You know? It's hard to find bird-related Marvel women, but it's actually quite easy to find a number of bug-related girls. I'm sure that there is some kind of meta-commentary on the psychology of comic book readers if not creators, perhaps segueing into discussion on the morees of American sociology, on sites like 3 Chicks, etc., but that gets us away from the fun of seeing a Marvel team-up like this:
From left to right--
YELLOWJACKET -- Rita was a criminal, but just for a little bit. The message of her story is: Be careful what you steal, because if it's a heroic idenitity, you just might find yourself called to stop a master villain or two.
GYPSY MOTH -- Sybil started off as a jilted lover looking for revenge but later got a different kind of revenge by becoming a cult leader whose followers worshipped her through love and drugs. Not much momentum for career there, however, since she was last seen running sex clubs until joining villain teams and the Thunderbolts "just for kicks."
PIXIE -- Megan enrolled at the Xavier Institute when they pretty much enrolled any mutant who could walk (or fly, or slither, or whatever) through the door. Then things got complicated when this hyper-innocent newbie was drawn into Limbo and had to replay stories once given to Illyana "Magik" Rasputin in the 80s. Now she can be as hardened and embittered, or as carefree and sexified, as the writer wants.
MANTIS -- Mantis first appeared as a companion to the failed Swordsman, and both joined the Avengers where further adventures revealed her to have been raised by the mystic Priests of Pama as the Celestial Madonna. She took some time off to raise her son, but when the Celestial Messiah never really had stories that panned out, she found time to become a hero in her own right once again with the Guardians of the Galaxy.
DRAGONFLY -- Veronica was made into a member of the Ani-Men by Count Nefaria for some reason, and has been in the background of many a supervillain team since then.
WASP -- One of Marvel's earliest superheroines, Janet was a cornerstone of the Avengers pretty much throughout its history, until a forced plot twist required her to become a bomb at the climax of a major storyline.
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