History ComicBook / TheNewGuardians

* UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks: If any series was the Bronze Age incarnate, this series was its evil twin, embodying all the ways to handle the social issues covered in comics at the time in the worst way possible.

* Xia Po (Gloss), a Chinese woman able to draw vague energy from the world's "Dragon Lines". Disappeared for a while before showing up in One Year Later to [[CListFodder be decapitated and killed by Prometheus]].

* Elizabeth "Betty" Clawman, an [[UsefulNotes/AustralianAborigines Australian aborigine]] granted vast and unspecified powers connected to The Dreamtime.

* Xia Po (Gloss), a Chinese woman able to draw vague energy from the world's "Dragon Lines". Disappeared for a while before showing up in One Year Later to [[CListFodder be decapitated and killed by Prometheus.]]

** Betty Clawman is an Australian-Aboriginal girl whose powers revolve around [[HollywoodDreamtime the Dreamtime]].
** Extraño is CampGay man and a sorcerer.

The year is 1988. Marvel's ComicBook/NewMutants, a team of young multi-ethnic super-heroes, has become quite popular. Creator/DCComics, looking over its mostly-white starring line-up, decides that it was time for an AlternateCompanyEquivalent, just like the ComicBook/GlobalGuardians tried to be for the Uncanny X-Men. Thus came the ''ComicBook/{{Millennium}}'' CrisisCrossover. At the center of the story was a team of twelve special humans from all over the globe, chosen by the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guardians Of The Universe]] whose offspring would eventually come to replace them. Of course, like usual, the Guardians hadn't done their homework. One of the chosen ([[ComicBook/TeenTitans Terra]]), was already dead. Another was senile. Two more, KGB agent Nikolai Latikov and Iranian woman Salima Baranizar were killed by their own people. And one more, Janwillem Kroef, was a [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra racist Afrikaner]] who wanted nothing to do with having to team up with other ethnicities. So, by the end of the CrossOver, the group was down to seven and, surprise, surprise, they ended up with super-powers:

The year is 1988. Marvel's ComicBook/NewMutants, a team of young multi-ethnic super-heroes, has become quite popular. Creator/DCComics, looking over its mostly-white starring line-up, decides that it was time for an AlternateCompanyEquivalent, just like the ComicBook/GlobalGuardians tried to be for the Uncanny X-Men. Thus came the ''ComicBook/{{Millennium}}'' CrisisCrossover. At the center of the story was a team of twelve special humans from all over the globe, chosen by the [[Franchise/GreenLantern Guardians Of The Universe]] whose offspring would eventually come to replace them. Of course, like usual, the Guardians hadn't done their homework. One of the chosen ([[ComicBook/TeenTitans Terra]]), was already dead. Another was senile. Two more were killed by The Manhunters. And one more, Janwillem Kroef, was a [[UsefulNotes/TheApartheidEra racist Afrikaner]] who wanted nothing to do with having to team up with other ethnicities. So, by the end of the CrossOver, the group was down to seven and, surprise, surprise, they ended up with super-powers:

* Betty Clawman, an [[UsefulNotes/AustralianAborigines Australian aborigine]] granted vast and unspecified powers connected to The Dreamtime.
* Extraño, a homosexual Peruvian magician, with energy powers and every gay stereotype you can think of. Presumably the Guardians had also failed in their research when choosing him for a breeding partner. Was eventually revealed to be HIV positive, possibly as a result of an attack by the AIDS-powered vampire Hemo-Goblin. Go ahead and read that last sentence again.
* The Floronic Man (going by "Floro" at the time), also known as Jason Woodrue. An American villain of The Atom that had just been given a boost of popularity after appearing in Creator/AlanMoore's ''Comicbook/SwampThing'', and went through a HeelFaceTurn. Had the power to control plants, and, indeed, was made of plants himself, and y'know, unable to breed with humans. Way to go, Guardians.
* Jet, an Jamaican woman living in England, granted powers over electromagnetism. Became HIV positive, definitely as a result of an attack by the aforementioned AIDS-powered vampire, Hemo-Goblin, and would later die from the condition. Would later pop up alive, several [[CosmicRetcon Cosmic Retcons]] later.
* Gloss, a Chinese woman able to draw vague energy from the world's "Dragon Lines". Disappeared for a while before showing up in One Year Later to [[CListFodder be killed by Prometheus.]]
* Ram, a Japanese man turned into a robot somehow able to breed with humans and granted the ability to communicate with electronic equipment. Was last seen as a portrait in supervillainess Roulette's underground arena, making him presumably killed off-screen.

* Also on the team was Harbinger, an agent of the Monitor from ''ComicBook/CrisisOnInfiniteEarths'', apparently because she was a semi-popular character that no one was doing anything else with at the time.

The name would later be used for a ''Franchise/GreenLantern'' team with little connection to the original, and little or no acknowledgement would ever be given to the team in DC continuity. The villain Snowflame [[Webcomic/{{Snowflame}} got his own fairly notable fancomic]], but it transplants him into the Gotham mythos. In the main universe, he was most recently referenced in a 2018 issue of ''Green Lantern'' and is set to return in a 2020 ''ComicBook/{{Catwoman}}'' storyline [[TheBusCameBack after a 32 year bus ride]].

* LightEmUp: The apty named Snowflame, who can generate light powers from cocaine.

* Ram, a Japanese man turned into a not-able-to-breed-with-humans robot and granted the ability to communicate with electronic equipment. Was last seen as a portrait in supervillainess Roulette's underground arena, making him presumably killed off-screen.