Rocket Raccoon

{{SUMMARY}}: Subject 89P13 is a raccoon who was genetically modified by High Evolutionary, giving him enhanced intelligence and the ability to speak. Naming himself Rocket, he befriended fellow experiments Lylla, Teefs and Floor, with the four believing they would soon be allowed to live in peace on a new planet. Whilst aiding High Evolutionary in perfecting his experiments, Rocket discovered that he, along with his friends, were slated to be killed. Rocket attempted to free his friends, only for the High Evolutionary to kill Lylla. Rocket then attacked his former master, mutilating him, which inadvertently resulted in the deaths of Teefs and Floor. Afterwards, Rocket boarded a ship and fled into the cosmos.

While traveling the galaxy, Rocket befriended Groot, and the pair committed crimes and picked up bounties. In 2014, they met Star-Lord, who convinced them to assist him in selling the Orb, which was being sought after by Ronan the Accuser, for a massive profit. However, when they discovered that the Orb contained the Power Stone, Rocket was convinced to risk everything to stop Ronan's plans from using the Infinity Stone to destroy Xandar. During the ensuing conflict, Rocket managed to assist his friends in destroying Ronan, although this resulted in Groot being killed. Rocket then became a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy alongside the newly planted baby Groot.

Rocket continued working with the Guardians when they were hired by the Sovereign to slay an Abilisk. However, Rocket took the job as a way to steal Anulax Batteries with the intention to later sell them. This angered Ayesha, causing her to declare war on the Guardians and hire the Ravagers to capture them. Rocket and Groot were soon captured by Taserface under Yondu Udonta's command, forcing Rocket and Udonta to work together in order to break free and kill Taserface. During his time with Udonta, Rocket learned how to better himself and wishing to save his Guardians family, joined Udonta during the Battle on Ego's Planet.

Four years later, the Guardians rescued Thor after the Asgardians were slaughtered by Thanos, who had initiated the Infinity War. The Guardians split up; while the rest of the team returned to Knowhere to find the Reality Stone, Rocket and Groot accompanied Thor to Nidavellir to obtain Stormbreaker. Using the Bifrost Bridge, the trio traveled to Earth to join the Battle of Wakanda, where he fought alongside Winter Soldier. Their efforts to stop Thanos were unsuccessful, and Rocket was one of the only Guardians to survive Thanos' subsequent mass slaughter, along with Nebula. Rocket joined the Avengers on their trip to the Garden, where he witnessed Thor decapitate Thanos.

Rocket spent the next five years as a member of the Avengers under the command of Natasha Romanoff. In 2023, after discovering how to traverse through time safely, Rocket and Thor traveled back in time to 2013, where he extracted the Aether from Jane Foster on Asgard. With all six Infinity Stones used to resurrect the victims of the Snap, Rocket participated in the Battle of Earth against an alternate Thanos and his army. After attending Iron Man's funeral, Rocket left the Avengers and rejoined the Guardians, preparing to leave Earth and return to their cosmic adventures. The Guardians went on several missions with Thor, including the Battle of Indigarr. However, following the threat of Gorr the God Butcher, Thor left the team to help the Asgardians while the other Guardians returned to the cosmos. After buying Knowhere from the Collector, Rocket worked with Cosmo to rebuild it.

Shortly after rebuilding Knowhere, the facility was attacked by Adam Warlock, who mortally wounded Rocket whilst trying to retrieve him for High Evolutionary. Any attempt to heal Rocket was found to be fatal due to his cybernetic implants, prompting the rest of the Guardians to look into Rocket's past to be able to save him. They were ultimately successful and Rocket joined his friends as they sought to liberate the rest of High Evolutionary's experiments. Upon learning that he was indeed a raccoon, he dubbed himself Rocket Raccoon and joined his fellow Guardians in a battle against his former creator, whom he chose to spare. Following the battle, the other Guardians left the team, including Star-Lord, who appointed Rocket as the new team's leader. Rocket then led the new iteration of the Guardians comprised of himself, Groot, Obfonteri, Cosmo along with Adam Warlock, Phyla and Blurp joining as they continued protecting the galaxy.

{{BACKSTORY}}: A group of baby raccoons were taken from North America by the High Evolutionary, in one of his many visits to the planet Earth. One of these baby raccoons, designated as P13 of Batch 89, was subjected to years of abuse and repeated genetic rewrites. Along with the intended result of being able to speak and think, the experiments gave 89P13 incredible intelligence, something the High Evolutionary and his subordinates took notice of.

