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History
If you've really known me by now, you know that I don't learn. Not by a long shot, anyways...
- — Star-Lord
- — Star-Lord
Early Years
Peter Jason Quill (born January 1985) was a Spartoi-Human hybrid with paternal Celestial lineage, having been raised by his caring and protective single mother, Meredith Quill. Around the early 1990s, when he was eight, Peter and his mother saw a bright light outside their home and a group of Badoon aliens emerged, later revealed to be hired to abduct an individual by the name of J'son. The Badoons' attack on the Quill residence resulted in Meredith getting fatally shot — in spite of her efforts to defend her home and son — after searching for J'son, who was nowhere to be found, with the Badoons not being aware their target had already left Earth not too recently. The Badoon bandits continued to search the residence for the exiled Spartoi emperor only to find the traces of the young Peter.
However, the trembling Peter survived by finding the mysterious elemental-wielding weapon known as Quad Blasters inside the shed and vengefully shot his way out, killing some of the Badoons until he was able to make his escape from Earth by instinctively infiltrating a Badoon spacecraft, somehow quickly adapting on piloting it. A crew of space pirates known as the Ravagers who were travelling inside the Eclector, would accidentally find the young Peter Quill inside a small spacecraft in the edge of the Earth's orbit, the same one where one of the Badoon spies were piloting before. Figuring out that the kid may as well be the son of their former client, Yondu easily infiltrated the small space craft as they rescued Peter from the clutches of the remaining Badoon spy, and at the same time they would abduct him from his home planet.
At first, the Ravagers planned to have him delivered to their former client due to him bearing a striking resemblance to him, but Yondu chose otherwise, believing that the client wouldn't truly see the great potential in Peter in becoming his own man, to which Yondu saw Peter as compatible contender to be a Ravager rather than be used by his father for nefarious purposes. Having been abducted from Earth by Yondu Udonta and his Ravager Clan, Peter was raised under their tutelage and began building a reputation as the notorious intergalactic outlaw known as Star-Lord.
Independent Player
By the early 2010s, he decided to leave the Ravagers and operate individually, becoming a key player in the quest for a precious artifact known as the Orb after stealing it from Morag. Following his arrest, he forged an uneasy alliance with fellow inmates Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot, forming the Guardians of the Galaxy. They first rallied as a team by stopping the Kree zealot Ronan the Accuser from destroying Xandar with the Power Stone.
A few months later, Peter and the Guardians were hired by Ayesha and the Sovereign to defend Anulax Batteries from an Abilisk. However, after Rocket stole some of the batteries, Ayesha sent the Sovereign fleet after them, with the Guardians being saved when the fleet is destroyed by Ego the Living Planet, who claimed to be Peter's biological father, which Peter had never met before. Peter spent a few days bonding with his supposed father when he found his paternal heritage, but when Ego revealed that he was responsible for Meredith Quill's death (albeit this was later revealed to be a deception), Peter allied with his fellow Guardians, Yondu and his Ravager Clan, and Ego's hostage who was the former Spartoi monarch named J'son, whose appearance bears striking resemblance with Ego in his humanoid form, to prevent the living planet's quest to terraform the universe. After killing Ego, Peter continued to lead the Guardians of the Galaxy with their additional member Mantis, Ego's former ward, and eventually pursued his complicated, on-again, off-again romance with Gamora.
Kree-Skrull War
The following months after their last mission, Peter and the Guardians were once again hired by the Nova Corps for an undercover mission, whereas they were sent to the planet Hala, in order to infiltrate the secret black market community of the Kree, which had been rumored to be running since the beginning of Kree-Skrull War. During their stay at the home of the Kree Empire, they came to cross paths with the loyal military major Mar-Vell, who was also in suspicion after he first saw the Guardians' "unauthorized" arrival on the Kree city of Rad-Nam. The heroes have only proven themselves truly victorious when Mar-Vell used one the Guardian's most powerful weapon against him, only leading to the villain's humiliating defeat by the very end, in which he was later handed over to the Nova Corps. In the end of the attack on Hala, the Guardians recruited Mar-Vell into their ranks, to which he happily accepted, leaving the Kree Imperial Navy for a short while as he and the Guardians explore the galaxy.
