10 Outrageous Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol. 2 Theories

As the last Marvel film before Avengers: Age Of Ultron, featuring a rag-tag group of weird characters (a talking raccoon and a tree who can only say his own name) taken from a lesser-known comic, Guardians Of The Galaxy was supposed to be Marvel's biggest risk; the one film that might actually fail.

Instead, it ended up being one of its biggest successes, taking over $750m at the box-office, making it Marvel's fourth highest-grossing movie behind both Avengers films and Iron Man 3. It also received a lot of well-deserved critical acclaim, with the end product standing as one of the studio's very best movies (personally, I'd say 2nd best after the first Avengers). 

Because of that success, a sequel was pretty much inevitable, and indeed their return was actually confirmed at the end of the first movie. It's scheduled for release on May 5, 2017, the same year that the Marvel/Sony Spider-Man film will be released. The latter may be getting most of the attention, but Guardians Vol. 2 is no less cause for excitement (and rightly so). 

James Gunn is again writing/directing, but not a lot is known about the film at this point. That means there's a lot of theorising as to what will happen, with only Jon Snow's true parentage subject to more speculation that Peter Quill's. As we spend the time waiting for the film by listening to Awesome Mix Vol. 1 on repeat, here's the most outrageous theories for Vol. 2.

Guardians Of The Galaxy began big, with that scene of Chris Pratt, dancing goofily and stealing the orb, giving us the perfect introduction to the character Star-Lord and setting the tone for the entire movie in the process. Before that, though, there was a pretty emotional flashback sequence of Peter as a child on Earth, witnessing his mother's death before then being abducted by Yondu. 

This theory, then, is that the sequel once again open with a scene of young Peter, picking up right where the first one left off. It'll show him as he first arrives on-board the spaceship, and how he deals with the new environment, before progressing through his training and his teens. 

This involved theory then goes that Guardians Vol. 3, assuming that will be made, will finally complete Peter's journey with Yondu, taking us to the time just before we first meet him in Guardians as the cocky-but-endearing Star-Lord. There's no obvious reason this can't happen, of course, but it probably wouldn't work as well without the emotional hook of the first movie's flashback.