Even when Peter Quill was a little boy on Earth, he always defended people in need. If someone was being picked on at school, Peter stood up for them, even if it meant getting in fights with bullies who were bigger than he was. Peter just seemed to have been born with a strong sense of justice.

When he was a little older, Peter finally learned from his mother the truth about his father. Peter’s dad was from another planet, called Spartax. His father and mother had met and fallen in love when his father’s ship had crashed on Earth.

Knowing that he had a father out in the galaxy drove Peter to reach for the stars. He studied hard in school, designed his own spaceship, and eventually took off from Earth to explore the galaxy!

Many things were very different on the alien worlds Peter visited, but one thing remained the same. . . . Wherever Peter went he found that there was always some bully who wanted to pick on the little guys. Peter wasn’t going to let that happen, no matter what plane the happened to be on.

Peter chose to be a hero! He became Star-Lord!

While fighting to protect the innocent, Star-Lord joined with other heroes from other parts of the cosmos, and together this group became known as the Guardians of the Galaxy!