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In 2014, Peter Quill, Gamora,
Drax, Rocket, and Baby Groot are renowned as the Guardians of the Galaxy.
High Priestess Ayesha of the Sovereign race has the Guardians protect
valuable Anulax batteries from an Abilisk, an inter-dimensional monster,
in exchange for Nebula, Gamora's estranged sister, who was caught
attempting to steal the batteries. After Rocket steals the batteries for
himself, the Sovereign attacks the Guardians' ship with a fleet of drones.
A mysterious figure destroys the drones and the Guardians crash-land on a
nearby planet Berhert. The figure reveals himself as Ego, Quill's father,
and he introduces Mantis, his naīve empath servant. Ego invites Quill,
Gamora, and Drax to his home planet, while Rocket and Groot remain behind
to repair the ship and watch Nebula.
Ayesha hires Yondu Udonta and his crew, who have been exiled from the
greater Ravager community by Ravager leader Stakar Ogord for child
trafficking, to recapture the Guardians. They capture Rocket, but when
Yondu hesitates to turn over Quill, whom he raised, his lieutenant Kraglin
Obfonteri questions his objectivity, and Taserface, another lieutenant,
leads a mutiny, aided by Nebula, who shoots Yondu. Taserface executes
Yondu's loyalists, and imprisons him and Rocket aboard Yondu's ship.
Nebula leaves to find and kill Gamora, whom she blames for the torture
inflicted on her by Thanos, their adoptive father. Kraglin, who is
remorseful and never signed up for a mutiny, helps Groot free Rocket and
Yondu, and while escaping, the group set the ship to self-destruct using
Yondu's arrow. Taserface informs the Sovereign before being killed by the
explosion.
Ego, a god-like Celestial that manipulated the matter around his
consciousness to form his "home" planet, explains that he projected a
humanoid guise to travel the universe and discover a purpose, eventually
falling in love with Quill's mother Meredith. Ego hired Yondu to collect
the young Quill after Meredith's death, but the boy was never delivered,
and Ego has been searching for him ever since. He teaches Quill to
manipulate his inherited Celestial power, while Mantis grows close to Drax
and tries to warn him of Ego's plans. Nebula arrives at Ego's planet and
tries to kill Gamora, but the pair reconcile and reach an uneasy alliance,
soon discovering a cavern filled with skeletal remains. Ego brainwashes
Quill and reveals that in his travels, he planted seedlings on thousands
of worlds that can terraform into new extensions of himself, but only the
power of two Celestials can activate them. He adds that he impregnated
countless women and hired Yondu to collect their offspring but killed them
all when they failed to inherit his Celestial power. When Ego admits that
he gave Meredith the brain tumor that killed her, an infuriated Quill
breaks out of his brainwashing and violently attacks him. Ego then
parasitically draws Quill's energy to activate the seedlings, which begin
to consume the worlds on which they are planted.
Rocket, Yondu, Groot, and Kraglin arrive, and together with Mantis, Drax,
Nebula and Gamora, they rescue Quill. The reunited Guardians travel to
Ego's brain at the planet's core, where Yondu reveals that he kept Quill
to spare him from Ego. As the Sovereign's drones return and attack, Rocket
makes a bomb using the stolen batteries, which Groot plants on Ego's
brain. Quill uses his newfound Celestial powers to fight Ego, distracting
him long enough for the other Guardians and Mantis to escape. The bomb
explodes, killing Ego and disintegrating the planet, but also draining
Quill of his Celestial powers. Yondu sacrifices himself to save Quill by
letting himself die in the vacuum of space. Despite having reconciled with
Gamora, Nebula chooses to leave and resume her quest to kill Thanos. The
Guardians, with Mantis as a new member, hold a funeral for Yondu as dozens
of Ravager ships arrive, having heard of Yondu's sacrifice and accept him
as a Ravager again.
In a series of mid-and post-credit scenes, Kraglin takes up Yondu's
telekinetic arrow and control-fin; Ogord reunites with his ex-teammates
and fellow Ravager captains; Ayesha creates Adam, a new artificial being
with whom she plans to destroy the Guardians; and Groot grows into a
teenager. |
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