Guardians Of The Legend

Guardian usually refers to:
* Legal guardian, a person with the authority and duty to care for the interests of another
* ''The Guardian'', a British daily newspaper

(The) Guardian(s) may also refer to:

Places

* Guardian, West Virginia, United States, an unincorporated community in Webster County
* Guardian Nunatak, a landform on Antarctica's Dufek Coast
* Guardian Rock, an islet off the Antarctic Peninsula in Bigourdan Fjord
* Guardian telephone exchange, Manchester, England
* Wonder Mountain's Guardian, a roller coaster at Canada's Wonderland, Vaughan, Ontario

People

* GuardiaN (Ladislav Kovács; born 1991), Slovak professional video-game player
* Angel Guardian (born 1998), Filipina actress and singer
* Don Guardian (born 1953), mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

* Guardian (comics), characters from various comics
* Guardian (DC Comics), a DC Comics superhero
* Guardian (''Highlander''), a character in the film ''Highlander: The Source'' (2007)
* Guardian, a supercomputer in American science fiction thriller film '' Colossus: The Forbin Project'' (1970)
* Guardians, player characters in ''Destiny'', a 2014 first-person shooter video game
* Guardians, a playable class in the game ''The Lord of the Rings Online''
* Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a rôle hypothesised in Plato's ''Republic''
* The Guardian, the main and player character of ''The Guardian Legend'', a 1988 video game
* The Guardian, an alien being in the ''Ultima'' series of role-playing video games
* The Guardians, a group of characters in the 1984 TV series ''Challenge of the GoBots''
* Guardians, police officers in ''The Handmaid's Tale'' (TV series)

Films

* ''Guardian'', a 2001 film directed by John Terlesky
* ''The Guardian'' (1917 film), a silent film starring Montagu Love and June Elvidge
* ''The Guardian'' (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
* ''The Guardian'', a 1997 television film starring Stephanie Niznik
* ''The Guardian'' (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
* ''Guardians'' (2012 film), a German action film
* ''Guardians'' (2017 film), a Russian superhero film
* ''The Guardians'' (2017 film), a French film directed by Xavier Beauvois
* ''Guardian'' (2021 film), a Malayalam film directed by Satheesh Paul

Games

* ''Guardian'' (1986 video game), a 1986 beat 'em up for arcades
* ''Guardians'' (card game), a collectible card game published in 1995/96
* ''Guardian'' (video game), a 1994 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
* ''Guardians'' (video game), a 1995 coin-operated arcade game

Literature

* ''Guardians'' (play), a 2005 off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
* ''The Guardian'' (novel), a 2003 novel by Nicholas Sparks
* ''The Guardian'' (play), a 1633 Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger, reworked 1642 by A. Cowley
* ''The Guardians'' (Christopher novel), a 1970 novel by John Christopher
* ''The Guardians'' (Abbey novel), a 1982 novel by Lynn Abbe
* ''The Guardians'', a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin
* ''The Guardians'', a novel by Ana Castillo

Music

* Guardian (band), an American Christian hard rock/metal band
* ''Guardians'' (The Crimson Armada album), 2009
* ''Guardians'' (August Burns Red album), 2020
* "Guardian" (song), a 2012 song by Alanis Morissette from her album ''Havoc and Bright Lights''
* Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corp from Dallas, Texas

News and periodicals

Australia

* ''Daily Guardian'' (Sydney), a former newspaper in Sydney, Australia
* ''The Guardian'', a bulletin of the Communist Party of Australia (1971)

Canada

* ''Brampton Guardian'', a free, weekly community newspaper in Ontario
* ''Etobicoke Guardian'', a weekly suburban newspaper in Toronto
* ''The Guardian'' (Charlottetown), a daily newspaper on Prince Edward Island

United Kingdom

* Guardian Media Group, owners of ''The Guardian'' , ''The Observer'' and ''The Guardian Weekly''
** ''The Guardian'', formerly ''Manchester Guardian''
** theGuardian.com, online resource of ''The Guardian''
* ''Cornish Guardian'', a local weekly newspaper in Cornwall, England
* ''Farmers Guardian'', a weekly newspaper aimed at the British farming industry
* ''Glasgow University Guardian'', the student newspaper of the University of Glasgow
* ''Neath Guardian'' (published 1925–2009), a local weekly newspaper in Neath, Wales
* ''South Wales Guardian'', a local newspaper in Ammanford, Wales
* ''The Guardian'' (1713), a London newspaper founded in 1713 and running only briefly
* ''The Guardian'' (Anglican newspaper), an Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 and running until 1951
* Local and regional newspapers published by Newsquest

