Team biography
Jerry Jaxon's team
Omega Flight is assembled with the purpose of killing the original Alpha Flight, particularly its founder, Guardian. Delphine Courtney, the robotic assistant to Jerry Jaxon, recruits superhuman operatives to Omega Flight using a device which heightens the operatives' feelings of paranoia and aggression. Jaxon had been Guardian's boss and blamed Guardian for his dismissal. All of Courtney's recruits were members of the disbanded Beta and Gamma Flights. [3] It included:
- Delphine Courtney (MX39147) - Courtney is a robot with superhuman strength and durability, along with enhanced sight and hearing. She is destroyed by Madison Jeffries. [4]
- Diamond Lil (Lillian Crawley) – Diamond Lil is a mutant with a bio-aura force field, giving her superhuman durability. She is killed in Selene's attack on Utopia. [5]
- Flashback (Gardner Monroe) – Flashback is a mutant with the ability to bring future versions of himself into the present.
- Jerry Jaxon – Jaxon is a human who controls the Box robot as a member of the team. He is killed by feedback when Vindicator overloads the robot. [6]
- Smart Alec (Alexander Thorne) – Smart Alec is a super-genius. He is killed when he looks into Shaman's pouch, destroying his mind. [6]
- Wild Child (Kyle Gibney) – Wild Child is a mutant with superhuman speed, agility, reflexes and senses. He also has a healing factor, retractable claws and limited ability to communicate with animals. He is killed when Omega Red throws him into molten steel. [7]
Master of the World's team
The second incarnation is organized by the Master of the World. Again the purpose of the team's creation is to destroy Alpha Flight. The membership includes:
- Bile (Tom Preston) – Bile has the ability to secrete viruses, giving him a deadly touch.
- Brain Drain (Werner Schmidt) – Brain Drain is a human that uses alien technology to control the minds of others.
- Miss Mass (Gillian Pritikin) – Miss Mass possesses superhuman strength and density.
- Sinew (William Knox) – Sinew has an appearance that resembles an animal, including a tail. He has enhanced physical abilities.
- Strongarm (Steve Caidin) – Strongarm is a human with cybernetically enhanced right arm, granting him superhuman strength.
- Tech-Noir (Gale Cameron) – Tech-Noir is a cyborg with the power of flight and rocket launchers in her wrists.
Initiative team
This team emerges from the aftermath of Marvel's Civil War crossover storyline. The lineup includes elements of the original Canadian super-team Alpha Flight, as well as American superheroes on loan from S.H.I.E.L.D. thanks to Iron Man and the Initiative. The team roster was meant to include Arachne, Michael Pointer as the new Guardian, Sasquatch, U.S. Agent, Beta Ray Bill and Talisman, but changes to the story after Omega Flight was reduced to a limited series meant that the final two never actually joined the team. [8]
Former Alpha Flight member Sasquatch acts as recruiter for the team. After his attempts at recruiting Talisman are rebuffed, Sasquatch is forced to battle the rampaging Wrecking Crew alone, and is defeated. Upon learning of her friend's capture, Talisman accepts the offer to join Omega Flight, even for a temporary basis. As the Wrecking Crew carve a path of destruction towards Toronto, Talisman, driven by a series of mysterious visions, joins up with U.S. Agent and Arachne in Ottawa, but not before lambasting Iron Man and blaming him for the supervillain crisis that has engulfed Canada. Somewhat concerned about the presence of Americans on a Canadian superhero team, Talisman reacts violently when she learns that Michael Pointer, the man who killed Alpha Flight as the Collective, has become the new Guardian.[ volume & issue needed ]
Meanwhile, the Wrecking Crew (along with the captured Sasquatch) storm into the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto, drawn there by visions. Also present in the ROM is Simon Walters, the human avatar of Beta Ray Bill, who has also been receiving the visions leading him to the ROM's exhibit on the Great Beasts. Opening a portal to the Realm of the Great Beasts, the Wrecking Crew is further empowered by Tanaraq, who also summons a horde of Surtur demons to aid the Crew in destroying the world. Walters unveils himself as Beta Ray Bill and engages the villains, who prove too strong for the Korbinite warrior to handle. As the Wrecking Crew and the Surtur demons spill out onto the streets of Toronto, Talisman, Arachne and U.S. Agent arrive to confront them. Tanaraq possesses and empowers Sasquatch. The team is saved by the eleventh-hour intervention of Pointer, who devastates the ranks of demons and even throws away the Wrecking Crew, but refuses to kill the possessed Sasquatch even as his life is threatened by him.[ volume & issue needed ]
With no other viable options left, Talisman uses the power of Shaman's medicine bag to exorcise Tanaraq's hold over Sasquatch and the Wrecking Crew, draining them of their newfound powers. Seizing the bag, Beta Ray Bill lures the demons back into the Realm of the Great Beasts. Forcing Guardian to seal the portal behind him, he effectively sacrifices himself to save the planet. With Tanaraq's plot foiled and the Surtur demons locked away, Omega Flight defeat the Wrecking Crew and bring them into S.H.I.E.L.D. custody.[ volume & issue needed ]
After the battle, the team begins to establish itself as a functioning unit. Guardian moves past his guilt over his role in the Collective incident. U.S. Agent retrieves his genuine shield from the Purple Man, Sasquatch helps out with the reconstruction efforts in Toronto but afterwards is still guilt-ridden over what he did while possessed and disappears. Talisman retires from active duty to serve as her tribe's shaman. Arachne remains with the team. The series ends with Beta Ray Bill locked in eternal combat with the Surtur demons in the Realm of the Great Beasts, trapped in the nightmare plane, but uncaring for his seemingly hopeless situation. However, Bill escapes from his imprisonment and aids Thor against the Skrull invasion of Asgard.[ volume & issue needed ]
Marvel Comics Presents follows up on the limited series with a story regarding Pointer's powers, and his adjustment to the Guardian suit. [9]
U.S. Agent officially leaves the team in order to join the new team of Mighty Avengers, while Pointer adopts the alias Weapon Omega and joins Norman Osborn and Emma Frost's Dark X-Men. Beta Ray Bill goes to space. Arachne reappears in Manhattan during the "Grim Hunt" storyline. Thus, this incarnation of Omega Flight appears to have disbanded.[ volume & issue needed ]
Department H's team
As part of the Marvel NOW! event, a new incarnation of Omega Flight appears under the control of Department H. It consists of Validator, Boxx, Kingdom and a Wendigo. Omega Flight is sent in by Department H to investigate one of the Origin Bomb sites left by Ex Nihilo in Regina, Canada. Validator is changed by the Origin Bomb site while the rest of the Omega Flight members are killed in action. [10]