Quad Blasters

The Quad Blasters are Star-Lord's primary combat weapons which he received from Yondu Udonta.
==History==
===Christmas Present===
During one of Peter Quill's Christmases in space, Yondu Udonta chewed him out over the act of giving presents, ordering him to take down the stuff he was going to give the Ravagers. However, when Udonta saw Quill's gift to him, he was touched and decided to gift Quill a pair of Quad Blasters.The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special Udonta then taught Quill how to use them.
===Quest for the Orb===
====Battle of Morag====
On Morag, when Quill retrieved the Orb, he shot Korath with his blasters but Korath got back on his feet in short order.
====Escape from the Kyln====
Following a skirmish on Xandar, the blasters were taken from Quill when he was imprisoned by the Nova Corps on the Kyln. During his escape, he retrieved them along with his other belongings. He used these weapons to stun the Nova Corps guards and retrieve his Walkman. He hit the Mean Guard listening to his Walkman in the head with his Quad Blaster.
====Battle of Xandar====
He once again wielded the weapons on the Dark Aster during the Battle of Xandar, using it to kill multiple Sakaarans.
===Battle on Sovereign===
Two months later, Peter Quill used his blasters on Sovereign to fight against the Abilisk.
===Battle on Ego===
Eventually, when Quill reunited with his father Ego, Quill found out that he was responsible for Meredith Quill's death causing Peter to shot Ego's human form multiple times, however Ego recovered from it. Throughout the rest of the Battle on Ego, Quill used the Quad Blasters against the Sovereign fleet and Ego's planet.
===Infinity War===
====Ambush in Knowhere ====
Four years later, Quill, along with the Guardians, had to split up in an attempt to stop Thanos from gathering the Infinity Stones. Quill, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis went to Knowhere to try to stop Thanos from getting the Reality Stone, with Quill keeping his blasters on him. When Gamora was grabbed by Thanos, she begged Peter to kill her so Thanos wouldn't find out where the Soul Stone was, with Thanos even daring Quill to do it. Eventually going through with it, Peter tried to shoot Gamora, however the impressed Thanos used the Reality Stone to turn the blast into bubbles, before taking Gamora with him.Avengers: Infinity War
====Battle of Titan====
Eventually, the Guardians would get a signal from Nebula, learning of Thanos' plan to rendezvous on Titan. Wanting to get either Thanos or one of his minions to learn where Gamora was, Quill, Drax, and Mantis invaded a crashed Q-Ship to interrogate those onboard. Quill used the blasters during his fight with Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange. Eventually Quill aimed the blaster at Parker's head, until everyone finally calmed down and realized that they were all on the same side against Thanos.
Quill eventually made a plan to attack Thanos as a team, which led to them disabling Thanos into a trance while trying to pull the gauntlet off him. However, when Thanos was forced to reveal that he killed Gamora to get the Soul Stone, Quill went berserk, repeatedly hitting Thanos with the Quad Blasters, accidently knocking Thanos out of his trance. Eventually, this led to Thanos to finally gathering all six Stones and eliminate half of all sentient life in the universe, with Quill and the Quad Blasters erased from existence.
===Battle of Earth===
Five years later, the Avengers successfully brought back all victims of the Snap, including Quill and his blasters, which Quill used during the Battle of Earth against a time-displaced Thanos and his forces, ultimately ending with Iron Man using the Infinity Stones to wipe out Thanos' forces.Avengers: Endgame
===Guardians' Adventures===
For months after, Quill and the Guardians of the Galaxy journeyed around the galaxy, answering numerous distress signals across the universe in the wake of the Blip. On one such occasion during the Battle of Indigarr, Quill used his blasters against the Booskans.Thor: Love and Thunder
===Attack on Rocket===
In 2026, when Adam Warlock attempted to kidnap Rocket, Peter was woken up from a drunken stupor earlier that day, and used the Blasters on Adam to try to protect Rocket, however Adam ended up fatally wounding Rocket where upon learning that they couldn't use operate on Rocket without setting off a Kill Switch implemented by Rocket's creator the High Evolutionary, Peter and the Guardians would take the Blasters with him to OrgoCorp in case they were needed.Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
===Battle of Counter-Earth ===
Eventually, the Guardians would track the necessary info to Counter-Earth and knowing that the High Evolutionary had set a trap for them, Peter gave the Quad Blasters to Groot to hide them inside of his frame to allow them to sneak them into Arete Labotories. When Peter and Groot eventually entered the lab to confront High Evolutionary and Theel, who had the information, High Evolutionary would spring the trap, which Quill would turn the tables on them by having Groot unleash his hidden arsenal and retrieve his Quad Blasters to blast High Evolutionary's men which ended when Quill and Groot forced Theel out the highest floor of the Lab to kill him from the impact and peel the info from his head while Groot saved them, which ended with them using the Bowie to escape Counter-Earth after High Evolutionary destroyed the planet.
