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  WARNING: Spoilers for this movie abound! If you have not watched the movie or plan not to, don't read this post. You have been warned! Just a decade ago, Marvel Studios, riding high off of the success of the first-ever superhero team-up movie of its kind, The Avengers, set off to bring more of its comic book properties to the big screen and in live-action. One of them was Guardians of The Galaxy. The 10th film in the MCU and 4th installment in Phase 2 of The Infinity Saga, Guardians of The Galaxy was co-written and directed by James Gunn, and stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, Bradley Cooper, Vin Diesel, Glenn Close, Lee Pace, and John C. Reilly, to name a few. It was released in theaters in August 2014.  At first, the movie was a major pre-release gamble. A group of C-list characters even by comic book standards? A talking raccoon and a giant tree that also talks? WHUT - it's going to be a BIG FAT FLOP! The pundits the world over cried out the movie's potenti...

  Before we begin, I would like to note that this post contains SPOILERS  for Marvel's The Avengers. If you have not seen the movie, or plan not to for the foreseeable future, DO NOT READ THIS POST! Thank you.