The jist I can recall is he's not actually a raccoon, just looks like one.

I see no appeal either.

I'm actually sure he was a normal raccoon that was genetically experimented on. He isn't an alien that just happens to look like a raccoon.

He's an alien from a planet where they experimented on animals, but they eventually define themselves as their own thing and he gets offended to be called a raccoon.

..and he was originally Howard the Duck? :D

He only got offended in the ultimate spider-man cartoon, which was unfaithful in a lot of ways.

It hasn't just been unfaithful to Rocket though. He's fine with bein called a raccoon in the run the movie is based on, because he is literally a raccoon.

furry

predates furrys by a couple years, but with furry now a mainstream thing, yeah.

He's a raccoonlike alien with a gun and attitude. Has no issues killing.
It's probably the whole appearance/behaviour issue.

As for the folks here... Raccoon with a gun, tis furry...

Spot on.

sounds like my kind of guy.. without the gun of course..

I'm actually sure he was a normal raccoon that was genetically experimented on. He isn't an alien that just happens to look like a raccoon.

"Rocket Raccoon acts as the "Guardian of the Keystone Quadrant", an area of outer space sealed off from the rest of the cosmos by the so-called Galacian Wall. Rocket is captain of the starship Rack 'n' Ruin, and he and his first mate Wal Russ (a talking walrus) come from the planet Halfworld in the Keystone Quadrant, an abandoned colony for the mentally ill where the animal companions were genetically manipulated to grant them human level intelligence and bipedal body construction for many to become caretakers of the inmates. Rocket was Halfworld's chief law officer ("ranger") who protected the colony against various threats."

Alien ;D

no, Rocket was uplifted by a bunch of robots to protect halfworld in their stead. He started life as a normal raccoon and was then modified.

It helps to actually read the comics :V

I am sorry... did I misquote his official Biography? Must have missed a comma :D

Also, still makes him an alien.

It's implied all the animals originally came from earth, because they're all earth creatures.

Aliens made an insane-asylum they called Half-world. Aliens then leave the asylum to robots.

Robots decide they don't want to manage the asylum either, so they uplift all the cute little therapy animals to maintain the asylum.

Rocket is in fact, a raccoon, and is not an alien in any way. The only thing that has contradicted this is the ultimate spider-man cartoon, which is generally awful all-around :V

Or actually.. [img]http://www.theboredninja.com/wp-con....._guy.jpg[/img] :D

He's pretty much a Wolverine in raccoon form; same tough guy, snarly attitude, just replace arm blades with a big-ass gun. I guess that's his appeal.

SPACE Wolverine in the form of a tiny raccoon that fights cosmic horrors and doesn't spend all his time crying over JEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAN!!!

he just a bad ass ^^ pure and simple and you dont need prior knowledge/know about the guardians Back story witch is always good for such a epic..ish sci..fi ..movie ^^

Exactly what TarossB had said. Hes just a crude rude raccoonlike alien toting some major fire power.

He had his comic run in the 80's and is a prominent member of the Guardians. He has been in games and cartoons. Some cartoons he doesnt really talk but chitters and acts more or less through body gestures.

I think what makes him popular atm is that its a new and shiny marvel movie and who doesnt like some rude sarcastic characters and that Groots probably going to get popular soon I am surprised you are not asking it instead of why rocket xD he only has one line no matter what he is on. I think rocket wasnt even a raccoon his personality would still be liked by the masses.

Personally, I am more of a fan of Groot.
Sure, he has the Last Of His Kind thing going on, but don't let the fact that all he SEEMS to say is "I am Groot" fool you into thinking he's a Dumb Monster.
Hank Pym once theorized that what he says may sound that way to us, he's actually saying all kinds of things on a subharmonic level. Although, iirc, he made a translator and asked him his name... you can guess what happened :)

Groot pretty much sacrifed himself for the team. The only reason he lived is because, well, Rocket went and nursed a sapling to health, which turned out to regrow into Groot.