===Attack on Arête Laboratories===
During the Guardians' escape though Mantis, Nebula, and Drax infiltrated Arete Labroratories only to be kidnapped by High Evolutionary who challenged the others to turn Rocket over to him or he would kill them. Peter and the rest however decided to attack the lab, and rescue their friends. However, when they succeeded in getting in as the rest rescued themselves with the Hellspawn and guards on stand by being released on them as result, they learned that High Evolutionary had created and held the Star Children hostage, causing Rocket to convince the rest to rescue them by evacuating them into Knowhere with no argument from the rest. Quill used the blaster to tase the guards and kill the Hellspawn with the other Guardians and Gamora.
Eventually after releasing and evacuating the Star Children onto Knowhere, The Guardians learned that Rocket stayed back to rescue the other yet unaltered animals in the Lab causing him to be attacked by High Evolutionary, however Rocket freed himself from his attack and group together with the Guardians to heavily wound High Evolutionary with Peter blasting him with the Quad Blasters, however Rocket spared him and finish rescuing High Evolutionary and the Animals from the collapsing Lab. However, on his way out, Peter ran back for his Zune which fell off him almost resulting him to die in space, however Adam Warlock would redeem himself by saving him and the Blasters.
===Alternate Universe Versions===
====Star-Lord T'Challa====
When T'Challa was accidentally taken instead of Peter Quill in an alternate universe, he became the Star-Lord of his universe, owning his set of Quad Blasters. He primarily use them for the Ravagers' heists, notably against the Collector on one such occasion,What If...?: 1.02: What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord? and later on in combat against an omnipotent Ultron alongside the Guardians of the Multiverse. After defeating Ultron, T'Challa began to teach Quill on how to use them.What If...?: 1.09: What If... The Watcher Broke His Oath?
====Age of Ultron====
In an attempt to protect the Sovereign, Star-Lord used the Quad Blasters against an invading army of Ultron Sentries, however he and the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy would be killed by Ultron.What If...?: 1.08: What If... Ultron Won?
==Capabilities==
The Quad Blaster has two separate triggers and barrels, for the index and middle finger respectively. Both of which can be fired at the same time and have a lethal and non-lethal attack function. They can also function as melee weapons to strike and knock out opponents, while striking enemies with the barrels while shooting the weapon to hit harder and harm stronger opponents.
*Plasma Shot: The quad blaster has a top barrel that is meant for lethal force. The fiery blast from the top barrel can kill most targets on impact, though some physically enhanced hostiles can withstand the blast and only be stunned by the impactive force.
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*Electric Shot: From the bottom barrel, the quad blaster can fire electricity to electrocute and stun its targets, knocking them unconscious. Some hostiles are physically superior to others and can better withstand the shock and only be in pain from the electricity.
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*Dual Shot: Firing both triggers allows both barrels to be fired simultaneously and have a greater effect to incapacitate targets and kill them. This is greatly effective if there are multiple targets which are more physically superior and more durable.
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*Barrel Attachments: Modular attachments can be loaded onto and then fired from the barrel, such as a stun device capable of shocking and causing pain to beings as powerful as Thanos.
==Alternate Versions==
Origin 	Status 	Creators	Owners 	Users
Cosmic Time Heist 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Ravager T'Challa 	Active 	- 	T'Challa 	T'ChallaPeter Quill
Age of Ultron 	Destroyed	- 	Peter Quill † 	Peter Quill †
Nova Corpsman Nebula 	Inactive 	- 	Howard Duckson	-
Celestial Star-Lord 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy: Battle of Knowhere 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy: Rocket and Groot Fight Back	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Guardians of the Galaxy: Friends and Foes 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Marvel's Phase Two Video Games 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
Phase Two: Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy 	Active 	- 	Peter Quill 	Peter Quill
==Appearances==
Appearances for Quad Blasters
==Trivia==
*In the comics, Star-Lord uses a weapon of identical appearance known as the Element Gun, a weapon capable of conjuring each of the four elements. The akimbo fashion of the quad blaster his twin Kree Sub-Machine Guns which he uses in the comics at a point when he did not use his element gun.
*The designs of quad blasters have some reference to handguns from 1980's space western animated series .
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