1/12/2024 0 Comments Guardians lost to timeLooking to catch up on more Marvel movies? Keep an eye on the SYFY schedule for previous Guardians movies, Captain America films, Doctor Strange, and more.In Avengers: Infinity War, we follow Thanos ( Josh Brolin) as he collects every Infinity Stone, one by one. In the end, each Guardian found that place, even if it's not where they thought they'd end up. 3, the universe certainly gets bigger, but something also definitely comes to a close, an era of stories that were simultaneously joyful and heartbreaking, a story of misfits who were searching for their place. In the years since Avengers: Endgame, we haven't seen a conclusion of this magnitude in the MCU, as Marvel has instead focused on growing its universe and expanding its roster of characters. What all this amounts to - combined with the defeat of the High Evolutionary, the growth of Adam Warlock, and the rise of Knowhere as a kind of galactic refuge - is a clear, satisfying, and powerful ending that gets where it's going without decimating the title team, or leaving any of the characters lost to time. We don't know how long he'll stay there, how much he might get involved in Earth superheroics, or anything else, but it's pretty clear that Star-Lord's journey in the MCU isn't over just yet. So, after years of masking his fear of going home with adventures, Peter simply decides to do it, returns to Missouri, and reunites with his grandfather after decades away. He's never actually reconnected with his homeworld, never even tried to go and see if his grandfather is still alive and waiting for him to come home. Rocket, with Groot by his side, assumes leadership of a new team of heroes, because as Peter tells him, the galaxy will still need Guardians (more on them when we talk about the credits scenes).Īnd then there's Star-Lord himself, who realizes that after all these years and all this time hopping across the galaxy, he's only ever returned to Earth one time, to fight Thanos. Mantis, realizing that her entire life has been tethered to others, decides to set off on her own and find what she's really interested in. Gamora, having found her own sense of family and fulfillment with the Ravagers over the last few years, goes back to their ranks. Drax and Nebula, rediscovering the love of family in themselves, decide to stay on Knowhere and raise the refugee children. It's here that Gunn and company split the group off into their own new focuses. It's within that new dynamic - the weight of Rocket's revival, plus the sheer number of lives they've just saved - that the Guardians decide their fate is to disband, perhaps not permanently, but long enough that each of them can seek something else that might offer a sense of fulfillment. Instead, they launch a rescue mission, evacuating all of the kids and animals trapped on the ship to Knowhere, where they can start a new life. After coming so close to losing one of their own, Star-Lord (Chris Pratt), Mantis (Pom Klementieff), Drax (Dave Bautista), Nebula (Karen Gillan), Rocket, Groot (Vin Diesel), and a tagalong Gamora (Zoe Saldana) from the past aren't interested in leaving those subjects to fend for themselves. He's much more interested in what he can (amorally, viciously) build from the pieces of a universe he considers inferior, and that means his crashing ship is packed with test subjects. By the end, with Rocket's life finally saved and the team back together kicking ass to a Beastie Boys song, the struggle becomes less about defeating and more about saving.īecause of course, the High Evolutionary is not a destroyer, at least not at first. Along the way, that brings them into conflict with the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji) and Adam Warlock (Will Poulter), but even when that battle heats up, the villains are almost secondary. Instead, Gunn focuses in very tightly on the Guardians themselves, what they want, what they see in each other, and why they function so well not just as a team of heroes, but as a group of friends. 3 isn't for the fate of the universe as it was in the two previous installments. What's perhaps most surprising about the film's ending, therefore, is that none of the Guardians had to give their lives to make something work this time around. Going into the film, it felt like there was a good chance that at least one member of the Guardians team wouldn't survive the fight, and since much of the story features Rocket (Bradley Cooper) clinging to life while his friends fight to save him, it was easy to imagine someone heading out into the Great Beyond by the end. Well, Gunn certainly makes good on his promise to make this film the last story featuring the Guardians team that he'd shepherded and evolved for nearly a decade, but that conclusion perhaps doesn't go the way we expected.
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