Omega Flight
| Omega Flight | |
|---|---|
| Publication information | |
| Publisher | Marvel Comics |
| First appearance |
Jerome Jaxon's Team Alpha Flight #11 Masters of the World's Team Alpha Flight #110 The Initiative Team Omega Flight #1 |
| Created by |
Jaxon's team John Byrne The Initiative team Michael Avon Oeming Scott Kolins Department H's Team Jonathan Hickman Mike Deodato |
Omega Flight is the name used by four teams of fictional characters with superpowers in the Marvel Universe, one of the few Canadian teams published by an American comic book company. Omega Flight first appeared in the pages of Alpha Flight as a supervillain team. The latest incarnations have been composed of heroes.
The Omega Flight assembled for Jerome Jaxon first appeared in Alpha Flight #11-#13 (June - August 1984). Their further appearances include: Alpha Flight #26-#28 (September - November 1985), in a flashback in Alpha Flight # 51 (October 1987) and Alpha Flight vol. 3, #9 (January 2005).
The Omega Flight team assembled by the Master first appeared in Alpha Flight #110-#112 (July - September 1992). They appeared again in Alpha Flight #128-#130 (January - March 1994).
The next team to bear the Omega Flight name was a group of heroes. The team made their first appearance in the one-shot Civil War: The Initiative (April 2007). They further appeared in Omega Flight #1-#5 (June - October 2007), created by Michael Avon Oeming and Scott Kolins. Further appearances include: Marvel Presents vol. 2, #3 (January 2008); Marvel Presents vol. 2, #9 (July 2008); Marvel Presents vol.2, #12 (October 2008); Mighty Avengers #21 (March 2009); and Mighty Avengers #23 (May 2009).
The most recent team was a group of heroes assembled by Department H. Their only appearances were in Avengers vol. 5, #9-#10 (June 2013).
The name of Omega Flight is originally used by a group of super-villains assembled with the specific purpose of killing the original Alpha Flight, particularly its founder, the original Guardian.
Delphine Courtney, the robotic assistant to Jerome Jaxon, recruited superhuman operatives to join Omega Flight as part of Jaxon's revenge scheme against James McDonald Hudson. Jaxon had been Hudson's boss and blamed Hudson for his dismissal. All of Courtney's recruits had been members of the then disbanded Beta and Gamma Flights. It included:
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