Guardians Of The Galaxy: 6 Ways It Could Link In With Other Movies
Guardians Of The Galaxy is released August 1st.
The Marvel cinematic universe is constantly expanding with every movie, with new characters and new concepts being introduced relentlessly. Guardians of the Galaxy, coming this August, is Marvel's most ambitious project yet and is so far removed from anything attempted before that it makes people wonder how the heck it's going to connect to the rest of this particular continuity. But there are an abundance of ways in which it could seamlessly link in with the wider universe - both in terms of what we've already seen up to now and what is yet to come. It works in the comics so there's no reason why it can't work on screen. The Thor movie - admittedly not being quite as far removed from the rest of the Marvel cinematic universe as the weird mix of alien beings we're going to be seeing in Guardians of the Galaxy - introduced an alien civilisation in to a world in which, up until that point, only really had the armoured Iron Man and gamma-mutated Hulk (and their supporting characters), in terms of "out of the ordinary" entities, so it can be done. With that in mind, here are six ways in which Guardians of the Galaxy could link in with other Marvel cinematic universe movies and, subsequently, fit in seamlessly with the wider universe...