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The Imperial Guard is a team of fictional super-powered alien warriors in the Marvel Comics universe. Marvel Comics is an American comic book line published by Marvel Publishing, Inc. ...
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The Imperial Guard, an army of powerful beings that enforce Shi'ar Imperial law on all planets within the Shi'ar Galaxyserves the rulers of the Shi'ar Empire (currently Vulcan and Deathbird). The original incarnation of the Imperial Guard were created by writer Chris Claremont and artist Dave Cockrum. The team first appeared in X-Men volume 1 #107 and its most notable appearance was at the conclusion of the Dark Phoenix Saga, where they defeated the X-Men in the Phoenix's trial by combat, but the team lost to Phoenix from one attack. The Shiar, pronounced // (Shee-ARR), are a fictional species of aliens in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Vulcan (Gabriel Summers) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Deathbird (Calsyee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics supervillainess, an adversary of the X-Men. ...
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The cover of Giant-Size X-Men #1 by Gil Kane & Cockrum, featuring characters Cockrum designed. ...
The Uncanny X-Men, first published as simply The X-Men, is the flagship Marvel Comics comic book series for the X-Men franchise, it features the adventures of the eponymous group of mutant superheroes. ...
Dark Phoenix on the cover of the Dark Phoenix TPB; art originally from Uncanny X-Men #135, by John Byrne. ...
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Gladiator is the Praetor (leader) of this elite corps of the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. The elite corps also protects and carries out the personal directives of the majestor or majestrix (emperor or empress) of the Shi’ar Empire.
The first known encounter of the Imperial Guard when the Imperial Guard battles the X-Men at the command of then-Shi'ar Emperor D'Ken.[1] Gladiator and several members of the Guard fight the X-Men once more when new Shi'ar Empress Lilandra Neramani and Professor Charles Xavier arrange a trial by combat to decide the fate of the out of control Dark Phoenix.[2]
Lilandra's sister, Deathbird, later staged a successful coup and becomes the new majestrix of the Shi'ar Empire. Despite the guards loyalty to Lilandra , they continued to serve the Shi'ar Empire as the Imperial Guard.
Much later Lilandra reclaimed the right to the Shi' ar throne and the Impereal Guard protected her throneworld as usual.
During the time when many Earth heroes were believed dead after a battle with the psionic being Onslaught, Lilandra dispatched a cadre of 8 Guardsmen to help protect Earth. These were: Gladiator, Commando, -a new guardsman who used to be a Kreesoldier-, Earthquake, Electron, Flashfire, Mentor, Nightside and Oracle. There, the Guardsmen uncovered a plot by a militant Kree faction to exact revenge for Earth's involvement in the Kree/Shi'ar war. The Guard ultimately proved triumphant, but not before the Kree's leader, the Supreme Intelligence, was recreated. Soon after, the Guard foiled an assassination attempt on Lilandra by the Kree Ronan and his unwilling agents, the Inhumans' Royal Family.
After Lilandra came under the mental possession of Cassandra Nova, the genetic twin of Xavier who had usurped her brother's body, she was mentally coerced into dispatching the Guard to kill the X-Men. After a pitched battle, the X-Men were able to convince the Guard of the true threat, and together they defeated Nova and freed Lilandra (although not before Nova had been able to do immense damage to the empire). In this story, during Grant Morrison and Frank Quitely's run on New X-Men, a new version of the Imperial Guard was introduced: the Shi'ar Superguardian Elite. It is unknown what, if any, distinction exists between the Guard and the Elite, although many old Guardsmen were also members of the Elite. We can now assume it was just a temporary name since after this story they used only the name 'Impereal Guard'. Grant Morrison (born January 31, 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and artist. ...
Frank Quitely Frank Quitely (born January 18, 1968) is the professional pseudonym of Scottish comic book artist Vincent Deighan. ...
