Profile: Shamrock

Additional Information

Dennis Fitzgerald (father, deceased); Sheila Fitzgerald (mother, deceased); Paddy Fitzgerald (brother, deceased).

• Probability Manipulation: Shamrock has the luck of the Irish and gains the most favorable rolls, as the luck is always with her. In the event of doubles being rolled (11, 22, etc.) luck goes against her and misfortune smiles upon her for the round.

Acrobatics: Incredible fighting to evade, Remarkable agility to dodge, Good strength to escape holds.

Martial Arts A and E: Shamrock can stun and slam foes regardless of their strength and endurance, she gets a +1 to all iniaitive rolls.

Teaching: childhood education: Shamrock is a trained first grade teacher and can wrangle small children with Good ability.

Hair-styling: Molly has Remarkable ability to cut and style hair and is highly sought after.

She dresses in green with a giant shamrock on her chest.

Shamrock is an open book. She is a loving and caring person who got tired of all the violence and retired from heroics.

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Peregrine; Janet Van Dyne; Captain Britian; Megan; Wolfsbane; Peregrine; Union Jack and the rest of the heroes of the British Isles.

Molly Fitzgerald's father was a fanatically militant Irish nationalist. When Molly was three years old, her father took her and her brother to the north Ireland mountainside as he asked the heavens to grant his son the power to strike down its enemies. Although nothing seemed to have happened, Molly found in her freshman year in college that she was the one who was blessed. She discovered she was surrounded with a protective aura that caused random improbabilities to manifest themselves on her behalf whenever she was in trouble. Rather than return to the war-torn mountains, she used her "good luck powers" to become Ireland's super heroine, Shamrock.

Fitzgerald's career as Shamrock remains largely unrevealed. At one point, she was transported alongside various other international heroes by the alien Grandmaster in order to participate in a so-called Contest of Champions, and paired with Captain Britain. The two disagreed with each other due to the region's history. During this Contest, Shamrock's luck allowed her to defeat Captain America . Eventually, Fitzgerald began a career as a first-grade schoolteacher and abandoned her superhero activities in favor of building a better world through education.

When Molly's brother was killed in an IRA terrorist bomb blast, her father, long since estranged, asked her to come with him to the north Ireland mountainside once more. There, he drugged her and gave her to the criminal geneticist Arnim Zola in hopes that the mad scientist could duplicate Molly's powers and transfer them to her father. The process unleashed Molly's powers a thousand-fold, allowing her to escape, and Molly soon defeated Arnim Zola. Her father confronted her at gunpoint, frustrated that Molly would not use her powers in his militant quest. Unfortunately, Molly's powers defended her by making her father's gun explode in his hand, killing him. Molly Fitzgerald reluctantly returned to her former life and, presumably, her superhero career.

Molly, as Shamrock, attended the first ever Pan-European Conference on Super-Human Affairs as a representative for Ireland. The conference was attacked by the Nazi villain Brain Drain, who brainwashed the heroes present to return to their countries and kill the heads of state. Various members of Alpha Flight raced to stop the heroes, and Northstar hoped to stop Shamrock from attacking Ireland's President. However, her powers made her immune to Brain Drain’s influence, and the President was never in danger.

Molly finally took the opportunity to retire from crimefighting when she noticed her luck powers had finally run out-- she actually slipped and broke her left foot! She took up a new career as a hair stylist, and ran into Captain Britain and Meggan. She agreed to do Meggan's hair for her wedding. Soon becoming "the most sought-after hairdresser in all of Europe" and serving the likes of Shadowcat, Wolfsbane and Janet van Dyne.

She later moved to the United States settling in New York City opeining a successful bar called the Luck o' the Irish Pub.