Learn About All the Guardians of the Galaxy Characters

Millions of people became familiar with the Guardians of the Galaxy characters through the recent MCU movies directed by James Gunn. However fans of Marvel comics have been aware of Star Lord and his companions for many years.

In the MCU movies, we see the Guardians of the Galaxy team together with the Avengers to defeat Thanos in his quest to end half the life in the Universe.

Starlord, Groot, Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Racoon and Mantis have a rich and varied history within the Marvel comic books which is well worth reading into.

Drax the Destroyer

Drax the Destroyer is committed to revenge against Ronan the Accuser after his wife and daughter was murdered by the Kree warlord. 

In the movies, Drax is played by Dave Bautista. He is an alien species that is unable to understand metaphors as they can only speak literally.

Gamora

Gamora is played by Zoe Saldana in the Marvel Cinematic Universe movies. 

She was the adopted daughter of Thanos who spared her while annihilating her home planet and race of Zehoberei.

She is raised by Thanos as an assassin along with her adopted sister Nebula. As a result Gamora became known as The Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy.

Rocket Raccoon

Rocket Raccoon is a weapons fanatic, pilot and technical expert in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies. 

The character is played by Sean Gunn via motion capture and voiced by Bradley Cooper.

Rocket was created as a result of experiments by alien scientists on the Halfworld planet where he was genetically and cybernetically enhanced so that he was given sentient levels of intelligence.

Star-Lord / Peter Jason Quill

Star-Lord is played by Chris Pratt in the MCU. The movie begins with Peter Quill as a young Earth born child in 1988. 

When Peter Quill is captured by Yondu, he is taken in by the Ravagers and gives himself the criminal name of Star-Lord.

Groot

Groot is a sentient tree like character from Planet X voiced by Vin Diesel in the movies. 

Groot is partnered with Rocket Racoon as bounty hunters, collecting rewards for capturing wanted felons.

Baby Groot

Sacrificing himself to save the team, Groot dies in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. 

A sample of him is recovered by Rocket which is grown into a new Groot offspring.

During Vol.2 Groot is a child-like version of the original Groot. Baby Groot became one of the most popular Guardians of the Galaxy characters. In Infinity War and Endgame, Groot has grown to resemble a teenager.

Mantis

Mantis is played by Pom Klementieff as an empathic alien working for Ego in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. 

Mantis has abilities to help read and effect peoples emotions. During Vol.2 Mantis uses her abilities to encourage the living planet Ego to sleep as the team try to destroy it.

Then in Avengers: Infinity War she was able to briefly disable Thanos.

Yondu

Yondu Udonta is a Centaurian leader of a team of Ravegers. 

When Ego instructed him to kidnap Peter Quill from Earth, Yondu decided to keep Quill as his adopted son.

During the conclusion of GOTG vol.2 Yondu sacrificed himself to save Star Lord. Yondu is played by Michael Rooker in the MCU movies.

Nebula

Karen Gillan plays Nebula, the adopted daughter of Thanos. 

Nebula was a Luphomoid spared by Thanos after he killed her family. Thanos raised Nebula as his personal assassin.

Nebula would train with Gamora but as she could never defeat Gamora, Thanos would continually upgrade her body to try and improve her abilities.


Learn About All the Guardians of the Galaxy Characters