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I Believe I Can Fly means flight being a really common superpower in a setting.


* {Flight}: He can levitate himself using psychokinesis.

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* {Flight}: {{Flight}}: He can levitate himself using psychokinesis.
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I Believe I Can Fly means flight being a really common superpower in a setting.


* IBelieveICanFly: Using psychokinesis.

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* IBelieveICanFly: Using {Flight}: He can levitate himself using psychokinesis.

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* EnergyBeing: It's easily forgotten because of his ability to project a semblance of humanoid form, but he's actually comprised of ionic energy, not flesh and blood.



* EnergyBeing: It's easily forgotten because of his ability to project a semblance of humanoid form, but he's actually comprised of ionic energy, not flesh and blood.
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The Firelord started life as Pyreus Kril on the planet Xander home to the legendary Nova Corps. He was once one of the Heralds of Galactus.

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The Firelord started life as Pyreus Kril on the planet Xander Xandar home to the legendary Nova Corps. He was once one of the Heralds of Galactus.
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added to a note; corrected when Centauri IV had been colonized


The leader and founder of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the year 3000. He is the future version of Justice of Comicbook/NewWarriors fame, and carries the legendary shield of Captain America. [[note]]Due to how time travel and alternate realities work in Marvel, the Major Victory in Guardians vol 1 is not the same as the one in Vol 2. Probably.[[/note]]

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The leader and founder of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the year 3000.3007. He is the future version of Justice of Comicbook/NewWarriors fame, and carries the legendary shield of Captain America. [[note]]Due to how time travel and alternate realities work in Marvel, the Major Victory in Guardians vol Vol 1 is not the same as the one in Vol 2. Probably. Also, the Major Victory in ''Guardians 3000'' is definitely a different version than those who appeared in Vols 1 and 2.[[/note]]



* AllForNothing: Vance volunteered for an experimental mission to Alpha Centuari, knowing full well it would take a thousand years. Over those thousand years he was sufficiently traumatised by the loneliness for his mutant powers to activate. On arrival at Alpha Centuari, it turned out mankind had beaten him there by a few hundred years thanks to technological advancements. Oops. And then the Badoon rolled through and nearly wiped out mankind altogether.
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: In vol. 2, while pretty much all of his personal memories are gone, his fighting skills are still there, and he remembers the Badoon and their handiwork all too well.

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* AllForNothing: Vance volunteered for an experimental mission to Alpha Centuari, Centauri, knowing full well it would take a thousand years. Over those thousand years he was sufficiently traumatised traumatized by the loneliness for his mutant powers to activate. On arrival at Alpha Centuari, Centauri, it turned out mankind had beaten him there by a few hundred sixty-six years thanks to technological advancements. Oops. And then the Badoon rolled through and nearly wiped out mankind altogether.
* AmnesiaMissedASpot: In vol.Vol. 2, while pretty much all of his personal memories are gone, his fighting skills are still there, and he remembers the Badoon and their handiwork all too well.

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* EarlyInstallmentDesignDifference: In ''Super-Heroes'' #16, Charlie has more exaggerated features. From his second appearance onward, he's still large, but with more normal proportions.

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* EarlyInstallmentDesignDifference: EarlyInstalmentCharacterDesignDifference: In ''Super-Heroes'' #16, Charlie has more exaggerated features. From his second appearance onward, he's still large, but with more normal proportions.


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* LastOfHisKind: Same as Charlie, Marty's the last of his people. Possibly in a crueller way, since ''Super-Heroes'' #16 stated Martinex had managed to help get some survivors to safety, but by his next appearance Martinex is the last Plutonian anywhere.


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* CharacterWitness: During a team-up with Thor, Charlie and Martinex are initially dubious about this guy they've found who claims to be a god, even when Vance is trying to tell them he's bonafide. It takes Yondu bowing down in reverential awe (because he can sense Thor's a god) to convince them he's on the level.


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* ShipTease: During a team-up between the old and new Guardians in vol. 2, he quickly develops a crush on Mantis, which she reciprocates. Dying soon after puts the kibosh on anything happening.
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* EarlyInstallmentDesignDifference: In ''Super-Heroes'' #16, Charlie has more exaggerated features. From his second appearance onward, he's still large, but with more normal proportions.


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* IAmTheNoun: "The One Who Knows", as well as "The Light and the Bringer of the Light."


