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Smart Alec (Alexander "Alec" Thorne) is a Marvel Comics supervillain, a mutant and member of Alpha Flight. His first appearance was in Alpha Flight #8 in 1983.
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Not much is known about Thorne's life before he was contacted by James Hudson to join the then-fledgling Department H, except that he was born in London, England. Alec Thorne was one of James MacDonald Hudson's first recruits to join the fledgling Alpha Flight, where, in their first mission, he and his teammates stopped the terrorist known as Egghead and his cadre of American superhuman terrorists from launching a thermonuclear missile at the United States. Later, after Hudson divided the team into three tiers, Thorne (under the cryptonym of Smart Alec) began training in Gamma Flight, and continued to train with them before Department H was shut down. Later, he was contacted by Jerry Jaxon to join Omega Flight in a bid to extract vengeance against Hudson, but was defeated when he tried to look in the Shaman's magic medicine bag. This mental shock caused him to become a mindless husk, so the Shaman shrunk him and stuck him in his bag.
The next appearance of Smart Alec's body was shortly after the death of Snowbird, when Walter Langkowski's mind - having been freed from his body after Snowbird was forced to kill him to vanquish the Great Beast, Tanaraq, whom co-inhabited his body - entered Thorne's miniaturised body in an attempt to regain the human world. Thorne's body was killed when Langkowski merged his mind into the Box robot to defeat Pestilence, whose freed mind had inhabited the body of Snowbird - who was in the form of Sasquatch at the time - before Langkowski took over the Sasquatch body.
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