Winter Guard

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Official Team Name

Winter Guard

Team Aliases

The Guard

Status

Active

Identity

Public

Alignment

Good

Universe

Earth-616

Base of Operations

Moscow, Russia

Affiliations

Team Leader(s)

Red Guardian (Nikolai Krylenko)

Current Members

Crimson Dynamo (Dimitri Bukharin), Darkstar (Laynia Petrovna), Ursa Major (Mikhail Ursus)

Former Members
Crimson Dynamo (Galina Nemirovsky), Crimson Dynamo (Boris Vadim), Darkstar (Sasha Roerich), Darkstar (Reena Stancioff), Fantasia, Powersurge, Red Guardian (Anton), Sibercat, Steel Guardian, Vostok

Allies

Iron Man, Protectorate

Enemies

Mandarin, Doc Samson, She-Hulk, Skrulls, Lady Liberators, Remont Six, Fantasma, Dire Wraiths

Origin

Origin

Government-sponsored super-human strike force

Creators

Kurt Busiek, Sean Chen

First appearance

Iron Man Vol 3 #9
(October, 1998)

History

The Winter Guard is an amalgamation of past Russian superheroes groups. It was organized after the fall of the Soviet Union. Most of them were from the Soviet Super Soldiers.

During the Skrull invasion, a new version of the Winter Guard appeared, similar to the Avengers/50-State Initiative. War Machine descended back toward Earth after destroying a portion of the Skrull fleet. In an attempt to assist Russia in preventing the Skrulls from detonating all of the country's nuclear weaponry, War Machine engaged, but the Winter Guard were ordered to "prioritize" their targets. After War Machine escaped capture, the Winter Guard assisted War Machine in taking down the last few ships of the Skrull fleet that were attacking Russia.

Since that time, the Winter Guard has taken on The Presence, The Dire Wraiths,Igor Drenkov, The Remont Six, Krang, and Hyperion.

Their last mission was to capture the super-villain group Intelligencia, who used the Zero Cannon on them and sent the heroes to space, apparently killing them^[1]. But they survived the attack.^[2]

Paraphernalia

Equipment: None known.
Transportation: The Sovereign
Weapons: None known.

Notes

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Trivia

The Winter Guard is currently composed of the original members of the Soviet Super Soldiers and the People's Protectorate

See Also

• 11 Winter Guard (Earth-616) Members
  
• 25 Appearances of Winter Guard (Earth-616)
• 4 Images that include Winter Guard (Earth-616)
• Team Gallery: Winter Guard (Earth-616)
• Fan-Art Gallery: Winter Guard (Earth-616)

Links and References

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