GUARDIAN

'Guardian' can refer to:

★ ''Guardian'', a title given to a guard or protector

★ Legal guardian, a person responsible for a ward

★ Guardian (weapon), a double action only pistol

★ Guardian (comics), a Marvel Comics superhero and a Golden Age DC Comics hero

★ ''Guardian'', one of the four temperaments according to the Keirsey Temperament Sorter

★ ''The Guardian'', the appointed leader of the Bahá'í Faith from 1921 to 1957, title given to Shoghi Effendi

★ ''Guardian'', a custom operating system that was key to Tandem Computers systems' failover modes

★ An alternative name for the Philosopher king in Plato's ''Republic''

★ A short form of the name Guardian of Forever, an alien object in the Star Trek universe

★ In the Final Fantasy X universe, a guardian is one who protects a summoner on their quest to defeat Sin.
Several newspapers go by the name of 'Guardian':

★ '''The Guardian''', a British newspaper founded in 1821 as the ''Manchester Guardian'', which took its current title in 1959

★ ''The Guardian'', a daily newspaper founded in the 1870s located in Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, Canada.

★ The ''San Francisco Bay Guardian'', a free weekly newspaper published in San Francisco

★ ''The Guardian'' is also the name of the newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia

★ ''The Guardian (1713)'', a short-lived British publication of 1713, founded by Richard Steele and featuring contributions by his collaborator Joseph Addison

★ ''The Guardian (1846)'', a weekly Anglican newspaper founded in 1846 by Richard William Church and others, which ran until 1951

★ ''Guardian (US)'', a New York newspaper, published as the ''National Guardian'' from 1948 to 1967 and ''Guardian'' from 1967 to 1992

★ ''The Guardian (Tanzania)'', a Tanzanian newspaper

★ ''The Guardian (Nigeria)'', a Nigerian newspaper

★ ''The Guardian (Belize)'', a Belizean newspaper
'Guardian' in music:

★ Guardian Records, a record label affiliated with EMI, which went out of business in 2002

★ Guardian (band), a Christian hard rock band
'Guardian' in video games:

★ Class in Everquest 2

★ Units in Battle Realms WotW

★ Guardian (Ultima), the final villain of the Ultima series

★ Guardian (computer game), a 1984 computer game for ''Commodore 64'' by Alligata Software

★ , a 1985 computer game for ''Commodore 64'', ''ZX Spectrum'' and ''Amstrad CPC'' by Hi-Tec Software

★ Guardian, an airborne Zerg breed used as a bomber in the ''StarCraft'' series.

★ The Guardian Angel (computer game), a 1990 computer game for ''Commodore 64'', ''ZX Spectrum'' and ''Amstrad CPC'' by Codemasters

★ Guardian Unit of Nations, from the Sonic the Hedgehog fictional universe

★ In AdventureQuest, one of the players that has paid to have special access to the game

★ In DragonFable, a player that has bought a Guardianship in the game ''AdventureQuest''
'Guardian' in film:

★ ''The Guardian (1989 film)''[1], a 1989 animated Soviet short film

★ ''The Guardian (1990 film)'', a 1990 motion picture

★ ''Guardian (2000 film)'', a 2000 motion picture

★ ''The Guardian (2006 film)'', a 2006 motion picture

★ ''The Guardian (TV series)'', a CBS TV show
'Guardian' in the Armed Forces:

★ HMS ''Guardian'', three ships of the Royal Navy

★ AF Guardian, a warplane of the US Navy
'Guardians' can refer to several things:

★ ''The Guardians'' is a 1970 novel by John Christopher.

★ The Guardians (The Guardians of the Ancient Wisdom) are a Hip-Hop duo comprised of Madam Blahvatski and danDNA who are based in London, England and are closely connected to the writer Stan Gooch. Their name is taken from the title of one of Gooch's books.

★ ''Guardians: Outlook'' is an original science fiction Virtual series by J. J. Estes. The series is set in the near future and follows mankind's progress toward becoming the galactic guardian species.

★ ''The Guardians'' was the name of a series of military science fiction novels by Richard Austin about a team of elite post-apocalyptic Special Ops soldiers.

★ The Guardians were the hero robots in the American animated TV series Challenge of the GoBots.

★ ''Guardians'' is the name of a 2006 Off-Broadway play by Peter Morris.

★ ''Guardians'' is the name of a collectible card game from FPG.

★ ''Guardians'' in the Halo (video game series) refers to the act in which the game displays that "The Guardians" have killed someone in the case that there is no other programmed response explaining the death.

★ The ''PAR1 Guardian'' is a pressurized air gun created by Pills of the ZRC CODE

★ The Guardian, a fictional character from ''The Tribe''. He was played by Damon Andrews.