Star-Lord (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Peter Jason Quill, also known as Star-Lord, is a major character in the . Originally from Earth, he was captured and adopted by the space pirate known as Yondu Udonta after his mother tragically passed away, on orders of his biological father Ego The Living Planet. The young human was raised among Yondu's crew calling themselves the "Ravagers". Quill eventually became an expert pilot, gunslinger and thief. After learning of a great threat to the galaxy, Quill becomes the leader of an unlikely group of heroes to defend it and it's people.
He is portrayed by (who also portrays young Rumplestiltskin in Once Upon a Time and Stan Uris as a child in the It film series) and Luke Klein as a child, and by (who also portrays Owen Grady in the Jurassic World film series and James Reece in The Terminal List, and voiced Emmet Brickowski in the Lego Movie film series, Cooper Daniels in Ben 10: Ultimate Alien, Barley Lightfoot in Onward, Mario in The Super Mario Bros. Movie, and Garfield in The Garfield Movie) as an adult. 
In the Japanese dub, he is voiced by , who also voiced Michael Corleone in The Godfather films, Genie in the animated and live-action Aladdin films, Stanley Ipkiss in The Mask, The Grinch in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Donkey in the Shrek films, Éomer in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, Aldo Raine in Inglorious Bastards, Don Draper in Mad Men, and Bloodsport in The Suicide Squad.
==Personality==
Peter Quill was abducted from Earth by the thieves and smugglers called the Ravagers. Their leader, Yondu Udonta raised Quill and showed him how to survive in deep space. Yondu also taught Quill how to be the perfect thief. Peter Quill is naturally upbeat and sarcastic and is known for looking on the bright side. It seems that his 1980s pop culture-laden references his life on Earth.
He is also very protective of his Sony Walkman that was given to him by his mother. This was shown numerous times when he attempted to assault a prison guard who took it, and when during the prison break, when Quill made his way back into the prison just to retrieve the device. Later, Quill's anger for his father was more focused due to Ego breaking the Walkman despite the confession that Ego had also murdered his mother.
Before joining the Guardians, Quill lived in the ways of an average criminal and thug, going so far as killing Korath's men and attempting to kill Korath himself when they seemingly threatened his well being as they were arresting him for interrogation by Ronan. Although, he only attacked them when he was aware that he could get the drop on them and win, as well as when he knew that he could not convince them to let him go. 
However, he merely stunned and knocked out the guards on the Kyln with his Quad Blasters instead of using lethal force, which shows that he only would kill to defend himself or in battles with foes that are outside the law, such as Ronan and Korath's men. He is very conscientious of his physical weaknesses, which prevents him from acting impulsive as he is always aware of the dangers of his actions, especially in combat.
Quill has shown he can be heroic; he was unwilling to watch Gamora die in space, so he exited his pod giving Gamora his mask, saving her life, nearly at the cost of his own. He was also the one who brought the Guardians together to save Xandar, showcasing his leadership qualities and a certain amount of charisma, since all the members were well-known outlaws.
Quill can create inventive, and often extremely unorthodox, solutions to problems on the fly. His confrontation with Ronan the Accuser is an example of this, distracting him long enough for Rocket and Drax to put the Enforcer back together to destroy Ronan's hammer to break loose the stone.
Due to being raised as a child by aliens, having possibly not learned just how weak humans are compared to other beings, he never suspected that he was half alien himself and assumed his inhuman resilience to be normal for any creature.
Following his resurrection in 2023, Quill admitted that he hated himself sometimes. For the obvious fact that he caused the universe five years of misery from the Blip/Snap due to ruining the plan to get the gauntlet off Thanos because he lost his temper.
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
Hybrid Physiology: Due to his heritage, he is part Celestial and part human, giving him superhuman abilities. Ego explained to him that as long as the Light of the Planet, which is Ego's essence, is alive, Peter Quill has celestial powers. However, after the death of Ego, Quill apparently became a regular human.
*Superhuman Durability: Due to his paternal heritage from Ego, Quill was able to physically withstand the exposure to the energy from an Infinity Stone. He held the Power Stone and for minutes, and was able to use its power when sharing the burden of its touch with the other Guardians.
