Guardians of the Galaxy
In Guardians of the Galaxy, Starlord ends up joining forces with some unlikely allies in Drax, Gomorra, Rocket Raccoon, and Groot in fighting Ronan in preventing him from getting one of the six infinity stones. This crew of Guardians ends up joining forces with the Nova Corps to defend Xandar from Ronan who now has the stone and has decided to use its power to destroy the planet. The Guardians end up all on Ronan’s ship which is taking a nosedive for the city. Groot decides to form his body into something like a tumbleweed around the rest of the group, knowing that he will very much likely die, in order to give the rest of the group a better chance at surviving the crash. John 15:13 says “Greater love has no one than this, that someone lay down his life for his friends” (ESV). These were the very words of Christ to his disciples during some of his final instructions to them before his crucifixion. He was telling them this both as a foreshadow of ...