How did Ronan plan to escape Xandar after destroying it?

I haven’t seen this movie in a hot minute so I might be missing something. I rewatched the dance off scene for, obvious reasons, and in that scene wasn’t Ronan supposed to plunge the hammer into the ground and that would decimate Xanadar? Of course Star lord distracted and stopped Ronan, but what if Ronan had succeeded?

Would he have had time to escape the planet? His ship was destroyed, maybe the Sakaarians helping Ronan had a spare pod to escape on, even though that wasn’t he original plan since the ship was never meant to be destroyed (and yondu seemingly killed all of those soldiers?)

Was it ever said the decimation was gonna be instant, an if so good as Ronan just immune since he had the stone for some reason? I remember Ronan saying he’d come for thanos after Xandar so we know he was going to survive somehow. So I’d assume the decimation wasn’t gonna be instant, Ronan planned to climb in his ship, and mosey on out of there? At this point the ship was destroyed so I guess Ronan preferred giving up his own life to destroy Xandar instead of going for Thanos if what I’m saying is correct? Idk I’m tired and confused.

A little bonus question, this could be the tiredness talking, but wth does Ronan say before Peter starts singing?? “HEEE SHAKE HERRR….YEAHH!!!”😅

I gotta look that last part up I hope google has results😁

Commentaires

ILikeBen10Alot2025-12-10 05:27

I don't think he cared if he survived or not

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 05:28

Fair and simple. I just felt like he wanted more than destroying Xandar given that he wanted to go after thanos. Also I imagine if thanos finds the stone floating in space he’d use it to decimate Ronan’s people. But Roman prob thought of that and is selfish so he did his thing. Works for me!👍

BigESmalls222025-12-10 13:15

In The Marvels, did it ever establish when Carol goes and wrecks the Cree home planet? They might already be decimated by 2014.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 13:19

All I know is after captain marvel one. Could be at any point in time but it’s so hard to tell because her simple suit keeps changing over and over with little details . No way I’m not looking up a clip of her destroying it just to see some random color variation that won’t help me find out when she did it.😅

I’d say around the 90’s if I had to guess

CaptHayfever2025-12-10 23:00

Most likely very shortly after 1995, but definitely before 2014; the Kree's civil war is what leads them to declare a treaty with Xandar.

Heavensrun2025-12-10 23:50

It would be interesting if that's part of why he's so radicalized.

Defiant_Wheel48882025-12-10 14:17

only if he dies.

goma_eye2025-12-11 01:58

"Yes... That's what killing you means..."

Goatfellon2025-12-11 03:56

I know this is a bit of an unpopular take, but I really didn't like these lines.

goma_eye2025-12-11 11:24

Oh I'm right there with you. Dinklage's performance in Endgame was on par with "That Wizard came from the Moon" from Destiny

"WHEHUHS THUH HANDOWWW???"

Non_Linguist2025-12-11 15:01

*that ~~swords~~ suns power is dark*

pawpawsr2025-12-10 22:38

Yeah, that’s basically the vibe dude had full *religious fanatic martyr* energy the whole movie

Aggravating_Anybody2025-12-11 07:25

He’s a religious zealot. His literal DREAM is to die for his crusade and become a martyr.

PoorLifeChoices8112025-12-11 13:28

I need to rewatch these movies cause what even was ronans goal? I mean why did he want to destroy Xander so badly?

MasterTolkien2025-12-12 13:16

The ultimate suicide bomber in his unhinged religious/ethnic war against Xandar.

BackgroundEngineer112025-12-10 05:30

His whole life purpose was in destroying Xandar. He didn't care if he died, as long as he succeeded first.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 05:30

Oh I guess I m forgot it was his life’s purpose. Thanks! I guess if he had his ship he would’ve lived :)

karafuto2025-12-10 05:34

It was scary when Ronan switched to another language...!

