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Swift (Shen Li-Min)
"I used to be a pacifist, after a fashion."
Real Name: Li-Min Shen
First Appearance: StormWatch Vol 1 #28
Affiliation: The Authority
Former Affiliation: StormWatch
Vital Stats
Species: Human Being/Seedling
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 100 lbs
Date of Birth: 1974
Birthplace: Tibet
Known Family:
Powers/Abilities:
At first, when her powers were only partially activated, she had a line of feathers that ran along the underside of her arms. This allowed simple flight. After being fully activated by Christine Trelane, she has the ability to grow wings from her back at will as well as claws and talons. Consequently she is the "fastest winged mammal on the planet". She has flown fast enough to catch superspeedsters. Her attacks indicate some enhanced strength and durability as well. She once flew directly through a person, causing them to explode in all directions. It has been implied that she has some vaguely defined enhanced senses; apart from superior hearing and eyesight, she is able to feel or "read" the air to locate moving things. She can also shed her wings, which eventually decompose into liquid, although she no longer does this since joining the Authority.
She has also demonstrated excellent cooking and singing skills.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio:
Swift is a bisexual Buddhist Tibetan Chinese woman. She began life as a fetus inside a large egg, guarded by Tibetan monks for generations, prophesied to hatch in the end of the millennium and usher a golden age of love and peace. The egg's incubation was not uneventful - it had to be rescued from Nazi agents by Jenny Sparks in 1943. Eventually it hatched into Swift, a physically ordinary human female.
When a comet passed by Earth, it activated a genetic quirk in some people that would manifest into superpowers either naturally or through special Seedlings called Activators. Swift was one such Seedling. Swift was brought into Stormwatch as a rookie, with her powers only partially activated. Weatherman Henry Bendix later reconfigured the Stormwatch teams, assigning her to Stormwatch Black, Stormwatch's black-ops team, alongside Jenny Sparks (with whom she had a brief relationship) and Jack Hawksmoor. It was then that Christine Trelane asked her if she wanted to be fully activated, and she agreed, bringing her powers to their full potential.
After Stormwatch disbanded, Swift joined her former teammates in The Authority. Formerly a pacifist, she has put aside those beliefs to fight for a finer world, no matter the cost.
During the Transfer of Power storyline, Swift was replaced by the Canadian superhuamn Rush. This, after being taken out of the fight with radioactive feces. Swift was brainwashed into becoming the obidient trophy wife of a television mogul who had been part of the conspiracy to replace her and her team. She was insulted at every opportunity, from having her cooking ignored to the implications she could not remember large words. Eventually, in a conspirator reunion, she over-heard the "off-button" code of the monster Three-Willied Seth, and proceeded to free herself. She literally took the heads of the television mogul and software billionaire co-conspirator. She then personally saved her friend, the Engineer, Angela Spica. She also killed the man who had been abusing Angela.
World's End
The 2008 Number of the Beast Wildstorm miniseries described the devastation of Earth, and set the scene for a new Authority ongoing series, World's End, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. In this series Swift acts for the devastated Authority as a messenger and transmitter, using her powers and a code of coloured balloons as a communications channel while the Authority attempt to help survivors. She finds herself followed at all times by a flock of birds confused by the new, harsher, environment.
Alternate Versions:
Trivia:
Appearances:
Sources:
Real Name: Li-Min Shen
First Appearance: StormWatch Vol 1 #28
Affiliation: The Authority
Former Affiliation: StormWatch
Vital Stats
Species: Human Being/Seedling
Height: 5'5"
Weight: 100 lbs
Date of Birth: 1974
Birthplace: Tibet
Known Family:
Powers/Abilities:
At first, when her powers were only partially activated, she had a line of feathers that ran along the underside of her arms. This allowed simple flight. After being fully activated by Christine Trelane, she has the ability to grow wings from her back at will as well as claws and talons. Consequently she is the "fastest winged mammal on the planet". She has flown fast enough to catch superspeedsters. Her attacks indicate some enhanced strength and durability as well. She once flew directly through a person, causing them to explode in all directions. It has been implied that she has some vaguely defined enhanced senses; apart from superior hearing and eyesight, she is able to feel or "read" the air to locate moving things. She can also shed her wings, which eventually decompose into liquid, although she no longer does this since joining the Authority.
