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Star-Lord ( Peter Jason Quill) is a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan, the character first appeared in Marvel Preview #4 (January 1976). The son of human Meredith Quill and Spartoi J'son, Peter Quill assumes the mantle of Star-Lord, an interplanetary policeman.
The character played prominent roles in the comic book storylines "Annihilation" (2006) and "" (2007), "War of Kings" (2008), The Thanos Imperative (2009), and Old Man Quill (2019). He became the leader of the outer space-based superhero team Guardians of the Galaxy in the 2008 relaunch of the comic of the same name. He has been featured in a variety of associated Marvel merchandise, including animated television series, and .
Chris Pratt portrays the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), (2018), (2019), , The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (both 2022), and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). Wyatt Oleff portrays a young Peter Quill in the first two Guardians of the Galaxy films. Quill also appeared in the Disney+ animated series What If...? (2021).
Englehart would later state that the story on Jupiter would be about Government, and that his version of the character was not a part of the Marvel universe and was "completely standalone".
The character returned in Thanos #8–12 (May–Sept. 2004) and Annihilation #1-6 (2006). The following year, he received a four issue eponymous title ( Annihilation: ConquestStar-Lord) leading into the "" crossover storyline, in which he played a central role. Spinning out of "Annihilation: Conquest", a second volume of Guardians of the Galaxy featured a team of characters from the crossover who were led by Star-Lord for the duration of the title's 25-issue run. Plot lines from that series were concluded in The Thanos Imperative mini-series.
Because of revisions to the character's origin, his early appearances have been officially designated as occurring in an alternate reality.
Star-Lord returned, along with other members of the Guardians, in Avengers Assemble #4-8 (June–Oct. 2012). He stars in Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3, a part of the Marvel NOW! relaunch.
In July 2014, Star-Lord received his own ongoing series, Legendary Star-Lord. The character was also given a new costume, matching that seen in the Marvel Studios film Guardians of the Galaxy
His solo series and Guardians of the Galaxy vol. 3 ended as Marvel began its 2015 "Secret Wars" storyline. Star-Lord appeared as a main character in the core Secret Wars miniseries, and in a tie-in miniseries during the event, Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde.
During publication of "Secret Wars", Marvel premiered a new ongoing Star-Lord series, written by Sam Humphries, as part of the All-New, All-Different Marvel initiative, which focused on the character's retcon origins. This series also saw him leave the Guardians of the Galaxy, and replaced by his fiancée Kitty Pryde, who took over the identity of Star-Lord on the team's roster. The series lasted for eight issues. "Star-Lord" . Comic Book Round Up. Retrieved May 9, 2017. A subsequent Star-Lord ongoing series written by Chip Zdarsky began in December 2017 before being canceled after a six issues and one annual. "Star-Lord (2016)" . Comic Book Round Up. Retrieved May 9, 2017.
In April 2019, Peter Quill was given a 12 issue miniseries set in the Wastelands universe called Old Man Quill, which was written by Ethan Sacks and drawn by Robert Gill.
In November 2020, Peter Quill acquires the title and powers of Master of the Sun (which he had in his early original first appearance in the Marvel Premiere series of the 1970s and later retconned to be his Earth-791 counterpart) and it is revealed that the title was bestowed upon Peter by what and whom he believed to be a false memory from prior history, never truly lived. Being gifted entirely alien capabilities by said facsimile of his old mentor, Quill would gain incredible; albeit unexplored, new power which he can channel through his Element Gun. These as of yet unexplored faculties often manifest by the glow of his regrown left eye and the odd sun imprint tattooed to the palm of his right hand.
Ten years later, Meredith is killed when she is attacked by two Badoon soldiers who have come to kill Peter and end J'son's blood line. A teenaged Peter defends himself with Meredith's shotgun, finds a weapon J'son had accidentally left behind, and escapes his home before it is destroyed by the Badoon ship. The Badoon presume Peter has been killed and leave. Now an orphan, Peter becomes an astronaut for NASA when he reaches adulthood. It was eventually explained that he was raised by his mother's best friend Lisa Chang, who was a commander at NASA.
