I’m gonna go watch a robot monkey beat the shit out of a giant planet. I’m fine.

That “Take the wheel” line with whatever it was that Mirage tossed the kid... anyone else getting exo-suit vibes? Or maybe even headmasters territory?

Same here, I was expecting a celibate Unicron.

I’ll be honest — I was not expecting fucking Unicron...

the result is that the character, Star Lord, comes off extremely poorly.

Yes, Star-Lord punched Thanos. But Strange let him.

So...does this confirm all the human (and some CGI?) characters are DONE after v3?

Chris Pratt wasn’t even the second best person named Chris in the Avengers movies.  

“actually my guy would have killed his girlfriend and him being upset about her death is out of character for him” ok guy

This is a diegetic excuse for a criticism of the decision the writers made. Star Lord was fully aware of the stakes and how important the plan to stop Thanos was and yet he fucked it up (again knowing the outcome)

I like Gunn, and I like the Guardians movies.  But Gunn complaining about another group of writers not respecting the Star Lord character is pretty rich considering his version of Star Lord bears no resemblance whatsoever to the comics character.

Thank you and TRT-X for spelling out what was actually in the movie. And giving MoM some appreciation for once.

He knew Quill was going to do what he did and chose not to act on it, meaning whatever outcome Strange saw from stopping Quill, it was (to him anyway) worse than what actually happened.

I fuckin’ loved that moment because it took everything we thought we knew from Infinity War and Endgame and turned it on its head.

When he was given the choice to try and kill Gamora to save the universe because Gamora asked him to, he took it — because it was his and Gamora’s choice.

I also think Gunn’s Starlord would have killed Gamora if she asked him to, and remember being slightly put off that he didn’t. But I definitely think that he would have punched Thanos because he’s an emotional and impulsive character. He generally manages to keep those qualities in check when it counts, but learning…

On top of that — of which you are entirely correct — he’s talking about Star-Lord.

Thank you!!!!!  So sick of this dumb take and having to hear it YEARS after the movie.  It even popped up on Instagram a few weeks ago for another round of bad takiness.

We don’t often agree, but when we do, it’s because someone has a dumber take than even the BOTH of us. Hard to believe, I know, but here we are.

I’m sure there was stuff Roger Stern had Spider-Man do that Gerry Conway didn’t think was true to the character, but that’s part of working on a shared universe. Multiple people write them. Otherwise we should be asking Steve Englehart what how Star-Lord should act, not Gunn.