Yondu Udonta
Yondu Udonta is a male extraterrestrial comic superhero who features in Marvel Comics.
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Biography
Yondu Udonta
In 3006 A.D., Vance Astro, an astronaut from Earth, lands on Yondu's planet with an antiquated propulsion ship. Vance encounters Yondu during the latter's trial of manhood. Yondu attacks him, but is repelled by Vance's powers. Vance keeps this secret as Yondu's action was illegal. Yondu works with Vance when the Badoon, an alien race, overtakes the planet later that year. All the other Centaurians are believed to have been slaughtered. Vance and Yondu escape in his ship to fetch help but the Badoon capture them easily. The duo are taken to Earth which, by 3007 A.D., has also been conquered. When questioned, Vance pretends to be unfriendly with Yondu. They later escape and team up with Charlie-27 of the Jupiter colony and Martinex of the Pluto colony, forming the Guardians of the Galaxy to fight the Badoon. Banding together to battle Badoon oppression, the four founded the Guardians of the Galaxy. (Marvel Super-Heroes v1 #18)
For the next few years, the four survivors attacked the Badoon's outposts in the solar system, being at one time assisted by the Thing, Captain America and Sharon Carter. (Marvel Two-In-One v1 #5) With aid from the time-travelling Defenders, they managed to repel all the Badoon from Earth's dominion. (Defenders v1 #26) Having secured the freedom of their people, the Guardians found themselves unable to fit in with postwar civilian life and left earth to explore space and safeguard the galaxy. (Marvel Presents v1 #3)
He and the Guardians team with the time-traveling Thor, and battle Korvac and his Minions of Menace. (Thor Annual v1 #6)
These Kikaahe ("cave dwellers") escaped death at the hands of the Badoon because the walls of the cavern where they lived contained the mineral trillite ("yaka") which blocks radio waves, thereby shielding them from sensors. Since his newfound people will not accept his bionic weapon-hand, Yondu allows the Guardians to use their advanced medical technology to restore his flesh-and-blood hand. During their farewells, Vance apologizes for what he had thought was unacceptable treatment of Yondu during their earlier adventurers. (Guardians of the Galaxy Annual v1 #2)
Yondu eventually left the Guardians and returned to Centauri-IV to repopulate the planet, where he was married with two children and became leader of a tribe. (Yondu v1 #4) Years later, when communing with Anthos, Yondu was ordered to travel to the past in order to prevent his ancestor from ruining the fate of the Centaurian race. Yondu's ancestor possessed the Herald's Urn, an artifact that held the devastating Power Cosmic, and recklessly planned to sell it. Yondu was sent back in time by Anthos and met his vile, infidel, and indecent ancestor, wondering how such a man could be the legendary Yondu Udonta, whom he was named after. (Yondu v1 #1)
Overview
Personality and attributes
Powers and abilities
As a member of the marsupial alien race of the planet Centauri IV, Yondu possesses an intuitive mystical "sixth sense" perception that permits him limited empathic relationships with other lifeforms. The higher the lifeform, the more limited is his empathic potential. Additionally, Yondu possesses an intuitive rapport with nature, particularly with his own world, but also with any world that still possesses natural wildlife. With this rapport, he can sense incongruous elements (foreign bodies or substances) or focus on specific elements within the whole (such as the location of a given plant). He is also sensitive to mystical beings and forces and is able to detect their presence and activities without effort. Yondu is able to replenish his own inner strength by going into a trance and communing with natural forces.
Notes
- Yondu Udonta was created by Arnold Drake and Gene Colan where he made his first appearance in Marvel Super-Heroes v1 #18 (January, 1969).
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Appearance
- Marvel Super-Heroes v1: (1969)
- Guardians of the Galaxy v1:
- Yondu v1:
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