Groot (Earth-1010)

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 * Quote                  = I am Groot!
 * Speaker                = Groot
 * QuoteSource            = Hooked on a Feeling (A!)
 * Image                  = Groot.png
 * RealName               = Groot
 * CurrentAlias           =
 * Aliases                = The Monster from Planet X; His Divine Majesty King Groot the 23rd, Monarch of Planet X, custodian of the branch worlds, ruler of all the shades, Flora colossus
 * Identity               = Public
 * Alignment              = Good
 * Affiliation            = Guardians of the Galaxy
 * Relatives              =
 * Universe               = Earth-1010
 * BaseOfOperations       = Knowhere


 * Gender                 = Male
 * Height                 = 23'0"
 * Helght2                = (variable)
 * Weight                 = 4.1 tons
 * Weight2                = (variable)
 * Eyes                   = Yellow
 * Hair                   = None
 * UnusualFeatures        = Groot is completely composed of dense wood with a tough bark hide and branch-like protrusions.
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 * Citizenship            = Flora colossus
 * MaritalStatus          = Single
 * Occupation             = former impersonated the Monarch of Planet X
 * Education              =


 * Origin                 = Groot is a Flora colossus from Planet X, who impersonated his planet's Monarch
 * PlaceOfBirth           = Planet X
 * Creators               = Stan Lee; Jack Kirby; Dick Ayers
 * First                  = TBA


 * HistoryText            =

Early Life
Groot posed as Divine Majesty King Groot the 23rd, Monarch of Planet X, custodian of the branch worlds, ruler of all the shades, flora colossus. Groot is a member of the Flora colossus, a society of sentient trees, discovered by the Kree.

In the Autumn of 1960, scientist Leslie Evans and his girlfriend Alice witnessed a blinding object falling from the sky. When Evans went to investigate the next day, he not only found the object, but discovered it was alive. Evans looked on as the alien creature, Groot, grew larger by the minute as he absorbed wooden objects into his own body. There in the woods, Groot announced his presence to the nearby community. Claiming to be the Monarch of Planet X, Groot announced that he had come to Earth to take a small Terran town back to his home world for its scientists to study. While the humans resisted, no gunfire, or even conventional fire could penetrate Groot's hide. Seeing the futility of trying to fight Groot directly, Evans abandoned the townspeople and raced back to his laboratory, for which he was labeled a coward.

Over the next three days, Groot used his ability to control trees and plants to turn the forest into a make-shift army. His announced intention was to use Earth's native vegetation to create a net of roots to allow him to lift the town into space whole. When Groot entered the town, Evans snuck up behind him and unleashed the fruits of his frantic work: a specially bred colony of termites. The insects voraciously ate through Groot's hide, and into his core. Groot collapsed in a a state of shock, and was believed dead by the townsfolk.

Later, however, Groot was seen alive and captured in Collector's zoo beneath Canada. When the Mole Man attacked the Collector in his lair, the security in the Collector's zoo failed, and the monsters were released.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Following the release, Groot apparently went back into space, eventually finding himself in Kree space, where he was promptly captured and imprisoned. While in jail he formed a rapport with Rocket Raccoon and was assigned to a covert ops team lead by Starlord, whose goal was to assault Hala and defeat the Phalanx. His body was mostly destroyed, but a small twig of him split off, preserving him, traveling in the care of Rocket Raccoon, fitting easily in his hand. He can grow back to his full size in time.


 * Powers                 = * Organic matter absorption: Groot can absorb wood as food, with the ability to rebuild himself and enhance his strength. He can control trees, using them to attack others, and also appears to be resistant to fire. He is able to sprout, massively increasing his mass but also severely inhibiting his movement.


 * Strength: Groot's tree like form provides him great strength limited only by the amount of wood he is able to absorb.


 * Durability: Groot's hide is composed of wood dense enough and durable enough to make him immune to most conventional weapons, including gunfire and fire which would consume most woods.


 * Chlorokinesis: Groot can animate and command trees and plants, capable of even ordering a whole forest to uproot itself as an improvised army.


 * Cellular regeneration:Groot has been seemingly killed on three occasions, each time regrowing from a sprig.


 * Abilities              = * Genius Intellect: Due to Groot's lineage, coming from an ancient and ennobled sap-line and being the scion of an elite royal house, Groot has received the finest education from the most gifted of tutors. He is highly intelligent and has a tremendous grasp of quasi-dimensional super-positional engineering.
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 * Weaknesses             = * "I am Groot!": Maximus the Mad, Black Bolt's brother, asserted that whenever Groot is saying his trademark "I am Groot!" he has actually been saying any number of things. The mature form of Groot's species is robust and heavyweight, which causes the organs of acoustic generation to become stiff and inflexible. It is this hardened nature of Groot's larynx that causes people, who are oblivious to the subtle nuances of his speech, to misinterpret him as merely repeating his name. It has yet to be determined whether Maximus' claim is true or merely another manifestation of his madness, though Groot did genuinely seem to be assisting Maximus with highly-advanced engineering.


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 * Notes                  = * Groot is also the dutch word for big, a fitting name for a hero that can increase his size.

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