Red Guardian
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Name
Alexi Andreovitch Shostakov [ 1 ]
Current Alias
Red Guardian [ 2 ]
Aliases
Ronin [ 3 ]
Codenames:
Affiliation and Relationships
Affiliation
Dark Ocean Society
Formerly
KGB, Legion of the Unliving ( Grandmaster ), Legion of the Unliving ( Grim Reaper )
Relatives
Natasha Romanova (ex-wife)
Marital Status
Divorced
Physical Characteristics[21]
Gender
Male
Height
6′2″ ( 1.88 meter )
Weight
220 pound ( 99.79 kilogram )
Eyes
Irises:
Reading: Alexi Shostakov (Earth-616)
- Blue
Hair
Red
Origin and Living Status
Origin
Human
Living Status
Alive
Reality
Earth-616
Place of Birth
[ 4 ], Russia ( Union of Soviet Socialist Republics )
Nizhny Novgorod
Personal Information
Identity
Secret
Citizenship
russian
Occupation
Former test pilot, special operative for the intelligence agencies of the Soviet Union and of the People’s Republic of China
Base of Operations
Various KGB and military headquarters in the Soviet Union, later a secret base in the People’s Republic of China
Creators and Appearances
Creators
Roy Thomas, John Buscema
First
Avengers # 43
( June, 1967 )
( As
Widowmaker # 1
( December, 2010 )
( As
(As Red Guardian (As Ronin
This will be my bequest — a raw, connect empire, rising from the ashes of these islands … and the ashes of you who are anserine adequate to oppose me. The choice is immediately yours … die swiftly fighting or slowly in flames ?
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- —Ronin[src]
history
early life sentence
Alexi Andreovitch Shostakov ( russian : Алексей Андреевич Шостаков ) was one of the Soviet Union ’ s most acclaim test pilots. Because of his extraordinary skill, Shostakov was chosen for the most secret and dangerous flight tests for the Soviet Union. however, the soviet collectivist news media greatly publicized certain other missions of his, and Shostakov was decorated as a Hero of the Soviet Union. Shostakov was besides successful in his private life, having married the equally celebrated ballerina Natalia ( familiarly known as Natasha ) Romanova. It was decided at the KGB that the Shostakovs would make particularly dependable limited operatives. While Alexi was aside from home on a mission, he was informed of the state ’ s new plans for him and told that from then on he could have no contact with any of his by friends and acquaintances, or even his own wife. interim, a soviet official told Natalia that her husband had died in the explosion of an experimental skyrocket he was testing. Distraught, Natalia Shostakova said that she wanted to do something to be worthy of the memory of her heroic verse conserve. The KGB had anticipated her reaction and was able to immediately put her into train to become the spy known as the Black Widow. finally the Black Widow, who was again using her maid identify, defected to the United States. [ 5 ] [ 6 ] [ 7 ] [ 8 ]
loss defender
The KGB trained Alexi to become the second Red Guardian, a limited costume agentive role who was intended to be the Soviet Union ’ s counterpart to Captain America. During the years of his aim, Shostakov became a barbarous, pitiless man, very different in personality from what he was while living with his wife. The People ’ s Republic of China developed a device called the psychotron, which could induce mass hallucinations. This gave the Red Chinese a weapon against which the United States and the Soviet Union had no defensive structure, letting them conquer one of these superpowers, eliminating it as a rival and menace.
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however, the Red Chinese needed a means of bringing psychotrons within range of the countries they intended to conquer. They realized they would need the submarines of one nation to carry the psychotrons near the shores of the early. Deciding that the Soviet Union would help them conquer another country, the Red taiwanese government informed the Soviets about the psychotron and their plan to conquer America .
