Who Is Major Victory? Origin, Powers and Key Facts

Major Victory is a Marvel comic book character, the alter ego of Vance Astro, with over 321 comic issue appearances. The leader and founder of the Guardians of the Galaxy in the year 3000. He carries the legendary shield of Captain America.

Who is Major Victory?

Origin Vance Astrovik was obsessed with space, so much that he legally changed his last name to Astro. After becoming a major in the U.S. Air Force , Astro volunteered to be an astronaut for the first long-term interstellar space mission. He was put into suspended animation and sent to the nearest star system, Alpha Centauri. On arrival, he found that humanity had beaten him there and that humans had settled the planet centuries ago. He also found that his metabolism had been damaged by a thousand years in stasis, and he could no longer remove his life-support suit. Dazed by the shock of these discoveries, he insisted on carrying out his now-useless mission, wandering into the wilderness to catalog Centaurian life. When the alien Badoon attacked this world, they wiped out both the human colonists and all but one of the native Centaurians, Yondu .

Key facts

Major Victory is of mutant origin and first appeared in "Origin of the Guardians of the Galaxy". The character is published by Marvel. With 321 recorded issue appearances, Major Victory ranks among the most featured characters in comics.