Alpha Flight
Currently, the Canadian government's super-team. There have been at least three
incarnations of Alpha Flight. The first was also government-sponsored under the
auspices of Department H, but the second was privately funded after the disbanding
of the Department. The third and current version is once again run by Dept. H,
and has been lied to and controlled from its inception. In the past, Alpha was
the premier field team: there were also training teams called Beta and Gamma Flight,
now disbanded. The current roster now includes Guardian,
Puck, Shaman, Sasquatch, Aurora Northstar, and the newly resurrected Snowbird.
Former members Flex, Manbot, Murmur and Radius are now with Beta Flight. Vindicator
III, deceased, once led the team as well. Heather Hudson is now team liason.
Wolverine was slated to lead the first Alpha Flight
until he was recruited by Professor X, and Wildchild
was a member of both Alpha and Gamma Flight.
Department H - Probably the most complete AF site around.
DMK's Guide to Alpha Flight - An encyclopedic site with a write-up for almost every character to appear in AF I or II.
Avengers
"The World's Mightiest Heroes." Based in Manhattan under a U.N. charter, the Avengers
are the world's biggest and best super-team. The number of heroes who have been
Avengers is immense, as is their courage and skills. Founding Members: Iron Man,
Thor, Wasp, (Gi)Ant-Man and Hulk. Current roster:
Captain America, Iron Man, Scarlet Witch, Goliath,
Wasp, Warbird, Thor, Triathlon, Wonder Man and Quicksilver,
Jack of Hearts, Photon, Quasar, Living Lightning, Firebird, Silverclaw, Black
Knight. Former X-Related members: Firestar and
Beast. Beast joined the team after graduating from
the X-Men and turning blue and furry, but left when
the Hellfire Club first attacked the X-Men, right
before the Phoenix was turned to evil.
Avengers Assemble! - Avengers roster, FAQs, allies, enemies, and much more!.
Black Air
Black Air is a secret branch of British Intelligence which is constantly trying
to increase their power and take over the government. They had bought off most
of Parliament, and were plotting with the London Hellfire
Club to release a demon under London into the city, with the resultant chaos
paving the way for their coup. Fortunately, they were stopped by Excalibur,
who infiltrated the Blackwall, Black Air's HQ, and severed the link to the demon's
crypt. Black Air took over the caseload from the defunct Weird Happenings Organization,
and was collecting alien specimens and technology to reverse-engineer and use
for their nefarious purposes. Pete Wisdom was a Black
Air agent until he got fed up with their methods and joined Excalibur. He and
Shadowcat also infiltrated a Black Air base and
stole some info. In retaliation, Black Air targeted all of Excalibur for death,
and kidnapped Douglock and unraveled him to be
the link to the demon in the aforementioned coup attempt. After the plan failed,
Black Air's supporters were removed from power, but the organization still exists,
and even operates on American soil.
Fallen Angels
A group of super-powered teen thieves run by the Vanisher.
The major members were Boom Boom (now Meltdown), Ariel
II, an alien with the powers of teleportation and a hypnotic voice, and Gomi,
a telekinetic cyborg who worked with two mutated intelligent lobsters named Don
and Bill. Back when Magneto was headmaster of The
School for Gifted Youngsters, Sunspot left the
New Mutants after losing his temper and accidentally
hurting Cannonball. He ran into Chance, a Vietnamese
runaway, who was being chased by some thugs. Chance had the mutant ability to
enhance or augment mutant powers, but she didn't know about it, and shut down
Bobby's power when he tried to help her. Ariel then 'ported Chance away, while
Warlock, who had left Xavier's to help Bobby, saved
his teammate. Meanwhile, Magneto asked Moira MacTaggert
to help locate Bobby and Warlock, so she sent Siryn and
Multiple Man to help. Of her own accord, Chance was
looking for Sunspot too, along with the rest of the Fallen Angels and their leader,
Vanisher. Ariel found them and teleported Sunspot, Warlock, Gomi, Chance, and
most of Madrox's duplicates to the Angels hideout. They then went to get Boom
Boom, who had left the Angels a while back, from X-Factor's
complex, and were later found by Siryn and the other Madrox. Ariel then took them
to the prehistoric world where they found Moon Boy and Devil Dinosaur, evolved
specimens of the human and saurian races, respectively. Eventually, Ariel teleported
them to Coconut Grove, her homeworld. Apparently, Ariel had been a traitor, gathering
mutants for her people to experiment on in order to evolve, because they believed
that they had reached an evolutionary dead end. However, her people turned on
her when they found out she was a mutant, too. They all eventually escaped, and
Siryn pointed out that if Ariel had extra powers, then their race wasn't really
at an evolutionary dead end. The Fallen Angels returned to Earth and the team
apparently stayed together for a while, except for Sunspot and Warlock, who returned
to the New Mutants, and Boom Boom, who returned to X-Factor.
