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|creators = [[Mike Baron]] (writer)<br>[[Jackson Guice]] (artist)
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'''Red Trinity''' ({{langx|ru|Красная Троица|Krasnaya Troitsa}}, a.k.a. Kapitalist Kouriers) is a fictional [[DC Comics]] Russian superteam introduced in ''[[Flash (comics)|Flash]]'' (vol. 2) #6 (November 1987). They were created by [[Mike Baron]] and [[Jackson Guice]].

==Fictional history==


Doctor Pytor Orloff is a prominent Russian scientist at the Puleski Institute in [[Siberia]]. Orloff was able to inflict super-speed on laboratory subjects using steroids and cybernetic implants, in conjunction with specialized [[gene therapy]]. Orloff decided to create Red Trinity after conquering the adverse side effects which afflicted his prototype team, [[Blue Trinity]].<ref name=flash07>{{Cite comic | Writer = [[Mike Baron|Baron, Mike]] | Penciller = [[Jackson Guice|Guice, Jackson]] | Inker = [[Larry Mahlstedt|Mahlstedt, Larry]] | Story = Red Trinity | Title =The Flash | Volume = 2 | Issue = #7 | Date = December 1987 | Publisher = DC Comics | Page = | Panel = | ID =}}</ref>

While the members of Blue Trinity were extremely powerful, they were also emotionally unstable, slow witted, and prone to violence. Currently known only as Anatole, Bebeck and Cassiopeia, the trio became super-powered operatives in the employ of the Russian army.<ref name=flash07/>

Red Trinity came into conflict with Blue Trinity after they helped Wally West ([[Flash (comics)|Flash]]) smuggle Doctor Orloff out of Russia, because his expertise was needed to save the life of Doctor Jerry McGee (Speed Demon) in America.<ref name=flash07/> Flash and Red Trinity fight and defeat Blue Trinity at the [[Finland|Finnish]] border.<ref>{{Cite comic | Writer = [[Mike Baron|Baron, Mike]] | Penciller = [[Jackson Guice|Guice, Jackson]] | Inker = [[Larry Mahlstedt|Mahlstedt, Larry]] | Story = Purple Haze | Title =The Flash | Volume = 2 | Issue = #8 | Date = January 1988 | Publisher = DC Comics | Page = | Panel = | ID =}}</ref> As a result of their trip, Red Trinity decided to make the United States their home. They started up a super-powered intercontinental messenger service called "Kapitalist Kourier Service, Inc."<ref>{{Cite comic | writer = [[Mike Baron|Baron, Mike]] | penciller = [[Mike Collins (comics)|Collins, Mike]] | inker = [[Larry Mahlstedt|Mahlstedt, Larry]] | story = Velocity 9 | title =The Flash | volume = 2 | issue = #12 | date = May 1988 | publisher = DC Comics | page = 9 | panel = 4}}</ref>

Later Lady Flash (Christina Alexandrova of Blue Trinity) and the three Kapitalist Kouriers were asked to capture a rogue Soviet terrorist named Proletariat who opposed [[glasnost]]. Together they prevent Proletariat from detonating a concealed bomb.

During the ''[[War of the Gods (comics)|War of the Gods]]'' intracompany crossover, the combined forces of Flash, Lady Flash, the Kapitalist Kouriers and [[Chunk (comics)|Chunk]] ended a battle between the Roman god [[Mercury (mythology)|Mercury]] and the Greek god [[Hermes]] who were locked in a competition to prove who was faster, a competition which put all [[Keystone City]] in danger.

The big man named Cassiopeia died due to [[Savitar (comics)|Savitar]] absorbing the speed from all of the world's super-speedsters in ''The Flash'' (vol. 2) #108, while Cassiopeia was running up the side of a building; he then fell to his death.

==Membership==
* '''Anatole''' - a medium-sized cocky young man, he wanted to defect.
* '''Bebeck''' - a woman, and the head of Kapitalist Kouriers. She also wanted to defect.
* '''Cassiopeia''' - a large man, initially unwilling to defect but he gave in to the other two, now deceased.

==See also==
* [[List of Russian superheroes]]

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20060813112344/http://www.mykey3000.com/cosmicteams/cosmic/r.html Cosmic Teams: Red Trinity]
* [http://www.dcuguide.com/who.php?name=kapitalistkouriers DCU Guide: Kapitalist Kouriers]
* [http://www.titanstower.com/source/libindex/flashindex.html Titan's Tower: Flash series index]

{{Flash}}

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[[Category:Soviet Union-themed superheroes]]
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[[Category:Fictional Soviet people]]
[[Category:Characters created by Mike Baron]]
[[Category:Characters created by Jackson Guice]]
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[[Category:Flash (comics) characters]]

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