89P13 (Earth-12041) VS A.J. Patton (Earth-616)

Born an ordinary Earth raccoon, the kit who would become Rocket was abducted by robot scientists from Halfworld, alongside his mother and siblings. The runt of his litter, Rocket displayed courage and heightened aggression, making him ideal for the robots' experiments in accelerating evolution and became genetically and cybernetically enhanced. There he became acquainted with Groot and the two rebelled against the machines and freed his fellow test subjects. Rocket, as the kit now called himself, escaped Halfworld with Groot. The two then began their new life as bounty hunters. The events that played out after this reflect similar to his MCU counterpart, via saving the galaxy from Ronan the Accuser who was perished as a result, which leads to him and Groot become founding members of the Guardians of the Galaxy alongside Star-Lord, Drax the Destroyer, Gamora. At some point, Rocket became a mentor of Nova when he joined the Guardians.

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A.J. went to Midtown High School alongside Peter Parker and Flash Thompson. Flash constantly bullied him for being different, to the extent he broke A.J.'s arm and had to wear it in a sling during graduation. At some point after he left the city and came back wanting to talk with Flash just after Flash' mother committed herself to get away from Venom. Flash was hesatent at first, but agreed and they met up in A.J.'s new apartment and he introduced Flash to his husband Dan. Flash was remorseful for the way he treated A.J. but A.J. said he had gotten over it and though there were bad days he was happy now. After a brief conversation, Dan asked for A.J.'s help in the kitchen and checked if everything was ok, since A.J. was lying and still was having nightmares about his torment and his arm had actually never recovered. A.J. however was searching for an apology since he felt pity for Flash in his current state.

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