#vol 3 spoilers

[returnofahsoka]

character who thinks they're unloveable being loved SO MUCH and by SO MANY that it drives the entire narrative forward. and you seriously expect me to be okay

[tianlangjun]

[quillsmora]

in guardians of the galaxy vol 2 ego compares peter and gamora's relationship to the song brandy (you're a fine girl) by looking glass, saying peter is the sailor, gamora is brandy, and the sea –– the sailor's true love –– is peter's celestial powers and the supposed gift immortality. of course ego was wrong and only said that to convince peter to help with his "master plan" and make it easier to separate him from his real family, the guardians.

however, i find it interesting that the song can be applied to peter and gamora's relationship in guardians of the galaxy vol 3, only with gamora being the sailor, peter being brandy, and the sea being gamora's newfound family with the ravagers. not sure if this was intentional on gunn's part or not but god is it heartbreakingly poetic.

[amelia-mariee]

SPOILERS FOR GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOL.3:

Seeing the damage that Rocket did to the high evolutionary's face was the best part of that entire movie.

[justareallyverychillperson]

Rocket Raccoon-Autism and Immaturity

One way that autism can present in a person, is behaviour and speech patterns commonly associated with those younger than the autistic individual themselves. Here are a few examples of this appearing in GotG, related to Rocket.

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SPOILERS FOR VOLUME THREE!!!

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Vol.3 (Counter-Earth flashbacks)

Rocket as 89P13 plays with his friends much like a child would all the way until he becomes an adolescent. This is partially justified by their collective enhancements and their ignorance of social norms pertaining to the outside world. Regardless, the way he does not influence any of the admittedly adorable aspects of their childish games points to a mindset that rather chooses to embrace it fully.

He has learned to speak and enough equations to fly a spaceship, but forgets a phrase that has two many consonants (the enzyme thing that gets suppressed to make "angry turtles") Here the maturity of his vocabulary varies greatly. He also says thems and cants instead of them and cant. Of course he is still just a child but is nonetheless a gifted one with the theoretical potential of sounding much older than he indeed does in the scene.

vol.1

While we do not know how old Rocket is supposed to be, his criminal record implies he's very much an adult. And yet, here are some things he says before his arrest.

(to Groot) Learn genders man!

(gets bitten by Gamora) Biting? That's not fair [we later learn of his alleged history of this]

I live for the simple things. Like how much this is gonna hurt--- yeah, writhe, little man!

The schadenfreude mixed with slur "humie" which no one else says but him, makes him seem like the youth he was when he ran. Naturally, since no one was around to tell him to grow up in one way or another. Likely, his brain misremembered the word human and no one ever bothered to correct him, as it was after he escaped the High Evolutionary.

Vocabulistics is a rare example of advanced language similar to technobabble- half the words stored in his cybernetics are engineering related.

In the prison he is unarmed and does not hesitate to seek out security in his new humie pal, pawing at him several times to beg him away from the danger. His hunched-over stance adds to the meek display.

Another bonus is when he misses Gamora's sarcasm, before barking at Quill and whining about the plan going awry. Every parent has seen their child pull at their face like he does.

On Knowhere, his main objection to the way the rest of the team treats him is when Gamora, a woman, calls him a rodent. That's the last straw for the poor guy...not a pest, not a thing, just a smaller animal ^^

He mocks the Collector's mannerisms and goes straight to raising his voice when their dawdling customer stalls further by asking about type of currency. Yes, he is scared. Also, he is having a bit of a tantrum as opposed to speaking up about his anxiety. Not just trust issues...

"you got issues Quill"- sounds like someone skipped out on giving a raccoon sex education

Furthermore, his jokes about prostethics. That's it. His issues translate to innocent mischief. Why? Bc psychology.

Honorable mention goes to a touch-starved fella letting a complete stranger pet him due to Tree Death.

Lastly, his inability to grasp right and wrong. You apparently can't fit moral code and piloting next to each other.

