Guardians of the Galaxy
Star-Lord
(Chris Pratt) - "Wrongly branded a traitor by his father Eson, Prince Jason of
Spartoi fled the Empire, exploring deep space for many years. When war broke
out between the Spartoi Empire and the Ariguan Confederacy, Eson summoned his
wayward son home, but en route his ship's converter blew. To avoid a complete
meltdown, and with his ship apparently slipping backwards through time, Jason
crash landed in Earth's Colorado Mountains, his arrival witnessed by Meredith
Quill, who dragged him from the burning vessel. As she nursed him back to
health and helped him rebuild his ship, the pair fell in love. After a year,
Jason was ready to depart; informed by his bio-comps that Meredith had just
conceived their child and unwilling to endanger her, Jason reluctantly left
Meredith behind, promising to return for her once the war ended, but
mindlocking her memories, sparing her the heartbreak he felt. Less than a month
later, Meredith married her childhood sweetheart, Jake.
Suspecting
Meredith's child was not his, when Peter Jason Quill was born, Jake angrily
noted that the infant resembled neither of them. Intending to slay the child,
Jake carried him outside, but suffered a fatal heart attack; Peter was left
staring into the starlit sky for an hour before Meredith found strength to
crawl outside to him. Mentally and physically weakened, Meredith's world
revolved around raising her son. Peter grew up a loner, fascinated by science
fiction shows and NASA's exploits.
When
the Spartoi / Ariguan conflict turned in Sparta's favor, Jason asked his uncle
Gareth to bring his family to him. Having his own designs on the throne, Gareth
instead hired Kyras Shakati, crimelord of Cinnibar, to eliminate the Quills;
Shakati in turn sent the Ariguan Sith-Lord Rruothk'ar to carry out the murder.
Peter, now 11, witnessed Rruothk'ar's ship land, and watched Rruothk'ar and his
men slay his mother. The killers departed, unaware they had missed their main
target; Peter swore to one day make them pay. Gareth informed Jason that his
wife and son had died in childbirth, while Peter became increasingly insular,
running away from the orphanage on his 13th birthday. Subsequently devoting
himself to intense study, he graduated college and was accepted into NASA's
space effort astronaut training program. Though one of their highest ever
scoring trainees, he remained socially withdrawn, his sole friend his pet owl,
Al. During training, Peter risked his life to save fellow student Greg
Harrelson when a centrifuge malfunctioned, but afterwards castigated Harrelson
for being too stupid to save himself, engendering a deep hatred. When Peter's
lack of social skills saw him passed over for Mars Probe III in favor of
Harrelson, Peter re-evaluated his life. He spent the next five months improving
his deportment, eventually being assigned to Eve, NASA's first permanently
manned space station; entering space for the first time was a rapturous
experience for Quill.
Though
Peter loved being amongst the stars, he soon realized his childhood vow might
never be fulfilled, as mankind's limited technology meant he was unlikely to
venture further into space. A couple of months later, Eve's crew witnessed a
celestial apparition which declared itself Star-Lord, a concept of what a
Terran of their selection would become in a fortnight. Peter volunteered, but
Houston High Command was skeptical of the vision's claims, and felt that any
candidate required more space experience; Peter's violent reaction saw him
discharged Earth-side. Refusing to miss his opportunity, Peter stole a
scoutship from Cape Canaveral, returned to Eve, and shot his way to the
appointed spot, where his old rival Harrelson, NASA's choice, was awaiting
selection. Dislodging his rival at the critical moment, Peter was transported
away in his stead. Finding himself before the enigmatic Master of the Sun,
Peter admitted his transgressions, but was nonetheless transformed into
Star-Lord; to free Peter of his need for vengeance, the Master seemingly
allowed Peter to destroy an Ariguan ship, afterwards informing him he was free
to begin a new life and giving him Ship, a sentient former star who would be
his guide and companion.
Perhaps
knowing Peter needed closure, Ship seemingly took Star-Lord into his father's
future time, where he learned of slavers destroying whole planets and
kidnapping the surviving populace; catching up with them just after they had
devastated Windhölme, his attack inspired a slave revolt. Accompanied by the
revolt's leaders, Kip Hölm and Sandy, Peter used Kip's psychic powers to track
the slavers back to their Cinnibar base and slavelord Kyras Shakati. Sandy slew
him and the trio fled moments before a dead man's switch destroyed Shakati's
palace, but not before Star-Lord scanned his computers, learning that the
slaving financed a planned coup. Racing to Sparta to prevent this, they
confronted Gareth and Rruothk'ar; Star-Lord recognized Rruothk'ar as his
mother's killer and slew him, then crossed swords with Gareth. A superior
duelist, Gareth disarmed and unmasked Star-Lord; startled by his resemblance to
Jason, his shock allowed Star-Lord to turn the tables, and he slew Gareth
moments before the Emperor arrived. Recognizing his son, Jason informed Peter
of his origins, overjoyed to have found him again, but Peter rejected the
notion of becoming the Empire's heir, suggesting Jason adopt Kip instead. Years
later, Jason tried again to convince his son to return to Sparta, but was again
rebuffed.
