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Vindicator (Heather MacNeil Hudson) also known as Guardian, is a Canadian superheroine in the Marvel Universe, and a former leader of Alpha Flight. She was created by Chris Claremont and John Byrne. (The codename Vindicator is also briefly used by Heather's husband, James MacDonald Hudson, although he eventually settles on the name Guardian.)

Character biography

Before Alpha Flight

Heather was born in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. She was originally a secretary at Amcam corporation, where she fell in love with James MacDonald Hudson*revealed in Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #2*. After he had stolen his power suit to prevent it from being used as a military weapon, Heather discovered his secret and decided to share it with him. Soon after they were married.*revealed in Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #3*

Heather supported her husband in the forming of Department H and his becoming a superhero. She also assisted Wolverine in a time of trouble before his career with the X-Men, and was later reunited with him.*Uncanny X-Men #139*

After Department H is dissolved, Heather brought the members of the disbanded Alpha Flight together to battle Tundra. With this initiative creating a spectacular success, the team decided to continue operating Alpha Flight as an independent group. *Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #1* Before Alpha Flight had been back together before long, Heather had witnessed the apparent death of James Hudson.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #12* She was then injured attempting to rescue a child from an alien Plodex.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #14*

Leader of Alpha Flight

Heather is asked by the members of Alpha Flight to take over leadership of the team when her husband James, the leader of Alpha Flight, is apparently killed. She accepts, though initially she leads purely as a non-combatant.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #17* She led Alpha Flight on a mission with the X-Men, and was temporarily transformed by the mystic Fire Mountain.*X-Men and Alpha Flight 1 #1-2* She was briefly "reunited" with what she thought was James Hudson, but who really turned out to be an impostor - the robot Delphine Courtney.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #25* Her body was temporarily distorted by Scramble,*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #30* and then she was captured by Deadly Ernest.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #31*

Eventually, these dangerous encounters led to Heather adopting a copy of her husband's battle-suit.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #32* Through extensive training by Wolverine, Heather is able to hold her own in a battle.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #33* Heather teamed with Wolverine against Lady Deathstrike, and took the name Vindicator.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #34* She became stranded in the Savage Land, and formed the mutated natives into a team called Alpha Prime.*Alpha Flight Annual #2* Some time later, Heather was forced to defend Alpha Flight in a Parliamentary hearing.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #61*

Eventually her husband returns and her suit is altered to manipulate geothermal forces and she takes the name Guardian.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #90* Soon after that, she battled the Fantastic Four.*Alpha Flight Vol. 1 #93*

Heather and James have a baby (an as-yet-unnamed girl) and travel with their child and several other members of Alpha Flight to return a clutch of Plodex eggs to their homeworld. In addition, an accident brings temporal copies of most of the original Alpha Flight - from a time before her husband's "death" - to the present. This group includes a copy of Heather. While she is not a member, this "new" group is active as Alpha Flight.

The Collective

Alpha Flight (the team consisting of Sasquatch, Guardian, Vindicator, Shaman, Major Mapleleaf II, and both Pucks) are brutally attacked by a new villain, "the Collective".*New Avengers #16* Their bodies are left in the Yukon Territory as the Collective continues on to the United States.*New Avengers #16* Heather's fate remains unknown, out of the members of Alpha Flight present for the fight, only Guardian and Shaman have been officially declared dead while Sasquatch survived the attack with only minimum injuries substained. Further complicating the matter is the aforementioned temporal copy of Heather whose status is also in question.*Alpha Flight Vol.3 #12*

Powers and abilities

Formerly, Vindicator wore the Guardian suit that her husband currently wears. Currently Heather's suit, which she first employed in Alpha Flight vol .2, taps into a different source for its power. Instead of manipulating electromagnetic energies, this suit allows its wearer to control geothermal energy, allowing Heather to melt rock and manipulate the resulting lava, create jets of lava, create both hot and cold jets of water, including jets of steam and cooling sprays of water. The suit can absorb heat into its power cells, provides its wearer with a personal force field, and enables feats of super-strength and super-speed.

Heather is a master combat strategist, and received combat training in hand-to-hand combat from Puck and Wolverine.

Other versions

Exiles

Heather Hudson (Exiles) Another universe's Heather Hudson is a member of the Exiles, a team of reality-displaced superheroes. This Heather has history with Alpha Flight and James Hudson, but she is not exactly Vindicator's counterpart.

Instead, the Exiles' Heather is a black Canadian woman whose codename and powers match those of the main Marvel Universe's Sasquatch.

Other media

Television

Film

  • She and James make an appearance in X-Men Origins: Wolverine as an elderly couple who Wolverine stumbles upon after the Weapon X experiment. In the film, they see Wolverine stumbling across their barn, and Heather notices this. They treat him kindly, then in the next morning, while treating both of them juice, she gets shot down from a faraway sniper (Agent Zero), along with James.

Video games


External links

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