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This promo poster for Guardians of the Galaxy sequel ... video game ride has a profile of Star Lord that lists his species as Terran.
This isn't quite right -- one might say it's only 50% right. Or does species classification work differently in the Marvel Cinematic Universe? Note: I haven't seen GoG2 or played the game or gone on the ride so I don't know if this is an error, a spoiler, or something else.
The notation is a play off the sequence in the movie (and used extensively in the trailers ahead of the film's release) where Quill and the rest of the future Guardians of the Galaxy are being booked into custody by the Xandarians and the Nova Corps is reviewing the records on each of the suspects. At the time, as far as the Xandarians know, Quill is Terran, though they don't yet know that he is not (language warning):
"100 percent a dick."
To the extent that the notion of a species is defined by the biological species concept, two organisms belong to the same species exactly if they can and do interbreed. While Star Lord's parents did not come from the same planet, their offspring is a fully functional organism. Thus, despite the real-world of absurdity of two aliens belonging to the same breeding species, Star Lord's parents evidently are of the same species. Referring to the species as "Terran" might be somewhat confusing to someone who did not know that Earthling humans could interbreed with aliens, but it otherwise a perfectly reasonable name for the transplanetary species.
Mostly because he is born of two humans, probably.
He's mother is a human being, his father is biologically a human being, it comes natural that he is a human being himself, no?
