Rocket Red Brigade
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The Rocket Red Brigade was an elite force of superhumans created by the Soviet Union with the aid of the Green Lantern Corps member Kilowog. They consisted of genetically enhanced soldiers clad in powerful battlesuits. When the other Earth-based Green Lanterns tracked Kilowog down, the Rocket Reds attacked them, and Kilowog was forced to destroy Rocket Red 1 to release them. Kilowog left in disgust, but the Rocket Reds continued on, with at least nine members.
They later battled the Justice League, until the Soviet government ordered them to join forces with the League to prevent a nuclear meltdown. Still later, Rocket Red 7 joined the Justice League when it became an international peace force.
The Rocket Red Brigade was eventually retired (probably around the time of the fall of the Soviet Union), and the battlesuits were later put up for sale at an illegal arms auction. The suits were purchased by Vandal Savage, who used their nuclear-powered suits as nuclear "missiles" with which he attempted to conquer the world. He also imprisoned the captured and newly reformed Teen Titans in the suits, to kill them in the process. However, at the same time, the Hourman Virus struck, causing the suit with Tempest to go off-course, free the hero, and annihilate the city of Montevideo in Uruguay. The other suits were divested of their unwilling wearers, and destroyed by members of the Justice Legion A, before they could be used to wipe out Metropolis, Brussels, and Singapore.
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The history of the Rocket Reds may now be somewhat different, since the DC universe's modern heroic age only stretches back a decade or so.
