| NOTE: This article is about the incarnation of Rocket Raccoon from the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The mainstream version can be found here: Rocket Raccoon (Marvel). |
| “ | Ain't no thing like me, 'cept me. | „ |
| ~ Rocket to Peter Quill. |
| “ | The name's Rocket. Rocket Raccoon. | „ |
| ~ Rocket overpowering the High Evolutionary, after learning and accepting he is a raccoon and his most famous quote. |
Subject 89P13: Rocket Raccoon is a major character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. He is a thrill-seeking and wisecracking genetically altered, cybernetically enhanced raccoon who spent a majority of his life as a bounty hunter alongside his sentient tree companion, Groot.
He was one of the founding members of the Guardians of the Galaxy, before he officially took over as the new leader of the team after its original leader Star-Lord left the team.
He is voiced by Bradley Cooper, who also portrayed Phil Wenneck in The Hangover trilogy, Faceman Peck in The A-Team, and Chris Kyle in American Sniper. The character's motion capture and voicework as juvenile are done by Sean Gunn (who also portrayed Kraglin Obfonteri), and his movement and behavior were modeled after the late Oreo.
Personality[]
Rocket is very much defined by his angry, trigger-happy disposition, and hyper intelligent personality. He prides himself on being a "professional" at what he does mainly due to the modifications the High Evolutionary applied to him making him more than intelligent than a normal raccoon, and does not like it when Groot smiles or behaves kindly, thinking it would make them appear weak or unfocused. Rocket also harbors a very mean sense of humor, telling Quill he'd need a guy's prosthetic leg to bust them out of jail, lying about the leg to see if Quill would do it and asking him whether the guy was hopping around on one leg, laughing all the while. He later tries pulling a similar stunt with one of the Ravagers. But deep down, Rocket is incredibly lonely, being the result of experiments and being the only thing in the known universe like him. He despises being derided as a rodent or vermin, going so far as to attack people over it.
Powers and Abilities[]
Powers[]
| “ | High Evolutionary: That's the new world, Counter-Earth, where the experiments will go once they're ready. Rocket: It blue. High Evolutionary: That's the sky. Rocket: Sky. [Watches a spaceship passing by the horizon] Rocket. What sounds? High Evolutionary: That's music. Rocket: We like it? High Evolutionary: We do. This recording is over 5,000 years old. 'Mo egraste forn, mo egalore fornonte,' which translated is, 'Be not as you are, but as you should be.' It's our sacred mission to take the cacophony of sounds around us and turn it into a song. To take an imperfect clump of biological matter such as you, and transform it into something... perfect. And we're halfway there, aren't we? |
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| ~ Rocket showcasing his intelligence from a young age and the origin of how he got his name. |
- Cyborg Raccoon Physiology: Rocket possesses the same enhanced abilities attributed to Earth's raccoons, including an acute sense of smell, sharp eyesight, sharp claws and teeth and enhanced senses.
- Enhanced Condition: Rocket has been augmented in torturous experiments and as a result has superhuman abilities that are uncommon for raccoons:
- Enhanced Strength: Despite his size, he has above human levels of physical strength, and is able to batter a human-sized opponent unconsciousness.
- Enhanced Agility: Rocket can walk on two legs like a humanoid being as well as run on all four limbs like a regular raccoon.
- Enhanced Intelligence: Due to the augmentations, he gained a vast genius-level intellect and became an expert engineer, especially a weapons engineer.
Abilities[]
- Expert Marksman: Rocket is well-versed in the use of high-powered firearms.
- Technical Expertise: Rocket has shown great skill and intelligence in matters of technology and mechanics. He was able to hack the Kyln's primary watchtower and take control of the prison security drones whilst disabling the artificial gravity. He is also able to build complex weaponry out of spare pieces of technology he has on hand.
- Master Tactician and Strategist: Rocket is an accomplished strategist. He is able to formulate battle strategies and his brilliant tactical sense allows him to alter any strategy to fit the changing need of the situation. Rocket is also a master at escaping confinement, claiming to have escaped twenty-two prisons upon being arrested by the Nova Corps.
- Expert Pilot: Rocket is known to be an accomplished starship pilot.
Equipment[]
- Bombs: Rocket's improvised bombs are limited only by the parts available to him at the time of construction. He can rig explosive charges ranging from small scale explosives to high yield devices capable of extensively damaging planetary bodies.
