#og groot

[raccoon-coded]

One of my favourite exchanges from gotg vol. 1 has got to be:

Rocket: "This is what we get for acting altruistically."

Groot: "I am Groot."

Rocket: "They are ungrateful."

Because it means that Groot, one of the most understanding and gentlest beings (to anyone who isn't harming his friends or those who can't defend themselves), was genuinely offended by Peter's reaction to their rescue mission. Like "we went through all this effort to save you both and yet look at how ungrateful you are. Do you know what it took to talk Rocket into actually coming after you? And this is the thanks we get?"

It's just very funny to me.

[ohfugecannada]

Ever since vol.3 and that scene where Peter and Groot ii break out of the Arete via Groot ii growing wings to fly (or I guess, glide) them out of there, I wondered; was OG Groot capable of the same thing?

[guardians-restart]

t*mblr probably nerfed the quality click to make it readable

yeah so uh it bugs me when people don't realize that Groot from the comics is a completely different character from the one we're seeing in the movies. In the MCU the Groot i love so dearly has been dead and buried on Xandar for 9 (?) years and im still salty about it

Also don't @ me for sudden downfall of quality in this piece i was struggling trough an art block at the time 😭 and everything came out chonky and blocky in a bad way

[imposterogers]

i focking loathe baby groot. hate that piece of shit bastard man

og groot soothes my soul. baby groot does nothing but anger it

[ohfugecannada]

Do you guys think Rocket ever told Groot ii about the og Groot?

I like to imagine he occasionally learned some tidbits about him growing up around the other guardians. I.E. Drax telling him he was a formidable warrior and friend, Quill talking about how he was wise and the only person on the team who had a clue, gamora talking bout how kind he was etc etc. but it was nothing too deep since they didn’t know him long.

Rocket, by contrast, despite knowing og Groot a lot longer compared to the rest of the guardians, never mentions him. At all. And anytime the subject comes up he dodged questions or tries to change the subject. Maybe the pain of losing him still hurt, similar to his trauma of losing batch 89. Or maybe he feels he wasn’t truly og Groot’s friend due to how much he pushed him away and called him an idiot, and thinks he cant be the one to tell his story to his son. A bit of both?

Whatever the case, perhaps Groot ii either never learned about og Groot from Rocket, or at the very least, it took Rocket a long time to do so. Only opening up to Groot ii later when he was a teen or adult.

[ohfugecannada]

OG GROOT…

[ohfugecannada]

Of all the characters I could possibly hyperfixate on once getting back into guardians of the galaxy after watching vol.3, I had to go and choose the character who has been canonically dead in universe for at least over a decade!

[guardians-restart]

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