10 Unanswered Questions From Recent Movies

10. Was Rocket's Trip To The Afterlife Real? - Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 3

At the end of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3's second act, the heroes obtain the code to override the killswitch implanted in Rocket (Bradley Cooper), in turn saving his life.

But before Rocket returns to the land of the living, he first flatlines and has what appears to be a vision of the afterlife, where he's greeted by his fellow experimented-upon animals, Lylla (Linda Cardellini), Teefs (Asim Chaudhry), and Floor (Mikaela Hoover).

However, Lylla eventually tells Rocket that it's not yet his time to join them, just as Quill uses the code to bring him back to life.

This sequence, moving though it is, isn't elaborated upon, with the audience left to decide for themselves whether Rocket genuinely witnessed the afterlife or this was simply a near-death experience generated by his brain.

On one hand we've never seen a typical afterlife/Heaven in the MCU, but given that we have seen similar locations like Valhalla, Soulworld, and the Ancestral Plane, it's certainly easy to believe that Rocket's experience was indeed real.

But on the other, Rocket's vision had hallmarks of a garden variety near-death experience - taking place in a brilliant white void, for instance.

If James Gunn's smart - and he certainly is - he'll never answer this one and let fans make up their own minds.