Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles/Welcome to the Jungle

Welcome to the Jungle is the 12th episode of the Guardians of the Galaxy's arc in Marvel: All New, All Different Chronicles.

Featured Characters

 * Guardians of the Galaxy
 * Star-Lord / Nathan Quill
 * Gamora / Zoe Gillan
 * Cougar
 * Mantis
 * Eros the Star Fox (first appearance) (flashback and main story) (joins team)
 * Drax the Destroyer
 * Rocket Raccoon / Sebastian Allan
 * Groot
 * Nebula
 * Yondu Udonta

Supporting Characters

 * Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
 * White Tiger / Ava Ayala (first appearance)
 * Soto (first appearance)
 * S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy
 * Reptil / Humberto Lopez (first appearance)
 * Snow Leopard / Sally Avril

Antagonists

 * Mainframe (single appearance; flashback and main story; dies)
 * Midas the Lion (single appearance; flashback and main story; deceased)
 * Halfworld Robots (destroyed)
 * White Rabbit / Lorina Dodson (first full appearance; first appearance as White Rabbit)
 * Thanos
 * Mysterio / Quentin Beck
 * Chitauri

Other Characters

 * Carlie Cooper
 * Peter Parker (mentioned only)
 * Flash Thompson (mentioned only)

Plot
Nathan Quill / Star-Lord and Gamora / Zoe Gillan are training alongside S.H.I.E.L.D. Academy's new trainee Humberto Lopez / Reptil while Mary Jane Watson / Tigra and Sally Avril / Snow Leopard are in the Titanian Tiger village, having a friendly exercise with Mary Jane's half-sister and Chief Soto's firstborn daughter Ava Ayala / White Tiger. Training goes on uninterrupted until the trio end up having to chase after rampaging super-criminal Lorina Dodson / White Rabbit. Nearby, a male red fox is seeking a place to rest in New York until he overhears the event and goes to investigate.

White Rabbit uses carrot-like drones and her giant robot "Big Foot" to provide a distraction so she can escape. Her plan is put in jeopardy when the fox steps in her way, causing White Rabbit (who, suffering from a mental illness which often causes her think and act like a actual rabbit, has a morbit fear of canines; especially foxes) to faint in panic attacks. As the unconscious White Rabbit is carried to jail, Star-Lord, Gamora and Reptil greet the fox, who (revealing that he can talk like humans) introduces himself as Eros the Star-Fox, an alien and inhabitant of Halfworld, a planet of anthropomorphic animals (with very few of them like Eros having super-powers). Regrouping with the rest of the Guardians of the Galaxy (Drax the Destroyer, Cougar, Rocket Raccoon, Nebula, Mantis, Yondu Udonta and Groot) Mary Jane, Sally, and Ava in the Titanian Tiger village, Nathan and Zoe overhear more from Eros,wwho also informs him that his homeplanet was conquered by Mainframe, an artificial intelligence system which was once created by the Kree Empire to establish world order until it rebelled against its creators, who forcibly discarded it on Halfworld. Overhearing their conversation, Soto reveals that Halfworld is also the location of the Scepter of Durga, a Titan relic which connects the Earth tribe's village with the ones of other Titanian Tigers scattered across the galaxy, and will bring doom to their race if in the hands of hostile forces like Mainframe... or Thanos. Elsewhere, Thanos is informed of Mainframe's power in Halfworld, and assigns Mysterio to retrieve it.

Followed by Tigra, Reptil, White Tiger, Snow Leopard and Eros, the Guardians set course to Halfworld. Upon landing, they split in small teams: one to sneak into Mainframe's fortress, one to free the captive animals, one to secure the Scepter of Durga. During the mission, while they progressively liberate the planet's grounds from Mainframe's forces, the Guardians also learn more of Eros' origins, as the only fox from Halfworld who was born with super-powers, and sadly, also the last one residing on the planet; some of other foxes were exterminated, most of them were banished to other planets, and with Eros being wanted by the leaders for his powers; all by the orders of the planet's tyrannical Emperor Midas the Lion, who was later overthrown by Mainframe. Overhearing this, Nathan and Zoe begin discussing what they should do for Eros while Mantis (haring sympathy with him as an outcast ) comforts him. Just then, Mysterio and his Elementals arrive in Halfworld and go for a rampage, attracting Mainframe in the progress. Tigra and White Tiger locate the Scepter and shrink it into the Quantum Realm with their Pym Particle devices, and also battle the Elementals and Mainframe's robots. Star-Lord and Gamora search for Mainframe's core in the main building, where they are ambushed by the animals who were brainwashed into mindless cyborgs; including the one being used as Mianframe's heart and core: Midas. Just then, Eros bursts in, demanding Star-Lord and Gamora to do move on while he will handle this.

While Star-Lord and Gamora confront Mainframe in its main body, Eros and the roboticized Midas engage in a destructive fight across the jungle, as Midas (who is revealed to have been just enhanced, not really brainwashed) taunting that the foxes were "parasites" for Halfworld and deserved execution and exile, while Eros in turn spitefully voices his opinions of Midas having forsaken not only foxes, but all animals for Mainframe, calling him a greedy coward. Reptil, Mantis and Groot join Eros in the fight and they incapacitate Midas, allowing Nebula to damage Midas' cybernetic implants, killing him an weakening Mainframe, which then explodes and severely injures Mysterio, forcing him to retreat. Though pleased that the brainwashed animals are returning to normal, Eros still believes that he has no place on Halfworld and decides to exile himself. However, Nathan and Gamora, having decided that he needs a new home and family, invite him to join the Guardians and offer him a home in Pegasus Z, which Eros genuinely and gratefully accepts. Back on Earth, Mary Jane and Ava deliver the Scepter of Durga to their father, who sets out to have a reunion with the leaders of other Titanian Tiger tribes over where to relocate the Scepter. The young heroes later visit Pegasus Z, where Eros is peacefully enjoying his new home with Groot, Nebula and Mantis.

Voice Cast

 * Scott Menville as Star-Lord / Nathan Quill
 * Laura Bailey as Gamora / Zoe Gillan
 * Sean Astin as Eros the Star Fox
 * Ashley Johnson as Tigra / Mary Jane Watson
 * Caitlyn Taylor Love as White Tiger / Ava Ayala
 * Jessica DiCicco as Mantis
 * Troy Baker as Rocket Raccoon / Sebastian Allan
 * Travis Willingham as Groot, Soto
 * Erica Lindbeck as Nebula
 * William Salyers as Yondu Udonta
 * Lacey Chabert as Snow Leopard / Sally Avril
 * Antony Del Rio as Reptil / Humberto Lopez
 * Tara Strong as Carlie Cooper
 * Kat Cressida as White Rabbit / Lorina Dodson
 * Fred Tatasciore as Mysterio / Quentin Beck, Midas the Lion
 * Michael-Leon Wooley as Thanos

Trivia

 * The episode is entitled after "Welcome to the Jungle", an hard rock song by Guns N' Roses.
 * Eros standing against Midas is a homage to Star-Lord standing against Ego in 

Featured Songs

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