Winter Guard

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The Winter Guard in Darkstar and the Winter Guard v1 #1.

The Winter Guard is an organization that features in Marvel Comics.

History

The Winter Guard was a super-powered team that was associated with the Russian government.

The Winter Guard responded to an incident in Dimitri, Russia where the Abomination had been killed by an assailant that looked like the Hulk. S.H.I.E.L.D. and some of its consultants intended to take Blonsky's body for examination but the Guard refused to allow American's to take a Russian citizen away. This led to a fight that was only stopped when the lone survivor of the devastated town arrived to reveal that the ABomination's killer was a Red Hulk. (Hulk v2 #1)

They were dispatched to stop the Intelligencia but the team of supervillain scientists utilised their Zero Cannon to send the Winter Guard into orbit. (Amazing Spider-Man v1 #676)

After the death of Russian sailors in the Black Sea at the hands of Namor, the Russian governments Executive Committee ordered a reformation of the Winter Guard that was to be led by Dimitri Bukharin with oversight by the Red Widow. The new team was deployed to capture Namor who alongside with his Defenders of the Deep were waging a war to remove all surface presence from the oceans. This had brought the Atlantean Defenders into conflict with the Avengers just as the Winter Guard arrived on the scene. At firsts, the Avengers and the Winter Guard worked together but an incident with the Russian team's god members led to a fight between the two sides. This allowed the Sub-Mariner and his aquatic allies to escape whilst the Avengers with the Winter Guard were at a tense stand-off before the Russian team departed the scene. (Avengers v8 #10)

Overview

Members

• Red Guardian :
• Darkstar :
• Vanguard :
• Ursus Major :
• Crimson Dynamo :
• Dimitri Bukharin :
• Vostok :
• Chernabog ;
• Perun :
• Red Widow :

Notes

• The Winter Guard were created by Kurt Busiek and Sean Chen where they made their first appearance in Iron Man v3 #9 (October, 1998).

In other media

Television

• In Avengers Assemble, the Winter Guard made an appearance in the episode "Secret Avengers" where they consisted of Red Guardian, Darkstar, Ursa Major and Crimson Dynamo. They were a team of Russian superheroes that operated under Central Command that were their country's version of S.H.I.E.L.D. Crimson Dynamo was sent to recover an energy reactor that Hydra had acquired with a great deal of power where he had to battle Zarda of the Squadron Supreme and S.H.I.E.L.D. Avenger unit led by Captain America. It was revealed that the container actually contained Winter Guard member Radioactive Man who was freed by his comrades that had acted against Central Command's orders in order to free their comrade. During their fight with the Avengers, their base of operation's fell off a cliff threatening a nearby village but the Guard and Avengers managed to stop the damage with the aid of the freed Radioactive Man. Hostilities between the two teams ended amicably as a result after the Avengers learnt their opponents were not villains but rather heroes.

Video games

• In Marvel: Ultimate Alliance 2, the Winter Guard were briefly mentioned in the video game during a briefing sequence after the Wakanda incident where Captain America along with Iron Man reference that the team had been absorbed by the Fold.

Appearances

• Iron Man v3:
• Hulk v2:
• Avengers v8:

External Link

• Wikipedia Entry

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