Celebrating Women's History Month & St. Patrick's Day with some Irish ladies in comics.
Irish Female Comic Characters
Shamrock
Molly Fitzgerald is a Irish superheroine by Marvel Comics. Created by Mark Gruenwald, Bill Mantlo, Steven Grant,
and John Romita Jr., the character first appeared in the comic book Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions
#1. Possessed by the souls of thousands of victims of wars who manifest themselves as poltergeists which affect probability within a 20-foot radius of Shamrock, altering situations so that she is given an advantage, in essence having "The Luck of the Irish".
Dr. Moira MacTaggert
Moira X is a character by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in X-Men #96 (Dec. 1975)
and was created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum. She's a longtime friend of Professor X who works as a geneticist and is an expert in mutant affairs. She is most commonly in association with the X-Men and has been a member of the Muir Island X-Men team and Excalibur. For decades, Moira was depicted as a baseline human with the normal human strength of a woman of her age, height, and build who engages in moderate regular exercise. However, in the 2019 storyline, "House of X", Moira was revealed to actually be a mutant with the ability to reincarnate herself upon death, reverting to the moment of her initial conception with all the memories she experienced in her previous lifetimes from as early as in utero. This allows her to manipulate the course of history by changing her own actions and thereby affecting people and circumstances that result from her presence. Her lifetimes have armed her with significant experience and leading various mutant survival movements until their eventual downfall. Sometimes her named is spelled MacTaggart, McTaggart, McTaggert.
Siryn
Theresa Maeve Rourke Cassidy is a superhero by Marvel Comics. Created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Steve Leialoha, the character first appeared in Spider-Woman #37. Theresa Cassidy belongs to a subspecies of humans called mutants, who are born with superhuman abilities. She possesses a sonic voice providing various effects like her father the superhero mutant Banshee a.k.a. Sean Cassidy.
Silver Banshee
The Irish female supervillain by DC Comics, who is primarily opponent of Superman. Siobhan McDougal made her debut in Action
Comics #595. Silver Banshee possess
preternatural levels of strength and resistance
to injury powerful enough to prove physically
challenging for super-powered heroes like
Superman and Supergirl. Silver Banshee's
signature weapon is her sonic scream or
"death wail". Her cry kills anyone who hears it,
provided she knows their full name, reducing
them to desiccated husks as the scream drains
their life-force to strengthen the Banshee, akin
to a succubus or psychic vampire. There's a
second version (retcon) in the New 52 named
Siobhan Smythe who debuted in Supergirl
vol. 6 #7.
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