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Marvel’s very first Guardians of the Galaxy were quite possibly the most astounding version of the team yet, so why haven’t they made a comeback?
The Guardians of the Galaxy have experienced a massive surge in popularity since their introduction to the MCU, but the members of the big screen version of the team are not the only ones to use the name. Long before the lovable loser Star-Lord and his crew took the world by storm, there was a team of ancient Guardians who stepped up to guard the galaxy all the way back in the in the eleventh century. During the course of their mission, the ancient Guardians met up and worked with the later iterations of their team, but have since faded from the spotlight, leaving behind the question of what happened to them and where they are now.
In 2015’s Guardians of Infinity #1 (by Dan Abnett and Carlo Barberi) modern day Guardians Drax and Groot followed their teammate Rocket Raccoon into a strange superstructure that had seemingly manifested itself at the outer edge of the galaxy. While Rocket had assumed the team would uncover some untold treasure, they instead encountered their counterparts from nearly a thousand years in the future. While the two teams were already acquainted with one another, a third set of Galactic Guardians were poised to appear for the first time in the Marvel Universe.
When an onslaught of nearly unstoppable foes sent the two teams of Guardians running, they ended up leaving the superstructure only to find themselves in the middle of Iraq in the year 1016. There they were confronted by the very first Guardians of the Galaxy team, who mistook them for invaders. Composed of a ragtag group of misfits from every corner of the cosmos, the Guardians 1000 were founded by the cybernetic alien Tyreeze Tarolt alongside the Kree warrior Stella Nega, who also led the team.
It was soon revealed that Tarolt’s drive to make the galaxy safer corrupted him. Sociopathic tendencies emerged, and the alien cyborg took on the name Hermetikus and abducted beings from across the galaxy who he then transformed into his own personal army called the Highbreed. Hermetikus turned out to also be responsible for the structure that introduced his army to the universe and served as the unifier of the three teams of Guardians, who united to defeat him.
Stella Nega’s team of high-flying, hard-hitting, and star-powered Guardians proved able to keep up with the other teams. However, once the Highbreed army was defeated, the story of the ancient team came to an unceremonious end. Stella’s team returned to their own era and haven’t been seen since. This is a shame, considering that characters like the hulking pacifist Aerolite and Astrolabe, the human host of a living star, were unique and interesting in their own right.
Time travel and dimension hopping throughout the Multiverse aren’t new concepts to the world of Marvel Comics. Bringing the first Guardians of the Galaxy back into the spotlight of the primary Marvel Universe by either of those means would be a welcome return for this interesting collection of heroes. Although it’s hard to imagine the ancient Guardians making the transition to the big screen due to their relative obscurity, the MCU has proven capable of turning relatively unknown properties into cinematic sensations, such as they did with Star-Lord’s team. This could mean that the Guardians 1000 could potentially show up again at one point either in the comics or the movies, and they would be a welcome addition to either.
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