Whenever he was not experimented on, 89P13 was placed in a cage shared with a rabbit, with an adjacent cage housing an otter and a walrus. Despite being initially frightened by their cybernetic modifications, the otter soothed him by cleaning his forehead with a rag, showing him that they meant no harm. The four animals quickly became close friends in their confinement, with 89P13 and the otter beginning to form a close bond. As they awaited their release into the Counter-Earth colony, they decide to adopt more formal names; the otter chose the name "Lylla", the walrus taking up the name "Teefs", and the rabbit now going by as "Floor". 89P13 decided to adopt the name "Rocket", reflecting their shared desire to fly away into the sky.

Eventually, the High Evolutionary invited Rocket to witness his demonstration of a new genetic mutation chamber. The subject of choice was a turtle from Batch 90, and the raccoon watched in awe as it was rapidly mutated into an anthropomorphic creature. However, the device had been unable to suppress violent behavior in the subjects post-transformation, much to his shock and the High Evolutionary's frustration. As he and his assistants debated on what could be done to fix this, Rocket was able to identify flaws in the machine and single out the root cause of the mutation problem, stunning them all with his ability to think independently.

A while later, Rocket was frantically summoned by the High Evolutionary back into the test chamber to once more watch the experiments unfold. Initially, he was harshly interrogated by his maker on how he managed to perfect the process; but once he regained his composure, the High Evolutionary informed him that, with Rocket’s insight, they finally reached a breakthrough. Delighted with Batch 90's success, Rocket became excited with the prospect that they would finally touch down into the colony, but his creator quickly shot him down: he explained that Batch 89 was never meant for the new world, but was instead regarded as a series of mistakes to learn from towards the creation of the perfect society; he even mocked his subject over this, wondering how the raccoon was able to solve the issue affecting the mutations but not realize his own fate. Still, he regarded him as a noteworthy subject, expressing his desire to dissect Rocket's brain for study, and gave the order to incinerate the rest of Batch 89 by the following morning.

After being sent back to his cage, an alarmed Rocket informed Lylla, Teefs and Floor about their impending fates and began plotting an escape. Constructing a keycard using scraps he collected throughout the ship, he used it to open both cages. Rocket and Lylla embraced, but before they could prepare to flee, Lylla was shot dead by the High Evolutionary, who anticipated their breakout. A devastated Rocket screamed and bawled in anguish and distress; but as his creator once again belittled him and mocked his suffering, he retaliated by attacking and mauling him, tearing the flesh away from his face in a frenzy. Reinforcements soon arrived and Rocket, using his creator's pistol, quickly shot them down. As he looked back he saw that the ensuing firefight had killed Teefs and Floor, who were caught in the crossfire. With no time to mourn them, Rocket quickly made a run for it with guards hot on his tail, stealing a spaceship and successfully piloting it into space. As he left his old life behind, Rocket gazed at the skies of Counter-Earth, saddened by the fact that his friends would never be able to experience it with him.

Rocket's Nova Corps criminal record included thirteen counts of theft, twenty two counts of escape from his incarceration, seven counts of mercenary activity, and fifteen counts of arson. Partnering with Groot, a Flora Colossus from Planet X, Rocket made his way in the galaxy performing various acts of dubious legality.

{{PERSONALITY}}: During his early life as a test subject, Rocket was very innocent and child-like. He quickly formed a bond with the other subjects of Batch 89 and began viewing them as his family. When the High Evolutionary showed Rocket a view of the outside world, he became enamored with the blue sky and the rockets that flew outside. He wished to take his friends out into the new world in a rocket and into the blue sky. Rocket initially latched onto the High Evolutionary as a father figure. He was eager to impress him and assist him in his experiments by explaining the reason his artificially evolved creatures were becoming filled with rage.

Despite his incredible intellect, Rocket was very naïve. Rocket did not realize his creator regarded Batch 89 as a group of failed experiments and assumed he would take them all to the new world. Upon learning of his intention to incinerate his friends, Rocket attempted to free himself and the others so they could escape. Unfortunately, the High Evolutionary had anticipated this and killed Lylla before she could escape. Her death caused Rocket to furiously maul his creator's face. After Teefs and Floor died in the crossfire, Rocket blamed himself for not being able to save them and closed himself off from relationships so he won't be hurt again. However, upon meeting Groot, Rocket started to open up as they became best friends.

