James Gunn Says There Are Two Totally different Groots In Guardians Of The Galaxy

For a lot of, in fact, this isn’t new. Gunn as soon as stated in a now-deleted Tweet from 2018 that Child Groot, as he appeared in “Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2” was not a resurrected Groot, however ought to be considered as Groot’s son. The difficulty was possible confused as a result of each characters had the identical title, had been performed by the identical actor, nonetheless solely spoke one line of dialogue (“I’m Groot”), and had just about the identical persona. Child Groot was a brand new character, however not in any manner that one would possibly discover. 

On the “Vol. 3” commentary, Gunn reiterated: 

“Right here we see Groot reconstituting himself. He is rising again all through the film. Groot, in fact, is now Younger-Grownup Groot. Generally we name him ‘Swole Groot.’ He’s Child Groot, uh, in a youthful grownup state. And I believe we begin to see right here actually that this Groot just isn’t the identical Groot from the primary film. Many individuals consider that the primary Groot was simply reborn on this new form. Um, that’s not the case. This can be a completely totally different Groot than the primary Groot.”

Completely totally different. 

Gunn then implied that he had written an advanced backstory for Groot, and had stable storytelling causes for changing Groot with a precise duplicate. In Marvel comics, Groot first appeared in 1960, though the model from Gunn’s movie was extrapolated from a 2006 reinvention of the character.