Team Canada

Team Canada was formed in the late 1970s after the revelation of the original Project Inferno. Summit founded the team, and it has continued to function despite a history of internal conflict and upheaval. The current team leader is the exiled storm giant Big Thunder, and includes the mentalist (and former beauty pageant winner) Miss Canada; Luna, the bizarre, self-styled queen of the rougarou (Quebec’s werewolf nation the earth-controlling Labrador Rock, and super-speedster Chris Cage, the Opportunist.
Team Canada is effective, but they have a decidedly unCanadian reputation as one of the loudest, most trash-talking, most contentious, and brutal superhero groups around. Their relations with the public and the media reflects this: people either love the team as unapologetic badasses, or hate them with a deep, abiding passion.
One Canadian Broadcasting Company commentator has referred to them as “a team of hockey goons with capes” and “Canada’s dullest, bluntest instrument.” The group has publicly said they’re proud of the fact that the only negotiating tactic they employ “is a good, hard stomp to the bad guys’ faces.” Their relations with law enforcement are mixed: some R.C.M.P. and Canadian Security Intelligence Service personnel openly admire their ability to get things done, while others have had unpleasant experiences when the heroes were involved in delicate operations. Other Canadian heroes like the LHQ and GLOBAL have little time for Team Canada, and their hardcore nationalism has set them at odds with foreign teams like the Freedom League.
While centered in Ottawa, Team Canada can quickly traverse the country in “the flying leaf,” a captured, refitted alien scout cruiser that roughly looks like a flying maple leaf with its wide prow and forward-swept wings. Team Canada is officially sponsored by the Canadian government, who set up the Canadian Metahuman Affairs Department (Department Meta) to administer them (and other government-sponsored supers). Team Canada completely ignores them, which serves the interests of a handful of its senior administrators: they’re secretly in league with Project Inferno, and most of CMAD’s budget is diverted to the Project (something the team might discover if anyone was remotely interested in managing their finances.)

Structure

Big Thunder

Erik Torborn was a warband leader of the Jotun, the storm-giants enemies of Asgard. He was never respected by the jarls; in retaliation, he attempted to steal their treasure and establish his own realm. Alas, as he attempted to steal his jarl’s treasure, he accidentally freed two of Jotunheim’s greatest enemies: the sons of Thor, Magni and Modi! Branded as “traitor to the Nine Worlds,” Erik made a deal with a hag and fled to Midgard, where he ended up an amnesiac mortal on a fishing boat. An encounter with the corrupted thunderbird Stormwing re-awoke his powers (including his size). Erik christened himself Big Thunder and decided to use his powers to show the weakling humans what a real defender could do for them. Adapting well to the life of a superhero, he took over leadership of Team Canada from Lady Ultra when she retired. He’s been leader for the past ten years, during which time the team has become less idealistic and more brutal.

Miss Canada

Anika Davis is a Saskatchewan native, a small town prairie girl who grew up to be first in her class, a sports star, and a beauty queen. However, her natural beauty, intelligence, and physical abilities have a dark origin. Her father is the failed Canada-conquering supervillain known as Gravos.
He hasn’t been seen in years, because he escaped from a 1994 vicious defeat by placing himself in suspended animation for twenty years—but not before genetically engineering a psionic killer to serve at his side: Anika. She is completely unaware of her true origins; she’s simply the girl everyone likes: head cheerleader, captain of the volleyball team, beauty queen, valedictorian, telepathic superhero, and media superstar! But Gravos will return, and Miss Canada’s life is going to change in a big way.

Luna

The bizarre, self-styled queen of the rougarou, Luna Anjou, was born into a circus troupe from Quebec, but this was a circus unlike any other, because hers was a circus of werewolves! After a massacre committed against her clan by a criminal gang in league with Malfaiteur, Luna merged the remnants with Quebec’s underground mutant community, and formed a group called Les Bizarreries (meaning “the strangeness” or “the freaks of nature”). They waged a bloody war against gangs in the province, but eventually the gangs fell to Les Bizarreries. During the final battle, Luna was saved from execution by the intervention of Team Canada, and despite her record, Big Thunder recruited the blond, tattooed, leather-clad she-wolf to the team. She hasn’t been an easy fit: not only is she a casual killer, she has a strong sense of honor that sets her apart from her more pragmatic teammates.

Labrador Rock

Labrador Rock is a golem crafted by an R.C.M.P. officer with an interest in the occult to assist in the guardianship of Labrador, the large mainland section of Newfoundland. For years, Labrador Rock, a seven-foot tall, manshaped piece of basalt, assisted the police in everyday operations, but the massacre of his R.C.M.P. detachment at the hands of SHADOW inspired Labrador to join Team Canada and fight the enemies of the country. He doesn’t have much of a life outside the team, but he attempts to make a life for himself under the name Darby Fisher, which the government has set up for him. For twenty years he’s been a mainstay on that team, though some of their recent actions are causing him to question his place on the squad.

Chris "the Opportunist" Cage

Ottawa native and (mostly-reformed) criminal Chris Cage offered to serve on Team Canada after enduring a particularly brutal beating—at the hands of Team Canada.
He’s proven a reliable teammate to date, as he likes the recognition and the affection of his adoring public and, more importantly, he’s finding super-heroics provides a cushier lifestyle than that of a thief or inmate. No more dingy warehouse meetings or smelly sewer lairs for him!
Cage is thoroughly conceited, and people taking pictures almost always gets him to stop and pose for a few seconds, even in the midst of combat or when he’s on an important mission.

Founding Date

1970

Type

Adventuring Party