I know Groot isn't just 'some dumb monster'. I read the comics. I was just pointing out that he says one thing 'I am Groot'. Which is almost a one liner even though his statement says much more than that.

I am a marvel and DC fan and own a multitude of comic although personally I prefer Thor and Deadpool (for the laughs) over Guardians. What I liked of Rocket was not because he is an animal but for that personality because I enjoy the crude sarcastic humor and commentary of him.

Don't you be readin' Bendis's Guardians, now.

I'm actually sure he was a normal raccoon that was genetically experimented on. He isn't an alien that just happens to look like a raccoon.

He's a "furry" in a Marvel movie. Furries love being in movies.

Well i have a couple rocket raccoon comics. He's just got that wolverine appeal but with less of the bitching. That smart ass commentary I guess with the added bonus that he looks like a raccoon, is tiny, and has these huge ass guns and acts kind of like a big shot.

I'm thinking it has the appeal of seeing a little old lady suddenly break out into kung fu, its something you dont expect so you kind of want to see it.

Its pretty much the fact that while big in the comic book universe, this lesser known character is getting screen time. unless you read comics youve probably never heard of any marvel heroes aside from xmen or spiderman/hulk/iron man etc. Just like the ant man movie is coming out. I dont think its him being as close to a furry as we can get (caus technically he's an alien but we still love him) its more about lesser known but really fun characters getting public exposure. Comic book nerds get tired of a million iron man reups or spiderman movies, how many failed hulk movie attempts etc. The avengers brought black widow, hawkeye and a few others into the light and paved the way for more great characters like falcon and winter soldier and a few other "lesser knowns" to be brought to the public eye. Given the positive response its pushed them to bring more fresh faces to the big screen. I adore rocket but on a level that hes a lil badass ball of fur and not just a "furry"

He's a talking anthro raccoon in a movie, thats enough to get furries all worked up. Even back when I collected comics, I'd never even heard of the guardians of the galaxy. I still have no real idea who they are aside from the commercials. Though from what I've seen of the commercials, i wondering more and more if this movie is going to end up being a lot of fan service. Only thing I can say the movie has going for it is its not directed by Michael Bay.

Well, originally he was a very competent space captain who defended a space asylum for mentally challenged humaniods. He, and other anthros like him, were created because basically 'animal therapy' towards the disturbed. Then one day he because a bit of a smart as gun tooting strategist for Starlord, after being released from a space prison to do a mission to save the galaxy from an alien invasion. Afterwards he was written as pretty much the smartest being of his group, who happened to also be a raccoon who hung with a talking tree, but more or less second in command of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Then the Marvel vs Capcom game came out that turned him into an even harder ass gun tooting, tough talking, hardass and I guess the rest is history.

He's actually a tactical genius (depending on who is writing him) and although he's got a foul temper and an Ultra-Violent streak matched only by the likes of the Doomguy and BJ Blaskowicz, he's actually a decent little dude underneath.

I just want to see him screaming about big flarkin' guns and shooting the crap out of doods.

Basically, because he's an Anthropomorphic Animal.
The furry community will always gush on just about ANY Anthro-Animal seen in a game, a book or a movie.
And to my knowlege so far, this is probly the 1st good CGI's Anthro Animal we will see on the big screen right now. (Dawn & Raise of the Planet of the Apes has great CGI, but they arnt...I guess *Furry-Bipedal* animals)

UN-furry related, Bigger Marvel fans can appriciate him and the movie because, well, they are familiar with it and wanna see the movie and how it adapts from a comic into a movie.
I admit, I never read the comic, i ONLY know rocket after playing Marvel VS Capcom 3. I had NO idea where he came from, I jut loved the fact it was a small Raccoon with a Gun and a Large arsenal. And his Attitude and voice was cool too.
When I heard him mention he was a guardian of the galaxy, I thought maybe it was just some spoof.
So after I saw the trailer, its like OH SHIT, I (Vaugly) know him.

I was probly going to see it anyway, but a familiar character makes it just a little more exciting.

