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MARVEL STUDIOS PRESENTS A FILM “GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY” CHRIS PRATT DAVE BAUTISTA FEATURING VIN DIESEL AS BRADLEY COOPER AS ROCKET LEE PACE MICHAEL ROOKER DJIMON HOUNSOU CASTING MUSIC MUSIC HEAD OF VISUAL CO-HEAD OF VISUAL VISUAL EFFECTS COSTUME WITH JOHN C. REILLY WITH GLENN CLOSE AS AND BENICIO DEL TORO AS THE BYSARAH HALLEY FINN, C.S.A. SUPERVISORDAVE JORDAN BYTYLER BATES DEVELOPMENTCHARLIE WEN DEVELOPMENTRYAN MEINERDING SUPERVISORSTEPHANE CERETTI DESIGNERALEXANDRA BYRNE EDITED PRODUCTION DIRECTOR OF CO- EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE EXECUTIVE BYFRED RASKIN CRAIG WOOD, ACE HUGHES WINBORNE, ACE DESIGNCHARLES WOOD PHOTOGRAPHY BEN DAVIS, BSC PRODUCERSDAVID J. GRANT JONATHAN SCHWARTZ PRODUCERSNIK KORDA PRODUCERSVICTORIA ALONSO JEREMY LATCHAM PRODUCERALAN FINE PRODUCERLOUIS D’ESPOSITO Soundtrack available on MARVEL MUSIC / HOLLYWOOD RECORDS PRODUCED WRITTEN DIRECTED BY p.g.a. BY AND BY ® , JAMES GUNN NICOLE PERLMAN JAMES GUNN © 2014 MARVEL www.marvel.com IMAX is a registered trademark of IMAX Corporation.

Collecting information from Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Infi nite Comic #1 (2014), and Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude #1-2 (2014). HEAD WRITER/COORDINATOR: MIKE O’SULLIVAN COORDINATION: DARON JENSEN WRITERS: ROB BOCK, ANTHONY COTILLETTA, PAT DUKE, MIKE FICHERA, DARON JENSEN, ROB LONDON, CHRIS McCARVER, JACOB ROUGEMONT, AND STUART VANDAL ARTISTS: WELLINTON ALVES, SIMONE BIANCHI, NICK BRADSHAW, SAL BUSCEMA, JOHN BYRNE, ROBERTO FERNANDEZ CASTRO, PAUL CATLING, JIM CHEUNG, , GABRIELE DELL’OTTOIN, STEVE DITKOPROGRESS, ANDREA DIVITO, JACK DUDMAN, ANTHONY FRANCISCO, JAVIER GARRÓN, ADI GRANOV, BOB HALL, SCOTT HEPBURN, DAVE JOHNSON, GIL , , NIC KLEIN, JOSÉ LADRÖNN, BOB LARKIN, AARON LOPRESTI, , CHRIS MARRINAN, FRANCESCO MATTINA, MIKE MAYHEW, STEVE MCNIVEN, GRAY MORROW, RUDY NEBRES, , , GEORGE PÉREZ, KEITH POLLARD, OLIVIER PRON, JOE QUINONES, , VALERIO SCHITI, , GUS VAZQUEZ, AND PATRICK ZIRCHER COVER ARTIST: MIKE DEL MUNDO BACK COVER ARTIST: CHARLIE WEN BOOK DESIGN: JAY BOWEN EDITOR: SARAH BRUNSTAD EDITOR IN CHIEF: AXEL ALONSO VP, PRODUCTION & SPECIAL PROJECTS: JEFF YOUNGQUIST CHIEF CREATIVE OFFICER: MANAGER, SPECIAL PROJECTS: BRIAN OVERTON PUBLISHER: ASSOCIATE MANAGING EDITOR: ALEX STARBUCK EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: EDITOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS: MARK D. BEAZLEY FOR SENIOR EDITOR, SPECIAL PROJECTS: JENNIFER GRÜNWALD SVP PRINT, SALES & MARKETING: DAVID GABRIEL CREATIVE DIRECTOR, RESEARCH: WILL CORONA PILGRIM VP PRODUCTION & DEVELOPMENT: BRAD WINDERBAUM PRESIDENT: KEVIN FEIGE

