User blog:MuckObtuse/Ranger Raccoon

Ranger Raccoon made his debut appearance a couple months ago in 'Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy' season 1 episode 9 'We are Family'. Sadly it appears that this may be the last appearance of Ranger for they seem to have brought his story to an abrupt end. For those of you who do not know Ranger is the oldest sibling of Rocket. Now in an earlier short Rocket was separated from his family; his mother, his big sister, and his big brother Ranger. Rocket was taken away and "evolved" while his family was left behind as normal raccoons when Rocket managed to escape his captures his family left him because he was different now. Well time passed and 'We are Family' came along and his entire family had been evolved. Now Rocket's mother, Ma, and sister, Sis, where not very interesting characters. Although, I thought Ranger was an exceptional character. He seemed to have many heroic qualities that his little brother and the rest of the Guardians lack. Ranger was shown to be a loving family man, doing anything to keep his family safe and wanting to capture the moment when he was reunited with his little brother. Even if it meant defying his little brother and allowing himself to be transformed into a monster to keep his family alive. I also thought Ranger showed nobility by risking his life to save his mother and sister. Although, Ranger was ultimately defeated when Rocket sided with his enemies and decided to "devolve" everyone who had been evolved. Ranger who for a minute was turned back into a normal anthropomorphic raccoon willing accepted his defeat thinking that his entire family would be reunited as normal raccoons. Rocket also thought this would happen and was ready to accept his life as an animal again, but to his dismay he discovered that he alone remained evolved while his family reverted back to normal, once again leaving Rocket because he was too different. This ending I believe destroyed the story line and made Ranger seem like an insignificant side character. Although, I believe Ranger deserves another chance at life he was a noble man who only wanted to protect his family, but was punished in the end. It seems Ranger who was so pleased when his family was finally reunited will never get his little brother back. Therefore, I am asking you to do whatever you can to bring this heroic raccoon back. All I am asking for is Ranger to be evolved once more in order for him to be able to spread his heroism throughout the universe. Now whether this is in a cartoon where Ranger, and hopefully Ma and Sis, are evolved once more and reunited with Rocket, or if a mini-comic is made where Ranger makes his comic-book debut and remains evolved I don't care. I just think that Ranger who appears to be an archetypal Shakespearean hero deserves the shot at life he was robbed. Now as a response to this episode I have been working on my own Ranger comic everyday since I initially watched the episode. Ranger was such a great character and I think it is terrible to destroy the mind of someone related to the great Bill Mantlo's iconic character Rocket Raccoon. All in all, I do not believe Ranger deserved his fate and I hope I have convinced whoever reads this that Ranger deserves a second chance.