Special thanks to Matt Parrish for much of this information.
Fantastic Four
The first super-team in the Marvel Universe. Its members are Reed Richards: Mr. Fantastic, Susan Storm Richards: The Invisible Woman, Johnny Storm: The Human Torch, and Bejamin J. Grimm: The Thing. At times, other heroes have filled in for the core members, including She-Hulk (Jennifer Walters), Ant-Man II (Scott Lang), Luke Cage, Ms. Marvel II (Sharon Ventura), and the Inhuman Royals Medusa and Crystal. The FF, aided by Reed's genius-level technology, have journeyed accross the galaxy and into other dimensions, while protecting the world from evil menaces, most notably Galactus, the world-eater.
The Unofficial Fantastic Four Web Presence - All you need to know about the FF.
The Fantastic Four Web Page - Another great site, and connected to the FF Ring, where you can find even more.
Friends of Humanity
A grass-roots political party founded by Graydon Creed for the express purpose of harassing mutants. The party grew to large numbers but faded from the scene when Creed withdrew his support to further his election campaign.
Hound Program
The current Hound Program comprises a few mutants who are working for the government
to find and capture mutants. Sabretooth is their
best hunter, although he tends to kill his targets rather than capture them, and
is considered a loose cannon. In the future that Rachel
Summers comes from, the Hounds were also mutants that were used to track other
mutants. However, in that timeline, the Hounds were run by Ahab,
who used mind control and his psionic lance to bond the Hounds to him, subverting
their wills beneath his programming. Although some of their targets were sent
to camps, the majority of those mutants found by these Hounds were killed. Hounds
were also branded with facial scars that radiated outwards from the center of
their faces. Rachel herself was a Hound, but was somehow able to break her programming.
Humanity's Last Stand
A grass-roots movement focused on protecting humans from the mutant menace, although its leaders seem to have little regard for their followers' lives. One of the leaders is named Trask, but as both Bolivar and Larry are supposed to be dead, his identity is unknown. H.L.S. has access to powerful armor suits of various types, which they use to hunt down mutants. They are also in possession of a few nuclear missiles.
Project: Wideawake
The generic name for the U.S. Government's mutant-detection and incarceration programs, usually involving Sentinels. One of the latest versions, however, used Commando and Avalanche as operatives.
The Right
Another anti-mutant group, founded by Commander Cameron Hodge.
Its soldiers wore combat armor suits with domed helmets, usually adorned with
cartoon eyes and a large smile. Many of them were transported to Limbo
where they were demonicized until they were (most likely) destroyed during Inferno.
After Hodge was decapitated by Archangel, the movement
basically collapsed.
The Twelve
Twelve key powerful mutants upon whom the fate of mutantkind rests. During her
journey to our past from 2000 years in the future, Sanctity
mentioned that humanity waited so long for the Twelve, and were sorely disappointed.
This seemed to imply that the Twelve are not from our generation of mutants, but
from some time in the future. However, Sanctity managed to delete all references
to the Twelve (presumably the individual identities) from the original Master
Mold, perhaps ensuring that they would survive and save the future. Recently,
Destiny's diary revealed the identities of the Twelve:
Xavier, Cyclops, Phoenix,
Iceman, Storm, Cable,
Polaris, Sunfire, Mikhail,
Bishop, The Living Monolith
and Magneto. However, the 12 were not gathered to save
mankind. Rather, Apocalypse had his minions capture
the mutants and hook them into a machine that was to channel all their power into
him, enabling him to merge with the powerful form of Nate
Grey and ascend to godlike levels. Fortunately, Magneto's inability to access
his power shorted the machine, and the mutants fought Apcoalypse until Cyclops
broke the link between him and Grey and was himself absorbed. The 12 then managed
to keep from directing their energies at Apocalypse, so that he was forced to
flee.
