Rocket Raccoon

Sean Gunn
Sean Gunn
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2014, Cinematic: Rocket and Groot go to Xandar chasing a bounty on Peter Quill, are arrested by the Nova Corps and sent to the Kyln, then escape with Quill, Gamora and Drax.

Cinematic

A raccoon taken from Earth and rebuilt by the High Evolutionary into a brilliant, cybernetic engineer. After escaping the lab where his friends died, he became a thief and bounty hunter with Groot, then a founding Guardian of the Galaxy in 2014. He later fought Thanos, served with the Avengers, rejoined the Guardians with Thor, took over Knowhere, survived near death in 2026, confronted his creator, and became the team's captain.

Comics

A raccoon engineered into a sentient being at the Halfworld asylum, Rocket served as its ranger and security chief before wiping his own memory and leaving. He drifted as thief and bounty hunter, met Groot in a Kree prison, and joined Star-Lord to found the Guardians of the Galaxy. Across the Cancerverse war, repeated team breakups and Grootfall, he came to accept being a hero, later travelling with Spider-Man.

Timeline 28 events

  1. Bronze · Comics: Rocket is introduced as the ranger of Halfworld, where the Hulk visits and is sent home to Earth.
  2. Modern · Comics: Rocket is petrified on the planet Dandesh Four and later rescued by She-Hulk.
  3. Modern · Comics: Rocket visits his friend She-Hulk at her office on Earth.
  4. Modern · Comics: Star-Lord recruits Rocket and Groot from prison for a strike team against the Phalanx, who have sealed off Kree space.
  5. Modern · Comics: Rocket joins Star-Lord's new Guardians of the Galaxy, which is based on Knowhere.
  6. Modern · Comics: The Guardians charge into the Cancerverse, where Star-Lord, Nova, Drax and Thanos stay behind to destroy it.
  7. Modern · Comics: Clues lead Rocket and Groot back to Halfworld, where he learns he left to keep the Star-Thief imprisoned.
  8. Modern · Comics: With the Guardians reunited, Iron Man joins the team and they take on protecting Earth.
  9. Secret Wars · Comics: In a Kree prison Rocket meets cellmate Groot and the two become friends.
  10. Secret Wars · Comics: Rocket is killed by a stray beam from an incursion and revived when the multiverse is restored.
  11. Secret Wars · Comics: The Guardians disband after a conflict destroys Rocket's ship and home.
  12. Fresh Start · Comics: As the process that made him begins to reverse, Rocket settles on Halfworld to await death before rejoining the Guardians and recovering through surgeries.
  13. Fresh Start · Comics: The Guardians are sanctioned by the Galactic Council, then Rocket helps defeat Dormammu's galaxy-wide summoning circle.
  14. Fresh Start · Comics: Groot turns planet-sized in Grootfall and the Guardians disband, then reunite inside Groot's Grootspace.
  15. Fresh Start · Comics: Rocket is abducted to Dr. Starblood's ship The Beacon and freed by Spider-Man, with whom he then travels.
  16. 2014 · Cinematic: Rocket and Groot go to Xandar chasing a bounty on Peter Quill, are arrested by the Nova Corps and sent to the Kyln, then escape with Quill, Gamora and Drax.
  17. 2014 · Cinematic: The group goes to Knowhere to sell the Orb to the Collector; the Power Stone is released and destroys his museum, and Ronan's forces attack the outpost.
  18. 2014 · Cinematic: In the Battle of Xandar, Rocket crashes his ship into the Dark Aster, Groot dies shielding the team, and Ronan is killed; the Guardians of the Galaxy form.
  19. 2014 · Cinematic: After a Sovereign job, Rocket's theft of Anulax Batteries brings a Sovereign fleet down on the Guardians, who crash the Milano on Berhert.
  20. 2014 · Cinematic: Ravagers hired by the Sovereign take Rocket on Berhert, and Taserface mutinies; Rocket and Yondu escape the Eclector and head for Ego.
  21. 2014 · Cinematic: In the battle on Ego's planet, Rocket builds a bomb from the stolen batteries to destroy Ego's core, and Yondu sacrifices himself to save Quill.
  22. 2018 · Cinematic: Responding to an Asgardian distress call, Rocket and Groot travel with Thor to Nidavellir, where they help restart the forge and make Stormbreaker.
  23. 2018 · Cinematic: Rocket and Groot arrive on Earth by Bifrost to fight in the Battle of Wakanda; Groot is lost in Thanos's Snap.
  24. 2018 · Cinematic: Rocket joins the Avengers on Earth, then flies the Benatar with them to the Garden, where Thor beheads a Thanos who has already destroyed the Stones.
  25. 2023 · Cinematic: Rocket and Thor use time travel to reach Asgard in 2013 and extract the Aether from Jane Foster for the Avengers' Stone retrieval.
  26. 2023 · Cinematic: Rocket fights in the Battle of Earth against an alternate Thanos, reunites with Groot, attends Tony Stark's funeral, then leaves with Thor to rejoin the Guardians.
  27. 2025 · Cinematic: The Guardians and Thor fight at the Battle of Indigarr, after which Thor leaves the team over the threat of Gorr; the Guardians later buy Knowhere and rebuild it.
  28. 2026 · Cinematic: Adam Warlock mortally wounds Rocket on Knowhere; revived, he confronts the High Evolutionary at Arete Laboratories, spares him, and is made leader of the Guardians.

allied with

Thor, Winter Soldier, Captain Marvel, Star-Lord, Gamora, Groot, Drax the Destroyer, Nebula, Mantis, Cosmo the Spacedog, She-Hulk, Nova, Spider-Man (Peter Parker), Yondu Udonta, Eitri, Adam Warlock

enemy of

High Evolutionary, Ayesha, Ego, Thanos, Dormammu

travels to

Xandar, Knowhere, Sovereign, Berhert, Ego, Nidavellir, Earth, Asgard, Contraxia

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Last checked 22 Oct 2026