Mantis, meanwhile, has led a kept life that has seen her have very little social interaction at all.
Around such a character you would expect a protagonist to be very kind and gentile, but that simply isn’t Drax’s speed, and as a result they have an odd and funny back-and forth.
As we learned over the course of the first movie, Drax doesn’t really have a filter between his brain and his mouth, and it leads him to be perfectly blunt all of the time.
Without giving away too many details, Drax and Mantis have some of the best moments together in all of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and much of that is because their individual idiosyncrasies pair up perfectly.