History GuardiansOfTheGalaxy / GoTGTropesAToC

* {{Always a Bigger Fish}}: Combined with BrickJoke. In The Avengers, Loki is visibly unsettled when The Other threatens him. In this movie, Roman kills The Other with the greatest of ease.

* AlwaysaBiggerFish: Combined with BrickJoke. In The Avengers, Loki is visibly unsettled when The Other threatens him. In this movie, Roman kills The Other with the greatest of ease.

* Always aBiggerFish: Combined with BrickJoke. In The Avengers, Loki is visibly unsettled when The Other threatens him. In this movie, Roman kills The Other with the greatest of ease.

* AlwaysaBiggerFish: Combined with BrickJoke. In The Avengers, Loki is visibly unsettled when The Other threatens him. In this movie, Roman kills The Other with the greatest of ease.

* BreatherEpisode: Directly following ''Film/CaptainAmericaTheWinterSoldier'''s WhamEpisode and preceding the DarkerAndEdgier ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', this one is a straightforward SpaceOpera and one of the most humorous and silly films in the entire Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse.

--->'''Korath:''' Star-Lord.\\

%%* BaldOfAwesome: Drax the Destroyer. No hair upon his head, and no less badass for it.

* BaldOfAwesome: Drax the Destroyer. No hair upon his head, and no less badass for it.
* BaldOfEvil: Nebula has no hair, and is pretty darn evil.
* BaldWomen:
** Peter's mother (probably due to chemotherapy, not the best reason to have the trope).
** Nebula is hairless. This one may be for the creepy factor.

--> Quill: She has no idea. If I had a blacklight, it'd be like a Jackson Pollock painting here!
--> Rocket: You've got issues, Quill.

** Several times during the film, Yondu threatens someone with a nasty-looking weapon, a single arrow that he controls by whistling. He doesn't actually use it and reveal (to the viewers) exactly how it works until the climax, [[spoiler:when he is able to use it to impale [[OneHitPolyKill about ''two-dozen'' of Ronan's Mooks]] and destroy one of their fighter ships in ''one throw'', and then catch it again]].

* BadassBolas: Peter Quill uses a pair of energy bolas when he is attacked by Gamora, who attempts to steal the Orb from him. Quill quickly takes out a pair of energy bolas and throws them at Gamora, briefly incapacitating her.

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* BoldlyComing: If Quill is to be believed, he hasn't let the fact that he's the only Earth-human around prevent him having a full and satisfying sex life. One of his flings is sleeping in his ship when he finds the Infinity Stone, and his reputation even precedes him when he attempts to move in on GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Gamora.

** Drax outdoes Rocket in drunk stupidity: he [[spoiler:drunk-calls Ronan to tell him where they are, and gets his ass kicked]].

** Zoe Saldana got cast as the GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe Gamora in part because of her role in ''Film/StarTrek2009'' who had a GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe as her roommate, as well as her role in ''Film/{{Avatar}}''. Fans joke that she needs to play a red-skinned character to complete the primary colours.

* ChekhovsNews: The news report about the riots in the Kree Empire that Bereet listens to aboard the ''Milano''.

** When his mother died, Peter Quill stumbled outside the hospital and was abducted by aliens within a minute. [[spoiler:Subverted later, when an off-hand line by Yondu makes it clear that they had been hired to bring Quill to his father. They just thought it would be more fun to adopt him]].

** The ''Milano''. What makes it different from most starships is mostly the interior which contains various pop culture references to TheEighties, including a tape deck. (The name is also a stealth '80s reference.)

* CorruptCop: While most of the Nova Corps are decent people just doing their job, Rocket makes it clear that the Kyln is where the most corrupt of them go. They don't care what the imates do so long as nothing happens that ''they'll'' get in trouble for (like a prison break). When Gamora is caught by a group of vengeful inmates who lost family members to Ronan or to Thanos, one of the guards tells the group to take her down to the showers because it'll take hours to get the blood out otherwise.

** A pretty one-sides battle towards the end of the PrisonRiot. Quill gets into his suit and uses his powerful tazer gun against a couple of wardens who are equipped only with bats.

'''Tropes # to C''' | [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy/GoTGTropesDToJ Tropes D to J]] | [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy/GoTGTropesKToR Tropes K to R]] | [[GuardiansOfTheGalaxy/GoTGTropesSToZ Tropes S to Z]] | [[YMMV/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy YMMV]] | [[Trivia/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy Trivia]]

* ChainOfPeople: [[spoiler: When Peter grabs the Infinity Stone to keep it out of Ronan's hands, its power threatens to destroy him. So all of his friends (minus Groot) grab onto him to share the power among them and defeat Ronan.]]

