BOX I
Real Name: Roger Bochs
Other Aliases: Omega
Group Affiliation: Former member of Alpha Flight and Beta Flight
First Appearance: Alpha Flight #11
Final Appearance: Alpha Flight #49
Creator: John Byrne

      Roger Bochs was a paraplegic who lost both of his legs just above the knee. Bochs, however, was a genius inventor who created an extremely powerful robot he called Box (a pun on his last name.) Box was created with the help of James MacDonald Hudson; it is unknown how Bochs came to Hudson's attention or when Bochs began his involvement with Hudson's Department H.
      Like most of Beta & Gamma Flights, Bochs was approached by Delphine Courtney, a robotic representative of Jerome "Jerry" Jaxon. Jaxon was forming a group of super-human operatives with one objective: the death of James Hudson. Jaxon called this group Omega Flight. Bochs agreed to join the group, but only in order to infiltrate and betray it.
      Jaxon realized this and seized control of the psychometric helmet that Bochs used to operate his creation. Using the helmet Jaxon battled Hudson as Box. Jaxon was killed by feedback from the helmet when Hudson destroyed the original Box robot, but moments later Hudson was seemingly killed when his power-pack exploded from damage sustained in the fight.
      Some months later Bochs was still upset at the fact that Jaxon and his robot had seemingly gotten away in the confusion. (Bochs was unaware of Jaxon's death.) He was determined to take revenge for the death of Hudson; a man he considered a friend. To this end he contacted the mutant member of Gamma Flight named Madison Jeffries. Together Jeffries and Bochs recreated the Box robot, stronger and better than before. They also designed it so that only Roger Bochs would be able to control it, by "phasing in" and becoming part of the robot.
      Bochs eventually hooked up with Alpha Flight when Talisman gave a mystic call to her father from the site known as the Eye of the World. Talisman had only meant to call her father, Shaman, but ended up summoning everyone in Canada with a positive connection to Alpha Flight. Bochs ended up giving up possession of the Box robot to allow it to hold the soul of Walter Langkowski, whose Sasquatch form had recently been killed.
      Bochs reclaimed his robot after Langkowski sent his soul into the void known as the Crossroads of Reality. He then went on to serve in Alpha with distinction. However, as time went by he developed mental problems and eventually cracked completely after new legs given to him by Scramble rotted away. Alpha Flight took Bochs to Scramble's New Life Clinic to get help for him. While there Scramble revealed his own insanity, and Bochs merged with Scramble into the composite being known as Omega. Bochs' inventive genius dreamt up new forms for Omega to become, and Scramble's power made those forms reality. After Bochs partially came to his senses Scramble lobotomized him; this effectively ended Bochs' life. His physical body died when Madison Jeffries obliterated Omega.
      The Box robot was made of a "living" metal whose composition is now known only to Madison Jeffries. The metal is capable of housing a human life-force indefinitely. It is presumably this capability of the metal that made "phasing in" to the robot possible. The robot possessed great super-human strength, had flight capability and was outfitted with a wide array of sensors.