History Fridge / GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2

* "Stolen batteries." At first it seems like something funny Rocket did, then of course those same stolen batteries wind up destroying Ego from the inside out. And finally Rocket likens Yondu to himself at Yondu's cremation when he says, "They came back for him, even though he was mean, yelled at them, stole some batteries..." When you think of it that way, Yondu ''did'' steal some batteries: he stole Peter. Ego said that Peter would act as a battery for the next thousand years while he drained his powers... before that, though, Yondu stole him during his childhood rather than deliver him to his murderous father. So to Ego, Yondu might have "stolen some batteries" (i.e. Peter) from him, but of course, Yondu really rescued Peter and raised him as his own son.

** Aleta is Gamora, the DarkChick.

* Yondu's refusal to turn the Ravagers against the Nova Corps for Ronan's forces from the first film makes even more sense after you learn his backstory; he was enslaved by the Kree to be a battle-slave. Due to personal experiences, he ''definitely'' refuses to aid anyone who abides a Kree scum like Ronan, and him [[OneHitPolykill killing the entire platoon]] was his way of flipping the bird to allies of his hated oppressors.

* Why do all of Ego's statues look, well... ''plastic'' compared to everything else Ego created? Firstly, it probably requires less "processing power" to create bare facsimilies of people than to create completely lifelike representations similar to his own avatar. Secondly... they don't look like real people because to Ego, ''they weren't''. Similarly, why does the statue of Ego himself match the same stylized look? It's because he thinks of the avatar in the same way as those people: it's not really him, so why should he put detail into it?

* Fridge Heartwarming. It is implied during Yondu and Stakar's argument that learning about what happened to Ego's children is what convinced Yondu to keep Peter from him. There's a good chance Yondu found out about Ego's true intentions ''before'' meeting Peter. If Yondu had simply decided to stop collecting Ego's children after picking up Quill, Ego probably wouldn't think twice about finding someone else to do it instead. Yondu wasn't ''collecting'' Peter when he took him away. He was ''rescuing'' him.

* Back when the first GOTG came out, whining came from ''everywhere'' on how Quill's Walkman shouldn't have lasted a year, let alone be pristine twenty-six years later; the foam rubber headphones should have disintegrated within a month or so, and the batteries should have drained after less than a week. In this movie, the ''Milano'' crash-lands pretty damn hard, and Rocket is shown conducting repairs - by pretty much ''spray-painting'' the broken parts back onto the ship. With [[MatterReplicator that kind of technology]], maintaining and powering a metal-and-plastic analog magnetic media reader would be as simple as '''knapping flint.'''

* Assuming Kraglin is about as old as the actor portraying him, he would have been a teenager when Yondu picked Peter up as a child, and probably saw Yondu as a father figure. This makes it more understandable that [[FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling he sees Peter as the misbehaving but favored little brother who gets away with everything, even betraying Yondu repeatedly, while Kraglin stays loyal.]]

** There's another sinister application of Mantis's powers. She says that she can use her telepathy to make people more compliant, and we see her use this ability in the ''Holiday Special'' to compel a store owner into giving her a map and some money money, as well as put Creator/KevinBacon into a trance that makes him totally calm and compliant. Meaning the reason Ego probably brought her along to chase down Peter was to make his son docile if Peter decided not to go with them willingly. That might even be another reason why he spared her even though she didn't carry the Celestial gene.

* While on Earth, Ego used a car painted orange and teal. As the film later shows, he has BlueAndOrangeMorality. It also resembles the colors of the ''Milano''.

* Ego sticks to summoning CombatTentacles because the humanoid bodies are too complex to make quickly -- then we see Drax falling victim to QuicksandSucks when everyone else is getting hit by tentacles. [[EvenEvilHasStandards Because Ego was trying to]] [[YouWillBeSpared spare Mantis.]]

* How did Kraglin find Groot at the right time and know what he was looking for? Because he was going to steal the fin himself to give to Yondu. Even further than that; when Kraglin is giving Nebula her ship, he mentions Ego's planet by name, indicating that she's already told him where she intends to go. He knows Yondu will want the fin when he finds out about Ego, so instead of just breaking them out, he goes to steal it first thing.

* Mantis's name being...well...''Mantis''...makes a certain grim sense in this movie, considering that ''Ego'' was the one who named her (she was still a larva when he "found" her, after all). He's not great at naming things, basically, nor did he give enough of a shit about Mantis to give her a proper name.

* One of Mantis's stated powers is the ability to alter the emotional states of others: she can make someone happy and relieved if they felt sad or tense. Ego would want someone like Mantis around for very sinister reasons, more so than just to help him sleep. Most of his children were probably like Peter Quill, sad and terrified little kids taken from their families by a bunch of nasty space pirates after suffering a horrible tragedy. Mantis probably alleviated some of those kids' fears and concerns after they were dropped off. As she grew up in isolation on Ego's planet, those kids would have been Mantis's only other friends. She probably played with them and helped them adjust to their new "lives" as Ego's kids, only to see him take them away after they were deemed "unworthy" and be left alone again. An even more disturbing and disgusting possibility is that Ego kept her to groom her via WifeHusbandry so as to see if she could eventually host him a Celestial offspring, just in case he didn't find Star-Lord.
** There's another sinister application of Mantis's powers, which she alludes to when she says she can make people more compliant, meaning the reason Ego probably brought her along to chase down Peter was to make his son docile if Peter decided not to go with them willingly.

* On the other hand, given Ego's BlueAndOrangeMorality, Mantis's purpose being to help him sleep might just say something about his vulnerabilities -- he seems capable of genuinely loving people (or at least Meredith), but as an immortal, he just considers his Great Purpose more important than any one brief life. But that doesn't mean he doesn't feel it -- he needs help to sleep because, although by his reckoning it was absolutely the right thing to do, he's still affected by having killed thousands of his own children.

** Their siblings could be even more bloodthirsty than Nebula was, and even more eager to please their father's wishes. The reason Nebula liked Gamora could that she did not care about being Thanos's favorite: all she cared about was surviving. At the same time, it must have irked Nebula that Gamora could gain so much of their father's favor without really trying.

* The reason behind Mantis' (attempted) turn wasn't merely that Drax was kind to her, she decides to do so after sharing his grief over his lost daughter. Because that shows her how a true father reacts to the death of his children and she realizes, at that moment, what a real monster Ego is. Also, he tells her that she reminds him of his daughter, being innocent. Mantis senses how Drax wanted to protect his daughter while reading his emotions, and how he wants to protect her. He's only known her for a few days, and Ego raised her. But it becomes clear to Mantis that while Drax legitimately cares about her as a person, while to Ego she's just a "flea" who helps him sleep.

** It's even worse than that. Had the Guardians been successful in their initial attempt to destroy Ego's brain, Ego likely wouldn't have gotten a hold of Peter again, so the second growth of the Expansion wouldn't have occured, either. In other words, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero Yondu is indirectly responsible for the death of thousands]].

*** In the Italian dub the line is reworked to mean "He (Ego) may have brought you to this world, but he is not your father", stressing how Ego's role as a father figure was merely biological.

* With the revelation that Stan Lee is a Watcher informant it gives some context to Rocket's assessment of him in the first movie. It's pretty much common knowledge in the comics that Watchers exist, so it makes sense for someone cynical like Rocket to call their informant a "pervert".