JANUS

Real Name: Willem Vincent

Identity/Class: Human mutant, citizen of the Canada

Occupation: Warrior;
    former poet and painter

Group Membership: Derangers (Breakdown/Esme Fernando, Laura Dean, Freakout/Arthur Amadeus van Krijg, Goblyn)

Affiliations: Alpha Flight (Box/Madison Jeffries, Sasquatch/Walter (Wanda) Langkowski, Vindicator/Heather Hudson), Manikin/Whitman Knapp, Purple Girl/Kara Killgrave, Wolverine (James Howlett/Logan);
    formerly mentally controlled by Bedlam (William Nowlan);
    formerly treated by Lionel Jeffries (Scramble)

Enemies: Alpha Flight (Puck, Shaman, Snowbird, Vindicator), Bedlam (William Nowlan), Orchis, Scramble (Lionel Jeffries)

Known Relatives: None

Aliases: "Two-Face" (nickname from Purple Girl)

Base of Operations: Unrevealed;
    formerly Bedlam's Arctic Circle base;
    formerly the New Life Clinic, Vancouver, Canada;
    born in unspecified location in Canada

First Appearance: (Behind-the-scenes; only their former containment cylinders are shown) Alpha Flight I#49 (August, 1987);
    (seen, identified) Alpha Flight I#53 (December, 1987)

Powers/Abilities: Janus can manifest his dissociative identity disorder by forming a mirror-image duplicate of himself that can act independently, although generally guided by the same goals.

    Mental assaults on one of Janus' forms apparently affect the other form as well.

    Janus is an exceptional combatant, with high-end human strength and endurance, with exceptional agility.

    He has some skill as a painter and poet.

Height: Unrevealed (approximately 5'11")
Weight: Unrevealed (approxiately 190 lbs.)
Eyes: Unrevealed
Hair: Red (it is unrevealed whether his hair changes to white as Janus or whether the white hair seen is part of his costume)

History:

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) - BTS / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update#5: Scramble entry) - Willem was torn between the desire to pursue art or music, possibly an early symptom of his dissociative-identity disorder.

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) - BTS) - As an aspiring artist and painter, Vincent's creativity was disrupted by his psychopathic side.

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) - BTS / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update#5: Scramble entry) - Vincent was eventually committed to a mental health facility.

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) - BTS / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates) - Discovering Vicent's's latent power to manifest a duplicate form, Dr. Jeffries had him transferred to his New Life Clinic in Vancouver alongside autistic portal generating Laura Dean who exchanged bodies with her monstrous twin Goblyn; the explosive-powered mental breakdown victim Esme Fernando; and drug-induced brain damaged berserker Arthur Amadeus van Krijg, who was unable to feel pain.

(Alpha Flight I#49 (fb) - BTS / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates) - Vincent and the others were kept in stasis tanks at the New Life Clinic.

(Alpha Flight I#49 (fb) - BTS / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates) - Alpha Flight member Aurora stumbled across the four holding cells while suffering a psychological episode in her Jean-Marie Beaubier persona.

(Alpha Flight I#49 (fb) - BTS / Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates / Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe A-Z Update#5: Scramble entry) - During the battle between Alpha Flight and Scramble (now calling himself Omega), the power to the New Life Clinic was cut, plunging the complex into darkness and allowing the four captives to escape. 

(Alpha Flight I#52 - BTS) - The mental-powered sociopath Bedlam was revived by Gary Cody, whom he then slew. 

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates) - Learning of the existence of Scramble's former captives, Bedlam decided that they fit his own distorted version of a super-team (like what had been intended by Guardian/James Hudson, who had originally arranged Bedlam's empowerment).

(Alpha Flight I#53 (fb) / Gamers Handbook of the Marvel Universe 1989 Character Updates) - Tracking down the escapees, Bedlam took mental control of and transported them to his newly created Arctic Circle base. He forged them into a fighting team and then bound them in his base. At some point, Fernando, van Krijg, and Vincent were codenamed Breakdown, Freakout, and Janus, named for the two-faced Olympian god, respectively.