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0: Parliament Hill
Parliament Hill is one of the most commonly used real-world locations in Alpha Flight. Department H has a secret base and hangar bay underneath the Parliament Buildings.
In AF #61 (Vol. 1), Alpha Flight visits the Hill (Centre Block, specifically) for parliamentary hearings into their activities in China, where their battle with the Dreamqueen escalates tensions between the Chinese and Russians.
Yet more parliamentary hearings take place in AF #87 (Vol. 1), where the government decides to reinstate Alpha Flight's military status after they saved the world from Llan the Sorcerer. Brian Mulroney is present at these hearings.
Más sobre Parliament Hill1: 138 Laurier Ave.
In Uncanny X-Men #139, we get our first glimpse of Mac and Heather Hudson's Ottawa home at 138A Laurier Drive. There is no such street in Ottawa, but Laurier Avenue does exist -- and 138 Laurier Ave. East is on the University of Ottawa campus. (In the comics, the Hudsons' street looks much more like the Glebe, an affluent neighbourhood known for the civil servants who live there, and a place where government employees like the Hudsons could plausibly live.
Más sobre 138 Laurier Ave.2: Resolute Bay, Nunavut
In AF#1 (Vol. 1), Mac Hudson watches a CBC newscast live from Resolute Bay about an attack by Tundra, one of the Great Beasts. We can infer that the team's battle with Tundra takes place nearby.
Más sobre Resolute Bay, Nunavut3: Fort Albany, Ont.
In AF #2 (Vol. 1), Puck is brought to hospital here after being nearly disemboweled by Marrina when she is under the influence of the Master of the World. By AF #5 (Vol. 1), Puck is still in treatment here, and successfully breaks up a drug-smuggling ring among the medical staff.
Más sobre Fort Albany, Ont.4: Haysboro
AF #5 (Vol. 1) establishes that this is the neighbourhood of Calgary where both Heather Hudson and Elizabeth Twoyoungmen grow up.
In AF #20 (Vol 1), Alpha Flight regroups at Heather's family home in Haysboro after their encounter with Ranaq the Great Devourer.
In AF #47 (Vol. 1), Heather visits her parents in Haysboro, only to discover the neighbourhood is under siege by alien plant spores that are taking over the bodies of local children, turning them into tree-creatures. She successfully defeats them and returns the children to normal.
Más sobre Haysboro5: Chinook Centre
In AF #5 (Vol. 1), the Chinook Centre has a medical building where Michael Twoyoungmen's wife, Katheryn, undergoes medical tests for her terminal cancer.
Más sobre Chinook Centre6: Foothills Hospital
In AF #5 (Vol. 1), this is the hospital where Michael Twoyoungmen's wife, Katheryn, undergoes treatment for her terminal cancer.
Más sobre Foothills Hospital7: Banff, Alta.
In AF #6 (Vol. 1), Michael Twoyoungmen retreats to a cabin just outside Banff after the death of his wife. It is here that he learns magic from the spirit of his dead grandfather.
Más sobre Banff, Alta.8: Banff National Park
In AF #8 (Vol. 1), we find Michael Twoyoungmen raising the young Snowbird in a cabin in Banff National Park. It is here that James and Heather Hudson recruit them into Department H.
Más sobre Banff National Park9: Queen Elizabeth Hotel
In AF #8 (Vol. 1), Nemesis stands on the roof of this hotel, sharpening her sword and expositing out loud. (The hotel has since been renamed the Fairmont Queen Elizabeth.)
Más sobre Queen Elizabeth Hotel10: Mount Logan
In AF #9-10 (Vol. 1), Walter Langowski visits a cosmic-ray monitoring station at the base of the mountain. It is here that he unwittingly captures and does battle with the Super-Skrull, who destroys the station.
Más sobre Mount Logan11: False Creek
AF #10 (Vol. 1) is our first glimpse of Walter Langowski's Vancouver apartment building, "in one of the marina apartments across False Creek from the city center." Vancouver is also where Langowski was born.
Más sobre False Creek12: Moose Jaw, Sask.
Home of Roger Bochs. In AF #11 (Vol. 1), Delphine Courtney visits Bochs at his apartment here to recruit him into Omega Flight. In AF #16, we get our first look at Madison Jeffries when he visits Bochs's apartment. (In both issues, writer John Byrne misspells Moose Jaw as Moosejaw.)
In AF #82 (Vol. 1), Llan the Sorcerer brings down a rain of salmon on Moose Jaw that spells out "Alpha Flight" on the ground.
