Marvel's Canadian Heroes - The Origins of Alpha Flight

[@mattmakescards433]

Alpha Flight has had a place in my heart since the late 80s.

[@smorillo8581]

Me too!

[@briguy677]

Same here. 😁

[@DragonAttackInBlue]

They're my favourites!

[@robi6317]

classic Byrne, fantastic stories on his run

[@punkwrestle]

And then they assassinated Mac’s character after they killed him off for a few years and Healther took his place.

[@Dunybrook]

Great video. This has got to be the most convoluted collection of origins ever. Can't even have two siblings with superpowers without making them jump through all those hoops just to be reunited.

[@ptcarbonproductions2013]

I dunno, I find this one of the easiest MerryMarvelite videos to follow. Alpha Flight has far less retcons stacking on one another than, for example, Skrulls or Eternals.

[@punkwrestle]

@@ptcarbonproductions2013except for Northstar and Aurora, being fairies, who healed NS of an illness which looked a lot like AIDS. And the whole Mac was actually an evil scientist working for the US and put the adamantium into Wolvie and left him with his wife hoping she could tame the beast.

[@jaysullivan2236]

80s comic collector here. Thank you to the great John Byrne for your beautiful talent & creative story lines.

[@billygreen9915]

I made an educated wish , and now someone is covering Alpha Flight thank you

[@dariandavis7228]

Another great video Now I know so much more About these underrated heroes They deserve an animated series. Thanks !!!!!

[@AshrafKhan-dl3ut]

This video was phenomenal! As a huge X-Men/Alpha Flight fan, seeing such a thorough deep dive that was not only super informative but also very respectful of the characters was so refreshing. Can’t wait to see a part 2 (or more) of this!

[@SpektakOne]

I always found it funny how geographically spread out the members of Alpha Flight were. It’s as if John Byrne opened up an atlas and said “hmm, what’s a prominent city in each part of Canada that I can say each member comes from?”

[@marcgauthier6894]

Considering the population of Canada, it would be weird to have them all come from the same place. It would be like having most of the Marvel characters come from New Yo… oh, never mind.

[@pickedceasar1216]

@@marcgauthier6894 still waiting for Montanas local superhero to save the universe

[@DragonAttackInBlue]

Byrne deliberately created them to represent each of the Provinces.

[@daviddalrymple2284]

He's just following the same "geographical parity" rule that is used by the Canadian Senate and Supreme Court.

[@marcgauthier6894]

@@pickedceasar1216 Kevin Costner?

[@FanboyimusPrime]

Yeah I'd love to see more on Alpha Flight.

[@lawznwdsc]

Alpha Flight is such a cool and interesting team, i hope we see them in the MCU one day.

[@HissoriRenda]

Merry I couldnt aleep and you couldnt have uploaded at a better time! Alpha Flight no less! Thank you kind sir!

[@richards.monroe8668]

Great video on Alpha Flight!!! I got respect for Canada's superhero team alongside those around the world, including the Fantastic Four, the Avengers, the X-Men, Excalibur (the heroes of the United Kingdom), the Defenders, the Young Avengers, the Midnight Sons, S.H.I.E.L.D., and the Guardians of the Galaxy (from both the Prime Marvel Universe, a.k.a., Earth-616, and the 31st century of Earth-691).

[@tulpamade2767]

A group I hope gets good MCU treatment.

[@eliteghost1001]

Kevin Feige has had talks about bringing in alpha flight in the mcu

[@jerfuhrer2581]

Looking at the way the MCU Continually treats it's side characters and teams with more and more derision and ridicule....I doubt it

[@High-LordHarza]

Yeah don't get your hopes up. I like the MCU on the whole, they handle their characters better than Fox or Sony, but I feel like for every few well handled adaptions they completely butcher like five. The Thor movies' wasting of villains drives me up the wall, and don't get me started on the Mandarin.

