Mantis
TMDB
2014, Cinematic: With Ego dead, Mantis privately tells Drax that Ego is her father and is welcomed into the Guardians.
Cinematic
An insectoid empath taken as a larva by Ego and raised alone on his planet, where she used her powers to calm him. After helping the Guardians defeat him, she joined them, fought Thanos on Titan, was lost in the Snap and restored in 2023. She later brought the team to Knowhere, revealed to Peter Quill that they are siblings, helped save Rocket, and left the Guardians to find her own path.
Comics
A telepathic martial artist raised by the Kree Priests of Pama to become the Celestial Madonna, mother of the Celestial Messiah. She joined the Avengers with the Swordsman, bore a child to the Cotati, and later wandered space in fragments of her spirit. Reunited, she aided Star-Lord against the Phalanx, helped found the Guardians of the Galaxy, and returned to Earth to stop her son Quoi.
Timeline 26 events
- Bronze · Comics: Having grown up believing she was a Vietnamese orphan, she follows the Swordsman into the Avengers.
- Bronze · Comics: She meets her father Gustav Brandt, who serves in the Zodiac Cartel, and learns pieces of her origin among the Priests of Pama.
- Bronze · Comics: She helps the Avengers and Captain Marvel fight Thanos's attempt to conquer Earth with the Cosmic Cube.
- Bronze · Comics: The Swordsman dies saving her from Kang the Conqueror, who learned she is the Celestial Madonna.
- Bronze · Comics: Kang takes the Avengers to Limbo and sets the Legion of the Unliving on them before Immortus helps defeat him.
- Bronze · Comics: She marries the Cotati spirit inhabiting the Swordsman's body and conceives the Celestial Messiah.
- Modern · Comics: Her spirit leaves for space, where she allies with the Silver Surfer against the Elders of the Universe before being scattered across the cosmos by an explosion.
- Modern · Comics: A fragment of her joins the West Coast Avengers and is restored to her original body on Earth.
- Modern · Comics: Another fragment meets the Fantastic Four in New York, where Kang and Necrodamus fight over her.
- Modern · Comics: Her fragments reunite as one person and she travels with the Avengers to the Cotati homeworld to protect her son, then says goodbye to him and the Vision.
- Modern · Comics: She lets the Kree imprison her to meet Star-Lord and fights the Phalanx invasion in guerrilla warfare.
- Modern · Comics: She helps Star-Lord recruit and form the new Guardians of the Galaxy.
- Fresh Start · Comics: She returns to Earth to stop her son Quoi, who is leading Cotati forces to colonize it, then is killed in Grootfall.
- Fresh Start · Comics: Groot revives her after Grootfall.
- 2014 · Cinematic: Mantis travels with Ego to Berhert, where she meets the Guardians of the Galaxy and is introduced as Ego's servant.
- 2014 · Cinematic: On Ego's planet she warns Drax of Ego's plan, then puts Ego to sleep during the fight in his core before he is destroyed.
- 2014 · Cinematic: With Ego dead, Mantis privately tells Drax that Ego is her father and is welcomed into the Guardians.
- 2018 · Cinematic: Mantis and the Guardians reach Knowhere too late to stop Thanos from taking the Reality Stone and Gamora.
- 2018 · Cinematic: On Titan she puts Thanos to sleep as part of the plan with Iron Man, Doctor Strange and Spider-Man, then turns to dust in the Snap.
- 2023 · Cinematic: Restored to life, Mantis joins the Battle of Earth at the Avengers Compound and her blood is later collected by Nick Fury's Skrull unit.
- 2023 · Cinematic: The Guardians collect Thor from New Asgard in Norway and leave Earth with him.
- 2025 · Cinematic: At Thor's request the Guardians go to Indigarr, where Thor defeats Habooska and his army.
- 2025 · Cinematic: The Guardians buy Knowhere from the Collector and begin rebuilding it as their base.
- 2025 · Cinematic: In December Mantis and Drax fly to Los Angeles on Earth and bring Kevin Bacon back to Knowhere as a gift for Quill, and she tells Quill they are siblings.
- 2026 · Cinematic: After Adam Warlock's attack on Rocket, the Guardians travel to the Orgoscope and then to Counter-Earth and Arete Laboratories to save Rocket.
- 2026 · Cinematic: Mantis leaves the Guardians of the Galaxy to find out what she wants for herself.
parent of
allied with
Star-Lord, Gamora, Nebula, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, Thor, Silver Surfer, Vision, Cosmo the Spacedog
enemy of
Ego, Thanos, Sovereign, High Evolutionary, Kang the Conqueror
travels to
Berhert, Ego, Knowhere, Titan, Earth, Limbo
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