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 05:36

Nah that was clearly him in English saying “HE SHAKE HER YEAHH”

Idk if I was clear in what I meant. I was referring to wht the translation meant. I was hoping he said it early in the movie and saying it now was a call back and someone could tell me since I haven’t seen the movie in years. That’s why it was a “bonus question” because it was funny and not a big deal. Honestly forgot to google it like I said I would

TheSmith7772025-12-10 05:39

To those saying he didn’t care if he died, he specifically says to Thanos that after he dealt with Xandar he’d come after him. I think that’s a clear sign he had no intention of dying here. It probably would have taken some time for the power stone to spread its energy down into the core and destroy the planet. He’d of had an opportunity to escape before everything was gone.

Even if he was fully on the planet while it blew up, I’m sure he could survive the vacuum of space like Thor can, especially with the stone.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 05:40

Ah ok this was the answer I was looking for. I appreciate the other answers but yours actually goes to the root of my quarry regarding his threat to Thanos. Appreciate it!

Cantelmi2025-12-11 06:29

query*

JaesopPop2025-12-10 05:41

>To those saying he didn’t care if he died, he specifically says to Thanos that after he dealt with Xandar he’d come after him. I think that’s a clear sign he had no intention of dying here.

Maybe not originally, but then his ship crashed.

scoobusdoobus19692025-12-10 20:12

I may be wrong but im semi sure that he wanted to go after Thanos because he felt Thanos failed to fulfill his part in the deal that they made which would have given Ronan the destruction of Xandar

JaesopPop2025-12-10 20:14

Yes. That’s what I’m saying - that was his plan, but then his ship crashed.

morphballganon2025-12-10 06:15

His original plan was to escape the destruction. But after his ship went down, it became a one-way ticket, and he was still devoted to his cause.

Heavensrun2025-12-10 23:56

Maybe, but he is a zealot. Even if he planned to go on, it's possible that, after stronger resistance than he expected, his ship and escape route cut off, he was still obsessed enough to destroy Xandar even if it would kill him.

Belteshazzar982025-12-10 05:42

Pretty sure he was a suicide bomber.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 05:43

Man the jokes I wish I can make right now. Valid answer.

wakeup372025-12-10 08:13

suicide stoner

depastino2025-12-10 05:45

He survived a point blank shot from the Hadron Enforcer, I think he'd have been okay.

fisheggsoup2025-12-10 06:34

That doesn't mean he can withstand the destruction of a planet or breathe in space.

depastino2025-12-10 06:40

I always assumed he was just going to exterminate all life on the planet, not literally destroy the planet itself. For comparison, nuclear explosions destroy structures and people. They don't destroy the entire planet.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 13:10

Never thought of that, good theory

FingerDemon5002025-12-10 14:03

Yeah, the clip of (I guess a celestial?) using the power stone in some kind of staff to wipe out people made me think that’s exactly what he planned to do to Xandar. And I guess then call some type of interstellar Uber afterwards.

brian_hogg2025-12-10 12:37

He presumably would have access to the same kind of fun space suits used in Guardians 2, or the reviving tech they used on Gamora and quill in Guardians 1, plus he seemed to be able to be submerged in a literal blood bath for a while, so I presume he’d be fine.

Grootfan852025-12-10 05:45

Would the Power Stone make him immune to the damage it would cause?

Youngling_Hunt2025-12-10 06:02

I dont think so, with my only evidence for that being when the stones are used in the other films, it damages the wirlder. Gauntlet snaps, grabbing the power stone, the aether. Space stone teleported Red Skull across the universe. Only ones im not sure on are soul stone and time stone

brian_hogg2025-12-10 12:38

Well, except in the final scene when Quill uses the stone, he appears damaged but then is fine after. So if you can physically handle it, you aren’t injured.