Ambushed
above the planet Ferrol by a Lorq starfighter squadron, Ship was shot down. To
operate on the badly injured Star-Lord, Ship generated a human form; amused
that Peter didn't recognize her when he revived, Ship pretended to be explorer
Caryth Halyan. Witnessing Lorq ships searching overhead, the pair located a
crystal cavern housing the Lorq's prey: the gestating Trinity-Which-Is-One, a
telepathic entity linked in a symbiotic lifecycle with the indigenous Dune
Devils. Caryth and Ship died defending Peter and the Trinity when the Lorq
attacked them, with Caryth dying in Star-Lord's arms after he downed the Lorq
vessels; however, Ship's energy state was indestructible, and the maturing
Trinity healed Ship's disrupted consciousness, allowing her to resume spaceship
form.
When
Ship sensed the destruction of the planet Carillon by the Haalmhad homeship,
the same people who had destroyed Ship's planets back when she was a star,
Star-Lord rushed to the K'yndar system to save its other inhabited world,
Cymoril; while Ship distracted the Haalmhad, Star-Lord disabled their homeship,
then stranded the inhabitants on a primitive world 20 parsecs away.
Investigating an unidentified massive power source on planet Redstone,
Star-Lord learned the world's "founder" Quan-Zarr had slaughtered the
previous inhabitants, experimenting on the survivors to turn their children
into leonine Beastmen, who now sought revenge. Star-Lord allowed the Beastmen
to attack Quan-Zarr's tower and slay the scientist, but was forced to kill the
last surviving Beastman before he used Quan-Zarr's Power-Rod to destroy the
entire colony. Snatched from Ship by an artificial fusion vortex, Star-Lord was
then taken onboard a space ark. Ark leader Noah claimed they were the time-lost
last survivors of Earth, but another inhabitant, Aletha, revealed that they
were aliens cloaked by illusions, whose militaristic rulers planned to conquer
Earth using information extracted from him. With Star-Lord's aid, the ark's
populace overthrew Noah, and, reunited with Ship, Star-Lord departed once more.
When
an Ariguan assault force attacked the Master of the Sun, Star-Lord came to his
aid, only for the Master to claim he too was an Ariguan, the scientist Ragnar,
who had defied his people by creating the Star-Lord and must now face their
justice; reluctantly, Peter acquiesced. On the cloud-shrouded planet Heaven, a
world ruled by a strict honor code, Star-Lord rescued Thorn from a fatal fall,
then protected him from the huntress Shreen until Thorn's wings regrew, only to
watch them both sacrifice themselves for honor's sake. Investigating ruins on
the primordial planet Symbion, Star-Lord mistook the sentient planet's attempts
to communicate as attacks and he fled, leaving the lonely worldmind to mourn
his departure.
Star-Lord
returned to Sparta for his father's 100th coronation jubilee, regretting he had
never taken the opportunity to know him. Jason intended to abdicate in favor of
Kip, and willingly departed with his son to explore the universe; however, an
unspecified period of time later, Star-Lord was separated from Ship when she
was caught in a black hole's gravity; Jason's fate is unrecorded. Perhaps
because of injuries sustained escaping the hole, Star-Lord received numerous
cybernetic implants. Confronted with the threat of the Fallen One, Galactus'
first herald, Star-Lord subdued his much stronger opponent but 350,000 lives
were sacrificed to provide the energy needed. Guilt-stricken, he abandoned his
Star-Lord identity and accepted imprisonment on the Kyln interstellar prison.
There Peter allied with fellow inmates including Ch'ak, Gladiator, Moloka Dar
and Thanos to oppose the cosmic-powered Maker. Afterwards, Gladiator remanded
Peter into his custody, drafting him into the Shi'ar Imperial Guard. Quill
recently left the Guard, signing up with Nova's (Richard Rider)
anti-Annihilation Wave forces shortly after the Tartus Minor incident, and now
serves as Rider's main aide and advisor."
Gamora
(Zoe Saldana) – "Thanos discovered the infant Gamora after the Zen-Whoberi race
had been demolished by the Universal Church of Truth.
Thanos
used the machines aboard his ship, Sanctuary II, to bring Gamora back in time
by two decades and bring her body to peak perfection. He also altered Gamora's
perceptions, so that she would not see how evil he was. Thanos sent Gamora into
the Universal Church Of Truth, hoping she would cause chaos and also
assassinate the Church's leader, the Magus. Gamora then aided Adam Warlock
against the Magus, leading to the Magus' defeat.
