Red Guardian (Alexei Shostakov)
Modern, Comics: Russian agents use a Life Model Decoy of him to manipulate Natasha into spying for Russia.
Cinematic
The Soviet Union's only recipient of a recreated super soldier serum and its answer to Captain America. After the Soviet collapse he was sent undercover in Ohio with a fake family, later jailed by his friend Dreykov, then freed in 2016 to help take down the Red Room. Years later he became a limo driver, then joined the Thunderbolts and was named one of the New Avengers.
Comics
A celebrated Soviet test pilot turned KGB operative and the second Red Guardian, whose wife Natasha was told he had died. He appeared dead after a failed psychotron mission in China against the Avengers. Later he surfaced as Ronin of the Dark Ocean Society, was jailed, escaped with Yelena Belova, helped and sometimes betrayed her, and eventually joined Bucky's Thunderbolts against the Red Skull.
Timeline 17 events
- Silver · Comics: Sent by the KGB to a Chinese military base to guard a psychotron prototype, he clashes with Hawkeye, Hercules and the Avengers and is revealed to Natasha as her husband.
- Silver · Comics: Shot by the base commander, he spares Captain America and dies when the base is destroyed in a volcanic eruption.
- Modern · Comics: His likeness is used as a pawn of Death and the Grandmaster in the first Legion of the Unliving.
- Modern · Comics: Russian agents use a Life Model Decoy of him to manipulate Natasha into spying for Russia.
- Modern · Comics: His likeness appears again in a Legion of the Unliving gathered by the Grim Reaper.
- Modern · Comics: He is revealed alive after engineering a plot against Natasha and is taken into custody by S.H.I.E.L.D. and the Avengers.
- Modern · Comics: As Ronin of the Dark Ocean Society he is defeated by Black Widow, Hawkeye and Mockingbird and handed to S.H.I.E.L.D.
- Fresh Start · Comics: He joins a cadre of Black Widow's enemies that implants false memories in her, then takes a bullet meant for her.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Held in an Antarctic prison turned training site, he is freed by Yelena Belova and escapes after the facility explodes.
- Fresh Start · Comics: He steals hard drives tied to Operation Snowblind with Yelena, betrays her, and is stopped by the Winter Guard before fleeing to Madripoor.
- Fresh Start · Comics: He joins Bucky Barnes' Thunderbolts during the raid on the Red Skull's castle in Argentina.
- Fresh Start · Comics: In Latveria he takes out the hidden Red Skull base's defenses and teleports out with the team before Doctor Doom destroys it.
- 1992 · Cinematic: After the Soviet collapse, Dreykov sends him undercover to Ohio to destroy a Hydra-infiltrated S.H.I.E.L.D. front, posing as a family man with Melina Vostokoff and two girls.
- 1995 · Cinematic: He burns down the North Institute, flees with the family by plane under S.H.I.E.L.D. fire, and lands in Cuba where the girls are handed back to the Red Room.
- 2016 · Cinematic: Natasha Romanoff and Yelena Belova break him out of the prison by helicopter to find Dreykov.
- 2016 · Cinematic: He is reunited with Melina Vostokoff in Saint Petersburg and is then taken with the family aboard the airborne Red Room.
- 2016 · Cinematic: At the Red Room he fights Taskmaster, escapes the collapsing fortress with Vostokoff, and later watches Romanoff send the freed Widows away as Ross arrives.
allied with
Yelena Belova, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Winter Soldier, U.S. Agent, Ghost, Sentry
enemy of
Steve Rogers, Black Widow (Natasha Romanoff), Red Skull, Taskmaster (Antonia Dreykov)
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