Jaxon Jerome

Character Name	Jerome K. Jaxon
Real Name	Jerome K. Jaxon
Aliases
Group Affiliations	None
Past Affiliations	Omega Flight
Relatives	Unnamed Sons, Unnamed Ex-Wife
First Appearance	Alpha Flight #2 v.1
Current Status	Deceased
Height
Weight
Eyes	Blue
Hair	Sandy Blonde, White (Current)

History

Jaxon Jerome was a Vice-President at Am-Can Petroleum Company. One of his employees was James MacDonald Hudson. When Jaxon revealed his plan to turn one of Hudson's designs, a cybernetic exploratory suit, over to the American military, Hudson quit. Jaxon's secretary, Heather MacNeil, also gave three weeks notice in protest. That night, Hudson returned to his former Am-Can lab and destroyed the plans for the suit. He also stole the control helmet (without which the suit was useless). Jaxon's bosses at Am-Can were very upset with how he had dropped the ball with the Hudson situation, and fired him. As a result of losing his job, Jaxon's wife left him. In despair, Jaxon attempted suicide by hanging. However, the attempt failed, leaving him with spinal damage and confined him to a wheelchair. From that point forward, he blamed Hudson for destroying his life.

His life found meaning again when the original Guardian appeared as a Canadian superhero years later. He noticed the battle suit operated on the same principles as Hudson's designs. He eventually found a link between the Ministry of Defense and Guardian He called the ministry and asked for Hudson. When Mac answered, Jaxon's suspicions were confirmed, and he began to plan.

He contacted Roxxon Oil, who he knew was interested in controlling unique energy sources and told them about Guardian. They agreed to fund him in his project. They even gave him an assistant, Delphine Courtney, who acted as his "legs." She recruited former members of Beta and Gamma Flights to form Omega Flight. Omega Flight had two purposes: the death of James MacDonald Hudson and the destruction of Alpha Flight.

Jaxon arranged for Hudson to be offered a job with Roxxon in New York. Once Mac and Heather moved to New York, Delphine Courtney kidnapped Heather and Jaxon sent Omega Flight against Hudson. Jaxon himself played a role in this fight as he took possession of the original Box robot (thus becoming Box II). He beat Hudson badly but Hudson was finally able to prevail by using his Guardian suit's power supply to cause a feedback through the Box armour into Jaxon's mind, thereby destroying it. The damage to Hudson's suit from the battle seemed to cause it to incinerate him (though it was later revealed that Hudson had been in fact hurled through time and space).