[@o-wolf]

​@@jerfuhrer2581it makes sense and is probably what they deserve more or less, there ain't space for every half assed team that is LITERALLY a laughing stock in the comics to be given some big front and centre in multi million dollar movies Them getting a p*stake cameo would be perfectly fine

[@o-wolf]

​@@High-LordHarzaoh god another one of those whiners still crying about marvel not adapting some racist nonsense to satisfy your weird jingoistic fetishes 🤦🏾‍♂️

[@deonsmith227]

Would love to see more on Alpha Flight! Probably one of Marvel’s more underrated teams.

[@DeadPool-XF]

Wolverine: You can send every mutant in Canada 🇨🇦 after me but i aint coming back.

[@kekwayblaze3176]

Deadpool is also Canadian.

[@snoopy4749]

AF definitely deserve a part 2, these guys are my favourite superhero group

[@Shadowace724]

I love Alpha Flight, they are a great time and I used to read the book back in the 80's. Great video!

[@ronin6033]

James Hudson’s story is actually pretty dope. Man I was so happy seeing Shaman and wild child. Wolverine is great to see as always

[@phillipwalters7702]

Hello there Merry Marvelite and fellow Marvel fans. I just wanted to say that I am sorry for the tardiness of this comment. I have been a bit busy and just recently got the chance to check out the newest postings here on KZbin for the channel. Anyways, I thought that this video dealing with Alpha Flight was absolutely incredible and I have to admit that I really enjoyed the information that came out of this video. The main reason why I enjoyed the information about Alpha Flight is because the team is one of those teams that don't get a lot of time to shine in the Marvel Universe, compared to some of teams. Which I think is a shame, due to the fact that there are a lot of cool characters that are a part of the team. Anyways, thank you so much for this great and totally fantastic video. I do hope that you and everyone else in this community has a great day and a wonderful weekend. Can't wait to see the next exciting video. Until then, please stay safe, healthy and keep up the spectacular work that you do. Peace Out and Above All Excelsior.

[@Gescelio]

Great vídeo. Lots of research, great script and amazing narrative. Well done work.

[@hyewonderfull]

ALPHA FLIGHT. I was immediately obsessed with them when I saw them on the X-men Animated Series. Also, their cameo in X-men 97 was a great callback. I love this team so much, they are so diverse and everyone is so interesting. I hope they come to the MCU soon. Maybe like a prequel X-men or Wolverine film.

[@alexe407]

48:01 this is the most realistic Canadian related comic thing to happen 😂

[@punkwrestle]

Not Major Mapleleaf!

[@akkelly5601]

Thank you for this one!!! One of my favorite groups!

[@XHero220]

Nice, another video on something I actually interested in seeing. Keep it up.

[@iankane1733]

Yesss! Can’t wait to watch this!

[@christopherulichney]

That is one beast of a video. And to think it ends at the end of issue #1. Bring on the part 2. I can't wait for the continuation. My suggestion for a future video is Ravage 2099. As always MAKE MINE THE MERRY MARVELITE!!!!

[@Nicefoolkilla]

I love these guys 🇨🇦

[@traviscreason1911]

Thank you giving Alpha Flight some much deserved love!! Great video and hope we see more of the Flight🤞

[@vicmal2112]

Alpha Flight deserves a movie. Not a series, just a good movie. >looks at Amazon and Marvel

[@BrodieVickers-tk9sd]

Thanks for the longer than usual episode! Very familiar with Alpha Flight via X-men, and it was fun to learn a bit more about them. Hope to see you do another video in the future, a lot more to cover, especially Jimmy's "explosive" incident. Thanks again!

[@DavidAmrod]

ALPHA FLIGHT! ALPHA FLIGHT! More please. Great Recap. It was so nice I listened to it twice!

[@briandaleske5139]

I hope an (ALPHA FLIGHT) cartoon show gets made someday.

[@rodneylewis6104]

Great video!! My favorite group of all time!

[@johnpittsii7524]

Thanks for the amazing video ❤😊

[@High-LordHarza]

I would love to hear more about Alpha Flight!