- Gravity Mines: Landmine devices that can create fields of alternating gravity. Those caught in the gravity field find themselves falling upwards into the air, and falling back down again with each reversal of the gravitational field.
- Quadruple Barrel Shock Rifle: Rocket normally carries a very large gun with four square-shaped barrels. It appears to be an energy weapon that shoots small electric projectiles that painfully stun their targets.
- Shock Charges: Small devices that attach to the skin of a target, and emit electrical discharges that can incapacitate human sized victims.
- Tranq Traps: Dart launchers placed strategically that inject victims with a powerful toxin capable of rendering people unconscious in seconds.
Relationships[]
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Quotes[]
| “ | I live for the simple things. Like how much this is gonna hurt. | „ |
| ~ Rocket Raccoon. |
| “ | You look like melted ice cream. | „ |
| ~ Rocket to Thor. |
| “ | Let’s make something clear. This one here’s OUR booty. You want to get to him, you go through us. Or, more accurately, we go through you!!! | „ |
| ~ Rocket to the inmates at Kyln prison. |
| “ | Well, I didn't ask to get made! I didn't ask to be torn apart, put back together over and over and turn into some... some little monster! | „ |
| ~ Rocket calling back to the experiments that made him. |
| “ | Later on tonight, you’re gonna be laying in your bed, and you’re gonna feel something squishy in your pillowcase. And you’re gonna be all like “What’s this?”, and it’s gonna be because I put a turd in there! | „ |
| ~ Rocket arguing with Peter. |
| “ | Sorry. I can only lose one friend today | „ |
| ~ Rocket to Gamora |
| “ | Yondu Udonta: I know everything about you. I know you play like you're the meanest in the heart but actually you're the most scared of all. Rocket Racoon: Shut up! |
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| ~ Yondu Udonta and Rocket Raccoon. |
| “ | Nidaviller, that place is legendary for making some of the most horrifying weapons ever to torment the galaxy. I would very much like to go there. | „ |
| ~ Rocket expressing enthusiasm to join Thor's quest to Nidaviller. |
| “ | You look like melted ice cream. | „ |
| ~ Rocket making a disparaging remark on Thor's intense weight gain. |
| “ | Aw, look at it, he's like a little puppy. You excited to go to space, puppy? | „ |
| ~ Rocket teasing Scott Lang. |
| “ | Easy, Stark, you're only a genius on Earth. | „ |
| ~ Rocket attempting to humble Stark's input by reminding him the galaxy's standard on intellect may exceed his own. |
| “ | Someday, I'm going to make great machines that fly, and me and my friends are gonna go flying together, into the forever and beautiful sky. | „ |
| ~ Young Rocket's promise to his friends. |
| “ | Just down that hole, there are ships. I know, and if I can get to one, we can pilot it, and then we will all fly together - the four of us, just like we said, okay? Okay?' | „ |
| ~ Rocket announces his plans to escape Arete Laboratories to the rest of Batch 89. |
| “ | A purpose for what? They made us for nothing! Just stupid experiments to be thrown away! | „ |
| ~ Rocket in tears to Lylla in the afterlife. |
| “ | You didn't want to make things perfect, you just hated things the way they are. | „ |
| ~ Rocket about the High Evolutionary's evil nature. |
| “ | I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna... all gone. I get that you miss your mom. But she's gone. Really gone. And there are plenty of people who are only kinda gone. And you can help them. | „ |
| ~ Rocket to Thor. |
Trivia[]
- Groot's last words to Rocket before getting snapped out of existence by Thanos translate to "Dad".[1]
- In preparation for his portrayal, Bradley Cooper took inspiration from Joe Pesci.
- A frequent gag in the MCU movies is that Rocket is often mistaken for another animal, with many Asgardians calling him a rabbit and Adam Warlock mistaking him for a squirrel. Rocket also doesn’t like to be called a raccoon until the climax of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 despite that being his species, this is due to the fact that he truly didn't know he was one until he found his old cage with baby raccoons in them and realized what he truly was, beforehand he thought it was a derogatory term for him.
- According to Director James Gunn, Rocket Raccoon is actually the true protagonist of the Guardians of the Galaxy trilogy.
References[]
External Links[]
- Rocket Raccoon on the Near Pure Good Wiki
- Rocket Raccoon on Wikipedia
- Rocket Raccoon on the Disney Wiki
- Rocket Raccoon on the Marvel Movies Wiki
- Rocket Raccoon on the Marvel Database Wiki
- Rocket Raccoon on the Marvel Cinematic Universe Wiki
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