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'''Mantis:''' [[TheUnsmile Smiling.]] I heard it is the thing to do to make people like you.
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Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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* AdaptationalDumbass: Due to being let of his coccoon early, Adam is much less intelligent than his comics counterpart, who could have and has had intellectual debates with Thanos.
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* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians. The fact that he helps save Quill from certain death in the climax certainly helps.
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* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds Guardians hold much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Rocket, ''including Rocket himself''. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians.team. The fact that he helps save Quill from certain death in the climax certainly helps.
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* AscendedExtra: She appears in the first ''Guardians'' movie as part of the Collector's collection, with basically no involvement to the main plot of the movie or interaction with the main characters despite barking at Rocket with her inclusion in the movie only serving as an EasterEgg for the comic fans. In the ''Holiday Special'', she now has a speaking role, reveals her telekinetic powers, interacts directly with Rocket and is mentioned by the other Guardians as a familiar. ''Vol. 3'' gives her slightly more prominence by having her involved in several scenes on Knowhere, including the big finish of the film. [[spoiler:She's also part of the new Guardians of the Galaxy team at the very end.]]
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* AscendedExtra: She appears in the first ''Guardians'' movie as part of the Collector's collection, with basically no involvement to the main plot of the movie or interaction with the main characters despite barking growling at Rocket Rocket, with her inclusion in the movie only serving as an EasterEgg for the comic fans. In the ''Holiday Special'', she now has a speaking role, reveals her telekinetic powers, interacts directly with Rocket and is mentioned by the other Guardians as a familiar. ''Vol. 3'' gives her slightly more prominence by having her involved in several scenes on Knowhere, including the big finish of the film. [[spoiler:She's also part of the new Guardians of the Galaxy team at the very end.]]
* CanineCompanion: For the Guardians as a whole, but especially towards Kraglin. The two of them are often paired together during missions, and despite their rivalry, are good teammates who care about each other deeply.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the first film, Cosmo was much larger and had a large space helmet over her head, along with a simplistic dog spacesuit. She's much smaller in the ''Holiday Special'' and ''Vol. 3'', and her suit has built in TranslatorMicrobes on it.
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* EarlyInstallmentCharacterDesignDifference: In the first film, Cosmo was much larger and had a large space helmet over her head, along with a simplistic dog spacesuit. She's much significantly smaller in the ''Holiday Special'' and ''Vol. 3'', and her suit has built in TranslatorMicrobes on it.
* InexplicablyAwesome: Cosmo is a Russian dog who was shot into space in TheSixties, communicates verbally with others through a translator built into her space suit, and somehow gained telekinetic powers over the course of her life. Not much else about her past is explained, but that simply makes her cooler.
* LongLived: She was sent out into space by the Soviet Union in 1966, and yet she's still a perfectly healthy dog in the mid-2020s.
* LongLived: She was sent out into space by the Soviet Union in 1966, and yet she's still a perfectly healthy dog in the mid-2020s.
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* DumbMuscle: Adam is shown to not be bright at all, having the intelligence and acumen of a 6-year-old, forgoeing strategy in favor of [[LeeroyJenkins charging the enemy blindly]], and [[PowerIncontinence being unable to control his powers effectively]]. Justified, as the High Evolutionary pulled him out of incubation early, which resulted in his stunted mental growth. [[spoiler:In the mid-credits scene he’s discussing Earth music with his fellow new Guardians, and he seems to have quite sophisticated taste, suggesting he’s growing into the much cleverer original version of the character.]]
* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians.
* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians.
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* DumbMuscle: Adam is shown to not be bright at all, having the intelligence and acumen of a 6-year-old, forgoeing forgoing strategy in favor of [[LeeroyJenkins charging the enemy blindly]], and [[PowerIncontinence being unable to control his powers effectively]]. Justified, as the High Evolutionary pulled him out of incubation early, which resulted in his stunted mental growth. [[spoiler:In the mid-credits scene he’s discussing Earth music with his fellow new Guardians, and he seems to have quite sophisticated taste, suggesting he’s growing into the much cleverer original version of the character.]]
* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians. The fact that he helps save Quill from certain death in the climax certainly helps.
* EasilyForgiven: None of the Guardians, including Rocket himself, holds much of a grudge against him for nearly killing Rocket. Justified as "tried to kill us, but instead became our friend" is par for the course when it comes to the Guardians. The fact that he helps save Quill from certain death in the climax certainly helps.
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* KindHeartedCatLover: He adopts the pet of a Ravager he killed. It's his first step to becoming a kinder and more empathetic person.
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* CutenessProximity: She gets very giddy when meeting Rocket for the first time, thinking he's a "puppy". She keeps it up through the whole film.
-->''[Gleefully]'' The crappy puppy makes me want to die!
-->''[Gleefully]'' The crappy puppy makes me want to die!
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* AllWebbedUp: When Mantis encounters Peter Parker in ''Infinity War'', he mistakes her for [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong a hostile alien trying to lay eggs in his body]] so he covers her with webbings to immobilize her.
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* BackingAwaySlowly: After accidentally stabbing Drax with the Yaka Arrow while practicing in TheStinger of ''Vol. 2'', Kraglin walks backwards a few steps before running away.
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* BigYes: This is how he greets the arrival of the Ravager fleets at Yondu's funeral at the end of ''Vol. 2''.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During Kraglin's attempt to master Yondu's Yaka Arrow, he accidentally commands it to impale an unsuspecting Drax. As Drax continues to scream in agony, Kraglin awkwardly backs away before making a run for it.
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These are tropes about what the characters do and say, so they are character tropes. There are plenty of character folders in this site who have these tropes or similar ones.
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* BackingAwaySlowly: After accidentally stabbing Drax with the Yaka Arrow while practicing in TheStinger of ''Vol. 2'', Kraglin walks backwards a few steps before running away.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During Kraglin's attempt to master Yondu's Yaka Arrow, he accidentally commands it to impale an unsuspecting Drax. As Drax continues to scream in agony, Kraglin awkwardly backs away before making a run for it.
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* AllAsiansKnowMartialArts: Mantis has a humanoid appearance, resembling an asian person, and she actively fights in martial arts moves in the ''Holiday Special'' and ''Vol. 3''.
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* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt.
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* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt. In ''Vol. 3'', Mantis often lands on her neck when falling from great heights, but always survives.
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* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
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* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever Whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
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!!!'''Species:''' Unknown
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!!!'''Species:''' UnknownStar Child
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
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* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was is a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
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* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
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* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation Mantis eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
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* TruerToTheText: Despite being based on real-life female space dog Laika, comic Cosmo was male. Gunn decided to make Cosmo female in the MCU to take the homage closer to the real-life dog.
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* AdaptationalSpeciesChange: She was a Kree in the comics, but is an entirely different humanoid species in the MCU.
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* AffablyEvil: He's hardly rude to anyone, and even felt bad about killing a ravager by accident. [[spoiler:After Groot saves him, he's even grateful enough to make a HeelFaceTurn and eventually joins the Guardians.]]
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* AffablyEvil: He's hardly rude to anyone, and even felt bad about killing a ravager Ravager by accident. [[spoiler:After Groot saves him, he's even grateful enough to make a HeelFaceTurn and eventually joins the Guardians.]]
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All Webbed Up = "Being completely wrapped in spider web." (per Laconic) Mantis was the one who got wrapped in spider web, not Spidey.
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* HowDoIShotWeb: After inheriting Yondu's Yaka Arrow (and equipping himself with a spare fin) at the end of the second movie he's trying to train himself to use it as his old captain did but is struggling, only managing to impale Drax with it.
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* HowDoIShotWeb: After inheriting Yondu's Yaka Arrow (and equipping himself with a spare fin) at the end of the second movie he's trying to train himself to use it as his old captain did but is struggling, only managing to impale Drax with it. This continues through most of ''Vol. 3''.
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* OnlySaneMan: To Yondu's Ravagers, because he is the only one who recognizes the Favoritism-for-Peter-hurts-business thing but avoids taking part in the mutiny.
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* OnlySaneMan: To Yondu's Ravagers, because he is the only one who recognizes the Favoritism-for-Peter-hurts-business thing but avoids taking part in captain's favoritism for Peter hurting the mutiny.crew's business. And then it gets even more pronounced when he's the only one who doesn't mutiny against Yondu.
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* ScrewThisImOuttaHere: During Kraglin's attempt to master Yondu's Yaka Arrow, he accidentally commands it to impale an unsuspecting Drax. As Drax continues to scream in agony, Kraglin awkwardly backs away before making a run for it.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Not the bravest soul serving under Yondu, but by ''Endgame'' he leads the Ravagers into the FinalBattle. That said, he still sucks at the Yaka Arrow even though he's been using it for a decade by this point.
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* TookALevelInBadass: Not the bravest soul serving under Yondu, but by ''Endgame'' he leads the Ravagers into the FinalBattle. That said, he still sucks at [[spoiler:And though it takes about a decade by the time of ''Vol. 3'', he's finally gotten the hang of using the Yaka Arrow even though he's been using it for a decade by this point.and can reliably fight bad guys with it]].
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* UpliftedAnimal: She's smart enough to understand and communicate in human speech (albeit with a TranslatorCollar).
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* BashSiblings: With the other Guardians of the Galaxy, [[spoiler: and a quite literal example with Quill.]]
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A dog used as a test subject by a U.S.S.R. [[UsefulNotes/TheSpaceRace space program]] who became part of the Collector's collection.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What a bunch of A-holes."''[[note]]From left to right: Yondu Udonta, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Gamora, Star-Lord, Mantis, Drax the Destroyer and Groot II. Not pictured: Groot I, Thor Odinson, Kraglin Obfonteri, Cosmo, Adam Warlock, and Phyla.[[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"What a bunch of A-holes."''[[note]]From "'' [[note]]From left to right: Yondu Udonta, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Gamora, Star-Lord, Mantis, Drax the Destroyer and Groot II. Not pictured: Groot I, Thor Odinson, Kraglin Obfonteri, Cosmo, Adam Warlock, and Phyla.[[/note]]]]
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[[caption-width-right:350:'''From left to right''': Yondu Udonta, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Gamora, Star-Lord, Mantis, Drax the Destroyer, Groot II [[note]]'''Not Pictured''': Groot I, Thor Odinson, Kraglin Obfonteri, Cosmo, Adam Warlock, Phyla]][[/note]]
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->''"What a bunch of A-holes."''
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->''[[AppropriatedAppellation "You said it yourself, bitch. We're the Guardians of the Galaxy."]]''
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!!''Blurp''
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!!!'''Species:''' F'saki
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/DeeBradleyBaker
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
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* PottyFailure: When encountering Gamora for the first time, Blurp pees on the floor of the ''Bowie'' in terror.
* TeamPet: Becomes this for the new generation of Guardians, as he's seen leaping into battle alongside them to rescue some villagers from some rampaging animals.
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* PottyFailure: When encountering Gamora for the first time, Blurp pees on the floor of the ''Bowie'' in terror.
* TeamPet: Becomes this for the new generation of Guardians, as he's seen leaping into battle alongside them to rescue some villagers from some rampaging animals.
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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''Guardians of the Galaxy''' > [[Characters/MCUPeterQuill Peter Quill]] | [[Characters/MCUGamora Gamora]] | [[Characters/MCURocketRaccoon Rocket Raccoon]] | [[Characters/MCUGroot Groot]] | [[Characters/MCUDrax Drax]] | [[Characters/MCUYonduUdonta Yondu Udonta]] | [[Characters/MCUMantis Mantis]] | [[Characters/MCUNebula Nebula]]-]]]
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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > '''Guardians of the Galaxy''' > [[Characters/MCUPeterQuill Peter Quill]] | [[Characters/MCUGamora Gamora]] | [[Characters/MCURocketRaccoon Rocket Raccoon]] | [[Characters/MCUGroot Groot]] | [[Characters/MCUDrax Drax]] | [[Characters/MCUYonduUdonta Yondu Udonta]] | [[Characters/MCUMantis Mantis]] | [[Characters/MCUNebula Nebula]]-]]]
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!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
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!!''[[Characters/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyModern Mantis]]''
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'''Drax:''' What are you
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* ActionGirl: Although Mantis is not a battle-hardened warrior like Gamora and Nebula, she has the will and courage to use her powers to subdue opponents that are much tougher than she is. She completely embraces this trope in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', which has her rushing into battle with a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword in her hand and the other Guardians by her side. By the time of the ''Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special'', she's capable of kicking ass by subduing numerous police officers with martial arts and her powers.
