Author: Ross A. Lincoln / Source: TheWrap
(There are some spoilers below for “Avengers: Endgame. Just so you are aware.)
Aside from “Spider-Man: Far From Home” coming out in July, there are no more Marvel Cinematic Universe movies on the calendar after “Avengers: Endgame.” Sure, Marvel is squatting on two release dates next year and plenty more beyond, but none of those dates have movies attached to them yet.
We really have have very little idea what’s next for the MCU after all this insanity. But in a late scene, “Endgame” does give us one pretty big clue.As “Avengers: Endgame” is wrapping up, one moment of sorely-needed levity after so many gut-punches comes when Thor leaves New Asgard on Earth and hitches a ride to parts unknown with the Guardians of the Galaxy. As they get ready to depart, Thor jokingly refers to the group as the “Asgardians of the Galaxy,” leading to a funny exchange with Peter Quill about who really leads the team.
While the name “Asgardians of the Galaxy” in “Avengers: Endgame” mainly served as a fun pun — and probably also to set up Thor as a full on Guardian in “Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3” — in the comics it’s actually an existing superhero team, and the reference could be hinting at a fun new expansion of the Guardians.
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Created by Cullen Bunn and Matteo Lolli, the Asgardians of the Galaxy is a team of, yes, Asgardian (or Asgard-adjacent) characters that debuted last summer in the first issue of their own ongoing self-titled series.
Formed after the break-up of the Guardians of the Galaxy during Marvel’s “Infinity Countdown” storyline — way too complicated to sum up here, but one thing of note is that Star Lord became the guardian of the Power Stone, sort of — the Asgardians come together to fill the “team of powerful space-faring heroes willing to get their hands dirty saving the universe” job vacancy.
Good thing too, because the villain Nebula had just forced the dwarves of Nidavellir to make her a powerful Asgardian weapon, then killed all but one of them. And then she ripped the fingernails and toenails off their corpses to make a fleet of Naglfar ships.
Nagflar, by the way, is the ship from Norse myth that ferries souls from Hel to do battle with the gods during Ragnarok. You can see where this is going: Nebula is trying to bring the end…
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