Groot's Final Line In Avengers: Infinity War Will Break Your Heart

If you don't know how Avengers: Infinity War ends and aspire to keep it that way, exit this blog post immediately. Spoilers all around.


From the moment Thanos snapped his fingers and eliminated half of the universal population up until the theater went dark immediately following the post-credits scene, Avengers: Infinity War served one heartbreaking goodbye right after another. It's hard to mention which goodbye was the most heartbreaking — Okoye watching as our king T'Challa disintegrated into dust, or Peter Parker's improvised evaporating plea as he desperately clung to Tony Stark?


Not that it's a competition, nevertheless we have one more gut-wrenching moment to consider: Groot's.


In the final moments of teen Groot's existence (for right now, he turns to Rocket Raccoon and delivers three words we've all heard multiple times before, "I am Groot." Although we can tell this isn't a happy moment, the gravity of the phrase has since gone unnoticed. James Gunn has stepped in to prepare ensure we know just how sad this goodbye was, revealing the English language translation.


According to the Guardians of the Galaxy writer and director, in this case, "I am Groot," means, "Dad."


To complete the visual, just before most of them of the Guardians bit the dust, moody, sassy, adolescent Groot turned to tough-loving Rocket Raccoon and mentioned, "Dad."


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in the scenario that you need me, I'll be mentally volleying between replays of Groot's final moment and Spider-Man's while sobbing under my desk for the last of the day.