I think because he is breaking the norm of a traditional action hero in movies. We see talking animals in children and family friendly movies like 'Cats and Dogs' and 'Stewart Little' etc.. For the furry fandom, Rocket represents a 'furry' character being accepted in a major movie release hopefully leading the way to more live action 'furry' movies down the road like 'Blacksad' or 'Forests of the Night' etc.

I like Rocket because he's a nutjob. I like Starlord for the same reason.

Why does he have so many fans? You know the general attitudes on this site better than me. They're gushing over and over sexualizing the hole thing as we speak.

Personally I'd say a huge factor in the appeal is the contrast between cute woodland creature, and massive blow-up-your-face guns with an attitude.

I'll simply say for as many people saying "lol, furry" it doesn't explain the appeal outside of the sphere of furry. He has a massive following outside of the fandom. Actually, now that I think about it, I haven't really seen "too" much of him within it, not on the level that some furries can co-opt things anyways. For initial appeal I'm guessing the absurdity of the character made people latch on to him, but I'm not sure if that appeal allowed him to stay popular. From what I heard he acts as a tactician which can give him alot more depth then simply being a "cute bad ass" character, but that's all that I know really, besides the writing being good in alot of instances. So if they characterized him well it would give him alot more staying power, in which case it would be completely dependent on the writer. It's easy to say that it's because of the cute bad ass trope and maybe it's still in effect for people who haven't read the comics yet but usually I feel that truly bad characters (or insufferable one with one key gimmick) get called out in comics more often then they're allowed to coast in them, so hopefully there is something a bit more to him.

Rocket Raccoon is actually an old Marvel character from the 1970's. He started out as the star of a children's comic series that, from what I've been told, was actually pretty well written and dealt with some pretty deep subjects, especially for its time. His series was short-lived however and by the 90's the character had faded into complete obscurity (Also worth noting is that it was never intended to be part of Marvel canon). When Marvel writers decided to bring back the Guardians of the Galaxy as part of their Annihilation storyline they decided to populate the team with obscure characters that had not been seen in decades. Since the 70's and 80's was a period earmarked by space operas for Marvel, they had a healthy roster to choose from. Along with Rocket, Groot was a one-shot Hulk villain, and both Star-Lord and Drax the Destroyer were both characters who had bandied about back in the 70's and 80's respectively.

They weren't the only ones though. The Guardians have had other characters join them for periods in the comic, such as Captain Universe, who hadn't been utilized in extremely long periods of time. This is part of the appeal of the new Guardians of the Galaxy team.

The second part of the appeal is the writing. The Guardians know they are a team composed of B-rate cosmic characters, so they approach the whole superhero thing with a flippant, irreverent attitude. The characters all play well off each other as they are put in situations that are way over their heads, sort of like a cosmic Expendables team.

As far as Rocket goes, he's a gruff, vulgar (but intelligent!), wisecracking murder machine in the body of a bipedal raccoon. Some people see appeal in that. I like him myself, but I always thought Star-Lord was a more interesting character.

I was a big fan of Star Lord, back in the 70's, when he actually appeared in several magazine-size comics. I always wanted to see more of the character, because he had so much personality, but Marvel was more focused on actual super-heroes, so he kind of drifted away into semi-obscurity.

I recall seeing Rocket back in those days, but like so many others, had generally forgotten about him over the years. Seeing him now, my first thought was "that's not how remember him", until realizing he was re-vamped for a new generation.

Even as a kid back in the 70's, long before ever knowing what a furry was, I loved the occasional anthro character that would show up in Marvel comics, and was always found Rocket to be a cool character. I'm really looking forward to seeing how he's treated in this movie. :)

This, this is correct.

The entire appeal, mostly, before the furry fandom got involved was the irony of a two foot tall raccoon, with an attitude, and a love for guns bigger than he is.

Its one of those Big things/small package type deals.

Okay... first off, you couldn't be more wrong on both counts!

Deadpool is actually a great character, who unfortunately had a four year run from 2008-2012 written by Daniel Way where be became a meme-spouting idiot. The internet adores meme-spouting stupid stuff, so that got posted around the web a lot.

