i think this is very true, and now that we’re here peeling back the layers of the jokes and parsing out what’s really going on, in true guardians fashion, i have more to add, because this got me thinking this morning.
peter is going to have a lot of Complicated (definitely with a capital “c”) feelings surrounding meeting anyone who calls themselves a “god,” all to do with the fallout of the events of vol 2 – nothing that’s going to be resolved neatly within just a couple of months or anything like that. everything that happened in vol 2 heaped a whole new depth of trauma onto a guy who’s already accumulated a pretty significant collection of it over the course of his life, and, yep, four years later, peter is still going to be Dealing.
so, yeah, point one: the last time peter and the other guardians met someone who called himself a “god,” it was… ego lmao. which – YEAH. i think this goes without saying; wary/distrustful/insecure is an understandable place to be.
but there’s another layer to this: peter didn’t just meet a god-man who turned out to be the dickhead of the millennium; that god-man was his biological father. his biological father who he inherited god powers from. the last time they faced a god-man, peter had god powers to fight against him, and they still very nearly lost with all their combined efforts. so what’s going to happen this time when the god-man strikes and he has no advantage that could give them all a shot at winning?
now, peter doesn’t want those powers; he wants nothing to do with them. he wants no part of the thing that killed his mom and almost wiped out the whole universe, among other things. he’s a-okay with all those abilities being gone. but i’d imagine he wonders to himself sometimes if ego was really telling the truth about the light only existing as long as he was alive. i’d imagine he wonders sometimes, late in the middle of the night when he can’t sleep, about whether or not this thing, this awful, awful thing that he wants absolutely zero part of, is still nevertheless a part of him, if it’s just lying in wait to come back when he least expects it.
so, before i get completely off-track into tangent land, what i’m trying to say is that meeting someone like thor is definitely a hair trigger for peter for a lot of very complicated reasons. we joke about the muscles, and it is funny, but behind that, without knowing anything else about thor, it makes complete sense from peter’s perspective as to why he should feel threatened.
(now, maybe acting like a five-year-old isn’t the best way to handle it, but this is peter quill we’re talking about, lol. i’d be shocked if he handled it any other way.)
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