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GUIDEBOOK TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE — MARVEL’S GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY, September 2016. Published Monthly by MARVEL WORLDWIDE, INC., a subsidiary of , LLC. OFFICE OF PUBLICATION: 135 West 50th Street, New York, NY 10020. © 2016 MARVEL No similarity between any of the names, characters, persons, and/or institutions in this magazine with those of any living or dead person or institution is intended, and any such similarity which may exist is purely coincidental. $3.99 per copy in the U.S. (GST #R127032852) in the direct market; Canadian Agreement #40668537. Printed in the USA. ALAN FINE, President, Marvel Entertainment; DAN BUCKLEY, President, TV, Publishing & Brand Management; JOE QUESADA, Chief Creative Offi cer; TOM BREVOORT, SVP of Publishing; DAVID BOGART, SVP of Business Affairs & Operations, Publishing & Partnership; C.B. CEBULSKI, VP of Brand Management & Development, Asia; DAVID GABRIEL, SVP of Sales & Marketing, Publishing; JEFF YOUNGQUIST, VP of Production & Special Projects; DAN CARR, Executive Director of Publishing Technology; ALEX MORALES, Director of Publishing Operations; SUSAN CRESPI, Production Manager; STAN LEE, Chairman Emeritus. For information regarding advertising in or on Marvel.com, please contact Vit DeBellis, Integrated Sales Manager, at [email protected]. For Marvel subscription inquiries, please call 888-511-5480. Manufactured between 07/01/2016 and 07/11/2016 by FRY COMMUNICATIONS, MECHANICSBURG, PA, USA. IN THE COMICS GUIDEBOOK TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE

TANELEER TIVAN, AN ELDER OF the Universe known as the Collector, began gathering diverse objects and beings to repopulate the universe in case of genocide, COLLECTOR’S but became obsessed with collecting rarities and grew increasingly ruthless in this pursuit. The collection’s massive size required storage COLLECTION across several worlds and spacecraft . : : The Dark World (2013) FIRST APPEARANCE: #28 1966 eep within the mining Asgardians and de- colony of , an livered the Aether, one of the extraordinary museum massively powerful houses the galaxy’s most Stones in fl uid form, to Tivan for Dunique artifacts, objects, plants, safekeeping aft er it was recov- IN PROGRESS animals, and creatures. This gath- ered from the Dark Elf Malekith ering’s curator, the enigmatic Ta- and deemed too dangerous to neleer Tivan, known as the Col- keep in the royal vault alongside lector, was assisted by his the Tesseract, another Stone. attendant slave, Carina. The col- Tivan later hired to lection included many captured obtain the Orb containing sentient beings, such as a Dark another Infi nity Stone. When Elf, a cosmic cocoon, a Gamora and her new allies de- soldier, a cosmonaut dog named livered it, Tivan took particular Cosmo, and Howard, a humanoid interest in the tree-like humanoid CHITAURI duck. Carina’s predecessor was Groot, off ering payment for his also bound and imprisoned as part carcass upon his eventual . of the collection for failing Tivan Explaining the of the In- in unknown circumstances. fi nity Stones, Tivan exposed the

FACT SHEET Infi nity Stone within the Orb. When Carina, desiring freedom UPON RECEIVING THE AETHER, THE from servitude, grabbed the COLLECTOR MUTTERED UNDER HIS BREATH, “ONE DOWN, FIVE TO GO.” Stone, its power consumed her and explosively destroyed much of the Collection.

DARK ELF

COSMIC COCOON After Ronan purloined the Orb DRAX and Quill and Gamora were cap- FIRST APPEARANCE: tured by the Ravagers, a pirate Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) crew Quill had previously be- trayed, Groot and the repentant rax was a humanoid soldiers—to the Collector, Drax convinced a reluctant warrior seeking ven- unaware the Orb contained a Rocket to help rescue Quill and geance for the murder vastly powerful Infinity Stone. Gamora. Confronting the Ravag- of his wife Ovette and While awaiting the Collector’s ers, the trio threatened to destroy Ddaughter Camaria by warlord representative, they enjoyed brief the pirates’ ship with Rocket’s . After claiming revelry at a nearby bar until Drax Hadron Enforcer weapon, but many lives in his quest, Drax, inadvertently insulted Rocket. stood down upon learning Quill a.k.a. “the ,” was impris- Though Quill defused hostilities, and Gamora had struck a deal, oned in the Kyln penal facility. an infuriated and inebriated Drax promising the Ravagers the Stone Upon learning that the assassin in exchange for help stopping Gamora, a former associate of Ronan from destroying the Ronan’s, had also been incarcer- planet . ated, Drax planned to kill her until Drax united inmate Peter Quill convinced him with his allies to Boarding Ronan’s ship, the Dark to spare her since she could ulti- Aster, Drax, Groot, Gamora, and mately lead him to Ronan. When share the Stone’s Quill fought Ronan’s minions, Gamora and Quill escaped along- power and turn it including his lieutenant, Korath, side mercenaries Rocket and Groot against Ronan. whom Drax personally slew. and fled to Quill’s ship the Upon confronting Ronan, Drax Milano, Drax joined their part- was again overpowered but was nership, but only in hopes of saved by Rocket, who flew into using Gamora to find Ronan. left their company and impulsive- Ronan with a Ravager ship. The ly transmitted a challenge to damaged Dark Aster crashed on The five traveled to the mining Ronan, revealing their location. Xandar, but Groot saved Drax outpost Knowhere to sell an Upon arriving, Ronan easily de- and the others by forming a pro- Orb—stolen by Quill and sought feated Drax and left him to tective nest around them, appar- by Ronan and his Sakaaran drown, but Groot saved Drax’ life. ently sacrificing his own life.

