History GuardiansOfTheGalaxy / GoTGTropesDToJ

* EatTheDog: {{Invoked}} by Drax during the escape, in reference to Rocket.
-->'''Drax:''' I recognize this animal! We'd roast them over a flame pit as children. Their flesh is quite delicious!\\
'''Rocket:''' '''NOT HELPING!'''

'''Drax:''' Sounds like a place which I would like to visit.* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/ChrisPratt in nothing but boxers or the lingering shots of Creator/ZoeSaldana's rear.

* {{Fanservice}}: Creator/ChrisPratt in nothing but boxers or the lingering shots of Creator/ZoeSaldana's rear.

* DropTheHammer: Much like in the comics, Ronan wields a large warhammer.

* FiveSecondForeshadowing: The Orb Peter hands over to Yondu is quite different from the Orb the Power Stone was originally held in.

** Rocket Raccoon -- for a given value of "funny" and "animal" since he's BlackComedy and technically not a raccoon.

* GuileHero: Peter realizes that Rocket's putting together a weapon to take out Ronan, so ... he challenges him to a dance-off in order to distract him long enough for Rocket to save the day.

** Peter brags about almost sacrificing himself for Gamora. She ... responds about as well as you would expect when confronted by a juvenile blowhard trying to give her his dick.

%% FiveManBand requires a very specific set of roles -- and genders -- that the Guardians don't fit, avert, or meaningfully play with. FiveManBand should not be added here.

** When young Peter runs out of the hospital, you can see lights behind him fading at very slow but erratic intervals. [[spoiler:Moments later, a Ravager ship appears and teleports Peter onboard.]]

* DescriptionCut: Quill thanks Groot for actually having a clue unlike the rest of the party. Cut to close-up on Groot gnawing a shoot off his forearm, which prompts Quill to go into Facepalm mode.

* FacePalm:

** Peter's mother implies [[spoiler:Peter's alien parentage (and Yondu's reason for taking Peter) early in the movie. She describes his father as "an angel that came down from the stars/composed of pure light", and that he'll be coming to get Peter when she's gone.]]

* FriendlessnessInsult: Star-Lord [[WhatTheHellHero chews out Drax and Rocket for starting a bar fight]], citing their [[AxCrazy violent]] and [[{{Jerkass}} anti-social mentalities]] as the reason they have no friends. Star-Lord [[JerkassHasAPoint doesn't exactly have what would traditionally be considered friends either,]] but is still the second most well adjusted member of the group.
-->'''Star-Lord:''' (after Rocket has threatened to kill them again) You see!? That's exactly why none of you have any friends!

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* JerkassHasAPoint: Rocket at one point mocks Drax over him still mourning the death of his family. But as he points out, it wasn't enough of an excuse to get other people killed in the process.

* IllGirl: Meredith Quill dies in the beginning of the movie.

* DemotedToExtra: Bereet, who was a fairly important supporting character in the ''ComicBook/IncredibleHulk'' comic book for a while, makes a cameo appearance in the beginning of the movie. Aside from the name and the pink skin, there's nothing left of the original character; her role in the movie is reduced to being Quill's GirlOfTheWeek.