** Gamora and Groot are instrumental to bringing about changes to the team. Gamora keeps everyone in line and is the first one to realise the stakes of the mission, while Groot connects with everyone so well that he's essentially TheHeart of the team.

** The Collector mentions how [[spoiler:a group of aliens once tried to share the power of the Infinity Stone.]] Guess what happens near the very end of the film? The Collector also mentions that [[spoiler:that group of aliens ''eventually'' succumbed to the power anyway. Good thing the Guardians only did it for a few seconds before sealing the Infinity Gem]].

* ChronicBackstabbingDisorder: Thanos has a severe inverted case of this going on in this film: [[spoiler:Ronan makes a deal with Thanos, and Thanos sends Nebula and Gamora to keep an eye on him and make sure he stays true to it. That's fine, except that Gamora hates all of them and wants to get away from all of them, while Ronan decides to double-cross Thanos and Nebula decides to go along with him on it on the condition that Ronan use the Infinity Gem to kill Thanos.]]

* CorruptCop: While most of the Nova Corps are decent people just doing their job, Rocket makes it clear that the Kyln is where the most corrupt of them go. They don't care what the imates do so long as nothing happens that ''they'll'' get in trouble for. (Like a prison break.) When Gamora is caught by a group of vengeful inmates who lost family members to Ronan or to Thanos, one of the guards tells the group to take her down to the showers because it'll take hours to get the blood out otherwise.

** Then there's the villain's ship, the [[MilelongShip three-kilometer long]] ''Dark Aster''.

** While the Broker is trying to explain to Yondu why he can't discuss the details of the Orb or its buyer, Yondu keeps cutting him off by babbling nonsense. Kraglin (Yondu's right-hand man) struggles to keep a straight face at Yondu's antics until he lets out a blatant snigger.
* CorruptCop: While most of the Nova Corps are decent people just doing their job, Rocket makes it clear that the Kyln is where the most corrupt of them go; he claims they couldn't care less what happens to the inmates, so long as nothing happens that ''they'll'' get in trouble for. (Like a prison break.) When Gamora is caught by a group of vengeful inmates, one of the guards tells the group to take her down to the showers because it'll take hours to get the blood out otherwise.

* BookEnds: Peter taking the hand of the person in the moment of trust. [[spoiler:The former event is a TearJerker, but the latter event is for the sake of survival.]]

** Ronan gets a good one as he [[spoiler:places the Infinity Stone in the Universal Weapon]]:

** Groot is the opposite: he looks imposing (and when angered is exceptionally formidable), but regularly shows his [[GentleGiant gentle side]] (often to Rocket's frustration).

* TheBait: Quill convinces Drax and the other inmates to spare Gamora, saying that if she's alive, Ronan -- the guy Drax really wants -- will eventually come for her. (That's why Drax comes with them too; he decides to stay by Gamora until he finds Ronan.)
* BaldOfAwesome: Drax the Destroyer. No hair upon his head, and none-the-less badass for it.

* BewareTheNiceOnes: The big, dopey, barely-verbal nice one. He is Groot.

* BilingualDialogue: Rocket and Groot understand each other well enough. Rocket acts as a sort of TranslatorBuddy: he'll mimic what Groot just said, and then retort.

'''Rocket:''' So what? "It's better than eleven percent"?! What's that got to do with anything?!

* ApocalypseHow: The Collector's video shows the Space Stone being used in the past to raze an entire inhabited planet with a WorldWreckingWave -- the devastation is a ApocalypseHow/Class6 only a few degrees short of being a ApocalypseHow/ClassX. [[spoiler:Ronan intends to use the Stone to destroy Xandar this way]].

** In the Japanese dub. it's not the first team we hear Creator/KoichiYamadera (Star-Lord) leading a team of misfits [[Anime/CowboyBebop in space]].
*** This is actually a two-for-one, as Gamora is dubbed by Creator/RomiPark, who famously voiced [[Anime/FullmetalAlchemist another character]] [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist named Ed]].

** The Treasure Troll figure shows up during Quill's escape sequence in the beginning, floating up by the camera when the ship was falling.

* CollapsibleHelmet: Quill's breathing mask/helmet/[[GogglesDoSomethingUnusual AR goggles]]. As a rogue scavenger, having a quickly-deployable multi-purpose hazmat mask presumably comes in handy rather a lot -- it certainly does [[ChekhovsGun more than once in the film.]]

--->'''Rhomann:''' Peter Jason Quill. Also known as "Star-Lord."\\

* BigGuyLittleGuy: Groot and Rocket, respectively. Groot is a giant (around ten feet tall or so) while Rocket stands about two and a half feet tall.