Ok so the trailer for Guardians Of The Galaxy Volume 3 is now out and in this video we're
gonna be bringing you a big breakdown of the teaser, the hidden details and also our reaction
to it.
Now this is picking up in the aftermath of the Holiday Special.
Incase you didn't check it out there were a couple of things that were dropped in it
to set up the upcoming film.
James Gunn even said the Holiday special was helpful because he didn't have to spend time
explaining why the Guardians had Knowhere and so on.
So the main pointers we learned from it are that they indeed own Knowhere now after buying
it off the Collector.
Though it was destroyed during the events of Avengers Infinity War they have fixed it
up.
We don't knwo what's happened with The Collector but his ship was spotted at the start of the
Loki finale with him flying past the camera as we travelled out of the universe.
Other revelations are that Peter and Mantis are brother and sister due to Ego being their
father.
This was teased all the way back in 2017 when a deleted scene of Mantis' mother was posted
by the actor.
In the group shot photo we could also see her at the back whilst Ego talked about all
the children he had.
Finally Cosmo the space dog was introduced who we'll talk more about in just a bit.
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Now the trailer opens with the Marvel studios logo which then transforms into the cover
of the Awesome Mix Tape.
Gunn has stated that we will be getting a third volume and after hearing how niche his
song choice was for the holiday special I can't wait to see what he has here.
The Hall H trailer had the song Do You Realize by the Flaming Lips which was pretty fitting
for what was shown there.
That focused more heavily on Peter and Gamora realising that they weren't on the same page
and her basically doing a it's not you...it's me.
Like literally.
The song contains the lyrics do you realise you have the most beautiful face, do you realise
we're floating in space.
Bit on the nose for what was shown but ey, I appreciate that Gunn never goes with the
most obvious pop songs cos if I have to hear paint it black or sympathy for the devil one
more time.
Now for this teaser we get the song in the meantime by Space Hog.
This is very much about someone searching for a meaning to life and discovering that
whatver they have to do will push them thorugh.
It has allusions to anxiety and fear of death and how this can be a driving force.
We see the guardians returning to Earth and they approach New York which we can see by
the Statue of Liberty.
They come across a neighbourhood that's filled with Hybrids likely created by the High Evolutionary.
They walk down the ramp and this shot echoes several from their prior movies.
Now Groot has come a long way since being a Teen in the last handful of films.
He's way bigger and bulkier now and Vin Diesel has said in several interviews that the film
will have him coming forth as Emperor Groot.
This is a big version for the character and it's kind of the final form of him which makes
sense for this movie.
They say that they come in peace but Drax ends up smacking a ball off the little hybrid
f**ks head.
This starts a big fight and we cut to quill in space listening to music and clearly thinking
about Gamora.
Now there was a trailer shown at Comic Con earlier in the year and like most of the ones
that debut in Hall H there were some shots that aren't included in this final release.
I will talk about what they are later in the video but just thought I'd drop that up top
incase we go off into some stuff that isn't here.
Anyway the film will very much pick up on the plot threads that were left dangling at
the end of Avengers Endgame with the Guardians searching for Gamora.
The MCU had a bit of a tumultuous time during their productions due to James Gunn being
fired and then rehired by Disney to finish the film.
Originally he was meant to be dropping this before Thor Love and Thunder and this was
the film that was going to feature Thor.
It would give it a bit more urgency with them immediately heading out into space to find
Gamora but instead they had to have them at the start of his last movie to set up him
going off to fight Gorr.
I think it's given them a bit of distance though which has allowed Gamora to set up
her own group.
This is a gang of Ravagers who the Guardians will be meeting early on due to Nebula setting
up a meeting with them.
The pair of course talked it out during Endgame and clearly set up a way that they could contact
each other.
There was actually a Deleted Scene in Endgame where Gamora left the battlefield after everyone
was dusted but I think this was removed to keep up the mystery that she might have been
wiped out along with Thanos' forces.
Gamora is very much a woman out of time similar to Captain America and I think it'll be interesting
to see how she's found things in the future.
Gamora is known as one of the fiercest women in the galaxy and it makes sense that she'd
be able to get people to easily follow her.
However she will be working with the Guardians once more but she's making it very clear to
Peter that she isn't the person he fell in love with.