Returning
back to Thanos, Gamora saw his true nature and tried to stop him. Thanos slew
Gamora but Warlock found her and placed her soul inside the Soul Gem. Sometime
later, when Thanos gained the Infinity Gauntlet, Gamora (along with Adam
Warlock and Pip) were brought back to life and gained new bodies. After Adam
gained control of the Infinity Gauntlet he gave the Time Gem to Gamora, and
made her a member of the Infinity Watch. Gamora and the Infinity Watch took up
residence on Monster Island. While on the Island they defended it from a United
Nations invasion. Later Gamora would find herself back in the cosmos assisting
Galactus, in reviving Eternity. This event would catapult her and many of the
Earth’s heroes into conflict with the Goddess in a crisis that was dubbed the
Infinity Crusade.
During
her adventures with the Infinity watch Gamora battled the likes of the
Man-Beast and his
After
a long hiatus to parts of the universe unknown, Gamora appeared on Godthab
Omega. This was a planet that somehow been altered by Glorian the apprentice
Shaper of Worlds. Gamora established herself as leader of a group of cosmic
female warriors known as the Graces. This group consisted of Tana Nile,
Stellaris, Nebula, Cerise and Spirit. Ronan the Accuser also traveled to
Godthab Omega in search of Tana Nile whom he believed to be responsible for his
being exiled from the Kree homeworld of Hala. Ronan and Gamora soon engaged
each other in a violent confrontation. During their battle Gamora revealed that
she had undergone a cosmic makeover through science and arcanum. Gamora was
more than able to stand her ground against Ronan, although their battle had no
apparent winner, basically due to it being interrupted by the invasion of the
Annihilation Wave. Gamora, Glorian and Ronan stood together to defeat the Wave.
Later Gamora and Ronan’s paths would cross again, when they joined Nova and his
United Front in their last effort to protect the universe from Annihilus the
Negative Zone invaders. During this event Gamora would become romantically
involved with Nova, she led covert missions against the wave, which was
eventually defeated when her ex-infinity Watch member Drax the Destroyer took
Thanos' life, thus freeing the mighty Galactus and his Hearld the Silver
Surfer.
Gamora
found herself entangled in the next cosmic fiasco when the parasitic Phalanx
captured control of the Kree defense grids, denying anyone to enter or exit this
sector of the universe. Gamora was eventually converted to a Phalanx super
solider known as the Select, along with other cosmically powered beings such as
Blastaar of the Negative Zone, Daystar, and Lightstorm, from the Spaceknights
of Galador, Shatterax and Korath the Pursuer of the Kree Starforce, and Xemnu
the Titan. As a member of the Select, Gamora would take the life of Ko-Rel, a
Kree warrior appointed to the position of Nova Centurion by the Worldmind after
Richard Rider was severely injured by a Phalanx hunter pack led by Lightstorm.
It would later be discovered that Ultron was behind the Phalanx invasion.
Gamora and Drax were freed of the Phalanx’s control by Nova, the three of them
joined the reborn Adam Warlock, Quasar, Star-Lord, Mantis, Rocket Racoon, Bug
and Groot to free the Kree from the crushing grip of Ultron and the Phalanx.
Seeing
the need for a proactive peace keeping team, to protect the universe after the
attacks of the Annihilation Wave and the Phalanx, Star-Lord, asked Gamora to join
this new team. She accepted his proposal. The team would assume the name of the
Guardians of the Galaxy and make their base in Knowhere the severed head of an
unknown Celestial floating at the edge of space. During their first mission
Gamora and these Guardians destroyed a Templeship belonging to the Universal
Church of Truth in order to close a fissure within the fabric of reality. The
Guardians' act was considered as blasphemy by the Matriarch of the church who
summoned Raker and the Cardinals to mete out retribution and penance on the
infidels, and verify the identity of one of the Guardian members.
Gamora
and her teammates Mantis and Phyla were plucked from their place in space and
time along with the Lady Liberators of Earth to assist the Elder of the
Universe known as the Collector to battle the agent of Enmity known as Unum."
Drax:
The Destroyer (Dave Bautista) - "A former saxophonist, Arthur Sampson
"Art" Douglas and his family were killed by the Titanian Eternal
Thanos while driving across the Mojave Desert. Kronos recovered Douglas' astral
form and used it to create a superhuman warrior for the purpose of defeating
Thanos. After Thanos was defeated, Drax was eventually killed by a psychic
attack from Moondragon.
Years
later, Drax was resurrected to once again battle Thanos (also recently
resurrected). Drax's resurrection was not perfect, however; his brain remained
damaged from his previous death. After Thanos was defeated a second time, Drax
became a member of the Infinity Watch and guardian of the Power Gem.
Adam
Warlock, leader of the Watch, shut off Drax's hunger to kill Thanos when he had
the Infinity Gauntlet. However Moondragon accidentally caused some of his
memories to resurface, and returned to him his insane hunger to kill Thanos.
Drax
partially regained his intelligence when he and his daughter Moondragon
petitioned Kronos, the being who had resurrected Arthur Douglas as Drax, to
restore his mind and heal the severe injuries Moondragon had suffered. Moondragon
gave up some of her mental prowess and Drax gave up some of his bulk to heal
one another. The recovery took time, and Drax was for a while still dim-witted
(but nowhere near as badly as he was before), undergoing tutoring by his
daughter. Drax was taken to the Microverse where he was mistaken for the Hulk
and helped the Microns overthrow the Psycho-Man and Fredd, an evil clone of
Captain Marvel. Drax decided to remain there and help the Microns rebuild the
Microverse's government.
