Guardians of the Galaxy is an animated television series based on the comic book super hero team known as Guardians of the Galaxy. The series premiered on Disney XD on September 5, 2015, as part of the Marvel Universe block. As of June 9, 2019,[update] 79 episodes of Guardians of the Galaxy have aired.
Details the origins of each individual member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Star-Lord leads his fellow team members Gamora, Drax the Destroyer, Rocket Raccoon and Groot in raiding an alien prison to free Yondu. They learn from him that Korath the Pursuer has a Spartax artifact called the CryptoCube that he plans to give to Thanos. After getting the artifact from Korath the Pursuer, the Guardians of the Galaxy head to Knowhere, a colony in the severed head of a Celestial. While Drax, Rocket Raccoon and Groot meet with Cosmo the Spacedog, who is the head of security on Knowhere, Star-Lord learns from an alien broker that he is part Spartax. When Korath the Pursuer's group and Yondu's Ravagers attack the Guardians of the Galaxy to claim the Spartax artifact, Knowhere starts to come to life and ensnare everyone.
After the Cosmic Seed briefly brings Knowhere to life, Korath snatches Star-Lord and Gamora to force them to open the box by using a parasite that makes Gamora relive her sins. Meanwhile, Thanos leads his fleet into attacking Knowhere to claim the Star Seed's box. As Star-Lord uses the Continuum Cortex in Knowhere to fight Thanos' fleet, Groot helps Drax the Destroyer fight Thanos. Eventually, Cosmo uses Knowhere's technology to transport the Guardians of the Galaxy and Knowhere to a distant galaxy. After leaving Knowhere, Star-Lord discovers that the Cosmic Seed's box is a map to its location.
After the Guardians of the Galaxy narrowly escape from Fin Fang Foom, Rocket Raccoon accepts an offer to work for the Collector, while the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy look for special Pandorian Crystals needed to power the map to the Star Seed. What the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy do not know is that the Collector has plans to add Rocket Raccoon to his collection of alien creatures due to him being the last of his kind.
The Guardians of the Galaxy crash land on a space station called Conjunction, which is run by Grandmaster. The Grandmaster seeks to have Drax and Gamora fight each other in the Conjunction Arena. The Guardians of the Galaxy look for Pandorian Crystals from Star-Lord's old contact named Lunatik. They must also keep themselves from being busted by Nova Corps member Titus.
While at an abandoned mining facility on an unnamed planet, the Guardians of the Galaxy are attacked by super-evolved Symbiotes and encounter Yondu's Ravagers, who are after the CryptoCube. After escaping both enemies, the Guardians of the Galaxy are unaware that one Symbiote stowed away. The Symbiote ends up possessing Groot, trapping Gamora and Drax in a cocoon, and changing the destination to the Kree's home planet of Hala so that the Symbiotes can invade other planets. While Rocket Raccoon goes to great lengths to save Groot, Star-Lord must go to great lengths to protect the Cosmic Seed map even when the Ravagers catch up.
Rocket Raccoon and Groot are abducted and returned to Halfworld, where robots experimented on Rocket and transformed him and other animals. Rocket reunites with his family, who he left behind while escaping from Halfworld, and becomes involved in a rebellion led by the turtle Pyko. The robots eventually see that their experiments were unethical and choose to devolve every animal on the planet, including Rocket's family, in response to Pyko's extreme methods. However, they resolve to continue caring for the animals as the Guardians leave Halfworld and Rocket is left heartbroken.
The Guardians of the Galaxy encounter a living moon called Mandala, who regresses all of them except Star-Lord to their mindset before they met. Star-Lord must work to get them back to normal even when Nebula uses Mandala's energy and a special seed to resurrect Ronan the Accuser.
Following a falling out with his father, Star-Lord finds a ship containing the A.I. Rora as he takes it off of Spartax with Drax the Destroyer and Groot providing a diversion for the Spartax Royal Guards. Afterwards, the Guardians of the Galaxy have to deal with Lucy and Supergiant who are jilted that Star-Lord is the Prince of Spartax.
Upon J'son signaling him to Spartax, Thanos arrives and kidnaps Star-Lord so that he can operate the CryptoCube. The Guardians of the Galaxy must work together with Thor, Angela, and the Destroyer Armor to rescue Star-Lord before Thanos can use the CryptoCube's powers to find the Cosmic Seed. In the end, J'son is arrested and removed from his position as Emperor of Spartax. The CryptoCube is destroyed, but Star-Lord has a prophetic dream that reveals the Cosmic Seed to be located on Earth.
Gamora attempts to make amends for her past misdeeds starting with returning the Gravity Matrix that Ronan the Accuser made her steal from the planet Soonevh. Upon arrival and confronting the planet's inhabitants, she is attacked by Nebula and brought to Ronan so that Grandmaster can broadcast her trials across the galaxy. She battles numerous opponents who she previously wronged, including Wraith, who blames her for his father's death; Jarhead, who she reduced to a disembodied brain; and an Elemental Beast whose species she hunted. Meanwhile, the other Guardians must rescue her and reclaim the Gravity Matrix.