* AdaptationDistillation: She has the more alien characteristics of her modern incarnation, but also has a more humanoid appearance and Asian skin tone like her original form from the 1970s.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Mantis's original version, exposed to many more and much more varied experiences since childhood, was considerably forthright and proactive, and quite forward with her lovers and romantic interests. By contrast, the MCU Mantis grew up in total isolation under Ego's control, therefore her character grew up into a completely different kind of person.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her outfit resembles her classic [=1970s=] costume from the comics, but with leggings and no NavelDeepNeckline.
* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] In the comics, Mantis is a top-tier martial artist who has successfully traded blows with the likes of Thor and Doctor Strange, whereas she does not seem to possess any combat capabilities in the movies. However, her empathic powers are still nothing to be messed with, able to temporarily put Ego the Living Planet (who's a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]]) to sleep against his will, along with keeping ''Thanos himself'' restrained for a bit while he wore the Infinity Gauntlet, which was outfitted with ''four'' of the six Infinity Stones. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', however, shows Mantis becoming more adept at fighting and wielding weapons and she can subdue police officers in under a minute as shown in the holiday special.
* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Her introduction in ''Vol. 2'' bumps the Guardians up to TwoGirlsToATeam.
* AllWebbedUp: When Mantis encounters Peter Parker in ''Infinity War'', he mistakes her for [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong a hostile alien trying to lay eggs in his body]] so he covers her with webbings to immobilize her.
* AmbiguouslyGay: When Drax mistakes her waking him up in the middle of the night for sexual interest, Mantis tells him "I don't even like the ''type'' of thing you are!". It's not clear if she's referring to his gender, his species, or some other distinction.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She's a mantis-looking alien named Mantis.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As with the rest of the heroes who got [[NoBodyLeftBehind dusted]] by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she appears alive and well again in time for the final battle in ''Endgame'' thanks to Bruce Banner using the new Infinity Gauntlet made from Stark tech.
* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an [=OrgoCorp=] guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
* BashSiblings: With the other Guardians of the Galaxy, [[spoiler: and a quite literal example with Quill.]]
* TheBeastMaster: [[spoiler: In ''Vol. 3'' she is able to tame and command three [[TentacledTerror Abilisks]].]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Exposure to Drax's honesty, friendship, and genuine selfless fatherly love for his deceased daughter ultimately cause her to reveal Ego's true intentions to the Guardians.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's the friendliest member of the Guardians, and the only one to not have any combat-based abilities, so it's easy to see her as harmless. And yet, in both ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' she very nearly brings down the nearly-invincible [[BigBad Big Bad]] using just her sleep-inducing powers. And in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', she's 100% on-board with killing Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder just after the Indigarrans had "gifted" them with the goats.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She becomes a bit more serious in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', as she is seen charging into battle alongside millions of other dusted heroes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She rivals Drax for being the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nuttiest]] and [[PluckyComicRelief most comedic]] of the Guardians. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of scenes together, including Mantis's [[TheUnSmile bizarre attempt at a friendly smile]] and Drax's equally bizarre attempt at a practical joke (tricking her into petting Rocket, knowing he'd bite her for it) at her expense, that show them becoming quite fond of each other in spite of their mutual quirks.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[{{Subverted}} Avoided, for a change]] (her sclera, iris, and pupil are all as black as the cosmos, but she is indeed a heroine).
* BodyHorror: During the ambush on Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Thanos uses the Reality Stone to turn Mantis into a spool of fleshy ribbon. Her eye is still blinking as the ribbons land on the floor, showing that she's still conscious and aware of this happening.
* BridalCarry: Drax carries an unconscious Mantis to safety this way during the climatic battle of ''Vol. 2''.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Vol. 3'', Mantis choses to leave the Guardians to find her own path in life that isn't dictated by Ego or the titular group. Though she loves her FoundFamily dearly, Mantis understands that being connected to the Guardians forever won't help her truly discover herself, and even rejects Drax's offer to accompany her for that reason.]]
* ButtMonkey: The poor girl. She learns from Drax that she is 'hideous', a 'pet', 'horrifying to look at', and is tricked by him into getting bitten by Rocket ''as a joke''! And she also gets hit with a flying bit of space rubble in a moment that is most definitely PlayedForLaughs. This exchange with Drax remains unforgettable:
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[referring to fireworks]'' It's beautiful.\\
'''Drax:''' Yes. And so are you... on the inside.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: ImpliedTrope. Ordinarily, Ego [[OffingTheOffspring kills any of his children]] who do not inherit his Celestial genes. However, Mantis can put him in a trance to help him sleep, which is a big relief to an otherwise immortal, restless entity. Considering that [[spoiler: she's ''also'' one of his countless children]], Ego's treatment of her is a ''very'' small mercy.
* CharmPerson: She can use her empath abilities to manipulate others into doing as she wishes. While not making them mindless zombies, she can cause them to believe she's their best friend and the like.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to put Ego to sleep is critical in taking him down. It was also a critical part in the almost-successful plan to pry the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos's hand.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even by the main characters' standards, though it's justified as she is an alien with no social skills to interact with people.
* TheCutie: Is easily the cutest and most innocent of all the Guardians next to Baby Groot.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals she's Ego's daughter. She's afraid to tell Peter this, because she fears he'll associate her with Ego, but at the end, it turns out he's ecstatic to have her as a sister.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' puts her and Drax at the forefront, with the pair going on a quest to give Peter the best Christmas ever. It greatly expands upon Mantis as a character, especially with the revelation that [[spoiler:she's Peter's half-sister]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: Ego took Mantis in as his "adopted daughter" (or rather, his pet) [[note]] which is especially cruel since [[spoiler: she ''is'' in fact his biological daughter and not just his ward]] [[/note]], as a means to escape his boredom via her ability to induce sleep. Mantis eventually turns on him and uses her powers to take him out of action at a crucial moment, contributing to his death.
* DirtyMindReading: In ''Vol. 2'', she reads Peter's emotions and proceeds to [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat blurt out how he has "sexual feelings" for Gamora]]... while Gamora is sitting right next to him.
* TheDragon: She's the only person working for Ego, even though she doesn't like what he's doing.
* TheEmpath: Her main abilities are empathy-based. When she touches someone, she can know precisely what they are feeling at the moment, down to pinning down which one someone is in love with, as well as make herself share the same sentiment. This is demonstrated when Mantis touches Quills, figures out he's attracted to Gamora, and then touches Drax and gets to laugh alongside him at Quill's embarrassment. Moreover, she can force a state of mind into whoever she's in contact too, which includes putting them to sleep, making them fall in love, or giving them an irrepressible will to dance, even in the middle of a shootout.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Though she does briefly point and laugh at them, even Mantis can't stand the obnoxious screaming of Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher, and offers to help Nebula kill them just to shut them up.
** She also chides Drax for flipping a police car over, stating that he almost killed the officers inside.
* ForcedSleep: Has the ability to empathically render people unconscious.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one, but Mantis' empath abilities are powerful enough to make [[EldritchAbomination Ego]] fall asleep, even when he's enraged and at full power. Peter Quill is also able to go toe-to-toe with Ego when he unlocks his half-celestial powers. [[spoiler: Mantis, like Quill, is one of Ego's children, as she reveals in Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial, and thus the two are half-siblings]].
* FriendlessBackground: WordOfGod states that Mantis has been very lonely for a long time when she meets the Guardians, having only really ever known Ego, [[spoiler:her father]].[[invoked]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: She has a few of them across the movies, most notably [[http://64.media.tumblr.com/98066ae65f04e9c7e3e3d0fb3a7fd399/36b3904ab73720e3-99/s500x750/d270c85db62aa9d71f1b463545870710f3be544c.gifv jumping around]] in Titan's low gravity when Tony and Quill are discussing battle plans in ''Infinity War''.
* GlassCannon: Mantis's empathic powers can temporarily incapacitate beings of incredible power, but sometimes her durability has not been enough, as she was knocked unconscious by one hit from Thanos.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Averted, diverging from [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Mantismadona.jpg her counterpart in the comics]]. Here, she retains Creator/PomKlementieff's natural skin color, to [[JustifiedTrope aesthetically differentiates her from Gamora and Drax]].
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: When she uses her Empath Touch on Drax, she feels his grief over the deaths of his wife and daughter, and starts weeping uncontrollably. Drax, on the other hand, has a beatific look on his face, either because he doesn't know how to emote due to his nature, or he's learned to live with it.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Being able to sense emotions through skin contact, and being able to put beings to sleep by touching them, doesn't sound that impressive. Right up until she ''forces an entire living planet to sleep,'' '''against''' his will, so that the Guardians have a chance of killing him.
-->'''Drax:''' I never thought she'd be able to do it with as weak and skinny as she appears to be.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it is demonstrated a second time how awesome Mantis is when she completely stuns Thanos, who at this point wields the Infinity Gauntlet fitted with the Power, Soul, Reality, and Space Stones. Thanos might have been defeated right then and there if not for a TragicMistake, though that's assuming he didn't recover the Infinity Gauntlet anyway.
* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, Drax repeatedly describes her as being "hideous" and "repulsive", but to humans, she looks like a pretty human woman with jet-black eyes and cute little antennae on her forehead. Played with in that the only one of the Guardians who thinks she's ugly is ''Drax'', who is the group's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (and Gamorra matter-of-factly tells Mantis that she isn't ugly), so it might just be his own strange sense of aesthetics that is in play. The overly large eyes are a little unsettling, for sure.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She's the only member of the Guardians of the Galaxy not to be introduced until the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 second film]], yet she's just as iconic as the others.
* TheIngenue: She's the most innocent member on the team by far.
* InNameOnly: Steve Englehart, the creator of comics Mantis, expressed disappointment in the character due to how heavily she was altered to the point of having little in common aside from her name.
* InsectoidAliens: Despite her rather human-like appearance, she does mention that she was found as a larva by Ego. When Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange [[LetsYouAndHimFight tussle with the Guardians]] in ''Infinity War,'' Spider-Man freaks out at the sight of her, [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong begging her not to lay her eggs inside him]].
* KungFuWizard: By the Holiday Special she's learned martial arts, which combined with her mind control abilities form a ([[NiceGirl potentially]]) lethal combination.
* TheLoad: Turns into one after getting hit by debris in the FinalBattle. It's for Drax to carry her out of danger.
* LongLived: [[spoiler:Implied to have a longer lifespan than humans in ''Vol. 3'', when she's shocked to find out people on Earth sometimes die at 50.]]
* LoveInformant: Mantis cheerfully and obliviously reveals to the Guardians that Peter is sexually attracted to Gamora. Mind you, this probably wasn't really news to any of them by this point.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals that Mantis is one of Ego's children, making her and Quill half-siblings. She didn't tell him about it until the end of the special.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: When Peter Parker asks Drax and Mantis what it is they do in ''Infinity War'', Mantis proudly proclaims "Kick names, take ass!", much to Tony Stark's dismay.
* MoralityPet: Subverted. She tries to be this to Ego, but he is beyond such concerns. He sees her as his personal alarm clock, there to put him to sleep so he can catch some shut-eye from his boredom.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Poor [[SixthRanger Mantis]] gets this treatment when Rocket is listing off the people he lost in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
-->'''Rocket:''' I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone.
