3 having missed a lot since Guardians Vol. But if you happened to skip those two Avengers movies, you’ll be walking into Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. Given that the MCU is designed to prioritize the interconnectivity of its cinematic universe over just about everything else, it’s probably safe to say that if you watched the first two Guardians of the Galaxy movies, you’ve seen the massive crossover films the Guardians are prominently featured in: Infinity War and Endgame. Catching Up Since Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. To prepare for the film’s release later this week, let’s take a look back at everything that’s happened with Peter Quill’s crew since the franchise’s last big-screen installment, spotlight a couple of the characters who are set to make their MCU debuts, and assess the end of the road for Gunn and the Guardians as we know them. It’s been a long, strange journey for the Guardians team inside and outside of the MCU, and the forthcoming conclusion to Gunn’s trilogy was close to never happening at all. Almost 10 years later, Gunn’s Guardians story is coming to an end, as Guardians of Galaxy Vol.
The film also launched the Hollywood careers of Pratt and director James Gunn, in particular, into another stratosphere. Of course, Guardians of the Galaxy became a massive hit for Marvel, ultimately grossing $773 million worldwide and turning the previously little-known characters into icons of one of the studio’s most beloved franchises. As franchise star Chris Pratt has been reminding everyone lately, many critics at the time predicted that it would be the studio’s first flop. The iteration of the cosmic superhero team that the film focused on hadn’t even existed in the comics for a decade. The Guardians of the Galaxy, by contrast, were a relatively obscure collective in Marvel’s extensive roster of characters. With the exception of 2012’s crossover blockbuster The Avengers, every film in the MCU up to that point had been centered on more established heroes, like Captain America, Thor, Iron Man, and Hulk. When Marvel Studios was gearing up to release Guardians of the Galaxy in 2014, the Marvel Cinematic Universe was still in its infancy.
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