Captain Canuck (Tom Evans)

*This page is about the current Comic House version of Tom Evans. For other versions, see Captain Canuck (Disambiguation).*

## Captain Canuck (Tom Evans)

* Beyond
* Captain Canuck
* Tom Evans
* Sur Saray

### Occupation

Former super-powered field agent for Equilibrium & PACT

## Biographical information

### Background

Tom Evans is Cree on his father’s side, and was raised by his father and his father’s family on a Cree reservation near Flin Flon, Manitoba.

## Affiliates

### Group Affiliation

PACT (former)
Equilibrium (former)
Canadian Armed Forces (former)

### Known Allies

Kebec
Redcoat
Steeltown Hammer
Parminder Patel
Crucible
Horse Wilson

### Known Enemies

Mr. Gold
Blue Fox
Michael Evans
Pharos

### Known Relatives

Michael Evans (brother), Joseph Evans (father, deceased)

## Personal History

Tom Evans was a lieutenant in the Canadian Army when he went AWOL to track down his missing brother, Michael. With the aid of Olivia Wallace-Yeates, he tracked Michael to a remote location on Melville Island in the Arctic Circle, where Michael had been exposed to the Borealis Seed Protocol, an extraterrestrial technology of then-unknown purpose. The protocol gave Michael peak human intelligence and erratic access to the Borealis Datastream, and gave Tom peak human physical abilities and access to the Borealis bio-armour. When Michael formed the international crisis-response and humanitarian relief organisation Equilibrium, Tom took on the role of Captain Canuck, its public face. However, he parted ways with the group in protest of his brother’s methods.

### Early Life

Tom and Michael were raised by their father, Joseph in Flin Flon, Manitoba. He was raised to be a pacifist, but to be a good man and do the right thing. After defending Michael from some bullies, Joesph decided that Tom was getting into too many fights and "needed some softening". He was sent to St. John's-Ravenscourt Boarding School in Winnipeg, where he got in a fight defending another student on his first day. Michael, with his uncanny ability to sense when Tom is in trouble, showed up and threated to expose the Headmaster's gambling debt, affair, and an unmentioned incident in Windsor, thus saving him from explusion.

### Equilibrium Shift

After his assumed death at the hands of the Borealis, Michael Evans created a hologram version of his brother.

### Equilibrium

While travelling home through the Shimmer, Tom sees Doc, a citizen of Claw World (Earth of an alternate future) travelling to the past. He follows him.
*Synopsis to be completed.*

## Special Skills

Tom Evans has completed basic military training, and served several tours in Afghanistan. As a combat veteran and trained soldier, he is an excellent hand-to-hand combatant.  Tom is also a trained and certified EMT, specialising in Northern Search & Rescue.

## Superhuman Abilities

As a result of his exposure to the alien technology known as the Borealis Seed Protocol, Tom’s DNA was supercharged, giving him peak human strength, speed, and endurance, the limits to which have yet been fully revealed. Additionally, Tom gained the ability to manifest a red bio-armour that makes him resistant to blunt attacks and gunfire, and able to survive a leap from at least 10 storeys. It appears to be vulnerable to some bladed weapons. Tom can tap into an extraterrestrial electrical blue energy source that powers his shields and electrifies his tonfa.

## Weapons & Equipment

#### Current

* PACT Battlesuit - Tom’s battlesuit is able to generate its own shields by focusing the blue energy that Tom taps into. It should be noted that the bio armour has also been shown to be capable of self-repair in these instances. Tom’s current suit does not contain a Big Brother Circuit.
* Booster Pack - Tom’s booster pack enables short jaunts upward and forward. While not quite allowing for flight, it increases Tom’s jumping range considerably.

* Tonfas - Tom carries two custom-built tonfa that he can electrify by focusing the blue energy.
* HUD (head-up display) - Installed in his helmet, it contains information on his location, altitude, the temperature, wind, data spider. It can also pinpoint life signs.
* Stun Guns - Non-lethal, even at a close range.

#### Former

* Equilibrium Battlesuit - Comprised of alien bio-armour, working in tandem with Evans Energy manufactured components. Tom’s Equilibrium battlesuit contained a fail-safe device called the Big Brother Circuit, secretly installed by Michael Evans, enabling him to take control should he and Tom disagree. Parminder Patel used it to save Tom during a battle with Blue Fox.

## Unique Vulnerabilities

Tom’s bio-armour has been penetrated by a fire-axe and a katana. This suggests that it may be more effective as protection against blunt impact and ballistic assaults, than against edged weapons.

## Enemies

* Mr. Gold
* Blue Fox
* Ernst Ried
* Adriaan Cronje
* The Borealis
* The Claw

## Alternative Versions

### Comely Comix

The original version of Captain Canuck was created by Richard Comely in 1975. Tom Evans, a Canadian secret agent working for the Canadian International Security Organization (CISO), gained superhuman strength from contact with extra-terrestrials.

### Canuck Adventures

Canuck Adventures features Captain Canuck as an anthropomorphic polar bear.