During a mission where his ship malfunctions and leaves him stranded in space, Peter is found by the Ravagers, a group of space pirates led by Yondu. After the Ravagers save Peter, he tries to steal their ship, humiliates the Ravagers by outsmarting them, and even knocks out Yondu before capturing him. After Yondu awakens, he frees himself and attacks Peter, letting Peter choose between death and marooning. Peter instead asks Yondu if he could join the pirate captain's crew. Yondu eventually learns that the two share something in common: growing up as "kids without homes". He lets Peter stay on with the Ravagers as their cleaning boy. Peter slowly works his way up the Ravagers' ranks to become a seasoned pirate, picking up various skills and weapons from his new brethren.
Peter encounters the Fallen One, a former Herald of Galactus, and is almost killed defeating the entity, which results in his ship being destroyed and the Ravagers leaving him for dead. Peter and the Fallen One are subsequently imprisoned by the Nova Corps in the intergalactic prison called the Kyln. Peter is freed by the hero Nova during the Annihilation War and aids the Corps against the forces of Annihilus. He is subsequently appointed as military advisor to the Kree general Ronan the Accuser.
When the Kree homeworld of Hala is , Peter assumes the name Star-Lord and leads a band of rebels against the invaders until the war is over. Determined to prevent the atrocities he witnessed from happening again, Star-Lord forms a new version of the Guardians of the Galaxy. They are "proactive" and try to end emerging galactic threats early, but are unsuccessful at preventing a war between the Kree and Shi'ar. During a war with an invading universe, Star-Lord and Nova are prepared to sacrifice themselves to defeat Thanos but only Nova dies and Thanos escapes.
During this mission Peter meets Kitty Pryde, and the two eventually have a romantic relationship. Afterwards, the Guardians are cornered and captured by the Spartax Army. Peter is sent to Spartax where he confronts his father again and escapes after exposing once again his father's tyrannical reign. A riot forms in the Empire and J'son is deposed as a consequence. Peter keeps a low profile and remains dedicated to his long-distance relationship with Kitty. Soon he discovers he is elected by the Spartax people to be their new emperor. Peter ignores the announcement and focuses on Kitty and his search for a gangster named Mr. Knife who had put a bounty on his head. After being captured by Knife, he realizes Knife is J'son, his father. He escapes thanks to Kitty, and they spend some time together. Peter convinces Kitty to stay in space with him. He decides to steal an important artifact from J'son as payback.
Star-Lord ends up in the domain of Manhattan, where he gets a job singing in the popular club, "the Quiet Room", singing Disney songs, as Disney films never existed in Battleworld, using the alias of Steve Rogers to hide from Doom. It is here that he runs into an alternate universe version of Kitty Pryde (from the Age of Apocalypse universe), who is hunting down artifacts from before Battleworld's creation. Hoping to talk to who he believes is his fiancée, he accidentally foils a deal between Kitty and Gambit to obtain an ancient artifact. Gambit leaves, but Kitty uses a scanner to discover that Star-Lord is from before Battleworld's creation, and she plans to take him to Doom. However, they are ambushed by a group of robots connected to Gambit. The two decide to steal an artifact that Gambit has, but it is a trap, and the two are captured. Right before Gambit can kill them, a version of Drax appears. Drax hired Peter to work in the Quiet Room. Drax knocks out Gambit. The three leave with the artifact secured. When they are safe the next morning, Kitty shows it to the two, only to find out its Rocket Raccoon's tail. Star-Lord laments the death of his friend, and Kitty decides to allow him to keep it, as it is the one thing left of his old universe. Star-Lord thanks Kitty, who kisses him before heading back to her home of Doomguard. Realizing the two are out of a job for abandoning the Quiet Room in the middle of a show, Star-Lord and Drax decide to go back into Star-Lord's old career as a thief. He asks Drax if he knows a good geneticist, as he plans on using Rocket's tail to make a clone of his friend, possibly an army of them.
During the final stand against God Doom, Peter not only piloted a ship to take the two Reed Richardses to the heart of Castle Doom, but also managed to keep Black Swan occupied by using the last twig of Groot, kept in his pocket ever since the Incursions to be planted at the crucial moment.
During the Civil War II storyline, Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy assist Captain Marvel as her surprise weapon in the fight against Iron Man. During the battle, the Guardians ship is destroyed which leaves them stranded on Earth. After Iron Man's faction leaves, Gamora overhears a conversation between Peter and Kitty in which she learns that Peter knew (without telling the rest of the team) that Thanos was on Earth the entire time they were there. After stopping Gamora from storming into the Triskelion and killing Thanos, Gamora and the other Guardians leave Peter due to the secrecy. Peter and Kitty then break off their engagement.
