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Touching that Artifact of Doom was definitely not a good idea...
Peter Quill: There's a little pee coming out of me right now.
- Ronan the Accuser is introduced bathing in some sort of blue liquid. We find out what it is when Ronan cracks a Nova Corpsman's head open like a watermelon (off-screen)... yeah, that's Xandarian blood, which drains into an ornamental pool deep enough for Ronan to fully submerge in. That's a lot of dead Xandarians he bathes in.
- Eson the Searcher, one of the Godzilla-sized Celestials, wiping out all life on a planet with a single stroke of his scepter.
- Imagine being Peter. His mother dies, and the second he runs away from the hospital, he gets abducted by aliens and all he can do is scream for his recently-deceased mother. Then the Ravagers raise him but also semi-jokingly threaten to eat him because they'd never tasted a Terran before. Even if Yondu never actually meant it due to coming to decide Peter was better off with than his murderous father, it still scarred Peter a fair amount.
- Imagine being Peter's granddad; the same night his daughter dies of a brain tumor, his grandson, whom he told to stay just outside the hospital room, disappears without a trace.
- Carina's disintegration when touching the orb, pictured above. The Collector's previous servant starts banging frantically on the glass of her cage when she realizes what Carina is going to do, but it's too late to stop her. The poor girl's screaming does not help.
- The cybernetic implants in Rocket's back
◊ are rather hard to look at. Quill can't help but show some sympathy.- Later, when Rocket is drunkenly ranting about the experiments, it's revealed that the scientists took him apart and put him together multiple times. And he might well have been lucid during all this (or, worse, became self-aware sometime in the process. How'd you like your first coherent thought to be "Please let me die"?). And just when it couldn't get any worse, the third film shows all of this in its full, visceral glory.
- Nebula's rapid healing after being shot by Drax's bazooka, with bones audibly and visibly snapping back into place.
- When Ronan starts blasting through the Nova Corps' defensive net, we see the commander of the squadron, Saal getting slowly crushed to death. Even Rocket winces at that.
- The effects of touching the Infinity Stone with one's bare hands are nothing short of horrifying. Your entire body begins to burn from the inside out. Your eyes melt as your skin crumbles and flakes off before the power eventually consumes you and vaporizes your body in a massive explosion. The last thing you hear is your own agonized shrieking. Unless you're Peter Quill or Ronan. Or Thanos.
- For someone who spent the entire movie being a fairly nice if somewhat selfish guy, Peter Quill wielding it is terrifying.◊
- Even though there's few things more satisfying than watching Ronan getting his comeuppance, the gasp of utterly horrified agony on his face as he's hit by the stone's power is terrifying.
- For someone who spent the entire movie being a fairly nice if somewhat selfish guy, Peter Quill wielding it is terrifying.
- Thanos. He only appears in person once, but that one scene makes him enormously creepy.Thanos: The only matter I do not take seriously, boy, is you. Your politics bore me. Your demeanor is that of a pouty child. And, apparently, you alienated my favorite daughter, Gamora. [Nebula scowls] I shall honor our agreement, Kree, if you bring me the Orb. Return to me again empty-handed... and I will bathe the starways in your blood.
- If Gamora's floating, dying body after the attack by her sister in space wasn't scary enough, then it is when Quill goes out to save her and ends up slowly dying as well. His skin quickly freezes up and his eyes get all bloodshot. Space Is Cold, indeed.
- Groot taking on the inmate who harasses Peter by shoving two of his "fingers" up his nose and presumably continuing to grow them into his sinuses, if not piercing towards his brain. He then unceremoniously yanks them out. Owwww. As they walk away, he can be heard crying in pain on the floor as blood splashes from his nose.
- Gamora's reception in the Kyln, surrounded by hostile inmates who wanted her dead because of her association with Ronan and Thanos. When they catch her later, a guard tells them to go to the showers because it'll be easier to clean the blood. As Rocket said, all the guards care about is preventing escape attempts.
