(Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1 (fb) - BTS) - The past of Stitch is largely unrevealed, but (as per Wolverine) about the time she reached puberty, she discovered she had the mutant ability to control small pieces of metal with amazing precision. Realizing she was different, she became scared to death of herself, and her powers, so she shut herself off from the world.
Stitch was placed in the custody of Jim Hudson's Department H, to be trained as a member of The Flight, a team of super-heroes sanctioned by the Canadian government.
(Alpha Flight I#127/2 (fb) ) - Stitch was brutally attacked by Wild Child while training at Department H, which disfigured her face. Wolverine came to her aid, stopping the feral Wild Child from killing her.
(Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1) - After Sean Benard's first training exercise with The Flight as Groundhog, he overheard James Hudson and Wolverine arguing over Jodi's readiness for training. Investigating, Groundhog entered a barn, where he found Stitch in a corner, using her power to stitch thread through her outfit--she took an instant liking to him, rare for her, and hugged him. Wolverine explained that she was "ego-phobic" (afraid of her powers), and that her reaction to Groundhog was the first non-violent action she'd taken since arriving three months earlier.
During all of this, Egghead and his Emissaries of Evil had arrived in Canada, with the intention of setting up a nuclear missile near the border, aimed at New York City. The Flight was called in to take care of the problem, and Stitch accompanied the team.
Stitch confronted the Swordsman, who laughingly mocked her apparently limited power ("What do you intend to do--sew me to death?!"); but she managed to subdue Swordsman by commanding her threaded needle through his glove, and thereby forced him to use his weapon to incapacitate the Rhino.
But the Flight's first mission went horribly awry, for Egghead triggered the missile's detonation sequence; Saint Elmo sacrificed himself to destroy the missile.
(Wolverine: First Class#5 - BTS) - Department H assigned Wolverine to handle a hostage situation at La Citadelle in Quebec. Ordered to selected several operatives to accompany him Wolverine searched through many familiar operatives like Snowbird, Groundhog (marked resigned), Saint Elmo (marked M.I.A.), Marrina, Shaman, Smart Alec, Aurora, Stitch, and Wildchild. Stitch, however, was not among the ones he chose.
(Marauders Annual I#1) - While in Calgary, Alberta, Stitch was taken hostage by an anti-mutant terrorist upset a mutant was in "his" town. But with news coverage of the hostage situation traveling fast, Aurora, only half a planet away, came to her rescue. Aurora quickly dealt with the anti-mutant terrorist after which she hugged Stitch noting that they all deserved safety after surviving Department H.
(Marauders II#1 - BTS) - Lucas Bishop wrote a hand written letter to Kate Pryde to give her an update on all recent happenings. Amongst his notes Bishop mentioned Aurora had rescued Stitch from a suburban siege.
(Marauders II#8 - BTS) - Stitch joined most of mutantkind on the new mutant nation of Krakoa, where she chose to work alongside mutant fashion designer Jumbo Carnation.
(Marauders II#8 (fb) - BTS) - After the second annual Hellfire Gala had concluded Jumbo received a request from Captain Kate Pryde to create special costumes fit to travel billion years back into time to reach Threshold. As such, Jumbo and Stitch sat down with Forge to create them, resulting in a skull-shaped brooche with intuitive molecules which would protect the past from today's germs. With one tap the costumes would be deployed from the brooche.
(Marauders II#8) - Jumbo and Stitch welcomed Kate Pryde and the Marauders and revealed the brooche they'd created, Jumbo made sure to praise Stitch's gifts in micro-circuitry as wel.
(Marauders II#12 - BTS) - After Aurora helped Psylocke and Cerebra (Shakti Haddad) rescue Esrea Seanoa from Bushwacker she was reminded of how she'd rescued Stitch before.
(X-Men Unlimited III#100) - Five weeks before the third annual Hellfire Gala, both Stitch and Jumbo Carnation were hard at work creating garments when Prodigy visited Jumbo's atelier. While working on Prodigy, Jumbo became slightly annoyed by Prodigy's boyfriend Speed (Thomas Shepherd) who was nervously tapping his foot at supersonic speed. Jumbo asked the speedster to stop less he stick both of them in burlap sacks for the gala.
(X-Men Unlimited III#104) - One week before the third annual Hellfire Gala, Dazzler visited Jumbo, Cassandra Michaels and Stitch in his atelier on Krakoa in preparation of the gala. Dazzler had accidentally destroyed her custom gown in a fight against X-Cutioner.
Comments: Created by Scott Lobdell, Simon Furman, Pat Broderick and Bruce Patterson.
This disastrous mission is what gave Hudson the idea to split up The Flight into different levels of combat-readiness (thus, Alpha, Beta and Gamma Flights).
Stitch's last name was revealed in the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A to Z hardcover#1: Alpha Flight entry.
Additional images, new main, corrections and Wolverine: First Class update by Ron Fredricks. Marauders and X-Men Unlimited appearances updated by MarvellousLuke.
Profile by Madison Carter
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