Things you didn't know about Rocket Raccoon
Rocket Raccoon is a popular character in the MCU, as the funny, wise-cracking, gun-toting member of the Guardians, but in the Marvel comics, he wasn't actually featured very often at all.10. 30 years after the character was created, he only appeared in 10 comics. He first appeared in 1976 as a raccoon named Rocky, then it was nearly 10 years before he featured again in The Incredible Hulk #271. He eventually got his own mini-series in 1985.
9. He was named after a Beatles song called 'Rocky Raccoon' from their 1968 album. The song is about a young man with a cowboy mentality who seeks vengeance on the man that sole his girlfriend away.
8. Rocket was created by robots. He was a simple raccoon that was genetically modified by robots who was a scientific experiment in an insane asylum on his home plant of Halfworld.
7. Rocket is the only one that can understand Groot's three-world language. No one else can understand it, but Groot's strange language is based on three words that can be interpreted through the different tones and inflection of which they are spoken.
6. He has a girlfriend called Lylla, who is an... otter! Lylla is heiress to a large toy-making company on Halfworld, where Rocket is from. Rocket had lots of different girlfriends but he and the otter were soulmates. Which is why he has rescued her so many times from evil villains.
5. He used to ride rocket skates before he had a jetpack. The skates allowed him to soar through the air and come crashing down on his enemies. He only had a small pistol back then, not the huge guns we're used to seeing him brandish now. He also used to wear a cape like a superhero!
4. Peter Quill, aka Starlord, is the leader of the Guardians, but once, in the comic book Annihilation, Rocket is forced to take over as leader after Quill is sent to the Negative Zone by Ronan. Not only did he prevent the Guardians from disbanding, but he added Groot to the team, kept the band together and rescued Quill from the Negative Zone.
3. Like many characters in the comics, Rocket and Groot both die during Secret Wars. Rocket, Groot, Black Bolt, Spider-Woman and Beast are all killed at the hands of the Children of Tomorrow on Battleworld.
2. He is friends with the Hulk. The pair share a strong bond after Hulk ended up on his home planet, Halfworld. They teamed up to overthrow a devious mole called Judson Jakes.
1. Rocket always keeps a twig from Groot on him at all times, so he can regenerate his close friend if ever anything happens to him.
Bonus Fact: Rocket once captained a spaceship named 'Rack'n'Ruin' and his first mate aboard was Wal Russ... who was, yep, you guessed it, a talking walrus!
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