#guardians of the galaxy

What If… Yondu rescued another child from Ego??

I really wanted to see what Mantis would look like if she was raised in a different environment, including a friendly sibling rivalry with Peter Quill!

(Also I don’t want to see any badmouthing of main MCU Mantis or Peter Quill in this- I love both of their characters very much, and this was just a fun drawing experiment!)

Bonus mask-on version:

Star-Lord & ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’

Star-Lord is an american comic book superhero created by Steve Englehart and Steve Gan in 1976. He has appeared in numerous Marvel comic series. (source: wikipedia) Star Lord aka Peter Quill (Source: Marvel) Star-Lord is appearing in the upcoming movie ‘Guardians of the Galaxy Vol:2’. It is being directed and written by James Gunn. He is well known for his work on the ‘Scooby Doo’ movies. The…

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Rocket hates Goose/Chewie

I’d love to see this sometime in the MCU

This weekend I saw Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Since I’d let a few weeks pass post-release, I was surprised to find the theatre just as packed as I’d expect from opening night. The world, like me, must have all been anticipating the sequel to what, in retrospect, might be the standout success of the entire Marvel Cinematic Universe. The original Guardians was stylish, witty, delightfully cast and coated head to foot in retro aesthetic, which in a pre-Stanger Things world felt totally fresh.

Unfortunately,Guardians 2 doesn’t hit that same stride. Mind you, I enjoyed it quite a bit. Dave Bautista really comes into his own with a bevy of smart/dumb one-liners, Bradley Cooper continues to build a strangely compelling character in Rocket Raccoon, and the soundtrack, opening up with a full-on dance sequence to ELO’s “Mr. Blue Sky,” may even surpass that of the original. But through it all, Guardians 2 feels like it’s struggling against its own ubiquitous, monolithic creator, like a passionate kid trying desperately to convince his parents that a degree in music is just as valuable as enrollment in the business school.

See, in 2008, Marvel made us all a promise. The deal was, that if we all behaved and came out to support their summer superhero flicks, they’d reward us with a big, star-studded crossover event. The Avenger Promise. We all learned to sit patiently through every end credit sequence for that inevitable glimpse at the final chapter, the little tidbit to keep us satiated. The names were huge. Who wouldn’t be excited about Thor, Captain America and Robert Downey Jr.’s flamboyant Tony Stark? Every chapter, with varying success, established its own distinct world, its own feel, its own draw. Each one began and ended on its own power, and when Joss Whedon brought them all together four years after Iron Man’s screen debut, everyone cheered. I remember being absolutely certain that The Avengers would flop. There was no way they could take four years of hype built up over four different movies, throw together all that star power in two and a half hours, and walk away with something that would satisfy. But they did.

Five years after that success, however, the Avenger Promise has become a weight on the back of every Marvel film. Remember when they talked about the different stages of the MCU? The PowerPoint slides numerating franchise plans years into the future? We’re living that future now, and I have no clue anymore what stage we’re at. It’s gotten so that half the trailers before any movie you care to see are MCU trailers, and we all sit through the Dolby logo at every closing credits, be it for Pixar or Tarantino, because we’ve been conditioned to expect that little nugget at the end. The oversaturation of the superhero genre and Disney’s cinematic dominance has been talked to death, so I don’t want to dwell, but the scale just keeps getting more unbalanced. And now, it’s starting to really starting to harm itself.

Guardians 2 has, if I counted correctly, four individual scenes spread throughout the credits. Some were foreshadowing, others were simply comic relief, but I realized somewhere between the third and fourth that the movie feels less complete because of it. Captain America began and ended, with enough of a wink and nod to get you excited for Steve Roger’s inevitable thawing. It was the same with Iron ManandThor.Guardians, on the other hand, feels like a stepping stone.

The appeal of the first movie was its distinct style. It felt more like an extra-campy, 70s sitcom rendition of Star Wars than a superhero film. The action was solid, and the ties to the rest of the universe were there, but it worked on the merits of its quirky individuality, which now seems threatened by the very circumstances that gave it breath.

As much as I loved Karen Gillan and Michael Rooker in the first film, I find it a little odd that they, among other minor characters from Guardians 1 (remember Yondu’s backcountry first mate?), all become so central this time around. Everybody has an arc, a speech, and a hug-it-out moment of resolution, which is…nice…but it feels a little bizarre in a franchise that already boasts five major leads. Add Kurt Russell’s Ego to the mix and you have a cast of eight major players, more than the first Avengers even with Sam Jackson thrown in. That’s absurd, and it made me wonder why such a huge crew was necessary.

By the third act (if you can call it that, the movie has a weirdly one-act feel with everything pretty much happening in the same spot), I figured it out. Because somebody needs to be in danger. Because somebody needs to deliver the emotional gut-punch. Somebody’s arc needs to wrap up, one way or another, and it can’t possibly be any of the five protagonist. No, they’re arcs are waiting on Infinity WarandVol. 3 and whatever follows in MCU Stage 12. Every personal moment with the core cast felt weightless because their brand status is now abundantly clear. They’re protected from on high from any permanent character shifts, any major change in dynamic, any real danger at all. Instead, the movie spends half an hour speed-grinding a minor character up to the party level just so somebody can have a real moment. It comes off alright, but it doesn’t avoid feeling shoehorned in by the multi-billion dollar guardian angel that is Disney. For all the Fast and Furious family talk, the character inclusivity still seems like a scheme to keep Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana and the other three headliners in narrative stasis.

