Black Bird

"We need to stop these love arrows!"

―Black

Bomb, the Black Bird is a character in the Angry Birds series of games created by Rovio Entertainment. First introduced in 2009, the character is one of the original five birds in The Flock.

Appearance

He is round, with a feather on his head with a yellow top (representing the fuse on a bomb) and a black body.

Character

Personal Data

• Name: Bomb
• Known Aliases: Black B, Bombird, Fire Bomb Bird, Bomb Bird
• Group Affiliation: The Flock, The Flock in Space
• Best Friends: Terence, Matilda, Red, Bubbles.

Personality

While most all of the Flock have a short temper when it comes to egg theft and smuggled birds, Bomb has the worst temper of them all. He loses his "explosive" temper easily and often (as depicted in the Wreck the Halls animation and Christmas comics ). Also why he explodes. As a result, Bomber tends to be a loner, preferring to remain away from the Flock, as he does not want to be stressed with their problems. (Another possible reason is that he doesn't want to accidentally blow up everyone else). Despite this, he is always ready to help should an emergency be called. His power is the strongest out of all the birds.

He is also known to have a sense of justice, because in the MTV anti-bullying video, he stands up for a minion pig that was being bullied.

He also seems to be a very intelligent bird and a good chef, despite that fact that he thinks no one likes the "new-age cooking" (as seen in the Angry Birds Christmas comics). He puts in effort to control his temper by reading up on self-help books.

History

Little is known about Bomb’s history before the events of the first Angry Birds game or how he acquired the power of "mega shock wave," the ability to incinerate items within a radius of his body. When enraged, his top feather will begin to smoke. He will eventually turn red, then explode with anger.

In the course of the battles with the Birds, he has traveled to many different locations and environments, including the desert, underground caves and beaches. The Pigs never rest in their quest to steal eggs and the Flock often has to retrieve their eggs on holidays and special occasions. In one instance, the Pigs captured the entire Flock at an indeterminate time later, the Flock was captured as rare birds and taken to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil where they fought with Blu and Jewel and their friends against Nigel the Cockatoo and Mauro and his gang of marmosets. Bomb and Matilda did not appear originally in Rio, but arrived shortly after the others, so it is possible they were either captured at a later time or they were not captured originally and made their way to Rio to find Red, Chuck and the Blue Birds.

In addition to Rio, Bomb has also traveled to China (twice) and Japan, where he wore a karate gi.

During the Wreck the Halls adventure, Red and Bomb took the lead in chasing the Pigs through the snow on skis. It was Bomb who eventually caught up with them, recovered the Christmas packages and destroyed the Pig Fortress.

In another adventure, Bomb and the Flock jumped into Space via a wormhole, gained super powers (as a result of the wormhole) and fought the Space King in order to regain their stolen eggs.

Gameplay

Bomb is a very strong character, being considerably the strongest when the game was first released. He was the only bird at the time that could effectively destroy stone himself, though Matilda's egg bombs can as well.

Bomb's ability works just like a bomb, hence his name. He explodes a couple seconds after he hits a surface, or when the player taps the screen. The closest objects near him are almost instantly shattered/damaged to the point of breaking, where the further objects around him are forcefully pushed away.

It is suggested that the player uses his ability with the right timing, and not wait for him to explode manually. It is only a rumor that he will explode with more force if he does it at will, and it is possible for him to roll away or bounce off the structure the player intends to destroy.

Short Fuse

In the theme Short Fuse, Bomb is introduced with an entirely different ability named "Shockwave", which he obtains when he fiddles with the pigs' scientific equipment. This ability is much more powerful than his original, and works in a similar way. It can be activated when the player taps the screen or a couple seconds after he hits a surface. When his ability is activated, he sends out a growing circle of electricity to the objects around him, damaging and forcefully pushing them away, where most of the blocks are then completely obliberated. Rather than his original ability, which just breaks the closest bricks, the shockwave damages the blocks, racking up the players' scores significantly higher.

Though the shockwave ability is exclusive to the theme, it can be used as a powerup in all themes of the game. (The player will need to either spend coins, purchase, or watch advertisements to get the powerup.)

Angry Birds Seasons

Bomb appears from the very start of the game, when it was first known as Angry Birds Halloween. After his first appearance in Trick or Treat, he is then on a playable character in all of the themes that follow.

Unlike all of the other installments of the Angry Birds series, Seasons keeps the characters' original designs, so Bomb is in his classic appearance.

