History Characters / MCUPeterQuill

* NotEvilJustMisunderstood: When he first arrives, Peter destroys several police cars and causes some destruction on his way back to Missouri, and he proves to be a dangerous threat when dealing with the Avengers. However he's trying to escape his dad after being forced to kill several worlds and ultimately the Avengers realise that he's just an eight year old boy dealing with the grief of losing his mother and being raised by an AbusiveParent.

Kidnapped from Earth in 1988, Peter Quill grew up in space to become an intergalactic outlaw and scavenger.

* CoolGuns: His Quad Blasters, which fire electricity or lasers depending on what he needs at the time.

!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ChrisPratt, Wyatt Oleff (young, ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy2014'', ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2''), Luke Klein (young, ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'')
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Creator/CarloVazquez, Emiliano Ugarte (young Peter) (Latin-American Spanish dub), Guillermo Romero (European Spanish dub), Creator/KoichiYamadera (Japanese dub), David Kruger (European French dub), Creator/PhilippeMartin (Canadian French dub), Rafael Rossatto (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Andrey Zaytsev (Russian dub)

** He's obsessed with '70s and 80's pop culture because he hasn't seen his home planet in thirty years, and has no idea how pop culture has changed while he's been away (see DiscoDan). It's implied that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain he's never returned to Earth]] because [[StrangerInAFamiliarLand it would be so unfamiliar to him that it wouldn't feel like home]] (and also because the planet carries the trauma of watching his mother die). He does, however, warm up to a Zune, a recent but now-outdated piece of technology.

** In ''Infinity War'' and ''Endgame'', he's the only Guardian who doesn't take a liking towards Thor mostly because of how jealous he is of how much cooler Thor is than him. In ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', he's about the only Guardian who ''isn't'' sick and tired of him because of how he recognizes his struggle of being lost and finding meaning.

** While not Rocket's actual or adopted father, Quill acts very much like a protective father to him, especially once he learns what was done to Rocket by the High Evolutionary. More than any of the other Guardians, he loses it when Rocket flatlines, getting just as distraught as a father would if his own child was about to die and taking similarly desperate measures to try and prevent it. Visually, the subsequent hug he and Groot share with Rocket has at least the visual similarity to a father and child, given the differences in size if nothing else.

* ThePromise: In ''Infinity War,'' Gamora makes him swear on his mother's memory that should Thanos get her he'll kill her. Acting upon it is a major breaking point for him.

* SoleSurvivor: He's the only member of his immediate family known to still be alive. Meredith died of cancer inflicted by his birth father and all of his siblings were purged by Ego, who himself is killed by Peter. Some of his extended family is still alive on Earth, but Peter has had no contact with them since his abduction 28 years ago. By the end of ''Vol. 3'', he's relieved to know his grandfather waited for him.

* WouldHurtAChild: He didn't appear to have a problem holding and threatening to shoot the 16-year-old Peter Parker if Iron Man didn't tell him where Gamora was. Not that he knew at the moment that the creepy alien in a red suit is a human teenager, though.

* YouCantGoHomeAgain: Quill knows where Earth is, and has the means to get back there, he just doesn't. In ''Vol. 2'', he tries justifying it on the grounds that the last time he was there, he saw his mother die. Gamora disagrees, thinking he just doesn't go back to Earth because he'd rather play Space Cowboy. After being brought back from the Decimation, he does find himself returning to Earth to fight for it against Thanos. However, Creator/JamesGunn states Quill actually despised being back on Earth and got off that planet as fast as he freaking could. He associates it completely with his mother dying. Thankfully, at the end of ''Vol. 3'', he does go back so he can spend some time with his grandfather.

* ThrowTheDogABone: After being shown to work at a low-paid job [[spoiler:and being subjected as a battery thanks to his abusive father Ego, Quill gets saved by T'Challa just in time and is implied to join the Ravagers for a chance of adventure he was initially denied as he is seen fighting alongside them in the last scenes of the show.]]
* UncertainDoom: We don't see what happens after Ego meets him, but, as Uatu implies, Ego presumably intends to use him as a tool to assimilate the world just as he attempted in the Sacred Timeline. [[spoiler:The final episode of season 1 shows this to be the case with T'Challa and the Ravagers saving him prior to Uatu recruiting T'Challa. When T'Challa returns, Peter is using one of T'Challa's guns which suggests he might end up joining the Ravagers.]]

* HeroesLoveDogs: When he and Hope are playing with the Goose, he admits that he's more of a dog person.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: When Peter finds out Gamora is dead, he lets his emotions get the better of him which causes the plan to defeat Thanos to end in failure.

[[folder:Celestial Peter]]
!!''Peter Quill''

* HappilyAdopted: [[spoiler:After Ego's defeat, it seems than Hank has adopted Peter.]]