She has also demonstrated excellent cooking and singing skills.
SPOILERS BEYOND THIS POINT!
Bio:
Swift is a bisexual Buddhist Tibetan Chinese woman. She began life as a fetus inside a large egg, guarded by Tibetan monks for generations, prophesied to hatch in the end of the millennium and usher a golden age of love and peace. The egg's incubation was not uneventful - it had to be rescued from Nazi agents by Jenny Sparks in 1943. Eventually it hatched into Swift, a physically ordinary human female.
When a comet passed by Earth, it activated a genetic quirk in some people that would manifest into superpowers either naturally or through special Seedlings called Activators. Swift was one such Seedling. Swift was brought into Stormwatch as a rookie, with her powers only partially activated. Weatherman Henry Bendix later reconfigured the Stormwatch teams, assigning her to Stormwatch Black, Stormwatch's black-ops team, alongside Jenny Sparks (with whom she had a brief relationship) and Jack Hawksmoor. It was then that Christine Trelane asked her if she wanted to be fully activated, and she agreed, bringing her powers to their full potential.
After Stormwatch disbanded, Swift joined her former teammates in The Authority. Formerly a pacifist, she has put aside those beliefs to fight for a finer world, no matter the cost.
During the Transfer of Power storyline, Swift was replaced by the Canadian superhuamn Rush. This, after being taken out of the fight with radioactive feces. Swift was brainwashed into becoming the obidient trophy wife of a television mogul who had been part of the conspiracy to replace her and her team. She was insulted at every opportunity, from having her cooking ignored to the implications she could not remember large words. Eventually, in a conspirator reunion, she over-heard the "off-button" code of the monster Three-Willied Seth, and proceeded to free herself. She literally took the heads of the television mogul and software billionaire co-conspirator. She then personally saved her friend, the Engineer, Angela Spica. She also killed the man who had been abusing Angela.
World's End
The 2008 Number of the Beast Wildstorm miniseries described the devastation of Earth, and set the scene for a new Authority ongoing series, World's End, by Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning. In this series Swift acts for the devastated Authority as a messenger and transmitter, using her powers and a code of coloured balloons as a communications channel while the Authority attempt to help survivors. She finds herself followed at all times by a flock of birds confused by the new, harsher, environment.
Alternate Versions:
- Alternative 838: In this gender-reversed universe, a male Swift is a member of the Meritocracy.
Trivia:
- Shen Li-Min was actually created by Jeff Marriotte's daughter for him while he was writing STORMWATCH. Warren Ellis thought it'd be a cool thing for her to see "her" character stick around, so she survived the death of StormWatch and became a member of the Authority.
Appearances:
- The Authority Vol 1 #1
- The Authority Vol 2 #0, #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #11, #12, #13
- The Authority Vol 3 Revolution #1, #2, #4, #5, #6, #8, #10, #11, #12
- The Authority Vol 4 #2,
- The Authority Vol 5 World's End #1,#2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7, #8, #9, #10, #12, #13, #14, #15, #16,
- The Authority: Kev
- The Authority: More Kev #1, #4
- The Authority: The Magnificent Kevin #1, #5
- The Authority vs. Lobo: Jingle Hell
- The Authority/Lobo: Spring Break Massacre
- The Authority: Prime #1, #2, #3, #4, #6
- The Authority: Scorched Earth
- Captain Atom Armageddon #5, #6, #9
- Countdown Presents the Search for Ray Palmer: WildStorm #1
- DC/WildStorm: Dreamwar #1, #2, #6
- Gen 13 WorldStorm/World's End #8, #27,
- Grifter and Midnighter #1, #2, #3, #5
- Jenny Sparks: The Secret History of the Authority #1, #4
- Midnighter #1, #5, #18
- Midnighter: Armageddon #1
- Number of the Beast #6, #7, #8
- The Secret History of the Authority: Hawksmoor #1, #6
- StormWatch Vol 1 #28, #29, #30, #31, #32, #37, #39
- StormWatch PHD #5, #18, #19,
- Wildcats Vol 4 WorldStorm #1
- WildStorm Revelations #1, #2
Sources:
- The Engine: The Warren Ellis Mass Interrogation Thread 2007
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