United States

* ''Boston Guardian'' (published 1901–1950), an African-American newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts
* ''National Guardian'', a New York weekly newspaper founded in 1948, renamed ''The Guardian'' in 1967 and running until 1992
* ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', a free alternative newspaper published weekly in San Francisco, California
* ''UCSD Guardian'', the student newspaper at the University of California, San Diego

Elsewhere

* ''Ashburton Guardian'', a daily, later tri-weekly, newspaper in Ashburton, New Zealand
* ''The Guardian'' (Belize), the official print organ of the United Democratic Party
* ''Daily Guardian'' (Iloilo), an English-language newspaper in Iloilo City, Philippines
* ''The Guardian'' (Nigeria), an independent daily newspaper published in Lagos, Nigeria
* ''The Sunday Guardian'', a weekly newspaper based in New Delhi, India
* ''Trinidad and Tobago Guardian'', a daily newspaper in Trinidad and Tobago

Television and web series

Series

* ''Guardian'' (web series), a Chinese web drama released in 2018
* ''Guardians Evolution'', a 2014 claymation series on APTN Kids
* ''The Guardian'' (TV series), a CBS series that first aired in 2001 starring Simon Baker
* ''The Guardians'' (South Korean TV series), South Korea
* '' Guardian: The Lonely and Great God'', South Korea
* ''The Guardians'' (British TV series), a 1971 UK television drama series

Episodes

* "Guardians" (''The Walking Dead''), an episode of the television series ''The Walking Dead''
* "The Guardian" (''Sliders''), an episode of the television series ''Sliders''

Visual arts

* ''Guardian'' (sculpture), a statue in Abertillery, Wales, UK
* ''The Guardian'' (sculpture), a public artwork in Redwood City, California, USA
* ''Guardians'', artworks by American artist Kris Neely
* ''Guardians of Traffic'', a set of statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, USA
* ''Wächter'' (Anatol) (''Guardian''), several monumental outdoor sculpture by Anatol Herzfeld

Businesses and organizations

Financial institutions

* Guardian Bank, Kenya
* Guardian Building Society, United Kingdom
* Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management company
* The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York

Other businesses and organizations

* Guardian Angels, an international volunteer organization for unarmed crime prevention
* Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan
* Mannings, known as ''Guardian'' in Malaysia and Singapore, a health care retailer

Military

Military vehicles

* Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian, a variant of the AH-64 Apache
* Dassault HU-25 Guardian, a modified Falcon 20 business jet formerly used by the U.S. Coast Guard
* Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the U.S. Navy
* HMS ''Guardian'', three ships of the Royal Navy
* USS ''Guardian'', three ships of the U.S. Navy

Other military uses

* Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
* Space professionals of the United States Space Force
* Weishi Rockets (), a family of Chinese multiple rocket launcher systems

Religion

* Custos (Franciscans) or Guardian, the term used in place of Religious Superior among Franciscans
* Guardian (Baháʼí Faith), a now defunct hereditary office of the Bahá'í Faith
* Guardian angel, assigned to protect and guide a particular person or group
* Guardian deity, a spirit who protects a particular place, person, culture or occupation
* Medusa (meaning "Guardian" or "Protectress"), one of the Gorgons of Greek mythology

Sports

Asia

* Fubon Guardians, a team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan
* Galle Guardians, a provincial T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka

United States

* Cleveland Guardians, a team in Major League Baseball (MLB) known as the Cleveland Indians from 1915 through 2021
* Dallas Beer Guardians, an independent supporters group of FC Dallas of Major League Soccer (MLS)
* Golden Guardians, an esports organization
* New York Guardians, an American-football team in the XFL
* San Diego Guardians, a team in The Basketball League (TBL)

Technology

* Guardian (database), an intel reporting system the FBI use to track threats
* Guardian (polymer), a substrate used in the production of polymer banknotes
* ''Galaxy'' (spacecraft), previously ''Guardian'', a cancelled prototype space habitat

Other uses

* ''Guardian'' (fireboat), a fireboat operated in the San Francisco Bay since 1990 in reserve status
* Guardian of Scotland, the ''de facto'' head of state of Scotland during the interregnums of 1290–1292 and 1296–1306
* Guardian stones, standing stones at the corners of enclosures around a dolmen
* Guardian temperament, one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

See also

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* Defender (disambiguation)
* Guard (disambiguation)
* Guarda (disambiguation)
* Guardia (disambiguation)
* La Guardia (disambiguation)
* The Guard (disambiguation)
* The Guardian (disambiguation)

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