Tundra (Marvel Comics)

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Tundra
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Publisher	Marvel Comics
First appearance	Alpha Flight #1 (Aug 1983)
Created by	John Byrne
In story information
Team affiliations	Great Beasts
Notable aliases	The Land Beast

Tundra is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe.

Tundra is a mystical spirit which inhabits an ever-growing mass of Canadian land in gargantuan semi-humanoid form, and is the enemy of the Eskimo gods whom he trapped in another dimension.

Tundra was the first of the Great Beasts confronted by Alpha Flight.^[1] Tundra was summoned through a mystic ritual in which a vagabond traced a gigantic human shape in the barren land of Canada's Northwest Territories and then donned a metallic crown that summoned the spirit of Tundra. The vagabond's corpse animated, the land mimicking the corpse's movement until Tundra rose in the shape of a humanoid mass of earth. According to Shaman, Tundra was supposed to be controlled by the mind of the human who summoned him but because of the weakness of the vagabond summoning Tundra, Tundra's real personality quickly took over. He was defeated by water erosion after Marrina created a water spout that Shaman used to create a torrential downpour.

Tundra is arch-enemy to the Great Beast Kariooq, the Corruptor.

[edit] Powers and abilities

Tundra's powers stem from the land itself. He can summon mosquitoes, hurl boulders from his body, increase his size by absorbing land mass, and is connected to the land so if he is injured, earthquake-style upheavals occur in the surrounding area.