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Ain't no thing like me, except me.
THE LEGEND
Out past the Keystone Quadrant's quarantine wall sits Halfworld, an asylum planet where the robot caretakers grew tired of nursing and rebuilt the local animals to do the job for them. On those operating tables an ordinary raccoon was taken apart and put back together, again and again, until something new opened its eyes: a walker, a talker, a dead shot with a temper like a lit fuse. As Guardian of the Keystone Quadrant he kept the patients safe with the otter Lylla at his side, and when the toymongers Judson Jakes and Lord Dyvyne turned Halfworld into a battlefield, he ended their war the only way he knows how. Loudly.
The wider galaxy met him after the Annihilation wars, when Star-Lord went recruiting misfits and found the sharpest tactical mind in the quadrant riding inside a talking raccoon. He flies with a flora colossus named Groot, builds cannons out of scrap and other people's prosthetics, and has buried more friends than he will ever admit to. Ain't no thing like him. Except him.
OFF THE PAGE
Rocket first scurried into print in Marvel Preview #7 (1976), a black-and-white space yarn from writer Bill Mantlo and artist Keith Giffen, his name a tip of the hat to the Beatles' "Rocky Raccoon." A memorable Incredible Hulk turn in 1982 and a 1985 miniseries drawn by a young Mike Mignola followed, then two decades of obscurity, until Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning rebuilt the Guardians of the Galaxy around him in 2008 and paired him forever with a tree that says three words. James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) finished the job: Bradley Cooper's rasp and Sean Gunn's on-set performance turned the film's riskiest element into the emotional engine of a billion-dollar franchise, and Vol. 3 (2023) built its whole story around subject 89P13's scars. Every screen win also renewed attention for Bill Mantlo, badly injured in a 1992 hit-and-run, whose family has said Rocket's success helps fund his ongoing care.
IN SIXTH SCALE
Rocket is the rare Marvel headliner who breaks the sixth-scale rulebook: done right, he comes out hip-high to everyone else on the shelf, all fur texture and attitude in a body the size of a house cat. Hot Toys has carried the little guy's banner since the first Guardians of the Galaxy wave, and he almost never travels alone: Rocket has a habit of shipping as half of a double act with Groot, riding shoulders, perching on tree limbs, generally treating his best friend as furniture. That makes him the connective tissue of any Guardians lineup, and the fastest way to give a serious Avengers shelf a sense of humor. The sculpting brief is brutal, which is why so few makers attempt him: real fur reads wrong, sculpted fur has to catch light like the movies, and the guns are enormous on purpose. He would approve of the guns.
THE SCOUTING REPORT
The Archivist's estimates, scribbled between shelf dustings. Not canon, not law, and absolutely worth arguing about in the Courtyard.
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Rocket Raccoon1/2ENHANCED CLASS· MARKSMAN
LIFESPANMortal (80–100 Years)
ORIGINCybernetic Uplift
VITALITY9
STRENGTH4
DURABILITY8
SPEED14
BATTLE IQ30
POWER25
ABILITIES & WEAKNESSES
Expert MarksmanDemolitions ExpertAce PilotEnhanced SensesProsthetic Kleptomania
ARMS & ATTIRE
Laser CannonHadron EnforcerGrenadesJetpack
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