Our favorite superhero misfits are back in <em>Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3</em> trailer

It looks like Rocket is getting a love interest in an anthropomorphic otter named Lylla.
aww how cute, yeah one of them is gonna die or disappear.
not a single romance has survived this series.

quill / gamora : gamora is the sacrifice to get that one infinity stone and is disappeared.

drax/ mantis : mantis is dusted by thanos.

yondu becoming a better dad to quill : yondu heroically sacrificed himself for quills sake rip yondu :'(

yeah this isnt gonna last, the only question on my mind is HOW will it come to an end.
 
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Same could be said about Ted Raimi every time he pops up in a Sam Raimi production. And every time, I get overly excited because genuinely do enjoy Ted.
Another one is Clint Howard.

Nepotism be damned, though, I like all three of those guys and am glad they show up in their brothers' movies from time to time.
 
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aww how cute, yeah one of them is gonna die or disappear.
not a single romance has survived this series.

quill / gamora : gamora is the sacrifice to get that one infinity stone and is disappeared.

drax/ mantis : mantis is dusted by thanos.

yondu becoming a better dad to quill : yondu heroically sacrificed himself for quills sake rip yondu :'(

yeah this isnt gonna last, the only question on my mind is HOW will it come to an end.
And there's definitely more. Peter and MJ. Stark and Pepper are the big ones that come to mind.
 
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Bautista was making noises like he's done with the series just a few weeks ago. Not unhappy with it, just ready to move on to other things. So Drax may meet his end here, to the extent that any character ever does in the comics.
Noo, not my second favorite autistic coded fictional character!
Gotta say, this is about the only MCU property I'm still even slightly interested in, although probably not enough to see it in a theater.
It has certainly been my favorite.
 
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I'm excited for it. I wasn't in love with the Ego plotline of the second movie, but silly-bonkers-heros-in-space with a talking racoon that has a gun fetish and a walking tree was just more fun for me than most of the MCU, so these guys have held a sweet spot in my heart. Actually come to think of it that might be part of why I like some of the Thor movies. Some are better than others, but I just realized I like the parts where they're traveling through random places in space better than the parts on earth. I have high hopes, but medium expectations.
 
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I am hopeful we finally get the Cosmo the Space dog stand along film we deserve.

Gunn has said previously, that he saw this as a trilogy, and with his involvement at DC he's unlikely to be involved going forward. I do think they can give the Guardians a rest for now. Then they can reboot them at some point in the future and fix them. I was never satisfied with Peter's backstory, or with how they interpreted Dax (no shade on Bautista, but the literal interpretation thing got old pretty fast, and devolved into making bad jokes at Mantis's expense).
I wouldn't be surprised to see a future DC counterpart of the Guardians, set in the DC version of the Multiverse.

In fact, perhaps we'll be witness to an alternate Universe where all Marvel characters are DC, and vice versa.

Of course it wouldn't be unexpected, given that many of the comic book writers and illustrators have switched back and both between Marvel and DC throughout their careers.
 
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This part gets me every time. Guardians 1 and 2 have a few scenes that make me cry every damn time. I've lost a lot of family to various illnesses over the years and for some reason these movies really hit me.

I feel you, I'm going through the same.

Quill and Yondu's situation also hits home, as I've long pointed out the difference between a father (sperm donor) and a dad (person who raised you). The punchline may be the first thing people remember from that scene, but the most important bit is what comes before it:

"Ha ha ha!"
"What?"
"You look like Mary Poppins".
"Is he cool?"
pauses
"Hell, yeah, he's cool."

Every time someone complains about "yet another MCU film", I figure it's because they didn't have Yondu for a dad like I did.
 
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The Disney/MCU version of Guardians is great, even though the second film was a bit of a letdown after the first. With any luck this one will at least be a fitting send off.

What I really want, though, is a follow up to the Eidos/Square Enix Guardians of the Galaxy game. That was amazing, came out of nowhere, and is, I think, an even better interpretation of the Guardians crew/story.
Cosmo is best boy!
 
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I feel you, I'm going through the same.

Quill and Yondu's situation also hits home, as I've long pointed out the difference between a father (sperm donor) and a dad (person who raised you). The punchline may be the first thing people remember from that scene, but the most important bit is what comes before it:

"Ha ha ha!"
"What?"
"You look like Mary Poppins".
"Is he cool?"
pauses
"Hell, yeah, he's cool."

Every time someone complains about "yet another MCU film", I figure it's because they didn't have Yondu for a dad like I did.

Michael Rooker is the best thing about those movies. Pair that with Sean Gunn's character and... /chef's kiss!
 
