Rocket Raccoon

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Rocket Raccoon is a male comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.

Biography

Origin

Ranger Rocket in Rocket Raccoon v1 #1.

Rocket

Complications later emerged involving Barry Bauman who was an alpha-class human psychic from Earth named the Star-Thief. He was able to jump from one host body to another where he used his powers to create riots on Halfworld. Rocket Raccoon managed to lock him in the deepest levels of the asylum world where only he had the key to prevent Bauman's escape. To prevent Bauman from ever breaking out, Rocket decided to leave Halfworld where he had his memories wiped to forget all his former adventures on the world. All he had were half-memories to hide the bitter truth of his experience then. (Annihilators v1 #3)

Annihilation

Rocket Raccoon resurfaced as a member of the team chosen to accompany Star-Lord on his mission to stop a Phalanx infiltration of the Kree homeworld. (Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord v1 #1)

Guardians of the Galaxy

With the on-going War of Kings, the fabric of reality faced destruction with the conflict between the Kree and Shi'ar. Thus, it was decided that the Guardians were to be divided into two teams with Star-Lord going to help bring peace from the Kree whilst Rocket led the second team doing the same in Shi'ar space. (Guardians of the Galaxy v2 #13)

Afterwards, he came to be an employee of Timely, Inc. Associates. (Annihilators v1 #1)

After the Infinity Wars, he began to notice a degradation within his body that was seemingly rejecting the modifications made to it on Halfworld long ago. As such, he was slowly dying and seeing no cure for himself he cut all contact with his friends as he did not want them to see him in this condition. However, a number of Guardians came to recruit him to help them rescue Star-Lord who had been captured by the Universal Church of Truth. (Guardians of the Galaxy v5 #8)

The Guardian's later took Rocket to Halfworld where his bio-modifications had to be removed and replaced with the surgery taking weeks. During this time, Nova came to them where he warned them of a new threat coming from the rogue Olympian gods of Earth who had been reborn as cosmic beings that were destroying entire worlds across space. Rocket was willing to aid Rider but Gamora and a few others simply wanted to be left alone in peace. Later, Rocket joined Star-Lord, Phyla-Vell and Moondragon in joining Nova as he assembled a new Guardian team to respond to this crisis. They were joined by Noh-Varr as they staged an assault on the god's mobile city of New Olympus that was travelling through space via a dimensional rotor. The Guardian's infiltrated the city where they intended to use Noh-Varr's Pocket Battlefield as a singularity bomb to destroy the rotor when they were beset upon by the Olympian's who learnt of their presence. (Guardians of the Galaxy v6 #1)

In the aftermath of the Cotati war, the galactic community built Proscenium that was a neutral space station where they sought to prevent further conflict in the cosmos. During the diplomatic conference, the Zr'nx Emperor was killed and a Kree subaltern from the Alliance was similarly murdered seemingly at the hands of Noh-Varr. To prevent Marvel Boy's execution, Rocket was brought onto the case to fight the true culprit who was responsible for the murder. (Guardians of the Galaxy v6 #7) He came to determine that the murdered Kree was actually part of a faction opposed to the Utopian Kree that Noh-Varr represented and wanted to trigger a conflict to eliminate their rivals. In this, he discovered that the Kree was supplied a weapon by the Elder of the Universe known as the Profiteer who had disguised herself as the Badoon Sisterhood representative. She intended to break down talks in the diplomatic summit in order to cause galactic wars so that she could sell weapons to both sides. She had partly succeeded in arranging for the death of the Zr'nx Emperor that triggered a Snarkwar where all the potential heirs battled one another to succeed him to the throne. Finally, Rocket uncovered that the Chitauri representative known as the Peacebringer contained a hidden bio-explosive and threatened to detonate to kill all the delegates. Trapped on the station, the inhabitants could not remove the Peacebringer before he could explode. However, news came of a cosmic threat rampaging across the galaxy which further devalued the galactic credit as the economy was no longer a concern as civilisations struggled to simply survive following the loss of several worlds. Seeing this, the Profiteer decided to aid the delegates as she could sell to them in the future once the universe had recovered and she teleported the Peacebringer away for study whilst the Elder looked to profit from the Snarkwar. Thus, the station was saved by the cosmos faced the destructive force of Knull who was destroying all worlds on his path. (Guardians of the Galaxy v6 #8)

Overview

Personality and attributes

He was shown as being gifted military tactician with Rocket being fearless, loyal, and insightful. It was heavily implied that he had a case of obsessive compulsive disorder. (Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord v1 #2)

Powers and abilities

Rocket reasoned that his DNA had been altered in a way similar to how the Kree had created the Inhumans. (Guardians of the Galaxy v5 #8) The surgery extended his limbs and gave him a human-like body that was maintained by a metal exo-skeleton. (Rocket Raccoon v3 #4)

He was considered to have one of the best tactical minds in the galaxy. (Guardians of the Galaxy v2 #1)

At one time, he came to be an employee of Timely, Inc. Associates that was responsible for idea-oriented requirementations where he worked at their Customer Services Division in their Alpha Centauri offices. (Annihilators v1 #1)

Notes

• Rocket Raccoon was created by Bill Mantlo and Keith Giffen where he made his first appearance in Marvel Preview v1 #7 (Summer, 1976).
• The character was named after The Beatles song' "Rocky Raccoon" with the title of the characters debut in Incredible Hulk #271 (February 9, 1982) being a parody of the song's opening lyrics.

Alternate Versions

In other media

Television

• In The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes, Rocket Raccoon appeared in the animated television series in the episode "Korvac" where he was voiced by actor Greg Ellis.
• In Ultimate Spider-Man, Rocket Raccoon made a number of appearances in the animated television series where he was voiced initially by actor Billy West then by actor Trevor Devall.
• In Avengers Assemble, Rocket Raccoon made an appearance in the animated television series where he was voiced initially by Seth Green then by actor Trevor Devall.
• In Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket featured in the animated television series where he was voiced by actor Trevor Devall.

Films

• In the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Rocket Raccoon made a number of appearances in the shared continuity setting.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy, Rocket appeared in the live-action film where he was voiced by actor Bradley Cooper.
  • In Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, Rocket returned in the live-action film where he was again voiced by actor Bradley Cooper.
  • In Avengers: Infinity War, Rocket appeared in the live-action film where he was once more voiced by actor Bradley Cooper.
  • In Avengers: Endgame, Rocket appeared in the live-action film where he was voiced again by actor Bradley Cooper.

Video games

• In Marvel Heroes, Rocket Raccoon appeared as a playable character in the MMORPG where he was voiced by actor Steven Blum.
• In Marvel: Contest of Champions, Rocket Raccoon appeared as a playable character in the mobile video game.
• In Marvel: Future Fight, Rocket Raccoon appeared as a playable character in the mobile video game.

Appearances

• Marvel Premiere v1: (1976)
• Incredible Hulk v1: (1982)
• Rocket Raccoon v1:
• Guardians of the Galaxy v2:
• Annihilators v1:
• Rocket Raccoon:
• Rocket v1:
• Guardians of the Galaxy v5:
• Guardians of the Galaxy v6:

External Links

• Marvel Database Entry
• Wikipedia Entry

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