Guardians of the Galaxy Guardians of the Galaxy: General Discussion & Speculation Thread - Part 1

[ThePowerCosmic]

The original Guardians weren't involved in the Thanos saga at all. That first GotG team was from an alternate future -- the 31st Century, I believe -- so they only met the Avengers when they somehow travelled back through time.


Iron Man's space armor will probably be revealed during the movie as he's locked away in his workshop creating new weaponry. Feige described Stark as having retreated from the world and holed himself up in the workshop because he is convinced that he needs to wear the armor constantly. Combining that info with the rumor that Tony will create and use forty-something different versions of his armor in the final battle, it's not too big a stretch to guess that the space armor will be among them. He never even has to specify what it does since he's only using controlling the other armors with his AI to help in the fight.


With the space armor already visually introduced, Stark can then go on to test it in the post-credit sequence. He decides to go out of the atmosphere (probably against JARVIS's wishes) to see if the armor is up to the rigors of space travel. But Tony's plans of a short test flight are ruined when Thanos' massive starship Sanctuary II appears ahead of him (or, alternately, an Einstein-Rosen Bridge opens up) and he finds himself taking an interstellar detour....


That's how I envision it happening. I'm wrong, of course; it'll be far different and better than I can imagine, if it happens at all. However they work it, Iron Man & GotG FTW!

I don't think Jarvis would object to deep space travel. He was the first one to mention the idea of space travel to Tony in IM1.

 

[Son of Coul]

Next hint:

Marvel Clue #3: My superbowl scoop is about one of these, but which one? http://instagram.com/p/VIG0LdDplI/

A buncha comic covers. Any ideas?

 

[jaqua99]

Just announcing that Danvers will be in the MCU is big enough to be considered a big scoop.

Much better than announcing who the 5 core members of the JL will be anyway.

I know but, like, by big scoop, I imagine it would be bigger than announcing a character

Next hint:


A buncha comic covers. Any ideas?

cool..too bad the damn image wont open up for me -________-

 

[Wolvieboy17]

Why would big scoop have to be bigger than a character? How is a big character right out of the comics not a big scoop?

 

[Dark Raven]

Next hint:


A buncha comic covers. Any ideas?

Well it won't be about X-Men, as that's irrelevant to the MCU.

There are FF covers there though. Probably not this one, but it would be great if the big scoop were that FF is coming back to Marvel, along with Galactus and Silver Surfer.

Iron Man #47 is just about his origin, told mostly in flashback. It has the likes of Mandarin, Melter, Crimson Dynamo and Titanium Man, along with Cap and Thor, all in flashback. Doesn't really seem relevant.

 

[Chewy]

Next hint:


A buncha comic covers. Any ideas?

One of those Cap issues is about Black Panther agreeing to join the Avengers

 

[cherokeesam]

Next hint:


A buncha comic covers. Any ideas?

"My superbowl scoop is about one of these...." Might not mean the actual *issue,* just the *title.* I.e., it might be about the movies for Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk, Thor, X-Men, Spider-Man, the Fantastic Four, or Silver Surfer. Which would be a bull**** "hint" apropos of exactly nothing, of course.

 

[jaqua99]

I have a ridiculous theory lol. Thanks to the help of Dark Raven (think it was you, actually) it may be wayyy to over analytical, but who knows, cause this is exactly what i would do.

So, it seems like a given that Carol is his scoop. HOWEVER, what does she have to do with that picture? No idea. Maybe it's not about the stories under the covers, but just, the characters. I tried to ignore her, and find some significance in that picture. I noticed there are more fantastic four covers than any of the other ones. So I thought of ways that her, the fantastic 4, and the avengers all tie together. (obviously the fantastic 4 aren't gunna be in the MCU, but maybe there is a hint to the picture).

Alright, so the correlation I got between the fantastic 4, and carol fighting with the avengers, is ultron, who is a small part the Korvac Saga...or Thanos Saga!? :P.. Now hear me out. in the 70s (as Dark Raven clear up for me) the fantastic 4, and the avengers took on Ultron. they defeated him. Shortly after, in the Korvac Saga, he reappeared. Briefly. Carol helped the avengers defeat him. However, the big picture was the Korvac Saga. The Guardians of the Galaxy helped the avengers take on Korvac, and Carol joined that battle at the end. Then officially joins the avengers.

Well, what if phase 2 is sort of going along the lines of the Korvac Saga? Except Thanos takes the place of Korvac? Before Carol aided the avengers in defeating Ultron, she was like..a guest member of the denfenders. well, what if she is a guest/traveling with the guardians? So we would have, the avengers, the guardians, and carol taking on the enemy. Except instead of Korvac, it is Thanos.

Again, I am trying to think of some significance to that picture, and how Carol can..in a bizarre way, be related to it. That's what I got out of it. There may be some significance to there being 3 fantastic 4 covers, which is more than any of the others and correlating that, with Carol fighting WITH the avengers, I get Ultron, who in a way, is a small part of the Korvac saga, as Carol helps them defeat him.. and if it is following the Korvac saga, maybe Ultron would have a small little arc that concludes in the aveng,ers, supporting the ultron theorists, yes, such as myself.

So there is a possible theory..derrived from that picture, that phase 2 is going to be, in a way, following the Korvac Saga...making it, a Thanos saga haha

 

[Chewy]

So, it seems like a given that Carol is his scoop

Um, why? lol. Seems like a bit of a stretch

 

[cherokeesam]

Carol is one possibility. So is Mr. Sinister. Dunno where everybody gets the impression that Mayimbe said Marvel "STUDIOS" movie --- he said it's about a "MARVEL" movie, and MCUphiles tend to forget that includes Sony and Fox.

