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In 1988, following his
mother's death, the child Peter Quill is abducted from Earth by the
Ravagers, a group of alien thieves and smugglers led by Yondu Udonta. In
2014, on the abandoned planet Morag, Quill steals a mysterious Orb, but is
attacked by forces of the fanatical Kree renegade Ronan the Accuser led by
Korath. Although Quill escapes with the Orb, Yondu discovers his theft and
issues a bounty for his capture, while Ronan sends the assassin Gamora
after the Orb.
When Quill attempts to sell the Orb on Xandar, capital of the Nova Empire,
Gamora ambushes him and steals it. A fight ensues, drawing in a pair of
bounty hunters: the genetically and cybernetically modified raccoon Rocket
and the tree-like humanoid Groot. Nova Corps officers capture the four,
detaining them in the Kyln prison. An inmate, Drax the Destroyer, attempts
to kill Gamora due to her association with Ronan, who killed his wife and
daughter. Quill convinces Drax that Gamora can bring Ronan to him, though
Gamora reveals that she has betrayed Ronan, unwilling to let him use the
Orb's power. Learning that Gamora intends to sell the Orb to the Collector
Taneleer Tivan, Quill, Rocket, Groot, and Drax work with her to escape the
Kyln in Quill's ship, the Milano.
Ronan meets with Gamora's adoptive father, Thanos, to discuss her
betrayal. Quill's group flees to Knowhere, a remote lawless outpost. A
drunken Drax summons Ronan while the rest of the group meets Tivan. Tivan
opens the Orb, revealing an Infinity Stone, an item of immeasurable power
that destroys all but the most powerful beings who wield it. Tivan's slave
Carina grabs the Stone, triggering an explosion that engulfs Tivan's
collection. Ronan arrives and easily defeats Drax, while the others flee
by ship, pursued by Ronan's followers, including Gamora's adoptive sister
Nebula. Nebula destroys Gamora's ship, leaving her floating in space, and
Ronan's fighters capture the Orb.
Quill contacts Yondu before following Gamora into space, giving her his
helmet to survive; Yondu arrives and retrieves the pair. Rocket, Drax, and
Groot threaten to attack Yondu's ship to rescue them, but Quill negotiates
a truce, promising the Orb to Yondu. Quill's group agrees that facing
Ronan means certain death, but that they cannot let him use the Infinity
Stone to destroy the galaxy. On Ronan's flagship, the Dark Aster, Ronan
embeds the Stone in his warhammer, taking its power for himself. He
contacts Thanos, threatening to kill him after first destroying Xandar.
Hateful of her adoptive father, Nebula allies with Ronan.
The Ravagers and Quill's group join with the Nova Corps to confront the
Dark Aster at Xandar, with Quill's group breaching the warship with the
Milano. Ronan uses his empowered warhammer to destroy the Nova Corps
fleet. Drax kills Korath and Gamora defeats Nebula, who escapes, but the
group finds themselves outmatched by Ronan's power. Rocket crashes a
Ravager ship through the Dark Aster. The damaged Dark Aster crash-lands on
Xandar, with Groot sacrificing himself to shield the group. Ronan emerges
from the wreck and prepares to destroy Xandar, but Quill distracts him,
allowing Drax and Rocket to destroy Ronan's warhammer. Quill grabs the
freed Stone, and with Gamora, Drax, and Rocket sharing its burden, uses it
to vaporize Ronan.
Quill gives Yondu a container supposedly containing the Stone, and gives
the real one to the Nova Corps. As the Ravagers leave Xandar, Yondu
remarks that it turned out well that they did not deliver Quill to his
father per their contract. Quill's group, now known as the Guardians of
the Galaxy, has their criminal records expunged, and Quill learns that he
is only half-human, his father being part of an ancient, unknown species.
Quill finally opens the last present he received from his mother, a
cassette tape filled with her favorite songs. The Guardians leave in the
rebuilt Milano along with a potted sapling cut from Groot, which grows
into a baby version of him.
In a post-credits scene, Tivan sits in his destroyed archive with two of
his living exhibits: a canine cosmonaut and an anthropomorphic duck. |
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