Vol 2.

The winking. In the words of James Gunn "Cybernetics glitch sometimes" Tic disorder, anyone?

Again, the sarcasm. He even goes so far as to request Peter spell it out for him.

The desire to threaten with bodily wastes. Someone else's to boot.

He thinks objects getting larger as they get closer is a groundbreaking observation.

He doesn't know what suspicious behaviour looks like but is very tuned in to his general feelings towards people.

His blunt warning to Quill about his dad gets misconstrued as an insult. Not his fault his own 'dad' made him a bit cynical towards parents.

He chooses to use his captivity to laugh at the name Taserface and gets hung up on the reason Groot doesn't like hats. Confusion about other people's behaviour? Busted. (sidenote: he doesn't mind being called a rat as opposed to a rodent. Interesting standards)

His cybernetics glitch again when attempting to show scepticism towards Yondu's excuse for keeping Quill around. Can't express what you don't know.

He dubs the button not to press the Death Button. Dramatic much?

The irony of a guy who says frickin' at every opportunity teaching his plant baby brother not to swear xD

vol 3. Present day

He jumps into the arms of both Quill and Groot upon waking up. Reflex.

He listens to music even when Quill isn't there to hear it. It's only ever been a stim to him. Peter gets credit for reminding him, though.

[artist-issues]

I like how Peter Quill is such an emotional, compassionate, super-loving guy. Like, he loves at a ten, and he hates at a ten. His whole issue seems to be that he can’t let go—but then in Guardians Vol. 3, they use the New!Gamora to kind of tie that up pretty nicely.

[phantastragoria]

Very massive Vol. 3 spoilers and implications below but UHM what.

[mnkngt]

Volume 3 spoilers no context

[hallothere]

16 for someone from the lost company?

16. Meeting past/future self

cw: canon character death

Blood in the dirt, in the air. On the man sitting cross-legged next to him. Ironically, it was too picturesque a Malenhad. He knew he was dreaming.

"You don't... have enough grey hair."

The man shook his head. "I don't think so either."

He laughed. "You know me?"

The man nodded.

"Was it... I don't know. Was it horrible?"

A glance down at the wound, the exit wound, in his chest. "...No. It won't make you feel better, but it was quick. Jumped in between this-" he gestured to the blood-soaked spot, "-and a friend."

"He still running around?"

"He is."

He looked up at the sky. It wasn't quite green enough. Still dreaming.

"I make it out of this?"

The man raised an eyebrow. "I wouldn't be here otherwise. But you're not going to remember this part."

"That figures."

"Not until I show up."

He picked up his head again. "And then?"

The man scratched the side of his nose. It was a tell more than an itch and they both knew it. "I didn't regret it. And..."

"And what?"

"Skip it. I shouldn't say."

"I'm not going to remember anyway, said you. Hit me."

"You're a real pain, you know that?"

"Better than anyone. But say it. I'll have to wake up eventually and now you've got me invested."

A long pause. "I didn't regret it. And I... wasn't alone for long."

"You said he-"

"Not him."

"..."

"I told you I should skip it, but you don't listen."

"...No. Probably won't start now."

"You never do."

He nodded this time, a little more somberly. "Well, if I still don't remember you, give them all my regards. I'm not in a hurry, but... I miss them."

"Not for much longer, and no, you're not going to remember that either."

"But you'll tell them?"

"Yeah. I will."

"Good."

Braigiar sat up with some effort. He held out his hand.

"Be seeing you."

"Just in the mirror."

[gamoraspeter]

Noticed this in the credits today. My favorite name for a character ever

[returnofahsoka]

so funny to me that even ego heard about what happened on xandar, that's how he found peter in the first place. ego, who lives on his own planet in the middle of nowhere. meanwhile, the high evolutionary, supposedly a genius scientist in charge of multiple societies and ceo of a vast enterprise. just. uhmm. didn't watch the news

[somuchforstars]

just finished v3

[quillsmora]

peter and gamora behind the scenes of vol 3 (via topps).

