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[GotG] How were Peter Quill and the gang able to hold the Infinity Stone without dying?
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Peter Quill is half-... Something, Drax is an immensely powerful alien, Gamora is an immensely powerful alien with cybernetic enhancements and Rocket is the product of a wide range of scientific experiments with largely unknown results. 

Between them, they were able to hold the stone long enough for Quill to get it into the orb. 

Quill was also able to survive in space without a mask or anything for far longer than an ordinary human would have been able to, so whoever his father was, he passed down pretty immense durability to Peter.