Marvel introduces a new character who promises to please the audience

 

So, with the seemingly perfect non-necessity of everything that happens in the frame, the animated show has created a curious contradiction, which I suggest you think about. In the final episode, it suddenly turned out that, perhaps, Baby Groot is not a baby at all, but a fully grown individual with age–old memories.

What am I talking about? In the last episode of the short launch season, we see how Groot is visited by inspiration and he tries to create a work of art from improvised means. The creative impulse leads to a lot of funny situations – the rocket loses a tuft of hair from its tail, Drax remains without purple soap, and a dangerous hole forms in the ship – but the result exceeds all expectations. But the same result generates a paradox that calls into question the appearance of Baby Groot and, accordingly, the role of big Groot in the first "Guardians of the Galaxy".

The improvised postcard, which Groot made in his solo series, depicts Star Lord, Gamora, Rocket and Drax, who are hugged by a noticeably more massive Groot with large arms-branches. This whole composition resembles the climactic scene from Guardians of the Galaxy, in which drevarch saved his friends (or even family, may Vin Diesel forgive me such blasphemy) from certain death by enclosing them in a tree sphere. Previously, it was believed that that – big–Groot died, but Rocket raised a Baby from his surviving twigs, continuing the genus of a strange tree humanoid.

It is characteristic that James Gunn, when asked who the big and little Groot are to each other, unequivocally stated that "The first Groot is dead, and the new Groot is his descendant." Also, from the director's point of view, the Kid could not remember anything about the events of the first film, he is being brought up from scratch, rediscovering the world for himself and fitting into the team of Guardians. This was the case until recently, and although it has not yet been officially confirmed whether the series "I am Groot" is included in the canon of the Marvel Cinematic universe, the detail with the postcard changes the idea of the character.

It is possible that the Baby Groot is indeed a descendant of the Big Groot, but do we all know how the memory and mind of this biological species are arranged? After all, living walking trees are not so common not only in reality, but even in fiction. Perhaps their minds are distributed in a cellular way among all individuals. Maybe all the "drevarchs" have common "virtual roots" through which the knowledge of one individual is transmitted to another. Finally, one cannot completely abandon the idea that the memory of the Big Groot is stored in every cell or DNA chain – and since the Baby Groot was grown from the "seedling" of its predecessor, then the memory was inherited by him.

You can come up with explanations for a strange drawing as much as you like, but it's better to wait for the studio's comment – usually such things quickly receive official confirmation or refutation. In any case, the touching scene with Rocket, who, clearly remembering an old friend, says to the Kid: "Look, you're already quite big here", is the best Easter egg of recent years inserted into Marvel projects. Even if the animated series of short films "I am Groot" is deleted from the number of full–fledged spinoffs of the main franchise, the series can be remembered with warmth - none of the heroes who dropped out of the Avengers Universe was awarded such a nice mention.