Uncanny X-Men #120

[iamrman]

Vindicator has returned to bring in Wolverine and he has brought back-up that is far more interesting than he is.

Since when nas Captain Boomerang worked for the Canadian Government?

The X-Men split up after Sasquatch of Alpha Flight brings down their plane in a conveniently empty corner of the airport.

Comments

[numeronone]

The next time they do an Amalgam they ought to cross him with the Eradicator to create the Vin D. Radicator.

[blues32]

...why would they capture Nightcrawler?

[mastermahan]

I'm sure Aurora, Snowbird, and Northstar could think of a couple reasons.

Probably Sasquatch too, considering how happy he was flirting with men as Wanda.

[mastermahan]

Wanted: Wolverine! Dead or Alive!*

*And by that we obviously mean alive. He can't work for us if he's dead.

[full_metal_ox]

Since when nas Captain Boomerang worked for the Canadian Government?

Cunningly disguised as then-Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, no less!

[cainofdreaming]

Ooh, punch cards. Department H was really state of the art.

[giraffesforever]

I could never keep track - is there a difference between Guardian and Vindicator? Have both James and Heather used both codenames? Are they different suits or roles or something?

Also, the "The way to use the element of surprise is to blast through the ceiling where they're not then casually walk into the store they're in" is hilarious. Doubly so that's followed by "do nothing, get my ass handed to me instantly, fly back out through ceiling hole".

[beyondthefringe]

Mac started off as Vindicator, felt bad about the way his first showing as a hero went against the X-Men, changed his name to Guardian.
Heather started off as Vindicator when she finally assumed a superpowered role, and eventually became Guardian.
Yeah, there’s no real good reason, and during the rare times both were active and alive at the same time they were either using both names, or interchangeably Guardian or…

[giraffesforever]

Now I feel justified in never knowing what to call them

[beyondthefringe]

I almost forgot: Mac's -first- codename was Weapon Alpha.

[donnblake]

"Alpha, the first letter of the alphabet, just as X is the last!"

Or something.

[zylly]

Because forcing the the guy with knives in his hands, a bad attitude, and a berserker to abandon his friends and work for you is going to work out so well even if you succeed and don't just make an enemy of a powerful super group (who would likely stop at nothing to get him back if you did).

Like, best case scenario, you bring him back and he escapes the second you leave the screen door open. The worst case version he does it and you all have several bloody holes in you.

(There's a What If that suggests they actually needed Wolverine for a specific mission involving the Negative Zone, but that's obviously not in continuity or applicable).

[lbd_nytetrayn]

...they misspelled "Ottawa."

What are they doing up here, anyway?

[scorntx]

What, the X-Men?
Coming back from Japan, but Alpha Flight whips up a massive (and we mean massive) snowstorm to lure the X-Men to an airport where they can capture Wolverine.

This does result in a massive out of control snowstorm, but hey.

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Ah, thanks!

Y'know, I always wondered what would happen if Storm encountered someone/something else that could control the weather, and now I know.

She goes shopping.

[donnblake]

She scrapped with Thor a little bit in Immortal Thor, where I think the takeaway was that he *might* be able to out-thunder her but doesn't have nearly her range. Then they teamed up to fight Utgard-Thor.