The next comprises spoilers of a kind from The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular, now streaming on Disney+.
The Guardians of the Galaxy Vacation Particular despatched Mantis and Drax (performed by MCU vets Pom Klementieff and Dave Bautista) on a Yuletide mission to Earth, the place no sooner had they set foot on Hollywood Blvd. than the latter practically bought into fisticuffs with a costumed character dressed because the GoBot named Cykill.
Mantis rapidly broke issues up and pulled her buddy off the stranger, explaining to onlookers that “GoBots killed his cousin!”
That means, that GoBots are actual beings within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. And never simply toys/cartoon fodder.
“A rogue GoBot brutally murdered [Drax’s] cousin,” Guardians franchise boss James Gunn made clear on Twitter over the vacation weekend.
Gunn additionally defined to followers of the vacation particular that when it got here to selecting which costumed figures would populate his tackle Hollywood Blvd.’s vacationer photograph op scene, “I selected from those accessible to us, both public area or Disney, or within the case of GoBots, Hasbro being very good to allow us to use CyKill.”
When one follower requested if Gunn had thought-about utilizing Marvel’s personal Rom, an area knight that was first a toy earlier than touchdown on the comedian ebook pages, the filmmaker mentioned, “No. GoBots was used as a result of I believed it was funnier!”
Cykill might beg to disagree, nonetheless, seeing as how when the Hollywood Blvd. sequence got here to an in depth, Drax was within the background completely pummeling the poser.
The opposite sizzling subject popping out of the Guardians vacation particular was the newest look of Groot, who’s now not in an adolescent part (as final seen on the massive display screen) however is now “YA Groot” — or, extra descriptively/jarringly, “Swole Groot.”
Gunn defined on Twitter that Swole Groot, being a progeny and never a clone of his sire who starred in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 1, is just “getting larger, outward in addition to upward. As you possibly can see by now, he has a distinct, stockier physiology (and a extra outgoing persona) than his father did.”
“He’s a lot broader than OG Groot ever was,” Gunn reiterated. “He’s a very completely different Groot.”
Gunn additionally identified to many who inquired that Swole Groot, once more voiced by Vin Diesel, was the truth is not an individual carrying a sensible costume however “100% laptop generated because of the advantageous people at @Framestore and @weta_digital.”
Gunn — who for the subsequent few months is working for each Marvel (as a filmmaker) and DC (because the co-boss of DC Studios fka DC Movies) — additionally fielded some (overly involved, sometimes-rude) inquiries about how Nebula, a cyborg with superior alien expertise, got here to be in possession of Bucky Barnes/The Winter Soldier’s vibranium arm, in an effort to reward it to Rocket on Christmas.
“She tore it off his physique,” Gunn maintained, “as a result of she was overwhelmed with Christmas Spirit.”