She is a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy with empathic powers and is the paternal half-sister of its leader, Peter Quill. Introduced in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), she is an alien ward of Ego with the power to control the emotions of people by touch. She is commonly depicted as having a naive and innocent personality.

Mantis is a Celestial hybrid empath with the ability to sense other people's feelings and alter them. She was raised alone by her father Ego and later recruited as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy led by her paternal half-brother, Peter Quill.

She is the pentagonist of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2, one of the tritagonists of Avengers: Infinity War, and a major character of Avengers: Endgame. Mantis was born from an unnamed home world and descended from an empathic race of insectoids that would eventually reach to a humanoid state.

She plays the role of Mantis in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). Pom Klementieff was born in Quebec City, Canada, to a Korean mother and French-Russian father, who was working there as a consul with the French government.

Created by writer Steve Englehart and artist Don Heck, the character first appeared in The Avengers #112 (June 1973). Mantis has been depicted as a member of the Avengers and the Guardians of the Galaxy, as the bride of Kang the Conqueror, and as the mother of Sequoia.

With Thor, Korg and Kraglin Obfonteri joining the Guardians, Mantis participates in their adventures such as helping the god of thunder lose weight. After helping Thor fight the Booskans on Indigarr, they answered the distress call of Sif, informing the group that Gorr the God Butcher was killing gods across the galaxy.

Isolated from other lifeforms from an early age by Ego, Mantis does not understand the intricacies of social engagement; but she is learning upon recruitment into the Guardians of the Galaxy.

After defeating Ego, Mantis is recruited as a member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. In the fight against Thanos, Mantis meets the Asgardian Avenger Thor reading his painful emotions and waking him from slumber.

Mantis is an Insectoid alien with the power of empathy. She is the daughter of Ego The Living Planet and the paternal half-sister of Peter Quill. She is also a former member of the Guardians of...

Mantis is a main character in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Mantis was raised by Ego since her larvae state and hardly had any social interaction with other people. However, its the guardians that let her open her eyes to life around her and forms a friendship with Drax the Destroyer.