Unfortunate to the Guardians themselves, their cosmic adventures with Major Marvel went short-lived after finding out that the both races of the Skrulls and the Kree were once more have reignited their million-years war on each other. In response, the Guardians were immediately obligated in helping to end the war and restore peace between both races without siding with either. Realizing that they were miserably losing and were on the pinnacle of failing on their mission in ending the war by themselves, Mar-Vell recruited his old friend and ally back on Earth, Carol Danvers, the heroine known then as Ms. Marvel. During the arrival of Danvers and Mar-Vell on Skrullos, that was that very moment where Danvers' immeasurable powers that she never even knew had existed before, had consequently help the rest of the intergalactic heroes put a final end towards the Kree-Skrull War for good.
Secret Invasion
Unluckily, however, the heroes themselves found out that the heads of the Skrull Empire secretly commanded the disguised Skrulls hiding on the planet Earth to begin the "next stage," to which they would later explain that despite their conflict with the Kree had already ended, their conflict on conquering Earth has only just begun, and decided to infiltrate and finally invade it after so long. The Guardians of the Galaxy, along with Ms. Marvel and Mar-Vell onboard their ship, immediately travel to Earth after the end of the Kree-Skrull War, warning the heroes of Earth of the threat that's about to occur on the planet, which were the Skrulls themselves who were all currently hiding on the planet at the moment, and were willing to help them fight them and prevent them from invading Earth.
When the stealthy invasion secretly planned by the ruthless Skrull race comes to fruition, the Earth's Ultimates, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Thunderbolts, the Dark Avengers, and most of the Earth's super-powered individuals must unite to stop the conquering villainous extraterrestrial race, aided by the cosmic heroes, the Guardians themselves and the entire Ravager Network. The war costed them the life of their teammate Mar-Vell for sacrificing his life to save Earth from artificial terraformation, but during the end of the fighting, a seemingly reformed Norman Osborn killed the Skrull Queen Veranke, which ended the war and the attempted invasion, once and for all.
In the wake of the averted invasion, the Guardians, especially Peter, had decided to stay on his homeworld for a while, as Peter would like to call it "vacation" as a cosmic hero. However, this so-called vacation that Peter would initially intended to do turned into an emotional reunion with his family on Earth when he would meet his relatives once again, still residing in the city of St. Charles, Missouri. While reintroducing himself to them and thoroughly explaining his strangely whereabouts in the past twenty plus years was a dumbfounding ice-breaker, it led to a momentary yet heartwarming and worthwhile reconciliation that Peter never knew he needed nor expected. When Peter's emotions started to overwhelm him, Gamora was there to console him, introducing herself and being welcomed by the Quills in the process. The pair would take a trip down memory lane to Peter's old home as well as visiting the grave of his late mother, Meredith, where he tearfully apologized and thanked her for raising him.
War of Thanos
In order to start his search for the Infinity Stones, the Mad Titan warlord Thanos and a portion of his starfleet mercilessly attacks Xandar as a part of his ultimate goal, almost decimating half of its population as he retrieves the Power Stone from the Nova Corps. The Guardians and the Yondu Ravager Clan then answered the repetitive Xandarian distress calls sent by Denarian Rhomann Dey, due to first attacks of Thanos across the capital city of Xandar, to which they immediately responded by going to planet and helping the Nova Corps combat the massive fleet of Thanos. Despite the hard efforts of the Guardians and the Yondu Clan to stop Thanos and his forces' assault on the planet, Thanos was still proven to be the victor, and was already on his way to the next stone, much to the Guardians' dismay and horror. In their desperate attempt to avenge the Xandarian people, the Guardians and the Ravagers decided to being a search operation across the galactic communities in search for Thanos himself and his fleet in order to put an end to whatever he may be planning by then.
