Flashback (comics)
| Flashback | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
Alpha Flight #1 (Aug 1983) (identified) Alpha Flight #11 |
| Created by | John Byrne |
| In-story information | |
| Alter ego | Gardner Monroe |
| Species | Human Mutant |
| Team affiliations |
Beta Flight Gamma Flight Omega Flight |
| Abilities | Ability to summon future counterparts and control them |
Flashback (Gardner Monroe) is a fictional mutant character in the Marvel Comics Universe. His first appearance was in Alpha Flight #1.
Flashback first appeared in Alpha Flight #1 (August 1983), and was created by John Byrne. He was unidentified in his first appearance, and was not named until Alpha Flight #11.
The character subsequently appears in Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #11-12 (June–July 1984), #28 (November 1985), Alpha Flight Vol. 3 #8-9 (December 2004-January 2005), #12 (April 2005), and New Thunderbolts #11 (October, 2005).
Flashback appeared as part of the "Omega Flight" entry in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe Deluxe Edition #9.
Gardner Monroe was born in Manitoba Province, Canada. Possessing the mutant ability to summon duplicates of himself from future timelines, Monroe was recruited by Department H, a branch of Canada's Department of National Defence concerned with training superhumans as government agents. Given the code-name Flashback, Monroe progressed through the initial Gamma Flight training program and had advanced to the second-tier Beta Flight team before Department H as a whole was shut down by the Canadian government; while the primary team, Alpha Flight, continued to operate without government support, the members of Gamma and Beta Flights were simply dismissed.
Some time later, Flashback was recruited, along with other disenfranchised members of Gamma and Beta, by Jerry Jaxon and his robot assistant Delphine Courtney into Omega Flight, a team put together to gain revenge on Department H's founder, James MacDonald Hudson, and the Alpha Flight team that he led as Guardian. Though Omega Flight was defeated, the encounter ended with Guardian's apparent death.
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