History GuardiansOfTheGalaxy / GoTGTropesKToR

* MickeyMousing: According to [[WordOfGod James Gunn]], composer Tyler Bates wrote some of the score before the film entered production so that Gunn could film to the music. Notably in the climax the score goes up in key each time [[spoiler:one of the guardians adds themselves to the chain to help control the Infinity Stone.]]

* MookMobile: The Necrocraft fighters used by Ronan's forces. Equipped with powerful weapons, but quite fragile -- easily torn apart by two mining pods ramming into them, while one on the ground is easily taken down by Yondu with his arrow. The Ravager ships and Nova Corps fighters easily plow down through them, and it's only through sheer number they have any advantage.

* RecycledInSpace: The Avengers -- in Space! [[http://www.ew.com/article/2014/08/04/guardians-galaxy-marvel-avengers A comparison]].[[note]]In the comics, Drax is green. However, for the film his color was changed to a muddier grey, partly because the movie already had a bright-green character (Gamora), but mostly to distinguish his appearance from the Hulk.[[/note]]

* KarmicJackpot: Deciding to band together and help out the [[SpacePolice Nova Corps]] and the Ravagers in protecting Xandar from Ronan the Accuser is what leads to the Guardians getting their criminal records deleted, the Milano being repaired, and the Guardians themselves being hailed as heroes.

* LadyVessel: WordOfGod [[https://twitter.com/jamesgunn/status/494193606794547200 states]] that Peter Quill named his CoolStarship the ''Milano'' after the actress Alyssa Milano, who was his childhood crush.

* My Greatest Second Chance: [[spoiler: During the climax, when he sees a vision of his mother asking her to take her hand when the Infinity Stone is tearing him apart, and sees that it's actually Gamora calling out to him, he ultimately takes her hand, doing the one thing he couldn't do when he was a child on Earth back in the 1980s: take the hand of someone in need.]]

* TheMole: Downplayed, but the Other's confrence call with Ronan reveals that Thanos has sources inside the Kyln. It's left ambiguous if their sources are within the Nova Corps, the prisoners, or both.

-->'''Nebula''': This is one fight you ''won't'' win.

-->'''Rocket''': Why do you care what happens to the galaxy, anyway?
-->'''Peter''': Because I'm one of the idiots who ''lives in it!''

* NiceJobFixingItVillain: During the climax on Xandar, Ronan casually blasts the charging Rocket aside- and Rocket lands right next to the pieces of his {{BFG}}, which he immediately starts fixing and which proves instrumental in defeating Ronan.

* OohMeAccentsSlipping: When the Nova Corp attacks the Dark Aster, Karen Gillan (as Nebula) says, "The Nova Corps ''are'' attacking." With an American accent, it should be "The Nova Corps ''is'' attacking."

* ReestablishingCharacterMoment: In the [[AMinorKidroduction prologue with Peter Quill as a child]], Peter is shown as a tearful young boy who is overwhelmed emotionally by witnessing his mother die and then him being abducted by aliens. The time skip to him as a grown man shows him carefreely adventuring through an abandoned temple while amusing himself singing "[[{{Music/Redbone}} Come and Get Your Love]]" showing he's now thriving in interstellar space.

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
-->'''Quill:''' Well, I come from a planet of {{outlaw}}s: Billy the Kid, Film/BonnieAndClyde, [[Series/FullHouse John Stamos]]...\\
'''Drax:''' Sounds like a place which I would like to visit.