Due to the inhumane experiments done to him, Rocket became bitterly, even bitingly sarcastic, foul-mouthed and cynical, as well as generally misanthropic, but in recent years seems to have adopted a more calm and temperamental demeanor. He is also easily enraged and extremely aggressive, which, in turn, makes him exceedingly trigger-happy with an innate desire for violence. Despite his toughness, he also possesses a cruel and slightly morbid sense of humor. Rocket is wary about being touched, but will let begrudgingly let those he feels the most comfortable with pet him. But just because he looks like a cute little animal doesn't mean you get to treat him like one. Mantis finds this out the hard way when she tries at one point to "pet the puppy".

Rocket has an obsession with prosthetic limbs, finding it humorous to steal them - especially without the possessor knowing as shown when he asked Peter Quill to get a guy's prosthetic leg to bust them out of jail, lying about the leg to see if Quill would do it and asking him whether the guy was hopping around on one leg, laughing all the while. He later tries pulling a similar stunt with one of the Ravagers, saying that he needed "that guy's" cybernetic eye for his plan, although he is stopped by Quill. When Groot actually did steal the eye, Rocket burst out laughing. In the Battle of Wakanda, after being assisted by the Winter Soldier in killing a horde of Outriders, he asked how much he wanted for his custom-made machine gun. When Bucky tells him it wasn't for sale, he then asks how much for Barnes' vibranium arm, which is also declined. He chuckles to himself as he leaves the offer to buy it on the table.

He appears to pride himself on his abilities and professionalism, which is indicated by when he spoke harshly to Groot when he childishly drank out of a fountain then smiled about it. A true criminal, Rocket has a higher sense of self-preservation and interests than the rest of the Guardians. In the conflict against Thanos he volunteered himself and Groot to go with Thor to Nidavellir as opposed to going with his fellow Guardians to confront Thanos directly, and Star-Lord points this out. He will cave into pessimism and panic in a situation that is out of his depth as he was the first to consider simply giving the Infinity Stone to Ronan after realizing its destructive purposes and instead of fighting the Accuser after coming into the possession of the Stone, planned to run away to "the furthest corners of the galaxy" with Groot. However, through Groot's convincing and having coming to care about Quill, Gamora and Drax, Rocket had a change of heart and decided to face Ronan with his newfound friends.

Though he displays a somewhat heroic personality, such as defending Xandar from the kamikaze Necrocrafts, Rocket still has a distorted view of the logical and ethical boundaries of the law as he believes if he wants a possession more than the current possessor of such an item, it was acceptable to steal it from him. Rocket was driven by money before he joined the Guardians and that trait still remains with him, but he has shown himself to be more compassionate and less greedy as time goes on. Although he does not resort to stealing as like he used to and opts for more acceptable methods by noting if they saved the galaxy twice, they could increase the fee for their services.

Rocket is also stunningly intelligent, as he is much more intelligent than a normal raccoon. He is able to conceive very complexly, intricate plans in a very short period of time, such as his plan to escape the Kyln. However, his genius is occasionally superseded by his emotions which appear to be exceedingly strong such as his anger over Quill going back to get his Walkman and his sadness over Groot's death.

However, deep down, Rocket is incredibly lonely and carries overwhelming pain over the experimentation that was performed on him before he was a Mercenary. He covers his insecurities well, but once he is drunk, he becomes very emotional and if possible, even more violent, speaking of how he did not 'ask' to be made into what he believed was a "little monster," implying that the experiments done to him were torturous. It is perhaps because of this loneliness and pain that he despises being derided as a rodent or vermin, going so far as to attack Gamora and Drax over the slight.

Despite Rocket's apparent dislike of people, he is exceedingly attached to Groot, and is the first known individual who was able to understand Groot when he spoke, even while everyone else only heard 'I am Groot.' He is obviously exceedingly attached to Groot, as seen when he started crying when Groot was apparently killed and pleading with him to not save them because he knew that Groot would die if he did so. His grief over his apparent death lead him to angrily charge at Ronan, who was armed with his Cosmi-Rod and the Power Stone, while completely unarmed. It was also in this moment of vulnerability that he was comforted by Drax, which he initially flinched at before accepting the caring gesture, showing that he was not used to such gentleness or kindness. He also became very protective of Groot's offspring, caring for him in a fatherly manner and collapsed to his knees sobbing when a teenaged Groot was erased from existence by the Infinity Gauntlet.