* MyGreatestFailure: She is torn by guilt and remorse at seeing Ego murdering his children and being unable to do anything to really help them, and she tries many times to warn the Guardians. It's especially heart-wrenching for her since [[spoiler: she, like Quill, is also one of Ego's children and thus his victims are her half-siblings]], all while she was kept alive for Ego's amusement & use.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: She uses her powers on Peter at one point and picks up on his UnresolvedSexualTension with Gamora, a sentiment she happily vocalizes, [[NotSoStoic much to Drax's amusement.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: When people begin to disintegrate due to Thanos's fingersnap at the end of ''Infinity War'', TheEmpath Mantis feels it and utters, "Something... is happening..." before she disintegrates.
* NeckLift: After discovering the corpses of Ego's children in a cavern, Gamora goes to see Mantis and furiously lifts her up by the neck to question her about what's going on.
* NightmareFetishist: When hearing that Rocket has blasters and knives available should Quill and Thor fight it out for the leadership of the Guardians, Mantis reacts with a gleeful and more than a bit unnerving, "Yes, please! Use knives!" stretching out each syllable in delight.
* NiceGirl: Socially awkward though she may be, Mantis is, at heart, a good person who treats the Guardians with kindness. Even though Drax directly calls her ugly, she even still forgives him because of his reassuring kindness about her appearance. Her basic decency is a big part of why she turns on Ego.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.
* NoSocialSkills: Her limited exposure to people has made her unable to pick up on social cues, and the Guardians help her learn to communicate better with them.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Drax in ''Vol. 2''. They spend most of their screen time together and form a bond with each other. It's even because of Drax that Mantis starts trying to warn the Guardians about Ego's true nature. However, they make clear they aren't interested in each other in any way that can be considered romantic, with Drax even being disgusted by the thought of it. ''The Holiday Special'' has them hanging out together in their attempt to kidnap Kevin Bacon for Peter's gift.
* OnlyOneName: She goes by a single name without any other identifiers.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The ''Holiday Special'' has Drax not letting her live down that she once ate a large supply of zarg-nuts. In ''Vol. 3'', it's briefly implied that he still hasn't let it go.
-->'''Mantis:''' GET OVER THE ZARGNUTS!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs. Though she'd shown a bloodthirsty quirk in ''Endgame'', ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows the sweet, still relatively innocent Mantis pushed to her limits after mere minutes of enduring Thor's new pet goats. The screaming is so bad that she is right behind Nebula when she tries to put them down.
* PercussivePrevention: On Knowhere, Mantis puts Drax to sleep before the latter can execute his silly plan to attack Thanos.
* PerpetualSmiler: Mantis constantly wears an [[ThePollyanna adorably happy]] grin when talking to people, even when the people in question are insulting her right to her face.
* ThePollyanna: Best summed up in this line from ''Vol. 2'':
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[to Gamora, in reference to a conversation she just finished with Drax]'' I'm learning many things, like how I'm a pet and ugly! ''[Big goofy ":D" smile]''
* PowerGlows: The tips of her antennae light up whenever she's using her empathic powers.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Drax finds her physically repulsive but nonetheless strikes up a close if vitriolic friendship with her. After she joins the crew, she's shown hanging around Drax the most. [[spoiler:Most significantly, he's initially the only person who knows that she's one of Ego's biological children in ''The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special''.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:It's hard to say exactly when Mantis was born relative to Quill, or what her exact age is, since aliens tend to live long/age differently in this setting. But, since she ''did'' witness her father Ego kill a good number of children during her own lifetime, such amount of time is long enough to widen the age gap between her and Peter]].
* PuppyDogEyes: She's very good in looking like a kicked puppy whenever she's scared or sad.
* ThePrankster: Mantis frequently likes to use her charm abilities to play pranks on people, though Drax tends to be her favorite target. Examples include [[NoodleIncident getting him to fall in love with his sock]] and having an [=OrgoCorp=] guard fall in love with him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ''The Holiday Special'' reveals that [[spoiler:she is Ego's daughter, and Peter's half-sister]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Discussed. While Mantis does have a fleshed out personality, as she points out in Vol. 3, she is on the team not for any particular reason and she mostly does what the team wants or is doing. She leaves with the particular intent of forming her own motivations and character.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's the only member of the ''Vol. 2'' team who doesn't appear on its teaser poster, which makes sense given that she's a new character. She does appear in the first trailer, though, as well as the main poster.
* TheSixthRanger: She's one of the new team members in ''Vol. 2'', but is the only outright new character joining them, not having appeared in the first film.
* SlayingMantis: She attempts to pose like one after the abrupt awakening she gave to an unconscious Thor startled her and the other Guardians.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In ''Infinity War'' she's the only girl on Iron Man's team consisting of Iron Man himself, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Drax. At least until Nebula shows up to help.
* SuperStrength: While she greatly dislikes getting her hands dirty, she's at least as strong as a super soldier, as she is capable of easily kicking a fully-grown man in armor across a room.
* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Guardians of the Galaxy aren't ''evil'' per se, but they all have sketchy criminal backgrounds with shades of anti-heroism with her standing out as the exception. However, during the ''Holiday Special'', Mantis stole a woman's map and money using her mind control powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her resurrection in ''Endgame'', Mantis bravely joins the other heroes in charging Thanos's army head-on. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' also has her becoming more active in fighting alongside the other Guardians of the Galaxy. By the Holiday Special, she's gained martial arts skills on a par with most MCU BadassNormal heroes, enough to have her own fight scene!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed. She's still an overall nice girl, but hanging out with the Guardians has given the soft-spoken Mantis an abrasive edge. The Christmas Special and Vol. 3 in particular has her engaging in insult matches and ball busting she probably wouldn't have jumped into earlier on, and she's much louder and crass whenever she talks.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Mantis officially joins the Guardians at the end of the second film. Though with Nebula's addition it gets pushed to three girls. [[spoiler:And back down to two after Gamora's death.]]
* TheUnSmile: By way of introduction, her first attempts at a 'smile' creeps even ''Drax'' out.
* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drax. Thanks to Drax being... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} well]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive Drax]], they snipe at each other a lot. That doesn't stop them from hanging around each other often.
* WhosOnFirst: When Thor says that Thanos is going to Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Mantis replies that he must be going somewhere.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: As she spends more time with the Guardians, Mantis begins to use her abilities for cheap pranks and minor conveniences that she never took advantage of before. She ends up charming a woman to give her bus tickets and all her money in the ''Holiday Special'', and later uses them on Kevin Bacon to take away his fear of them.
* WomanChild: Due to having spent her life on Ego, she comes across as very childlike in her interactions with other beings, and she literally knows nothing of the outside world -- it's both endearing, heartbreaking... and, at times, hilarious.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Mantis uses a Poison Rana/Inverted Frankensteiner in ''Vol. 3'' to takedown a mook.
* {{Xenafication}}: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Mantis embracing more of the warrior life, wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while charging into battle with the other Guardians of the Galaxy.
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Mantis ''herself'' is one of Ego's offspring who failed to carry the Celestial gene, and the only one he decided to spare because she had the means to treat his insomnia]].
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[[folder:Kraglin Obfonteri]]
!!''Kraglin Obfonteri''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_kraglin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Welcome home, Peter."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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* ActionGirl: Although Mantis is not a battle-hardened warrior like Gamora and Nebula, she has the will and courage to use her powers to subdue opponents that are much tougher than she is. She completely embraces this trope in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', which has her rushing into battle with a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword in her hand and the other Guardians by her side. By the time of the ''Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special'', she's capable of kicking ass by subduing numerous police officers with martial arts and her powers.
* AdaptationDistillation: She has the more alien characteristics of her modern incarnation, but also has a more humanoid appearance and Asian skin tone like her original form from the 1970s.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Mantis's original version, exposed to many more and much more varied experiences since childhood, was considerably forthright and proactive, and quite forward with her lovers and romantic interests. By contrast, the MCU Mantis grew up in total isolation under Ego's control, therefore her character grew up into a completely different kind of person.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her outfit resembles her classic [=1970s=] costume from the comics, but with leggings and no NavelDeepNeckline.
* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] In the comics, Mantis is a top-tier martial artist who has successfully traded blows with the likes of Thor and Doctor Strange, whereas she does not seem to possess any combat capabilities in the movies. However, her empathic powers are still nothing to be messed with, able to temporarily put Ego the Living Planet (who's a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]]) to sleep against his will, along with keeping ''Thanos himself'' restrained for a bit while he wore the Infinity Gauntlet, which was outfitted with ''four'' of the six Infinity Stones. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', however, shows Mantis becoming more adept at fighting and wielding weapons and she can subdue police officers in under a minute as shown in the holiday special.
* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Her introduction in ''Vol. 2'' bumps the Guardians up to TwoGirlsToATeam.
* AllWebbedUp: When Mantis encounters Peter Parker in ''Infinity War'', he mistakes her for [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong a hostile alien trying to lay eggs in his body]] so he covers her with webbings to immobilize her.
* AmbiguouslyGay: When Drax mistakes her waking him up in the middle of the night for sexual interest, Mantis tells him "I don't even like the ''type'' of thing you are!". It's not clear if she's referring to his gender, his species, or some other distinction.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She's a mantis-looking alien named Mantis.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As with the rest of the heroes who got [[NoBodyLeftBehind dusted]] by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she appears alive and well again in time for the final battle in ''Endgame'' thanks to Bruce Banner using the new Infinity Gauntlet made from Stark tech.
* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an [=OrgoCorp=] guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
* BashSiblings: With the other Guardians of the Galaxy, [[spoiler: and a quite literal example with Quill.]]
* TheBeastMaster: [[spoiler: In ''Vol. 3'' she is able to tame and command three [[TentacledTerror Abilisks]].]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Exposure to Drax's honesty, friendship, and genuine selfless fatherly love for his deceased daughter ultimately cause her to reveal Ego's true intentions to the Guardians.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's the friendliest member of the Guardians, and the only one to not have any combat-based abilities, so it's easy to see her as harmless. And yet, in both ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' she very nearly brings down the nearly-invincible [[BigBad Big Bad]] using just her sleep-inducing powers. And in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', she's 100% on-board with killing Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder just after the Indigarrans had "gifted" them with the goats.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She becomes a bit more serious in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', as she is seen charging into battle alongside millions of other dusted heroes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She rivals Drax for being the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nuttiest]] and [[PluckyComicRelief most comedic]] of the Guardians. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of scenes together, including Mantis's [[TheUnSmile bizarre attempt at a friendly smile]] and Drax's equally bizarre attempt at a practical joke (tricking her into petting Rocket, knowing he'd bite her for it) at her expense, that show them becoming quite fond of each other in spite of their mutual quirks.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[{{Subverted}} Avoided, for a change]] (her sclera, iris, and pupil are all as black as the cosmos, but she is indeed a heroine).
* BodyHorror: During the ambush on Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Thanos uses the Reality Stone to turn Mantis into a spool of fleshy ribbon. Her eye is still blinking as the ribbons land on the floor, showing that she's still conscious and aware of this happening.
* BridalCarry: Drax carries an unconscious Mantis to safety this way during the climatic battle of ''Vol. 2''.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Vol. 3'', Mantis choses to leave the Guardians to find her own path in life that isn't dictated by Ego or the titular group. Though she loves her FoundFamily dearly, Mantis understands that being connected to the Guardians forever won't help her truly discover herself, and even rejects Drax's offer to accompany her for that reason.]]
* ButtMonkey: The poor girl. She learns from Drax that she is 'hideous', a 'pet', 'horrifying to look at', and is tricked by him into getting bitten by Rocket ''as a joke''! And she also gets hit with a flying bit of space rubble in a moment that is most definitely PlayedForLaughs. This exchange with Drax remains unforgettable:
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[referring to fireworks]'' It's beautiful.\\
'''Drax:''' Yes. And so are you... on the inside.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: ImpliedTrope. Ordinarily, Ego [[OffingTheOffspring kills any of his children]] who do not inherit his Celestial genes. However, Mantis can put him in a trance to help him sleep, which is a big relief to an otherwise immortal, restless entity. Considering that [[spoiler: she's ''also'' one of his countless children]], Ego's treatment of her is a ''very'' small mercy.
