Harfang (comics)

Harfang is a super-heroin of the universe of Marvel Comics created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. It appeared for the first time in Uncanny X-Men #120 .

It was at the origin to remain a supporting character but very quickly became popular.

Origin

The goddess Inuit Nelvanna appeared with a man, Richard Easton, with an aim of giving rise to a hybrid child able to overcome the Grandes Animals of Canada. Easton accepted, and Nelvanna was found pregnant.

Michael Twoyoungmen, the Shaman, helped the goddess to be confined. It named the Narya child, and used a fate to bind it to the terrestrial world. It raised it in the wild Far North of Canada.

Narya grows quickly and discovered its condition of Métamorphe and half-goddess.

When the friends of Twoyoungmen, James and Heather Hudson (Guardian and Vindicator), learned the existence from Narya, they proposed to him to join the Canadian team. She accepted, and obtained the agreement of her Shaman tutor. Narya took the code name of Harfang, and the civil name of Anne McKenzie.

During its life within the Division Alpha, it fell in love and married a Canadian soldier, Douglas Thompson, with which it had a child.

In Alpha Flight #44 , it was had by Pestilence, which tried to drain the vital energy of its team-members, after having killed its family. To overcome it, Guardian was obliged to kill Harfang. The spirit of Walter Langkowski (Sasquatch), at this time without body, was transferred in the physical body from Harfang. The spirit of Narya passed in the world of the inuits spirits, but she refused to enter to the paradise without her husband and her child, and the Gods accepted.

Years later, Harfang returned to the life. Its old body being always used by Sasquatch, it seems that it created some another, identical. It is again member of Division and is not limited any more physically to the Canadian territory. It integrated a new team under the orders of Sasquatch to overcome a range of Plodex.

Capacities

Harfang is a métamorphe which can take the form of animals of the Canadian Far North: cloud of insects, whale, bear, owl harfang, Tanaraq (the true form of Sasquatch), Wendigo, glouton. It then takes the characteristics of the form which it borrows, just as its psyche. The more it remains a long time in the shape of an animal, the more it is difficult for him to become again human. It can change form to another without passing by again by the human stage, but at the price of a great tiredness. In its animal forms, it preserves faculty to communicate.
It can steal
Its condition of half-goddess confers a mystical direction to him. She detects the magic and the supernatural one, and has a gift limited of pre/post-cognition (6 hours maximum). She resists the mystical magic.
Its force is higher than that of a woman of its age and its weight. She can raise approximately a ton. Its force increases or decreases according to the form which it chooses to take.
It already controlled people mentally, but it was in extreme situations.
Under its human form, it has a mystical capacity of car-cure, not-controlled
It has the knowledge of the Inuit Gods, but cannot use it because of its young age.

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