As he got to know his fellow Guardians better, he became much more protective of them. An example of this was when he, Groot and Yondu escaped the Eclector to save Quill. He initially insisted that he wanted to save him strictly because he wanted to prove that he was "better than him." Udonta managed to break through to the core of what Rocket is truly like on the inside, saying that they are the same type of person in the sense that, while they genuinely care about the people around them, they refuse to show it out of fear and insecurity.

Quill's taste in music seems to have rubbed off on Rocket as he seems to enjoy listening to songs from Star-Lord's era, especially while working such as making sure the Guardians had music to listen to whilst battling the Abilisk, when the Ravagers attacked him on Berhert and escaping the Ravagers with Udonta, the former even Quill found to be distracting. Rocket even goes to the point of taking Quill's Zune to listen to music, which would later becomes his when Quill decided to return to Earth to find his family and his way in life.

While captive with Yondu, Rocket quickly bonded with him due to their similar backgrounds and the fact that they love people without saying it. A great example of their newfound bond is when he refused to leave Ego's Planet without him, even though it would mean his death since the planet was about to explode. Their bond also encouraged him to call up the rest of the Ravagers to attend Udonta's funeral, where Rocket bleakly stated that his previous team never abandoned him even if "he yelled at them, and was always mean, and he stole batteries he didn't need", clearly comparing himself to Udonta.

Four years after the Battle on Ego's Planet, Rocket has become slightly more empathetic, showing a growing level of maturity, as seen when he consoled Thor over his multiple losses and became concerned for him after he nearly died activating the damaged neutron star, though he still has his money-driven personality, as seen when he stated they could ask for financial compensation when traveling to respond the Statesman distress call. Following the events of the Snap, Rocket has grown more affectionate to those he considers family, sitting beside Nebula and holding her hand upon reuniting. He has also grown wiser and more selfless, trying to console Thor after everything he has been through but also reminding him of their duty to the people they could still save.

At first, Rocket was confident that he wasn't a raccoon and insisted he was unique, though he did curiously ask Quill what a raccoon was when they first met. He would get upset at being called one and would go to the point of threatening to kill people because of it, but calmly denied it to Lylla when they conversed in the afterlife. He disliked being called a raccoon due to his uncertainty over his identity and likely because it reminded him of his time as the High Evolutionary's captive. Rocket also insisted he wasn't from Earth like Quill.

The deaths of Batch 89 weighed deeply on his soul, and the moment Rocket saw Lylla's spirit as he was on the verge of death, he broke down and sobbed while averting his gaze, so ashamed of his failure that he couldn't even bear to look at his friend. He profusely apologized for letting her down and getting them all killed, releasing the deep pain and guilt he'd kept hidden for many years. Rocket expresses to Lylla his insecurities over his purpose in life, believing he was just an experiment to be thrown away. It was thanks to her encouragement that he began to value himself more than just as a test subject.

After his near-death experience and meeting the souls of his friends in the afterlife, Rocket began to experience a massive shift in character. Despite being visibly frightened by the High Evolutionary, he refused to run and chose to save all the captives on his ship. While helping the children escape, Rocket discovers the room where he and his cellmates were once kept in cages. The room is full of Earth animals, including several baby creatures with a startling resemblance to him. Opening the cage, he reads a description explaining their place of origin and the name of these creatures: raccoons from North America, causing an immensely emotional Rocket to realize that for all these years, Peter had been right. He was a raccoon. This enables Rocket to save not only the baby raccoons, but all the other animals who were captured like he was. It also encourages him to tell the High Evolutionary that his name is not 89P13, but is instead Rocket Raccoon.

It was due to this emotional development that he ultimately chose not to kill his creator in cold blood. When Drax asked why, Rocket replied that he's a Guardian of the Galaxy and needs to be better. When they attempt to leave, he refuses to abandon the other animals and helps them evacuate onto Knowhere. Through this, he achieves a personal redemption by freeing the animals when he'd failed to save his friends during his childhood. It is because of this newfound maturity that Quill chooses to entrust Rocket as the new leader of the Guardians. In his new role, Rocket is a very affectionate and effective leader. He bonds with the new members over their favorite music and artists. He also becomes significantly more empathetic. He admits to Phyla that he feels some guilt for killing the wild animals invading hostile villages, but knows that there's no one else who can protect them. This demonstrates how he has moved past his greedy and self-serving desires and changed into a heroic, empathetic and strong-willed leader who fights to protect the innocent.

Rocket listens to the music on Quill's Zune to keep himself sane. It helps. A lot.

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