Defensor is a fictional character in the Marvel Universe

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Publication history

Defensor first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes: Contest of Champions #1 (June 1982). He also appeared in issues #2-3 of the series (July-August 1982).

The character subsequently appeared in The Incredible Hulk Vol. 2 #279 (January 1983), and his death was revealed in Captain America #422 (December 1993).

Defensor received an entry in the original Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe

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Fictional character biography

Gabriel Sepulveda was born in Córdoba, Argentina

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. He was a construction worker operating an excavating machine digging the foundation for an apartment building in Córdoba, when he unearthed the entrance to a hidden underground passageway. He later sneaked back to the construction site at night and began to explore the labyrinth of catacombs beneath. In one of the chambers he found a suit of armor resembling that of the Spanish conquistadores of the Fourteenth Century. He decided to use this vibranium

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 armor to be a champion of the people.

Later he was teleported away by the Grandmaster, along with hundreds of other heroes of Earth, so that the Grandmaster and Death

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 could choose champions from among them. Defensor was chosen for the Grandmaster's team, fighting alongside fellow heroes Captain America

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, the aborigine Talisman

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 III, Darkstar

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, Captain Britain

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, Wolverine

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, Sasquatch

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, Daredevil

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, Peregrine

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, She-Hulk

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, Thing

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, and Blitzkrieg

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. When the Grandmaster's team won the contest, the heroes were returned to Earth.

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, posing as Zeitgeist, later assassinated a number of South American superheroes, including Defensor.