#but I wouldent mind if the MCU decides to take some liberties with it

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My own headcanon about Groot’s species (called Flora Colossus in the comics) is they do still exist but are just extremely rare. Maybe at one point they were far more common across the galaxy but disappeared for whatever reason. Thor is an immortal god so his lifespan on Asgard probably was slower, so maybe he learned Groot as an elective when he was a kid/teenager when the species was more common thousands of years ago, but became less so when he grew into an adult.

Another possible theory is the world tree, Yggdrasil, that Asguard and the other realms are connected through in the MCU films (and Norse mythology, of course), is connected to the Flora Colossus. Either a progenitor or the species or literally being a massive flora colossus itself. Hence citizens of Asguard, especially members of the royal family like Thor, learn the language as an elective as a way of honouring it and possibly communicating with it.

Bit of a stretch, but it could be a cool idea to connect Groot with Yggdrasil in the MCU continuity if the writers ever wanna flesh out Groot/flora colossus lore.

Edit: okay I looked it up and Yggdrasil isn’t a literal cosmic tree in the MCU but rather a metaphor Thor uses to explain to Jane Foster in the first film how the universal portal travel between realms works. My bad! I guess it’s just been a while since I watched the first few MCU movies and my memory on specific lore details is hazy lol.

It would be pretty cool if that somehow connected to forks colossus though. Like maybe in some of the realms like Asgard there’s legends that the world tree is a flora colossus that grew so large and vast it Gran ended its physical form and become the bridge between realms. A myth rather than a literal history.

Exactly how rare are Groots? They're common enough that Thor took the language as an elective but the Collector said he never thought he'd get to meet one???