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* TheBabyOfTheBunch: The youngest member of the team, being somewhere in her late teens when she first appears. Accordingly, Charlie tends to act like a protective big brother towards her.


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* TheVamp: Not actually, but Charlie does jokingly accuse her of being one when she glomps onto Thor during a team-up.

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* YouNoTakeCandle: He originally spoke like this. However, as of when the Guardians got their own series, he'd become quite articulate.

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* YouNoTakeCandle: He originally spoke like this. However, as of when the Guardians got their own series, he'd become quite articulate.this, but it stopped from his second appearance.



[[folder:Starhawk (Stakar Ogord and Aleta Ogord)[=/=] Aleta Ogrod]]

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[[folder:Starhawk (Stakar Ogord and Aleta Ogord)[=/=] Aleta Ogrod]]Ogord]]



* PrimaryColorChampion: Stakar's costume is blue and yellow, while Aleta's second costume is mostly red.

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* PrimaryColorChampion: Stakar's costume is blue and yellow, while Aleta's second third costume is mostly red.



* ThouShaltNotKill: Aeleta vowed never to take a life, and was horrified when she killed a Stark while defending herself.

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* ThouShaltNotKill: Aeleta Aleta vowed never to take a life, and was horrified when she killed a Stark while defending herself.herself.
* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Their father adopted Stakar in the hopes of raising him to be an Acturan raider, but was extremely disappointed by his turning out quiet and introspective instead.

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* FakeDefector: When caught by Warlord Drang, he pretended he'd side with the Badoon just long enough to give Yondu his weapons back.



* FlatEarthAthiest: Despite being from the age of superheroes, when people like Doctor Strange acted openly, Major Victory is very dismissive of the idea of magic and spiritualism.

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* FlatEarthAthiest: FlatEarthAtheist: Despite being from the age of superheroes, when people like Doctor Strange acted openly, Major Victory is very dismissive of the idea of magic and spiritualism.



* {{Jerkass}}: Early days Vance could be, put bluntly, a dick, with a tendency towards insults towards everyone, or going into tantrums. Admittedly, finding you gave up your whole life and then seeing your entire species wiped out would make anyone bad-tempered, but it doesn't make the situation any better when he lashes out at his comrades.



* LivingLegend: Vance is quite surprised to find a party waiting for him when he reaches Alpha Centauri. Even in the thousand years he was gone, mankind managed to remember him. Even the Badoon were impressed by him.



* BigBrotherInstinct: The minute Nikki shows up, Charlie becomes very protective of her.



* AxCrazy: Tends to go ax crazy at the drop of a hat.

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* %%* AxCrazy: Tends to go ax crazy at the drop of a hat.



* BerserkButton: Stakar prides himself on being "The One Who Knows", and during Gerber's run got pretty tetchy if people questioned that.

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* BerserkButton: Stakar prides himself on being "The One Who Knows", and during Gerber's run got pretty tetchy if people questioned that. As in, "threatens to kill Vance" tetchy.

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* FlatEarthAthiest: Despite being from the age of superheroes, when people like Doctor Strange acted openly, Major Victory is very dismissive of the idea of magic and spiritualism.



* LaughingMad: Finding out that mankind had beaten him to Alpha Centauri caused Vance to have a manic breakdown.



** Also to his 616 reality self [[Characters/NewWarriors Marvel Boy / Justice]].



* MoodSwinger: At times, Vance could go through some extreme manic phases brought on by the angst of being a thousand years out of time and stuck in his suit. And since the Guardians wander around space, ThereAreNoTherapists.



* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: As written by Steve Gerber, he throws a lot of casually racist remarks toward Yondu.



Co-Founder of the 31st century superhero group, Guardians of the Galaxy, he is the last survivor of a race genetically engineered to live on Jupiter.

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Co-Founder of the 31st century superhero group, Guardians of the Galaxy, he is the last survivor of a race genetically engineered to live on Jupiter.



* DecoyProtagonist: The first ever Guardians story begins with Charlie, and he's the main POV character, but after that most stories tend to focus on Major Victory as the "main" character.



* LateToTheTragedy: He missed the Badoon invasion by a whole two months.



* SuperToughness: As with any comic book Heavyworlder, he's much, ''much'' tougher than a normal human.

