Guardians of the Galaxy: More Animated Shorts Reveal the Origin of Groot
Marvel Entertainment has released two more web shorts for the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy animated series. The latest videos showcase the backstory for everyone’s favorite talking anthropomorphic tree creature, Groot. The new clips are available in the player below.
The new shorts show young Groot as a mere sapling on his home planet of Planet X and other members of his race, dubbed the Groots by the narrator Rocket Raccoon. Unfortunately, the peaceful life of Groot’s family is soon torn asunder by the Kree fanatic Ronan the Accuser. He arrives in his ship. The other Groots tried to stand up to Ronan, but it was no use. Groot meanwhile went to protect the planet’s life pod to preserve his species, unfortunately it all has a tragic outcome and Groot is left alone. The ending though does hint at greater things as Groot is captured by Ronan and taken aboard as cargo on his ship, but he meets his eventual companion Rocket Racoon.
Guardians of the Galaxy is set to premiere with a special sneak preview event on Disney XD on September 5. The regular series premieres on Disney XD on September 26 at 9:30PM ET.
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