Yondu Udonta

Played by Michael Rooker

Yondu Udonta is the captain of a Ravager clan who abducted Peter Quill from Earth as a child on behalf of Ego, but chose to raise the boy himself rather than deliver him to his father once he learned Ego's true, murderous intentions. Exiled from the wider Ravager fleet for the child-trafficking he refused to go through with, he ultimately sacrificed his own life using his last breath of oxygen to save Peter. Read more →

First turns up in Guardians of the Galaxy.