Once again, Bomb's spot on his forehead is removed. However, just like Chuck's Red-like appearance, Bomb can be seen with his spot in multiple promotions for the original Angry Birds Halloween game. This includes the trailer, and early cutscenes for the game which have since been removed. However, it has been proved through these cutscenes that Bomb's spot was actually light being shined off of him, as the spot appears in a different part of his body depending on the way he is positioned. Because of this, it can be assumed that the spot was removed because Rovio wanted Bomb to be more bird-like with feathers, rather than made like an actual bomb.

Like all of the other characters, Bomb has costumes that can be unlocked by the player.

Bomb, like all the other characters, can at times appear as a main character in specific themes for the game. (This happened in Ham Dunk, where he appeared in the cover art alongside Bubbles and Jay, Jake, and Jim.)

Gameplay

Bomb has the same ability to explode as before, and not much is changed about his size, strength, or speed.

In Piglantis, Bomb reacts pretty normally to water logic. However, it can be noted that if he hits a structure the second he resurfaces, the player should instantly activate his ability, as once he hits the blocks he will bounce off of them and go back into the water.

Angry Birds Rio

Bomb does not appear early on in the game, but rather in the Beach Volley theme. He is not captured with Red, Chuck, Jay, Jake, and Jim, but it can be assumed that he travelled there in order to help them. This is the first time that Bomb isn't introduced when the game is first released, but through updates.

After his introduction level, he appears in all of the themes that follow.

Bomb and the other members of the flock manage to defeat Nigel and free all of the rare birds, and hijack the plane and go back to Piggy Island, where they arrive just in time to save the eggs from being stolen by the pigs once again.

Bomb and the other birds later on travel back to Rio to visit their friends Blu and Jewel, beginning the Rio 2 segment.

In this portion of levels, Bomb recieves a different design like all the other characters. He is modeled after his Toons appearance, recieving slightly changed features in his beak, eyes, and eyebrows, and gets better shading and different outlining.

Gameplay

Bomb bears the same ability that he has in the previous two installments. No changes are made to his speed, strength, or size.

High Dive introduced water features to Rio, and work the same way that they do in Piglantis for Bomb.

It is notable that caged birds/dolphins and marmosets are much more tougher than the poppable pigs, so Bomb cannot destroy the targets as easily as he can with the pigs.

If the player activates his ability near Luis in Beach Volley, then the dog will fly off into the air, and can destroy blocks and enemies with ease. This is a good strategy to use during the level, but the player must note that he will go after the beachballs, not the structures.

Angry Birds Space

Bomb, along with a few other birds, were teased in early 2012 as part of a new project. This soon revealed to be Angry Birds Space, the fourth installment of the series. Bomb appeared with the other birds in their space counterparts, based off of comic book characters.

In the game's story, Bomb and the other birds were taking care of the eggs when suddenly, a portal opened up in the sky with Ice Bird and his eggsteroid flying through. Out with them came a robotic arm, grabbing the eggsteroid and the flock's eggs. They sling themselves into the portal in pursuit of the eggs, and begin to change while in the portal. They shoot out of the vortex in their costumes into the final frontier, beginning the events of the game.

Bomb is known as "Firebomb Bird", and is based off of the comic book superhero Firestorm. His fuse is now lit with fire (though it is normal in-game) and his chest feathers are now red. He also wears a ring around his body, with an eggsteroid emblem on his chest.

Bomb, along with all of the other members of his flock, recieved promotional videos for their characters, which can be found on youtube. They also had their own Space-themed merchandise.

He has a corpse sprite that can be found if the player hacks into the game's files, but it is not used in-game.

Gameplay

Firebomb Bird has the same basic ability as the regular Bomb. However, his ability is much more "firey", emitting a ring of fire around his body when he explodes.

His ability is commonly used to cause debris to fly off into structures, such as stacks of stone bricks or boulders floating in space.

If the player slings Bomb very weakly into zero-gravity, then he will slowly decrease in speed, stop, and disinegrate without exploding.

Bad Piggies

Bomb makes a very small appearance in Flight in the Night, where he appears asleep next to Red in one level. Even if the player attempts to land near him or wake him, he will not move and remain asleep. Though he appears in this level, he does not make an appearance in the rest of the levels or any of the other levels as an enemy.