Even Rocket’s arc, which to me felt subtle and interesting, loses a ton of weight by the fact that this movie is just the latest piece of a massive puzzle that I have an ever-diminishing interest in finishing. Infinity War holds none of the allure for me that the first Avengers did in 2012. Thanos has been hiding in the credits too long for me to care anymore. Will I see it? Yes, they got me. For a big dumb fight with theater surround sound, I’ll toss eight more bucks Disney’s way. The machine keeps turning, and I’m a part of the problem. It just saddens me to see a really brilliant property like Guardians kept from its true potential, its uniqueness and creativity crushed under the heel of the MCU business model.

When Ego helps Starlord unlock his god-powers, Chris Pratt grins and promises to “build some weird shit.” There’s a glint in his eye. He’s psyched. But all too soon, Ego reveals the price of those resources – life as a “battery,” fueling the assimilation of everything he’s ever known. Guardians 2 is almost too good of a self-prophecy. And while the jokes still play, the music still bumps, and a lot of the style remains, it hurts to watch something great be crippled by its obligation as a cog in an endless expanse.

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It makes me genuinely so sick to see so many people disliking Nebula from Guardians of the Galaxy. I know she would have had Loki’s popularity if she was pretty, because both are really similar in their concept and development. If we see the story from her point of view, all of her actions are understandable and fair, even her trying to kill Gamora who’s really not the “nice and innocent one” between the two. For me, Nebula is the most interesting MCU character, it’s just so sad and frustrating that so many people do not see her worth.

I don’t like any original plot for Adam Warlock, but I love this character very much, so I took some things from comics / game / animated series and created something new which suits all my needs.

So all my artworks belongs to my AU.

Adam was created by some sick space scientists like a greatest weapon in the world, they gave him incredible powers and intelligence and were surprised when he decided that their ideas are just cringe and inappropriate and he didn’t want to be with them.

He was already adult but he didn’t have much life experience so he traveled across the galaxy and tried to help people and planets.

Somehow he met Gamora after she betrayed Thanos and they became friends. Then they met again when he tried to help some civilians during their revolution against the tyranny. She was there with Starlord and other first members of the Guardians of the Galaxy who also tried to help. They decided to work together. They did a great job but Peter and Adam spent much time arguing about the plan and their leadership. At the end though Peter asked Adam to join the Guardians for some time.

Adam was distanced from ordinary human values and even their language. He talked like people who were around him in the beginning: scientists, faithful priests, rulers. So he didn’t get some human needs or their jokes. After spending some time with The Guardians he got better with it. Peter showed him his favourite pop culture stuff and they spent many holidays together. They all became very good friends.

But The Guardians were a young team, they still had their old habits, sometimes they didn’t care about problems of anyone in the Galaxy, sometimes they wanted to steal something or just have fun. Adam felt that he had more important destiny. He couldn’t stay away from right things he had to do, so sometimes he went on his own missions and vanished for some time.

That was fine. The Guardians needed a lot of work and time to grow in a great team.

Then Thanos found him. He took a right moment and told Adam about his idea of a Greater Good. He agreed that powers which Adam had are much greater and he can’t just waste it this way. He manipulated him so well that they began working together. Adam thought that he is absolutely free to drop this any time, he also knew that Thanos can be severe and dangerous. But no-one else could understand his power, abilities and the plenty of problems the entire universe had right now.

The Guardians were shocked by this team up, they tried to convince Adam to stop but it didn’t work. Adam even was offended that his friends didn’t want to support him in such important things. They all felt disappointment and bitterness. They didn’t fight but they also couldn’t be friends any more. So they fell apart for some time.

Things got worse. Adam found an infinity stone, after that he kinda slowly lost his mind. It was too much for him. Thanos developed his cruel plan and used Adam for his sick philosophy. The consequences of their raids were frightening.

Peter and Gamora spent a lot of time trying to find out what they can do. They didn’t have a choice any more.

It was a difficult and heartbreaking battle. They could just slightly recognise their Adam in a creature he became. Adam used too much power of The magic stone, he couldn’t hold it anymore. And then, in the end, his mind returned to him and Adam understood how wrong he was. He saw his friends nearby. They still tried to save him. But it was too late. His body was being destroyed by the infinity stone power. So Peter and Gamora had to left him to save their own lives since he was gonna explode like supernova.

15 years past since then. Guardians changed their members different times but Gamora and Peter were still there. They developed in a great team and a really close family. Somewhere in an outer space another mad scientists decided to build a new God again. They brought Adam to live again. He didn’t remember much about his last years, but he remembered that he had his friends somewhere, so he escaped and decided to find them.