Guardsmen
Team of armored guards, who are used as arresting officers in crimes involving super-powered criminals, court bailiffs at super-villain trials, and as prison guards in the maximum security facility, The Vault.
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Television
- The Guardsmen (though called Mandroids) appear in Iron Man: The Animated Series. In Part 1 of the "Armor Wars" arc, Iron Man attacks the Guardsmen at the Vault after believing their armor was derived from his stolen technology. Iron Man defeats Hawkeye and the Mandroids, but discovers that their armor was not based off of his designs as he originally thought.
- The Guardsmen appear in Iron Man: Armored Adventures. In this continuity, the Guardsmen are actually a group of armored criminals (Force, Shockwave and Firepower) who are posing as heroes on Obadiah Stane's behalf.
- The Guardsmen appear in Avengers Assemble.
Merchandise
- A Guardsman (dubbed "Vault Guardsman") was included in ToyBiz's Spider-Man: Techno-Wars line.
- Guardsman was included in Diamond Select's Minimates line.
- Guardsman was included in the HeroClix figure game.
- The first Venom figure from ToyBiz's Spider-Man Classics line came with a display base that depicted a defeated Guardsman.
- The Vault Guardsmen were featured in Hasbro's Marvel Legends line as part of the Ursa Major Build-a-Figure wave.
