I think one of the reasons I like Yondu so much is because his redemption was done so well and I think one of the reasons it works is because he’s a character that could be redeemed. He also admits he messed up. He tells Rocket that he was ‘greedy and stupid’ when it came to delivering Ego’s children to him. Now a cold hearted asshole would have just turned Peter over and taken the money. The Ravagers had already exiled him so what more could he lose? But instead, he keeps Peter. Yondu even admits to Peter that he wasn’t the best father too.
The reason his redemption works so damn well is that he doesn’t think he deserves it and is fine with losing his life to save Peter. That makes a good character. That makes a redemption worthwhile.
yondu udonta
When your space-dad lowkey likes your tunes….
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Okay, but Yondu putting the space mask on Peter at the end of GotG2, all the while remembering how he’d come rushing to save Peter in the first movie, after Peter took off his mask to save Gamora and almost suffocated in space. He saved his son from dying in space once, he was damn well gonna do it again. -forlorn-kumquat
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(But I wonder, if he saw Peter doing that to save a woman he barely knew and was proud, even though he couldn’t show it. If he actually learned from Peter without even realizing it.)
possibly one of the biggest Moments in the whole of GOTG2 for me is when Yondu gives Peter the last spacesuit and Peter almost immediately, without even thinking about it, tries to take it off and give it back, even though that would almost certainly mean his death.
It says so much about their relationship, and about Peter as a person too.
aaaaaaa, THIS. ALL OF THIS. I will never be over how Peter’s first reaction as soon as he realizes what’s happening is to try to rip off the spacesuit and sacrifice himself for Yondu instead. (And Yondu knows that he tried, which somehow matters a lot to me – they never really got to have a relationship once they both got what they were to each other, how important they were to each other, but they did have that at the very end.)
I can’t stop thinking about this – that that was probably the last thing Yondu ever saw, Peter being so desperate to save him (and Yondu is someone he’d really be fairly justified in hating, and Yondu knows that…) that he was willing to die. That’s such a huge thing. Peter got most of his goodness from Meredith, of course, but – shall I quote the Return of the Jedi novelisation, a sentence I totally don’t know off by heart? This boy was good, and this boy had come from him, so there had to be good in him, too…
Yondu did do one thing right, it was Peter.
possibly one of the biggest Moments in the whole of GOTG2 for me is when Yondu gives Peter the last spacesuit and Peter almost immediately, without even thinking about it, tries to take it off and give it back, even though that would almost certainly mean his death.
It says so much about their relationship, and about Peter as a person too.
I feel like Yondu is bad at being a “dad” but good at being a “mom” and when he accepts that’s what he is that’s when he becomes a force for good -creepingmonsterism
That’s a very good point, and I suspect it ties into vol2′s theme of how, well, toxic toxic masculinity is…
