7. How Will Guardians of the Galaxy Tie Into The MCU?
Though anticipation is sky high for easily the most challenging entry into the MCU to date, James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy, and though the footage shown off so far looks absolutely fantastic, we're still left pretty much in the dark about how exactly these characters will tie into the MCU as a whole. Kevin Feige has stated that it will take place at the same time as other Phase Two films, and that it will involve Thanos, which is interesting given that we now know that Thanos will
not appear in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but instead presumably Avengers 3. Does this mean that the Guardians will battle Thanos in their first movie, and then neither they nor Thanos will return until The Avengers 3 in 2018? Given that Ronan The Accuser is the main villain in Guardians, perhaps Thanos will simply make an extended cameo appearance ahead of an eventual full-on reveal in the post-credit scene of Age of Ultron.