Peter is prosecuted by Matt Murdock, who argues that unlike other superheroes, Star-Lord was reckless and endangered civilians while causing substantial property damage. The trial is interrupted by Brand, who gets the judge to reduce Peter's sentence to community service, to which Peter agrees. Brand and Alpha Flight then give him a new skin-tight costume, and he is assigned to senior citizen Edmund Allen, a retired super-criminal named Silver Bandit. After a day of bonding, Star-Lord is hired as a bartender at a bar for supervillains owned by Edmund's son.
However, Quill did not die in the blast, and was instead transported to a different universe after the explosion. He was taken in by a pair of travelers on this new world, Mors and Aradia, to whom he eventually acquitted himself both as friends as well as family and eventually lovers, while spending more than one-hundred and eighty seven years running a gauntlet of escapades with them. He came to see that his Element Gun had changed significantly since when last he used it; initially the blaster had a finite charge on which elements he could churn out at which succession, but because he'd used it to siphon the divine energies of Olympus's pantheon, he found that use of the gun didn't seem to diminish its power supply. Whilst out camping with his new companions, Quill's fears, including an underlying suspicion as to why his personal keepsake never lost its juice, were confirmed by the reappearance of the mad Olympians. They revealed the constant use of Peter's signature weapon that bound and drained their powers also freed the petty gods from captivity with each usage, and that now they sought to reacquire their stolen might from him by any means necessary. Feeling responsible for bringing their wrath down upon their world, Quill opts to take a portal back to his universe to lead them away from his new home. In doing so he is met by the Master who states that having passed the test of his new life, he will make Quill into the one true Star Lord: The Master of the Sun. Arriving on Spartax in time to witness a symbiote dragon laying waste to his homeworld, Star Lord catches up on all the events he'd missed, and, with Nova's help, dove into the dragon and confronted Knull, the dark god of the symbiotes. Knull attempted to infect Star Lord and the other Guardians with living abyss to turn them into his soldiers, but Star Lord used the power he had obtained from the Olympians to kill the dragon and render its living abyss inert. Despite his new powers making him a powerful contender against Knull, Quill refused to return to Earth and face him, instead opting to prepare for the return of the Olympians.
As Star-Lord, Peter Quill wears a suit that grants augmented strength and durability and the ability to travel through space. He uses an "Element Gun", a special meta-pistol capable of projecting one of the four elements (air, earth, fire and water). Star-Lord shares a psychic link with his Sentience space vessel, Ship.
Ship is a sentient energy form. She most often exists in the form of a starship but can alter her structure at will. She can travel through air, space and water. She possesses many of the conventional starship accessories, including shields, energy blasters, advanced sensors, replicators (able to form any kind of food, drink, etc.), and hologram projectors. She has proven capable of creating a human form, which she can then animate and use as a host. Even if completely destroyed, she is capable of restoring herself, since her true form is her consciousness. In addition, she takes on a number of feminine characteristics, such as a mothering instinct for those she is partnered with. She has felt deeper attachments, including love for her partners.
Ship can create Widgets—small, mobile droids able to scout out situations, gather information, and then return to her. The full extent of Ship's abilities are unknown. During Star-Lord's battle with The Fallen One, his element gun, suit and Ship were destroyed. Due to severe injury, he was grafted with cybernetic implants by doctors on the Kyln, where he was sentenced. The eye implant allows him to see all energy spectra and the memory chip in his brain gives him 100% total recall.
On the Kree world of Aladon Prime, Star-Lord's cybernetic implants were removed. Star-Lord was outfitted with a Kree-issued heat-dampening espionage battle-suit, which became the hallmark look for the Guardians of the Galaxy, a battle helmet, and a universal translator, all of which he still uses. His battle helmet can analyze strategy data, improve vision, and regulate oxygen in space. Star-Lord's chosen weapons are two Kree sub-machine guns with various types of ammunition, including explosives. After escaping the Cancerverse, Peter acquires a new element gun(s), but he discards his armor.
