Nightbird Bird

This article is about the character from Angry Birds Transformers. You may be looking for other versions of Zeta in Angry Birds Transformers.

Nightbird
Faction	/(Sergeant Nightbird)
Continuity	Generation 1
Alternate Mode	Hovercar
Game Info
Unlock Type	Gem Purchase- 750 (Special Event) 1,000 (Nightbird) War Pass Season 16 - LV 10/40 (Sergeant Nightbird)
Squad	Specailists (Nightbird) Misfits Squad (Sergeant Nightbird)
Mission Type	Investigator

Nightbird is both an Autobird and Deceptihog in Angry Birds Transformers

Appearances

Nightbird is based on her original appearance in the Generation 1 episode, Enter the Nightbird, except that in the original cartoon, she didn't have an alternate mode. Instead, her alternate mode is based around her Nightbird Shadow figure from both the Transformers Legends and Masterpiece toy-lines from Takara-Tomy.

Personality

Nightbird like Zeta is misunderstood. Nightbird was created to represent the advancements in human technology. However, she was corrupted by the Deceptihogs and was forced to betray the Autobirds!

When Nightbird was returned to Doctor Fujiyama, she was placed in cold storage which Zeta can relate to as ruler of a frozen wasteland known as Eagle Island.

Over the years she has learned to harness the power of ice and can now use the pigs own towers against them!

Game appearances

Angry Birds Transformers

Nightbird can be unlocked either through Challenge Events for 10,000 Tokens, purchasing her bundle for 2,000 Gems, or from Gold Crates. During gameplay, her weapon is somewhat similar to Nautica's, except that Nightbird shoots whole ice blocks instead of water droplets. Just like Nautica, the initial shot will split into more ice blocks upon contact.

Gallery

Nightbird

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Sergeant Nightbird

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Trivia

• In most incarnations of Nightbird, she is either portrayed as a Decepticon, a Mercenary, or a Terrorcon in Transformers: Rise of the Beast film. However, in October 2022, she was labeled as a Deceptihog.
• Nightbird body is based on the Takara Tomy Transformers Legends "Nightbird Shadow" toy, transforming into a hovercar version of the vehicle mode. Despite being a new body model, she uses the same upper beak model as the Hal's, and uses Silver's animation rigging (itself modified from the Minion Pig animations).
  • For some reason, the game has two different body-types for Zeta as Nightbird, as one of them looks like the cartoon model, while the other one (pictured) is using the same torso as the Minion Pig Seekers. Rovio has confirmed that this is a glitch that occurs after upgrading Nightbird to level 15. The glitch has since been fixed.
• Nightbird's weapon fires ice blocks, which harkens back to Zeta and how she fires lava-filled ice balls onto both Bird Island and Piggy Island in The Angry Birds Movie 2.
• Like Matilda and Mighty Eagle, Zeta uses another character's voice clips and sound effects. In her case, she reuses Stella's voice and sound effects.
• In the other Angry Birds games, Zeta is technically a villain, she is considered a hero in this game.