In AF #122-23 (Vol. 1), part of Moose Jaw (again misspelled as Moosejaw by writer Simon Furman) is destroyed in a battle between Alpha Flight and Puck's old mercenary group, the Outcasts.
Más sobre Moose Jaw, Sask.13: Langevin Block
A government building where the Prime Minister's Office is located. In AF #13 (Vol. 1), this is where Alpha Flight meets with government liaison Gary Cody to tell him that Mac Hudson has been killed. (Writer John Byrne mistakenly implies that the PMO is in the Parliament Hill complex itself.) Cody tells them the office is vacant because Pierre Trudeau had just resigned as prime minister, as he had indeed done in June, 1984, two months before the issue was published.
Más sobre Langevin Block14: Ontario Place
A waterfront park and entertainment centre on the shores of Lake Ontario. Puck and Heather Hudson visit here in AF #14 (Vol. 1) when a small child is attacked by the Plodex Mate, and Heather is gravely injured diving into the lake to save him.
Más sobre Ontario Place15: Fort Calgary
In AF #14 (Vol. 1), Elizabeth Twoyoungmen is part of an archeological dig at the original Fort Calgary site, where she accidentally unleashes Ranaq the Great Devourer. Her father comes to help subdue Ranaq in AF #18-19 (Vol. 1), and it is at Fort Calgary that Elizabeth discovers her Talisman powers. Together with Puck and Snowbird, the Twoyoungmens go through a time portal over the fort site to visit Calgary in 1884, the year of Calgary's incorporation. (AF #19 came out in 1984, the city's centennial.)
Más sobre Fort Calgary16: Lake Ontario
In AF #14 (Vol. 1), we learn that another member of Marrina's species is alive in Lake Ontario and is capturing and vivisecting humans. In AF #15-16 (Vol. 1), Marrina pursues the Plodex Mate into the lake, and is captured by the Master. Puck and Namor the Sub-Mariner go after her and free her from the Master's submarine base, killing the Plodex Mate in the process.
Más sobre Lake Ontario17: Juan De Fuca Strait
The Juan de Fuca Strait contains Tamarind Island, the fictitious island location of Walter Langowski's family estate and, eventually, Alpha Flight's permanent West Coast base.
In AF #20-21 (Vol. 1), Walter and Jeanne-Marie Beaubier visit Tamarind Island to find it occupied by the alchemist Gilded Lily, whom they kill after narrowly avoiding her attempts to turn them into gold statues.
In AF #30 (Vol. 1), Alpha Flight takes up permanent residence in the mansion. (This issue misidentifies the strait as the "Straits of San Juan de Fuca." The error persists in several later issues of writer Bill Mantlo's run.)
In AF #45 (Vol. 1), the then-deceased Snowbird is buried alongside her son and husband on Tamarind Island.
Más sobre Juan De Fuca Strait18: Yellowknife
In AF #24 (Vol. 1), Snowbird and her human lover Douglas Thompson go into hiding here to start a new life together after Alpha Flight defeats the last of the Great Beasts.
Más sobre Yellowknife19: Red Deer
In AF #26 (Vol. 1), Alpha Flight (and the Delphine Courtney android, disguised as Guardian) go through a military testing exercise in Red Deer against giant robots.
Más sobre Red Deer20: West Edmonton Mall
This is the site of Alpha Flight's second major battle with Omega Flight in AF #26-28 (Vol. 1). It is in the mall parking lot that we first see Madison Jeffries use his powers in combat when he fights Omega Flight and kills Delphine Courtney.
Alpha Flight returns to the mall in AF #69 (Vol. 1), during the four-part Wrath of the Dreamqueen story when the city is under the Dreamqueen's mental influence. Alpha Flight's plane crashes through the roof over the water park, where a battle ensues between them and the brainwashed members of China Force.
Más sobre West Edmonton Mall21: Downtown Vancouver
Downtown Vancouver is one of the most common settings for large, destructive urban superhero battles in the Alpha Flight series.
- In AF #28-29 (Vol. 1), the Hulk, returned to Earth through an experiment in interdimensional travel by Roger Bochs at his Vancouver laboratory, goes on a rampage and destroys the city's downtown. (This battle marks the transition point between John Byrne and Bill Mantlo's runs on the title.)
- In AF #43 (Vol. 1), Expo 86 is interrupted by an attacking team of Sentinels sent from Washington state to pursue the escaped supervillain Mesmero. (Artist David Ross gives no clear indication of what part of the Expo grounds is under attack, but there are SkyTrain tracks clearly visible.)
- In Fear Itself: Alpha Flight #1, Attuma (possessed by the Norse god Nerkkod) attacks the city with a tidal wave and an army of Atlanteans.
