Meredith Quill (Earth-11584)

History
"'You are the most important thing in my life, Peter. The bright shining light on the horizon. My little Star-Lord.'"Meredith Quill was born sometime in the early 1960s to a middle class family just outside of St. Louis, Missouri. Very little has been revealed about her childhood and early life, other than her mother may have once met Captain Steve Rogers as a young woman during World War II. At some point in the late seventies, a young Meredith Quill met a drifter in rural Missouri and quickly fell in love with him. The result of this union was the birth of Meredith's only son, Peter.

When Peter's father seemingly abandoned them, Meredith was forced to drop out of college and raise her son on her own (though she did have some help from her parents). She doted upon Peter, spoiling him as best she could with her limited income. One way in which she spent time with her son and found common ground was in their shared love of music. Meredith even recorded some of her favorite songs onto a cassette tape and gave this "Awesome Mix" to Peter as a birthday present. This mixtape and the Walkman that went with it would be a treasured prize of Peter for the rest of his life.

In 1988, when Peter was just 8 years old, Meredith was suddenly diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given only months, if not weeks, to live. She began speaking of Peter's father returning to them, a fact that her parents attributed to hallucinations from the brain tumor. In the hospital, dying, she said her final farewell to her son and gave him his birthday present, a new mixtape. She asked to take his hand as she died, but Peter couldn't bear the sight and ran away as she passed. He would be kidnapped by the Ravagers shortly thereafter, and would not open the present or the card that came with it until much later in life, after the Battle of Xandar.

Powers & Abilities
Meredith Quill possessed no special powers or abilities, outside of a good taste in music.

Weaknesses
Meredith had no special protections against bodily harm, as she died of a fast-acting brain tumor.

Film Details
Meredith Quill appears in the following films in the Earth-11584 continuity. In all cases she is portrayed by actress Laura Haddock.
 * Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
 * Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) [mentioned only]