Smoking Hot: Neal "Thunderbird" Sharra Appreciation

**Aguja** · 11-18-2010, 04:44 PM

Originally Posted by MartinRedmond

My kind of character.

I love your avatar! I just didn't like the costume he was sporting then.

**MartinRedmond** · 11-18-2010, 04:45 PM

Thanks, it was the only Leinil Yu pic I could google!

**Aguja** · 11-18-2010, 04:51 PM

Yeah the images on ComicVine are mostly Larocca. I forget to drew him that one time in CC's Excalibur but I liked him there as well.

**Berserker** · 11-18-2010, 05:17 PM

Originally Posted by eurazn

I always thought the codename was odd ... it felt a little like CC was channeling Old World Europeans who confused Native Americans with Asian Indians and vice versa. Neal's thwarted relationships were also a little off-putting; have you noticed there are barely any Asian males in the X-Men (well, I could stop the sentence here, but ...) who are in relationships with other X-Women? Odd!

Neal had a likable personality and even though his power set was somewhat generic, he used it to great effect.

Asian male characters are seldom intriguing in Marvel so they're not around that much. Jimmy Woo and Amadeus Cho are good examples of appealing male Asian heroes in 616.

**Hypestyle** · 11-18-2010, 06:36 PM

has it ever been established just how Thunderbird 3 joined the x-men? does he have a real origin story? the way it was handled.. "six months later... hey, there's Neal!" threw me off...
He could have been a gateway to explore mutant issues and other politics in the subcontinent.. but I don't think this was ever dealt with at all..

I guess Kal Pen could play him if they ever bring him to screen..

**Chase_Stein** · 11-18-2010, 06:41 PM

Originally Posted by Berserker

Jimmy Woo and Amadeus Cho are good examples of appealing male Asian heroes in 616.

LOLOMGWUT!?! Those characters are terribly generic Azns.

**Perfection/Emma 2** · 11-18-2010, 06:46 PM

I love Thunderbird 3. Hope he appears in Alpha X.

**Aguja** · 11-18-2010, 06:58 PM

Originally Posted by Hypestyle

has it ever been established just how Thunderbird 3 joined the x-men? does he have a real origin story? the way it was handled.. "six months later... hey, there's Neal!" threw me off...
He could have been a gateway to explore mutant issues and other politics in the subcontinent.. but I don't think this was ever dealt with at all..

I guess Kal Pen could play him if they ever bring him to screen..

He ended up on Muir Island after escaping Bastion in India. And some of the X-Men where there. Long story short he freaked out when he realized they were mutants and ran away but Jean went after him, calmed him down and offered him a place on the team. He next shows up as a full fledged team member after Revolution. I'm assuming Claremont would have filled in what he did in that gap but he never got around to it.

Chase Jimmy Woo is kind of awesome. I don't know anything about Amadeus Cho.

**Havok83** · 11-18-2010, 08:31 PM

Originally Posted by Washout

Oh, I thought you were saying another writer should handle him the same way as Lifeguard and Slipstream. I was confused.

No the other way around. Id like to see other writers handle Lifeguard and Slipstream the same way Thunderbird got a chance to be written by someone else

**Psycwave** · 11-18-2010, 08:38 PM

Jimmy Woo is amazing. He and Neal should team up.

**Aguja** · 11-18-2010, 09:42 PM

Originally Posted by psycwave

Jimmy Woo is amazing. He and Neal should team up.

That would be awesome! I actually think he could learn a lot from Jimmy. Not in terms of how to use his powers but tactics wise and general training.

**eurazn** · 11-19-2010, 01:25 AM

This thread needs more SCANS.

**streator** · 11-19-2010, 08:07 AM

tb3 is one of the all-time worst x-men. it's been said before and i guess needs to be said again as another tb3 appreciation thread pops up every few years. there's a reason why he hasn't been used for years...