Vindicator
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for the aircraft, see SB2U Vindicator
Vindicator (Heather MacNeil Hudson, a.k.a. Guardian) is a fictional character, 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.)
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[edit] Character history
[edit] 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 before eventually adopting a copy of her husband's battlesuit. Through extensive training by Wolverine, Heather is able to hold her own in a battle. Eventually her husband returns and her suit is altered to manipulate geothermal forces.
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.
[edit] Beyond
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", in Marvel's New Avengers #16. Their bodies are left in the Yukon Territory as the Collective continues on to the United States. The status of Heather Hudson is unknown.
Alpha Flight will be relaunched as Omega Flight in 2007. The new series will be written by Michael Avon Oeming and drawn by Scott Kolins.
[edit] 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 powercells, provides its wearer with a personal force field, and enables feats of super-strength and super-speed.
[edit] Alternate versions
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.