Trivia

• He originally had a spot but removed due to the relection.
• Bomb is the first bird not to have a corpse sprite (before the Star Wars version). The second is Terence, the third is being Bubbles, the fourth is Ice Bird and the fifth is Pink Bird.
• Bomb, Bubbles, Ice Bird, and Stella are the only four birds to have their special ability triggered upon impact with an object (automatically).
• Bomb's design has changed only slightly since his introduction. Originally, he had a white spot on his head, most likely to denote a shiny spot on his round form. The spot has been removed on most artwork. Early versions of the plush toy included it but it was removed later.
• Bomb is possibly based upon the Greater Antillean Bullfinch.
• Bomb is the only bird who does not display a tail. One was added in Knock on Wood and early Plush Toys.
• Bomb is one of the few birds that can destroy undamaged stone without using his power, the other being Terence.
• Bomb is accidentally called "Bob" in the Angry Birds Space comic, a typo made by Rovio.
• In the Google+ "Teamwork" level selection menu, two gray dots are added below Bomb's left eye.
• Despite the fact he is a strong bird, he emits more pain noises than the other birds.
• His head feather resembles a fuse.
• Before exploding, Bomb's fuse on his head tend to light up and create sparks. In several Angry Bird animations, he explodes when he is angry. However, in the Trick or Tweet animation and Angry Birds Space comics, Bomb's fuse lights up and he explodes when he is frightened or shocked as well. Therefore, any extreme emotion can cause Bomb to explode.
• In the games, Bomb disappears when he explodes, but in the animations and comics, Bomb can explode without disappearing.
• According to this book, Bomb explodes with rage even for simple things like ice cream falling off his cone. Like in the Angry Birds Star Wars cinematic trailer, he exploded because he was really mad at Han Solo for laughing at him about a bet they did when Bomb put the button on the picture of Princess Leia and his explosion to the cantina got the other birds barbecued however he wasn't barbecued and was looking at Han Solo angrily but Han Solo was guilty with an open mouth but he gave in but still he was angry at him.
• Oddly, Bomb can't break stone easily in the Summer Pignic Short Movie, but in the Angry Birds games, he can. While it's possible the pigs were using something resembling stone for their fort, likely to fool the Birds into thinking the fort would be easy to beat.
• Bomb appears to explode several times when he is scared, as shown in the Trick or Tweet animation.
• He and Terence are the only birds that do best on stone.
• He is stronger than all of the other birds (except The Mighty Eagle).
• He made his angry birds craptastic style in Angry Birds Craptastic Adventures and Regular Show.

Quotes

• That's right, if doing it more, that makes people confused and stupid.
• NOT SO FAST!!!!!
• Man, that makes people confused.
• Well, we did it.
• Are you kidding me man!? You just blowed up some house, but now, the Avenger tower! Since the avengers are dead, how would we survive the flood apocalypse!?
• Must've been injured from the bomb, I guess that makes some of there parts of their new form removed.
• Now that it is destroyed, people should snapped out of it any moment now.
• Uh, guys, that wasn't, uh...
• Ooh, a window.
• Some kind of a warship.
• Hold on, rewind, I thought Sledge was a Rooga, a species like hybrid of a rabbid, koopa and piggie.
• Oh.
• but we didn't get some yet
• anyway come on.
• You're right. Their are on vacation.
• But humanity has been extincted, and the Rangers were probably ended probably ended up being extincted too.
• Not for long! (Holds twl laser rifles, and shoots lasers out of them, making the Ultron Sentinels being dead) Take that motherhuggers, thats how it suppose to be done.
• Man do you know whats wierd, no one sign the name of the last part plus someone put G.E which I don't know what it stamds for.
• (High pitch voice) RRRRRRRAAAAAAAGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'LL KILL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (Black and Green are fighting and beating up each other offscene, explosens, attack of destruction effects, flight fight battle effects and atomic destroying can be heard)
• You got it. To Ultron Sentinels) Not for long! (Holds twl laser rifles, and shoots lasers out of them, making the Ultron Sentinels being dead) Take that motherhuggers, thats how it suppose to be done. [at the same time in the past the Ultron Sentinels float over the crowd then stop and Hex makes one of them start shooting at a police car, the crowd panics and makes a run for it] [back in the present CJ rises and starts to manipulate the weather, strikes with more lightning to stall the Ultron Sentinels]
• WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• WHAT IS GOING ON!?!?
• WHAT?!!!
• As for the rest of you, upstairs and clean the attic!!!
• YOU REVERSE TIME, RIGHT NOW!!!
• ...Uh.
• Dur... Dude!
• Nope!!!
• Have you seen my tongs?
• Permission to use extreme force?
• Could you get me a hand please?
• man dyeria is so a nastly thing than crap and now I think i'm gonna(barf)
• Noooo!
• What are you doing in my house?