Quote Originally Posted by Legerd View Post
Do you mean she took on human traits because she was in human form? If that's what you mean then I'd point out she was half human to begin with and say no.
Yup, I remember when she turned into a wolverine, that's the point I was making about illogical power limitations. What's the reason for designing a character whose main power is to turn into animals that are weaker than her human form while running the risk of losing her mind to that form. However, I'm assuming you're referring to her having taken out the Wendigo in animal form. I see that as one of those moments when the writer wanted to do something "kewl" by having Snowbird "mimic" Wolverine to take down the Wendigo so he could then talk her down from her feral rage. It was less about her and more about playing up Wolverine's backstory.

Then he shouldn't have retconned her into a demi-god charged with protecting the world from far more powerful god-like beings as it makes little sense with her powerset and levels, IMO. He could have gone another route with her, but decided on this one.
It's cool that you like her being able to shapechange, I don't mind it either, but it lacks any logic as far as her backstory goes. Besides which, the topic is about what Alpha character(s) we don't like and why. Snowbird is my choice and no one is going to change how I feel about her.
I hope no one is trying to "change your mind." My idea, when I made this thread, is that we'd be posting character, that someone else is bound to like. And maybe if someone who was passionate about the character that's named came in to defend them; we might see the character in a different light. So it's not so much about changing the mind, as it is, I would hope, about saying, "Here's some cool things."

For example, currently re-reading Alpha Flight... in Volume One, there's a part where she changes into a Polar Bear to remain undetected by the Master (matching the landscape and other animals)... then she turns into mosquitoes in order to get through some vents to get into the Master's base... I thought those were clever uses of her powers, that she - as Snowbird - could not have done in her human form.