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This trailer makes me want a Marvel film that only features animals as characters! Dogs, racoons, cats buffalo etc. Actually probably only mammals? Not a single human.
You know like those old talking dog films. I think that would be better than your average super hero marvel film.
So, Furries of the Galaxy?
 
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The signature formula for Guardians is the blend of comedy and heart. If you don't cry at "We are Groot" or "I just wanted a sister" then I'm sorry for you because you missed out. Ultimately, we go to the movies to feel something, and everyone involved in Guardians has been masterful in delivering. I hope Vol 3 keeps up the high bar. We'll see!
See Also: Antonyms: DC movies.

I'm not quite sure how Marvel does it, and continues to do it. Some are better than others, but they are all good. All you have to do is watch any DC movie and their attempt to replicate the formula. Great Value superhero movies. (IMO, Bale's Batman movies are the exception, and the first 3/4 of Wonder Woman)
 
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One of my favorite things about the original Guardians was that it was enjoyable stand-alone. In addition to real-life actual things and history, my brain is chock full of enough fictional worlds between Middle Earth, the Wheel of Time, Westeros, the (original) Star Wars EU, Arrakis, and others that I just can't be arsed to care about the tangled, commercially driven web of the MCU multiverse, let alone the 80 years of often contradictory comic stories that undergird it.

If this movie is another lighthearted and musically-driven romp of unlikely companions finding a MacGuffin in far-off space, I am completely in for the theater. If I have to read the fandom.wiki page about the Dark Goddess Dinkledork and her ancient need to destroy Multiverse 69 so she can launch another Disney+ show to understand the plot then I will wait until I can be scrolling my phone on the couch to watch it.
I may have one more fictional "World" for you - check our Sanderson's Cosmere
 
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Sean Gunn's casting was almost certainly nepotism but he's perfect as Kraglin.
Technically, yes, it was nepotism, but its also a family tradition - Sean has showed up in most of the movies that James had written or directed (Slither being the most notable exception, but also the Scooby Doo movies), going all the way back to Gunn's first screenplay, Tromeo and Juliet. And pretty much everything since 2010.
 
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This trailer makes me want a Marvel film that only features animals as characters! Dogs, racoons, cats buffalo etc. Actually probably only mammals? Not a single human.
You know like those old talking dog films. I think that would be better than your average super hero marvel film.
Take a look at the original Rocket Racoon limited series (comics). The world he came from was basically a planet-as-insane asylum; the inmates are the humans, and the caretakers are anthropomorphic animals.

I loved the series, and when I saw the first trailers for the original GotG, and I saw Rocket, all I could think was "nailed it!"

While everybody around me was going "huh? a bloodthirsty racoon? Who'll watch that?"
 
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I hope this is more like Vol 1, which was a bunch of B list actors playing C list heroes and leaning heavily into it, rather than like Vol 2 (and their cameos in other MCU films) where they behaved like the heroes were on par with the Avengers.

I have very similar feelings and hopes. GotG 1 is one of my favorite movies, of any type, of all time. And the things you mentioned - B list actors playing C list characters and just leaning into it and going with it and never taking it too seriously - have a lot to do with why. The cast looked like it legitimately had fun playing those roles, and some of that feels like it has been lost in the sequel and the Avengers movies they appeared in.

Hoping some of that can be recaptured for this final installment of this iteration of the cast + characters, but from the trailers and the plot teases, I don't have very much hope :(
 
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Cracks me up now thinking back to that scene haha :) Along with "(Mantis) Kick names, Take ass! (Drax) Thats right.."

Bautista is honestly better as Drax than anything he ever did in wrestling, IMO.

"Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast...I would catch it!"

lol

So many great moments/lines he had in the two stand-alone films.
 
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In fact, perhaps we'll be witness to an alternate Universe where all Marvel characters are DC, and vice versa.

Of course it wouldn't be unexpected, given that many of the comic book writers and illustrators have switched back and both between Marvel and DC throughout their careers.
The comics have done it a bunch of times - one of the biggest was in the 90's:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalgam_Comics
 
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Bautista was making noises like he's done with the series just a few weeks ago. Not unhappy with it, just ready to move on to other things. So Drax may meet his end here, to the extent that any character ever does in the comics.

Gotta say, this is about the only MCU property I'm still even slightly interested in, although probably not enough to see it in a theater.
Bautista said he wasn't gonna do GOTG3 unless they rehired Gunn. And now that Gunn is officially done with Marvel he likely feels like he can move on without a problem.
 
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Drax is by far my favorite, love his humor. I'm looking forward for a fun movie. Especially since there hasn't been much to make you laugh lately.
Maybe not in theaters. But I've been watching Extraordinary on Hulu, and had a few laugh-out-loud moments from it.

Luke Rollason is purrfect casting here, but the rest of the cast is very good, too.
 
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