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Real Name: Dr. Tania Belinskya
Occupation: Neurosurgeon
Legal Status: Citizen of the U.S.S.R. with no criminal record.
Identity: Known to Soviet Intelligence
Place of Birth: Leningrad, U.S.S.R.
Marital Status: Single
Known Relatives: Dr. Andrei Belinsky (father)
Base of Operations: Mobile
Past Group Affiliations: Defenders, partner of Sergei Krylov, the Presence
Known Powers:
Nuclear Form: After her transformation, the Red Guardian was permanently irradiated and gave off Remarkable levels of radiation at all times, within a 2-area range. She mastered the following Power Stunts:
- Flight at Incredible speed (20 areas/round)
- The ability to fire Energy of Amazing damage up to 5 areas away
- The ability to generate a heat shield providing her with Incredible protection against physical attacks. Any physical object of less than Incredible material would melt in contact with the shield
- Absorption of radiation of up to Unearthly levels
Equipment:
Belt Disc: Tania’s belt disc could be thrown or wielded in hand-to-hand combat to do Excellent Edged damage. The device lacks the magnetic retrieval capability of the first Red Guardian’s.
Talents:
Tania had the Thrown Weapons talent, and was trained in Martial Arts A & E, as well as Acrobatics and Tumbling. She was a skilled neurosurgeon with the Medicine and First Aid talent. She spoke fluent Russian.
Contacts:
Tania helped the original Defenders on several occasions. She became the partner of the Presence (Sergei Krylov).
Role-Playing Notes:
Before her transformation, Dr. Belinskya was a dedicated physician, using all of her talents and skills to help the helpless and infirm, no matter the cost. It is difficult to determine what effects her transformation has had on her personality, or whether she is yet free of the Presence’s mental domination.
History:
Dr. Tania Belinskya was the daughter of Dr. Andrei Belinsky, a leader of the Soviet dissident movement which protests the repressive policies of the Soviet Union. Despite her youth, Belinskya herself had become one of the world’s greatest and most renowned neurosurgeons. After her father was exiled to Siberia for his public denunciations of Soviet policies, Belinskya decided to adopt a secret costumed identity, unknown to the state, in order to help other dissidents and to fight crime. Belinskya named herself after the deceased Red Guardian, a special intelligence operative for the Soviet government, and modeled her costume after his. She knew the original Red Guardian had been intended to be the Soviet Union’s counterpart to Captain America. She, too, intended to be her own country’s version of Captain America, but whereas the original Red Guardian served the policies of the state, she would attempt to uphold the spirit of liberty which Captain America represented and which the Soviet Union suppressed. Belinskya was motivated by a deep love of her native country and a desire to move it towards liberalization.
Dr. Stephen Strange obtained permission for Belinskya to come to the United States to perform a complicated operation on Kyle Richmond, who was also known as Nighthawk. After completing the operation, Belinskya went into action in America as the Red Guardian when Richmond was abducted from the hospital by the Plantman. She acted as a member of the superhuman team of adventurers known as the Defenders for the rest of her time in the United States. After having been shunned in the Soviet Union for years because of her father’s opinions, Belinskya found her first true friends in her colleagues in the Defenders.
Belinskya was forced to return to the Soviet Union by Sergei Krylov, also known as the Presence, a brilliant scientist who had become a powerful figure in the Soviet government. Krylov had selected Belinskya as the woman he believed most worthy to be his mate once he had achieved his goal of transforming himself into a superhuman being. Krylov placed Belinskya’s mind under his mental domination. Through exposure to cobalt radiation and a nuclear explosion, Krylov transformed both himself and Belinskya into superhumans capable of generating nuclear energy and using it in various ways. The Defenders battled the Presence and the entranced Red Guardian. Belinskya succeeded in regaining control of her mind during the battle, and demanded that Krylov leave her, claiming that he did not truly love her, and was trying to force her into his own image. Krylov really did love her, but departed, crushed. Since in her new form Belinskya emitted harmful radiation constantly, she allowed herself to be taken into custody by the Soviet government, which kept her in a chamber at a research institute.
But later, the Presence was sighted back in the radioactive Siberian area called the Forbidden Zone, where Krylov had detonated a nuclear bomb in order to transform himself into his superhuman state. The Red Guardian, released to investigate, found him battling a gargantuan life form created by Krylov’s past genetic engineering and mutated by nuclear waste. In fighting the life form beside Krylov, Belinskya began to fall in love with him, and she chose to remain in the Forbidden Zone with him.
Later, the renegade Soviet scientist Professor Pieter Phobos used means of his own to drain energy from the Presence and the Red Guardian in order to extend the Forbidden Zone’s radiation over all of the Soviet Union. In order to thwart this plan, the Presence and Red Guardian absorbed the radiation of the Forbidden Zone into themselves. They then left Earth, claiming that they would transform themselves into inert matter once they were far from this planet. Whether this is truly their final fate remains unknown.