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* SuperToughness: As with any comic book Heavyworlder, he's much, ''much'' tougher than a normal human. This is often demonstrated by people trying to stab him, and the blade effortlessly breaking on his skin.
* TakeThisJobAndShoveIt: After the Badoon were got rid of, Charlie took a construction worker's job. The foreman continually harassed him out of FantasticRacism, so Charlie eventually wrapped him up in girders and walked off (and judging by the looks on all the other workers's faces, no-one was in any hurry to help the foreman).



* YouAreNumberSix: Jovian tradition is to have a name, then number. His dad was Charlie-26.
* YouKilledMyFather: Admittedly, the Badoon killed everyone he knew, loved and worked with, but they also enslaved Charlie's dad and put him to work in mines so lethal they'd kill in months. While ''Marvel Super-Heroes'' #18 has Charlie vowing to save him before it's too late, later stories show he never managed it.



Sole survivor of his race, Martinex is genetically capable of withstanding extreme conditions due to the environment of his home planet Pluto and can shoot heat rays from his right hand and ice beams from his left. Meeting other survivors who also had their homes destroyed by the evil alien race of Badoon, Martinex formed the Guardians of the Galaxy in the 31st century to defeat them and continued on to create a larger group known as the Galactic Guardians.

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Sole survivor of his race, Martinex is genetically capable of withstanding extreme conditions due to the environment of his home planet Pluto and can shoot heat rays from his right hand and ice beams from his left. Meeting other survivors who also had their homes destroyed by the evil alien race of Badoon, Martinex formed helped form the Guardians of the Galaxy in the 31st century to defeat them and continued on to create a larger group known as the Galactic Guardians.



* StrawVulcan: Sometimes, as written by Steve Gerber, such as in one instance he claims his mind is "too logical" to appreciate beauty.



* AloofAlly: Even when he's on the team, Starhawk has a tendency to be vague, suddenly make demands of the team, or depart without any explanation.
* BerserkButton: Stakar prides himself on being "The One Who Knows", and during Gerber's run got pretty tetchy if people questioned that.



* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Aleta's first appearances paint her as even more enigmatic than Starhawk, and utterly silent. Once she appears to the team in the flesh, this starts to change.



* FusionDance: One day when they were kids, Stakar went wandering in the ruined city of Arcturus. Aleta went after him, and found him tinkering with some ancient tech. Annoyed, she threw it on the ground, which accidentally activated it, dissolving her body into particles of light and depositing it in a nearby statue of the Arcturan Hawk-God. The sheer power drove Aleta slightly mad, and she went on a rampage. Trying to stop her, Stakar wound up fusing with her.



* HalfHumanHybrid: Starhawk is the son of ComicBook/{{Quasar}} and [[[[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] Her]], making him half human, half orange-skinned [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Being]].

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* HalfHumanHybrid: Starhawk is the son of ComicBook/{{Quasar}} and [[[[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Adam Warlock]] [[ComicBook/Warlock1967 Her]], making him half human, half orange-skinned [[ArtificialHuman Artificial Being]].Being]].
* HumanAliens: Aleta is an Arcturian, who look exactly like humans. The only difference is they age ''much'' slower.



* LightEmUp: Both of them, albeit in different ways.

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* LightEmUp: Both of them, albeit in different ways. Stakar can use his powers to, on occasion, heal people.


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* MsFanservice: Aleta's first outfit was a swimsuit. After the 90s, she switches to a skintight number that shows off her cleavage.


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* OlderThanTheyLook: They're both about a thousand years old.


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* LastOfHisKind: Because all the other Mercurians are dead.


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* TheNicknamer: Quickly takes up calling Charlie "Chunky".


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* RunOrDie: What she did when the Badoon invaded. Unable to fight them, and not exactly wanting to die fighting them, she grabbed a ship and ran for it into deep space.


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* SixthRanger: The last of the "classic" Guardians to join up, early in their run in ''Marvel Presents'', and the only addition to the team until the 90s.
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* DarkSkinnedRedHead: Her skin is gray and her hair is literally fire.
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* AwesomeMcCoolname: C'mon, Vance ''Astro''? (His birth name is Astrovik. ''3000'' explains he changed it a: because of his abusive dad, and b: because it sounds cooler.

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* AwesomeMcCoolname: C'mon, Vance ''Astro''? (His birth name is Astrovik. ''3000'' explains he changed it a: because of his abusive dad, and b: because it sounds cooler.)

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