But Gunn doesnât just linger in space â he also takes his time to pay the character his due farewell on the ship, bearing witness to the Guardians' meager but heartfelt funeral as well as the Ravager factionsâ bombastic farewell, led by Sly Stalloneâs Sakar. Itâs not just a tragic scene, itâs absolutely gutting, as Yondu is subjected to the same gruesome fate that some nameless Ravager was forced to endure during Taserfaceâs brief Ravager mutiny earlier in the film. But unlike the pat âjust in the nick of timeâ crushes to safety weâve come to expect in the MCU, Gunn follows through on his hefty stakes, and when Yondu ( Michael Rooker) and Peter are stranded on the fast dissolving planet with just one jet-pack, Yondu fulfills his role as Peterâs stand-in father by giving his life for Peterâs.The camera lingers as the life is slowly choked from Yondu in the unforgiving vacuum of space, and the pair come to the final realization that they were the family one another was looking for all these years. Channeling the power of the planetâs heart, Peter takes to battle with Ego (assuming his soul-destined cosmic shape as Pac-Man for one brilliant moment) while Baby Groot plants a bomb on the brain, setting a timer for five minutes to allow the Guardians to get to Yonduâs ship before the big boom. Image via MarvelBut Peter isnât quite strong enough to best Ego without an additional power source. It turns out safety is easier said than achieved, as Peter realizes he must attack the heart of the planet â Egoâs mega-sized brain with the help of Rocketâs pilfered Sovereign batteries. A kind of galactic eugenicist with the ultimate goal to remake the entire universe in his image (blue, squishy and generally devoid of life) who needs Peterâs powers to complete his mission, Ego is revealed as the true villain of the film, as Gamora ( Zoe Saldana), Mantis ( Pom Klementieff), Drax ( Dave Bautista), Rocket ( Bradley Cooper) and the rest re-team to bring Peter to safety. Image via MarvelFor those who need a refresher, hereâs what happened at the end of James Gunnâs sequel: drawn into Egoâs ( Kurt Russell's) gorgeous self-made planet by the promise of real familial connection and untold power, Peter ( Chris Pratt) soon finds himself under the control of his bio dad, who it seems isnât so much his true father as just a man fond of spreading his seed.
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In fact, Doctor Strange was the first MCU movie to actually deliver on any major characterâs permanent death â but even then, the Ancient One has max 30 minutes of screen time before she meets her untimely end, even then returning to Strange in ephemeral form to sooth his concerns about her ultimate fate.
Then, thereâs the good o'l Loki fake-out, a tried and true manipulation that allows the film to achieve all the emotional heft of a major characterâs death without any of the narrative obligation. Sure, disposable villains are dispatched at the end of nearly every MCU entry, and family remains an open target, often used to inspire its heroes (see the death of Black Pantherâs father in Captain America: Civil War) rather than for its narrative weight. For all the massive stakes that its heroes engage in, in both cosmic worlds and more earth-bound ones, the stakes for our central heroes can occasionally seem comically low.
I didnât really want to be the one to say it, but here goes: Marvel has a bit of a death problem.
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