GROOT

 

GROOT

Real Name: Groot

First Appearance: Tales to Astonish (Vol. 1) #13, November 1960

Powers: Groot is a Floral Colossus, and the monarch of Planet X (Tahlunia) Groot has a massive body composed of dense wood with a tough bark hide and branch-like protrusions, giving Groot extraordinary strength and durability. Groot can absorb water and other nutrients through Groot's flesh in order to survive, heal, and grow to even greater heights. Groot can also absorb inanimate sources of wood into Groot's body to increase Groot's mass, or mentally animate trees from a distance, directing them to move according to Groot's will. A small sprig or branch of Groot's body can broken off and restructure itself into a fully animated duplicate of Groot's main form. Groot uses this ability to survive fatal injuries, detaching a portion of Groot to continue living even after Groot's original body is destroyed. Groot has so far not demonstrated the ability to animate several bodies simultaneously, only consecutively, abandoning one body in favor of another. Depending on the size of the sprig, Groot's new body is often quite small until Groot absorbs enough water and nutrients to accelerate Groot's growth.

Groot is highly intelligent and has a tremendous grasp of quasi-dimensional super-positional engineering. Despite his intelligence, Groot's robust and heavyweight physiology causes the organs of his acoustic generation to become stiff and inflexible, rendering the limits of his speech to the simple phrase, "I am Groot.”