 | |
| T-Bird | |
| Franchise: | The Crow |
| Notability: | Antagonist |
| Type: | Criminal |
| Gender: | Male |
| Location: | Detroit, Michigan |
| Associations: | Top Dollar's gang |
| Status: | Deceased |
| Born: | Unknown |
| Died: | 1994 |
| First: | The Crow |
| Final: | The Crow |
| Actor: | David Patrick Kelly |
T-Bird, real name unknown, is a fictional criminal and a secondary antagonist featured in the The Crow film series. Played by actor David Patrick Kelly, he appeared in the 1994 feature film of The Crow, which was an adaptation of a comic book series written and illustrated by James O'Barr.
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.
- In The Crow: Stairway to Heaven television series, the character of T-Bird was played by actor John Tench.
- 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.