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REAL ESTATE AGENT ARTHUR Douglas and his family were attacked by Titan warlord when they inadvertently witnessed his landing on Earth. Though Douglas and his wife were killed, , an elder Eternal and Thanos’ father, transferred Douglas’ consciousness to an artifi cial body, remaking him into Drax the Destroyer, a super-strong behemoth with no memory of his past and an insatiable desire to kill Thanos. Drax subsequently regained his memories, and eventually joined the Guardians of the Galaxy on their mission to free the Kree homeworld from the techno-organic . He has remained with the team during several interstellar confl icts.

FIRST APPEARANCE: #55 1973 Surviving the crash, Ronan again nihilist Thanos, was his next attacked Quill and his allies, but target. With their criminal Drax and Rocket used the Enforc- records expunged and their er to dislodge the Stone from damaged ship rebuilt, Drax and Ronan’s Cosmi-Rod, and Drax his allies, calling themselves the united with his allies to share the Guardians of the Galaxy, left Stone’s power and turn it against Xandar in search of new adven- Ronan, destroying him. Drax tures. As Drax sharpened his then comforted the grieving knives aboard the Milano, a Rocket over Groot’s death by remnant sprout of Groot, saved petting his head. Gamora reas- and potted by Rocket, began sured Drax that he had avenged dancing to a mixtape belonging his family, but Drax remarked to Quill, but froze when Drax that Ronan’s master, the mad glanced his way.

FACT SHEET

DRAX IS A SUPERHUMANLY STRONG HAND-TO-HAND COMBATANT, INCREDIBLY RESISTANT TO INJURY, AND SKILLED IN THE USE OF HIS PAIRED KNIVES. UNABLE TO COMPREHEND METAPHORS, DRAX’S PEOPLE TYPICALLY INTERPRET COLORFUL EXPRESSIONS AND GESTURES LITERALLY. DRAX’ BODY IS COVERED IN ORNAMENTAL SCARS—SIMILAR TO EARTH TATTOOS—THAT DETAIL SIGNIFICANT EVENTS OF HIS LIFE AND CULTURE.

GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY | 3 | GUIDEBOOK TO THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE whose family had been killed by GAMORA Ronan, but Quill convinced him FIRST APPEARANCE: to relent; Drax decided to use her Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) to find Ronan instead. Working together, Gamora, Rocket, Groot, fter the galactic tyrant in the possession of the human Drax, and Quill masterminded a Thanos wiped out the Peter Quill. She tried to daring escape from the Kyln. Zehoberei species, he steal it from him, but found took in their last survi- herself also fighting bounty Taking her allies to Knowhere to Avor, Gamora, and raised her as his hunters Rocket and Groot, who deliver the Orb, Gamora flirted daughter. She was trained to be were attempting to capture Quill. with Quill while waiting to see a warrior and assassin alongside Eventually, the ar- the Collector, but cut the romance Thanos’ other “children,” includ- rested all four of them and sent short, mistakenly suspecting ing the Luphomoid , who Quill was manipulating her. Upon would come to be Gamora’s fierce their arrival at the Collector’s rival; their exercises often left Having seen the museum, the Collector’s assis- Nebula grievously injured, tant, Carina, grabbed the Infinity prompting Thanos to repair her Stone’s power for Stone in an attempt to gain its injuries with cybernetics; over herself, Gamora power and free herself from her time, Gamora sought to be free oppressive master; the Stone from her abusive “father.” When decided to instead proved too potent, however, re- Thanos allied with Kree extrem- turn it over to the sulting in Carina’s death and the ist Ronan the Accuser to seek the destruction of the Collection. Orb, an artifact containing a Nova Corps. Having seen the Stone’s power powerful Infinity Stone, Gamora for herself, Gamora decided to contacted the Collector, a curator instead turn it over to the Nova of exotic antiquities, and ar- them to the Kyln, a deep-space Corps, but that plan was fore- ranged to sell the Orb to him for prison. Many of the prisoners stalled by Drax, who had drunk- safekeeping. After persuading there had suffered at Thanos’ enly alerted Ronan to their loca- Ronan to send her to locate the hands, and burned for retribution tion to provoke a duel. Gamora Orb instead of Nebula, she against Gamora. She was nearly tried to escape with the Stone, tracked it to Xandar, where it was murdered by the vengeful Drax, but was left to die in space when

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