The Guardian Project is a fictional superhero squad created by Stan Lee for Guardian Media Entertainment, in conjunction with the National Hockey League.
Mike Mason is a 15-year-old hockey fan, who sketched 30 different characters for the NHL teams, designing their powers and personalities, giving them alter-egos and writing about grand adventures they would embark on.
Once the evil Devin Dark and his military machines attack Earth, Mason's characters come to life as the Guardians.
[3] By June, NBCUniversal had signed a multimillion-dollar deal with GME, hoping to exploit the Guardian franchise in various media.
[4] But by December 2011, the project had failed to develop momentum[5] and was dropped without further fanfare.