Icebird (BW)

Powerful and wise, Icebird leads the Mutants in his crusade to evolve beyond the technological origins of the Transformer race, ascending to a completely organic existence. It's a lofty goal, to be sure—compounded by the difficulties of working with the disparate group of mopey personalities that make up the Mutants—but Icebird perseveres, treating his self-styled mission as a spiritual crusade. He tolerates the heroic exploits of the Maximals, viewing them as a necessary step on the path to true organic evolution, but ultimately Icebird believes to the core of his Spark that the future belongs to the Mutants, and all those who have chosen to give up their robot modes in the service of some higher power. Secretly, however, Icebird mourns the loss of his own robot mode—even if it is, as he claims, the first painful step on the road to enlightenment.

Icebird's mutation has given him a bevy of abilities, including telepathy, mind-reading, invisibility, and the ability to shut down machinery at will; when Icebird takes to the battlefield he's a powerful force to be reckoned with. Swooping in from above in his stealthy owl mode, he can turn invisible, then mass-shift into his hulking bear mode to tear his foes apart with his energized claws.