Which is why he's the best

Sadly, things didn't end up very well for him.

Being Rocket is suffering.

I know right!

Poor little bugger...He never did get that arm in the end.

Spoiler: He did get it in the GotG Xmas Special on Disney+.

Awww good for him.

was a great movie but alas the 3-D glasses made everything so dark D: so i need to watch it again so i can actually see things x3

i know right. thought it would be a mess but they did such a great job at it. but was sad that rocket didnt get any good jokes with him being on earth DX. so wanted to see a real raccoon come up to him and have him being like WTF ? XD

I felt the movie was moving too fast for the personal issues they introduced to really sink in, and that they tried to humanize Thanos a little too much. IMHO, towards the end, Thanos felt more like a misguided character than an evil one. It did good by the action, but the story was a bit lacking. Don't get me wrong, it's certainly a good movie, but the first two Avengers I enjoyed more.

The most dangerous villains are the ones who think they are right. Thanos was completely sure he was doing the right thing.

Even better, not only was he sure he was doing the right thing, he also seemed aware just how horrible a thing he was doing, but still did it because in his mind it had to be done.

It's probably the best example of the old saying that the a villain is the hero in their own mind.

I loved the one interaction that Bucky and Rocket had. Nice little moment in the middle of all that was going on.

And then Bucky got ashed. The only person Rocket knows at all in the whole universe right now is Thor. And I could see him becoming a bitter recluse making weapons in a lap and avoiding all human contact because everyone he makes friends with dies.

To just make it worse, he doesn't KNOW yet what happened to his friends. Right now he only knows he lost his oldest/youngest friend.

Yep. Being Rocket is suffering.

To be fair, IMHO the Finger Snap of Doom is going to get retconned big time.

1) Marvel ain't about to kill half their franchises.
2) Plenty of now-deleted heroes are featured in future Marvel movies set in the post IW-timeline, and most importantly...

3) It was undone in the comics, albeit for wildly different reasons. Thanos there was courting Death and thought she would like it if he delivered half the souls in the universe to her in one fell swoop. She told him in no uncertain terms that that was a DICK MOVE and if he didn't put them back, she'd lock up HIS soul with all the others that got taken before their time.

He undid that snap posthaste.

The movie Thanos seems already well on his way to realizing what he did was a massive dick move and solved nothing, as opposed to, say, snapping his fingers and creating 10^100 habitable star systems. That wouldn't even be a rounding error in the total space in the universe, but would last it's sentient races until its heat death.

If you want to talk SUFFERING, talk Wanda Maximoff. Rocket will get his friends back. Vision, on the other hand, is almost certainly perma-dead.

I know it'll get undone, but that's meta knowledge Rocket doesn't have. And we don't know if IW2 will undo the snap in a day of character time, weeks, or even years. (One rumor is a five year time skip). Losing everyone he cares about (except Kraglin and maybe Nebula) is going to be hard on Rocket, who only has a few friends in the universe. Hopefully he'll make some new ones to go with Thor.

That's very true. I was talking in meta; IC Rocket is going to have a rotten, rotten time of it. Losing his band was bad enough. Losing Groot will crush his perpetually inflated self confidence to dust. Thor just isn't any kind of substitute for (I am) Groot.

IIRC the comics Thanos undid his Snap of Doom tout suite after Death threatened him with her version of Hell, but the MCU is taking the character in a different direction. It wouldn't at all surprise me if there was a LOT of story to tell between the end of IW and the inevitable retconning.

I wonder if Lylla got erased along with his friends?

The Snap didn't get undone by Thanos in the comics. He successfully conquered the heroes and Cosmic Abstracts, becoming undisputed master of reality. But he left his physical body vulnerable when he ascended, not realizing he still needed the Gauntlet. Nebula took it, then eventually Adam Warlock got it from HER. He was the one to fix everything.

Whether Lylla got erased isn't really relevant in the MCU since if he's met her (opinions vary) he has no contact with her at this point. We don't even know if she's going to appear and if she does her absence during the Snap period makes whether she got Snapped or not irrelevant.

You're right. I *didn't* recall correctly. Adam Warlock is the one that ultimately undid everything. Thanos more-or-less let it happen, though, and ended up joining the Infinity Watch afterward, becoming the guardian of the Reality Stone IIRC. Maybe that's why they humanized him so much - to make it easier to convince the audience when he does a full Heel-Face-Turn eventually and joins the heroes to make sure the Infinity War never happens again.

The Lylla comment was more a dark joke than anything - I'm not honestly sure she IS a part of the MCU. Lots of ancillary characters from the comics didn't make it into the MCU (such as Adam Warlock). But assuming for a moment that she IS part of this continuity, whether she got erased or not suddenly would become very, very important indeed to Rocket.

My favorite part was when Harry Potter teamed up with the Fantastic Four to beat Galactus. A remarkably coherent movie, the Duke Nukem Forever of films.

Interesting. I went to the drive-in near where I live to watch it, so I had a bit of trouble seeing it, but heard it perfectly (it's not that we got a bad spot, the spot we got was amazing, the projector's just a bit dark). Also, fairly certain I know what's going to happen next, but I won't say. :P

I liked the movie a lot, but dang it does nobody in the universe know what species a RACCOON is? *angry chittery noises*

It's a running joke. Of all people, Ego should have known. He's been to Missouri where raccoons are extremely common. Now, though, Rocket is on Earth - he's bound to be recognized as a raccoon.

I saw this yesterday, and I have to say...The ending, from a literary and cinematic viewpoint, while INTENSELY infuriating, was absolutely fucking genius.

Yeah. If I could write a tenth as good as those screenwriters, I'd be a millionaire. They deserve fat bonuses for that cliffhanger alone.

I didn't think he was much of a dick in this one.

He was a dick to the Guardians, but he was amazingly nice to Thor.

See I felt Quill was being more of a dick in this film than previous movies and Rocket was less so. I thought after the events of the second movie and raising baby Groot changed him.