Winter Guard
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The Winter Guard is a fictional team of Russian superheroes in the Marvel Comics universe. They became noteworthy during the Kurt Busiek run of Iron Man, where they had several guest appearances.
They fought alongside the Avengers in Iron Man (vol. 3) # 10, during the "Maximum Security" crossover, and during the "Kang War".
The Winter Guard are noted for being 'almost the Avengers', a label they share with the Canadian superteam Alpha Flight and the Japanese superteam Big Hero 6. Several members of the group formerly belonged to the Soviet Super-Soldiers and the Supreme Soviets. Unlike those two previous teams, which were often adversarial towards other costumed superheroes, the Winter Guard is much more heroic in nature.
[edit] Members
At the time, their membership consisted of:
- The Steel Guardian - Russia's answer to Captain America
- Vanguard - a mutant with the power to reflect energy at his attackers
- Darkstar - a mutant who could draw power from 'the Darkforce Dimension'
- Sibercat - a ferocious feline mutant
- Fantasma - a sorceress and illusion-caster
- Vostok - a robot with the power to control machines
- Powersurge - a nuclear-fueled giant
- Blind Faith- A Catholic priest with telepathic powers.