* CharmPerson: She can use her empath abilities to manipulate others into doing as she wishes. While not making them mindless zombies, she can cause them to believe she's their best friend and the like.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to put Ego to sleep is critical in taking him down. It was also a critical part in the almost-successful plan to pry the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos's hand.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even by the main characters' standards, though it's justified as she is an alien with no social skills to interact with people.
* TheCutie: Is easily the cutest and most innocent of all the Guardians next to Baby Groot.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals she's Ego's daughter. She's afraid to tell Peter this, because she fears he'll associate her with Ego, but at the end, it turns out he's ecstatic to have her as a sister.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' puts her and Drax at the forefront, with the pair going on a quest to give Peter the best Christmas ever. It greatly expands upon Mantis as a character, especially with the revelation that [[spoiler:she's Peter's half-sister]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: Ego took Mantis in as his "adopted daughter" (or rather, his pet) [[note]] which is especially cruel since [[spoiler: she ''is'' in fact his biological daughter and not just his ward]] [[/note]], as a means to escape his boredom via her ability to induce sleep. Mantis eventually turns on him and uses her powers to take him out of action at a crucial moment, contributing to his death.
* DirtyMindReading: In ''Vol. 2'', she reads Peter's emotions and proceeds to [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat blurt out how he has "sexual feelings" for Gamora]]... while Gamora is sitting right next to him.
* TheDragon: She's the only person working for Ego, even though she doesn't like what he's doing.
* TheEmpath: Her main abilities are empathy-based. When she touches someone, she can know precisely what they are feeling at the moment, down to pinning down which one someone is in love with, as well as make herself share the same sentiment. This is demonstrated when Mantis touches Quills, figures out he's attracted to Gamora, and then touches Drax and gets to laugh alongside him at Quill's embarrassment. Moreover, she can force a state of mind into whoever she's in contact too, which includes putting them to sleep, making them fall in love, or giving them an irrepressible will to dance, even in the middle of a shootout.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Though she does briefly point and laugh at them, even Mantis can't stand the obnoxious screaming of Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher, and offers to help Nebula kill them just to shut them up.
** She also chides Drax for flipping a police car over, stating that he almost killed the officers inside.
* ForcedSleep: Has the ability to empathically render people unconscious.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one, but Mantis' empath abilities are powerful enough to make [[EldritchAbomination Ego]] fall asleep, even when he's enraged and at full power. Peter Quill is also able to go toe-to-toe with Ego when he unlocks his half-celestial powers. [[spoiler: Mantis, like Quill, is one of Ego's children, as she reveals in Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial, and thus the two are half-siblings]].
* FriendlessBackground: WordOfGod states that Mantis has been very lonely for a long time when she meets the Guardians, having only really ever known Ego, [[spoiler:her father]].[[invoked]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: She has a few of them across the movies, most notably [[http://64.media.tumblr.com/98066ae65f04e9c7e3e3d0fb3a7fd399/36b3904ab73720e3-99/s500x750/d270c85db62aa9d71f1b463545870710f3be544c.gifv jumping around]] in Titan's low gravity when Tony and Quill are discussing battle plans in ''Infinity War''.
* GlassCannon: Mantis's empathic powers can temporarily incapacitate beings of incredible power, but sometimes her durability has not been enough, as she was knocked unconscious by one hit from Thanos.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Averted, diverging from [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Mantismadona.jpg her counterpart in the comics]]. Here, she retains Creator/PomKlementieff's natural skin color, to [[JustifiedTrope aesthetically differentiates her from Gamora and Drax]].
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: When she uses her Empath Touch on Drax, she feels his grief over the deaths of his wife and daughter, and starts weeping uncontrollably. Drax, on the other hand, has a beatific look on his face, either because he doesn't know how to emote due to his nature, or he's learned to live with it.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Being able to sense emotions through skin contact, and being able to put beings to sleep by touching them, doesn't sound that impressive. Right up until she ''forces an entire living planet to sleep,'' '''against''' his will, so that the Guardians have a chance of killing him.
-->'''Drax:''' I never thought she'd be able to do it with as weak and skinny as she appears to be.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it is demonstrated a second time how awesome Mantis is when she completely stuns Thanos, who at this point wields the Infinity Gauntlet fitted with the Power, Soul, Reality, and Space Stones. Thanos might have been defeated right then and there if not for a TragicMistake, though that's assuming he didn't recover the Infinity Gauntlet anyway.
* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, Drax repeatedly describes her as being "hideous" and "repulsive", but to humans, she looks like a pretty human woman with jet-black eyes and cute little antennae on her forehead. Played with in that the only one of the Guardians who thinks she's ugly is ''Drax'', who is the group's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (and Gamorra matter-of-factly tells Mantis that she isn't ugly), so it might just be his own strange sense of aesthetics that is in play. The overly large eyes are a little unsettling, for sure.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She's the only member of the Guardians of the Galaxy not to be introduced until the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 second film]], yet she's just as iconic as the others.
* TheIngenue: She's the most innocent member on the team by far.
* InNameOnly: Steve Englehart, the creator of comics Mantis, expressed disappointment in the character due to how heavily she was altered to the point of having little in common aside from her name.
* InsectoidAliens: Despite her rather human-like appearance, she does mention that she was found as a larva by Ego. When Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange [[LetsYouAndHimFight tussle with the Guardians]] in ''Infinity War,'' Spider-Man freaks out at the sight of her, [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong begging her not to lay her eggs inside him]].
* KungFuWizard: By the Holiday Special she's learned martial arts, which combined with her mind control abilities form a ([[NiceGirl potentially]]) lethal combination.
* TheLoad: Turns into one after getting hit by debris in the FinalBattle. It's for Drax to carry her out of danger.
* LongLived: [[spoiler:Implied to have a longer lifespan than humans in ''Vol. 3'', when she's shocked to find out people on Earth sometimes die at 50.]]
* LoveInformant: Mantis cheerfully and obliviously reveals to the Guardians that Peter is sexually attracted to Gamora. Mind you, this probably wasn't really news to any of them by this point.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals that Mantis is one of Ego's children, making her and Quill half-siblings. She didn't tell him about it until the end of the special.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: When Peter Parker asks Drax and Mantis what it is they do in ''Infinity War'', Mantis proudly proclaims "Kick names, take ass!", much to Tony Stark's dismay.
* MoralityPet: Subverted. She tries to be this to Ego, but he is beyond such concerns. He sees her as his personal alarm clock, there to put him to sleep so he can catch some shut-eye from his boredom.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Poor [[SixthRanger Mantis]] gets this treatment when Rocket is listing off the people he lost in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
-->'''Rocket:''' I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone.
* MyGreatestFailure: She is torn by guilt and remorse at seeing Ego murdering his children and being unable to do anything to really help them, and she tries many times to warn the Guardians. It's especially heart-wrenching for her since [[spoiler: she, like Quill, is also one of Ego's children and thus his victims are her half-siblings]], all while she was kept alive for Ego's amusement & use.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: She uses her powers on Peter at one point and picks up on his UnresolvedSexualTension with Gamora, a sentiment she happily vocalizes, [[NotSoStoic much to Drax's amusement.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: When people begin to disintegrate due to Thanos's fingersnap at the end of ''Infinity War'', TheEmpath Mantis feels it and utters, "Something... is happening..." before she disintegrates.
* NeckLift: After discovering the corpses of Ego's children in a cavern, Gamora goes to see Mantis and furiously lifts her up by the neck to question her about what's going on.
* NightmareFetishist: When hearing that Rocket has blasters and knives available should Quill and Thor fight it out for the leadership of the Guardians, Mantis reacts with a gleeful and more than a bit unnerving, "Yes, please! Use knives!" stretching out each syllable in delight.
* NiceGirl: Socially awkward though she may be, Mantis is, at heart, a good person who treats the Guardians with kindness. Even though Drax directly calls her ugly, she even still forgives him because of his reassuring kindness about her appearance. Her basic decency is a big part of why she turns on Ego.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.
* NoSocialSkills: Her limited exposure to people has made her unable to pick up on social cues, and the Guardians help her learn to communicate better with them.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Drax in ''Vol. 2''. They spend most of their screen time together and form a bond with each other. It's even because of Drax that Mantis starts trying to warn the Guardians about Ego's true nature. However, they make clear they aren't interested in each other in any way that can be considered romantic, with Drax even being disgusted by the thought of it. ''The Holiday Special'' has them hanging out together in their attempt to kidnap Kevin Bacon for Peter's gift.
* OnlyOneName: She goes by a single name without any other identifiers.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The ''Holiday Special'' has Drax not letting her live down that she once ate a large supply of zarg-nuts. In ''Vol. 3'', it's briefly implied that he still hasn't let it go.
-->'''Mantis:''' GET OVER THE ZARGNUTS!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs. Though she'd shown a bloodthirsty quirk in ''Endgame'', ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows the sweet, still relatively innocent Mantis pushed to her limits after mere minutes of enduring Thor's new pet goats. The screaming is so bad that she is right behind Nebula when she tries to put them down.
* PercussivePrevention: On Knowhere, Mantis puts Drax to sleep before the latter can execute his silly plan to attack Thanos.
* PerpetualSmiler: Mantis constantly wears an [[ThePollyanna adorably happy]] grin when talking to people, even when the people in question are insulting her right to her face.
* ThePollyanna: Best summed up in this line from ''Vol. 2'':
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[to Gamora, in reference to a conversation she just finished with Drax]'' I'm learning many things, like how I'm a pet and ugly! ''[Big goofy ":D" smile]''
* PowerGlows: The tips of her antennae light up whenever she's using her empathic powers.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Drax finds her physically repulsive but nonetheless strikes up a close if vitriolic friendship with her. After she joins the crew, she's shown hanging around Drax the most. [[spoiler:Most significantly, he's initially the only person who knows that she's one of Ego's biological children in ''The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special''.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:It's hard to say exactly when Mantis was born relative to Quill, or what her exact age is, since aliens tend to live long/age differently in this setting. But, since she ''did'' witness her father Ego kill a good number of children during her own lifetime, such amount of time is long enough to widen the age gap between her and Peter]].
* PuppyDogEyes: She's very good in looking like a kicked puppy whenever she's scared or sad.
* ThePrankster: Mantis frequently likes to use her charm abilities to play pranks on people, though Drax tends to be her favorite target. Examples include [[NoodleIncident getting him to fall in love with his sock]] and having an [=OrgoCorp=] guard fall in love with him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ''The Holiday Special'' reveals that [[spoiler:she is Ego's daughter, and Peter's half-sister]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Discussed. While Mantis does have a fleshed out personality, as she points out in Vol. 3, she is on the team not for any particular reason and she mostly does what the team wants or is doing. She leaves with the particular intent of forming her own motivations and character.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's the only member of the ''Vol. 2'' team who doesn't appear on its teaser poster, which makes sense given that she's a new character. She does appear in the first trailer, though, as well as the main poster.
* TheSixthRanger: She's one of the new team members in ''Vol. 2'', but is the only outright new character joining them, not having appeared in the first film.
* SlayingMantis: She attempts to pose like one after the abrupt awakening she gave to an unconscious Thor startled her and the other Guardians.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In ''Infinity War'' she's the only girl on Iron Man's team consisting of Iron Man himself, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Drax. At least until Nebula shows up to help.
* SuperStrength: While she greatly dislikes getting her hands dirty, she's at least as strong as a super soldier, as she is capable of easily kicking a fully-grown man in armor across a room.
* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Guardians of the Galaxy aren't ''evil'' per se, but they all have sketchy criminal backgrounds with shades of anti-heroism with her standing out as the exception. However, during the ''Holiday Special'', Mantis stole a woman's map and money using her mind control powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her resurrection in ''Endgame'', Mantis bravely joins the other heroes in charging Thanos's army head-on. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' also has her becoming more active in fighting alongside the other Guardians of the Galaxy. By the Holiday Special, she's gained martial arts skills on a par with most MCU BadassNormal heroes, enough to have her own fight scene!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed. She's still an overall nice girl, but hanging out with the Guardians has given the soft-spoken Mantis an abrasive edge. The Christmas Special and Vol. 3 in particular has her engaging in insult matches and ball busting she probably wouldn't have jumped into earlier on, and she's much louder and crass whenever she talks.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Mantis officially joins the Guardians at the end of the second film. Though with Nebula's addition it gets pushed to three girls. [[spoiler:And back down to two after Gamora's death.]]
* TheUnSmile: By way of introduction, her first attempts at a 'smile' creeps even ''Drax'' out.
* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drax. Thanks to Drax being... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} well]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive Drax]], they snipe at each other a lot. That doesn't stop them from hanging around each other often.
* WhosOnFirst: When Thor says that Thanos is going to Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Mantis replies that he must be going somewhere.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: As she spends more time with the Guardians, Mantis begins to use her abilities for cheap pranks and minor conveniences that she never took advantage of before. She ends up charming a woman to give her bus tickets and all her money in the ''Holiday Special'', and later uses them on Kevin Bacon to take away his fear of them.
* WomanChild: Due to having spent her life on Ego, she comes across as very childlike in her interactions with other beings, and she literally knows nothing of the outside world -- it's both endearing, heartbreaking... and, at times, hilarious.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Mantis uses a Poison Rana/Inverted Frankensteiner in ''Vol. 3'' to takedown a mook.
* {{Xenafication}}: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Mantis embracing more of the warrior life, wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while charging into battle with the other Guardians of the Galaxy.
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Mantis ''herself'' is one of Ego's offspring who failed to carry the Celestial gene, and the only one he decided to spare because she had the means to treat his insomnia]].
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!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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!!!'''Species:''' Unknown (Half-Celestial hybrid)
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ego (formerly), Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PomKlementieff
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ErikaUgalde (Latin-American Spanish dub), Laura Pastor (European Spanish dub), Herself (French and Canadian French dubs), Sayaka Akimoto (Japanese), Luisa Palomanes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
->'''Mantis:''' I am Mantis.\\
'''Drax:''' What are you doing?\\
'''Mantis:''' [[TheUnsmile Smiling.]] I heard it is the thing to do to make people like you.
An alien woman with [[TheEmpath empathic powers]] (and servant of Ego) who joins the Guardians.
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!!!'''Species:''' Unknown (Half-Celestial hybrid)
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ego (formerly), Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/PomKlementieff
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Creator/ErikaUgalde (Latin-American Spanish dub), Laura Pastor (European Spanish dub), Herself (French and Canadian French dubs), Sayaka Akimoto (Japanese), Luisa Palomanes (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame'' | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
->'''Mantis:''' I am Mantis.\\
'''Drax:''' What are you doing?\\
'''Mantis:''' [[TheUnsmile Smiling.]] I heard it is the thing to do to make people like you.
An alien woman with [[TheEmpath empathic powers]] (and servant of Ego) who joins the Guardians.
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* AbusiveParents: [[spoiler:With the reveal that she's one of Ego's hybrid kids, his status as an abusive father extends to her, using her as a servant to help him fall asleep. Granted, compared to what he did to her half-siblings, he was practically saintly.]]
* ActionGirl: Although Mantis is not a battle-hardened warrior like Gamora and Nebula, she has the will and courage to use her powers to subdue opponents that are much tougher than she is. She completely embraces this trope in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', which has her rushing into battle with a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword in her hand and the other Guardians by her side. By the time of the ''Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special'', she's capable of kicking ass by subduing numerous police officers with martial arts and her telepathy.
* AdaptationDistillation: She has the more alien characteristics of her modern incarnation, but also has a more humanoid appearance and Asian skin tone like her original form from the 1970s.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Mantis's original version, exposed to many more and much more varied experiences since childhood, was considerably forthright and proactive, and quite forward with her lovers and romantic interests. By contrast, the MCU Mantis grew up in total isolation under Ego's control, therefore her character grew up into a completely different kind of person.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her outfit resembles her classic [=1970s=] costume from the comics, but with leggings and no NavelDeepNeckline.
* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] In the comics, Mantis is a top-tier martial artist who has successfully traded blows with the likes of Thor and Doctor Strange, whereas she does not seem to possess any combat capabilities in the movies. However, her empathic powers are still nothing to be messed with, able to temporarily put Ego the Living Planet (who's a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]]) to sleep against his will, along with keeping ''Thanos himself'' restrained for a bit while he wore the Infinity Gauntlet, which was outfitted with ''four'' of the six Infinity Stones. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', however, shows Mantis becoming more adept at fighting and wielding weapons and she can subdue police officers in under a minute as shown in the holiday special.
* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Her introduction in ''Vol. 2'' bumps the Guardians up to TwoGirlsToATeam.
* AllWebbedUp: When Mantis encounters Peter Parker in ''Infinity War'', he mistakes her for [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong a hostile alien trying to lay eggs in his body]] so he covers her with webbings to immobilize her.
* AmbiguouslyGay: When Drax mistakes her waking him up in the middle of the night for sexual interest, Mantis tells him "I don't even like the ''type'' of thing you are!". It's not clear if she's referring to his gender, his species, or some other distinction.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She's a mantis-looking alien named Mantis.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As with the rest of the heroes who got [[NoBodyLeftBehind dusted]] by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she appears alive and well again in time for the final battle in ''Endgame'' thanks to Bruce Banner using the new Infinity Gauntlet made from Stark tech.
* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an [=OrgoCorp=] guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
* BashSiblings: With the other Guardians of the Galaxy, [[spoiler: and a quite literal example with Quill.]]
* TheBeastMaster: [[spoiler: In ''Vol. 3'' she is able to tame and command three [[TentacledTerror Abilisks]].]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Exposure to Drax's honesty, friendship, and genuine selfless fatherly love for his deceased daughter ultimately cause her to reveal Ego's true intentions to the Guardians.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's the friendliest member of the Guardians, and the only one to not have any combat-based abilities, so it's easy to see her as harmless. And yet, in both ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' she very nearly brings down the nearly-invincible [[BigBad Big Bad]] using just her sleep-inducing powers. And in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', she's 100% on-board with killing Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder just after the Indigarrans had "gifted" them with the goats.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She becomes a bit more serious in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', as she is seen charging into battle alongside millions of other dusted heroes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She rivals Drax for being the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nuttiest]] and [[PluckyComicRelief most comedic]] of the Guardians. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of scenes together, including Mantis's [[TheUnSmile bizarre attempt at a friendly smile]] and Drax's equally bizarre attempt at a practical joke (tricking her into petting Rocket, knowing he'd bite her for it) at her expense, that show them becoming quite fond of each other in spite of their mutual quirks.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[{{Subverted}} Avoided, for a change]] (her sclera, iris, and pupil are all as black as the cosmos, but she is indeed a heroine).
* BodyHorror: During the ambush on Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Thanos uses the Reality Stone to turn Mantis into a spool of fleshy ribbon. Her eye is still blinking as the ribbons land on the floor, showing that she's still conscious and aware of this happening.
* BridalCarry: Drax carries an unconscious Mantis to safety this way during the climatic battle of ''Vol. 2''.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Vol. 3'', Mantis choses to leave the Guardians to find her own path in life that isn't dictated by Ego or the titular group. Though she loves her FoundFamily dearly, Mantis understands that being connected to the Guardians forever won't help her truly discover herself, and even rejects Drax's offer to accompany her for that reason.]]
* ButtMonkey: The poor girl. She learns from Drax that she is 'hideous', a 'pet', 'horrifying to look at', and is tricked by him into getting bitten by Rocket ''as a joke''! And she also gets hit with a flying bit of space rubble in a moment that is most definitely PlayedForLaughs. This exchange with Drax remains unforgettable:
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[referring to fireworks]'' It's beautiful.\\
'''Drax:''' Yes. And so are you... on the inside.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: ImpliedTrope. Ordinarily, Ego [[OffingTheOffspring kills any of his children]] who do not inherit his Celestial genes. However, Mantis can put him in a trance to help him sleep, which is a big relief to an otherwise immortal, restless entity. Considering that [[spoiler: she's ''also'' one of his countless children]], Ego's treatment of her is a ''very'' small mercy.
* CharmPerson: She can use her empath abilities to manipulate others into doing as she wishes. While not making them mindless zombies, she can cause them to believe she's their best friend and the like.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to put Ego to sleep is critical in taking him down. It was also a critical part in the almost-successful plan to pry the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos's hand.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even by the main characters' standards, though it's justified as she is an alien with no social skills to interact with people.
* TheCutie: Is easily the cutest and most innocent of all the Guardians next to Baby Groot.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals she's Ego's daughter. She's afraid to tell Peter this, because she fears he'll associate her with Ego, but at the end, it turns out he's ecstatic to have her as a sister.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' puts her and Drax at the forefront, with the pair going on a quest to give Peter the best Christmas ever. It greatly expands upon Mantis as a character, especially with the revelation that [[spoiler:she's Peter's half-sister]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: Ego took Mantis in as his "adopted daughter" (or rather, his pet) [[note]] which is especially cruel since [[spoiler: she ''is'' in fact his biological daughter and not just his ward]] [[/note]], as a means to escape his boredom via her ability to induce sleep. Mantis eventually turns on him and uses her powers to take him out of action at a crucial moment, contributing to his death.
* DirtyMindReading: In ''Vol. 2'', she reads Peter's emotions and proceeds to [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat blurt out how he has "sexual feelings" for Gamora]]... while Gamora is sitting right next to him.
* TheDragon: She's the only person working for Ego, even though she doesn't like what he's doing.
* TheEmpath: Her main abilities are empathy-based.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Though she does briefly point and laugh at them, even Mantis can't stand the obnoxious screaming of Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher, and offers to help Nebula kill them just to shut them up.
** She also chides Drax for flipping a police car over, stating that he almost killed the officers inside.
* ForcedSleep: Has the ability to telepathically render people unconscious.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one, but Mantis' empath abilities are powerful enough to make [[EldritchAbomination Ego]] fall asleep, even when he's enraged and at full power. Peter Quill is also able to go toe-to-toe with Ego when he unlocks his half-celestial powers. [[spoiler: Mantis, like Quill, is one of Ego's children, as she reveals in Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial, and thus the two are half-siblings]].
* FriendlessBackground: WordOfGod states that Mantis has been very lonely for a long time when she meets the Guardians, having only really ever known Ego, [[spoiler:her father]].[[invoked]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: She has a few of them across the movies, most notably [[http://64.media.tumblr.com/98066ae65f04e9c7e3e3d0fb3a7fd399/36b3904ab73720e3-99/s500x750/d270c85db62aa9d71f1b463545870710f3be544c.gifv jumping around]] in Titan's low gravity when Tony and Quill are discussing battle plans in ''Infinity War''.
* GlassCannon: Mantis's empathic powers can temporarily incapacitate beings of incredible power, but her physical durability is only slightly stronger than that of a human.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Averted, diverging from [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Mantismadona.jpg her counterpart in the comics]]. Here, she retains Creator/PomKlementieff's natural skin color, to [[JustifiedTrope aesthetically differentiates her from Gamora and Drax]].
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: When she uses her Empath Touch on Drax, she feels his grief over the deaths of his wife and daughter, and starts weeping uncontrollably. Drax, on the other hand, has a beatific look on his face, either because he doesn't know how to emote due to his nature, or he's learned to live with it.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Being able to sense emotions through skin contact, and being able to put beings to sleep by touching them, doesn't sound that impressive. Right up until she ''forces an entire living planet to sleep,'' '''against''' his will, so that the Guardians have a chance of killing him.