I think one of the most heartbreaking ideas at the centre of this movie is that she's
right.
We saw in Multiverse Of Madness that Strange had to come to grips with the fact that his
Christine was off with someone else and though there were others out there they couldn't
be with him.
I actually think that might be the case here with the pair not actually ending up with
each other due to their lives being on different tangents.
Peter would always have in the back of his mind that this isn't the Gamora he fell in
love with no matter how much he tries.
He even shows her a polaroid of the pair because he's trying to force her to remember the life
they have.
I love that they go with a polaroid for this as Peter of course got abducted in the 80s
so it makes sense that he'd gravitate towards using old tech with her.
He's desperate to make her the woman he lost and this is represented in the trailer which
has flashbacks to their days together before she died.
We get shots of their more affectionate moments including a scene from Guardians volume 1
and 2.
This is done very similarly to the Jane and Thor flashbacks that we got in Love and Thunder
with Peters past playing a big part.
I think the story will very much be about Quill and Gamora learning to love each other
but I think it would be way more heartbreaking to discover that they just don't connect with
each other.
One of the big complaints about the multiverse is that death doesn't really matter because
people can just come back.
I think something like this would be needed to add actual stakes to the returns and show
that it's not just a fix everything cop out to bring characters back.
I also love the subtle stuff that they do with Gamoras design as well to show that it's
a slightly more rough and ready version of the character.
Not only has she been with the Ravagers for some time but she's not been through the love
story that the original version did.
Her hair has a couple of flicks out from the fringe and she seems a bit less groomed than
she has been in the past.
Nothing major, I'm not slagging the lass off but there are these little touches that really
add to her being slightly different.
He just wants to be happy like how he once was and it's a big thing for the characters
to go through.
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Now mantis is the one talking to Peter whilst this goes on and she tells him not to forget
where they came from.
Peter and Mantis have their realtionship of being siblings out now and it's very similar
to Gamora and Nebulas.
Both had a father figure who wanted to force their will on the universe and it's gonna
be interesting to see if they tackle this idea in the film.
Now at this point we see a Baby Raccoon on Earth that is obviously Rocket.
His past has been teased at before but this film will answer the question of what exactly
happened to him.
Rocket was abducted when he was younger and experimented on by none other than The High
Evolutionary.
In case you don't know who he is, this is a character called Herbert Wyndham who was
born in Manchester just down the road...well not down the road but near me.
Manny In The Building.
Anyway after debuting in The Mighty Thor issue 133 Herbert took an interest in the work of
Nathanial Essex aka Mr Sinister.
He started carrying out genetic experiments and he even built a device known as a genetic
accelerator that sped up the evolution process.
Evolution doesn't really work like that but you know what I mean.
What do you mean explain what I mean.
Well a Raccoon is as evolved as you are because evolution weeds out the ones who arent strong
enough to survive in certain environments.
The ones that flourish there can have children and pass on their genes to them, Further ones
are weeded out and so on and so forth until you get a species that is perfect for where
it is due to mutations.
See kids, always learn something here.
Over the decades the High Evolutionary has created several atrocities and he's bred Dalmations
with Chimpanzees and so on and so forth.
I'm guessing that he's had a number of failures but that Rocket will be the one who worked
and thus he'll be trying to get him once more in order to unlock the secret of how to create
more hybrids.
Interestingly this film will have lots of characters in it that have been experimented
on.
Firstly we have Cosmo who we got to see more of in the recent Holiday special.
AFter the Collectors base was destroyed in the first movie the dog was freed and we heard
it speak in the special whilst demonstrating it's telekinetic powers.
Voiced by Maria Backalova she's backalova this movie too and will be playing a much
bigger role.
During the space race, The Russians sent several dogs into the stars to see what the effects
of travel would have on a living creature.
The first to orbit the earth was Laika and she did so in Sputnik.
Sadly the dog died due to overheating because of the stress the journey caused but the soviets
did manage to bring other dogs back as part of the programme.
Cosmo is going to have been gone a long time and using a universal translator the group
will be able to talk to her.
I dunno how the dog is still alive from the 60s but time obviously works differently in
space.
James Gunn has said that this movie will be one of the saddest MCU films ever and I do
have a feeling that potentially either Cosmo or Rocket will die.
