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Yondu is a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy, a peacekeeping organization
in the distant future.
However, when Marvel decided to reboot the franchise, they started the team’s history
way back at square one and assembled an all new cast to carry on the name.
Because of this, many of the original Guardians were forgotten, but Yondu was thrust back
into the forefront of fan’s minds when a new version of him was featured in the Guardians
of the Galaxy film series.
This version of Yondu was INCREDIBLY different from the original which prompted Marvel to
take his movie concept and introduce a brand new version of the character into the mainstream
Marvel Comics universe and it’s THIS Yondu that we’re going to be focusing on today.
Not much is known about Yondu’s early life except for the fact that he was exiled from
his home planet of Centauri IV and had his headfin cut off.
See, the Centaurians are known for their massive mohawk like fins and it’s quite the insult
to have this removed so whatever Yondu did back on his home world must have been pretty
bad.
Cast out, Yondu became a space pirate and founded a crew of his own called the Ravagers.
It can be assumed that the Ravagers were a pretty sucessful lot as they are in control
of a massive ship that even has a room dedicated to housing enough treasure to give Smaug a
run for his money!
The Ravagers encounter Peter Quill, the kid who would grow up to become the notorious
space-bandit known as Star-Lord who was stranded in space and they decide to steal his ship.
Well Peter outsmarted the Ravagers and managed to single handedly steal THEIR ship!
Yondu broke free of Peter’s restraints though and nearly killed the young the Earther.
That is until Quill begged to join the Ravagers.
Yondu saw a lot of himself inside of the young boy and agrees, tasking Peter with the important
task of… janitorial duty.
Nearly every day, Peter asked Yondu to look into the whereabouts of the Badoon ship that
killed his mother until one day, the two of them had a little heart to heart.
Quill mentions that Earth had managed to reverse engineer some Kree technology and assembled
a ship with four warp drives.
With dollar signs in his eyes, Yondu saw this as an opportunity and let Peter move up in
the ranks as a full blown space pirate while still keeping him in his backpocket to be
exploited later.
After bonding with Peter over several adventures, Yondu stumbled across a tracking crystal with
the whereabouts of the Badoon ship.
Holding this potential reward over Quill’s head, Yondu announced that the Ravagers were
going to steal the Earth ship and they were going to use Peter’s inside knowledge as
an advantage.
During the hijacking process though, Yondu let it slip that he still saw Peter as just
the janitor which prompted him to steal the tracking crystal from Yondu and betray the
Ravagers by dumping their ship’s fuel and gold reserves.
However, before Peter could make his getaway, Yondu managed to get the tracking crystal
back from Peter and tasked his crew with scrounging whatever treasure they could find in order
to place a bounty on Quill’s head.
Now I seriously wish that there was more to talk about, but outside of Yondu popping up
for a not so important role in a book called Solo that nobody really cares about, that’s
pretty much it for this version of the guy.
If enough of you ask me about it then I would absolutely love to do videos on Yondu and
the original Guardians of the Galaxy.
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