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Groot’s Guardians Of The Galaxy Death Was More Permanent Than It Seems
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
At the end of "Guardians of the Galaxy," a crashing starship plummets to the surface of a nearby planet containing the trapped guardians.
Groot (Vin Diesel) sprouts extra limbs and leaves, cocooning his teammates. Groot's protective tree layer shields everyone from death, but he burns up in the process.
Seeing as Groot is a tree, Rocket salvages one of his seeds and plants it in a flower pot. Groot soon begins growing back as a little chibi-faced sapling.
James Gunn, writer/director of "Guardians of the Galaxy," clarified that Groot died and remained dead, and what grew out of the flower pot was a new character entirely.
Gunn continued "The first Groot sacrificed himself and died and gave birth to this Groot who is not a genetic replica of the first Groot.”
“I have reasons in my mind why I think that's the case. I have a whole background for the character, but it is probably not ever going to be shared. But he is a different Groot."