Editing Guardians of the Universe (section)

==Appearance==
The Guardians usually appear as diminutive, blue-skinned humanoids wearing red robes and white tabards bearing their crest, the Green Lantern symbol. The appearance of the male Guardians is modeled after former [[Prime Minister of Israel]] [[David Ben-Gurion]].<ref name="hadassah">{{citation|last=Finkelshteyn|first=Leah|title=''Thwak''! To Our Enemies|publisher=[[Hadassah Magazine|Hadassah]] magazine|volume=84|edition=10|date=June–July 2003|url=http://cinechew.com/thwak-to-our-enemies/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150209060611/http://cinechew.com/thwak-to-our-enemies/|url-status=dead|archive-date=2015-02-09|access-date=2015-02-08}}</ref><ref name="cbulr-ben-gurion">{{citation|last=Cronin|first=Brian|title=COMIC BOOK URBAN LEGENDS REVEALED #148|date=March 27, 2008|url=http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/03/27/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-148/|access-date=July 13, 2012|archive-date=November 9, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131109173623/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2008/03/27/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-148/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

After their rebirth, the females are typically bald and have female characteristics, such as breasts, more noticeable eyelashes and lips, and tend to be less wrinkled and aged looking. Their male counterparts tend to have short, unkempt, white hair, and to be more wrinkled and aged looking. One long going inconsistency between artists has been the relative size of the Guardians' heads to their short bodies, most artists designing them with larger heads to suggest their larger brains and alien anatomy, whereas others have been shown to draw near enough human-like proportional heads. Another difference has been their ears, which have been seen to be human-like, and on other occasions, to be elf-like. Their eye color also frequently changes between artists, usually between blue and green.

The Guardians' attire originally featured a long red robe with a stylized, Dracula-like collar, and their symbol emblazoned on the chest. Following their rebirth, this changed to them wearing a long red robe with a more scholarly collar, and a white tabard with their emblem on the chest area. They have also been shown by some artists to wear white undershirts, the sleeves of which can be seen sometimes under the robe's sleeves. Though their feet are not usually seen beneath their robes, they have been shown to wear red, pointed shoes.