I dunno how many years the little guy has left but either way we are gonna be getting
a showdown between him and his creator.
Might actually come to accept that he is infact a racoon.
Looking at his face he has what appears to be metal under the skin and it looks like
the cybernetic parts on his back run way deeper.
It's not all doom and gloom though as we do see Lylla in the teaser too.
This is the love of rockets life and it's such a cool moment seeing them together.
The teaser has some horrifying shots in it of scalpals that the High Evolutionary uses
and I definitely think there's gonna be a big element of horror to it.
Now there's also Adam Warlock who will be played by Will Poulter.
Similar to Ricket and Cosmo he's been through experimentation himself and we last left him
being created at the end of Guardians Volume 2.
In the comics this is a character this is tied heavily in with the Infinity Stones and
he's actually a big adversary of Thanos.
He's also got allegiances with Pip the troll who was teased at the end of Eternals.
I have a feeling that he will be popping up in the next Eternals project and with Eros
being Thanos' brother they can kinda tie him in with that.
Now he was named Adam after the first man, however the name Warlock was given to him
by the High Evolutionary.
It's even possible that he might be working alongside him early on or we could get an
appearance once more by the Sovereign.
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Now it seems like they've changed the space suit style as we say way more colourful ones
that remind me a lot of the first JJ Abrhams Star trek movie.
In addition to this it seems like we're also gonna be getting the comic suits for the final
film with us getting several shots of them donning the blue leather costumes.
Drax no longer has sensitive nipples so he'll be donning it as well.
Rocket ended up wearing one of these suits in Endgame so my guess is that he's made some
for the rest of the group.
We even get the classic back to back shooting shot that's been present in a lot of films
featuring the team and it's a callback to when Rocket and Groot did it at the prison
before Baby Groot did it on Rocket.
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Anyway we see them diving in space towards a fleshy structure.
This is later revealed to be High Evolutionaries base.
I love how theres a flesh like structure to the space ship and it shows how he's trying
to combine even miniscule things like this in anyway that he can.
It appears like it even has hairs on it which is such a cool detail.
We see him watching over a white figure training and Quill leaps at one later on.
I'm guessing the guardians get caught as we see them in what appears to be prison jumpsuits.
This of course echoes the first film in which they were put in one as well.
Now James Gunn has said that with this being his final Guardians film that some will die.
He said that it's not gonna be a complete bloodbath like Suicide Squad but that some
of our favourites will end up going out.
We've already talking about Rocket but I'm guessing that Drax will too due to Dave Bautista
confirming that this will be the last time that he plays him.
Drax has kinda come to the end of his arc and he got revenge on both Ronan and Thanos
who were responisble for his family's death.
The MCU recently has taken a big focus on the afterlife with it popping up in Moon Knight,
Thor Love and Thunder and also Wakanda Forever.
I'd love it if we saw Drax reunited with his family after passing away and I think it would
be the perfect end to his arc.
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Now due to all the connections to Earth, Rocket's origins and the high evolutionary I do feel
like Peter will end up returning there for good.
This was the planet at which his mother died and it makes sense that he'd want to avoid
the place that gave him one of the most traumatic experiences of his life.
However he has been there from time to time and I think the movie might culminate with
him moving back home and finally going back to the family that he was abducted from at
the start of the first movie.
That's just a big theory time theory time theory time theory time but thematically I
think it makes sense for him to go back to the place he began his journey.
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Now we also see the monster that the team fought at the start of the second Guardians
film.
For it's use here I'm guessing that it's part of the high evolutionary's creatures and he
may have even created the beast that they fought last time.
Anyway we end with a nice little joke.
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Now as for my thoughts on the teaser I really dug it and the Guardians have some of the
best films in the MCU under their belt.
James Gunn is always really good at balancing the comedy along with the more emotional and
hearfelt moments and I have a feeling that he's gonna knock it out the park for his swan
song at Marvel.
This is the culmination of the Guardians journey and due to Disney being unable to replace
Gunn after firing him I dont even know if these characters will return in a major way
due to directors potentially not wanting to take over the project.
I hope we get the perfect ending for them and that this is a big movie before Gunn goes
off to DC for the next part of his career.
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