Who is Mantis?
Mantis is a Marvel character known for being a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Actress Pom Klementieff has been hired to play a character in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 that could be Mantis.
Real Name: Surname is Brandt first name unknown
Aliases: Celestial Madonna
First Appearance: Avengers #112
Species: Kree / Cotati
Mantis Multi-Media:
Bio:
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| Mantis watering Groot |
Mantis's father is the German mercenary Gustav Brandt who marries a the sister of a Vietemese Warlord named Lua. Lua's brother Monsieur Khruul disaproves of his sister's marraige to Gustav and hunts the pair throughout Asia. During their time together Gustav and Lua have a child together. All does not end well though Khruul catches up to them burns down their home killing Lua and blinding Gustav.
Gustav finds sanctuary in with a group of monks called the Priests of Pama. The Priests of Pama are renegade group of Kree who are attempting to bring back an ancient alien race known as the Cotati. The Cotati were a sentient tree like race that shared the Kree homeworld. The Kree nearly wiped them out except for those preserved by the Priests of Pama.
She is trained by the group to become the Celestial Madaonna or to effectively mate and recreate the Cotati. Mantis is trained heavily in meditation, and martial arts of the Kree as well as telepathic abilities of Cotati. The group eventually releases her to live a normal life amongst humans while they train their 2nd candidate Moondragon. The group hopes that by Mantis living a life among-st humans she will learn humility. empathy and understanding. Moondragon is never able to learn these things and so in the end Mantis is selected as the Celestial Madonna. This comes at a stiff price though as her human life is somewhat brutal living as a house girl in a brothel in Ho Chi Minh city.
She later joins the Avengers where she eventually reunites with her father who had become the Zodiac member Libra. Libra tells Mantis her full forgotten history with the Priests of Pama. Mantis re-meets what is left with the Priests of Pama. In a special ceremony she units with the last of the Cotati and becomes a big ball of energy. In this form she helps restart the Cotati. She eventually regains her corpreal form though her skin becomes green and has antennae.
Guardians of the Galaxy:
She is brought back and has become a regular telepath on the Guardians of the Galaxy team along with Moondragon. Peter Quill finds her in a Kree prison and once freed she joins StarLord's team of intergalactic misfits. It is revealed that Quill at one point has Mantis use her powers to manipulate the members to joining the Guardians of Galaxy.
Powers and Abilities:
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| I know Martial Arts |
- Pyrokinesis
- Precognitive abilties
- High level empathy-ability to sense weak points in adversaries
- Telepathic
- Martial Arts
- Meditative abilities that give her vast control of her body, even involuntary functions like heartbeat.
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| James Gunn release this photo of a scene sketch from gotg 2 depicting Mantis |
It also seems that Mantis will feature her antenna based off a sketch of a Guardians of the Galaxy 2 released by Director James Gunn it seems that Mantis will have antennas like her comic counterpart.
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