Shout Out / Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

• As with the previous movie, Peter Quill is a font of references for music and shows from the '80s and before.
• He had described Knight Rider at length to Gamora (who didn't get all the details straight, though to be fair to her, Peter was apparently drunk when he explained it), and how it inspired him to pretend for other kids during his childhood that David Hasselhoff was his father.
• When Yondu uses his Yaka Arrow to slow down his descent by clinging to it with one arm, Peter compares him to Mary Poppins.
  Yondu: Is he cool?
  Peter: ...Hell yeah, he's cool!
  Yondu: I'm Mary Poppins, y'all!
• When Peter discovers he's inherited Ego's matter-shifting powers, he excitedly says he's going to make a giant statue of Pac-Man with Skeletor and Heather Locklear.
  Peter: I'm gonna make some weird shit!
• Peter compares the Unresolved Sexual Tension between him and Gamora to Sam and Diane from Cheers. Then, he says that it's not, it's a show where one person is willing to listen while the other refuses to believe in anything, but that show doesn't exist!
• Gamora using the BFG looks similar to Iron Man's Proton Cannon special attack from Marvel Super Heroes and Marvel vs. Capcom.
• At one point, Peter calls Baby Groot an "angry little tree", as opposed to a "happy little tree".
• When Nebula attacks Gamora with the starfighter, some of the shots are almost identical to the famous cropduster scene in North By Northwest which James Gunn confirmed was the influence for the scene in the DVD Commentary.
• Immediately after the bomb destroys Ego's brain and kills him, his human avatar freezes and appears to turn into sand, then disintegrates away, like what happened to the Greek Gods when they permanently die.
• The abilisk seems to be inspired by a monster in the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Deedeementional". Both are large, pink, tentacled creatures with More Teeth than the Osmond Family and both are inter-dimensional beings.
• Evidently, the Guardians have a death sentence in twelve Kree sectors.
• That last Beam Spam against the Sovereign ships, considering their arcade game themes, is hard to watch without remembering the Death Blossom.
• During the credits scroll, a picture of Drax gets a beard scribbled on him, and then another picture further down shows Drax wearing what looks like a dark suit or blazer. Mr. Hinx from Spectre, also played by Dave Bautista, has both those.
• Sylvester Stallone's character says the line "You betrayed the code!" the exact same way he said the line "You betrayed the law!" back when he was playing Judge Dredd.
• Ego's story of how he went to Earth in the 1980s, fell in love with an Earth woman and impregnated her with a child whom he tells her will serve a mysterious and grand purpose is basically the plot of Starman.
• During the approach toward his planet, Ego's ship briefly resembles the "smiley-face" ship from Heavy Metal, which is appropriate with the whole 80s pop-culture spirit of the Guardians films.
• Drax states that The Guardians are a family and leave no one behind.

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