The High Evolutionary Find 89P13 and return it to me, or I will destroy your entire civilization, as is my right as your maker!
Played by Chukwudi Iwuji 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) · 44 quotes
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) · 44 quotes
2nd most-quoted character in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023): in 12 of its 44 quotes
Most scenes with: Rocket (2)
I created you lot as merely an aesthetic experiment; beautiful numbskulls. But your egos have run wild.
More lines from The High Evolutionary
7 quotes The High Evolutionary The High Evolutionary I'm not trying to conquer the universe. I'm perfecting it.
The High Evolutionary BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT!!! That rancid word.
The High Evolutionary THERE IS NO GOD! THAT'S WHY I STEPPED IN!
The High Evolutionary [mimics Rocket crying]
All right, P13! You win the crying contest. Now back in the cage.
The High Evolutionary They will die unless you BRING ME WHAT IS MINE!!!
The High Evolutionary [last words]
Look what you done to me! For what? All I wanted to do, was to make things perfect.
Scenes with The High Evolutionary
4 scenes
Ayesha
You removed Adam from his cocoon early, My Leige. He is still a child.
The High Evolutionary No, there is something wrong with him even outside all that.
Yes, there's something wrong with me! I was stabbed, you extraordinary phallus--!
The High Evolutionary I visited your planet many years ago.
Earth hasn’t been my planet in a long time.
The High Evolutionary Your people had wonderful spirit. The art, and music, and literature were some of the finest in the universe. Earth would be a fabulous place where it not for the ignorance and bigotry.
Okay.
The High Evolutionary It inspired me to create Counter-Earth.
The High Evolutionary All of the good and none of the bad.
I don't need to hear another speech by some impotent whack-job whose mother didn't love him rationalizing why he needs to conquer the universe!
The High Evolutionary YOU! [ferociously and savagely throws Rocket across the room] You thought you could escape me?! NO! [ferociously and savagely throws him up the ceiling] You think you have some worth in and of yourself without me?! NO! YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION!!! NOTHING MORE THAN A STEP ON MY PATH, YOU FREAKISH LITTLE MONSTER!! HOW DARE YOU THINK YOU ARE MORE?! EIGHT! NINE! P!! ONE!! THREE!!!
[breaks free and draws his gun]
The name's Rocket. Rocket Raccoon. [shoots the High Evolutionary]
[after Gamora peels off the High Evolutionary's mask as he falls on his back, revealing his disfigured face]
His face came off!
It's a mask.
The High Evolutionary Look what you did to me! For what? All I wanted to do was to make things perfect.
You didn't want to make things perfect. You just hated the way things were.