-->'''Drax:''' I never thought she'd be able to do it with as weak and skinny as she appears to be.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it is demonstrated a second time how awesome Mantis is when she completely stuns Thanos, who at this point wields the Infinity Gauntlet fitted with the Power, Soul, Reality, and Space Stones. Thanos might have been defeated right then and there if not for a TragicMistake, though that's assuming he didn't recover the Infinity Gauntlet anyway.
* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, Drax repeatedly describes her as being "hideous" and "repulsive", but to humans, she looks like a pretty human woman with jet-black eyes and cute little antennae on her forehead. Played with in that the only one of the Guardians who thinks she's ugly is ''Drax'', who is the group's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (and Gamorra matter-of-factly tells Mantis that she isn't ugly), so it might just be his own strange sense of aesthetics that is in play. The overly large eyes are a little unsettling, for sure.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She's the only member of the Guardians of the Galaxy not to be introduced until the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 second film]], yet she's just as iconic as the others.
* TheIngenue: She's the most innocent member on the team by far.
* InNameOnly: Steve Englehart, the creator of comics Mantis, expressed disappointment in the character due to how heavily she was altered to the point of having little in common aside from her name.
* InsectoidAliens: Despite her rather human-like appearance, she does mention that she was found as a larva by Ego. When Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange [[LetsYouAndHimFight tussle with the Guardians]] in ''Infinity War,'' Spider-Man freaks out at the sight of her, [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong begging her not to lay her eggs inside him]].
* KungFuWizard: By the Holiday Special she's learned martial arts, which combined with her mind control abilities form a ([[NiceGirl potentially]]) lethal combination.
* TheLoad: Turns into one after getting hit by debris in the FinalBattle. It's for Drax to carry her out of danger.
* LongLived: [[spoiler:Implied to have a longer lifespan than humans in ''Vol. 3'', when she's shocked to find out people on Earth sometimes die at 50.]]
* LoveInformant: Mantis cheerfully and obliviously reveals to the Guardians that Peter is sexually attracted to Gamora. Mind you, this probably wasn't really news to any of them by this point.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals that Mantis is one of Ego's children, making her and Quill half-siblings. She didn't tell him about it until the end of the special.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: When Peter Parker asks Drax and Mantis what it is they do in ''Infinity War'', Mantis proudly proclaims "Kick names, take ass!", much to Tony Stark's dismay.
* MoralityPet: Subverted. She tries to be this to Ego, but he is beyond such concerns. He sees her as his personal alarm clock, there to put him to sleep so he can catch some shut-eye from his boredom.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Poor [[SixthRanger Mantis]] gets this treatment when Rocket is listing off the people he lost in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
-->'''Rocket:''' I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone.
* MyGreatestFailure: She is torn by guilt and remorse at seeing Ego murdering his children and being unable to do anything to really help them, and she tries many times to warn the Guardians. It's especially heart-wrenching for her since [[spoiler: she, like Quill, is also one of Ego's children and thus his victims are her half-siblings]], all while she was kept alive for Ego's amusement & use.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: She uses her powers on Peter at one point and picks up on his UnresolvedSexualTension with Gamora, a sentiment she happily vocalizes, [[NotSoStoic much to Drax's amusement.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: When people begin to disintegrate due to Thanos's fingersnap at the end of ''Infinity War'', TheEmpath Mantis feels it and utters, "Something... is happening..." before she disintegrates.
* NeckLift: After discovering the corpses of Ego's children in a cavern, Gamora goes to see Mantis and furiously lifts her up by the neck to question her about what's going on.
* NightmareFetishist: When hearing that Rocket has blasters and knives available should Quill and Thor fight it out for the leadership of the Guardians, Mantis reacts with a gleeful and more than a bit unnerving, "Yes, please! Use knives!" stretching out each syllable in delight.
* NiceGirl: Socially awkward though she may be, Mantis is, at heart, a good person who treats the Guardians with kindness. Even though Drax directly calls her ugly, she even still forgives him because of his reassuring kindness about her appearance. Her basic decency is a big part of why she turns on Ego.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.
* NoSocialSkills: Her limited exposure to people has made her unable to pick up on social cues, and the Guardians help her learn to communicate better with them.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Drax in ''Vol. 2''. They spend most of their screen time together and form a bond with each other. It's even because of Drax that Mantis starts trying to warn the Guardians about Ego's true nature. However, they make clear they aren't interested in each other in any way that can be considered romantic, with Drax even being disgusted by the thought of it. ''The Holiday Special'' has them hanging out together in their attempt to kidnap Kevin Bacon for Peter's gift.
* OnlyOneName: She goes by a single name without any other identifiers.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The ''Holiday Special'' has Drax not letting her live down that she once ate a large supply of zarg-nuts. In ''Vol. 3'', it's briefly implied that he still hasn't let it go.
-->'''Mantis:''' GET OVER THE ZARGNUTS!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs. Though she'd shown a bloodthirsty quirk in ''Endgame'', ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows the sweet, still relatively innocent Mantis pushed to her limits after mere minutes of enduring Thor's new pet goats. The screaming is so bad that she is right behind Nebula when she tries to put them down.
* PercussivePrevention: On Knowhere, Mantis puts Drax to sleep before the latter can execute his silly plan to attack Thanos.
* PerpetualSmiler: Mantis constantly wears an [[ThePollyanna adorably happy]] grin when talking to people, even when the people in question are insulting her right to her face.
* ThePollyanna: Best summed up in this line from ''Vol. 2'':
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[to Gamora, in reference to a conversation she just finished with Drax]'' I'm learning many things, like how I'm a pet and ugly! ''[Big goofy ":D" smile]''
* PowerGlows: The tips of her antennae light up whenever she's using her empathic powers.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Drax finds her physically repulsive but nonetheless strikes up a close if vitriolic friendship with her. After she joins the crew, she's shown hanging around Drax the most. [[spoiler:Most significantly, he's initially the only person who knows that she's one of Ego's biological children in ''The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special''.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:It's hard to say exactly when Mantis was born relative to Quill, or what her exact age is, since aliens tend to live long/age differently in this setting. But, since she ''did'' witness her father Ego kill a good number of children during her own lifetime, such amount of time is long enough to widen the age gap between her and Peter]].
* PuppyDogEyes: She's very good in looking like a kicked puppy whenever she's scared or sad.
* ThePrankster: Mantis frequently likes to use her charm abilities to play pranks on people, though Drax tends to be her favorite target. Examples include [[NoodleIncident getting him to fall in love with his sock]] and having an [=OrgoCorp=] guard fall in love with him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ''The Holiday Special'' reveals that [[spoiler:she is Ego's daughter, and Peter's half-sister]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Discussed. While Mantis does have a fleshed out personality, as she points out in Vol. 3, she is on the team not for any particular reason and she mostly does what the team wants or is doing. She leaves with the particular intent of forming her own motivations and character.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's the only member of the ''Vol. 2'' team who doesn't appear on its teaser poster, which makes sense given that she's a new character. She does appear in the first trailer, though, as well as the main poster.
* TheSixthRanger: She's one of the new team members in ''Vol. 2'', but is the only outright new character joining them, not having appeared in the first film.
* SlayingMantis: She attempts to pose like one after the abrupt awakening she gave to an unconscious Thor startled her and the other Guardians.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In ''Infinity War'' she's the only girl on Iron Man's team consisting of Iron Man himself, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Drax. At least until Nebula shows up to help.
* SuperStrength: While she greatly dislikes getting her hands dirty, she's at least as strong as a super soldier, as she is capable of easily kicking a fully-grown man in armor across a room.
* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Guardians of the Galaxy aren't ''evil'' per se, but they all have sketchy criminal backgrounds with shades of anti-heroism with her standing out as the exception. However, during the ''Holiday Special'', Mantis stole a woman's map and money using her mind control powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her resurrection in ''Endgame'', Mantis bravely joins the other heroes in charging Thanos's army head-on. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' also has her becoming more active in fighting alongside the other Guardians of the Galaxy. By the Holiday Special, she's gained martial arts skills on a par with most MCU BadassNormal heroes, enough to have her own fight scene!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed. She's still an overall nice girl, but hanging out with the Guardians has given the soft-spoken Mantis an abrasive edge. The Christmas Special and Vol. 3 in particular has her engaging in insult matches and ball busting she probably wouldn't have jumped into earlier on, and she's much louder and crass whenever she talks.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Mantis officially joins the Guardians at the end of the second film. Though with Nebula's addition it gets pushed to three girls. [[spoiler:And back down to two after Gamora's death.]]
* TheUnSmile: By way of introduction, her first attempts at a 'smile' creeps even ''Drax'' out.
* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drax. Thanks to Drax being... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} well]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive Drax]], they snipe at each other a lot. That doesn't stop them from hanging around each other often.
* WhosOnFirst: When Thor says that Thanos is going to Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Mantis replies that he must be going somewhere.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: As she spends more time with the Guardians, Mantis begins to use her abilities for cheap pranks and minor conveniences that she never took advantage of before. She ends up charming a woman to give her bus tickets and all her money in the ''Holiday Special'', and later uses them on Kevin Bacon to take away his fear of them.
* WomanChild: Due to having spent her life on Ego, she comes across as very childlike in her interactions with other beings, and she literally knows nothing of the outside world -- it's both endearing, heartbreaking... and, at times, hilarious.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Mantis uses a Poison Rana/Inverted Frankensteiner in ''Vol. 3'' to takedown a mook.
* {{Xenafication}}: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Mantis embracing more of the warrior life, wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while charging into battle with the other Guardians of the Galaxy.
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Mantis ''herself'' is one of Ego's offspring who failed to carry the Celestial gene, and the only one he decided to spare because she had the means to treat his insomnia]].
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[[folder:Kraglin Obfonteri]]
!!''Kraglin Obfonteri''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_kraglin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Welcome home, Peter."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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* ActionGirl: Although Mantis is not a battle-hardened warrior like Gamora and Nebula, she has the will and courage to use her powers to subdue opponents that are much tougher than she is. She completely embraces this trope in ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', which has her rushing into battle with a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword in her hand and the other Guardians by her side. By the time of the ''Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special'', she's capable of kicking ass by subduing numerous police officers with martial arts and her telepathy.
* AdaptationDistillation: She has the more alien characteristics of her modern incarnation, but also has a more humanoid appearance and Asian skin tone like her original form from the 1970s.
* AdaptationPersonalityChange: Mantis's original version, exposed to many more and much more varied experiences since childhood, was considerably forthright and proactive, and quite forward with her lovers and romantic interests. By contrast, the MCU Mantis grew up in total isolation under Ego's control, therefore her character grew up into a completely different kind of person.
* AdaptationSpeciesChange: In the comics, she was a half-Vietnamese woman who turned out to be the Kree's Celestial Madonna. In the movie, she's an alien, though Marvel only auditioned Asian women for the part to ensure that she still resembled her comic counterpart.
* AdaptationalModesty: Her outfit resembles her classic [=1970s=] costume from the comics, but with leggings and no NavelDeepNeckline.
* AdaptationalWimp: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed.]] In the comics, Mantis is a top-tier martial artist who has successfully traded blows with the likes of Thor and Doctor Strange, whereas she does not seem to possess any combat capabilities in the movies. However, her empathic powers are still nothing to be messed with, able to temporarily put Ego the Living Planet (who's a [[PhysicalGod Celestial]]) to sleep against his will, along with keeping ''Thanos himself'' restrained for a bit while he wore the Infinity Gauntlet, which was outfitted with ''four'' of the six Infinity Stones. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'', however, shows Mantis becoming more adept at fighting and wielding weapons and she can subdue police officers in under a minute as shown in the holiday special.
* AdaptedOut: In addition to her combat prowess described above, Comics Mantis's original incarnation eventually entered a symbiotic relationship with the plant-like Cotati, and became a PlantPerson herself, giving her a whole slew of abilities surrounding plants, control of plants, and creating whole new bodies out of plants by projecting her astral self into them, even across the whole galaxy. Naturally, with her backstory surrounding the Cotati removed, this ability is (so far) not present in her MCU version.