Más sobre Downtown Vancouver22: Cape Race, Nfld.
Mac Hudson travels to Cape Race in Fear Itself: Alpha Flight #1, teleporting himself and Attuma (possessed by the Norse god Nerkkod) there after thwarting Attuma's assault on Vancouver.
Más sobre Cape Race, Nfld.23: Montreal General Hospital
In AF #30 (Vol. 1), Heather Hudson finds Madison Jeffries's brother, Lionel, confined in a psychiatric ward. Heather accidentally releases him, and he uses his powers over organic matter to mutate the other patients into monsters before Alpha Flight subdues them. It is here that Lionel resurrects Deadly Ernest, whose remains are in storage in the hospital morgue.
Más sobre Montreal General Hospital24: Underground City (RÉSO)
In AF #31 (Vol. 1), Alpha Flight battles the newly resurrected Deadly Ernest in the RÉSO, the interconnected complex surrounding downtown Montreal's Metro network. Ernest is killed when he escapes into a subway tunnel and is hit by a train. (There is no signage to clearly indicate what Metro station this takes place in.)
Más sobre Underground City (RÉSO)25: Place d'Armes
In AF #31 (Vol. 1), Nemesis crouches on the Maisonneuve monument at Place d'Armes, expositing in the rain. Writer Bill Mantlo misidentifies the monument as a statue of Jacques Cartier, not Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve. Artist Mike Mignola draws the monument accurately, if considerably bigger than the real one: the statue itself stands about three times as tall as Nemesis.
Más sobre Place d'Armes26: Wood Buffalo National Park
In AF #33 (Vol. 1), we learn that this is where Mac and Heather Hudson went on their honeymoon. They stumble upon Wolverine in his feral, amnesiac post-Weapon X state, subduing him with a rifle. Mac goes off to seek medical help, leaving Heather behind to nurse the captive Wolverine back to health. Thus begins Wolverine's career in the Canadian military -- and his infatuation with Heather.
Más sobre Wood Buffalo National Park27: Beechey Island
In AF #36-38 (Vol. 1), Beechey Island is the spiritual "place of power" where Alpha Flight travels to deliver Snowbird's baby. Once there, they learn it is also the burial place of F.R. Crozier, captain of the HMS Terror on Sir John Franklin's expedition to find the Northwest Passage, who possesses the body of Snowbird's child to be reborn as Pestilence.
Más sobre Beechey Island28: Banff Springs Resort
Site of Jean-Paul Beaubier's exhibition ski meet in AF #41 (Vol. 1). It is here that his identity as Northstar is outed to the public when he has to save a woman under the mental influence of Kara Killgrave from falling off a cliff. Kara is shown staying at a room at the Banff Springs Hotel.
Más sobre Banff Springs Resort29: Etobicoke
Hometown of Kara Killgrave, as established in her first appearance in AF #41 (Vol. 1).
In AF #62 (Vol. 1), Kara returns home to her mother after the disbanding of Alpha Flight, bringing Laura Dean and Goblyn with her. Together, they are attacked by her father, the Purple Man, who has been resurrected as a zombie.
Más sobre Etobicoke30: Gardiner Expressway
Kara Killgrave and Madison Jeffries are shown driving on the Gardiner Expressway in AF #42 (Vol. 1). Jeffries helps them to get over the traffic by transforming their convertible into a jet-car.
Más sobre Gardiner Expressway31: Klondike, Yukon
The fictitious town of Burial Butte in the Klondike region is where Alpha Flight fights Pestilence in AF #44 (Vol. 1). Pestilence unleashes a plague that kills the town's entire population, as well as Doug Thompson. Snowbird and her son are all killed in a battle with Pestilence in the nearby coal mines.
Más sobre Klondike, Yukon32: Ungava Bay
In the 1985 X-Men & Alpha Flight miniseries, Ungava Bay is where Loki erects the Firefountain, a pillar of light that gives normal humans superpowers and cures mutants of the harmful side effects of their own powers. Most of the miniseries' action takes place in a city built by magic on the shores of the bay. Narration states that the city site overlooks the Gyrfalcon Islands.
The city is destroyed by the end of the miniseries, but there is an ancient Viking settlement buried underneath it that, by AF #50 (Vol. 1), is still intact. In this issue, Alpha Flight revisits the Firefountain hoping to find magic to cure Northstar's terminal illness and Aurora's mental illness.
