Peter Quill (Star-Lord)

Personality

Peter Quill is a former criminal who is known as the Superhero **Star-Lord.** He is a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy and a former member in the Ravagers, the true love and boyfriend of Gamora, son to Meredith Quill and Ego the Living Planet, and adoptive son to Yondu Udonta.

## Personality

Peter is the steryotypical criminal who was usually a womanizer and has no honor (according to Gamora) and a similar personality to Han Solo. However, as the film progresses, Peter soon begins to develop a sense of pride, honor and familial intention towards his new team, promising to look after them. Though he claims to often not care about whether Gamora lived or died, it was very clear that Star-Lord didn't want her getting killed, showing he did have an honorable side Gamora hardly realized. Quill was also fond of pop culture, shown through his excessive love of classic music and often making jokes about people from movies he'd seen. Star-Lord also has a sarcastic streak, similar to that of Tony Stark, Doctor Strange and Shuri. Like those three characters, they also sarcastically refer to famous fictional characters, often referring to shows such as Cheers and Knight Rider and films, such as Footloose and referring to his friends as fictional characters. For examples, he compares his relationship with Gamora to that of Sam and Diane's in Cheers and calling his adoptive father "Mary Poppins" after the Disney character of the same name. Most of his friends don't understand what he is referring to.

His loved ones' safety are always what comes first, no matter what. Whenever Quill loses a loved one, he will either act violently or not. When his mother died, Peter just simply cried and ran out of the hospital but as an adult, he attacked Ego when he learned that his father killed his mother. His temper also got the better of him when he began beating Thanos for the murder of Gamora and inadvertently causing the mad-Titan to achieve his goal in erasing the universe.

However, though several mistakes, Star-Lord is after all, only human and loves the people he is very close to.

## Family

### Meredith Quill (Mother)

Peter loved his mother, Meredith deeply. Meredith gave her son a Walkman at a young age, along with an Awesome Mix tape.

The two of them would often listen to their favorite music on Peter's Walkman. Peter continues to honor his mother, by naming himself "Star-Lord" because of her mother's nickname and has kept his Awesome Mix Vol. 1 tape and is fiercely protective of it. Sometime before her death, Meredith made an Awesome Mix Vol. 2 tape. Peter is at his mother's bedside. As he watches his mother die in front of him, Peter doesn't grab his mom's hand when she tries to hold his hand.

After learning that Ego killed his mom, Peter immediately attacked him because his mother was dearly loved by him. Also, her death led to Peter to be raised by Yondu Udonta rather than his grandfather or his biological father.

### Yondu Udonta (Adoptive Father)

> Both Yondu and David Hasselhoff went on kick-ass adventures and hooked up with hot women and fought robots. I guess David Hasselhoff did kind of end up being my dad after all, and it was you, Yondu. I had a pretty cool dad.
>
> Peter's eulogy at his father's funeral., Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

Without ever realizing it, Yondu was the father Peter never had.

Peter often thought Yondu never loved him, by his constant threats of being eaten. However, Peter did see Yondu as the only family he had . Yondu did teach Peter how to fly a spaceship and taught him how to shoot a blaster.

After Yondu sacrificed himself for Quill, Peter thought highly of his adoptive father.

### Ego (Father)

Initially, Peter got along well with his father, as both of them had love of culture and enjoyed making cultural references. However after learning that Ego killed his mother and destroyed his Walkman, Peter wanted to do nothing more than to kill his father before Ego could wipe out the universe as they know it.

Later Peter disregarded Ego as his dad, but rather the man who impregnated his mother and saw Yondu as his true father.

## Relationships

### Gamora (Girlfriend)

Gamora is arguable Peter's best friend and primary love interest to her. By the second film, Gamora and Quill are closer than the original and are best friends but both keep their attractions toward each other a secret. However, no matter how many times she denies it, Gamora has a romantic attraction to Peter Quill. He would also often tell her a story he'd tell all the children: that David Hasselhoff was his father. Peter begins apparently flirting with Ayesha, but stops when he notices that Gamora is looking at him, telling him to "shut up". She shows a hint of jealousy when she sees Quill flirting with Ayesha the High Priestess, but says nothing about it. However, she does interrupt their exchange before the conversation grows any further. At the end of the film, Gamora and Quill admit their feelings for each other and get together, and are still a couple by the time of *Infinity War*.

