The Dragon and the Dog In Deep Space

Has Cosmo the Spacedog, head of security at Knowhere, ever met Lockheed, the little purple dragon that ran around with Kitty Pryde for years?

Kitty was on the Guardians of the Galaxy for a hot minute there, or at least hanging out with them when she was dating Star-Lord. But, I don't remember if a) Lockheed went with her, or b) if they ever visited Knowhere during that stretch. The only thing I do remember is Kitty rescuing Star-Lord by dressing up as a giant banana and teleporting onto a ship chanting to terrify his guards. Or something like that. Her in a banana costume definitely happened.

I would think Lockheed would have gone with her, since I recall he kept a pretty close on Pete Wisdom when she was dating him. Tormented him might be more accurate, really. But there was also that whole thing where Lockheed worked for Agent Brand as part of SWORD, so he could have been occupied with that. Though if he's working with Earth's interstellar security division, he could have encountered Cosmo on his own through that.

Or you can always go the retcon route and say the two of them met back in the distant past, before either of them got to where they are now. We still never have found out what Cosmo's life was like before he wound up at Knowhere. . .

It could be an interesting team-up. Rocket and Cosmo always have issues. Partially because Cosmo is fairly straightforward law enforcement, while Rocket is more of a merc. Rules and laws are not something to uphold so much as inconveniences to get around while getting the job done. Plus, there's some natural antipathy because one's a dog and one's a raccoon (no matter what he says).

Dogs and dragons are not typically adversaries, and Lockheed is not as morally grey as Rocket. Although that's dependent on which version of Rocket we're talking about. Lockheed has to have a bit of the freewheeling rulebreaker in him, if only because you can't hang out with the X-Men for too long without developing that willingness to say, "Fuck it, we're doing this thing." Even Cyclops has that impulse sometimes. Overall, Lockheed's a bit more chill than Rocket, easier to get along with, probably more trustworthy.

It wouldn't be a team-up based on friction between the two, just seeing them play off each other and stop some smugglers of a population-eradicating bacterial plague, or a would-be assassin from disrupting a peace summit.