Más sobre Ungava Bay33: Calgary Tower
The Calgary Tower is a prominent landmark in Uncanny X-Men #120-121, the first issues to feature Alpha Flight in Canada. After narrowly escaping their first confrontation with the full Alpha Flight team, the fleeing X-Men regroup at the base of the tower. Shortly after, during Alpha Flight and the X-Men's battle at the Calgary Stampede grounds, Shaman summons a destructive blizzard that shatters windows at the Sky 360 restaurant on top of the tower -- where we see John Byrne (the artist for this issue) and his girlfriend conversing over dinner.
The tower restaurant takes another pounding in AF #68 (Vol. 1), when Sasquatch, under the influence of the Dream Queen, jumps out of a plane over Calgary and crashes through the roof.
Más sobre Calgary Tower34: 2nd Street
In AF #69 (Vol. 1) -- part of the story arc where the city of Edmonton is under the Dream Queen's mental influence -- a montage of citywide crime and violence shows a man being hung from a signpost that reads "2nd St." (Another signpost reads "High St.,"which doesn't really exist in Edmonton.) The scene also shows houses being blown up and a man about to ride his lawnmower over people who have been tied up and staked to the ground.
Más sobre 2nd Street35: Jasper Avenue
AF #70 (Vol. 1) opens on Jasper Avenue, showing sleepwalking Edmontonians under the influence of the Dream Queen. Alpha Flight telelports from the West Edmonton Mall to Jasper Avenue in pursuit of the Dream Queen.
Más sobre Jasper Avenue36: Stephen Avenue Walk
In AF #77 (Vol. 1), Heather Hudson goes shopping at The Bay on Stephen Avenue (misspelled as "Stevens' Avenue Mall") and witnesses the assassination of a visiting U.S. senator. The police chase her back into The Bay, where she changes into her Vindicator costume and escapes.
Más sobre Stephen Avenue Walk37: Portage and Main
In AF #79 (Vol. 1), Heather Hudson battles Nekra in Winnipeg. Narration establishes that the battle takes place near Portage and Main.
Más sobre Portage and Main38: Winnipeg International Airport
In AF #79, we see the Scorpion travel to Winnipeg (flying Air Canada from JFK International, New York). At the airport, a battle ensues between him and Diamond Lil.
Más sobre Winnipeg International Airport39: Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica
In AF #81 (Vol. 1), Jeanne-Marie Beaubier, having renounced her former life in Alpha Flight, is now a nun in Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré. The issue includes a photo-referenced establishing shot of the real basilica.
Más sobre Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré Basilica40: Ottawa Hospital
AF #81 (Vol. 1) shows Puck, recently returned from the Dream Queen's dimension after being tortured and de-aged, as a patient at the Ottawa General. The next issue reveals that one of the doctors is in the employ of the Master of the World; he captures Puck, drugging him and taking him to the Master's facility in South Dakota.
In AF #89 (Vol. 1), Laura Dean, injured in an attack by Wild Child, is also admitted to the hospital.
Más sobre Ottawa Hospital41: Sparks Street Mall
In AF #87 (Vol. 1), Wild Child goes on a rampage in a crowded Sparks Street Mall, and Alpha Flight steps in to subdue him.
Más sobre Sparks Street Mall42: Gatineau Park
In AF #87 (Vol. 1), Wild Child runs away from Alpha Flight and seeks refuge in Gatineau Park, only to walk into a fight with the recently returned Wolverine.
Más sobre Gatineau Park43: Point Roberts border crossing
In AF #87 (Vol. 1), Wolverine sneaks into Canada illegally at the Point Roberts crossing after smuggling himself there on a merchant logging ship. He is discovered by the RCMP, and a fight ensues.
Más sobre Point Roberts border crossing44: Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
In AF #89 (Vol. 1), Heather Hudson and Wolverine track the fugitive Gamma Flight to Sault Ste. Marie after their escape from prison in Ottawa. (An impressive feat, considering that they escaped on foot and were tracked on foot, and that the two cities are nearly 800 kilometres apart.)
AF #92 (Vol. 1) establishes that Roxxon Oil has a research facility in Sault Ste. Marie.
Más sobre Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.45: Tuktoyaktuk, NWT
In AF #93-94, Alpha Flight and the Fantastic Four visit Tuktoyaktuk to investigate strange energy readings discovered by Reed Richards. They find the town under the telepathic control of Headlok, and are forced to fight each other until Aurora finds a way to disrupt Headlok's telepathy.
Más sobre Tuktoyaktuk, NWT46: Mount Pleasant Cemetery
Colin Ashworth Hume (Windshear)'s grandfather is buried at Mount Pleasant, as established in AF #95 (Vol. 1), when Hume goes to visit his grave.