===Former Powers===
*Molecular Manipulation: While battling Ego, Yondu Udonta's encouragement allowed Star-Lord to realize his ability to manipulate matter. He used it to propel himself into the air at a high velocity. He was able to construct things and weapons out of matter, such as gloves of rock to punch his father and later he enveloped himself into a giant Pac-Man to counter the giant materialized by his father.
*Energy Manipulation: While on Ego's planet, Ego taught him how to manipulate energy and how to use it to create solid constructions by drawing energy from the planet. He once created a ball to play catch with his father, like he always dreamed of. He can even empower his fists with energy to produce superhuman physical strikes, such as he did with his father moments prior to his father's death.
*Self-Augmentation: He use his connection to the Light of the Planet to enhance his physical strength and durability to the point where he was almost immune to damage, allowing him to easily smashing through stone and survive crashing into the ground at bullet-like speed.
*Immortality: While battling his father Ego, Ego told him that as long as Ego's essence is still alive, Star-Lord himself will never die.
===Abilities===
*Expert Hand-To-Hand Combatant: Quill is an expert in close-quarters combat. He was able to hold his own against Gamora, an assassin trained by Thanos. He uses his two blasters as melee weapons to strike and knock his foes unconscious with a hard strike to the head. He was able to take down multiple Nova Corps, Kyln, and Sakaaran soldiers by striking them with the blasters.
*Expert Thief: Raised by the Ravagers, Quill mastered the art of thievery and evasion. Though Star-Lord had a criminal record, thievery was not one of the charges, though Rhomann Dey picked him up for petty theft.
*Expert Marksman: Quill is well-versed in the use of weapons from all over the galaxy, but he prefers using his own Quad Blasters, which he is shown to be skilled with. He also handled a Kyln Guard's rifle, a weapon he was not believed to have even seen before, and easily shot and destroyed a drone with it.
*Skilled Acrobat: Quill is highly athletic and has high level dexterity, reflexes, and coordination, which notably allows him to do parkour and free running. His extreme reflexes allowed him to effortlessly catch a small lunging creature trying to bite him while he was wearing head phones and seemingly distracted by his music. He was able to leap several feet across a chasm, perform a combat roll while sliding along his ship directly into the cockpit.
*Master Tactician: Quill is an exceptional tactician, as shown when after finding Iron Man's plan to suck, Quill took the lead and made his own plan to stop Thanos and was nearly successful until he broke the group's hold on him after going into a rage on learning Gamora’s death. He also played a key role in fighting and coordinating strategy during the Battle of Xandar.
*Master Pilot: Quill is an accomplished starship pilot. He has used this skill to escape Korath and his men on Morag.
*Multilingual: After spending an amount of time with Groot, Quill has learnt to understand what Groot is saying, despite only hearing "I am Groot". It is possible that this is in fact not a power but more a note to how long/well they know each other.
==Equipment==
===Weapons=== 
*Hadron Enforcer: Made by Rocket, the Enforcer shoots a concentrated bolt of nuclear explosive force that only detonates on its target. The mass and size of the target determine how large the explosion will be. Rocket claimed it could destroy a moon. He briefly handled the weapon in the Guardians plan to kill Ronan, but has not held it since.
*Quad Blasters: Quill carries dual direct energy weapons in the form of handguns. The handguns shoot lightning and fiery bolts out of its bottom and top barrels respectively. While the fire-like blast on the top barrel is lethal, killing its live targets on impact and even sends the target flying backwards with great force, the bottom barrel produces direct streaks of electricity to electrocute its targets and incapacitate them. He has used his two blasters as melee weapons in the past to strike and knock his foes, specifically Kyln Guards, unconscious with one strike to the head. The design of the blasters are a reference to the latest version of his element gun, and the fact that he had to blasters in the movie is a reference to his Kree sub-machine guns from the comics, which he carried two of while he only had one element gun in the comics.
*Electric Bolas: A hi-tech version of an ancient throwing weapon made of weights on the ends of an interconnected laser cord, designed to capture targets by entangling their legs.