[@kevinmurry8803]

This is one of the teams that need to be brought to the MCU. This is a good time to do it. The Avengers are disbanded and other governments want their own superhero teams.

[@CaptainSidePipe]

Enter Alpah-Flight! Major Maple Leaf 😂 My dad was a Mountie, but I partied too much😅

[@soul4speech]

THANK YOU. I love Alpha Flight, but from a distance. As I have little clue on what their origins were, and I am glad you made this one. Would love to learn more. Made me care even more for some of the members I knew less about.

[@RebelTrooperHoth]

brings me great joy to see one of your videos doing this well

[@kevinboutwell]

aw yeah is that fresh, hot History of the Marvel Universe? omnomnomnom

[@sa1ntluke]

How cool would an Alpha Flight movie be

[@scottclemans3369]

Done by Disney it won't be...

[@joshuaa7223]

@@scottclemans3369Eh you don’t know that.

[@och70]

It would depend on who was in charge of it, diversity checkbox activists or actual creatives.

[@raidenstark315]

​@@och70feige just fired all the woke producers so it's no longer an issue.

[@snoopy4749]

@@scottclemans3369you can’t speak on that

[@9thwonderboy]

Great video!

[@lrod2004]

Great video. I collected early Alpha Flight so really enjoyed this! Marina was my favorite given her powers and cool background

[@heathhaynes990]

Amazing video! I'd love to see more on Alpha Flight.

[@KGBookkeeping]

Alpha Flight!!! Let’s Go Canada!!! 🇨🇦 Huzzah!

[@Thesamming]

AMAZING job and GREAT video! Keep them coming PLEASE!

[@HRC.]

Very pleasant to watch. Besides the wonderful chronologically well researched story.

[@scottnutting5895]

Another awesome origins rundown 🎉. I've always wanted to learn more about wolverines former team.

[@bigfootmenaceormisundersto1479]

Excellent episode! Hope you do a follow-up one day.

[@ChrisConnolly-Mr.C-Dives-In]

This is a well researched and well presented video. If you do create other Alpha Flight videos, I will watch them without question.

[@vincentfranklin17]

This is one team I didn't know much about. Learned something here, as usual!

[@AgentNevets]

Omg more more more. This was fantastic. Alpha is my favorite team and series of all time (and I actually prefer post-Byrne, to show we do exist). I have a spinner rack in my office with every alpha appearance ever, every volume, etc. love.

[@OneJamalWonder]

I freakin love Alpha Flight. This upload is a treat

[@flex_007]

Another great video. 👍 thanks for reintroducing me to Alpha Flight 🍁

[@sneezediamonds]

Great Selection!❤🍁

[@hermancharlesserrano1489]

Would have loved to see an Alpha Flight cameo in Deadpool Wolverine, even if only 15-20 secs of alternate universe goodness…something to set them up for a future MCU appearance

[@DCSNumberone]

I love these videos so much. Your research is unparalleled. Where is your accent from? You sound a bit american but sometimes you pronounce things like Irish

[@trexadvent4726]

Can you do history of the characters mentioned in this video? Are you going to do history of the Starjammers team in your next video along with a video about the Deadpool and Captain Britain Corps?

[@billwoods9302]

Old Gen X comic fans will remember how amazing that era of the X-Men was, courtesy of John Byrne, Terry Austin and Chris Claremont. This video displays a wealth of art samples from the golden age of the Uncanny X-Men. I once read that John Byrne, being from Canada, always felt a special bond with Wolverine. Helping to build a highly capable Canadian group of super heroes was probably John Byrne's dream, come true.

[@CHARLESJOHNSON-gv7zy]

THIS CHANNEL IS 'EXCELSIOR' 👍 ..

[@taurianmcleod9816]

Great stuff! You have a new subscriber!!

[@tauron1]

Loved Alpha Flight and their early years. Wan't crazy how they continuously powered down my favourite fuzzy hero, Sasquatch. Was originally Hulk class, then eventually could barely hold his own against U.S Agent.

