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Warning : SPOILERS forAvengers : Endgame
The Avengers have restored the MCU thanks to theirEndgamevictory , but to do it , they destroyed a Guardian of the Galaxy ’s future . Sure , Star - Lordis the intellect Thanos wontheInfinity War , but the life he ’s now doomed to go isdark – even for Marvel .
To be clear , we ’re not referring to the Star - Lord carry to appear inGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 3 , or the reading of Peter Quill who is still searching for a resurrected Gamora at the final stage ofEndgame . That Peter ’s future gets to rely on his household , friends , and new frenemy Thor to make his life deserving living . But the original variant of Star - Lord from the firstGuardiansmovie – the time the Avengers travel back to for the Power Stone – has paid a spoilt price than most viewers will actually pull in . Forget beingpunished for hisInfinity Warmeltdown … Star - Lord just had every bite of his happiness erase without fans even notice .
Knocking Star-Lord Out Creates a New Timeline
To sympathize the tangible ramifications of mess with Star - Lord ’s original sequence of issue inGuardians of the Galaxy , and why it differs from other time traveling changes in the film , we must point out one major detail . Casual Marvel fans may not recall the accurate events of James Gunn ’s MCU debut , but they will still remember Star - Lord ’s open musical number in the abandon Morag temple . Only this time , Peter Quill ’s karaoke / dance performance of Redbone ’s " descend and Get Your Love " is disrupt when Nebula and War Machine knock him out frigid mid - vocal . They snag the Power Stone , and head back to their future ( … eventually ) .
Science fiction given fans will be quick to point out that in the movie ’s last scenes , Captain America observe the timelines intactby return each of the Infinity Stones to the accurate time and space from which they were move out , thus restoring a disaster - free future tense for each . While that programme may check out for the other Infinity Stones – inject Jane with the Aether , replace the Tesseract , supervene upon Loki ’s Scepter , repay the Time Stone to the Ancient One , and somehow throw back ( ? ) the Soul Stone – the Power Stone is different .
Why ? Because Captain America ca n’t ' return ' Star - Lord from unconsciousness . Star - Lord will find his senses at some distributor point ( we hope ) , but he only snatch up the Power Stone by a matter ofseconds . Seconds that he will now sleep through , signification …
Ronan Gets The Power Stone Instead
It may seem like a pocket-size detail , but as Star - Lord clasp the Power Stone in his helping hand for the very first time , he was immediately interrupted byKorath the Pursuerand a pair of Sakaaran soldiers . Regardless of who had rent Yondu ’s Ravagers to acquire the mysterious ' Orb ' from Morag , the fact that Korath was look to claim it for Ronan was a point of cosmic significance . With Star - Lord now unconscious far from the Power Stone ’s actual resting place , it becomes Korath who discovers and removes the Power Stone … generate it to his commander Ronan the Accuser , and skipping completely over the issue of the first Guardians moving picture .
Now is a dependable meter to remind fans that this is n’t a " what if ? " or hypothetical resultant , but the accurate one thatAvengers : Endgameshows and says will be the restored timeline . Which means a savage new circumstances for Xandar , give Ronan ’s mission to trim down the planet to ash and its hoi polloi to junk now unimpeded by the Guardians . All thing considered , that ’s not exactly the bad outcome . Remember , Thanos had to round Xandar to acquire his Power Stone prior to the upshot ofInfinity War , which Thor later confirms meant the devastation of Xandar .
So on a cosmopolitan scale , Ronan getting and using the Power Stone does n’t alter the actual future of the Marvel Universe ( sorry Nova Corps ) . What Ronan make up one’s mind to do next as the universe ’s most herculean vanquisher is anyone ’s hypothesis . But one matter wedoknow is that Star - Lord ’s future becomes so tragic , it ’s actually morepunishment for hisInfinity Warscrew - upthan fans ever really require .
The Guardians of the Galaxy Never Form
Just remember about it : Star - Lord eventually find consciousness , and will never know who or what was look to lash out him ( assuming the yucky Orloni do n’t kill him while he ’s defenceless ) . Waking to discover that the Orb has been steal by a rival scavenger , he either pass to Yondu and the Ravagers or wait their own arrival concisely after he would ’ve originally departed . With Star - Lord ’s heroic pursuit now canceled before it could even begin , his life continues … well , essentially the way it would have . But thing spiral out in terrible ways .
Without any reason to assist Ronan in acquire the Power Stone , Gamora remains at her father ’s side , rather of traveling to Xandar to intercept Quill . In the end , she never find beloved or family line . Without Quill to chase , Rocket Raccoon and Groot carry on without either ever happen family unit worth fail for . The same is dead on target for Drax , who will remain imprisoned in The Kyln boil with rage over the unavenged murder of his wife and child . Oh , andHoward The Duck never becomes an Avenger , he just stays locked up in The Collector ’s un - shattered collection . But more importantly …
The Avengers Destroy Star-Lord’s Future
No gathering of the Guardians in The Kyln mean no delegation , no bonding , and no forming of their own retrieve family ( one that movie fans around the man fell in making love with instantaneously ) . And since it was Rocket Raccoon who get hold Peter ’s last endowment from his female parent , and Gamora who helped him find peace with her dying by save the galaxy , you could erase all of that as well . That adventure gave Peter the greatest sixth sense yet into his half - human physiology , and his ability to handle an Infinity Stone put him on a hit course with his father , Ego the Living Planet .
Star - Lord ’s reunion did n’t go as planned , but it at least throw him the truth about his birth and childhood he had always hop to find . Not to mention paying off with the acceptance of Yondu as his true father , and the heartwarming terminate toGuardians of the Galaxy Vol . 2along with it . All of which is now erased , leaving Peter to live out his life without his household , friend , and the honey of his life .
He may never know just how much he turn a loss thanks to the Avengers mess with meter and knock him out for a laugh … but Marvel fan will .
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