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| T-Bird | |
| Continuity: | The Crow |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Criminal |
| Gender: | Male |
| Race: | Human |
| Location: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Associations: | Top Dollar's gang |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Born: | Unknown |
| Died: | 1994 |
| First: | The Crow #1 |
| Final: | "It's a Wonderful Death" |
| Actor: | David Patrick Kelly |
T-Bird, real name unknown, is a fictional criminal and a secondary antagonist featured in The Crow multimedia franchise. He first appeared in The Crow #1, published by Caliber Press and published in February, 1989. The character was later adapted into the 1994 The Crow feature film directed by Alex Proyas. He was played by actor David Patrick Kelly in the film. The character was later re-imagined for The Crow: Stairway to Heaven television series where he was played by actor John Tench.
Biography[]
T-Bird was a criminal and a gangster and part of the "Fire It Up" club that operated out of Detroit, Michigan in the early 1990s. T-Bird and his crew worked for a crime boss named Top Dollar, who employed the thugs to put pressure on those who threatened his "urban renewal project". One of these targets was an activist named Shelly Webster. T-Bird, along with Skank, Tin Tin, and Fun Boy raided the penthouse apartment that Webster shared with her fiancé, Eric Draven. They murdered both Webster and Draven, but did not expect a supernatural resurrection that brought Eric Draven back from the underworld to seek revenge.
Empowered by the spiritual totem of a crow, the dark mime sought each member of the gang, killing them to avenge his and Shelly's deaths. First was Tin Tin, then Fun Boy, and then T-Bird. Draven trapped T-Bird inside of his car, placed an explosive inside, then forced it off the peer into the river where it exploded, killing T-Bird.
Associations[]
Allies[]
- Darla Mohr
- Gideon
- Grange
- Funboy
- Myca
- Skank
- Tin Tin
- Top Dollar
Enemies[]
- Darryl Albrecht
- Eric Draven
- Sarah Mohr
- Shelly Webster
Notes & Trivia[]
- The character of T-Bird was created by writer James O'Barr.
- The nickname "T-Bird" is taken from Thunderbird, which was a model of luxury vehicle produced by the Ford Motor Company from 1955 to 2005. Naturally, T-Bird drove such a vehicle, hence the nickname.