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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
The name thing bothers me because it doesn't really make sense.
Like its an intergalactic setting so the characters interact with all manner of different aliens who came from various planets and unique cultures. The Guardians themselves are a diverse motley crew with Drax being a Katathien, Gamora a Whoverian, and Groot a Flora Colussus with all their names not following a unified theme.
So what is the standard for a weird name then? I mean Rocket is Rocket Raccoon, with names like that for our main characters it's rather hypocritical to constantly talk shit about other people's names.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie."Also, you might want to make a folder for them to show them so we can actually talk about them without having to scrounge around in the WMG pages, I'd think that help.
Trans rights are human rights. TV Tropes is not a place for bigotry, cruelty, or dickishness, no matter who or their position.Man the evolution of the meaning of the Guardians of the Galaxy title is pretty funny.
Like the original acquisition of the name for the 2008 team is that they started out nameless but eventually through encountering a member of the future Guardians Major Victory they then adopted the Guardians name which fits because they are explicitly about defending the galaxy from all manner of threats. In Earth's Mightiest Heroes you can genuinely call them Guardians without a snicker because they are actually competent and powerful.
But ever since the movie they have placed heavier meaning on the name being ironic like a backhanded insult. Its a joke that they have to overcome, this group of misfits, failures, and losers being called the Guardians of the Galaxy. In the first movie Ronan basically uses it as a backhanded insult "Here are your Guardians of the Galaxy" and it just stuck afterwards.
And in the game Quill came up with it and its treated like how someone starts up a small business and they give themselves a ridiculously grandiose name to sound better to potential clientele that is obviously false to anyone with a brain. Hell a reoccurring gag is that when Rocket submitted the name to the galactic registry he misspelled it so they are officially the Gardeners of the Galaxy which causes Quill no end of annoyance.
The name is a joke because the team is kind of a joke. They have to prove themselves and turn the joke into something actually worthy of some respect and dignity.
"I am Alpharius. This is a lie.""The scale isn't exactly right but it's like if a big empire was cautious about a small backwater village or city state because it produced fearsome warriors"
That there is exactly why Asterix was such a powerful comic book series. And that idea being reimagined from "a small Gaul village vs. the Roman Empire" into "one small Insignificant Blue Planet vs. random space empires" is pretty cool.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."Unrelated to most things, it suddenly occurred to me how nightmarish the snap and unsnap must have been for the penal population of the world. Imagine you're a prisoner out on parole and you're snapped. When you come back (on top of being a former convict in a world that's even more ill-suited to your presence than the one you left behind) you're going to have to face a pretty thorough charges that you violated your parole. Imaginee you're incarcerated and half the guards and prisoners vanish without warning, something that could easily spark a riot/a counter riot in the general chaos. Imagine you're in jail and just 300 very confused and aggravated prisoners and guards just materialize out of thin air in random locales.
Imagine you're on death row and you are snapped. Resurrected solely to face execution once again.
"All you Fascists bound to lose."
Some places might of even had legislation, or at least some sort of plan, on the books for how to handle things if the blipped ever showed up again. SWORD at least had an official process for evaluating/reinstating agents that showed up again.
Still, it's likely that it was a total bureaucratic nightmare on many, many different levels. But I ultimately think "I didn't exist for 5 years" would be considered a valid excuse for not checking in with a parole officer for 5 years, who may very well of had the same experience.
Statistically speaking, some people were mid-coitus or using the bathroom when they snapped away.
So that's awkward.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Jan 2nd 2022 at 8:20:37 AM
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.They should totally make a Disney+ show that's just an anthology of random people dealing with disappearing and reappearing 5 years later. Some of them would be minor MCU characters who may cross paths with someone significant, but for the most part it would be just random civilians.
That way we can answer questions like "what if someone was on an airplane" or "what if they come back to find their spouse has remarried?".
Very niche appeal perhaps, but it would be cheap to produce since it wouldn't need as many big name actors or a big special effects budget.
Maybe if they do a Marvels series it could be explored there.
I actually reread the graphic novel recently and was wondering how the MCU could do its own version of it.
Edited by lbssb on Jan 2nd 2022 at 11:20:32 AM
Disney100 Marathon | DreamWorks MarathonY'know, we all wonder what happened to Earth during the Snap's five-year interim, but I wonder if we'll ever get to see how the Snap affected things in space? Surely the Kree-Skrull conflict was affected by half of each side disappearing, and we still don't know what happened to Xandar or Sakaar. That would be a cool plot point to explore in Secret Invasion and/or The Marvels.
"I'm Mr. Blue, woah-woah-ooh..."

Yeah compared to the galaxy spanning space empires, Earth is just Earth. And it’s not even a united earth
The scale isn’t exactly right but it’s like if a big empire was cautious about a small backwater village or city state because it produced fearsome warriors
Like you’re going to want to think twice about poking it but you’re also not going to see it as any kind of center of culture or power
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