Yondu

Yondu describes himself as too "rough and tumble" for his fellow Centuarians. Ultimately, his behavior resulted in having his crest cut off and his banishment from Centauri IV. He would become the leader of the group of space pirates known as the Ravagers.

After boarding a stranded vessel, he was impressed with a young Peter Quill's ability to fool his crew and capture him. While he was unsuccessful in stealing Yondu's ship, he was spared death and remained on board to live with the pirates. He has been an adoptive parent figure to Quill.

Yondu and Peter grew closer over time, and after having relegated him to janitor duties, he decided to promote Quill to being a Ravager as he saw some potential in Quill's abilities as a pirate.[4] Yondu blackmailed Quill into helping the Ravagers to raid the Asterion One owned by Quill's previous crew from NASA in an attempt to claim the ship's warp cores. Yondu promised that, after hijacking the Asterion One, the Ravagers would help Quill to find the Badoon ship commanded by his mother's assassins. However, overwhelmed by guilt, Quill betrayed the Ravagers and took control of their ship, scattering Yondu's treasures in outer space in order to distract him. Yondu managed to pursue Quill in the space vacuum as he tried to escape in an improvised spaceship. They went into a fight and Quill ultimately escaped. After coming back to the Ravagers' ship, Yondu recognized Quill's competence as a pirate, although he put a bounty on Quill's head.

Years later, when Yondu stumbled into the labyrinthic Jojola Nebula, he discovered a planet brimming with pieces of technology that had once been used by a scientist group studying Galactus. While it took him roughly a year to find the exit, his natural abilities as a Centaurian allowed him to create a star chart of the area in his mind from memory. He planned to return and raid the planet with the Ravagers, but was captured while in Knowhere. He started spreading word that he could get through Jojola Nebula, in hopes somebody would break him out.

A year passed, and the Guardians of the Galaxy, the crew of the now-adult Peter Quill, reluctantly had Yondu paroled in order to traverse the Jojola Nebula in hopes of finding the Transluminal Tuning Fork, an object with the ability to disrupt planet-sized force fields they hoped could be used to free the Earth from the Planetary Defense Shield.

When the Guardians and Yondu arrived to the abandoned planet, the space pirate double crossed them and called in the Ravagers in order to carry out his original plan of ransacking, also intending to hold the Guardians hostage and demand a ransom for the Tuning Fork. When the Punishers swarmed the Ravagers' ship, they forced them and the Guardians to take refuge in a facility. Gamora saved them after having been abandoned by Yondu in the middle of nowhere, and used the Transluminal Tuning Fork to defeat the Punishers. The Guardians subsequently arrested the Ravagers and Yondu, and exited the Jojola Nebula.

Some time later, the Ravagers had become a small band of mercenaries, with Yondu serving as their leader in name only. The Ravagers became tangled with a group of refugees from a species that possessed the natural ability to materialize their prayers into diamonds, helping them move from planet to planet to evade Chargazel's Raiders. They eventually settled on Ego the Living Planet, with whom Yondu made a deal. The Asgardians of the Galaxy stumbled into the Ravagers shortly before the Raiders caught up with them. Both teams worked together to repel the Raiders, and parted ways; the Ravagers remained on Ego while the Asgardians continued their way.

Yaka Arrow Controller: Protruding out of Udonta's head was a prosthetic metal piece which allowed Udonta to control and aim the Yaka Arrow, as it glowed red whenever he was controlling the arrow.

Yondu Yaka Arrow: Udonta controls the Yaka Arrow with a whistle. Udonta used this whistle-controlled arrow made from Yaka to attack his enemies.

He fights using laser pistols and rifles.

The extraterrestrial race known as the Centaurians originated in the Milky Way Galaxy on the planet Centauri-IV in the Alpha Centauri star system. Two other sentient races that evolved in that same star system are the Alpha Centaurians of Arima and the Centurii of Centuri-Six.

The species are blue humanoids with red crests atop their heads and along their backs. The religious beliefs of the Centaurian people have divided them into two groups. The religious Centaurians worship the god Anthos and they live their lives following the holy path that they call the Circle of Life which they believe is guided by sharing a oneness with Anthos. Among these Anthos worshippers, a religious leader is known as a Habaktu ("warrior holy man") or an Anthosian priest.

Those Centaurians who do not follow the Circle of Life are known as Akuun to the religious Centaurians because they are considered to be "ones-without-faith"[3] and/or godless.[5] The fact that, as part of their training, every Habaktu is taught that all Akuun must die indicates that the two groups do not interact peacefully.

The Ravagers were a crew of space pirates led by Yondu Udonta.