Good guys, from the left; Star Lord and Yandu, Groot and the
alliterative Rocket Racoon, when I
say 'good guys' I get the feeling they are more Han Solo than JC?
Which highlights my first piece of
ignorance . . . if they pre-date Star Wars,
there is a feeling quite a few SW
characters are taken from GotG, but I
don't remember ever seeing anything about them until quite recently - in which
case Marvel are the plagiarists,
except of Groot who's clearly an Ent?
I think these are also good guys, but one
or two of them might have questionable loyalties? Not least the two girls Gamora and Nebula who are sisters serving different masters, but I'm not sure
how seriously they try to kill each other? Marvel - everyone's there again next
issue! Also I'm not sure who is who but I think Gamora (green?) is the good guy? And . . . err; they're not Rylothians twi'leks, oh no! Oh no-no-no-no-no-no-no; absolutely not!
The others are Drax Korath (good? See comments!) and a mini Groot?
Pretty sure these are all bad guys? From
the left we have Ronan the Accuser, The Collector and Korath the Pursuer Drax (see comments!). There's also Thanos who's even baderer . . . badiest . . . badly-bad . . . I
said that! But he's not in the set, which he could have been as the 12th piece
was . . .
. . . a crappy micro-space-ship. I have a
drawer somewhere with all the sub-scale sci-fi Micromachines that accompanied the Galoob figures; Star Wars, Aliens, Star Trek and even a set of
fantasy stuff, this pretty-well matches them and will join them!
Hi Hugh,
ReplyDeleteSo, Guardians Of The Galaxy does proceed Star Wars as you thought, in fact Guardians of the Galaxy was a back-up strip in the original British Star Wars comic but the original Guardians were a different group of characters with the exception of Yondu who was a founding member of the team originally (changed for the film) and Star-Lord was a solo character who also appeared as a strip in the British Star Wars comic. That said, Star Wars owes more to Dune and Flash Gordon than Marvel (who published the star Wars Comics) One last note is that you have identified Korath and Drax in reverse order, Korath has the two weapons in hand and Drax has the tattoos (Well, more raised areas of skin to be accurate...or nerdy!)
Sorry for the long windedness and as always, hope this helps.
Sorry Dude! I meant to answer this about three days ago! Yes it's always useful, and I don't know how I got their names wrong, as I was taking them from the text/descriptions in the book!!! They must have been on the same page with some ambiguous text!!!!
ReplyDeleteWhich means I have a bad guy in the good guy group and a . . . Doh!
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