Drax
battled the Champion for control of a planet that Champion had taken over. Drax
lost the battle, but the Champion was later defeated by She-Hulk.
Recently,
as a detainee aboard a galactic prison transport, Drax crashed on Earth and
escaped imprisonment, along with the other inmates. He regained his
intelligence and fought the other inmates when they threatened the local
townsfolk and the 10 year old girl named Cammi, who befriended him. Drax and
Cammi were then taken to an intergalactic prison known as the Kyln
After
an unknown amount of time the being known as Annihilus attacked Kyln. Having
survived, Drax and Cammi team-up with Nova. During their time together Drax
teaches Nova how to better harness the Nova Force and how to kill. Eventually
Drax and Cammi join Nova's United Front and oppose Annihilus. During a crucial
battle Drax is once more confronted by Thanos, who is trying to save Galactus.
However, before Thanos could free Galactus, Drax managed to punch a hole
through the Mad Titan's chest, killing him. Realizing his mistake he uses the
power of the Silver Surfer to save Galactus. Once freed Galactus teleported
both Drax and Moondragon to an undisclosed location. From there Drax vanished.
Sometime
after the war with Annihilus, the Phalanx managed to take over Kree Space and
infect many worlds. Now trapped within Kree Space, Drax was hunted by a Phalanx
infected Nova and Gamora. During the chase Nova was able to capture Drax and he
was then infected with the techno-organic virus, becoming a Phalanx Select. Now
working for the Phalanx he was recently given the assignment to hunt down and
capture or kill Nova, who escaped from the Phalanx's grasp. Following Nova into
a wormhole, Nova, Gamora, and Drax are now stranded in an unknown quadrant of
space.
After
the events of the Annihilation Conquest, Drax agreed to join a group of cosmic
heroes to form a proactive line of defense against potential treats to the
Universe. The group was led by Jason of Spartoi’s son Peter Quill, also known
as the Star-Lord. After many failed attempts of coming up with a name, Rocket
Raccoon suggested that they take the name of Guardians of the Galaxy. The team
used Knowhere as their base of operation. Knowhere is located inside the
decapitated head of an unidentified Celestial that was floating on the very
edge of the universe.
While
on Knowhere, Drax would come into conflict with the Luminals who were the
protectors of this peaceful place. Drax and the Guardians first mission pitted
them against the Universal Church of Truth which was a group of very powerful
religious fanatics. Later during the Skrull infiltration that destroyed the
Continuum Cortex, Cynosure sent her team after the missing Drax, when it was
suspected he could be a Skrull. Three of her finest, Massdriver, Impact and Brightstorm,
were left defeated and in intensive care following a furious battle with the
Destroyer. When questioned about his mysterious disappearances by Quasar, Drax
revealed that he had been using the Continuum Cortex to search for Cammi."
Groot
(Vin Diesel) - "Groot was an extraterrestrial being that had the appearance of a
tree, and his race was thought to be extinct. It was determined that that his
species was called Floral Colossus, by the Kree. Groot initially traveled to
Earth seeking humans as test subjects. His mission was foiled by Leslie Evans
who used termites against him and it appeared that Groot was destroyed.
However, he was defeated by It, The Living Colossus and became a captive of
Groot
recently returned to space and was selected by the Kree to be a part of
Star-Lord’s team in the event known as the Annihilation Conquest. Groot and
Star-lord would eventually defeat the menace known as the Phalanx, however in
doing so Groot would sacrifice his life. The cosmic crusader Rocket Raccoon
took a branch of Groot and planted it in a pot and the allowing the hero to
re-grow. While in space Groot’s only words spoken were “I am Groot”.
After
the defeat of the Phalanx, Groot joined the Guardians of the Galaxy a proactive
peacekeeping team assembled by Star-Lord. As a member of the Guardians Groot
has battled the likes of Blastaar the living bomb-burst, the Badoon, the mighty
Shi'ar, and the Inhumans. While in the company of Maximus of the Inhumans it
was determined that Groot was really speaking in a clear dialect, but due to
his strange physical make up. His larynx and vocal cords are stiff and
inflexible
Rocket
Raccoon (Bradley Cooper) - Hundreds of years ago, humanoids from an
unidentified planet sought a world to use as an asylum for their outcast insane
members, and settled on a planet located in the Keystone Quadrant, out by the
stars of Sirus Major. There the psychiatrists created robots to care for their
patients' particular brands of insanity. For years they studied the functions
and dysfunctions of the mind, writing their observations in the starship
Gideon's logbook until their funding was cut off and they were ordered back to
their homeworld. As they left, they erected a forcefield-generating Galacian
Wall around the star system to keep their uncured patients safe from the normal
society that loathed them.