[snakebitelove19-blog]

Can't we just pretend nothing happened after vol2 and think Gamora and Peter are living happily married?

[starmora]

Something I've been thinking about is what we aren't shown in vol 3 when it comes to Gamora's emotions. There have been a lot of justified criticisms of her role and of how the mcu has treated parts of her story. I really hope they continue because it's an important conversation to have. But for now I want to come at this from a different angle and dig deeper on what we didn't get. I can only imagine how much anger Gamora must have at knowing she helped create a beautiful family and then Thanos killed her and now she will never be able to experience it in that same way. It has to hurt. Now she's here and she's doing the best she can with what she's got and it probably doesn't feel like enough. Especially when being compared to things she didn't get to experience. So when we get to the end of the movie and we have Peter moving forward enough in his grief to see Gamora for who she is in the moment and where she is at right now in her life and essentially tell her that she's enough, it's really beautiful and poignant and you can see it makes her happy. So happy that she finds the strength to be vulnerable and return the sentiment by finally saying she is at her core the woman he loved. It's such a powerful and loving moment.

True it's not her "I love you more than anything" but you know what that moment in Infinity War was the result of healing she was robbed of and hasn't found again yet. "I bet we were fun" was a huge step in the direction of finding that healing again. So people shouldn't didmiss it. And just to be clear I'm not speaking about people critiquing the fact that vol 3 dropped the ball on so much of Gamora's role and how she deserved so much better after Infinity War. I'm speaking about people who thought the exchange meant nothing and showed no emotional connection or that it was somehow shutting down that Gamora had any sort of feelings for Peter.

I can totally understand why Gamora would be hesitant to come back to this family that her alternate self created, even though I know she was curious and still craved to find that sort of thing (doesn’t she ask nebula about the guardians and alternate gamora in endgame? I haven’t watched the movie in actual years). I bet she was feeling a lot of pressure over it, like they would expect things of her that she was not able or willing to give to what were basically strangers to her, and decided the best thing for herself was to cut it off at the knees and leave it fully aside and make no attempts to get to know anyone. I think it’s pretty obvious though that she clearly still wanted something like that, and that’s why she kept in contact with Nebula and still calls her, her sister, and why she found the Ravagers and carved out a new home for herself there. But I do want to think that maybe she IS a little sad that there are things that were taken from her by Thanos. I don’t think she regrets her new family or her decision to keep the guardians at arms length, but yeah, I’m sure she’s contemplated what that would be like. Her “I bet we were fun” feels like proof that she’s thought about it, at least a little.

And you’re right, him acknowledging her as her own separate person DOES make her extremely happy! I think him saying that to her was really important for her, enough to start planting the seeds for this idea that, no, she will never be this other Gamora that they (and especially Peter) loved, but she is still worthy of love now and it can be totally separate. She doesn’t have to live in this other Gamora’s gigantic shadow. I think that was a big concern for her, and having him acknowledge that he liked her for who she was now was very relieving to her, and it allowed her to admit to him that she’d been thinking about them and what they must have been like. It’s a really big and important step for both of them and I’m tired of seeing people dismiss it as an end for them. It truly wasn’t!

[gift-of-prophecy]

there is something so similar between peter quill and steve harrington and i think it makes sense why i’m obsessed w them

the Man-Whore™ of the group

thinks they can solve their problems by charming their way through them

daddy issues!!!!

spends an entire movie/season reconfessing love to an old flame that does not want them anymore (no MATTER HOW DESPERATE IT LOOKS)

ends up taking responsibility for all of their friends lives

stupid as all hell (but secretly actually not really)

!!!!SPOILER!!!! ALMOST DIES!!! OH MY GOD PLEASE STOP!!!

oh and a phenomenal ass