Imperial Guard
Introduction
The Imperial Guard is a team of super-powered individuals serving the Shi'ar Empire in the Marvel Universe. In their first appearance in the X-Men titles, they were designed (by Dave Cockrum, not long after he left the Legion books) specifically to have powers and costumes resembling various Legionnaires. This was originally to be part of an unofficial crossover where an X-Men analogue group would appear in a Legion story around the same time, but the Legion story never appeared.
From time to time, more Guardsmen have been introduced, usually (but not always) resembling one or more Legionnaires in powers if not costumes as well. Most of the Guardsmen were patterned after a Pre-Crisis Legionnaire, but some of the later ones were derived from the Post-Zero Hour Legion. However, not every Guardsman has a Legionnaire counterpart.
List of Imperial Guardsmen
Imperial Guardsmen not on this list do not have a direct counterpart in the Legion.
| Imperial Guardsman | Legion counterpart |
| Arc | Live Wire |
| Astra | Phantom Girl |
| Blimp | Bouncing Boy |
| Commando | Mon-El |
| Cosmo | Star Boy |
| Delphos | Dream Girl |
| Electron | Cosmic Boy |
| Fader | Invisible Kid |
| Fang | Timber Wolf |
| Flashfire (aka Tempest) | Lightning Lad |
| Forunn | XS |
| Gladiator | Superboy |
| Glom | Matter-Eater Lad |
| G-Type | Wildfire |
| Hardball | Bouncing Boy |
| Hobgoblin (aka Shapeshifter, Shifter) | Chameleon Boy |
| Hussar | Tyr |
| Magique (aka Magic) | Projectra |
| Mentor | Brainiac 5 |
| Monstra | Monstress |
| Moondancer | Dawnstar |
| Neutron (aka Quasar) | Star Boy |
| Nightside (aka Nightshade) | Shadow Lass |
| Onslaught | Karate Kid |
| Oracle | Saturn Girl |
| Plutonia | Phantom Girl or Kono |
| Pulsar (aka Impulse) | Wildfire |
| Schism | Duo Damsel |
| Scintilla (aka Midget) | Shrinking Violet |
| Smasher | Ultra Boy |
| Solar Wind | Rond Vidar (as a Green Lantern) |
| Squorm | Quislet |
| Starbolt (aka Bolt) | Sun Boy |
| Stuff | Chameleon Boy |
| Titan | Colossal Boy |
| Voyager | Gates (though Voyager predates Gates) |
