Editing High Evolutionary (section)

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[[File:Chukwudi Iwuji 2022.jpg|thumb|[[Chukwudi Iwuji]] in costume as the High Evolutionary at Comic Con 2022.]]
The High Evolutionary appears in ''[[Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3]]'', portrayed by [[Chukwudi Iwuji]].<ref name="SDCC2022" /><ref name="IwujiCast" /> This version is a long-lived alien geneticist and the founder and CEO of the intergalactic bio-engineering company OrgoCorp. Seeking to improve what he considers lower lifeforms, he created the Humanimals of [[Counter-Earth (comics)|Counter-Earth]] from Earth animals, the [[Sovereign (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Sovereign]], and Half-worlders such as Batch 89, which included [[Rocket (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|89P13 / Rocket]]. After  Rocket demonstrates intelligence and technical proficiency in solving a problem with his Humanimals, the High Evolutionary tries to harvest Rocket's brain for further study and incinerate the rest of Batch 89. Rocket leads them in an escape, but all save for him are killed by the High Evolutionary and his Recorders. The High Evolutionary pursues Rocket until he is defeated by the [[Guardians of the Galaxy (Marvel Cinematic Universe team)|Guardians of the Galaxy]]. After Rocket chooses to spare his creator's life while rescuing his experiments, [[Drax (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Drax]] carries the High Evolutionary from his exploding ship to be imprisoned on [[Knowhere (Marvel Cinematic Universe)|Knowhere]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Gunn Twitter |url=https://twitter.com/JamesGunn/status/1659608908913336322 |access-date=2023-05-20 |website=Twitter |language=en}}</ref>