Yeah, more fun choices. I love Gargoyle, of the B-team Defenders. I could read about a whole team of Guardsmen, with variations to their armors (one stealth, one high-speed, one 'heavy mettle' strength-suit, etc.).
And those original Guardians. I have a soft spot for Nikki. Super-fast reflexes should put her on par with Spider-Man, or at least Gambit or Daredevil or Joystick, when it comes to leaping around and the battlefield. She's a dead shot with her energy pistols, and able to absorb incoming energy, releasing the excess through her fiery hair-corona-thing. She's just a terror when faced with enemies who use energy weapons (like aliens), as she's nearly impossible to hit, and when you *do* hit her, it just juices her up even more, and in the meantime, she's blasting through your forces like they are moving in slow motion, which, to her, they might as well be! Nikki's got some serious potential, but always seems to be disregarded as 'the token chick' and treated almost like she's not even powered, in favor of Martinex, Charlie-27, Yondu and Starhawk. For that matter, if the original Guardians came back, I'd want Aleta full time as Starhawk, and the dude Starhawk to be locked away in her mind and never spoken of, since that's pretty much what he deserves. It's totally her turn.