[@CecilWindbush]

👏👏👏👏👏 I got few of those books at a Good will store. Love the channel.

[@richardlaceyfield9]

Wow thank you for doing this. There is so much I knew nothing about. I read a few issues during the early 80's . Could never really find it in order to really get into it. Later on early nineties my local comic shop slipped it in my pull lists. Because I was into the X-Men . Buy that time Heather Hudson was leading the time North star was gay and and John Byrne was long gone. So thank you for the history lesson.

[@robphoenix1182]

Well done again sir!

[@davidgranados1608]

Great video

[@AMProSoft]

The first run of Alpha Flight is easily one of the greatest comics arcs ever.

[@smallstudiodesign]

Nice work giving us some Canadian representation. ❤🇨🇦💪🏽💥

[@TortugaBudds]

Definitely would love to see a part 2

[@clayengle3436]

Alpha Flight is the greatest team in comics you've never heard of. If Kevin & Disney had any clue, there would be an Alpha Flight movie. With the Avengers out of service who would watch the land to the north? You could begin the movie with the scientist who worked for Roxxon Oil and created the mining suit, which he stole because he didn't like what was planned for it. This could happen right around time of Infinity War. This scientist returns to Canada where he is talking to one of his friends Gary Cody, who informs him of what happened to the Avengers. So, they create Department H, (this time no Wolverine) and it grows into Alpha Flight with the first movie involving the original 6 (8 Puck & Marina) Keep Roxxon Oil as the "bad guy" and use the villains from the original one-shot story since they're not going to show up anywhere else. Maybe Roxxon has possession of the artifact that can summon the mystic beasts, which they (Roxxon) believe they could control the beasts and use them to protect Earth from threats. They reason why Roxxon is after Hudson is not only do they want the suit back he designed, but they think he took the artifact. But he doesn't have it. Someone else took it and the end of credit scene could be the same thing that happened at the end of the first issue of Alpha Flight, with the Canadian native America dragging his foot backwards and creating the outline of Tundra (which could be the set up for move 2). Walter Langkowski could become Sasquatch by receiving the Canadian version of the super soldier program. China Force could show up as another bad guy threat, since they aren't friends with the United States, they would never call the Avengers for help of any kind and end up in Canada looking for the China/Canada ambassador who could be Jade Dragon. Sabretooth could end up in the movies because he's linked to Kyle Gibney (aka) Wildchild. And if you're talking about speedsters... what better way than to make a debut.... (Last night, I looked into the sky and said a prayer, now that the Avengers are gone, who will protect Canada... there was the Moon, there was Venus, there was Mars.... no, they aren't the answer... then i saw (the) Aurora and (the) NorthStar. But still I wondered... and went to a hockey game....I couldn't focus on the game and as the glass shattered and sitting on my lap was the rest of the answer (it was a) Puck.

[@cobyhowarth4178]

So much history before logan. Thank you for the story.

[@matthewmohri9990]

I loved this video. I hope you do a Defenders Episode.

[@themarcai6394]

I really enjoyed this

[@trexadvent4726]

What's Groundhog, Vindicator and Guardian like compared to Tony Stark Iron Man, Pepper Potts AKA Rescue and Crimson Dynamo?

[@noneofyourbusiness4616]

Holy crap, I did not remember Puck's crazy backstory.

[@Dr.Thirteen]

this was better than any of the MCU movies hands down

[@lawznwdsc]

I would love seeing a video on the different StarBrands.

[@pjthedjhw]

The great John Byrne's art was so cool. So different than what is being made now, so much better ❤

[@damonslaughter16]

I only had four or five Alpha flight comic books but I read them over and over and over and over and over and over again

[@impureneighbour9792]

Although these are slow and involve too much information, they don't disappoint when it comes to surprises, like Shaman having a connection with Snowbird.

[@inthenameofcomics]

I am beyond happy that you FINALLY are covering Alpha Flight! I haven’t even watched this yet but it is now my most anticipated KZbin Comic Book vid! 🫡💯

[@trexadvent4726]

What do you think is the best thing about the Alpha Flight team in the comics? Who do you think is the best member of the team?

