Sasquatch is the biological equivalent of a blockbuster (he even has been launched from an aircraft). He’s fast, agile, aggressive, and strong enough to wrestle a DC-10 to the ground during its take-off. He’s also able to withstand lots of punishment.

Sasquatch has short claws, but they’re not very useful in combat. He’s an excellent scientist with enough engineering notions to conduct maintenance on Box, among other feats. His main knowledge areas include physics and the effect of radiations on the human body. 

History

Well, he’s an Alphan, which means he’s been dragged through the worse subplots ever written. Both he and I would rather not deal on this…

Basically, he was a Canadian friend of Bruce Banner who, after a lucrative career as a pro football player, began to study the various creatures resulting from gamma irradiation. With the help of James Hudson (who had recruited him as a scientist for Department H) , he attempted to duplicate this by exposing himself to gamma rad in a secret Department H lab near the Arctic circle, but only succeeded in opening an interdimensional rift ; one of the Great beasts, Tanaraq, possessed him and gave him the mystical ability to transmogorophy his body into a duplicate of Tanaraq’s.

Sasquatch has always been since a core member of Alpha, since each group needs a strong guy. He’s been through various tribulations after the truth about his big body was discovered. Well, Snowbird was forced to kill him since he was basically possessed by a Great Beast. Alpha Flight managed to rescue Langkowski’s soul from the realm of the Beasts, and for a time it lived in the Box robot. However Walter eventually went looking for a new physical body, and found one in the Crossroads of All Realities. It turned out to be the Hulk, however, and rather than condemn his friend Bruce to death Walter let himself drift away.

Walter eventually came across the mindless body of Smart Alec, and took up residence there. He then started searching for a way out… and did so, crawling out of Shaman’s medical pouch just in time to reanimate Box and battle the villain known as Pestilence. After the battle he took up residence in Snowbird’s Sasquatch form, inhabiting the discarded body of the very goddess who had killed him. He was quite perturbed when he switched back to human form… and it was female.

Walter took it fairly well, even adopting the name “Wanda” for a time for fun. However, deep in his mind it bothered him… and the Dreamqueen was able to use this to manipulate him into stealing the Talisman. To prevent the Dreamqueen from gaining this powerful mystic tool, the spirit of Snowbird returned from the realm of the Inuit gods and turned Langkowski’s human form into a duplicate of his original one. Ever since Core Alpha disbanded, Langkowski has been conducting research in a secret scientific base deep into an arctic tundra. 

Description

Sasquatch is nearly always in his tall form. His body structure is that of a powerful, mostly upright anthropoid, but he has a very thick and long orange fur. 

Personality

Sasquatch is a good buddy. He comes across more like a football player after a good match (he used to play lots of US football) than a professor of biophysics. He’s easy going, resourceful, sensitive, and relaxed, occasionally cracking puns (including the infamous one quoted above). His latest appearances had him bury himself into his work and lose contact with reality, becoming an ersatz Beast and mad scientist, which disappointed me very much. 

DC Universe History

As badly as Canada has fared in the Marvel Universe, it is done even worse in the DCU. Thus, adding the Flight to the DCU would represent few problems, especially if your DCU version of the Flight is based on the paranoid, government conspiracy-driven Flight that was seen in the latest serie.

One of the cute stunts would be to stunt that Shaman was actually in his youth the mystic called Flying Fox, a member of the Young All-Stars, and retired after the war.