Where does Yondu's arrow come from?

The arrows are made of Yaka (or trillite) metal that is extremely receptive to sound and only found on Centauri IV. Since the substance is extremely rare, Yondu makes a habit of retrieving the 15-inch arrows from his fallen victims.
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Where did the Yaka Arrow come from?

The Yaka Arrow was created on planet Centauri-IV by the native race, the Centaurians. Yaka is a rare element only found on their homeworld. Yondu uses a 5-foot single curve bow. A yaka arrow can actually change its direction (but not speed) in response to certain high-octave whistle-sounds some Centaurians can produce.
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How does Yondu make his arrow fly?

2. In the film, Yondu's headpiece is damaged, and without it, he no longer has control of the arrow. James Gunn explains on Twitter that the headpiece is the part that actually picks up the sound of Yondu's whistle, which it then translates into control of the yaka arrow wirelessly.
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Is Yondu's Arrow Magic?

Yondu is so skillful at controlling his arrows, he can cause an arrow to return to his hand or weave its way through a crowd of people without touching them.
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What is the red thing on Yondu's head?

History. The Yaka Arrow Controller is a cerebral implant that allows an individual to control the Yaka Arrow. It is directed through whistling. Despite the implant being connected to the brain, Yondu claimed to control the arrow with his heart, not his head.
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Is Yondu's arrow indestructible?

Yondu's arrows in the comics are powerful but they do have their limits and cannot fly indefinitely.
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Is Yondu a Kree?

Yondu was sold into slavery as a Kree battle slave by his own parents, when he was young. He had been a battle slave for twenty years by the time Stakar Ogord found and freed him, becoming his mentor. Yondu then became a Ravager.
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Is Star-Lord immortal?

It's yes. Well J'son never appeared in the MCU and Peter is a celestial hybrid, his source of celestial power was his dad, Ego so when Ego died the source also died so Peter is pretty much a normal human being.
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Why is Yondu arrow so powerful?

With self-propelling and extremely modulated anti-gravitational technology, the arrows themselves are able to defy gravity and move freely through the air at great speeds as well as being highly durable and sharp, allowing them to pierce through most targets, including the hull of a spacecraft.
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Why does Yondu wear a fin?

He needs the Fin in order to get access to the arrow. When he's 'aiming' or 'firing' he does it instinctively, not by thinking about what he's doing. It's similar to athletes who access their muscle memory to perform a task.
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What is Yondus fin?

Yondu's trademark fin or crest is known as a Tahlei and is made up of compressed hair follicles.
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Why is Yondu called Mary Poppins?

When Peter and Yondu are floating down to safety from their destroyed spacecraft, his adopted son calls him "Mary Poppins", a reference to the character from the film of the same name.
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What race is Drax?

Drax comes from the Kylosian people, a race of primitives who are considered naïve and hopelessly underdeveloped by the more advanced galactic groups. As a result, Drax is extremely unaware of basic concepts such as metaphors and customs.
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Is Yondu Star-Lord's dad?

Yondu Udonta

However, Yondu broke the code after stealing several children from their homeworlds and giving them to their father, Ego the Living Planet. However, after learning Ego was killing his own children, Yondu became the adoptive father of Peter Quill (one of Ego's children) and trained him as a Ravager.
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Was Peter quills dad a Celestial?

Ego was a Celestial, a primordial and powerful being, and the biological father of Peter Quill.
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Can Peter Quill still hold the Infinity Stone?

6. If he had to, would Peter Quill still be able to handle an Infinity Stone? No, probably not. It's very clear that Quill has lost all his celestial powers by killing his father, so he likely wouldn't be able to handle an Infinity Stone as he did in the original movie.
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Is Peter Quill half Celestial?

Peter Quill was born in late 1980 to Meredith Quill and Ego, making him a hybrid of human and Celestial. His conception was all part of a plot set up by his father to produce a second Celestial, whose power he could use to complete the Expansion, which involved assimilating millions of worlds into Ego's very being.
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Was nebula a Kree?

Before she was bald, she had a more glamorous appearance

If you're familiar with the alien races of the Marvel Universe, you might guess that Nebula's blue skin means that she's a Kree, like Ronan the Accuser. In fact, she's from a race called the Luphomoids.
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How did Yondu get his scars?

Yondu received multiple scars (probably from several beatings) and eventually lost his fin. For twenty years, Yondu was a Kree Battle Slave. However, he was one day freed by a man named Stakar Ogord who offered Yondu a place among the Ravagers.
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What alien race is Nebula?

Nebula was born to the Luphomoids, a race of humanoid aliens with blue and purple skin. Some time ago, Thanos killed her family and adopted her as a daughter, raising her to be a galactic warrior on his behalf.
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How long can Peter Quill live?

It's been noted that inhabitants of Spartax have lifespans three times longer than humans, so Quill might have something like 1.5 times the normal human life. A full two times, even. If the average human lifespan is something like 70 years old, this means that Peter Quill could live anywhere from 115-140 years.
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