Think about, if you’ll, that you just’re strolling down the road. Instantly, any person walks as much as you and arms you $100 million. “Congratulations!” they are saying. “It is all yours.” What would you do with the cash? Burn it? No, clearly not — that’d be insanity.

So why would Disney ever kill Groot?

The success of “Guardians of the Galaxy” catapulted Groot into the popular culture zeitgeist; the main position performed by his son, Child Groot, in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2,” ensured that he’ll stay there till the tip of human civilization. Apart from showing in a number of different MCU films, Groot has starred in “I Am Groot,” a sequence of Disney+ shorts, and options on just about each type of merchandise ever concocted, from motion figures to plush toys to watches and from T-shirts to costumes to regardless of the hell that is. Within the huge expanse of the multiverse, there may be not a single actuality — not one — through which Disney offers up all that by killing off Groot now.

It additionally bears mentioning that, even when the highest brass gave the inexperienced gentle to fell everybody’s favourite tree, James Gunn would know higher than to undergo with it. For one factor, he’d danger alienating his viewers, as Groot’s demise in “Vol. 3” would really feel untimely, unearned, and merciless. Plus, Groot (or at the least, a Groot) already died all the way in which again within the first film — so why retread previous territory? No, it is in all probability honest to imagine Groot is secure. Chances are high, he at all times shall be.