a growing awareness of a mysterious entity or destiny that she could not yet fully name. As the threat of the Watchdogs escalated elsewhere in the city, she remained a protected but deeply troubled figure, serving as the primary motivation for Kaine’s increasingly violent and protective measures to ensure her safety. (Scarlet Spider v2 #5) Aracely was at the apartment of Officer Layton in Houston, where she remained under his protection while Kaine was away. During this time, she began to experience increasingly vivid and disturbing sensory perceptions, which she struggled to communicate clearly. She displayed a heightened sensitivity to the emotions of those around her, becoming visibly distressed by the residual tension and violence she sensed from Kaine's recent activities. When Kaine eventually returned to the apartment, Aracely confronted him with her fragmented insights, demonstrating her ability to "see" or "feel" things that were not physically present, including a premonition of a coming threat. Her actions were characterised by a mix of childlike vulnerability and emerging supernatural awareness, as she tried to warn Kaine of an impending danger that she could sense approaching their location. Throughout the interaction, she remained physically fragile but mentally active, using her empathic link to Kaine to gauge his safety and emotional state while simultaneously dealing with her own internal confusion regarding her true nature. (Scarlet Spider v2 #6)
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Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
Notes
- Hummingbird was created by Christopher Yost and Ryan Stegman where she made her first appearance in Scarlet Spider v2 #1 (January, 2012).
Appearances
- Scarlet Spider v2: (2012)
- New Warriors v4:
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