It doesn't seem like Marvel is trying to keep too much a secret with the upcoming Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, because it sounds like they just revealed a huge spoiler this past weekend at SDCC. As it turns out, Kurt Russell, who will be playing Star-Lord's father in the movie, was revealed to actually be Ego, The Living Planet...and yes, Ego is Star-Lord's father. So how does a woman from Earth get it on with an entire planet in order to give birth to Peter Quill?
During a panel at SDCC this past weekend, fans to the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 panel were treated to an exclusive teaser trailer for the upcoming film, and like the trailer for Spider-Man: Homecoming, it wasn't released online. We do know some of the things that were featured in the trailer from fans and reporters that were sitting in the crowd. For instance, Kurt Russell was in a few scenes wearing robes and sporting white hair and a beard. This leads us to believe that while Ego is a "Living Planet," he's also able to take on humanoid form by creating living "drones" in order to explore other worlds. This in fact goes along with his abilities in the comic books, where this has been shown to happen. It would also explain how Quill is the offspring of Ego. How do you think Quill is going to react when he finds out that his dad is an evil living planet?
Yes, Ego (for most of his comic book history) is evil. He was created by both Jack Kirby and Stan Lee, both giants in the world of comic books. In 1969, Kirby gave an interview describing his thought process in creating Ego:
“I began to experiment …and that’s how Ego came about. … A planet that was alive; a planet that was intelligent. That was nothing new either because there had been other stories [about] live planets but that’s not acceptable. … [Y]ou would say, ‘Yeah, that’s wild,’ but how do you relate to it? Why is it alive? So I felt somewhere out in the universe, the universe … becomes denser and turns liquid — and that in this liquid, there was a giant multiple virus, and if [it] remained isolated for millions and millions of years, it would … begin to evolve by itself and it would begin to think. By the time we reached it, it might be quite superior to us — and that was Ego.”
Ego isn't alone in the universe, as there are other sentient beings similar to him. There's Ego's twin brother Alter Ego, a living universe named Super Ego, a wandering humanoid "cast-off" named Ego Prime, and one called Id The Selfish Moon. Forget about all of these guys, though, we're focusing on just Ego. He's (obviously) a living planet, and he wanders around the galaxy consuming other small planets in order to sustain his own life, similar to Galactus. He's had a few different origins, but the most recent had him being created by a being called "The Stranger." His twin brother was created by "The Collector," who actually appeared in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie. The two living planets were created in order to fight one another, because The Stranger wanted to prove whether freedom or captivity created stronger beings. While warring, Alter Ego becomes mortally wounded, but is saved by Thor. After Thor's intervention, Alter Ego settles into an orbit around Ego, where the two reconnect. Alter Ego heals and becomes a moon around Ego. This has a calming effect on the two, and sets them on "a new non-malevolent path through the cosmos."
While it's still not known what role Ego will play in the movie, it's safe to say it will be a pretty significant one, although it's more than likely that it won't follow the comic book storylines. I don't know how they'd be able to incorporate those storylines with him fathering Star-Lord. We'll just have to wait and see how he will fit into James Gunn's vision. I'm not too concerned about it, though. Gunn did an incredible job with his first go-around, I'm sure he'll do the same thing with the sequel.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 hits theaters May 7, 2017.
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