The Guardians discover that the Cosmic Seed is back on Earth. In the company of Cosmo, Star-Lord returns to his hometown where he runs into his childhood bully Michael Coogan who is now the sheriff. Now Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy must find the Cosmic Seed before Korath the Pursuer does.
When the Guardians of the Galaxy's search for the Cosmic Seed continues on Earth, Star-Lord contacts Gorgon where he gets the location of the former site of Attilan. While checking out the area, Rocket Raccoon, Groot, and Drax the Destroyer have visions of the Cosmic Seed allowing them to achieve their goals. While battling Seed-enhanced worms and spiders, the Guardians must keep Ronan the Accuser and Nebula from getting the box containing the Cosmic Seed.
Now that Thanos has the Cosmic Seed, he takes control of the Earth and molds it into a weapon of mass destruction. The Guardians of the Galaxy must work to reclaim the Cosmic Seed from Thanos even when Ronan the Accuser and Nebula plan to dispose of Thanos.
The Guardians of the Galaxy discover that Yondu and four of his Ravagers have been impersonating them to con the unsuspecting victims of Floodworld. During a heist, a rampaging Groom swallows Star-Lord and Yondu. While Star-Lord and Yondu work to escape the Groom, the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy and the Ravagers must work to subdue the Groom.
After the Guardians steal Thanos' asteroid sanctuary from the Avengers and Captain America, Ant-Man, Captain Marvel, Iron Man, and Hulk activate the Avengers' automated defenses, the Guardians of the Galaxy must work with the Avengers to stop a satellite and save many innocent lives.
While searching the Ravagers' hideout for the sarcophagus that Yondu stole from them, the Guardians of the Galaxy fight past the death traps where Groot finds an alien egg that he takes under his care. On the planet Veros Seven, Star-Lord, Gamora, and Groot fall into a foolproof pit trap and are attacked by the Universal Believers, who also seek the sarcophagus.
Following the fight with the Universal Believers, Gamora and Nebula are sucked into the sarcophagus. After the sarcophagus is dumped into a cryo-volcano, Star-Lord unknowingly uses the Quantum Bands, which causes him and Gamora to repeatedly switch positions. As the Guardians of the Galaxy work to retrieve the sarcophagus, Gamora and Nebula infiltrate the High Evolutionary's ship as he plans to experiment on Yondu.
Tana Nile is holding a peace conference at Knowhere where the Grand Commissioner of Rigel and the Empathetics are still at each other's necks. The Guardians believe that Cosmo is working with the Universal Believers, but are forced to help him when the Believers drain his psychic abilities and intelligence.
During the Xandarian Feast of the Three Grinning Moons, the Guardians of the Galaxy must pull a reverse heist by planting a dangerous weapon inside a Nova Corps vault.
After obtaining Nova helmets, the Guardians of the Galaxy and Nova battle the Magus on Planet Y after he nearly destroys Drax the Destroyer's home planet. However, he tortures them with visions of what they desire to feed on their emotions and empower himself. Meanwhile, Star-Lord and J'son battle within Magus' gem and enable Warlock to retake control. Afterwards, Warlock grapples with his morality before the Guardians remind him of all the good he has done.
Collector has trapped the Guardians of the Galaxy in his special prison. Now the Guardians of the Galaxy must break out and escape from Collector.
On Conjunction, Star-Lord starts his own TV show called "Star-Lord's Super Awesome Variety Hour" where his guests include Fandral and a "Mystery Ex" segment that features Lucy and Supergiant. Other things seen on the Conjunction Galactic Network including a news report of a hijacked Nova Star Blaster that Rocket Raccoon and Groot are in, the TV show N.O.V.A.S. starring the Nova Corps where Rhomann Dey rescued Gamora's escape pod, and a commercial for "Drax the Flame Broiler."
To escape the destruction of the Collector's base, the Guardians travel inside a mirror artifact called the Black Vortex. This artifact holds a dimension that takes on any form and each one of them winds up in a crazy (and differently animated) situation.
Birds of a Feather: Gamora becomes the princess in a children's story dimension with woodland creatures that turn into monsters when they are sad. This episode spoofs several Disney movies, including Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Bambi, Cinderella, and Sleeping Beauty. In addition, "The Whistling Song" is similar to, and clearly inspired by "Whistle While You Work".
Reclaiming her com link, Gamora contacts the others to try and help them fight their way through the Black Vortex.
Stand and Deliver: Rocket Raccoon finds himself in the Timely Distribution Corporate Warehouse as he works to find Groot as what appears to be a smaller Groot is about to the shipped to the Waytheflargoutus System at the edge of the galactic frontier as Rocket is scheduled to be shipped to the Krutackanfarawayus System at the opposite edge of the galactic frontier.
With Groot in danger, the other Guardians follow the branches he left for them to the exit.
I Melt With You: Star-Lord appears in a claymation dimension where he must work to turn the Milano around before it heads into the Sun. However, his arm detaches and Star-Lord duels with it so that he can get it reattached before he is melted by the Sun.
Getting closer to the exit, the Guardians deal with the Black Vortex entity face to face.
Jump: Star-Lord and Gamora end up in an 8-bit video game dimension where they fight their way past the F'saki, enemy versions of Ronan the Accuser, and an evil wizard version of J'son. Luckily, they have a few cheat codes to speed things up with.