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Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special BREAKDOWN: Every Easter Egg + Ending Explained



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The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special is an old-fashioned Christmas special that has some major reveals in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Mantis is Peter’s sister. The Guardians bought Knowhere. And Cosmo the Space Dog is finally in the Guardians!

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Written and Hosted by Ryan Arey (http://twitter.com/ryanarey)
Edited by Harriet Lengel-Enright, Randolf Nombrado, and Srinidhi Rao

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Because Doug, this is in the style of the old time Christmas specials on TV. where a celebrity like bing crosby would be in a house, and entertaining celebrity guests as they stopped by. Even the box of kevin bacon seemed like a callback to this [clip]

Christmas specials are always a little goofy, have a ridiculous premise, and are filled with Christmas music. Check, check, and check.

The easter eggs start in the opening credits, first notice that the special presentation graphic has a shortened version of the marvel theme [clip]. And the marvel studios logo always begins with comics before transitioning into scripts and movie images, to show that the comics are the source material for the films. So the comics in this episode are all from marvel comics christmas issues. [:30] INcluding this one, X-Men 143, where kitty pryde has to fight off an n’garai demon in the x-mansion when she’s left alone at christmas. The n’garai are the same demons that served wanda in multiverse of madness

The song that opens and ends the special is call fairytale of Ny, and it is a massive, table christmas song in the united kingdom. It’s about people locked in a drunk tank, singing christmas carols, and the cops join in, and everyone has a merry christmas. A song about unruly misfits making their own christmas cheer is exactly what happens in this episode.

Now the hoenig flashback, to me, looks rotoscoped. This is an ancient style where artists draw over filmed footage. It was popularized by Ralph Bakshi in the 1970s, and there’s a whole Lord of the Rings movie in this style that people have just forgotten about, even though it’s great.

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When yondu enters, he says [clip]. Now the colors of Ogord were first mentioned here in GOTG 2 [stallone to yondu]. So in that movie, Stalline plays Stakar Ogord, the leader of the Ravagers. And the colors of Ogord refer to the funeral lights we see at the end of the movie. [Sean Gunn yes!] Still gets to me.

I love the fine details in this animation, like how the tree is decorated with spare parts from the ravager ship. So the episode begins with yondu apparently ruining the christmas, raising the stakes for peter to have his first real christmas since he left earth.

Mantis mentions [sad since gamora left].

Doug: But I thought Gamora died in avengers: infinity war.

She did, that’s right. But, remember, in avengers endgame a version of gamora from 2014 traveled into 2023, where she briefly met the guardians [hit peter in the balls]. While this version of Gamora did turn away from Thanos, she lacks all of the backstory with the guardians, and din;t join the team in thor: Love and thunder.

IN the present we find out that the guardians bought Knowhere from the collector. Yourememberthat knowhere is the severed head of a celestial that was featured heavily in the first movie. This was the headquarters of the collector that was damaged in guardians 1 [clip]. And thanos devastated this entire place in infinity war [clip].

So the guardians purchasing kow where is actually huge for a number of reasons. ONe, it means that the collector is alive, because they bought it from him. Two, it means that the guardians have saved up all the money they made gigging around the galaxy [IW, pay is some cheddar]. And now they have bought a place that is a bustling galactic hub. Knowhere is actually a huge industry, because people mine the brain fluid of the dead celestial. Got theory on how that ties in with mantis that I’ll go into a bit.

It places the guardians ina oher grow up, authoritative position. We see Peter signing forms, being an administrator. The rogue has grown up like Lando Calrissian. [lando complaining to han in esb]

44 Comments

  2. Pabloeagle84

    So yeah Go Bots made many low income houses happy on Christmas Day. I remember the day I made my dad feel like a failure because I let the kids at school bully me into being ashamed for having them. Yeah there are only two of us.

  3. Carter

    It was a Groot suit. Essentially, this was green lit as an apology to Gunn for firing him and to hopefully keep him happy so he wouldn't do anymore DC work.
    That plan clearly failed
    So they didn't have the budget for full CGI Groot. They could only afford Vin Diesel for 3 lines. Bradley Whitford agreed to do it for scale as a favor to Gunn.
    .

  4. Carter

    It was a Groot suit. Essentially, this was green lit as an apology to Gunn for firing him and to hopefully keep him happy so he wouldn't do anymore DC work.
    That plan clearly failed
    So they didn't have the budget for full CGI Groot. They could only afford Vin Diesel for 3 lines. They couldn't meet Zoe's minimum fee and so she claimed to be tied up with Avatar 2. Michael Rooker and Bradley Whitford agreed to do it for scale as a favor to Gunn. Vin was not so generous.

  5. Carter

    Bacon was in the original Friday the 13th and was killed by Mrs.Voorhees. Not in Part 2 and never fought Jason.
    GoBots came out 18 months before Transformers.

  6. Chad S.

    Y’all didn’t mention that “Kevin Bacon’s house” actually belongs to Christian music artist David Crowder

  9. Graham Cann

    Point of order: Go-Bots came out before Transformers. And one of the final straws that caused me to quit Hasbro (technically I'd been working for Wizards of the Coast, but then Hasbro stepped in and), was when they brought out a Transformers Go-bot Toy. And shortly after, I quit. (No regrets.) And frankly, I enjoyed them both.
    Thank you so very much for the video.

  10. James Dominguez

    cough Friday the 13th part 1, not 2. This actually expands the misunderstanding since Jason wasn't the killer in the original – his mum was. 😀

  18. The Son Of Syn

    Anyone notice that the opening credits say "Introducing Vin Delisle as Groot"? Is it possible that hes wearing the suit now? It could be why Groot is wider now….why say introducing an actor who has always been there. Unless it's really him now

  22. TRAPSTA ENT

    I just got a chance to watch it.. i would love to see an special for most of marvel movies it nice and it could help us to wait untill the main shows come out

  23. Neal King

    Ok, so you said Vibranium is armour for celestials, so why does only earth have vibranium? The should have mined loads from Knowhere

  24. Jonimus Prime

    You missed an Easter egg though I will admit I’m not sure if it’s an intentional one or not. The fact that Cy-kill of the robots gets beat up has been an ongoing joke in Transformers comics since the early 2000s Since Hasbro now owns the Gobots, comic writers and artists have thought it funny to have Cy-kill be a random character that gets beat up, disfigured or killed constantly by transformer characters, especially Megatron. These events can be seen in the pages of transformers comics from Dreamwave and IDW for details on that

  26. wheatgrowssweet

    Groot reminded me of the awkward wookie suits in the Star Wars Christmas Special. I wonder if they threw Vin Diesel in a costume as a joke. I really hope that is not his look going forward.

    Mantis telling Star Lord that she is his sister was very Luke/Leia as well.

  27. Kate Sullivan

    A random thought I had just now is as opposed to an over complicated explanation of how Adam gets involved is that Peter and Mantis get the idea that they might have more siblings out there that Ego didn't discover yet.

  33. Mo Williams

    I need Peter to get his powers back! It’ll make him flying around space fighting gods, aliens and “mutants” more believable IMO

  36. Panzer Hyena

    I thought it was a suit but James Gunn said on Twitter it's entirely CGI by the effects team, so A+ work there.

  41. Corry Tincher

    Peter told the story of Kevin Bacon in Friday the 13th wrong because he was too young to see the movie, but he knew Jason was the bad guy

  44. Pharoah Miles

    Ryan, why didn't you mention the impact of losing Yondu on Peter, it pretty much is the parental throughline in the special

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