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The guy you see shaving during the breakout scene is Brahl, who menaced the original (future) Guardians in the comics, while one of the guys who gets thrown out the airlock is Tullk, a character who appeared in the early Annihilation books, which helped relaunch the Guardians as a concept. There are a couple of other Ravagers hanging around who are from the comics, too. It’s a kind of cool piece of future Marvel history, and I’d love to see this somehow make its way to the screen. The Stark actually are an alien race that worships Tony Stark and his technology.
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Taserface fought the original Guardians (the ones from the future) and he was part of an alien race known as The Stark. I see a pattern here.Īnyway, as we see throughout this movie, the film version of Guardians of the Galaxy has no problem with collapsing the future/original team and the present/more well known versions, and that includes their mythology. In the comics, Taserface sometimes goes by the name (I shit you not) Overkill. If Kurt Russell had turned down this role, couldn’t you see Jeff Bridges doing it? Who the hell is Taserface, anyway?
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Nyssa of Trakken down in the comments points out the similarities to the Ego/Mantis relationship to Morbius/Altaira in sci-fi classic, Forbidden Planet (a movie we have written about extensively here and here), and I have to say, that’s pretty cool.Īlso, any similarities to the Ego/Meredith relationship and Jeff Bridges/Karen Allen in John Carpenter’s wonderfully underrated Starman are probably not coincidental. His human form is also known for having a stylish and completely outdated appearance when it comes to his fashion and hair. Much like Ego, this powerful being from the cosmos took a human form and walked the Earth. It should be noted that certain aspects of the movie version of Ego seem borrowed from the Beyonder, known for staging the original Secret Wars. “My Sweet Lord” is probably the best known track, but not my favorite, which is the incredible “What is Life?” (which was used to excellent effect in Goodfellas). That song comes from his triple (!) album, All Things Must Pass, which is, for my money, the best solo effort by any Beatle. I’m pretty sure that’s Eson the Searcher.Ĭonsidering how little Jack Kirby had to do with most of the characters we’ve met in the Guardians of the Galaxy movies (Ego notwithstanding, of course), there sure is a ton of Kirby visual influence sprinkled throughout! I’m just glad that we got at least one shot of the proper “giant purple planet with a face” look for him.Īlso, the song playing when Peter and friends arrive on Ego is “My Sweet Lord” by George “the dankest Beatle” Harrison. We caught a glimpse of another Celestial in the first Guardians of the Galaxy movie.
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No, he isn’t a Celestial in the comics, but who cares? If you want to get into Jack Kirby’s primo Marvel stuff, you read the entire Fantastic Four run he did with Stan Lee, which introduces so much of the Marvel Universe as you know it that it’s almost impossible to process, you read his Captain America stuff from Tales of Suspense (which are my favorite Cap comics, bar none), and you read Thor, which get as cosmically weird as Fantastic Four, and then some. Oh, you mean Ego, the Living Planet? A character who comes from Jack Kirby’s peak era of Marvel creativity? However, “Stuck in the Vortex” points out that while the name “The Sovereign” may have been invented for the movie, they sure do look a bit like The Universal Church of Truth, who are tied to Adam Warlock, Thanos, and Magus. The Sovereign that we’re introduced to here seem to be created specifically for the movies. I’ll be on the listen during my second viewing to see if I can confirm either/both. Pac-Man “cut scenes” specifically, this one. When that scene first kicks in, I can swear I hear a snippet of music from one of the Ms. Additionally, Eidos-Montréal has also created two music videos for Star-Lord Band, with an 80s cartoons-inspired video for the single Zero to Hero, as well as a VHS-style video of Star-Lord Band performing the song on stage.While we’re on the subject of Ayesha, though…It’s pretty hilarious that the Sovereign control their space armada via what is, essentially, a 1980s video arcade.