Who would have thought a decade ago that some of the superheroes with the biggest on screen successes and cultural cachet would be a misfit band of aliens including a raccoon that’s not a raccoon and a talking tree along with an obscene.
You can see why James Gunn would be a fan of Deadpool too.
There is something cool about that and the chances these films are willing to take and the willingness of audiences to accept them.
Like Deadpool, the Guardians of the Galaxy have a bit of irreverence to them and they are weirder characters that largely operate separately from the rest of their cinematic universe counterparts.