Red Guardian

Alexei is the Soviet answer to Captain America, decades past his prime, and entirely unwilling to accept either half of that sentence. The comedy comes from the gap between the legend he tells and the man telling it; the pathos comes from the fact that some of the legend is true.

He arrives in Doomsday attached to Yelena rather than to any institution. Whatever team he is nominally on, his actual loyalty is to a family that was originally a cover story.

Physically he is one of the few genuinely enhanced people on the roster, which the films tend to forget between fight scenes.