For
generations the robots faithfully watched over their charges, whose children
were born insane themselves, or affected by their insane environment. The
Loonies, as they came to be known, created a religion worshiping the ancient
Shrinks as gods, with straight-jacketed priests called the Good Humor Men
venerating the logbook as their Bible, housing it in the Admissions Ward and
performing rites to attain the Final Cure. Gaining sentence (due in part to
radiation from a nearby star going nova), the supremely logical robots sought a
way out from directly caring for their illogical charges. They played around
with the genetics of the various companion animals left by the Shrinks and
created a race of animal people to care for the Loonies while the robots
retreated to their own side of the planet and began to work on a giant humanoid
starship, and started to deduce how to shut down the Wall from the inside. Over
time the planet came to be known as Halfworld, divided between the robots'
industrial half, and the verdant half occupied by the others, with the robots
building toys designed by the animals to keep the Loonies entertained, and
making other machines and weapons for the animals' use only, and giving many
animals requested cybernetic enhancements. Over time the animals created their
own advanced society somewhat apart from the Loonies, with the major industry
toymaking for the Loonies' amusements, and the Loonies paying for services
rendered with animal cracker currencies.
In
recent years, the Incredible Hulk (Bruce Banner) was transported to Halfworld
via energies released during the destruction of the energy creature Galaxy
Master. The Hulk met Quadrant guardian Rocket Raccoon and his partner Wal Rus,
who tried unsuccessfully to figure out how the strange green human got through
the Galacian Wall. When the head of Inter-Stel Mechanics, Judson Jakes, had the
mercenary Black Bunny Brigade steal the Gideon's Bible and held his ward, the
otter Lylla, as a hostage, Rocket enlisted the Hulk's aid to rescue both the
Bible and his girlfriend. They invaded Jake's orbital Spacewheel spacestation
and rescued both the book and Lylla, but not before Jake's chief
scientist/toymaker, the tortoise Uncle Pyko, sent the Hulk back to Earth to
prevent the Hulk's presence from destroying the political status quo among the
various Halfworld animal factions.
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The
saurian Lord Dyvyne, head of Dyvynities,Inc., forcibly took over Inter-Stel
Mechanics, forcing Jackes and Pyko from Spacewheel, and hiring the Black Bunny
Brigade away from Jakes. Relocating to Halfworlds's equator, Jakes
reincorporated as Mayhem Mekaniks, where he had Pyko created more members of
his mechanical Psycho-Circus (a.k.a. Killer Clowns) and the cybermetric
bat-like Drakillars, and plotted to find a way to marry Lylla to gain permanent
control of her late parents' fortune and the toy company they had founded.
Desiring to be the top toymaker, Jakes had one of his mechanical Killer Clowns
assassinated Lord Dyvyne's chief toysmith, igniting a trade war. Rocket went
after Jakes to stop the war, but then Dyvyne had Lylla kidnapped to force a
marriage between them to gain control of her fortune, forcing Rocket and her
uncle Wal to rescue her instead. They tracked Lylla to the Loony shrine Asylum,
where Brigade leader Blackjack O'Hare had taken her to seek her fortune for
himself, putting him on the outs with his employer. When the Killer Clowns
vacuumed up the Black Bunny Brigade, O'Hare was forced to rescue Rocket and
himself from the wrath of lord Dyvyne's misty creature Red Breath. luring the
pursuing Clowns on their vacuum sleds to vacuum up the erasing Red Breath,
destroying both sets of assassins.
Now
finding both toy moguls allied against them, Rocket, Wal Rus, Lylla, and O'Hare
fled to the robotic side of Half World, where they found Uncle Pyko; he had
"borrowed" and deciphered Halfworld's Bible, learning the truth of
Halfworld's origins, and left Jakes to pursue his own agendas of becoming the
Quadrant's chief toysmith for the pure joy of creating toys. Escaping from the
treacherous O'Hare and his cronies, Pyko led the other three to the Assembly
Line to meet the head robot, where Rocket handed over the Bible to the robots
to uses psychiatric knowledge to create the Wonder Toy, a helmet designed to
correct the imbalances in the Loonies' minds, curing them. Jakes and Lord
Dyvyne combined forces for one last attack on Rocket and Pyko to keep them from
distributing the Toys and destroying their markets forever. The Killer Clowns
and Lord Dyvyne's simian samurais almost succeeded in slaying them until
reinforcements - the robots, a repentant O'Hare, and the now-cured Loonies -
arrived to turn the tide of battle against Jakes and Dyvyne, who were
deliberately thrown from their Drakillar perch onto the ground below,
apparently killing them. While some animals elected to stay and help the former
Loonies rebuild their world, Wal, Lylla, O'Hare and many other animals joined
almost all the robots aboard the humanoid Ship with Rocket as its captain,
seeking adventures among the stars."