===Items=== 
*Helmet: Quill wears a helmet that shows threats on HUD and has internal comm systems. The helmet allows him to breathe in the vacuum of space. When he presses the button on the side of his head, a light blue energy wraps around his face and the back of his head, and becomes the helmet.
*Jet Boot Attachments: Quill has jets that he attaches to his boots to make jet boots. The jet attachments can rotate in any direction and can be used to propel him through the air. They can also be used in flying in deep space. He even used them as weapons by staging one of them on a hostile and activated them, which sent the target flying backwards.
*Translator Implant: Star-Lord has a translator implanted in his neck that helps him understand many of the languages of almost every known species in the universe.
*Star-Lord Uniform - The uniform protects Quill from the effects of absolute zero temperature of deep space as well as its vacuum.
*Plasma Sphere: One of Peter Quills gadgetry and weapons is a glass like ball that much like a glowstick, lit up when shook. It was dangerous when shattered, as it could ensnare and disintegrate living creatures in a cloud of its released plasma, though it quickly diminishes.
*Holographic Scanner: Part of his arsenal and tools is a holographic device that scans an area almost the size of a foot ball field and projects what was there before, even people moving around. Quill scanned the ruined temple area of Morag and could identify the creatures and people living their before. It could also highlight a certain area red to show Star Lord where it detects a certain object. This is how Quill knew to go up the temple stairs to find the Orb.
*Gravity Mine: A device that could exert greater amounts of the force of gravity on a designated object and gravitate it towards itself was in Quills possession. It can generate gravity as powerful as a planet and pull something to itself as if the object were in a planets orbit. If it is not programmed to pull a certain object while active, it will pull everything in a 1 foot radius towards itself at great speed. Quill used this to incapacitate Korath's troops before it was shot and destroyed.
==Earth Memorabilia==
Much of his personal items from Earth traveled with him when he was taken by the Ravagers as a child. His ship, the Milano, now houses this memorabilia, with the songs from his Walkman being able to be played on the ships sound system, with what appeared to be a stereo being added to the ship.
*Sony TPS-L2 Walkman Headset: Quill is very protective of his Sony Walkman; when deprived of it in prison, he challenged a guard for its return, but was electrocuted in response. He received it from his mother, along with two mix tapes containing several songs from the 60's all the way through to the 80's. Unfortunately, this Walkman was destroyed by Ego after revealing to Peter that he put the tumor inside Meredith Quill's head.
**Awesome Mix Vol. 1: Meredith Quill put together a mixtape named Awesome Mix Vol. 1 so that her son could listen to songs she used to listen to when she was growing up.
**Awesome Mix Vol. 2: When Meredith was dying from cancer and gave her son a second mixtape as a gift, as moments before she died. However, Quill never opened his gift and kept the tape as one of the few mementos from Earth. After he and the other Guardians of the Galaxy members saved Xandar from Ronan, he finally opened his mother's gift. Unfortunately, the cassette was inside the Walkman when Ego crushed it.
*Troll doll: A type of plastic doll with furry up-combed hair, depicting a troll. Quill use it as a memento from Earth. After the attack on Xandar was over, Yondu proceeded to capture the Orb, only to realize there was a troll doll inside, and Quill kept the Orb to put it into the custody of the Nova Corps.
*ALF Trading Cards
*Garbage Pail Kids Trading Cards
*Puffy Stickers: An assortment of ALF Puffy Stickers was used all over Peter's Milano, sticking towards his cassette deck.
*Scratch and Sniff Stickers: Peter had a few stickers that were sticking onto his cassette deck, these stickers are made so that when scratched, they release an scent. This scent is normally related to the image displayed.
*Zune Music player: Zune was a brand of digital media products and services marketed by Microsoft. Kraglin Obfonteri gave Quill a Zune as a present from Yondu after his death. Obfonteri said Yondu, "Found it at a junker shop" and "it has over three hundred songs."
*Mattel Electronics Football Tracker: While the Guardians of the Galaxy were hired by the High Priestess Ayesha, leader of the Sovereign race to defend some interdimensional batteries from the Abilisk, Quill uses a monitor to track down the creature so that team would know where it was coming.