 

[Chewy]

Don't know why people think it's a character at all. He specifically said it was big plot stuff related to Phase 2 and Phase 3, and that the [blackout]"Mr. Stark Goes to Space"[/blackout] thing was a portion of it.

 

[Lobo]

My guess is that the Surfers rights go back to Marvel Studios along with Galactus

 

[Darthphere]

Where is all this Carol **** coming from?

 

[Chewy]

I'd be pretty happy with Carol showing up but I'm positive this scoop has nothing to do with her, so I dunno

 

[Dark Raven]

I have an equally ridiculous theory using Jaqua99's warped sense of logic.

I suggest that all these clues lead to Jessica Jones. Here's why: Galactus is on those covers. He wears mostly purple, as does Thanos. Who else wears purple? The Purple Man. The Purple Man controlled Tony Stark in that A:EMH episode "Emperor Stark" and he'll probably show up at the end of IM3. Purple Man also controlled Jessica Jones when she was first a superhero.

That hand symbol in the first clue wasn't a diamond pointing to Vision. Rather, a diamond is a precious jewel, and Jessica's superhero name was Jewel. As Jewel, she also fought the Avengers under the control of the Purple Man, but was defeated by them. Later on, Jean Grey, who also appears on those comic covers, gave Jessica a psychic link to prevent her being controlled by him again.

Jessica Jones also ties into Spider-Man. She was born Jessica Campbell, and was at the same high school when Peter Parker was bitten by the spider. She also had a crush on Johnny Storm - tying further into the Fantastic Four. She was later in a car accident with her parents and they collided with a military convoy - hence the military motif in the 2nd clue. She ended up in a coma but the rest of her family were killed. When she finally awoke, it was because of the first coming of Galactus and the Silver Surfer.

So all these previous clues and the comic covers tie into Jessica. Marvel were also planning a TV series AKA Jessica Jones before they began working on SHIELD.

 

[cherokeesam]

Where is all this Carol **** coming from?

If you read Mayimbe's hand symbol Clue #1 as a vagina (as many people did, jokingly), then Clue #2 as a picture of a USAF fighter jet, my mind tends to wander towards Carol Danvers. Feel free to come up with an alternative explanation.

As for Clue #3 (the comic book covers): not a ****in' clue. So intentionally vague, it could mean anything. Is it about one of those specific issues? Or a character(s) introduced in one of them (most of the selections involve origin stories and first appearances)? Or a specific story arc from one of them? Does the order in which the comics are displayed mean a damn thing? For that matter, can the two vacant spots hint at anything?

Probably not.
To all of the above.
Come Sunday, after the Niners thrash the Ravens, Mayimbe's probably going to reveal that he's got nothing (again) and will have to spend the rest of the week trying to defend his already shattered reputation.

Word to the wise: the only *real* leaks that are worth a damn come from toy companies.

 

[Darthphere]

So from nowhere.

 

[Doc Ock]

My guess is that the Surfers rights go back to Marvel Studios along with Galactus

Did you here that sound just now? That was my head exploding in a alternate universe at thinking of such a awesome possibility as that.

 

[Chewy]

Mayimbe's probably going to reveal that he's got nothing (again) and will have to spend the rest of the week trying to defend his already shattered reputation.

How adorably melodramatic

 

[Matt Mortem]

My guess is that the Surfers rights go back to Marvel Studios along with Galactus

Oh God I hope so. More than any ****ing thing I hope so.

 

[Gary Griffith]

The clues lead to only one logical conclusion.
#1. The diamond symbol: Metamorpho can turn to diamond mode.
#2. The air force symbol: Rex Reason (was that his name?) was an air force pilot before becoming Metamorpho (I think)
#3. The comics: it's not what comics are shown, but what's missing. Not a Metamorpho comic in the bunch
Therefore I can safely assume Metamorpho will join the Avengers in TA2!
You heard it here first!
LOL

 

[Mr. Dent]

The original Guardians weren't involved in the Thanos saga at all. That first GotG team was from an alternate future -- the 31st Century, I believe -- so they only met the Avengers when they somehow travelled back through time.

Iron Man's space armor will probably be revealed during the movie as he's locked away in his workshop creating new weaponry. Feige described Stark as having retreated from the world and holed himself up in the workshop because he is convinced that he needs to wear the armor constantly. Combining that info with the rumor that Tony will create and use forty-something different versions of his armor in the final battle, it's not too big a stretch to guess that the space armor will be among them. He never even has to specify what it does since he's only using controlling the other armors with his AI to help in the fight.

With the space armor already visually introduced, Stark can then go on to test it in the post-credit sequence. He decides to go out of the atmosphere (probably against JARVIS's wishes) to see if the armor is up to the rigors of space travel. But Tony's plans of a short test flight are ruined when Thanos' massive starship Sanctuary II appears ahead of him (or, alternately, an Einstein-Rosen Bridge opens up) and he finds himself taking an interstellar detour....

That's how I envision it happening. I'm wrong, of course; it'll be far different and better than I can imagine, if it happens at all. However they work it, Iron Man & GotG FTW!

Just went back and read issue 55 and realized that Drax had a diamond shaped symbol on his chest back then.

 

[Xeno]

My guess is that the Surfers rights go back to Marvel Studios along with Galactus

I wish I could believe this was true.

 

[cherokeesam]

So from nowhere.

I don't see *you* coming up with anything better, Buzz Killington.

 

[Xeno]

I don't think Jarvis would object to deep space travel. He was the first one to mention the idea of space travel to Tony in IM1.

JARVIS generally gets antsy whenever Tony wants to jump straight into rigorous testing/use with new suits. He likes to have reams of data compiled and analyzed from simulations and such before he and Tony go tearing off into the wild blue yonder.