Wednesday, January 26, 2011

What Happened To The Guardians Who Survived?

One thing I was left wondering by Thanos Imperative: Devastation is what happened to the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy?

We know Cosmo's putting together the Annihilators Star-Lord dreamed of. We'll find out what Rocket Raccoon and Groot are doing once the Annihilators mini-series starts. Adam Warlock, Phyla, and Drax are all dead. Star-Lord's probably dead, or if he's alive, he's trapped in a dead universe with Nova and an extremely cross Thanos. In which case he wishes he was dead.

That leaves Moondragon, Gamora, Mantis, Jack Flag, and Major Victory unaccounted for. The easy answers are Moondragon went back to Titan to mourn her father and girlfriend, and Jack Flag probably went back to Earth. I can't imagine Steve Rogers cares about the unregistered bull that got Jack thrown in the Negative Zone Prison. Gamora's likely back to roaming the universe, looking for suitable challenges to her skill. Or she could set up a little kingdom on some world, gather some people to her. That's what she was doing when Annihilation started.

The two I'm having a harder time predicting are Mantis and Major Victory. I think it'd be kind of fun if Mantis had decided to travel with Gamora. They're disparate characters, beyond one being quiet and generally reserved, and the other being more loud and open. Gamora's been described as lacking direction or purpose. Mantis believes she has a purpose (to be the Celestial Madonna), but hard telling when (or if) that'll ever come to fruition. Putting the two of them together could be fun.

I don't imagine that's the case, though. More likely Mantis would go find some place to be alone and meditate or something. As for Major Victory, I have no clue. He's from a different universe, and from the future of that different universe. I suppose he could go to Earth with Jack, maybe pay a visit to Justice at the Avengers Academy. A team-up with a younger version of himself from a different universe who never became an astronaut and so never survived to the 30th Century*. He was at Knowhere when Thanos Imperative wrapped up, so he have gone literally anywhere in the universe.

Perhaps Rocket Raccoon will fill us in.

* I guess they could still do that with Vance. A superhero might make a good astronaut, if his powers can serve as inertial dampeners or something. It'd be strange, though, if some writer just decided, "Hey, I'm sending Justice into space so he can become Major Victory in a 1,000 years!" Maybe he'd become Major Justice instead?

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