by Amal Prashanth Charles
Starlord. Gamora. Drax the Destroyer. Rocket Raccoon .Groot. Doesn’t ring a bell does it?. Do not worry friends you are not alone. I present to you the ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’, a lesser known but equally badass group of space ass kicking superheroes. You thought the X-men were great, yeah right!, and you like the avengers? Please!! Tony Stark himself joins the Guardians later out of boredom. But yes let’s not get too far (*spoilers*).
Marvel studios announced the start of production on a guardians movie in 2012 and is currently in post-production and is set to release on August 1 this year. I think the movie has a stellar cast including Chris Pratt (Parks and Recreation), Zoe Saldana (Avatar, Star Trek) , Dave Bautista (from Effing WWE), Vin Diesel and Bradley Cooper lend their voices for Groot and Rocket Raccoon, Karen Gillan (Doctor Who) and Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro are also part of the cast, but one thing that Guardians doesn't have is the publicity that usually surrounds marvel movies such as ‘The Avengers’ or ‘X-men Days of future past’. Hell many of my friends had never heard of the guardians before marvel announced it. But yeah they also don’t spend their times reading comic books like I do. Nevertheless, I still take offense and I’m here today to tell you a little bit about your next favorite group of alien butt kicking superheroes.
The original Guardians of the galaxy first appeared in Marvel comic books way back in 1969 but they just weren’t considered seriously at that point. They made various appearances throughout Avengers timelines and were cancelled in 1995. They didn’t have any characters of note and weren’t very interesting. So I’m just going to not talk about them.
The modern guardians of the galaxy was launched by Marvel in 2008, and was quite well received. Well obviously because now they are making a movie out of it. But seriously who are the Guardians?.
Just like the X-men and Avengers, Guardians of the galaxy also has many origin stories over the years, Let me tell you a little bit about the present timeline so as to prepare yourself for when the movie arrives .
Starlord (Peter Quill ) is the human-ish leader of the Guardians, Technically he is a human-alien hybrid, but I am going to be nice and not give you the details of that. Keeping in mind the oh-so-many wars happening in the galaxy Starlord decides to recruit a team of Proactive heroes so that they can continually defend the galaxy at all times instead of being responders to an attack. For this purpose he recruits Namora, Groot , Rocket Raccoon, and Drax the Destroyer. It has to be said that Namora is the adopted daughter of Super Villain Thanos who is the purple dude we saw at the end of the Avengers. So yeah you just know she’s pretty Badass. Drax the Destroyer was especially created to battle Thanos which is by itself self-explanatory. Remember how hard it was for the avengers to defeat Thanos’ chitauri minions in the movie. Well Drax is used to facing Thanos one on one so I’m guessing that puts things in perspective about the Guardians’ abilities. Now coming to the weirder members of the team, Rocket Raccoon and Groot . Groot is Literally a Warrior TREE, he has the ability to rebuild himself from trees and is also resistant to fire, he has super strength and is the team’s genius. Rocket is a genetically modified raccoon and can walk, talk and kill like humans , and boy can he kill. He has all the characteristics of an ordinary raccoon , he is fast nimble and has a great sense of smell. He is an excellent marksman and favors using the biggest possible guns.
The modern guardians of the galaxy was launched by Marvel in 2008, and was quite well received. Well obviously because now they are making a movie out of it. But seriously who are the Guardians?.
Just like the X-men and Avengers, Guardians of the galaxy also has many origin stories over the years, Let me tell you a little bit about the present timeline so as to prepare yourself for when the movie arrives .
Starlord (Peter Quill ) is the human-ish leader of the Guardians, Technically he is a human-alien hybrid, but I am going to be nice and not give you the details of that. Keeping in mind the oh-so-many wars happening in the galaxy Starlord decides to recruit a team of Proactive heroes so that they can continually defend the galaxy at all times instead of being responders to an attack. For this purpose he recruits Namora, Groot , Rocket Raccoon, and Drax the Destroyer. It has to be said that Namora is the adopted daughter of Super Villain Thanos who is the purple dude we saw at the end of the Avengers. So yeah you just know she’s pretty Badass. Drax the Destroyer was especially created to battle Thanos which is by itself self-explanatory. Remember how hard it was for the avengers to defeat Thanos’ chitauri minions in the movie. Well Drax is used to facing Thanos one on one so I’m guessing that puts things in perspective about the Guardians’ abilities. Now coming to the weirder members of the team, Rocket Raccoon and Groot . Groot is Literally a Warrior TREE, he has the ability to rebuild himself from trees and is also resistant to fire, he has super strength and is the team’s genius. Rocket is a genetically modified raccoon and can walk, talk and kill like humans , and boy can he kill. He has all the characteristics of an ordinary raccoon , he is fast nimble and has a great sense of smell. He is an excellent marksman and favors using the biggest possible guns.
But how is this movie different from any other superhero movie you may ask. Let me tell you how, this is the first time Marvel is going to make a movie that is completely original and the likes of which have never been seen before. The concept of colliding timelines and shared universes has never been explored this much by any Hollywood franchise. And when they did try it, they weren’t very good (I am looking at you Alien VS Predator). This movie will be the second last movie of the Marvel phase 2 Initiative and I’m sure it will have a part to play when phase 2 ends with Avengers- Age of Ultron.
One thing that is guaranteed with guardians of the galaxy is the laughs and with Chris Pratt marvel have chosen the perfect Starlord, I mean have you seen the guy in Parks and Rec. He is Hilarious and very talented and this movie is definitely his ticket to Stardom. He is assisted by some of Hollywood’s A listers in Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel ,Benicio Del Toro and Zoe Saldana. Karen Gillan from Doctor Who is also part of the cast and I think with all these amazing people the movie is going to be amazing. Dare I say maybe even the best marvel movie to date. I don’t think I have ever been this excited for a movie since ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and this may even be the best movie of 2014 along with X-men Days of Future Past, Obviously.
One thing that is guaranteed with guardians of the galaxy is the laughs and with Chris Pratt marvel have chosen the perfect Starlord, I mean have you seen the guy in Parks and Rec. He is Hilarious and very talented and this movie is definitely his ticket to Stardom. He is assisted by some of Hollywood’s A listers in Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel ,Benicio Del Toro and Zoe Saldana. Karen Gillan from Doctor Who is also part of the cast and I think with all these amazing people the movie is going to be amazing. Dare I say maybe even the best marvel movie to date. I don’t think I have ever been this excited for a movie since ‘The Dark Knight Rises’ and this may even be the best movie of 2014 along with X-men Days of Future Past, Obviously.
This is my first article for Derailed Douchebaggery and I hope to write more about Geek culture including Star wars , Star Trek , Doctor Who, All Comic books, Comic con, etc. Why geek culture you ask. Because I refuse to grow up and Geek Culture is IN right now. Have you seen the big bang theory lately? Peace out.