Michael Rooker: Yondu
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[Yondu is floating in the air, hanging on his arrow]
Peter Quill : You look like Mary Poppins.
Yondu : Is he cool?
Peter Quill : Hell yeah, he's cool.
Yondu : I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!
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Yondu : He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn't your daddy.
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Baby Groot : I am Groot.
Yondu : What's that?
Rocket : He says, "Welcome to the frickin' Guardians of the Galaxy." Only he didn't use "frickin'."
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Yondu : I don't use my head to fly the arrow, boy! I use my heart.
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Yondu : [to Peter] I'm sorry I didn't do none of it right, but I'm damn proud you're my boy.
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Yondu : You can fool yourself and everyone else, but you can't fool me. I know who you are.
Rocket : You don't know anything about me, loser.
Yondu : I know everything about you. I know you play like you're the meanest and the hardest but actually you're the most scared of all.
Rocket : Shut up!
Yondu : I know you steal batteries you don't need and you push away anyone who's willing to put up with you 'cause just a little bit of love reminds you of how big and empty that hole inside you actually is.
Rocket : I said shut up!
Yondu : I know them scientists what made you, never gave a rat's ass about you!
Rocket : I'm serious, dude!
Yondu : Just like my own damn parents who sold me, their own little baby, into slavery! I know who you are, boy, because you're me!
Rocket : ...What kind of a pair are we?
Yondu : The kind that's about to go fight a planet, I reckon.
Rocket : All right, okay! Good, that's... Wait. Fight a what?
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Yondu : You can go to hell, then! I don't give a damn what you think of me!
Stakar Ogord : So what are you following us for?
Yondu : Because you're gonna listen to what I gotta say!
Stakar Ogord : I don't gotta listen to nothing! You betrayed the code! Ravagers don't deal in kids.
Yondu : I told you before! I didn't know what was going on!
Stakar Ogord : You didn't know because you didn't want to know because it made you rich.
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Yondu : [crashes into Ego's palace] Hey, there, jackass!
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Yondu : I ain't done nothing right in my whole life Rat. You gotta give me this.
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[Yondu and Rocket are held captive in a cage. Yondu notices Groot walking nearby]
Yondu : Psst! Hey, twig! Come here. Come on.
[Groot approaches the cage. He looks sad]
Rocket : [sighs] Aw, man... what did they do to you?
Yondu : [smiles] Hey, you wanna help us get outta here?
[Groot nods]
Yondu : There's something I need you to get, and bring back to me. In the captain's quarters, there's a prototype fin... the thing I wore on my head. There's a drawer next to the bunk. It's in that. It's red. You got it?
[Groot nods and rushes away. Yondu smiles, thinking the problem is solved. Rocket rolls his eyes and sighs. Groot quietly passes by the sleeping Ravagers. He returns with... Yondu's underwear. Rocket facepalms]
Yondu : [dryly] That's my underwears.
Rocket : Yeah, I was pretty sure he didn't know what you were talkin' about. You have to explain it more careful.
Yondu : [slowly] It's a prototype fin.
[Groot brings a orloni. The rodent screeches furiously, attempting to break free]
Rocket : That's an orloni. It's a fin, Groot.
Yondu : You explain it this time.
Rocket : All right.
[next, Groot brings a prosthetic eye]
Yondu : That's Vorker's eye. He takes it out when he sleeps. Go. Look again.
[Groot starts walking away]
Rocket : But leave the eye here.
Yondu : Why?
Rocket : [laughs] He's gonna wake up tomorrow... and he's not gonna know... where his eye is! Ha-ha-ha!
[next, Groot brings a desk. Yondu and Rocket nearly freak out]
Yondu : That's a desk.
Rocket : [to Groot] We told you it was this big.
[next, Groot brings a severed human toe. Yondu and Rocket feel sick]
Rocket : Tell me you guys have a refrigerator somewhere... with a bunch of severed human toes.
[Yondu shakes his head]
Rocket : Okay. Then let's just agree to never discuss this.
[Yondu removes a leaf-shaped ornament from his suit and shows it to Groot]
Yondu : The drawer you wanna open has this symbol on it. Okay?
[Yondu hands the ornament to Groot. Groot examines it, confused, then places it on his head]
Yondu : What? No!
Rocket : He thinks you want him to wear it as a hat.
Yondu : [angrily] That's not what I said!
Groot : I am Groot.
Rocket : He's relieved you don't want him to.
Groot : I am Groot.
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Yondu : [to Rocket] I was a Kree battle slave for twenty years when Stakar freed me. He offered me a place with the Ravagers. Said all I needed to do was adhere to the code. But I was young... and greedy, and stupid. Like you stealing those batteries.
Rocket : That was mostly Drax.
Yondu : Me and Stakar and the other captains... we weren't so different from you and your friends. The only family I ever had. But I broke the code... they exiled me. This is what I deserve.
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Peter Quill : [as they fight Ego] Guess I should be glad I was a skinny kid. Otherwise, you'd have delivered me to this maniac.
Yondu : You still reckon that's the reason I kept you around, you idiot?
Peter Quill : That's what you told me, you old doofus.
Yondu : Once I figured out what happened to them other kids, I wasn't just gonna hand you over!
Peter Quill : You said you were going to eat me!
Yondu : That was being funny.
Peter Quill : Not to me!
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Rocket : He hates hats.
Groot : I am Groot.
Rocket : On anyone, not just himself.
Groot : I am Groot.
Rocket : One minute you think someone has a weird-shaped head... the next minute it's just because you realize part of that head is the hat. That's why you don't like hats?
[Groot nods]
Yondu : [impatiently] This is an important conversation right now?
[Groot goes again. He finds a drawer with a symbol similar to the shape of the ornament Yondu gave him. After making sure the ornament matches the symbol, Groot extends his arms and opens the drawer. He searches its contents and retrieves... a small box of candies. Groot rejoices, when suddenly he hears a voice near him]
Kraglin : That ain't it.
[Kraglin finds the fin. He approaches the cage with Groot and hands the fin to Yondu. Yondu glares at him]
Kraglin : [ashamed] I didn't mean to do a mutiny. They killed all my friends.
[pause]
Yondu : [sharply] Get the third quadrant ready for release.
[Kraglin salutes and places Groot behind the bars of the cage, then starts walking away]
Rocket : One more thing.
[Kraglin stops]
Rocket : You got any clones of Quill's old music on the ship?
[Kraglin looks strangely at Rocket]
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Yondu : I demand a seat at the table! I wear these flames, same as you!
Stakar Ogord : You may dress like us! But you'll never hear the Horns of Freedom when you die, Yondu. And the Colors of Ogord will never flash over your grave.
[Stakar grabs Yondu by the lapels]
Stakar Ogord : If you think I take pleasure in exiling you, you're wrong. You broke all our hearts.
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Yondu : So why'd Ego want you here?
Peter Quill : He needs my genetic connection to The Light to help destroy the universe. He tried to teach me how to control the power.
Yondu : So could you?
Peter Quill : A little... I made a ball.
Yondu : [in disbelief] A ball?
Peter Quill : I thought as hard as I could, that's all I could come up with.
Yondu : You 'thought'? You think when I make this arrow fly, I use my head?
