[Big Barda]
Written by Kal-El
My sincere apologies for not been able to write in awhile, it's sure is though living the double life alright, along side with the Jam Pack Schedule that me, GL, Thor and Kara have. But what the Hay, Today is a good day to start writting!
We haven't done any serious good girls out there that deserve the spot light. So today i'll focus the attention to our very own Strong but caring and lovely Mrs Miracle, or better yet she's also known as Big Barda. Here how the story goes....read on.
Big Barda was born of the race of New Gods about 250 years ago, on Apokolips. Barda was taken away from her mother Big Breeda at an early age to be trained as a warrior. She is a product of Granny Goodness' Home for Orphaned Youth. Granny's motto is "Die for Darkseid" (the planet's evil ruler). Granny grooms Barda to one day lead the Female Fury Battalion, a ferocious pack of warrior women. However, during a raid Barda meets Scott Free, Darkseid's adopted son, and, sensing a peace about him.
Barda has superhuman strength, endurance, and is virtually indestructible. She can project cosmic energy for destructive blasts, perceive matter and energy on a sub-atomic level, form and manipulate energy constructs and discharge most forms of energy. She wields a high tech weapon called a Mega-rod, which produces extremely powerful concussive bursts. She can also summon and uses Aero-disks which allow her to fly, and Apokaliptian armor which augments her already superhuman strength. She can manipulate space to teleport at will, or reshape or transmute or even animate matter. She can heal other living beings, though she cannot raise the dead, and can revitalize organic life on a planetary scale. She can phase through solid matter.
Barda risks her own safety to work with the rebel cell lead by the New God Himon. Both of them help Scott escape from Apokolips. Eventually, Barda turns her back on Granny, and comes to Earth herself. Scott has become an escape artist called Mister Miracle, and is teamed with Oberon, his diminutive manager. Scott and Barda fell in love and are married by Scott's father, the Highfather of New Genesis. For a number of years, Barda follows Scott and Oberon on tour. Eventually they retire as superheroes and move to Bailey, New Hampshire. However, despite their best attempts of a normal life eludes them. Disasters plague them; Barda, Scott, and Oberon leave Bailey and move to a loft in Greenwich Village, New York City. Barda forms a defense-training program for women called the New Female Furies.
Though naive regarding Earth customs, Barda relishes her roles of wife and housekeeper. However, when duty calls she never hesitates to assume the posture of a warrior, and when Scott joins the Justice League, Barda participates in several missions. In one instance, while training Fire, her weapon, the Mega-Rod is stolen from her car. With the assistance of other League members, she gets it back but not before many innocent people are killed by its wielder who was unable to resist the corrupting influence of the Apokoliptian technology. Barda also leads a JLA mission to rescue her husband after he is lost in space. The mission is a result of Manga Khan selling Scott to Granny Goodness. Her teammates include Martian Manhunter, Rocket Red and G'Nort. In an attempt to dissuade their successful pursuit, Manga Khan hires Lobo, paying him in dolphin feed, to kill them. He almost does, before Barda teleports him to a random location, that being ten feet behind Guy Gardner's skull. The repercussions of that literal meeting of the minds would last for years.
After their time with the Justice League, the two leave Earth for New Genesis. However, they soon return to Earth and take up temporary residence aboard the Justice League Refuge. During this period the couple separate briefly due to Scott's lack of consideration for her feelings.
Barda has served as a member of the JLA in her own right: at Takion's order, she and fellow New God Orion (Darkseid's Son) are sent as agents of New Genesis to serve on the team. Their mission is to help mobilize Earth's heroes against the omnipotent Mageddon. Over time, they become involved with several other JLA missions. Adam Strange, needing help with an alien invasion, enslaves the JLA as part of a bluff. The League works for days, turning the planet into a giant teleportation beam. The aliens are sent off to the prison planet of Takron-Galtos, which Barda had mentioned several times during the ordeal. In another instance, Barda is badly wounded fighting the Queen Bee, a member of the newly reformed Injustice League. Once Mageddon is defeated, Barda and Orion resign from the JLA.
Barda and Scott currently reside in the suburbs of Connecticut and are active adventurers. Barda never hesitates to lend a hand to her friends when her power and expertise are needed. Barda accompanies Batman, Superman and Wonder Woman to Apokolips to rescue Supergirl from Darkseid's clutches as told in the epic Superman/Batman Graphic Novel called "Supergirl", and accepts an invitation from Oracle to become the heavy-hitter on the Birds of Prey.
Big Barda was killed in the first issue of Death of The New Gods; her funeral occurs in the second issue of the series. Zinda Blake, last survivor of the Blackhawk Squadron, places a photo of Barda beside the snapshots of her fallen comrades on a wall of honor in the bar near Edwards Air Force Base, acknowledging her heroic status. May she now rest in peace as she was the greatest Female Fury Warrior.
Thanks for Reading guys, btw She's awesome in Justice League The Animation series...See you guys around.
["I'm gonna put adamantium steel in your bones!"]