Classic (1990's-early 2000's) and modern Deadpool is a freak and a misfit who can never catch a break, finds himself in horrible situations and whose life is pretty miserable, and uses humor as a coping mechanism. Essentially, he's a more extreme version of Spider-Man in every way. His life is more depressing, he kills people, he's kind of a sociopath, and he can be really childish at times when he thinks he's funny, but he's actually a great character. The modern run (2012-present) starts slow but is a great way to get into the character, and his stories are usually both hilarious and bittersweet. If I had to introduce someone to Deadpool I'd just show them this http://imgur.com/gallery/7ikB3

BUT ENOUGH ABOUT THAT! Rocket Raccoon... Hoo boy, where to begin? Most of his modern appeal comes from him being in the 2006 - 2011 "Cosmic Marvel" storyline, starting with Annihilation and ending in Thanos Imperative. In it, Rocket is a gruff but sarcastic tactician who, along with the rest of the team, frequently finds himself in horrifying situations that are completely overwhelming.

http://static.comicvine.com/uploads.....accoon%2B6.png

The Guardians are essentially a group of people with weak powers at best, and they have no hope of taking on people like Thanos without planning, guts, and ingenuity... and since they are (or were) Marvel's D-list characters any of them could be killed at any time in these horrible stories, and quite a number of them were. They took on borg-like robots that wanted to assimilate all life, they took on lovecraftian cultists and their super-powered cardinals that could essentially play Calvinball with reality, they took on the invading forces of a universe made of pure LIFE - that is, since death didn't exist in that universe it was full of cancerous growths and horrifying flesh-monsters.

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/6692958720/hB15B397E/

http://behindthepanels.net/wp-conte.....t-small001.jpg

To boot, his modern stories were written by Keith Giffen (who is a legend when it comes to outer space comic book adventures, and created Rocket way back when) and Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning (famous for great comic books and Warhammer 40k novels!)... and who doesn't love a fucking talking raccoon that can talk down THANOS of all people?

http://i.annihil.us/u/prod/marvel/i.....37b/detail.jpg
http://38.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l.....rtmo1_1280.jpg

Oh, as an added note, this is the Cosmic Marvel storyline.

http://imgur.com/FUM3v

Rocket joins the party in Annihilation:Conquest, but Star-Lord's group doesn't become the Guardians of the Galaxy until Guardians of the Galaxy #1. Rocket sticks around until the very end, and he's even in the last panel of Thanos Imperative if I remember right.

Deadpool is actually a great character, who unfortunately had a four year run from 2008-2012 written by Daniel Way where be became a meme-spouting idiot.

Yeah, sadly thats the only Deadpool I know about. Like I said I don't know much about the marvel universe outside of old Xmen stuff ._.

It's daunting, but if you want to get into it, Marvel has a program where for 60 dollars a year you can read their entire archive of comics digitally from any device, be it a computer or iPad or tablet or phone.

Then you can just go here: http://comraderecs.tumblr.com/ and you can find a recommended masterlist for whatever character or company you want to read about.

Cosmic Marvel is a pretty great place to start, honestly.

Dude...You seem to know a lot about comics. I follow characters and plotlines loosely, and there are a few story arcs I'm looking for collected in GN's but can't seem to find. If I could describe them do you think you could help me find which graphic novels I need to buy?

Uhhhh... Maybe?

What characters and plots are you looking for?

There's this DC plotline in which a team of ancient superheroes travel into the future to challenge the Justice League because they think the League is the "many headed hydra" they see destroying the world in their shaman's divination. The League travels into the past after taking the bait, only to be murdered by these more brutal heroes. Plastic Man survives, learning that he's functionally immortal by accident...and when he's dug up in modern times by a clueless justice league, he tries to warn them. I remember that the ancient team consisted of an Aztec golem sustained by child sacrifice, a vampire, an eskimo whaler with a mystical super-weapon he could manipulate, and a Native American shaman with mystical ties to the Earth.