As Master of the Sun - while meditating on his new lease on life, Quill demonstrated levitation in a sitting position while trying to focus his powers for the upcoming battle. Often when Quill finds his center of being or is utilizing his power through the magitek sidearm, Quill's body glows with a bright gold radiance, the light emitted being so powerful that he can blow apart a Symbiote Dragon by channeling said force through the blaster. Star-Lord's transformation has seemingly rendered him immune to psionic intrusion, as Moondragon could not penetrate the defenses his mind seemed to subconsciously throw up whenever she drifted towards him. The Element Blaster initially held a finite charge limit to its ability to channel and redistribute energy towards manipulating natural materials, but after having gained total control over various metaphysical dynamics pertaining to the universe, Quill now acts as his own dynamo to power said weapon. Quill has recently picked up new tricks, such as having a recall ability which guides his pistol back to his hand once he calls for it.
An alien entity called the Master of the Sun later visits the space station that Quill and other astronauts are inhabiting and offers the mantle of Star-Lord (an interplanetary policeman) to a worthy candidate. Quill volunteers, but he is rejected in favor of a colleague he once treated badly. Quill is outraged, and NASA orders his return to Earth and discharge for his conduct. Instead, he steals a scout ship, returns to the space station, and takes his colleague's place. Quill becomes Star-Lord, with the Master of the Sun first creating an illusion in which the character is able to find and kill the aliens that murdered his mother to free him of his past. Equipped with a sentient vessel called "Ship", Quill commences his role as Star-Lord.
Years later, Star-Lord becomes involved in stopping a group of slavers who are destroying worlds. His efforts led him to discover a conspiracy to replace the emperor of the Spartoi empire. To thwart the takeover, Star-Lord travels to the imperial throneworld Sparta where he encounters and kills the alien who killed his mother. Star-Lord then meets Emperor Jason who reveals that he is Peter's father. Jason explains that he had crashed on Earth decades earlier and been rescued by Meredith Quill. During the year that he had spent repairing his ship, Jason and Meredith fell in love. When it came time to leave, Jason, for Meredith's safety, had placed a mindlock on her memories of him, causing her to remember their year together as only a dream.
A devastated Quill is found by an aged version of the Guardians, recruiting him for one more adventure back on Earth that will give him revenge on the Church, now led by Galactus. However, after discovering what happened to the other heroes of Earth, it is eventually revealed that Quill has been hallucinating all of the other Guardians for the duration of his quest, and the real Guardians have been killed by Galactus. With the Ultimate Nullifier having been destroyed, Quill eventually defeats Galactus by shooting him in the head with the Time Stone, displacing part of Galactus's brain. With the death of Galactus, most of the Church are revealed to have been brainwashed thralls who break away. Peter subsequently forms a new team of Guardians, including Beta Ray Bill, Moondragon, Phyla-Vell, Nebula, and Baby Groot to deal with the rest of the Church.
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| Annihilation: Conquest: Book One | Annihilation: Conquest - Star-Lord #1-4 and Annihilation: Conquest Prologue, Annihilation: Conquest - Quasar #1-4 | October 2008 | |
| Star-Lord: Guardian of the Galaxy | Marvel Preview #4, 11, 14-15, 18, Marvel Super Special #10, Marvel Spotlight (vol. 2) #6-7, Marvel Premiere #61, and Star-Lord (vol. 1) #1-3 | July 2014 | |
| Legendary Star-Lord Vol. 1: Face It, I Rule | Legendary Star-Lord #1-5 | February 2015 | |
| Legendary Star-Lord Vol. 2: Rise of the Black Vortex | Legendary Star-Lord #6-12 | August 2015 | |
| Legendary Star-Lord Vol. 3: First Flight | Star-Lord (vol. 2) #1-5 | July 2016 | |
| Legendary Star-Lord Vol. 4: Out of Orbit | Star-Lord (vol. 2) #6-8 and Avengers (vol. 1) #28, 51, 174 | November 2016 | |
| Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde | Star-Lord and Kitty Pryde #1-3, Generation Next #1, and Guardians of the Galaxy and X-Men: The Black Vortex Omega | December 2015 | |
| Star-Lord: Grounded | Star-Lord (vol. 3) #1-6 | July 2017 | |
| Old Man Quill Vol. 1: Nobody's Fault But My Own | Old Man Quill #1-6 | August 2019 | |
| Old Man Quill Vol. 2: Go Your Own Way | Old Man Quill #7-12 | February 2020 |
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