(Slight spoilers for GotG 2)
You know, it’s understandable that Yondu keeps his name in the cinematic universe, since it’s his name in all the GotG media… but I do wonder, with his backstory as a battle slave and being sold as a baby already – where did he get his name from, at least in the MCU?
I don’t understand much about slavery, but I think slavers would only give their “property” a name so that they can directly call them. There’s not much to the name – it could even be a number, a color, or just a job description. It’s not like the owner will care about a good and real name for his slaves.
It would make sense when someone named him “Yondu”, at least so that they had something to call the Centaurian by.
Yondu, however, has a family name, too. “Udonta”.
So I’m here wondering – who gave him that name?
Yondu himself? Did Stakar’s crew name him properly, because he was now free and not a slave anymore and deserved a name? Did they join forces and did some research of Yondu’s background, about his homeplanet, his family, and really gave him the name he would have gotten if he had gotten to grow up normally? Or did
someone else name him?Marvel, James Gunn, I need a movie with Yondu’s backstory, please and thank you.
And one with Kid Peter and the Ravagers, too, while we’re at it.
I thought about this too… My headcanon’s a little weak, but i think he named HIMSELF Yondu Udonta.
Like, say there was another Yondu Udonta from long ago who was a great warrior and when *our* Yondu was saved, he got to pick a new name to start his new life. He chooses a name of a warrior, one that the other slaves spoke of with awe…this warrior is a legend, his stories passed down for generations and was saved from being lost by those that knew life BEFORE the Kree…
and it fits him, because he is strong, he has endured, and he becomes a legend in his own right.
This is not only a good headcanon, it is also by far the most elegant way I’ve ever seen of working Original ‘60s Not A Space Pirate Yondu into the MCU.
And at some point in the far distant future, the legends of the two warriors of the same name will merge and he will come to be known as immortal.
One of the reasons why the “second” – our – Yondu’s story becomes a legend at all being the fact that he was tightly linked with the Guardians of the Galaxy, whose story evolves into a stellar legend pretty fast…
… And on top of that, he is known as Starlord’s father, which makes him just all the more important.