The Thanos snap damage was because he used all 6 at once to affect literally the entire universe.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 13:12

Lol I actually chose between “how was Ronan going to escape” and “how did Quill’s face magically heal after being chipped away” but I assumed he and his friends are fine since they can handle the stone and the chips or whatever reformed similar to people who blipped that came back.

brian_hogg2025-12-11 02:48

Quill is essentially immortal up until the end of Guardians 2, when his planet father Ego dies.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-11 03:51

Ohhh yeahh true! I don’t think that happened to the other guardians, maybe gamora? I saw the scene while I was sleep deprived so all I remember specifically is rocket lost his voice from the purple energy and it played a weird hum sound that made me uncomfortable. W

brian_hogg2025-12-11 14:14

Yeah, it also happened to them. And when Thanos accumulated more stones, there were the visible signs of damage that went away, so that just seems to be how they work if they don’t kill you?

tehCharo2025-12-10 06:00

He's a Kree, which are a race of super-humans, equipped with advanced Kree armor, wielding a weapon that is extremely powerful in its own right, and is powered up by an Infinity Gem on top of it. He'd be okay.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 06:00

Good for him. Glad to hear he’s gonna make it…oh yeah.

:(

MacellumMycelium2025-12-10 06:14

He was a true believer. In addition to being one that you *never* wanna trust, that sort of person tends to be fine dying for the cause.

dcooper86622025-12-10 06:18

I’m gonna be honest, he didn’t seem like much of a thinker

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 06:33

Yeah he seemed more like an accuser to me

dcooper86622025-12-10 06:50

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ZaphodB_2025-12-10 19:15

Then he should have changed his name to Ronan the Prosecutor!

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Currycel78912025-12-10 06:31

He didn't.

As 2014 Thanos correctly stated, "Ronan's obsession...clouds his judgement."

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 06:33

Ah I don’t remember that, thank you

Possible-Tip-29142025-12-10 07:12

He's not mortal.

Living_Murphys_Law2025-12-10 07:48

Jump so he ain't touching the planet when the Stone is. I think that's how it works

CaptainAksh_G2025-12-10 07:53

With the ship he brought with him

Smooth-Mix-43572025-12-10 07:54

When Eson The Searcher destroyed a planet it didn't seem like he disintegrated the whole planet, just wiped out the life on the surface

pokedung2025-12-10 08:15

Dude he's basically a terrorist. That Power Stone was his bomb and Xandar was the airplane he wanted to take down mid flight.

garbage19952025-12-10 09:14

On his ship.

badken2025-12-10 09:36

He didn't have TIME to think about the MINUTIAE!

Hi_Im_Dadbot2025-12-10 09:44

He had infinite power, so I think his plan was to survive via having infinite power.

Basic-Ability61392025-12-10 09:49

Uber

Coilspun2025-12-10 10:05

This was obviously a heroic, desperate attempt to stop Ronan, with all thoughts of 'what happens next?' put aside.

There was no "after" unless they won.

Content_Annual94752025-12-10 11:15

Spase shipe

FingerDemon5002025-12-10 14:05

SPACESHIP!!

PaintAccomplished5152025-12-10 11:38

He was going to destroy Xander, the people and the cities, not Xandar the literal planet. He can do that without destroying the ground he's standing on.

KentConnor2025-12-10 11:40

I feel like maybe its a Frieza situation and he assumed he could survive the vacuum of space..

But the the Guardians came along and went all SSJ on his ass

Jian_Rohnson2025-12-10 12:07

I dont think he would have literally destroyed the planet itself, just eradicate all life on its surface. Theres a scene earlier in the film where the Collector has a video thing that shows a big dude with a hammer use the stone to kill a bunch of villagers. It probably would have gone like that.

1sneaky12025-12-10 12:26

I’d ask him, but…

Thomas_JCG2025-12-10 12:29

Fanatics do no care about consequences.

brian_hogg2025-12-10 12:35

Putting aside the question of whether he cared about survival … I didn’t get the sense he was going to make the planet explode, just “destroy” it in the sense that all of the Xandarian people and its culture would be gone.

I took it in the same sense that climate change will “destroy the planet” in the sense that it’ll make it uninhabitable to humans, even though the planet itself will continue to exist.

After the xandarians died, he could presumably call for a pickup.

