Respect Groot (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

"I am Groot."

Little is known about Groot's history, only that he met Rocket shortly before the events of Guardians of the Galaxy. They worked as bounty hunters together, Groot's muscle and ability to manipulate his own body complementing Rocket's small stature, but great intelligence and gadgets. When the Guardians of the Galaxy formed, he continued to serve this role until he ultimately gave his life saving the rest of the party. A fragment of his body was replanted, allowing a new Groot to be grown.^GotG While he would leave his plant pot soon enough, he was still young, needing to grow from a young child into a teenager over the course of several years.

Groot is capable of only saying 'I Am Groot' (outside of a single instance of him saying 'We Are Groot'^GotG , though he is actually saying things, with people coming to understand him after being around him for a period or studying the language^IW

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#Legend

###Movies

GotG - Guardians of the Galaxy
Vol.2 - Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol. 2
IW - Avengers: Infinity War
End - Avengers: Endgame

###Other Sources

P - Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude
GMW - Guardians of the Galaxy: Galaxy's Most Wanted

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#Strength

###Child

• Pushes over an unaware creature slightly larger than him^Vol.2
• Drags a desk through a spaceship^Vol.2
• Trips over a fleeing Ravager and throws him off of a walkway^Vol.2

###Teen

• Pierces through three Outriders before lifting them into the air^IW

###Adult

• Punches a metal covering off^P
• Breaks through a wall^GMW
• Smacks security drones away, causing them to explode on impact^GotG
• Punches an alien into metal, embedding his head into it^P
• Lifts and slams a man to the ground before kicking them a distance, sending both him and another man he hits flying^GotG
• Stabs into Drax's chest to save him after having drowned^GotG
• Pulls a panel off of a wall, with it going back to bounce off of a prisoner's head, knocking him out^GotG
• Pierces through a row of guards before lifting them up and swinging them around repeatedly, taking out all other guards in the corridor^GotG
• Lifts a large alien up with fingers in its nose^GotG
• Throws a man away^GotG

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#Durability

###Child

• Is inside their spaceship as it crash lands in a forest^Vol.2
• Makes 700 consecutive 'jumps' in a spaceship (the max safe number at a time being 50 jumps), causing his body to warp, and comes out the other side with no lasting issues^Vol.2

###Teen

• Gets kicked away by Eitri^IW
• Is close to a blast from Thanos' ship as it rains fire. These blasts send people flying into the air and could kill Chitauri Leviathans^End

###Adult

• Takes a slash from Gamora's sword and takes a couple to each limb before it's lopped off. Their clash ends with Gamora embedding her sword in Groot's stomach, which he's hurt by but remains standing afterwards^GotG
• Takes a large amount of bullets from security drones^GotG
• Tanks bullets with a grown twig shield^GotG
• Hit in the back by an energy beam^GMW
• His arm quickly breaks apart when exposed to the vacuum of space, seemingly without significant pain^P

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#Speed

###Teen

• Intercepts a creature about to attack Rocket^End

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#Abilities

###Child

• Grapples a small creature with a stretched arm and pulls himself towards it, retracting the stretched arm back into himself as he does so^Vol.2
• Harmlessly detaches stretched branches from himself^Vol.2

###Teen

• Creates a large mass of vines while trying to restrain Thanos, though he easily broke free^IW
• Leaves a mess of branches all over his room, as well as leaves on his bed^Vol.2

###Adult

• Grows his legs and one arm to reach a raised panel^GotG
• Wraps his arms around a man from a distance to throw him away^GotG
• Rapidly lengthens his arm to pierce through several people^GotG
• Stretches both his arms and legs while creating twigs on either side to be held onto while climbing him^GotG
• Grows his arms an incredible amount to let Rocket climb up to a vent, then stretches them even further to reach what they're stealing^P
• Grows a spike over his finger to save Drax's life^GotG
• Grows branches from his back and wraps them around Gamora to trap her^GotG
• Creates a shield of twigs on his arm to help protect him from a drone's bullets^GotG
• Grows himself into an orb, protecting the rest of the Guardians while they're in a crashing spaceship, though this does kill him and requires part of him to be planet and regrown^GotG
• After his limbs are chopped off, they regenerate seemingly over the course of hours^GotG
• Creates a large amount of tiny light producing seeds to illuminate a room^GotG
• Grows a flower in his hand^GotG

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#Other

###Child

• Tells when Drax is looking at him from behind^GotG

###Teen

• Used his own arm to become Stormbreaker's handle^IW

###Adult

• Seems to disguise himself as a tree^GMW