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incorrigible flirt LMFAOOO

The Flash #7 (1987-2008)

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In your opinion are there any “villains” who were only considered villains because of politics(USSR, etc), or any “heroes” only considered heroes for the same reason?

I'm going to say no, if only because the superhero community in itself wouldn't allow that. Let's take your biggest example, the USSR and other communist countries during the Cold War.

While there are some who are seen more as villains (The People's Heroes, The Blue Trinity) this was because they were used more as military assets for violent altercations with American super teams like The Outsiders or The Flash.

Stepping outside of that we have...

Red Star, who is a long time member of and ally to the Teen Titans in good standing

Red Trinity, allies of The Flash Family. (Incidentally, they changed their name shortly into their careers and are now best known for running the lovingly named delivery service "Kapitalist Kouriers" if you need something delivered NOW)

Soyuz, a team of teenage superheroes who during the late Soviet Era and even into the modern day are most well known for their constant battles with the corrupt parts of the Russian government (read, all of it)

And last but not least, those of you living in former Soviet territory are screaming at me from Warsaw to Vladivostok the second this topic came up.

The only

The Beloved

The Rocket Red Brigade!

(Art from a recruitment poster of the Brigade, mid 80s)

Originally active in the mid to late 80s and still often seen throughout all former Soviet territory, the Rocket Reds are adored the world over but especially in the nations where they operate. While their iconography has updated substantially in the past 30 odd years (removing the hammer and sickle and the CCCP across their helmets) the Reds are still seen as the be all, end all of superheroism in Eastern Europe and Central Asia even when relations to Russia itself have become...frosty to say the least.

They are, and have been basically since inception, a partnered organization of the Justice League and Global Guardians. One of their number, Gavril Ivanovich served with distinction in the Justice League International where he is still concerned the beating heart of that line up.

Soviet heroes, when they acted heroic, with the intention to protect the innocent, to stand against those who would cause harm are treated like heroes because "American" or "Western" heroes are not beholden to the geopolitical bugbears of their home nations. They're vigilantes for the most part.

The example that the Rocket Reds provide is unassailable. Because they're superheroes, and anyone who has seen them operate knows it.

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Wally meets some new comrades, his faves (✿◠‿◠)

The Flash vol 2 #7

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Red Trinity

THE FLASH #7 DECEMBER 1987 BY MIKE BARON, JACKSON GUICE, LARRY MAHLSTEDT AND CARL GAFFORD

Wally goes to Siberia to rescue the only scientist that could save Tina’s husband’s life. Only problem is, the scientist doesn’t want to leave the country.

SCORE: 7

Again, I feel like Millennium interrupted something in Mike Baron’s plans for the book. The rule to read Millennium is to read the event book first and then the tie-ins of that week, that means this story will have to wait and then cut short when it comes back. I have the feeling that this story had to be decompressed and that would explain why very little happens in this chapter.

We do get an introduction to the Red Trinity and the Blue Trinity (whose only female member will have a more interesting history in this volume). Other than that, not much happens.

Guice doesn’t impress me much in this issue, but I do appreciate that Wally looks sexier than Barry ever did.

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I like to imagine a Traverse Town resident graffiting steel walls with red trinity so Gooby smashes Dolan into walls

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