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As of the Guard's most recent appearance in Uncanny X-Men #480, the Imperial Guard suffered heavy casualties in battle with Vulcan. Those confirmed dead are Smasher, Titan, Impulse, Neutron, Hobgoblin, and Cosmo. Oracle and Nightside were injured, but Nightside has since recovered. Gladiator, Scintilla, Manta, Earthquake, Mentor, Electron, Astra, Starbolt and Flashfire survived. The status of the rest of the Imperial Guard is unknown as yet. Vulcan (Gabriel Summers) is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
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The Imperial Guard, consisting of dozens of known Guardsmen, is led by Gladiator. Other prominent members are: This is a list of the members of the Imperial Guard. ...
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Mentor is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
The Imperial Guard is a team of fictional super-powered alien warriors in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Starbolt (formerly known as Bolt) is a fictional character, a member of the Imperial Guard and who first appeared in Uncanny X-Men #107. ...
The Imperial Guard is a team of fictional super-powered alien warriors in the Marvel Comics universe. ...
Warstar is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
Earthquake is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
Manta is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
Hussar is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
Scintilla is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
Flashfire is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe. ...
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Resemblances to DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes.
Gladiator mimicking Superboy's "super-breath" in the X-Men animated series The Imperial Guard has many intentional resemblances to DC Comics' Legion of Super-Heroes. The Guard is headed by Gladiator, who is the team's analogue to the LSH's Mon-El and by association is also analogous to Superboy and Superman. Most of the other members are direct equivalents in super-powers and have similar details of costume design to specific Legionnaires, but there are a number who differ greatly from their counterparts or who have no counterpart at all. The original Imperial Guard members seen in X-Men #107 were designed by artist Dave Cockrum, who had previously been best known for his work on the Legion of Super-Heroes, and all had direct counterparts among the Legionnaires. (Nightcrawler was intended to be in a Legion spinoff team book, but Cockrum left the book before he could be introduced, so he brought the character over to Marvel. [1]) Later Guardsmen, beginning with the members introduced in X-Men #137, moved away from the Legion pastiche and began introducing characters with no Legionnaire counterparts. New Guardsmen corresponding to the LSH would not be introduced until the 1990s' Avengers crossover "Operation: Galactic Storm". Gladiator This is a screenshot of a copyrighted website, video game graphic, computer program graphic, television broadcast, or film. ...
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The Legion of Super-Heroes is a DC Comics superhero team created by writer Otto Binder and artist Al Plastino. ...
Lar Gand, known also variously as Mon-El, Valor, or MOnel, is a fictional character in DC Comics universe who is affiliated with the Legion of Super-Heroes, Superboy, and later Superman. ...
Superboy is the name of several fictional characters in the DC Universe, most of them youthful incarnations of Superman. ...
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Nightcrawler (Kurt Wagner) is a member of the X-Men, appearing in books published by Marvel Comics. ...
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Collective list of titles - Avengers vol. 1 #345
- Avengers West Coast #80-82
- Captain America vol. 1 #398
- Classic X-Men #14
- Excalibur vol. 1 #69-70
- Exiles #3-4, 87-88
- Imperial Guard #1-3
- Inhumans vol. 3 #3-4
- New X-Men vol. 1 #117, 122-126, 133
- Quasar #32-33, 54-56
- Rom Annual #4
- Starblast #1-4
- Starjammers #4
- Thor vol. 1 #445-446
- Uncanny X-Men #107-109, 136-137, 155, 157-158, 162, 275-277, 341, 467-468, 477, 480
- What If? #55-56
- X-Men Spotlight on ... Starjammers #2
Other Media The Imperial Guard appears in the 1990's X-Men TV series. X-Men is an American animated series which debuted on October 31, 1992 on the Fox Network as part of its Fox Kids Saturday morning lineup. ...
Gladiator, Neutron, Hussar, Starbolt and Warstar appear in Marvel: Ultimate Alliance as enemies.
External links - Uncannyxmen.net feature on the Imperial Guard
- Shi'ar Imperial Guard at Knightmare6.com
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