Also in DC: I'd like to start collecting the Green Lantern arc that began with the Yellow battery being forged on Ysmault (Sinestro Corps War) and ended with the defeat of that cosmic death guy and the Black Lanterns (Brightest Day). I just can't figure out in what graphic novel does the whole thing begin.

And then there's the Reign of Supermen following the Death of Superman.

As for Marvel...

I'd like to find collections following the Juggernaut's tenure as an X-man. I know he joined the team after they rescued him from assault by these mystical hunters and then had to leave after Cytorrak threatened him for not being chaotic enough after losing against the Hulk during WWH.

There were others i wanted to follow but can't remember them off the top of my head...I'll probably ask you if I recall them.

Sorry but I'm not going to be much help there, but you can probably find out which plotlines you're referring to with a little google-fu.

The DC plotline with the aztec, no clue. I'm more of a marvel guy, as I've sworn off DC due to a lot of their recent shenanigans... and I just generally prefer Marvel's stories and characters.

The green lantern arc, I'm not terribly familiar but that seems to be the entire Geoff John run, right? So I think that's all of volume 4. The guide/reading list is here http://i.imgur.com/4aIBzlw.png and there's no doubt a way to find trade paperbacks of all that.

The 4chan /co/ guide lists the whole arc I think at the bottom here http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m.....k63o1_1280.png so it shouldn't be too hard to find the trade paperbacks.

Reign of the supermen is probably collected as it's own volume or part of a bigger death and return of superman volume.

The Juggernaut storyline is a little tricky. World War Hulk is pretty recent, but there's like twenty X-men books right now. Looking it up a bit, that miiiiiight be in X-men: Legacy? 2009ish?

Yeah, I'm more of a Marvel fan myself, but every once in a while you come across a really interesting story penned by DC.

All I know about the Juggernaut's joining the X-men is that he was being hunted by some wolf-like mystical hunter creatures who were formerly enemies of Wolverine's. He was being overwhelmed because his powers were mystical in nature, so Xavier sent a team to help him out. After recovering he stuck around at the X-mansion teaching gym class until his old partner Black Tom killed his favorite student, and Cytorakk started threatening him for not being chaotic enough. This was back when the mansion was crawling with students (before that evil church wiped out all the new tertiary characters) and before Colossus came into possession of the crimson bands.

Legacy sounds like it might be right...it was the same serial Cassandra Nova was introduced in, but I think by the time that had happened Marko had moved on.

the mystical wolf things are probably Wendigos. Basically anyone that eats human meat on Canadian soil turns into a Wendigo in Marvel. Wolverine and Alpha Flight fight them quite a few times.

Like a great deal of comics characters and concepts, he can really be distilled down to a tiny phrase.
"Zany, silly 'this is fun' core concept turned 'hardcore badass' by an evolving overall comics aesthetic."

He's randumb wacky with cyborg-like bolted on artificial depth♪

Have you ever read a comic book?

Okay, a non-modern-batman comic book?

Yup~♪
I've an entire collection of silver age Iron Man (As in an original run not Silver Sentinel), some Namor sets, etc. Mostly Marvel but I've a few DC and smaller studio runs too. I even have the silly "Medieval Spawn/Witchblade!!!" book.


I just think the whole schtick can be laid out in a really simple, concise way for those who don't instead of trying to 'convert' folks into reading or prattling on and on about character history♥

I ask because you don't seem to have read any good modern comics :V Pretty much everything outside of Batman and a few other DC titles are balancing the fun and seriousness /fairly/ well, and the days where funny characters were just random instead are mostly over.

Rocket's really well written in the 2006/2008 run, and at no point is he random or wacky. No more than regular or I guess Claremont's wolverine though.

They've tried to make him a bit wacky in the 2012 run by Bendis, but that's bendis being bendis. He won't be wacky in the movie.

I haven't gone through original run Iron Man yet, I'm reading through the Lee/Kirby Fantastic Four atm. Re-read annihilation the other day and was surprised to recognize the mad thinker's robot!

