Alpha Flight

Vindicator and the Canadian Alpha Flight capture Wolverine. Department H demanded their project back. Either he rejoins their team or they repossess his indestructible adamantium skeleton. Puck and Snowbird spied on the attempted adamantium removal experiment and informed the other members. After a fierce fight between Alpha Flight and Department H's security androids, Wolverine warns the Alpha Flight members that if any of them try to seek him out, all bets are off. Later, members of Alpha Flight are shown helping citizens as Earth is ravaged by the M'Kraan Crystal.

Origin
Alpha Flight was the top level of three-tiered program codenamed Department H within the Canadian Ministry of Defense. New recruits or those whose powers proved unstable, would be assigned to Gamma Flight in order to learn to properly use their powers. Those who could control their abilities but required further training in super heroics formed the basis of Beta Flight. The active members in the field who where tasked with dealing with any superhuman threats to the nation were in Alpha Flight.

James MacDonald Hudson (Guardian) had the idea to form Alpha Flight after the public emergence of the Fantastic Four and he was given oversight of Department H which was named after him. Hudson had intended the man known as Wolverine to be the leader of Alpha flight. However this task fell to Hudson himself when Wolverine was recruited by Professor X to become a member of the X-Men.

Originally using the codename; Weapon Alpha, Hudson tried to bring Wolverine back to Canada and Alpha Flight by force, if necessary. This led to a battle between Weapon Alpha and and Wolverine's new team, the X-Men. Weapon Alpha was overpowered by their greater numbers and forced to retreat.

After feeling responsible for injuring Moira Mactaggert in the battle, Hudson changed his codename to Vindicator. Several months later the X-Men were forced to make an emergency landing in Canada due to the magic of Alpha Flight's Shaman. Realizing something strange was happening they were soon confronted by the full Alpha Flight team who again wished to bring Wolverine into their custody.

This first formation of Alpha Flight consisted of Vindicator (as team leader), Sasquatch, Shaman, Snowbird, Aurora and Northstar. Vindicator soon learned that the government was shutting down funding of Alpha Flight.

Members

 * Vindicator
 * Sasquatch
 * Snowbird
 * Aurors
 * Northstar
 * Puck
 * Marrina