Meeting the Avengers
Intrigued at the idea of therefore easily ending their competition with the United States, the Soviet Union sent a high-level military officeholder, General Yuri Brushov, and Shostakov, now known as the Red Guardian, to the unavowed military nucleotide in China where the prototype of the psychotron was kept. Brushov was to determine the effectiveness of the car, and the Red Guardian was to protect both him and it. For this assignment, the KGB made the Red Guardian subject to orders from Colonel Ling, the lead of the Red Chinese military base ; the Red Guardian had had no former contact with Brushov. The Black Widow came to the establish on a mission for S.H.I.E.L.D. and was captured. Her then current lover Hawkeye followed her, along with fellow Avenger Hercules. The Red Guardian captured Hawkeye and lured Hercules into the psychotron, where he was beset with hallucinations. The Red Guardian then unmasked before Hawkeye and the Widow, and she realized with repugnance that he was her husband. The Avengers, led by Captain America, arrived at the base, and the Red Guardian saw his long-awaited opportunity to prove himself the ranking of his american counterpart, and the two fight. [ 9 ] captain American was defeating the Red Guardian when Ling electrified a power system that the captain was standing upon, rendering him unconscious. The Red Guardian was outraged at Ling ’ second action. The Black Widow escaped and climbed toward the nerve center of the psychotron to destroy it. The Red Guardian, who silent loved her, tried to stop Ling from killing her, but Ling shot him rather. The Widow used her electronic “ widow ’ s sting ” to destroy the psychotron, thereby besides starting explosions and fires in the complex. Ling saw Hercules carrying the unconscious Captain America to safety and, determined on vengeance, aimed a laser gun at the Captain. however, the dying Red Guardian would not allow Ling therefore to kill a brave but helpless opposition, and with his last department of energy, shoved Ling ’ s gun away. The laser balance beam hit some boast pipes, and the leave explosion and burn triggered an bang of the purportedly abruptly vent upon which the base had been built. The base, including the Red Guardian and Ling, was consumed in the resulting catastrophe, while the Black Widow and the early Avengers all returned safely to the United States. [ 10 ] russian agents then created a Life-Model Decoy of Alexi Shostakov, which they used to dupe Natasha into believing her husband was still alive. With threats of terminating Alexi, they forced to perform acts of espionage for Russia against the United States. Upon gaining the desire technology, the Russians revealed the truth and tried to kill the Widow, but with Ivan Petrovich ‘s avail she defeated them and destroyed the Alexi LMD. [ 11 ] The Red Guardian ‘s compare was used by two different incarnations of the Legion of the Unliving. He was first used against the Avengers as a pawn of Death and the Grandmaster. [ 12 ] late, he appeared in a numerous gathered by the Grim Reaper ‘s supernatural powers. [ 13 ] The United States politics attempted to have Natasha handed over to the government of Bulgaria in exchange for having Madame Hydra ( Viper ) released to the United States. Natasha once again cross paths with Daredevil and the two of them worked with S.H.I.E.L.D. to bring down the people behind the campaign to have her turned over to the bulgarian government. Natasha came grimace to face with Alexi, her conserve think to be dead. Alexi had orchestrated the wholly matter in an attack to swipe at Natasha. Natasha confronted Alexi along with S.H.I.E.L.D. agents and the Avengers at her back. Alexi was taken into custody. [ 14 ]
Ronin
Alexi late resurfaced as the assassin Ronin as a member of the Dark Ocean Society. He recruited a youthful girlfriend with delusion powers to be his new Fantasma, and outfitted a numeral of troopers with double armor and powers of the Supreme Soviet members Vostok, Perun, and Crimson Dynamo. [ 15 ]
Attributes
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Abilities
The Red Guardian was a brilliant athlete with remarkable agility, who was trained in many forms of disarm battle by the KGB. The Red Guardian was besides a superb fender, considered the best in his field. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] [ 18 ] [ 19 ] [ 20 ] [ 1 ]
Paraphernalia
equipment
On his belt the Red Guardian wore a disk, which, when detached from the belt, he could hurl as a weapon. particular charismatic devices inside the magnetic disk and belt out caused the magnetic disk to return to the Red Guardian after he had thrown it .
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