STITCH
Real Name: Jodi Furman
Identity/Class: Human mutant, citizen of Canada
Occupation: Adventurer/government agent
Group Membership: None; formerly the Flight (Groundhog/Sean Benard, James MacDonald Hudson, Walter Langkowski, Saint Elmo, Smart Alec/Alec Thorne, Snowbird, Wolverine/Logan)
Affiliations: Aurora (Jeanne-Marie Beaubier)
Enemies: Egghead, Emissaries of Evil (Eel/Leopold Stryke, Porcupine/Alex Gentry, Power Man/Erik Josten, Rhino/Aleksei Sytsevich, Solarr/Silas King, Swordsman/Jacques Duquesne)
Known Relatives: unidentified parents (only mentioned by Wolverine)
Aliases: None
Base of Operations: possibly Calgary, Alberta, Canada;
formerly the Flight compound, somewhere outside the Thunder Bay area, Ontario, Canada
First Appearance: Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1 (June, 1992)
Powers/Abilities: Stitch possesses the mutant ability to mentally control small pieces of metal (e.g. a threaded needle) with precision. She appears to be somewhat autistic, and didn't speak.
Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'4")
Weight: Unrevealed (approximately 100 lbs.)
Eyes: Blue
Hair: Light-brown/red
History:
(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.
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 Annual update by MarvellousLuke.
Profile by Madison Carter
CLARIFICATIONS:
Stitch has known connection to:
images: (without ads)
Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1, p20, pan3 (Main Image - Stitch in barn, mentally manipulating needle)
Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1, p20, pan4 (Headshot - Stitch, mentally manipulating needle)
Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1, p21, pan1 (Stitch hugging Groundhog; Wolverine (right))
Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1, p28, pan3 (Stitch confronting Swordsman with needle and thread)
Appearances:
Alpha Flight Special Edition II#1 (June,
1992) - Scott Lobdell & Simon Furman (writers), Pat Broderick
(pencils), Bruce D. Patterson (inks), Rob Tokar (editor)
Alpha Flight I#127/2 (December, 1993) - Simon Furman (writer), Keith Pollard (pencils), Mark McKenna (inks), Bob
Sharen (colors), Janice Chiang (letters), Rob Tokar (editor)
Wolverine: First Class#5 (September, 2008) - Fred van Lente (writer), Clayton Henry (pencils, inks), Mark Paniccia (editor)
Marauders Annual I#1 (January, 2022) - Steve Orlando (writer), Creees Lee (pencils, inks), Lauren Amaro, Jordan D. White (editors)
First Posted: 11/5/2004
Last updated: 03/23/2022
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