Guardian

Fictional entities

• Guardian (comics), characters from various comics
• Guardian (DC Comics), a superhero
• Guardian (Highlander), a character in the film Highlander: The Source (2007)
• Guardian, a supercomputer in American science fiction thriller film Colossus: The Forbin Project (1970)
• Guardians, player characters in Destiny, a 2014 first-person shooter video game
• Guardians, a playable class in the game The Lord of the Rings Online
• Philosopher kings, also called Guardians, a role hypothesised in Plato's Republic
• The Guardian, the main and player character of The Guardian Legend, a 1988 video game
• The Guardian, an alien being in the Ultima series of role-playing video games
• The Guardians, a group of characters in the 1984 TV series Challenge of the GoBots
• Guardians, police officers in The Handmaid's Tale (TV series)
• Guardians, enemies in The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild

Films

• Guardian, 2001, directed by John Terlesky
• The Guardian (1917 film), a silent film starring Montagu Love and June Elvidge
• The Guardian (1990 film), a horror film directed by William Friedkin
• The Guardian, a 1997 television film starring Stephanie Niznik
• The Guardian (2006 film), a drama starring Kevin Costner and Ashton Kutcher
• Guardians (2012 film), a German action film
• Guardians (2017 film), a Russian superhero film
• The Guardians (2017 film), a French film directed by Xavier Beauvois
• Guardian (2021 film), a Malayalam-language film directed by Satheesh Paul
• Guardian (2024 film), a Tamil-language horror film directed by Sabari and Guru Saravanan
• The Guardian (2024 film), a South Korean-Philippine action drama directed by Jeong Jang-hwan

Games

• Guardian (1986 video game), a 1986 beat 'em up for arcades
• Guardians (card game), a collectible card game published in 1995/96
• Guardian (video game), a 1994 3D shoot 'em up for the Amiga CD32 games console
• Guardians (video game), a 1995 coin-operated arcade game

Literature

• Guardians (play), a 2005 off-Broadway stage play by Peter Morris
• The Guardian (novel), 2003, by Nicholas Sparks
• The Guardian (play), a 1633 Caroline era stage play by Philip Massinger, reworked 1642 by A. Cowley
• The Guardians (Christopher novel), 1970, by John Christopher
• The Guardians (Abbey novel), a 1982 novel by Lynn Abbe
• The Guardians (Grisham novel), a 2019 legal thriller novel by John Grisham
• The Guardians, a series of military science fiction novels published from 1985 to 1990 by Richard Austin
• The Guardians, a 2007 novel by Ana Castillo

Music

• Guardian (band), an American Christian hard rock/metal band
• Guardians (The Crimson Armada album), 2009
• Guardians (August Burns Red album), 2020
• "Guardian" (song), 2012, by Alanis Morissette from her album Havoc and Bright Lights
• "Guardian", a song by Fates Warning from their 1986 album Awaken the Guardian
• Guardians Drum and Bugle Corps, a drum and bugle corp from Dallas, Texas
• "GUARDIAN", a track from Deltarune Chapters 3+4 (Original Game Soundtrack)

News and periodicals

Television and web series

Visual arts

• Guardian (sculpture), a statue in Abertillery, Wales, UK
• The Guardian (sculpture), a public artwork in Redwood City, California, US
• Guardians, artworks by American artist Kris Neely
• Guardians of Traffic, a set of statues on the Hope Memorial Bridge in Cleveland, Ohio, US
• Wächter (Anatol) (Guardian), several monumental outdoor sculpture by Anatol Herzfeld

Financial institutions

• Guardian Bank, Kenya
• Guardian Building Society, UK
• Guardian Capital Group, a publicly traded asset management company
• The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America, a mutual life insurance company domiciled in New York

Other businesses and organizations

• Guardian Angels, an international volunteer organization for unarmed crime prevention
• Guardian Industries, a manufacturer of glass, automotive and building products headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan
• Mannings, known as Guardian in Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore, a health care retailer

Military vehicles

• Boeing AH-64E Apache Guardian, a variant of the AH-64 Apache
• Dassault HU-25 Guardian, a modified Falcon 20 business jet formerly used by the U.S. Coast Guard
• Grumman AF Guardian, a warplane of the U.S. Navy
• HMS Guardian, three ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Guardian, three ships of the U.S. Navy

Other military uses

• Northrop Grumman Guardian, an anti-missile system for commercial airliners
• Space professionals of the United States Space Force
• Weishi Rockets (Chinese: 卫士; lit. 'Guardian'), a family of Chinese multiple rocket launcher systems

Asia

• Fubon Guardians, a team in the Chinese Professional Baseball League (CPBL) in Taiwan
• Galle Guardians, a provincial T20 cricket team in Sri Lanka

United States

• Cleveland Guardians, a team in Major League Baseball (MLB) known as the Cleveland Indians from 1915 through 2021
• Dallas Beer Guardians, an independent supporters group of FC Dallas of Major League Soccer (MLS)
• Golden Guardians, an esports organization
• Orlando Guardians, an American-football team in the XFL, formerly the New York Guardians
• San Diego Guardians, a team in The Basketball League (TBL)