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Who or what is Alpha Flight? Alpha Flight is a group of fictional characters created by the Marvel Comics Chris Claremont and John Byrne. The above is a great picture of them from Marvel Comics X-Men 121.

Pictured above starting on the top left is Aurora. She runs quickly.

Her brother is directly to her left. He also runs quickly. The two run so quickly they can essentially fly. They work as a team much of the time.

Between them and to the top of the illustration is Shaman. He basically uses a Native American type of magic to animate objects, heal people, control the weather, that sort of thing.

To Shaman's left is Sasquatch. He's big he's mean he's hairy. He's not a dumb as the Hulk, but not as smart as Beast.

Below him is Vindicator, I guess later on he is called Gaurdian. He is the leader of Alpha Flight. His powers come from the suit that he has designed.

To his left is Snowbird. She can fly outright and also transform into animals native to Canada. In X-Men 121 she transforms into a snow owl.
This is not always best power.

Not appearing in X-Men 121 but showing up in Alpha Flight #1 are Puck and Marina.

Puck is small, hairy and very athletic.
He employs a very wild fighting style which reminds me of Drunken Monkey martial arts style.

Marina is essentially a Mer-person. She can swim well and breathe underwater. She is actually an alien being.

Alpha flight like many other super groups had many different lineups and different incarnations. For me thought there is really only one, ok, maybe two different lineups that I read and enjoyed when I was a kid.

There is a great writeup on wikipedia on all the incarnations of this supergroup.

For more pictures and fan fun-osity Check out AlphaFlight.net

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