Personally, I prefer his old "Space sherriff" persona, whereas now he's more of a violent gun nut in a cute little body. And that I think is his selling point, the cognitive disconnect between "cute" and "dangerous."

The same guy wrote him into both positions, and also created him: Keith Giffen.

Well, kinda. Giffen was the lead artist of his earliest appearances and made his original design, and then came back and wrote him in Annihilation through Thanos Imperative.

I knew Bill Mantlo created him and Mike Mignola did the art in his first mini, but upon checking further I see Mignola just did the pencils. Right now Marvel seems to be pushing Rocket pretty hard as the next big thing, a sort of furry Space Wolverine, which I guess is fine if it keeps the character in circulation. They can't really drag Lylla back into his life without some writer killing him off, so it's best she stays back in Halfworld with the rest of his old friends - though Wal Russ did show up in the Free Comic Book Day RR comic.

Lylla was in the Annihilators back-up comic he was in in 2011 or early 2012, and is now dating that rabbit he fought with back in the day, who was good in that comic but evil again in the free comic book day comic.

That whole backup comic was a painfully unnecessary recon. Rocket and Lylla were just this side of married and completely devoted to one another. They had to recon Rocket's whole backstory so most of it was just a fantasy planted in his head when he was exiled in order to plausibly break them up and I rather wish they hadn't bothered. They could have left his past a mystery rather than drive a stake through his old persona's heart.

Subversion. The appeal is in deliberately undermining a conventional character type, the cute furry sidekick. The culture is packed full of cute furry sidekicks, so it's a welcome relief to see someone who looks like one superficially but has a character exactly opposite to what the role would usually imply.

If there were more characters like him, it would quickly become cliche. Right now, it's the anti-cliche. If the film is successful, I've no doubt copycat characters will be spawned.

(Almost) Everyone loves a bad boy with big guns, simply as that

Honestly, Deadpool is my favourite (anti)hero <3 beakiehelmet hit the nail on the head, haha. I was hoping he'd comment here anyway, he's a big fan of Guardians :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CphFZGH5030

Better watch it fast! Fox is having it taken down everywhere!

To quote a friend "This is the trailer to hook general audiences in on the humor, then they give them the Deadpool sitting alone in a dirty apartment hating himself that they didn't know they wanted." The script for this version has been leaked online for a while now, and that script was done by the same guys who did Zombieland.

It's honestly a pity this version isn't getting made, but there's rumors that Deadpool might be showing up in an upcoming X-Force movie set in the Days of Future Past/First Class continuity. Who knows, Ryan Reynolds might reprise the role, but given his bad luck with comic book films some higher ups might veto him.

When they first made an X-Men film I was hoping so hard they'd do X-Force next. It's one of the few super-teams I follow consistently and now that Wolverines time-travel shenanigans have reversed the Phoneix events -and- Apocalypse is the next movie villain, there's no reason why they can't have Cable show up.

I'd agree, save that they appear to avoiding Cable like the plague. I'd've loved to've seen the ending of Days of Future Past reference him, but nooooo... I do, in fact, hope you're right. I know little of the Marvel lore beyond character profiles, but I'm not the only Marvel ignoramus with a thing for Cable.

Cable actually had nothing to do with the Days of Future Past storyline, even in the comics. No, Cable just...showed up one day without telling anyone (in the pages of now classic X-Factor, 1980's). He was working towards two goals: Undermining his clone Stryfe's faction of mutant terrorists, and trying to get a head start on putting together a resistance force for Apocalypse's eventual rise to power. He managed to both succeed and fail at both his goals over the stretch of the 90's. Nowadays he seems focused on raising his daughter Hope.

OH MY GOD OH MY GOD OH MY GODDDDDD AAAAAAA 8D
Cannot contain my excitement!!

Daaaaah you remembered

Of course I did! I went and got cable and deadpool cause of you :P

Oh that's right... Wait didn't I get cable and deadpool on that same trip? Maybe I got volume 2 on that trip...

Man, that was fun. I should've tried that sushi...