Thanos had ultimately triumphed over his enemies once he completed the Infinity Gauntlet, using this to finally complete his goal and destroy half of the life within the universe at the snap of his fingers. When Thanos eventually wiped out half of the universal population after completing the Infinity Gauntlet, most of the Guardians amongst the trillions of victims of his conquest, including Peter and Gamora. This ultimate universal "decimation" has heavily devastated the remaining Guardians for losing a lot of their loved ones due to the heroes' ultimate defeat and failure. However, the alliance of the surviving heroes, antiheroes, and several redeemed villains battled Thanos preventing his second universal goal of shredding all of cosmos to the smallest atom and rebuild it in his own image. In the process of the intense battle, he overlooked his adoptive daughter Nebula who was able to wrest the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. Her first act was to undo all that has occurred, which inadvertently freed the heroes and the cosmic entities and resurrected most of those who have once withered away into ash by the Titan's snap of changing reality, including the rest of the Guardians themselves. The battle resumed, and in the end it was the Sovereign divinity Adam Warlock who finally possessed the Gauntlet, ending the cosmic conflict for the Infinity Gauntlet, for now.
Infinity Watch
Weakened and finally defeated after losing the Infinity Gauntlet against the heroes, Thanos consequently faked his own death after Warlock himself made it look like the Mad Titan has fallen, across the intergalactic community and chose to have himself exiled and secluded at a distant planet far across the galaxy, away from everything that he had accomplished, including his allies, and everyone had been against. For some time, the Guardians have yet to learn of the truth, the painful but also hopeful truth that the Mad Titan has survived his ultimate fate, as Warlock had made it happen on purpose, believing that Thanos could still change his extremist ways and be a better being the universe would eventually appreciate, instead of fearing for so long.
Adam Warlock's evil shadow and notorious side, dubbed by his followers as the "Magus," had unexpectedly separated from his own body thanks to the Universal Church of Truth and started his own personal crusade to reassemble the recently-dismantled Infinity Gauntlet. In his process, Magus created doppelgangers of Earth's heroes, and even Thanos' own duplicate, as a part of his plan to recreate the universe into his own image, a universe of eternal and infinite wickedness. In the very end of the conflict, Warlock and the rest of the Infinity Watch, joined by the members of the Guardians, (including the Mad Titan Thanos) had successfully defeated the Magus through the help of their extensive ally, the Goddess (who also happens to be Warlock's good and noble portion), putting him in a catatonic state after he was finally imprisoned inside the Soul Stone's realm, the Soulworld, before parting ways as Warlock disbands the Infinity Watch, at least for now.
Learning the Truth
After the chaotic and confusing events of the event only termed by Deadpool as the "Retconning," an event which made either insignificant or even drastic changes in the history of their universe as a price they were willing to pay by the Deadpool and his allies in order to deal with the aftermath of the Infinity Saga. While most of the effects were causing several differences and changes throughout the entire history, Peter's life in this case had only unveiled to him the truth that he was never the son of Ego the Living Planet, but rather his grandson through J'son. Peter only realized that his own paternal grandfather had deviously deceived him in order to harness the inherited power within him.
Learning of J'son's presence on Earth during the short-lived Spartax-Badoon War around the early 1990s, Peter learned only at this point that Ego had taken advantage over the conflict's state of affairs and recruited a group of Badoon bandits to abduct J'son, whom Ego assumed was still on the planet, after the Yondu and his Ravager clan ended their deal with him out of guilt and conscience as well as their newfound comradery with then emperor J'son, whom Ego had been searching across the galaxy when Peter was still young.
Heir to An Empire
Ever since Peter found out his long lost progeny as the son of Spartoi monarch J'son as a major consequence of the Retconning, he and his fellow Guardians eventually got themselves entangled with the intergalactic political affairs of the Spartax Empire, who was now a rising superpower nation since it seeded from its predating relative race that was the Shi'ar. When J'son came to meet with him in person on the capital city of Spartax, Peter learned about his heritage and his birthright to become his successor, however their meeting didn't go quite well, as J'son wanted him to leave his careless cosmic antics become the rightful ruler of Spartax, while Peter resented the idea of anyone being the owner of the galaxy, preferring to see it free to create and live on its own will despite the endless chaos it produces. The situation even worsened when the capital city was suddenly attacked by pirates, with J'son becoming the casualties on the first wave of attacks until they were able to take them down before leaving more of the city in ruins.
