| Puck's
History
Eugene Milton Judd was born in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Little is know about his formative years except that he did many things and traversed many places before he joined Alpha Flight as Puck. It was during this time that he encountered the likes of Ernest Hemingway, Natasha Romanove (aka The Black Widow), Wolverine, and even ran with a band of super-human mercenaries known as the Outcasts. Judd, however, has no super powers of his own. His own physical prowess has been honed through years of experience and practice. He has also fought bulls in Spain, trained with Indian yogics, and purports to have visited Crystalium, the crystal world of Crystar, the crystal warrior. His past is checkered at best and documented evidence of Judd begins when he was convicted of murder and imprisoned. That's when James MacDonald Hudson found him. Hudson arranged for Judd's parole from prison, on the condition that he never kill again. Hudson apparently believed that Judd's experience would be valuable in Department H, the superhuman wing of Canada's defense forces that he was forming at that time. As a member of Alpha Flight, Judd fought alongside such luminaries as Guardian (James Hudson in an E-M battlesuit), Northstar, Aurora, Marrina, Snowbird, Sasquatch, Shaman, Talisman, Box and Vindicator (Heather Hudson who assumed her husband's mantle after he was believed killed in battle against the evil Omega Flight). At one point, he sacrificed himself in a fight against the nightmarish Dreamqueen, allowing his team-mates to trap the Dreamqueen in her own dimension of Liveworld. Unfortunately for Judd, the 'Queen was not amused and decided to vent her anger on Judd, who she captured and tortured. She later abandoned him and attacked the Earth once more. This time, though, she did not return. Judd remained stranded in Liveworld until Alpha passed through on their way home from another dimension where they had been trapped by the being known as Llan the Sorceror. Puck accompanied his friends back. Back on Earth, Puck began experiencing the effects of the Dreamqueen's torture. (Puck had made himself well by mentally influencing the other dimension. That cure wore off on Earth.) While in the hospital, he was kidnapped by agents of the Master of the World and used as a guinea pig for the Master's genetic experiments. It seemed that the Master was planning to turn Judd into a mate for the brood of the amphibian Marrina, one of Judd's ex-team mates from the Flight, Using the Master's equipment, Walter Langkowski was able to reverse most of the damage. The effect left Judd with a condensed molecular structure that made him super strong, super fit and super durable. It seemed, though, that this effect wore off as Puck's physical make up reverted back into regular flesh and muscle. He remained a member of Alpha Flight until the team's dissolution at the end of the Hardliner affair. Department H was closed and Alpha disbanded. Puck returned to civilian life, but did not seem to cope well with it. He rented a small apartment and spent most of his time drinking and living in the streets. However, this did not last long as he and Heather Hudson were kidnapped by operatives of a new Department H. To their surprise, they discovered that the top-secret government agency was planning to create a new super-human strike force in a revived Alpha Flight. Puck and Heather rejoined the team to fight the terrorist super-group, Zodiac, but pulled out of Alpha Flight after the battle. Department H, however, unwilling to let them go subdued and then brainwashed them. The Department's sinister plans were soon exposed when Puck received a disk from an inside informant revealing all the evil happenings that were taking place in the department. Under a more open Department H, Puck remains with Alpha Flight. He has recently been on a date with Heather. |
Puck's Stats
Real name: Eugene
Milton Judd
Height: 3' 6"
Intelligence: Above
normal
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