### Bereet (One-Night Stand)

Peter briefly dated a Kylorian named Bereet. However, he didn't know her name, seeing that they probably had a one night stand together. The two of them part ways on friendly terms.

### other Romances

> Look, this is from a smoking-hot Rajak girl. Stabbed me with a fork. Didn't like me skipping out on her at sunrise. I got, right here, a Kree girl tried to rip out my thorax. She caught me with this skinny little A'askavariian who worked in Nova Records. I was trying to get information. You ever see an A'askavariian? They have tentacles and needles for teeth. If you think I'm seriously interested in that, then... [Drax gives him a cold look] You don't care.
>
> Peter to Drax, Guardians of the Galaxy (film)

Peter dated a lot of women prior to the series.

Peter once dated a Rajak girl whom Peter describes as "smoking-hot" however, he skipped out on her at sunrise. later x the Rajak girl stabbed him with a fork.

Peter had a brief relationship with a Kree Girl. Their relationship ended badly because the Kree girlnearly ripped his thorax out when the Kree Girl saw him with an A'askavariian woman.

Peter had a relationship with this woman, an A'askavariian working at Nova Records at the same time he dated a Kree girl. He had lain with her, but was only getting information. The Kree girl caught them together. Peter later claims that A'askavariian woman aren't his type, because he is not interested in their tentacles or their needle-like teeth.

The relationships later meant nothing, since Peter never felt any love until he met Gamora.

## Friends

### Rocket Racoon **(Best Friend)**

Rocket nearly kidnapped Peter and intended to bring him back to the Ravagers.

By *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*, the two seem to have developed an older brother/younger brother relationship with Rocket. Apparently, both of them agree on things and also have friendly sibling rivalry. Yondu was able to crack Rocket out of his shell, knowing that while both of them do care about Peter and their friends they have trouble showing it. During the Battle on Ego's planet, Peter thinks of his bond with his friends and father, one of them being a memory of him, Rocket and Groot testing out their new and improved rockets.

### Drax(Friend)

Peter first met Drax at the Kyln, where both men encountered each other when Drax threatened the life

### Groot

In *Guardians of the Galaxy*, Groot helps Rocket kidnap Peter. Later, Quill gets easily annoyed with Groot's catchphrase, "I am Groot." and calls him the "Giving Tree". Later, Groot tells Rocket that Peter (and Gamora) are the first friends they ever had and insists on rescuing them from Yondu and his Ravager clan. He also follows Peter into the battle of Xandar; during the invasion on the *Dark Aster*, Peter pushes Groot out of the way before Rocket collides with him.

In *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*, Peter acts as a paternal figure to Groot (who is now reforming as a baby). He has yelled at him worriedly when fighting the Abilisk before he continued fighting it and tells him to strap in for the ride. At the very end, Groot listens to a song Peter is listening to as the young Terran simply pets Groot's back while also holding him at the same time. Flash-forward, Peter later yells at Groot to pick up his vines, now realizing how Yondu felt.

### Kraglin Obfonteri **(Former teammate and rival; friend)**

Meeting him while he was young, Peter and Kraglin didn't hit it off great right away. Both of them had rivalries between each other, but no one knows why. Kraglin does seem to become hurt that Yondu chose to protect Peter after a final time no matter how many times he had betrayed the Ravagers. Near the end of the first film, Kraglin actually claims he's glad Peter did turn out alright, implying that Quill was better off being raised by Yondu than his own father.

Kraglin is probably the only Ravager who actually calls Peter by his first name, and also calls him "Pete" after Yondu's funeral and calls him his captain

### Nebula

While hardly knowing Nebula, he first met his friend Gamora's adoptive sister when she confronts Peter, Gamora, Groot and Rocket. Peter calls her "Smurfette" and hardly refers to her by her real name, and was shocked to see her with Gamora and the other guardians.

1. ↑ *Guardians of the Galaxy*