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Rocket Red
Rocket Red (Russian: Ракетно-Красный, romanized: Raketno-Krasnyy) is a superhero appearing in the DC Comics universe. Created by Steve Englehart and Joe Staton, he first appeared in Green Lantern Corps #208 (January 1987),[1] appearing shortly afterward in Justice League in issue #3 (July 1987); Rocket Red was inducted into the Justice League in Justice League #7 (November 1987). The term "Rocket Reds" refers to any member of the Rocket Red Brigade; the name in the singular is used to refer to the three individual characters named Rocket Red who were members of the Justice League. These comprise the original Rocket Red #7 (later revealed as an android), Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red #4), and Gavril Ivanovich. Fictional character biographyDmitri Pushkin Dmitri Pushkin (Rocket Red #4) joins the Justice League International after Rocket Red #7 is revealed to be a Manhunter. A kind-hearted and jolly man with a taste for American culture, Pushkin serves with the Justice League International for many years. During this time, Pushkin befriends Animal Man and lives with Maxwell Lord at the League's Paris embassy.[2][3] He later retires, but returns to heroics in The OMAC Project, where he is killed protecting the League's members. Booster Gold reveals that Rocket Red's grandfather Sergei was a Russian scientist who developed the Rocket Red armor during the Cold War.[4] In Blackest Night, Rocket Red returns as a Black Lantern.[5] Gavril IvanovichThe second Rocket Red, Gavril Ivanovich, is a renegade member of the group who sports outdated armor and beliefs. Despite this, he joins the Justice League after helping them battle Checkmate.[6][7][8][9] In The New 52 continuity reboot, Ivanovich is part of a United Nations-assembled superhero team led by Booster Gold.[10][11] He is later killed in an explosion during a press conference introducing the team.[12] Powers and abilitiesThe Rocket Reds were originally created for the Soviet Union by Kilowog and the Rocket Red Brigade — normal human beings enhanced using "forced evolution" and armored battle suits — proudly defended the USSR. Their abilities included super strength, invulnerability, flight, the ability to project powerful energy blasts, and "mecha-empathy", the ability to sense and control computers and machines. In other mediaTelevision
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