* AffirmativeActionGirl: Her introduction in ''Vol. 2'' bumps the Guardians up to TwoGirlsToATeam.
* AllWebbedUp: When Mantis encounters Peter Parker in ''Infinity War'', he mistakes her for [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong a hostile alien trying to lay eggs in his body]] so he covers her with webbings to immobilize her.
* AmbiguouslyGay: When Drax mistakes her waking him up in the middle of the night for sexual interest, Mantis tells him "I don't even like the ''type'' of thing you are!". It's not clear if she's referring to his gender, his species, or some other distinction.
* AnimalThemedSuperbeing: [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin She's a mantis-looking alien named Mantis.]]
* BackFromTheDead: As with the rest of the heroes who got [[NoBodyLeftBehind dusted]] by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she appears alive and well again in time for the final battle in ''Endgame'' thanks to Bruce Banner using the new Infinity Gauntlet made from Stark tech.
* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an [=OrgoCorp=] guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
* BashSiblings: With the other Guardians of the Galaxy, [[spoiler: and a quite literal example with Quill.]]
* TheBeastMaster: [[spoiler: In ''Vol. 3'' she is able to tame and command three [[TentacledTerror Abilisks]].]]
* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Exposure to Drax's honesty, friendship, and genuine selfless fatherly love for his deceased daughter ultimately cause her to reveal Ego's true intentions to the Guardians.
* BewareTheNiceOnes: She's the friendliest member of the Guardians, and the only one to not have any combat-based abilities, so it's easy to see her as harmless. And yet, in both ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' and ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' she very nearly brings down the nearly-invincible [[BigBad Big Bad]] using just her sleep-inducing powers. And in ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'', she's 100% on-board with killing Toothgnasher and Toothgrinder just after the Indigarrans had "gifted" them with the goats.
* BewareTheSillyOnes: She becomes a bit more serious in ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', as she is seen charging into battle alongside millions of other dusted heroes.
* BirdsOfAFeather: She rivals Drax for being the [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} nuttiest]] and [[PluckyComicRelief most comedic]] of the Guardians. Unsurprisingly, they have a lot of scenes together, including Mantis's [[TheUnSmile bizarre attempt at a friendly smile]] and Drax's equally bizarre attempt at a practical joke (tricking her into petting Rocket, knowing he'd bite her for it) at her expense, that show them becoming quite fond of each other in spite of their mutual quirks.
* BlackEyesOfEvil: [[{{Subverted}} Avoided, for a change]] (her sclera, iris, and pupil are all as black as the cosmos, but she is indeed a heroine).
* BodyHorror: During the ambush on Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Thanos uses the Reality Stone to turn Mantis into a spool of fleshy ribbon. Her eye is still blinking as the ribbons land on the floor, showing that she's still conscious and aware of this happening.
* BridalCarry: Drax carries an unconscious Mantis to safety this way during the climatic battle of ''Vol. 2''.
* ButNowIMustGo: [[spoiler:At the end of ''Vol. 3'', Mantis choses to leave the Guardians to find her own path in life that isn't dictated by Ego or the titular group. Though she loves her FoundFamily dearly, Mantis understands that being connected to the Guardians forever won't help her truly discover herself, and even rejects Drax's offer to accompany her for that reason.]]
* ButtMonkey: The poor girl. She learns from Drax that she is 'hideous', a 'pet', 'horrifying to look at', and is tricked by him into getting bitten by Rocket ''as a joke''! And she also gets hit with a flying bit of space rubble in a moment that is most definitely PlayedForLaughs. This exchange with Drax remains unforgettable:
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[referring to fireworks]'' It's beautiful.\\
'''Drax:''' Yes. And so are you... on the inside.
* CantKillYouStillNeedYou: ImpliedTrope. Ordinarily, Ego [[OffingTheOffspring kills any of his children]] who do not inherit his Celestial genes. However, Mantis can put him in a trance to help him sleep, which is a big relief to an otherwise immortal, restless entity. Considering that [[spoiler: she's ''also'' one of his countless children]], Ego's treatment of her is a ''very'' small mercy.
* CharmPerson: She can use her empath abilities to manipulate others into doing as she wishes. While not making them mindless zombies, she can cause them to believe she's their best friend and the like.
* ChekhovsSkill: Her ability to put Ego to sleep is critical in taking him down. It was also a critical part in the almost-successful plan to pry the Infinity Gauntlet off of Thanos's hand.
* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Even by the main characters' standards, though it's justified as she is an alien with no social skills to interact with people.
* TheCutie: Is easily the cutest and most innocent of all the Guardians next to Baby Groot.
* DarkSecret: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals she's Ego's daughter. She's afraid to tell Peter this, because she fears he'll associate her with Ego, but at the end, it turns out he's ecstatic to have her as a sister.]]
* ADayInTheLimelight: ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' puts her and Drax at the forefront, with the pair going on a quest to give Peter the best Christmas ever. It greatly expands upon Mantis as a character, especially with the revelation that [[spoiler:she's Peter's half-sister]].
* DefectorFromDecadence: Ego took Mantis in as his "adopted daughter" (or rather, his pet) [[note]] which is especially cruel since [[spoiler: she ''is'' in fact his biological daughter and not just his ward]] [[/note]], as a means to escape his boredom via her ability to induce sleep. Mantis eventually turns on him and uses her powers to take him out of action at a crucial moment, contributing to his death.
* DirtyMindReading: In ''Vol. 2'', she reads Peter's emotions and proceeds to [[MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat blurt out how he has "sexual feelings" for Gamora]]... while Gamora is sitting right next to him.
* TheDragon: She's the only person working for Ego, even though she doesn't like what he's doing.
* TheEmpath: Her main abilities are empathy-based.
* EveryoneHasStandards:
** Though she does briefly point and laugh at them, even Mantis can't stand the obnoxious screaming of Toothgrinder and Toothgnasher, and offers to help Nebula kill them just to shut them up.
** She also chides Drax for flipping a police car over, stating that he almost killed the officers inside.
* ForcedSleep: Has the ability to telepathically render people unconscious.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A subtle one, but Mantis' empath abilities are powerful enough to make [[EldritchAbomination Ego]] fall asleep, even when he's enraged and at full power. Peter Quill is also able to go toe-to-toe with Ego when he unlocks his half-celestial powers. [[spoiler: Mantis, like Quill, is one of Ego's children, as she reveals in Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial, and thus the two are half-siblings]].
* FriendlessBackground: WordOfGod states that Mantis has been very lonely for a long time when she meets the Guardians, having only really ever known Ego, [[spoiler:her father]].[[invoked]]
* FunnyBackgroundEvent: She has a few of them across the movies, most notably [[http://64.media.tumblr.com/98066ae65f04e9c7e3e3d0fb3a7fd399/36b3904ab73720e3-99/s500x750/d270c85db62aa9d71f1b463545870710f3be544c.gifv jumping around]] in Titan's low gravity when Tony and Quill are discussing battle plans in ''Infinity War''.
* GlassCannon: Mantis's empathic powers can temporarily incapacitate beings of incredible power, but her physical durability is only slightly stronger than that of a human.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Averted, diverging from [[https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/8c/Mantismadona.jpg her counterpart in the comics]]. Here, she retains Creator/PomKlementieff's natural skin color, to [[JustifiedTrope aesthetically differentiates her from Gamora and Drax]].
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: When she uses her Empath Touch on Drax, she feels his grief over the deaths of his wife and daughter, and starts weeping uncontrollably. Drax, on the other hand, has a beatific look on his face, either because he doesn't know how to emote due to his nature, or he's learned to live with it.
* HeartIsAnAwesomePower:
** Being able to sense emotions through skin contact, and being able to put beings to sleep by touching them, doesn't sound that impressive. Right up until she ''forces an entire living planet to sleep,'' '''against''' his will, so that the Guardians have a chance of killing him.
-->'''Drax:''' I never thought she'd be able to do it with as weak and skinny as she appears to be.
** In ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'', it is demonstrated a second time how awesome Mantis is when she completely stuns Thanos, who at this point wields the Infinity Gauntlet fitted with the Power, Soul, Reality, and Space Stones. Thanos might have been defeated right then and there if not for a TragicMistake, though that's assuming he didn't recover the Infinity Gauntlet anyway.
* HollywoodHomely: InUniverse, Drax repeatedly describes her as being "hideous" and "repulsive", but to humans, she looks like a pretty human woman with jet-black eyes and cute little antennae on her forehead. Played with in that the only one of the Guardians who thinks she's ugly is ''Drax'', who is the group's {{Cloudcuckoolander}} (and Gamorra matter-of-factly tells Mantis that she isn't ugly), so it might just be his own strange sense of aesthetics that is in play. The overly large eyes are a little unsettling, for sure.
* IconicSequelCharacter: She's the only member of the Guardians of the Galaxy not to be introduced until the [[Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2 second film]], yet she's just as iconic as the others.
* TheIngenue: She's the most innocent member on the team by far.
* InNameOnly: Steve Englehart, the creator of comics Mantis, expressed disappointment in the character due to how heavily she was altered to the point of having little in common aside from her name.
* InsectoidAliens: Despite her rather human-like appearance, she does mention that she was found as a larva by Ego. When Iron Man, Spider-Man, and Doctor Strange [[LetsYouAndHimFight tussle with the Guardians]] in ''Infinity War,'' Spider-Man freaks out at the sight of her, [[FaceFullOfAlienWingWong begging her not to lay her eggs inside him]].
* KungFuWizard: By the Holiday Special she's learned martial arts, which combined with her mind control abilities form a ([[NiceGirl potentially]]) lethal combination.
* TheLoad: Turns into one after getting hit by debris in the FinalBattle. It's for Drax to carry her out of danger.
* LongLived: [[spoiler:Implied to have a longer lifespan than humans in ''Vol. 3'', when she's shocked to find out people on Earth sometimes die at 50.]]
* LoveInformant: Mantis cheerfully and obliviously reveals to the Guardians that Peter is sexually attracted to Gamora. Mind you, this probably wasn't really news to any of them by this point.
* LukeIAmYourFather: [[spoiler:The ''Holiday Special'' reveals that Mantis is one of Ego's children, making her and Quill half-siblings. She didn't tell him about it until the end of the special.]]
* {{Malaproper}}: When Peter Parker asks Drax and Mantis what it is they do in ''Infinity War'', Mantis proudly proclaims "Kick names, take ass!", much to Tony Stark's dismay.
* MoralityPet: Subverted. She tries to be this to Ego, but he is beyond such concerns. He sees her as his personal alarm clock, there to put him to sleep so he can catch some shut-eye from his boredom.
* MyFriendsAndZoidberg: Poor [[SixthRanger Mantis]] gets this treatment when Rocket is listing off the people he lost in ''Film/AvengersEndgame''.
-->'''Rocket:''' I lost the only family I ever had. Quill, Groot, Drax, the chick with the antenna, all gone.
* MyGreatestFailure: She is torn by guilt and remorse at seeing Ego murdering his children and being unable to do anything to really help them, and she tries many times to warn the Guardians. It's especially heart-wrenching for her since [[spoiler: she, like Quill, is also one of Ego's children and thus his victims are her half-siblings]], all while she was kept alive for Ego's amusement & use.
* MySensorsIndicateYouWantToTapThat: She uses her powers on Peter at one point and picks up on his UnresolvedSexualTension with Gamora, a sentiment she happily vocalizes, [[NotSoStoic much to Drax's amusement.]]
* MySignificanceSenseIsTingling: When people begin to disintegrate due to Thanos's fingersnap at the end of ''Infinity War'', TheEmpath Mantis feels it and utters, "Something... is happening..." before she disintegrates.
* NeckLift: After discovering the corpses of Ego's children in a cavern, Gamora goes to see Mantis and furiously lifts her up by the neck to question her about what's going on.
