 Okay, it's May. Endgame's been out. Skipper, you're late. Yeah, I know. Even though I'm late, I still want to make this video. You probably already know the deal. I got to choose one Marvelous scene. If you haven't seen the other videos in the playlist, go watch them. There's some interesting perspectives, and this thread even happening is pretty cool. As soon as I saw the thread, I was surprised by how many iconic scenes have been covered. Personally, I love it. But it was covered by a lot of different people. Forgive this. But something I didn't see covered enough was scenes with one of the best-written characters in the MCU, Captain Marvel. If you thought that was serious for a second, you're delusional. It's Rocket Raccoon. James Gunn is a brilliant man who wrote one of the most interesting characters in the MCU. So you might be thinking, hey Skipper, what scene are you going to cover with the rabbit hamster trash panda? That's the thing. Rocket is such a unique character. It's hard to describe just one great scene. There's scenes of redemption, confusion, guilt, awareness. You have his breaking point, his snapping point. There's just so much I have to say, so fuck just one Marvelous scene. Let's talk about one Marvelous character, Rocket. If you go in order of the films that include Rocket, you can tell right from the start there's some different traits and behavior that happen in each film. That's because he develops and progresses as a character within every movie. Yeah, Rocket can be cool because of his brains, his guns, this kick-ass scene, but what makes Rocket such a good character are his morals, his lessons, and his heart. When we're first introduced to Rocket, he's a hateful, selfish, and sadistic creature who doesn't care about anything or anyone else besides himself. You're some saint all of a sudden? What is the galaxy ever done for you? Why would you want to save it? Rocket's an unempathetic asshole who lacks social skills. Abla, we're all very fascinated, Whitey, but we like to get paid. Rocket is a Frankenstein's monster who has been ridiculed and mocked his whole life, causing him to always be a defensive, aggressive, and pessimistic creature. Rocket deals with hate and struggle that he's never asked for, but yeah he's forced to deal with, because he's unaware of himself, because he's never had anybody else in his life that cares enough to correct him besides a tree. The ending of Guardians 1 has Groot sacrificing himself and Rocket doesn't understand this. We are family, we are friends, we are Groot. Rocket doesn't understand selflessness and sacrifice because he's never had to, and when losing his friend, he breaks down. While mourning, Drax pets Rocket and Rocket lets it happen because Rocket now understands Drax's pain for when he mocked his dead wife and daughter earlier. Rocket understands true loss and now decides to share his pain, as hit tops films once said. Then Rocket decides to give a shit for once in his life and take a new chapter accepting his new friends and fathering baby Groot. In the next movie Rocket is now sarcastic instead of aggressive and conversates more. Rocket isn't drawing weapons and caring only about money, he's accepting his new friends instead and even takes the responsibility of keeping Groot safe. Showing he cares for someone other than himself now. Volume 2 chooses to build on Rocket's vulnerability, he isn't as selfish anymore but he's still an asshole and starts to push his friends away. Rocket still lacks sensitivity and doesn't know how to conversate without insensitive comments. Rocket makes jokes and quips about people's vulnerability because he's afraid of being vulnerable himself. The guardians are his only friends in life, Rocket doesn't hate them, he just doesn't understand why he is the way he is and struggles to put feelings towards. If I was forced to pick only one scene in this video, it would be Yondu confronting Rocket. Rocket's ego, narcissism, and feelings are confronted by someone who could relate with him in this scene. Rocket's been making excuses to not accept his feelings the whole movie. And when they're challenged, he gets emotional and scared. He attempts to name call and keep a hard attitude but he's truly afraid. Yondu pushes his friends away previously and he also dealt with neglect his whole life and Rocket sees this, he sees that he has a chance not to do the same thing and decides to accept his new friends and accept his emotions. Rocket becomes vulnerable. In the end of the movie, Rocket mourns Yondu who became his friend that he had to let die to save Quill so he could redeem himself. He becomes aware of the choices he's making in his life and is emotional to see that the friends Yondu pushed away came back. Coming to the realization that he has a chance to change before it's too late, he reflects the decisions he's made and Rocket has now learned and decided to change. And Quill lets Rocket know that he will never chase his family away, no matter what. The sadistic Frankenstein monster who mocked Drax's dead family who didn't give a shit about anything in life besides himself feels bad for being mean. Now that's character development. In Infinity War Rocket's more mature because of Volume 2, Thor calls him a rabbit and turns the other cheek. Thor mourns and Rocket doesn't make fun of him for being vulnerable because he understands where Thor is coming from. He even acknowledges that he has a lot he could lose in his life but then he loses it. His friends, his family, his child and like before Rocket is alone by himself, mourning, saddened and vulnerable. Rocket is one of the best written characters in the MCU for how much depth he has. His whole journey is pretty relatable, fuck I even named my dog after him. He could have been just a gun wielding asshole and still be loved if instead James Gunn gives Rocket more of a character in Volume 2. I love superheroes but without loss, challenge, sadness and vulnerability you get a hollow character that lacks relatability. That's why I did the Captain Marvel Gag because everyone in the MCU has challenge and vulnerability making them relatable because without that you don't have a hero.