The following legend contains some spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
THE FUTURE of the Wonder Cinematic Universe is… captivating, to sigh the least. In the last one year, now we beget considered one trilogy shut out with a aim to residing up the prolonged bustle (Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania), one fourth installment approach with out a total bunch of new to make a contribution (Thor: Love and Allege), and, now, with Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, one other trilogy enact with gratifying arcs and time spent with the total characters that fans beget grown to indulge in over the last 9 years and seven MCU appearances.
Where does that dash away the prolonged bustle? With some very valid drama taking part in out in the handsome machine around a performer Wonder beforehand perceived to be building its entire upcoming slate around, it be handsome to surprise if the ideal title in comedian book entertainment can also simply beget one other pivot up its sleeve. Whether that is a significant recasting or the choice to re-heart characters that can also simply had been beforehand planned for retirement is somebody’s thought.
The cease of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 brings a more-than-gratifying conclusion to an cease of an generation for Wonder Studios. The first Guardians of the Galaxy was considered as a significant threat in 2014; the provide field subject was a long way from the mainstream, and the movie’s writer/director, James Gunn, was coming now now not from other blockbusters, but from unfamiliar, darkish, sci-fi and apprehension motion pictures esteem Trek and Orderly (he also wrote the are residing-action Scooby-Doo motion pictures and Zack Snyder‘s 2004 rob on Dawn of the Boring).
However taking on a unfamiliar and more imprecise property intended that Gunn also had the opportunity for more freedom and to rob whatever chances he wished to rob up his motion pictures. When the most critical Guardians was a large atomize hit, that, in essence, earned Gunn the total liberty he would want for the comfort of his Wonder sub-franchise.
Now, Gunn is headed to DC Studios to, in essence, be its new edition of Wonder’s Kevin Feige (his frail boss). And his departure would seem to imply the cease of on the least this iteration of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
However there are mild heaps of programs for these characters to proceed forward.
Will there be a Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4?

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Nothing’s been announced yet—so it be a definite perhaps.
There are just a few varied programs that a Guardians Vol. 4 can also form out. One would be a pretty straightforward Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4 legend that would per chance perhaps well apply the crew we noticed established on the cease of the movie—Rocket as chief, alongside with Kraglin, Phyla-Vell, Groot, Cosmo, and Adam Warlock. On the opposite hand, with James Gunn off to head DC Studios, the movie would possible beget a determined writer and director, and, thus, would lose the very particular sigh that made the Guardians that fans know and indulge in. It’d be a foul proposition.
If we in actuality feel esteem getting ambitious, even supposing, there is also the probability that Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4. takes an Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Cranium/Critical particular person Wars Sequel Trilogy keep of perspective, and Gunn returns to jot down and direct for Chris Pratt, Zoe Saldana, Dave Bautista, et cetera, in just a few a long time. An elderly Guardians adventure? Why now now not!
Basically the possible final result, even supposing, is that—esteem in Avengers: Infinity Battle and Avengers: Endgame—we behold our Guardians visitors in future most critical MCU events.
The cease of the movie says “The Legendary Critical particular person-Lord Will Return.” When can also we behold Critical particular person-Lord yet again?

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After the 2d Guardians Vol. 3 credits scene—which mainly simply sides Peter Quill and his grandpa sitting across the breakfast table talking about mowing lawns—a white slate engulfs the show. Text reads: “The Legendary Critical particular person-Lord Will Return.” Now now not “The Guardians of the Galaxy Will Return,” which the textual disclose material learn after the most critical two Guardians movies, but simply “The Legendary Critical particular person-Lord Will Return.”
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There is one certainty we are in a position to learn from this: the personality Critical particular person-Lord, in a single capacity or one other, will be considered yet again in the MCU. Will he mild be played by Chris Pratt? Most possible, yes, but with the total multiversal chaos going on, we are in a position to’t fully rule out that someone else can also trace up as some keep of Critical particular person-Lord “variant.”
So let’s believe on the programs that Critical particular person-Lord can also return in the end. Our bet? Now that he’s on Earth, he’s customarily a key, experienced figure for whatever keep a future Avengers crew takes in either The Kang Dynasty or Secret Wars; he’s already faced off with an world-conquering villain in Thanos, and he knows more about outer home cosmic happenings than almost about somebody else on the earth. We are in a position to also behold him having some comely active conversations with Shang-Chi or Moon Knight or whoever.
There is also the probability of a Critical particular person-Lord solo movie or Disney+ sequence. “The Legendary Critical particular person-Lord,” because the ending show calls him, is the title of the Wonder Comics Critical particular person-Lord solo comics spinoff sequence. If he were to beget his beget adventures on the enormous or runt show, that is liable to be a canonical title.
However we can behold in the end. James Gunn also will be departing, but we can proceed to behold the Guardians of the Galaxy—a technique or one other—in the prolonged bustle years.

Evan Romano
Evan is the culture editor for Men’s Well being, with bylines in The New York Instances, MTV Info, Brooklyn Journal, and VICE. He loves unfamiliar motion pictures, watches too great TV, and listens to music more in general than he doesn’t.