Guardians of the Galaxy #2 (2020) - "I know what I'm doing."

[laughing_tree]

Certainly if you read the Annihilation stuff, he's very hard bitten. He's much rougher, he's much gruffer, he's sort of a veteran. It almost seems the Peter Quill that we've seen in more recent years, the goofier, more lighthearted version, is almost like the bandage over the top of that, like he's been trying really hard for a long time to kind of be okay and he's almost managed to fool himself. -- Al Ewing

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[scorntx]

Eh. He'll be fine.
(I give it a year. Maybe two, tops. But he'll be back by the time Guardians Vol. 3's trailer comes along.)
Even Quill knows death in comics has the stopping power of stubbing your toe.
Mind, given the things he's survived, it's not an unreasonable attitude to have.
So long as them movies make money, he's outright indestructible.


While the idea of Peter's goofier characterisation being a coping mechanism has some credit, we all know what the real reason is, and sadly a logical consequence of the metric ton of horrors Quill's gone through ain't it.

Also, that bit with the element gun is pretty great.
And the stuff with Phyla and Heather.
(Even Hercules isn't too irritating, even though he seems to be the obligatory "Earth-based character shoved onto the team" the Guardians seem required to have these days.)

[lordultimus]

In fairness, the Marvel gods have a long history of getting involved with cosmic stuff.

[shakalooloo]

And let us not forget the 'Hercules: Prince of Power' mini, where he got exiled from Earth and had awesome cosmic adventures alongside a Rigellian recorder.

[thehood]

They aren't earth based since the Greek gods were all reborn in space and Hercules in particular has had space adventures before.