Más sobre Mount Pleasant Cemetery47: Eaton Centre
In AF #97 (Vol. 1), the Eaton Centre becomes the flashpoint for an interplanetary war when Her, now a fugitive from the Consortium, crashes into it. Much of downtown Toronto is destroyed in a battle lasting from AF #97-100, and it takes the combined forces of Alpha Flight, Her, the Avengers and Galactus to repel the Consortium forces.
Más sobre Eaton Centre48: Silver Snail Comics
The Silver Snail, a venerable Toronto comics retailer, is destroyed in AF #100 (Vol. 1) after a citywide battle between a Congomerate invasion force and the combined forces of Alpha Flight, Her and the Avengers.
Más sobre Silver Snail Comics50: Rosedale
Rosedale is the affluent Toronto neighbourhood where Major Mapleleaf lives, as established in AF #106 (Vol. 1).
Más sobre Rosedale51: Toronto General Hospital
In AF #106, Jean-Paul Beaubier finds an abandoned, HIV-positive baby and brings him for treatment at the Toronto General. Beaubier spends weeks at the hospital as doctors care for and diagnose the baby. The hospital then comes under attack from Major Mapleleaf, who becomes upset over the national media circus surrounding the baby and Alpha Flight's AIDS awareness campaign.
Más sobre Toronto General Hospital52: Pepsi Forum
The Pepsi Forum is the former site of the Montreal Forum, the storied hockey arena that appears prominently in AF #113 (Vol. 1). Alpha Flight makes a celebrity guest appearance at a Leafs-Habs game that is interrupted by an attack by the Reavers. Superhero battle and many hockey-related puns ensue.
Más sobre Pepsi Forum53: Ambassador Bridge
In AF #113 (Vol. 1), Heather Hudson pursues one of the Reavers to Windsor after they attacked Alpha Flight in Montreal. She fights and subdues him over the Ambassador Bridge.
Más sobre Ambassador Bridge54: Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier Airport
Ottawa's current international airport is the former site of CFB Uplands, a military base that is shown in AF #113 (Vol. 1). We see air force personnel on the base tracking an aerial dogfight between Heather Hudson and the supervillain Mauler.
Más sobre Ottawa MacDonald-Cartier Airport55: Canadian Museum Of Civilization
In AF #113 (Vol. 1), the supervillain Mauler crashes through the roof of the museum (which the comic identifies as "the Museum of Human Civilization") during an aerial dogfight with Heather Hudson.
Más sobre Canadian Museum Of Civilization56: Sudbury, Ont.
In AF #114-115 (Vol. 1), Gamma Flight is dispatched to Sudbury to end a hostage standoff with the Jackal at a chemical research facility.
Más sobre Sudbury, Ont.57: Algonquin Provincial Park
In AF #122 (Vol. 1), Walter Langowski is on a spiritual retreat in Algonquin Park when he is visited by the Goddess and recruited into the events of Infinity Crusade.
Más sobre Algonquin Provincial Park59: Thunder Bay, Ont.
In the 1992 Alpha Flight Special, a prequel to the main series, Alpha Flight has a base of operations outside Thunder Bay.
Más sobre Thunder Bay, Ont.60: Gastown
The 1992 Alpha Flight Special begins with Wolverine interrupting a police shootout in an alley in Gastown. Wolverine is shown killing a Vancouver police officer with his claws.
Más sobre Gastown61: Bank of Canada, Toronto office
In Fear Itself: Alpha Flight #5, the Alphans raid the federal cash and gold reserves at the Bank of Canada to pay for the services of Taskmaster.
Más sobre Bank of Canada, Toronto office62: St Elias Mountains
In Alpha Flight #5 (Vol. 4), Taskmaster and Alpha Flight organize a group of escaped political prisoners at a base camp in the St. Elias Mountains. This becomes the team's base for the remainder of the Vol. 4 miniseries.
Más sobre St Elias Mountains63: St John's
In Fear Itself: The Home Front #4-6, St. John's is attacked by Attuma -- under the influence of one of the Serpent's hammers -- who destroys the city. These events are alluded to in Alpha Flight Vol. 4, and used by Gary Cody as a justification for infringing on civil liberties to pursue the hammer-wielders and Alpha Flight.
Más sobre St John's64: Royal Ontario Museum
During the Civil War tie-in miniseries Omega Flight: Alpha to Omega, the Wrecking Crew (aided by the Great Beasts) destroy the ROM in a battle with the newly formed Omega Flight team and Beta Ray Bill.
Más sobre Royal Ontario Museum