GotG headcanon

As I was watching the movie, it seemed to come out of left field when Ronan called them “guardians of the galaxy.” Sure, they had sort of decided they’d try to save it, since there didn’t seem to be any other options except ‘die, most likely.’ But they really had no shot at it. Even they didn’t think they had a shot.

But Ronan, for whatever reason, did. The whole ending made so much more sense to me when I decided that he was the one who had (albeit inadvertently) given them the ability to hold the infinity gem. He called them the guardians of the galaxy when he was wielding the gem. He created a reality in which they had the capacity to stop him.

(Full disclosure: I did actually google Peter Quill to find out who his dad was, since that was the explanation the movie offered, but I got bogged down in the endless world of comics backstory. So I still don’t know.)

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