Korath
the Persuer (Djimon Hounsou) - "Korath-Thak is a brilliant cyber-geneticist who
was one of the creators of the Pursuer project, creating an energy template
that could transform any matter it touched into a form it could use to pursue
and subdue its intended targets. The first use of the template was at the
instigation of the Kree science council to bring the Inhumans of Earth to Hala
to serve as conscripts in the Kree army. This action would insight the conflict
that has come to be known as the "War of Three Galaxies." The
template was beamed to Earth but instead of hitting stones or metal as hoped,
it hit and transformed cockroaches. In this form the Pursuer defeated the
Inhumans Royal family; (Black Bolt, Medusa, Gorgon, Karnak, and Triton) until
the Kree defector Falzon used an insecticide to stop the template.
Years
later the Pursuer project was canceled by Kree leaders Ael-Dann and Dar-Benn
because they felt that their money was being wasted on a frivolous project.
Bitter at their decision, Korath turned the template on himself, transforming
him into a new Pursuer. He was secretly summoned by the Supreme Intelligence,
he joined with the last Kree Eternal Ultimus, armored kree Shatterax, Captain
Att-Lass, and Doctor Minn-Erva, as the Kree super army Starforce. Their first
mission was to capture the Avengers. The Avengers were allegedly on Hala to
kill Ael-Dan and Dar-Benn, who were killed by the Shi'ar Deathbird instead. The
Starforce was sent to assassinate the Shi'ar Majestrix Lilandra in retaliation,
but were stopped by the Shi'ar Imperial Guard and a second team of Avengers.
After
the Nega bomb decimated the Kree, Starforce was forced to serve the new Shi'ar
Deathbird as her personal guard on Hala. Pursuing the Armechadon Deviant Lord
Tantalus they joined forces with Blackwulf and the Underground Legion. The
Supreme Intelligence soon regained control of the Kree Empire from the Shi'ar.
Korath and some of the other members of the Starforce were considered to be
defectors and exiled by the emerging Nu-Elite. The former Starfoce members
found refuge on the backwater world of Godthab Omega. They lived in peace there
with the other exile members of their race. They kept up with current events of
the Kree Empire through primitive communication with sympathizers on various Kree
hub worlds.
Recently
the newly exiled Ronan the Accuser (also a former member of the Starforce)
found his way to Godthab Omega in search of the Rigellian, Tana Nile. Korath
informs Ronan that Tana Nile was last seen with Gamora as one of her Graces. Gamora
battled Ronan in defense of Tana Nile. After the battle Ronan informed Korath
that he sensed something was off on the planet. Korath agreed with him, but
before they could investigate the planet was over run with the bug soldiers of
Annihilus. They came to be known as the Annihilation Wave. Ronan noticed while
in battle that he had gained more control of his powers upon the waves arrival.
Korath and Ronan managed to return to their ship where they herd the apprentice
Shaper of Worlds, Glorian. He yelled out that, he had the power to destroy the
wave. Ronan led the survivors of Godthab Omega to Kree space where they joined
the resistance led by Richard Rider, Nova of Earth.
During
the invasion of the Kree Empire by the techno-organic race known as the Phalanx,
Korath was assimilated in to their collective and made a Select. Now that he
was basically a super soldier for the Phalanx he was sent on a mission to
capture the supposed savior of the Kree race. The savior was revealed to be
Adam Warlock. Korath failed to capture Warlock due to the interference of
Phyla-Vell and Moondragon. On Hala in Phalanx command center, Kroath was
destroyed by Ultron in front of Shatterax and Xemnu the Titian."
Nebula
(Karen Gillan) - "Nebula, feared across numerous star systems for her ruthless
piracy, set her sights on Sanctuary II, the solar-orbiting satellite built and
once used as a base of operations by the Thanos. She had sent a small band of
her most trusted aides to Sanctuary II to repair its hyper-drive engines and
teleport the station out of the solar system, but the activity coincided with
the arrival of the hero Monica Rambeau (as Captain Marvel), who had been sent
to investigate the craft by her team the Avengers. Nebula's minions warped the
satellite out of the solar system with Captain Marvel aboard and rendezvoused
with Nebula.
Nebula
hoped to conquer the Skrull empire, at the time in the throes of chaos as their
throneworld was destroyed by the planet-destroyer Galactus. Not knowing how to
return home, Captain Marvel pretended to go along with Nebula's scheme but
actually helped the Skrulls evacuate the outpost world Nebula was intent on
destroying. The Avengers eventually located their missing member and allied
themselves with the Skrulls to oppose her. Before the Avengers were able to
catch up with Nebula, she annihilated both the Skrull outpost and the planet
Xandar, home planet of the Avengers' ally Firelord. In battle with Nebula, the
Avengers’ Starfox, brother of Thanos, learned that Nebula claimed to be Thanos'
granddaughter, and thus his great-niece. Shortly thereafter, the virtually
omnipotent Beyonder, curious about the Avengers, arrived, and in an attempt to
help the Avengers vanquish Nebula, helped her and her minions to escape them by
teleportlng them out of the Andromeda Galaxy.