==Relationships==
===Family===
*Ego † - Father, Arch-Enemy, Attempted Killer and Indirect Victim
*Meredith Quill † -Mother
*Unnamed Half-Siblings †
*Mantis - Younger Half-Sister, Close Friend and Teammate
*Maternal Grandfather
*Maternal Grandmother
*Maternal Uncle
*Yondu Udonta † - Kidnapper turned Adoptive Father, Former Captain, Teammate and Savior
===Allies===
*Kevin Bacon - Idol
*Guardians of the Galaxy - Teammates and Closest Friends
**Gamora - Former Enemy Turned Girlfriend
**Drax the Destroyer
**89P13/Rocket Raccoon - Former Enemy
**Groot - Former Enemy
**Nebula - Former Enemy
**Kraglin Obfonteri
**Cosmo
*Ravagers - Associates and Former Teammates
**Vorker
**Horuz †
*Nova Corps - Former Enemies
**Rhomann Dey
**Garthan Saal †
**Irani Rael/Nova Prime
*Bereet - Former Love Interest
*Tivan Group
**Taneleer Tivan/The Collector - Purchaser
**Carina †
*Broker
*Avengers
**Thor - Rival, Former Teammate, and Close Friend
**Tony Stark/Iron Man † - Enemy turned Rival and Reluctant Ally turned Ally and Friend
**Peter Parker/Spider-Man - Enemy and Attempted Victim turned Rival and Reluctant Ally turned Friend, Ally and Savior
**Bruce Banner/Hulk - Resurrector
**Clint Barton/Hawkeye
**James Rhodes/War Machine
**Sam Wilson/Falcon
**Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch †
**Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
**Scott Lang/Ant-Man
*Masters of the Mystic Arts
**Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange - Enemy turned Ally
**Wong
*Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
*Golden Tribe
**T'Challa/Black Panther
**Shuri
*Dora Milaje
**Okoye
*Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
*Korg
*Miek
*Hope Van Dyne/Wasp
*Pepper Potts/Rescue
*Howard the Duck
*Gamora (2014 timeline) - Savior and Love-Interest
*Toothgnasher
*Toothgrinder
===Enemies===
*Mountrous Inmate †
*Sakaarans
*Ronan the Accuser † - Attempted Killer and Victim
*Korath the Pursuer † - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
*Abilisk † - Attempted Killer and Attempted Victim
*Sovereign
**Ayesha - Employer turned Enemy
**Zylak
*Thanos † - Arch-Enemy, Attempted Victim, Kidnapper and Killer
*Black Order
**Ebony Maw †
**Corvus Glaive †
**Cull Obsidian †
**Proxima Midnight †
*Thanos † (2014 timeline)
*Black Order (2014 timeline)
**Ebony Maw † (2014 timeline)
**Corvus Glaive † (2014 timeline)
**Cull Obsidian † (2014 timeline)
**Proxima Midnight † (2014 timeline)
*Chitauri (2014 timeline)
**Leviathans (2014 timeline)
**Chitauri Gorillas (2014 timeline)
*Outriders (2014 timeline)
**Sakaarans (2014 timeline)
*OrgoCorp
**High Evolutionary †
**Karja
**Theel †
**Vim †
==Quotes==
==Trivia== 
*In the film, as a running gag, nobody remembers his alias is Star-Lord, instead calling him Star-King, Space-Lord, etc.
*In the comics, Star-Lord currently wears the outfit he wore in Guardians of the Galaxy.
*Eddie Redmayne, Jensen Ackles, Lee Pace, Wes Bentley, Jack Huston, Cam Gigandet, Sullivan Stapleton, Logan Marshall-Green, Garrett Hedlund, Chris Lowell, James Marsden, Jim Sturgess, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Aaron Paul, Michael Rosenbaum, Zachary Levi, and John Krasinski were considered for the role of Star-Lord. 
** Lee Pace would go on to portray Ronan the Accuser in the 2014 film, as well as in Captain Marvel.
**John Krasinki would go on to portray Mr. Fantastic in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness.
*In the Lego Movie 2, Rex Dangervest's Galaxy Defender occupation is a reference to Star-Lord.
*He's the first character to drop an uncensored F-bomb in the MCU followed by Deadpool who will make his MCU debut two movies later.
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