* NightmareFetishist: When hearing that Rocket has blasters and knives available should Quill and Thor fight it out for the leadership of the Guardians, Mantis reacts with a gleeful and more than a bit unnerving, "Yes, please! Use knives!" stretching out each syllable in delight.
* NiceGirl: Socially awkward though she may be, Mantis is, at heart, a good person who treats the Guardians with kindness. Even though Drax directly calls her ugly, she even still forgives him because of his reassuring kindness about her appearance. Her basic decency is a big part of why she turns on Ego.
* NoBodyLeftBehind: Is disintegrated along with half the universe after Thanos completes the Infinity Gauntlet.
* NoSocialSkills: Her limited exposure to people has made her unable to pick up on social cues, and the Guardians help her learn to communicate better with them.
* TheNotLoveInterest: To Drax in ''Vol. 2''. They spend most of their screen time together and form a bond with each other. It's even because of Drax that Mantis starts trying to warn the Guardians about Ego's true nature. However, they make clear they aren't interested in each other in any way that can be considered romantic, with Drax even being disgusted by the thought of it. ''The Holiday Special'' has them hanging out together in their attempt to kidnap Kevin Bacon for Peter's gift.
* OnlyOneName: She goes by a single name without any other identifiers.
* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: The ''Holiday Special'' has Drax not letting her live down that she once ate a large supply of zarg-nuts. In ''Vol. 3'', it's briefly implied that he still hasn't let it go.
-->'''Mantis:''' GET OVER THE ZARGNUTS!
* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: PlayedForLaughs. Though she'd shown a bloodthirsty quirk in ''Endgame'', ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows the sweet, still relatively innocent Mantis pushed to her limits after mere minutes of enduring Thor's new pet goats. The screaming is so bad that she is right behind Nebula when she tries to put them down.
* PercussivePrevention: On Knowhere, Mantis puts Drax to sleep before the latter can execute his silly plan to attack Thanos.
* PerpetualSmiler: Mantis constantly wears an [[ThePollyanna adorably happy]] grin when talking to people, even when the people in question are insulting her right to her face.
* ThePollyanna: Best summed up in this line from ''Vol. 2'':
-->'''Mantis:''' ''[to Gamora, in reference to a conversation she just finished with Drax]'' I'm learning many things, like how I'm a pet and ugly! ''[Big goofy ":D" smile]''
* PowerGlows: The tips of her antennae light up whenever she's using her empathic powers.
* PlatonicLifePartners: Drax finds her physically repulsive but nonetheless strikes up a close if vitriolic friendship with her. After she joins the crew, she's shown hanging around Drax the most. [[spoiler:Most significantly, he's initially the only person who knows that she's one of Ego's biological children in ''The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special''.]]
* PracticallyDifferentGenerations: [[spoiler:It's hard to say exactly when Mantis was born relative to Quill, or what her exact age is, since aliens tend to live long/age differently in this setting. But, since she ''did'' witness her father Ego kill a good number of children during her own lifetime, such amount of time is long enough to widen the age gap between her and Peter]].
* PuppyDogEyes: She's very good in looking like a kicked puppy whenever she's scared or sad.
* ThePrankster: Mantis frequently likes to use her charm abilities to play pranks on people, though Drax tends to be her favorite target. Examples include [[NoodleIncident getting him to fall in love with his sock]] and having an [=OrgoCorp=] guard fall in love with him.
* RelatedInTheAdaptation: ''The Holiday Special'' reveals that [[spoiler:she is Ego's daughter, and Peter's half-sister]].
* SatelliteCharacter: Discussed. While Mantis does have a fleshed out personality, as she points out in Vol. 3, she is on the team not for any particular reason and she mostly does what the team wants or is doing. She leaves with the particular intent of forming her own motivations and character.
* SirNotAppearingInThisTrailer: She's the only member of the ''Vol. 2'' team who doesn't appear on its teaser poster, which makes sense given that she's a new character. She does appear in the first trailer, though, as well as the main poster.
* TheSixthRanger: She's one of the new team members in ''Vol. 2'', but is the only outright new character joining them, not having appeared in the first film.
* SlayingMantis: She attempts to pose like one after the abrupt awakening she gave to an unconscious Thor startled her and the other Guardians.
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: In ''Infinity War'' she's the only girl on Iron Man's team consisting of Iron Man himself, Dr. Strange, Spider-Man, Star-Lord, and Drax. At least until Nebula shows up to help.
* SuperStrength: While she greatly dislikes getting her hands dirty, she's at least as strong as a super soldier, as she is capable of easily kicking a fully-grown man in armor across a room.
* SuperToughness: She may look like the resident SquishyWizard, but she can fall hundreds of feet and land on her feet just fine and she's merely KO'ed by a flying hunk of debris to the head. In ''Infinity War'' she was able to survive a Thanos headbutt.
* TokenGoodTeammate: The Guardians of the Galaxy aren't ''evil'' per se, but they all have sketchy criminal backgrounds with shades of anti-heroism with her standing out as the exception. However, during the ''Holiday Special'', Mantis stole a woman's map and money using her mind control powers.
* TookALevelInBadass: After her resurrection in ''Endgame'', Mantis bravely joins the other heroes in charging Thanos's army head-on. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' also has her becoming more active in fighting alongside the other Guardians of the Galaxy. By the Holiday Special, she's gained martial arts skills on a par with most MCU BadassNormal heroes, enough to have her own fight scene!
* TookALevelInJerkass: Downplayed. She's still an overall nice girl, but hanging out with the Guardians has given the soft-spoken Mantis an abrasive edge. The Christmas Special and Vol. 3 in particular has her engaging in insult matches and ball busting she probably wouldn't have jumped into earlier on, and she's much louder and crass whenever she talks.
* TwoGirlsToATeam: Mantis officially joins the Guardians at the end of the second film. Though with Nebula's addition it gets pushed to three girls. [[spoiler:And back down to two after Gamora's death.]]
* TheUnSmile: By way of introduction, her first attempts at a 'smile' creeps even ''Drax'' out.
* VisualPun: While she's never seen actually fighting, whenever danger's present she hunches over and holds her hands up close to her chin, adopting a posture reminiscent of an ''actual'' praying mantis.
* VitriolicBestBuds: With Drax. Thanks to Drax being... [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} well]] [[InnocentlyInsensitive Drax]], they snipe at each other a lot. That doesn't stop them from hanging around each other often.
* WhosOnFirst: When Thor says that Thanos is going to Knowhere in ''Infinity War'', Mantis replies that he must be going somewhere.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatPerks: As she spends more time with the Guardians, Mantis begins to use her abilities for cheap pranks and minor conveniences that she never took advantage of before. She ends up charming a woman to give her bus tickets and all her money in the ''Holiday Special'', and later uses them on Kevin Bacon to take away his fear of them.
* WomanChild: Due to having spent her life on Ego, she comes across as very childlike in her interactions with other beings, and she literally knows nothing of the outside world -- it's both endearing, heartbreaking... and, at times, hilarious.
* WrestlerInAllOfUs: Mantis uses a Poison Rana/Inverted Frankensteiner in ''Vol. 3'' to takedown a mook.
* {{Xenafication}}: ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' shows Mantis embracing more of the warrior life, wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while charging into battle with the other Guardians of the Galaxy.
* YouWillBeSpared: [[spoiler:As it turns out, Mantis ''herself'' is one of Ego's offspring who failed to carry the Celestial gene, and the only one he decided to spare because she had the means to treat his insomnia]].
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[[folder:Kraglin Obfonteri]]
!!''Kraglin Obfonteri''
[[quoteright:300:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/mcu_kraglin.png]]
[[caption-width-right:300:''"Welcome home, Peter."'']]
!!!'''Species:''' Xandarian
!!!'''Affiliation(s):''' Ravagers, Guardians of the Galaxy
!!!'''Portrayed By:''' Creator/SeanGunn
!!!'''Voiced By:''' Gerardo Alonso (Latin-American Spanish dub), Alejandro "Peyo" García (European Spanish dub), Christiano Torreão (Brazilian Portuguese dub)
!!!'''Appearances:''' ''Film/{{Guardians of the Galaxy|2014}}'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersEndgame''[[note]]Deleted footage only[[/note]] | ''Film/ThorLoveAndThunder'' | ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''
-->''"That ain't right. I just gotta say this one time, Captain: no matter how many times Quill betrays you, you protect him like that none of the rest of us matter."''
Yondu's Second-in-Command who is often seen at his side.
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** Usually, when the Guardians fight, there's quips, jokes, flashy takedowns, and trying to equate with their foe. But during the final confrontation with the High Evolutionary, it had none of that, in fact, ''no one was talking at all''. Also their attacks were more brutal and efficient than usual, which shows just how ''enraged'' they all are with the High Evolutionary for everything he did to Rocket.
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** Usually, when the Guardians fight, there's quips, jokes, flashy takedowns, and trying to equate with their foe. But during the final confrontation with the High Evolutionary, ''no one'' was talking, and their attacks were brutal and efficient, which shows how ''enraged'' they all are with the High Evolutionary for everything he did to Rocket.
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* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an OrgoCorp guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
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* BadassPacifist: Fighting isn't her thing -- but that doesn't mean she should be underestimated. Her [[TheEmpath Empathic]] abilities can subdue the likes of Ego and Thanos, making her very valuable all the same. ''Thor: Love and Thunder'' subverts this since it shows Mantis wielding a {{BFG}}, and later, a sword while fighting alongside the other Guardians. Though in the ''Holiday Special'', she is horrified at the amount of violence Drax uses against the police. ''Vol. 3'' again shows her more willing to take violent measures, using her power to induces an OrgoCorp [=OrgoCorp=] guard to start shooting wildly at her fellows, with fatalities.
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* ThePrankster: Mantis frequently likes to use her charm abilities to play pranks on people, though Drax tends to be her favorite target. Examples include [[NoodleIncident getting him to fall in love with his sock]] and having an Orgocorp guard fall in love with him.
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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I refuse to do any work while [[Characters/MCURocket you]] demean me."'']]
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: Subverted. In the comics, Cosmo is a highly intelligent dog who can communicate with humans telepathically in the comics. In the MCU, she first appears mostly behaving like a perfectly normal dog, though her return in ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' reveals that she is telepathic and can talk, just like in the comics.
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* AdaptationalNonsapience: Subverted. In the comics, Cosmo is a highly intelligent dog who can communicate with humans telepathically in the comics. In the MCU, she first appears mostly behaving like a perfectly normal dog, though her return in ''Film/TheGuardiansOfTheGalaxyHolidaySpecial'' reveals that she is telepathic and can talk, talk just like in the comics.
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* FurryReminder: Although clearly sapient and intelligent, Cosmo happily works for dog treats, and her idea of a Christmas gift for Kraglin is to bring him a dead Orloni.
* HateAtFirstSight: As a nod to their rivalry from the comics, Cosmo seems to take a dislike to Rocket as soon as she sees him walk by and angrily growls at him. Downplayed, as their interaction in the Holiday Special is portrayed as far more friendly, though she is annoyed when he bosses her around.
* HateAtFirstSight: As a nod to their rivalry from the comics, Cosmo seems to take a dislike to Rocket as soon as she sees him walk by and angrily growls at him. Downplayed, as their interaction in the Holiday Special is portrayed as far more friendly, though she is annoyed when he bosses her around.
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Orloni and she is highly offended when called a bad dog.
* HateAtFirstSight: As a nod to their rivalry from the comics, Cosmo seems to take a dislike to Rocket as soon as she sees him walk by and angrily growls at him. Downplayed, as their interaction in the Holiday Special is portrayed as far more friendly, though she is annoyed when he bosses her around. She later joins his new Guardians team and seems to respect him as leader.
* HateAtFirstSight: As a nod to their rivalry from the comics, Cosmo seems to take a dislike to Rocket as soon as she sees him walk by and angrily growls at him. Downplayed, as their interaction in the Holiday Special is portrayed as far more friendly, though she is annoyed when he bosses her around. She later joins his new Guardians team and seems to respect him as leader.
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