Nebula
was later summoned to the side of Thanos, who had at the time assembled the
Infinity Gems to create the Infinity Gauntlet and thereby give himself
omnipotent power. Thanos scoffed at Nebula's claims to be his granddaughter,
and as a gift to the embodiment of Death, transformed her into a hideous
"living sculpture" of pain and living death. Unfortunately for
Thanos, he allowed himself to be distracted by an assemblage of the universe's
heroes and thus failed to notice Nebula until she stole the Infinity Gauntlet
for herself. Now omnipotent herself, she faced an entourage of cosmic beings
that included Galactus, Master Order, and Lord Chaos. Soon, however, the
original Soul Gem owner, Adam Warlock, subverted the Infinity Gauntlet for
himself. Starfox elected to take Nebula into custody of the Eternals on the
moon Titan.
Somehow,
under circumstances to be revealed, Nebula escaped and resumed her piracy
career with her crew. They infiltrated a device known as the Infinity Union
from the planet of the enigmatic alien Stranger. She then somehow learned of a
scientist on earth who was developing a powerful energy source known as the
Atomic Compressor. The Atomic Compressor succeeded in negating all of reality,
which led her into conflict with the Avengers once again.
The
Avengers, with their ally Spider-Man, defeated and captured the space pirate
Nebula but an enraged Stranger burst in, searching for the Infinity Union,
which had since absorbed the energies created from the negation of reality.
Fearing that neither the Stranger nor anyone else was worthy of wielding such a
dangerous device, the Avengers decide to track down the Infinity Union
themselves. An increasingly unnerved Spider-Man, unaccustomed to dealing with
cosmic menaces, found the device first-- and then accidentally set it off.
Nebula had arranged to absorb the power of the Infinity Union and become a
supreme being. The Avengers and the Stranger managed to thwart her regardless,
stripping her of the Infinity Union's power, though Nebula managed to escape capture
with her crewman Gunthar.
Nebula's
next appearance was a sudden attack on the young hero Nova. Nebula claimed that
Nova had previously murdered her father Zorr, an archemeny of Nova Prime, the
hero of Xandar whose powers Nova had inherited. (This was the same reason that
led her to destroy the planet Xandar before.) Zorr had, in fact, been
accidentally killed when he activated an energy device when battling Nova. Nova
succeeded in driving Nebula off, and she returned to deep space.
She
was next seen on the Kree fringe world known as Godthab Omega as part of an
army of female cosmic warriors known as the Graces, under the leadership of
Gamora. After engaging Ronan the Accuser in battle alongside Stellaris, she was
last seen fighting side by side the other Graces, defending their base of
operations from the Annihilation Wave. It is unknown if she survived the Wave's
attack."
Ronan
the Accuser (Lee Pace) - "Ronan was born into one of the leading Kree
aristocratic families on Hala. After completing his education he was accepted
into the ranks of the Accuser Corps, where he quickly rose through the ranks.
Eventually he was promoted by the Supreme Intelligence to the rank of Supreme
Public Accuser.
One
of Ronan's missions was to punish the Fantastic Four when they defeated a
Sentry left on Earth. But when he traveled to Earth and faced the four heroes,
he was soon forced to use his own weapon on himself, giving himself the same
sentence that he intended to mete out upon them. Unable to seek revenge due to
the Supremor's orders, Ronan joined with Imperial Minister Zarek to depose the
Supremor but was defeated by the Avengers.
Later
Ronan made another attack against the Four when he attempted to gain possession
of a Universal Power Core from Uatu The Watcher's house. With the aid of a
mind-controlled Invisible Woman he was able to breach the dome but was only
able to obtain the plans to one of them.
After
a failed attempt to absorb Ego into himself, Ronan returned to his post as the
Supreme Public Accuser and is helping the Supremor evolve those Kree who were
able to avoid being turned into Ruul."
The
Collector (Benicio Del Toro) - "Like all the Elders of the Universe, the origin
of the Collector is lost in antiquity. What is known is that he is one of the
oldest living beings in the universe, having been among the first of the
universe's races to become sentient in the wake of the Big Bang. Virtually
immortal, the Collector spent the first millennia of his existence with his
wife and daughter on the tranquil world he chose as his home base. When their
daughter had grown to maturity and left them, the Collector's wife died of
mysterious causes. The Collector was unprepared for her demise: he had thought
her as immortal as well. In meditation, he realized that an important factor in
an Elder's immortality is the will to live, and his wife had simply lost hers.
Determined
not to succumb to his wife's malady, the Collector meditated upon what he might
do to give his life meaning. In a vision, he foresaw that beings of great power
would arise one day determined to destroy all life in the universe. To prevent
this from happening, he decided to devote his life to collecting living beings
and artifacts from throughout the known universe, and placing them in
safekeeping. As a fail safe if what he foresaw came to pass, he could
repopulate the universe and bequeath to them the knowledge and culture of the
past.
