Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is now playing in theaters in several locations in The U.K and other parts of Europe, but it doesn't hit U.S. theaters until the weekend. If you haven't managed to see the movie yet, be warned that major spoilers follow from this point on.
Like most Marvel Studios movies, James Gunn's GOTG swansong contains two post-credits scenes, and you can find out what happens in both of them below.
The mid-credits stinger seemingly takes place some time after the conclusion of the movie, with Rocket Racoon (Bradley Cooper) leading a new team of Guardians consisting of Kraglin Obfonteri (Sean Gunn), Adam Warlock (Will Poulter), Cosmo the Spacedog (Maria Bakalova), a now massive Kaiju-like Groot (Vin Diesel), and one of the young girls who they rescued from High Evolutionary’s ship, whose name just so happens to be Phyla-Vell!
The crew is sitting around chatting about their favorite songs (Warlock has great taste, incidentally), when Rocket chooses a tune that should be very familiar to GOTG fans, Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love."
The banger plays as the team leaps into action to defend a peaceful planet against an army of ferocious aliens.
Then, after the credits have rolled, we catch up with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt), who returned to Earth to reconcile with his grandfather after handing over leadership to Rocket. He and his grandpa (Gregg Henry) are eating breakfast while discussing their neighbour's lawn, and... that's about it!
This scene is really just to hammer home how mundane life is for Quill now, but it does include a fun Easter egg, as the newspaper Jason Quill is reading features a headline about Kevin Bacon's "alien abduction" in the Disney+ Holiday Special.
The most interesting this about this sequence is the final title card, which states: The Legendary Star-Lord Will Return.
We had been led to believe that Pratt would be hanging up his pistols after this movie, but there seems to be plans in place for his character to return to the MCU, possibly for Avengers: The Kang Dynasty or Secret Wars.
"In Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 our beloved band of misfits are settling into life on Knowhere. But it isn’t long before their lives are upended by the echoes of Rocket’s turbulent past." "Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him on a dangerous mission to save Rocket’s life—a mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them."
Gunn writes and directs Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, which stars Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldaña, Dave Bautista, Karen Gillan, Pom Klementieff, featuring Vin Diesel as Groot, Bradley Cooper as Rocket, Sean Gunn, Chukwudi Iwuji, Will Poulter, and Maria Bakalova. Kevin Feige is the producer and Louis D’Esposito, Victoria Alonso, Nikolas Korda, Simon Hatt, and Sara Smith serve as executive producers.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 arrives in theaters on May 5, 2023.