Marvel Confirms the MCU's Star-Lord and Mantis Are Siblings - CBR - Comic Book Resources

A deleted country from Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 confirms Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) are siblings.

A newly-released deleted country from Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 confirms that Peter Quill/Star Lord (Chris Pratt) and Mantis (Pom Klementieff) are member and sister successful the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Ahead of the merchandise of The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special this Friday, Nov. 25, Marvel Studios dropped 2 caller episodes of Marvel Studios: Legends connected Disney+ -- 1 focusing connected Mantis and different focusing connected Drax (Dave Bautista). The erstwhile features the aforementioned deleted scene, which confirms a long-standing instrumentality mentation that successful summation to being Star-Lord's father, Ego the Living Planet (Kurt Russell) is besides Mantis' father.

"Why don't you privation maine to archer him? He [Star-Lord] should cognize you are his sister," Drax tells Mantis successful the deleted scene. "Our lone transportation [Ego] is the root of his top shame. I deliberation not," Mantis replies. It remains to beryllium seen if the familial transportation betwixt Star-Lord and Mantis volition beryllium decently acknowledged successful The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special, oregon possibly successful Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, the second of which is owed to premiere successful theaters connected May 5, 2023 to reason writer-director James Gunn's Marvel trilogy.

When Star-Lord and institution archetypal met Ego successful Vol. 2, the self-proclaimed Celestial was accompanied by Mantis. According to Mantis, Ego recovered her successful a larva state, orphaned connected her location planet, and decided to rise her arsenic his own. However, MCU fans person agelong suspected that Ego was really Mantis' biologic father, fixed his modus operandi of fathering galore children crossed the beingness arsenic portion of his quest for immortality. The newly-released deleted country makes it wide that specified theories were so correct.

The GotG Holiday Special Premieres This Friday

Before Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 concludes the eponymous team's story, Drax and Mantis are acceptable to spell connected a Christmas-themed escapade successful The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special. The Disney+ tv presumption follows the 2 heroes arsenic they effort to cheer up Star-Lord by giving him the top Christmas acquisition ever: Footloose star Kevin Bacon.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special premieres connected Disney+ connected Nov. 25, 2022. Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 premieres successful theaters connected May 5, 2023.

Source: Marvel Studios: Legends, via Twitter