Peter was heavily devastated by his father's abrupt demise that it drove him into having guilt and second thoughts, ultimately making him accept his responsibility as heir of the empire, fulfilling his father's final request to be the ruler of the Spartax, at least for a while until he gets to find a worthier leader that could lead them into a better future. For the next several months, Peter had reluctantly distanced himself the Guardians, handing Rocket Raccoon to lead it as Gamora was absent assisting the Infinity Watch, while Peter was a prince onto to path of becoming the ruler. While most of the Imperial Council were impressed by his speed and performance taking the rites to the empire, some were skeptic to his methods, deeming them as too unorthodox to the royal traditions that they've adapted from the Shi'ar.
It was also during this time that Peter faced contenders to the throne, most notably the Victoria, whose plans and intentions for the future of Spartax were strikingly similar to what Peter was only thinking. Despite feeling greatly impressed by Victoria and seeing her sincerity in making the state of Spartoi altruistically better, Peter was constantly pressured by the council since they secretly saw Victoria's reformist movement to be ruinous to their agendas of instilling order over their galaxy. To make things more burdening for Peter, he also faced the threat of the terrorist figure known as Mister Knife, the leader of the Slaughter Lords, the same pirates who attacked Spartax earlier and for years.
Tired of the endless confusion and disarray that were plaguing his people's world, Peter decided to handle the current affairs of the Spartax on his own terms without accepting the role of the Emperor, secretly forming an alliance with Victoria to deal with both the corruption of the Spartax Council and the tyranny of the Slaughter Lords. It was a climactic confrontation with the council revealing the truth that Victoria was the illegitimate daughter of Mister Knife, who they also found out was J'son, who faked his death in order to ensure Peter's succession as the Emperor. Betrayed by his father's deception, Peter bitterly outlawed his father from the Spartax and left the throne to continue his life as the reputable bandit Star-Lord with the very family whom we could trust, but not before giving his responsibilities an ensure opening for Victoria to take, confident with his decision and faithful on the notion that his half-sister would do well as its new Empress.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Human/Spartoi/Celestial Physiology: Quill possesses a hybrid nature due to having parentage hailing from alien royalty and human originality, as well as having paternal grand-parentage from a Celestial. His hybrid physiology as the son of a human and a Spartoi, and in turn the grandson of a Celestial, grants him peak human abilities, such as:
- Peak Human Strength
- Peak Human Durability
- Peak Human Agility
- Peak Human Stamina
- Peak Human Mental Process
- Energy Resistance
- Advanced Longevity
- Molecular Manipulation (formerly)
- Energy Manipulation (formerly)
- Immortality (formerly)
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Abilities
- Charismatic
- Multilingual
- Master Tactician
- Expert Combatant
- Expert Marksman
- Expert Pilot
- Talented Leader
- Expert Seducer
Strength level
- Class 20+ (Post-Ego's Expansion)
- Class 100+ (With Celestial Powers)
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Translator Implant
- Awesome Mixtapes
- Awesome Mix Vol. 1
- Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (formerly; destroyed)
- Awesome Mix Vol. 2 (Digital Copy)
- Awesome Mix Vol. 3
- Guardians' Bada$$ Mixtape
- Sony Walkman (formerly; destroyed)
- Zune
- Star-Lord's Helmet
- Jet Boot Attachments
- Power Stone (formerly)
Transportation:
- Eclector
- Third Quadrant
- M-Ship
- Benatar
- Milano (formerly; destroyed)
Weapons:
- Quad Blasters
- Hadron Enforcer (formerly)
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 17
Trivia
- His notorious codename of "Star-Lord" rooted from a special nickname his mother Meredith had given him in his youth on Earth, partly due to how his father J'son was a man of royalty from the stars.
- While having been born in 1984, Peter still grew up loving the film Footlose as he and her mother would rent and re-watch it often, comparing it to another similar favorite film of his, Dirty Dancing, which was released in 1987.
- While the death of his grandfather, Ego the Living Planet, had effectively stripped of Peter's cosmic Celestial powers, the complex nature and mechanism of his Quad Blasters reveals that the weapon's upgraded capability of conjuring more than the four classic elements (which were the gun's limits) is due to him carrying Celestial genes.
See Also
- Appearances of Peter Quill (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Peter Quill (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Peter Quill (Earth-61615)
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