Mace_Thunderspear2025-12-10 14:18

He never planned on setting foot on the planet. Anything he had planned for after he let go and was simply improvising and working to settle for the short term goal of destroying the planet.

No plan survives contact with the enemy. Ronan's enough of a seasoned veteran to know that.

That said, the power stone might possibly have made him powerful and invulnerable enough to survive the destruction and the vacuum of space afterwards. In which case he could probably figure out basic propulsion.

FDVP2025-12-10 14:35

Does he look like a guy with a plan?

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 14:36

He’s a veteran kree warrior/general so I’d assume so. Seemed to have a pretty decent plan from the start of the film till his ship crashed at least.

FDVP2025-12-10 14:38

Nah. That madman doesn’t give shit at that point.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 14:39

At that point, maybe, but he definitely had a plan at some point. Hes kinda like a strategic madman, he’s still blinded by his desires but knows the sensible thing, even if he ignores it. I’m accusing him of this because of his status among his Kree sanction

Casual_Observance2025-12-10 14:56

He was a fanatic, so maybe his survival was not that important to him.

Then again, he had just survived getting hit full speed by a shuttle and crashing to Xandar in a space ship without a scratch.

greatreference2025-12-10 16:10

It’s a Frieza situation, he can survive the blast and in the vacuum of space obviously.

VallyMeowy2025-12-10 16:56

I think the stone would’ve killed all the life on the planet (excluding him because he was the one wielding it) but the landmass would’ve still existed so he could’ve survived and eventually gotten off

Sargaron2025-12-10 17:40

What's funny is they had this huge plot about saving Xandar, only for Thanos to completely destroy it and them not even show it during infinity wars.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 23:10

Yeah I always hated that. I wish nova was a movie instead of captain marvel that showed the destruction and it would’ve been meaningful :(

VerbalChains2025-12-10 22:55

Ronan wasn’t planning on obliterating the planet like the Death Star. He was just going to kill all life on the surface, which he himself would survive with the power of the stone.

After that, it’s not so difficult to call a ride if you’re part of an intergalactic civilization.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-10 23:09

Ahh that explains a lot. I’ve gotten a lot of explanations and I like this one very much. I assumed he destroyed the planet since that’s what thanos did once he got the power stone on Xandar.

chiefbrody622025-12-15 00:16

Tbf, they said Thanos decimated the planet, which would mean killing 1/10 people. I assumed he did his normal thing of killing half the people and left it alone after he got his stone.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-15 00:16

Ahhh interesting. I always assumed he let all of xandar be destroyed! Just the phrasing “decimated Xandar” makes it sound like a whole genocide. Gotta look up these facts ty!

Front-Advantage-70352025-12-11 00:27

I think originally he plan was to use the stone from the ship. The ship would still be intact afterward if not for Quill

NotTheFBI_232025-12-11 02:44

I think the power stone would protect him

YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO2025-12-11 04:31

I like to think he didn't think that far lol

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-11 05:20

Best theory so far.

rekzkarz2025-12-11 10:13

Ronan the Accuser (Fowme Destroyer) can create a clomgi sphere and phrenalate molecules until he returns to his destroyer ship by signaled frobedaks.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-11 13:12

Makes perfect sense but there’s one hole in your idea.

He’s Ronan the Accuser NOT the destroyer…

rekzkarz2025-12-11 16:16

Thanks, I fixed it.

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-12 01:19

Okay now this theory makes perfect sense, thank you

MrSpeigel2025-12-12 01:18

In his massive ship ?

Tiny-Adeptness-20012025-12-12 01:19

I was referring to after it crashed but I already got an answer here. Thank you though

Successful_Math_42312025-12-15 16:34

The ship was never meant to crash he was supposed to genocide the planet with his army and with the power stone no one would able to stop him

The power stone seemed to make him quite durable(this gets retconned in endgame) so i assume once he destroyed planet he’d be able to tank it and escape in time or float in space and just chill there