Rocket (once again voiced by Bradley Cooper) has long been one of the more sympathetic characters in the MCU; writer-director James Gunn has gone as far as to call him the heart of the Guardians. And so there’s a very brief, but touching, moment when Rocket talks to Thor about what’s happened to Asgard and his family (planet destroyed, everybody murdered).
Rocket doesn’t say explicitly that the same thing has happened to him, but we know he’s a one-of-a-kind genetic experiment that has gone through all sorts of pain (both emotional and physical). This scene is about what’s unspoken as much as what’s spoken; all the hurt and sadness that hangs in the air between characters. And it’s part of what makes "Infinity War" so special.
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