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Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series is Telltale Games' 2017 five-part episodic adventure, an original story in which the Guardians kill Thanos and pursue the Eternity Forge; released April to November 2017, later delisted.

Guardians of the Universe

Guardians of the Universe: DC Comics' immortal blue-skinned alien race from Maltus, based on Oa, founders of the Green Lantern Corps (first appearance Green Lantern vol. 2 #1, 1960); creators of the earlier Manhunters and the Starheart, and key figures in HBO's Lanterns.

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964

Guardianship of Infants Act 1964 (No. 7 of 1964), Irish statute consolidating custody and guardianship law; welfare of the child paramount, unmarried father guardianship after 12 months' cohabitation, amended by 2015 and 2026 Acts.

Guardicore

Guardicore was a Tel Aviv-based cybersecurity startup founded in 2013 by Pavel Gurvich, Ariel Zeitlin, and Dror Sal'ee that developed micro-segmentation software for data center and cloud environments.

Guarding Stars

Guarding Stars (formerly The Bodyguard) is a 2026 Netflix holiday romantic comedy directed by Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum, adapted from Katherine Center's 2022 novel, starring Leighton Meester as bodyguard Hannah Brooks protecting Jared Padalecki's movie star Jack Stapleton; released November 18, 2026.

Guardium (unmanned vehicle)

The Guardium is a semi-autonomous unmanned ground vehicle built by G-NIUS, used by the Israel Defense Forces to patrol the Gaza Strip border from 2008.

Guardrails AI

Guardrails AI is an open-source Python framework that applies validation guards to large language model applications, co-founded by Shreya Rajpal and acquired by Harvey in 2026.

Guarea

Guarea (F.Allam. ex L., nom. cons., 1771) is a Neotropical genus of Meliaceae trees, second largest American mahogany genus after Trichilia, with about 70 species from Mexico to Argentina, terminal-bud leaves, bird-dispersed sarcotestate seeds, and limonoid-rich chemistry.

Guarenas

Guarenas, Venezuela: city in Miranda state, seat of Plaza Municipality, founded 1621 as Nuestra Señora de la Copacabana y de los Guarenas; dormitory city of Caracas forming the Guarenas-Guatire axis with Guatire.

Guárico

Guárico, a central Venezuelan state in the llanos region, capital San Juan de los Morros, largest city Calabozo; fourth largest state, about 65,000 km2, 827,624 people, a rice and cattle economy built on the Río Guárico irrigation system.

Guarionex

Guarionex, who died in 1502, was a Taíno cacique ruling the chiefdom of Maguá in Hispaniola's Vega Real, and a leader of resistance to Spanish colonization.

Guarujá

Guarujá, the "Pérola do Atlântico", is a São Paulo state municipality on Ilha de Santo Amaro in the Baixada Santista, emancipated from Santos in 1934, with 27 beaches, 287,634 residents (2022), and a tourism-based economy.

Guarulhos

Guarulhos is a city in São Paulo state, Brazil, home to São Paulo/Guarulhos International Airport, Latin America's largest, and the state's second most populous municipality with 1.3 million residents.

Guatavita

Guatavita is a municipality in Cundinamarca, Colombia, about 45 km north of Bogotá, and the name of the sacred Muisca lake whose investiture ceremony inspired the legend of El Dorado.

Guatemala

Guatemala, Central America's largest economy (GDP US$120.96 billion, 2025), population 18.7 million, high poverty and child malnutrition, Maya majority victims of the 1960-1996 civil war ended by 1996 UN-brokered peace accords.

Guatemala City

Guatemala City (Ciudad de Guatemala, Nueva Guatemala de la Asunción), Central America's largest metropolis and Guatemala's capital, founded 1524 at Iximché, relocated to the Valle de la Ermita in 1776 after the Santa Marta earthquakes; 22 zones, Kilómetro Cero grid.

Guatemala national football team

Guatemala men's national football team (La Bicolor), FEDEFUT, founding Concacaf member 1961. Never qualified for a World Cup; best Gold Cup finishes: semifinals 1996 and 2025; FIFA suspension 2016-2018; coached by Luis Fernando Tena since 2021.

Guatemala–Mexico border

The Guatemala–Mexico border is the international boundary between Guatemala and the Mexican states of Chiapas, Tabasco, and Campeche, fixed by a treaty of 1882 and running about 956 kilometers.

Guatemalan Academy of Language

The Guatemalan Academy of Language (Academia Guatemalteca de la Lengua, AGL) is the Guatemalan academy of the Spanish language, founded in 1887 and legally recognized in 1888.

Guatemalan Christian Democracy

Guatemalan Christian Democracy (Democracia Cristiana Guatemalteca, DCG) was a Christian democratic party founded in 1955; its leader Vinicio Cerezo won the 1985 election with 67% and governed 1986–1990 before the party dissolved in 2007–2008.

Guatemalan Civil War

Guatemalan Civil War (Guerra Civil de Guatemala, 1960–1996): 36-year conflict between the Guatemalan state and leftist guerrillas such as the URNG; over 200,000 killed, UN-documented genocide against the Maya, ended by the 1996 Firm and Lasting Peace accord.

Guatemalan genocide

Guatemalan genocide: army killings of Maya peoples, chiefly Ixil, during 1981-1983 scorched-earth counterinsurgency under Lucas García and Ríos Montt; UN CEH found acts of genocide; Ríos Montt convicted in 2013.

Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity

The Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unity (URNG, Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca) is a Guatemalan political party formed by four guerrilla groups in 1982 and legalized in 1998.

Guatemalan Party of Labour

The Guatemalan Party of Labour (Partido Guatemalteco del Trabajo, PGT) was a communist party in Guatemala from 1949 to 1998, prominent under President Jacobo Árbenz.

Guatemalan Peace Accords

The Guatemalan Peace Accords are the agreements signed between 1991 and 1996 by the Guatemalan government and the URNG guerrilla alliance, ending the country's 36-year internal armed conflict.

Guatemalan quetzal

The Guatemalan quetzal, symbol Q, is Guatemala's currency, divided into 100 centavos and issued by Banco de Guatemala. Adopted in 1924, it trades near 7.6 per dollar.

Guatemalan Republican Front

The Guatemalan Republican Front (Frente Republicano Guatemalteco, FRG) was a right-wing populist Guatemalan party founded in 1990 by associates of retired general Efraín Ríos Montt, dominating politics in the 1990s.

Guatemalan Revolution

The Guatemalan Revolution (Revolución de Guatemala) was a reformist decade in Guatemala from 1944 to 1954, opened by the October 1944 uprising and closed by a CIA-backed coup.

Guatemalan–Salvadoran War of 1885

The Guatemalan–Salvadoran War of 1885, also called the Intentona de Barrios, was an April 1885 war begun after Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios proclaimed the union of the five Central American republics.

Guatemalans

Guatemalans, also known as the Guatemalan people, are the people of Guatemala, about 18.7 million in 2025, mostly Ladino and Maya, with a large diaspora in the United States.