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Leonid Kovar is the Russian superhero Red Star. He was a member of the Teen Titans.

Origin

Leonid Kovar's father, Konstantin, was an archaeologist, and when the two investigated a spaceship that had crashed into the Yenesi River, the ship exploded. It imbued Leonid with energy, and gave him powers of super strength, speed, flight, and pyrokinesis. Being a Russian patriot who believed in socialism, he offered his services to his country and became the first official Russian superhero, taking the name Starfire. A new member named Starfire was on the Teen Titans at this point, and so Leonid changed his code name to Red Star.

Teen Titans

Red Star joined the Teen Titans. After two years, Red Star left the Titans with Pantha and Baby Wildebeest, forming a unique and somewhat dysfunctional family unit. He was frozen solid by Superboy-Prime after witnessing the brutal murder of Pantha and Baby Wildebeest. After the effects of the Infinite Crisis, the Titans went through over twenty members, including Red Star. Like all the others, however, he left. He then returned to Russia.

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Several months later, Red Star stopped an alien invasion of Russia (an alien-Russian war that lasted a week), and was in return named State Protector by the Russian President. He moved into a ship from the invasion, floating one thousand feet above the Kremlin. Living in solitude on the ship, Red Star makes the ultimate city protector. Weapons detectors on board can locate any bullet fired in Moscow, there are power test facilities, weapons, and living quarters. With a law passed making it so that metahuman activity in Russia without government authorization is illegal, Red Star is Russia's only hero.

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  • Although this character was originally introduced during DC's Earth-One era of publication, their existence following the events of the 1985–86 limited series Crisis on Infinite Earths remains intact. However, some elements of the character's Pre-Crisis history may have been altered or removed for Post-Crisis New Earth continuity, and should be considered apocryphal.

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