Building
himself a large starship, the Collector set forth, stopping at every inhabited
world he found to acquire a sample of their finest achievements as well as
living representatives of the world's life-forms. In a matter of years, his
ship was completely filled, and the Collector was forced to suspend his mission
in order to build expanded facilities for his permanent collection. With the
aid of robo-mechanics acquired from the planet Cron, the Collector converted
several uninhabited planets into giant museums, and transferred his collection
there. Every time his ship's hold was filled, he would return to the
museum-worlds to deposit his recent acquisitions. At present, the Collector has
filled ten museum-worlds with artifacts from a hundred thousand planets.
Over
the eons, the Collector's monomania became more and more obsessive; making him
lose sight of the original reason for which he began his collection. In recent
years, the first being of great power he had foreseen as a threat to all life,
Thanos of Titan, had been born and defeated without the Collector's
intervention. When the second such great threat to life, Korvac of Earth,
appeared, the Collector decided to send his daughter Carina to spy on him.
Korvac slew the Collector before he could reveal to Earth's heroes what he knew
of Korvac. A short time later, the Collector's kinsman, the Grandmaster, played
a contest of champions with the spirit of Death itself, winning the power to
resurrect the Collector apparently at the cost of his own immortal life.
Resurrected,
the Collector resumed his ancient task. In his most recent known vision, he
foresaw the attempt of Surtur to destroy Asgard. The collector also saw fit to
foil the juvenile plans of Enmity by using the female members of the Guardians
of the Galaxy; Gamora, Mantis and Quasar along with the Lady Liberators members
the Invisible Woman, She-Hulk, Storm, Thundra, Valkyrie and the Skrull known as
Lyja the Lazerfist, together these powerful women defeated Unum. The collector
returned all the women to their respective places in the universe as he
returned to his business of preserving the universe in his own strange way."
Rohmann
Dey (John C. Reilly) - "Rhomann Dey was the leader of the Nova Corps of Xandar
and one of its few survivors. When the Warlord Zorr attacked Xandar, he
devastated it and killed many Xandarians including Dey's wife and child. Dey hunted
Zorr and battled him.
However,
Zorr was too powerful for Dey and mortally wounded him. Dey flew to Earth ahead
of Zorr and chose randomly Richard Rider as the new Nova transferring his power
to him. Dey linked minds with Rider and explained to him the new powers he has
received as well as the threat of Zorr on his planet.
At
first, Rider thought the encounter was a dream, but soon discovered his powers
and accepted his role as Nova. While out testing them for the first time he ran
into Zorr who was on a rampage in New York City. Nova decided to fulfill the
one who gave him his powers dying wish and defeat Zorr. During the battle, Zorr
was teleported away by Dey himself. Dey killed Zorr before he himself died,
ready to join his family and friends in the afterlife."
Nova
Prime (Glenn Close) – Because John C. Reilly character is also described by
Marvel as being Nova Prime and because there were different characters throughout
comic book series that had the same position, it is difficult to pinpoint what character
Close is going to be playing.
Yondu
(Michael Rooker) - "Yondu Udonta was a game hunter of the primitive Zatoan
tribe, which were humanoid beings who were native to Centauri IV. The first
planet system to be colonized outside of the Sun's solar system; the
colonization took place sometime during the 29th century. Due to their being
intimidated by the Earth's superior technology, most Centaurian tribes
established peaceful relationships with the settlers. Yondu's tribe, however,
migrated from their ancestral forests to the less accessible plains, thus
avoiding contact with the outworlders. 200 years after the Centaurians first
contact with Earth, a ship bearing the astronaut Vance Astro arrived on
Centauri IV, using an antiquated mode of star travel. Astro soon found out that
Earth had beaten him to his destination centuries before, using advanced
star-drive engines. Astro continued to engage in his reconnaissance mission of
the planet, despite the fact that it was now obsolete.
While
performing his geophysical survey, Astro came across Yondu, who was in the
midst of his ritual of manhood ordeal. Although Yondu tried to avoid contact
with the outworlder, the planet-wide attack by the extraterrestrial Badoon
brought the two men together. The Badoon massacred the entire settlement and
began circling the planet, trying to eradicate the scattered tribes of native
Centaurians. With the first evidence of hostilities, Astro took Yondu aboard
his survey ship and set out for the nearest known planet in the star system.
Due
to the antiquated nature of Astro's ship, however, the two were swiftly
overtaken by the Badoon. Intrigued by the ancient vessel, the Badoon did not
annihilate it, but instead captured it and took its passengers captive. The two
were taken prisoner under Badoon escort, to the Badoon's base of operation on
Earth (the Earth having been recently conquered). On Earth, the two were taken
before Drang, head of the Badoon militia, but managed to escape. They soon
encountered two other fugitives of the Badoon invasion: Charlie-27 of the
Jupiter colony and Martinex of the Pluto colony. Banding together to battle
Badoon oppression, the four founded the Guardians of the Galaxy. For the next
few years, the four survivors attacked the Badoon's outposts in the solar
system. With aid from the time-traveling Defenders, they managed to repel all
the Badoon from Earth's dominion. Having secured the freedom of their people,
the Guardians remained together to safeguard the galaxy."
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