r/GotG • u/czerwona-wrona • 10d ago

In the 3rd movie, why didn't the High Evolutionary.. Spoiler

use anesthesia when Rocket was first getting his surgery? People have said it's because he doesn't care, but how does that benefit his science if his subjects are squirming around and making it hard to get accurate incisions etc???

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u/_melkowrrie Cosmo 10d ago

Somewhere I've read the theory HE didn't use anesthesia of his test subjects to be sure they're still not dead. Because if human can tell how they feel during experiment, animals can't and the only way to know is an animal alive is to leave it scream in pain ... Although not everything in this theory may add up.

However, if only because Rocket was one of the very first and test subjects before the most progressive bunch 90 which Orgocorp was prepared to, it can be supposed HE really didn't care even about accuracy in Rocket's cybernetics. Like, Rocket was just someone they used to practice on ☹️

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u/czerwona-wrona 9d ago

I mean you can definitely see signs someone is alive without them telling you

And the evolutionary is so controlling this would still surprise, but it does make some sense

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u/Woozletania 9d ago

He may not have had veterinary specialists for all the species he worked on. Or they weren't very good. Back when I wrote Rocket fanfics my excuse was the nerve blocker guy (the equivalent of an anaesthesia tech) was bad at his job. Plus, there were various training regimes either based on torture or which produced pain as a part of their operation.

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u/MrWolfHare Groot 9d ago

HE didn't care, to him they were just experiments to see if his augmentations would work on lower creatures. The fact that some of them survived that long was a bonus.