[@jaysullivan2236]

Best years of John Byrne art & stories. Beast member is Puck.

[@Lboi81]

Yet another set of heroes I [literally from infancy]grew up w. -via- my dad & his vast comic book collection (that also included the Thor, The Incredible Hulk, Captain America, The Avengers, F4, Doctor Strange, Spider-Man, Silver Surfer, The [original]Defenders, Wolverine & my all-time faves the X-Men). =)

[@MegaMeowMilitia]

I can now hear Matt McMuscles spamming the line "BLACK RAZOOOOR" in my mind! 😹 Seriously though, Puck has the most random and weirdest backtory ever...! 🙀

[@ampersand2001]

Nothing better than that John Byrne art/story. So legendary.

[@davidjeffery9493]

Fun fact....in the original John Byrne run (28 issues) Alpha Flight has NEVER fought anyone with the whole team together

[@balloonatic81]

Very cool always wanted to know their origin. Hope to hear more

[@Hum0ng0us]

Can you do videos for Vol. 2 and the rest of the stuff that has come out in more recent times? I have most of it but it's hard to come by. Thank you for this one though, Alpha Flight is my favourite Marvel team.

[@denial987]

i would love to see a part two and part three to this video.

[@timothygalli9601]

I always liked Alpha Flight there in my top 10 in super hero team. My favorite characters were Guardian, Sasquatch and snowbird.

[@Trumpisaraypest2024]

When I was a kid back in the 80s I wanted to collect a comic series I picked this one after I read the issue where Shaman's bag of holding was turned inside out. I like surreality and this comic hit the spot.

[@migovas1483]

I got introduced to Alpha Flight by John Byrne.. and I was really Hooked.. at the time the 'New Yorker hero' , or any other Avenger type adventurers on Marvel, were too 'Urban' and almost blending ( it was either Urban, military, Mystical or War operations ) ..is Ok, but after a while get s old to get the same places over and over again ( yes even you Spider-Man ) , the Alpha Flight gave that fresh start , there were no cities, just forests, caves, and landscapes, it was breathtaking . he Did not like the team, he said they were 2 Dimensional.. but that was because he did not have time to flesh them out, quickly pushing them into actions. And Sh*t got real when he turned Vindicator to a crisp.. LOL.. sadly it was a short run. Irony is why MCU failed on the same way with the eternals.. you cannot push a bunch of people together and expect them to perform well, requires time to give them 'experiences' and a backbone and a personality.

[@monsterguyx]

"Take off! To the Great White North! Take off! It's a beauty way to go. Take off! To the Great White North! Take off! " 🇨🇦 As an American kid in the 80's, the most quintessentially Canadian pop culture influences I knew of were probably 1) Alpha Flight and 2) Geddy Lee from Rush performing the theme to Strange Brew with Bob & Doug McKenzie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/bnvQZX-lhMZ0jassi=vRHVWWmnuiV_dvRL

[@ronin6033]

I can see it being a 3 season tv Disney+ show they can literally copy your exact format of how you made this video too. It’s perfect in a sense

[@christophercann1155]

Definitely interested in more

[@hamreally]

This needs to be the next Marvel series

[@thex-philethackery4330]

Looking forward to hearing about Mimic and Reflex sometime soon.

[@evanevans5428]

Alpha Flight is Canadian Xmen and was AWESOME.

[@quentinfogger5755]

Can you do history of Ironheart, Amatsu-Mikaboshi, Arno_Stark Iron Man, Squirrel_Girl, Constrictor, Deathlok, Amadeus_Cho, the Griever, Pepper Potts AKA Rescue and the Agents of Atlas along with Crescent, Morgan_Le_Fey, White Fox and Luna Snow?

[@ziveisenstodt2477]

Did you ever do a history of Machine Man? I would love to see one

[@quentinfogger5755]

So when are you going to do history of Zora_Vukovic Victorious since you did the history of Dr_Doom?