Star-Lord

Biography

Straight Outta Missouri

A cosmic Celestial known as Ego visited an untold number of planets to seed them as preparation for his Expansion, during which he would assimilate all life in the cosmos. As part of this process, he needed a second Celestial, which led him to woo and impregnate females on the planets he visited. He unexpectedly fell in love with one such woman, the Earthling Meredith Quill. Fearing she would distract him from his true mission, Ego caused her to develop a fatal brain tumor and then left her to raise the product of their relationship, their son Peter, by herself.

Peter lived with Meredith in Missouri until the night she passed away from the tumor. The eight-year-old boy was subsequently abducted from Earth by aliens. Yondu Udonta, the leader of the Ravagers mercenary band that kidnapped the boy, had been paid by Ego to deliver Peter to him. Yondu reneged on the deal when he discovered the other children he’d retrieved for Ego had been killed (after Ego discovered they were not in fact Celestials and could not help him) and raised Quill as a Ravager instead.

After reaching adulthood, Quill struck out on his own with all the experience he’d gained with the Ravagers, a spaceship of his own, and his mother’s mixtape of Earth pop tunes to restyle himself as Star-Lord, the galaxy’s most notorious thief… a status completely in his own mind.

His Stuff

As Star-Lord, Quill utilizes several pieces of equipment, most likely gained during his time with the Ravagers, such as a mask-helmet that allows him to breathe in space. He also uses a unique double-barrel blaster pistol, boot thrusters for limited flight, and a starship he dubs the Milano. In addition, Quill sports multiple devices and tools that aid in his thievery.

Star-Lord himself is a fair hand-to-hand combatant, though he seems to prefer shooting to punching. He keeps himself in shape, though, and has been able to withstand certain degrees of physical abuse from his opponents. Though not of low intelligence, Quill possesses a clever mind that while useful in some situations, tends to get him into trouble more often than not.

He Needs a Lot of Enemies

In his travels around the galaxy, Star-Lord has picked up more than a few enemies. In fact, given his ego and bluster, more people probably hate him than love him.

Quill earns the enmity of the Kree warrior called Ronan the Accuser and his troops when the thief purloins the object known as the Orb from a dead world. This leads to a massive effort from Ronan to acquire it for himself and a world of hurt for Quill. Still, in the end, Star-Lord offers to settle the entire matter —interstellar war—with a so-called “dance-off,” but the Accuser doesn’t accept the offer in the spirit it was given.

Sadly, one of Peter Quill’s greatest foes turns out to be his own father, the Celestial known as Ego. It began well, with father reaching out to son to gift him with his legacy. But when Star-Lord discovers Ego’s part in the death of Meredith Quill, and his dark intentions for the universe at large, blood beomes thinner than water and open war is declared.

Quill gains the wrath of Ayesha, the leader of the Sovereign race. Star-Lord also forms a burning enmity against Thanos the space tyrant, who brings about a very personal loss to Quill.

Stuck Together Until We Get The Money

Quill operates almost entirely on his own after leaving the Ravagers, beyond brief relationships with women across the galaxy. This solo act continues until he meets the group of individuals who join with him in becoming the Guardians of the Galaxy and builds unique rapports with each of them.

The assassin Gamora becomes perhaps the most complex of Star-Lord’s relationships amongst the Guardians. Quill holds her in high esteem and the frustrations between the two eventually relent as they began a romantic relationship. Drax’s childlike nature can be trying for Quill, as can Rocket’s competitive nature and the alien raccoon’s tendency toward theft, which at times exceeds Quill’s own thieving urges. As for Groot, Quill acts as something of a parental figure to the walking, talking tree-alien, a status that Groot himself doesn’t seem to care for. Quill welcomes Mantis to the Guardians, while also learning to work alongside former enemy Nebula.

The strange bond between Quill and the man who raised him, Yondu Udonta of the Ravagers, defies description for many year, until the blue-skinned mercenary opens Star-Lord’s eyes to the truth about his father and supplants Ego in the young thief’s eyes. The man who was once seen as an adversary and someone to beat, becomes a father-figure himself.