In the marvel universe, as big and ever changing, with all the reboots and alternate universes, it's hard to answer this.
There's probably like 4 different origin story's for Rocket.

So id suggest just going with the version that the movie is based off of.


Also there was an old Deadpool comic that I read in which he runs over {accidentally} a family of raccons an the only one that survives, picked up a dropped gun an goes on a vengeful rampage. Tho that might be something different... idk it was years ago since I read it..

There's only the one origin for Rocket. Most Marvel characters have kept the same origin for the past 50 years when the comics started in 1962.

The only alternate versions are the ones in Ultimate Marvel, which is an alternate universe line of comics that's been running since the 90's, and even there most of the origins are fairly similar.

The Deadpool thing is completely unrelated.

I have no history with comics at all, and usually don't care much when a marvel movie comes out, but I do want to see this one only because of the 'coon, even though I have no idea who he is. If he was poorly animated, I wouldn't care to see it, but I am honestly really impressed with how closely he resembles a real raccoon. I feel like it's hard to find animation like that.

Personally, I don't care about the raccoon, he's in the story to begin with as bait for various demographic groups, neither necessarily related to one another. It just works because the universe doesn't set any particular prerequisite scale for hero material; if the likes of Antman (this guy's film is a train wreck in progress) and Black Widow fit alongside Ironman and Thor, a Frank Castle-esque commando in cuddly form isn't out of the question. It's like a multiplayer FPS with playable, player-created animal models, all do the same thing no matter the skin (except Oddjob in Nightfire, fuck him and his hat). I'm sure he's a decent character, obvious bait aside. I'm stoked to see it because it looks like it'll be one of a handful of decent blockbusters in theaters this summer.

I was actually excited when I saw the character lineup for Guardians. I was happy to see some diversity, as I think many people are. It's not often (or ever really) that a talking animal or tree get to share the spotlight in a live action blockbuster with McBeef Man and Fighting Fucktoy. That's too much of a risk. So even if it sucks at least they tried something different?? Idk I'm not head over heels for Marvel or DC so I'm pretty neutral to what they do, but this had my interested piqued.

Also, Rotten Tomatoes seems to like it a lot, and that's usually enough for me to at least buy a ticket.
Lol I might go tonight or tomorrow actually. I didn't realize it was out! <XD

That's a good way to look at it. I've just been kind of stick in the mud over marvel movies for a while, ever since I saw Avengers and iron Man 3 x_x (especially Iron Man 3, Avengers was just ok but thats disappointing to me in of itself). I haven't seen the second Captain America Movie or Thor 2, and I probably never will. But, I'll wait and see how this turns out. Of course I'm hoping it's good because I'm going to see it regardless. XD

I just got back from the movie. I thought it was good, but not something to rave about. There's one cringe worthy moment with Rocket, but otherwise he's not as annoying as I thought he would be. I actually think he might be my favorite, next to Groot, haha. Would love to see a spinoff with those two, but only if it was titled "The Adventures of Sudowoodo and Tom Nook".

Yup, just got back to and I am happy I was worried for nothing XD

Captain America 2 is probably the single best movie they've done so far... >_>;;

I agree with Beakie. Thor 2 was pretty much nothing but fan service, but Captain America: Winter Soldier was both shocking and very well done, which is rare for Marvel. Usually when they try to shock you, they get too heavy handed (like in Iron Man 3). I recommend renting it at the very least.

One thing I'll give Marvel film studios credit for is that they seem to be learning from their mistakes. They're no longer just floundering about like they were in the days of the early X-Men films, and they are at the point now where storytelling is taking precedence over the heroes themselves.

Well damn, two recommendations in less then 24 hours. I will check that out now.

As a furry... Raccoon with a gun in a mainstream film, what more do you need to know?

I honestly had never heard of him before the promos for this movie, so he's not exactly on my list of Marvel favorites, but I would watch this movie for that alone.

I imagine the mainstream appeal is largely a novelty thing. Deadpool's status is because he's funny as hell, but again, raccoon with a gun. If that phrase alone doesn't make you want to know more, I don't know what to tell you.