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Michael Rooker (born April 6, 1955) is an American actor who mainly plays roles of antagonists. He first rose to prominence for portraying the titular role in Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (1986) and is best known for starring as Merle Dixon in the AMC series The Walking Dead (2010–2013) and as Yondu Udonta in Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), followed by its sequels Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023). He is a recurring collaborator of Guardians of the Galaxy director and co-CEO of DC Studios, James Gunn, appearing in all of his films to date, including Slither (2006), Super (2010), and The Suicide Squad (2021). Rooker's other notable roles include Chick Gandil in Eight Men Out (1988), Frank Bailey in Mississippi Burning (1988), Terry Cruger in Sea of Love (1989), Rowdy Burns in Days of Thunder (1990), Bill Broussard in JFK (1991), Hal Tucker in Cliffhanger (1993), Sherman McMaster in Tombstone (1993), Jared Svenning in Mallrats (1995), Detective Edward Kennesaw in Deceiver (1997), Detective Howard Cheney in The Bone Collector (1999), Detective Jake Riley in Replicant (2001), and Buddy in F9 (2021).
Michael Rooker
Yondu
for Yondu in THE LEGENDARY STAR-LORD (MCU Marvel Studios)
Suggested by enzotakerian
This is the continuing story of Peter Quill/Star-Lord after the Guardians part ways and he let Gamora go. He now lives with his grandfather back on Earth in Missouri. He's more depressed since he lost his mother, had to kill his father, lost his girlfriend who came back from another timeline and doesn't want to date him, and he and his friends parted ways. One of his late mother's ex-lovers does something bad to the Quill house. Also, Grandpa Quill has a complicated past, and enemies from his past are coming after him. Unfortunately, Peter's ex-lovers from space have tracked him down and they want to kill him. What will he do now since he's going solo and he's outnumbered. What if after the prologue, the opening credits will show Star-Lord having a spaceship race, and we hear "Footloose" by Kenny Loggins? At one point, while going through jump points, Peter and Grandpa get stuck in a different dimension where he sees a different version of his biological dad, who is an emperor named J'Son. What if the Eternals are involved because of the revelation of Eros, the brother of Thanos? What if they also talk about the dangerous relic called the Black Vortex?
