2 scenes: mid-credits, after the credits. worth the wait
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Quick recap
The Guardians are living on Knowhere when Adam Warlock attacks and badly wounds Rocket. A kill switch in his body blocks treatment, so the team has to break into Orgocorp for the passcode. Flashbacks reveal Rocket's past: he was created and tortured by the High Evolutionary, a scientist obsessed with building a perfect society, and lost his friends Lylla, Teefs and Floor. The 2014 Gamora, now with the Ravagers, helps out without remembering Quill. The Guardians save Rocket, defeat the High Evolutionary and rescue the children and animals aboard his ship. In the end the team splits up: Quill goes back to Earth to see his grandfather, Gamora stays with the Ravagers, Mantis heads off on her own, and Nebula and Drax stay on Knowhere. Rocket becomes the new captain.
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What happens
Post-credits scenes
Mid-credits The new Guardians lineup, led by Rocket, chats about favorite songs as they head into action.
After the credits Back on Earth, Peter Quill has breakfast with his grandfather and they bicker. On screen: 'The Legendary Star-Lord will return.'
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5 easter eggs
Hidden details
ReferenceRocket sings Radiohead
In the opening credits, Rocket walks through Knowhere listening to an acoustic version of Creep. The pick already sets the tone of the movie about him.
Behind the scenesThe hallway that looks like one take
The hallway fight set to No Sleep Till Brooklyn looks like a single continuous shot, but it isn't. The crew spent about six months rehearsing it, with the camera operator hanging from cables flying through the scene.
At the card table on Knowhere, alongside Kraglin and Cosmo, sit Howard the Duck and the Broker from the first movie. Characters a lot of people forgot.
In the final post-credits scene, the newspaper on the breakfast table has Kevin Bacon talking about his alien abduction. That's Drax and Mantis kidnapping him in The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.
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