James Gunn confirms Stan Lee's cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was inspired by Marvel fan theories

Stan Lee in Guardians of the Galaxy 2
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澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Guardians of the Galaxy 2 continued the long MCU tradition of including a Stan Lee cameo. While the Marvel legend usually appeared in a brief, funny scene that has little bearing on the plot, the Guardians 2 cameo was a bit different – it showed that Lee is involved with the Watchers, an ancient species who observe the univ🐎erse.

This means Lee’s brief appearance in Guardians 2 is actually pretty significant, and draws together all of his cameos. All this time, Lee has been watching the goings-on of the Marvel ‘verse – and Kevin Feigꦡe has even confirmed each iteration of Lee seen in his🌠 cameos is actually the same person. In the scene, Lee refers to being a Federal Express man – a reference to his 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Captain America: Civil War cameo – and when the moment is picked up again in an end credits sceneꦐ, is left behind by the Watchers, despite insisting he has plenty more to tell them.

in 2017 (H/T ), director 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:James Gunn confirmed that Lee was working with the🅰 Watchers, and on Twitter has again said that he got the idea from fans: “I stole the idea from fan theꩵories on Twitter, which I thought were hilarious.”

Also as part of the Facebook Live, Gunn explained more about Lee’s cameo: “I actually read the Marvel fan sites and the Marvel message boards... One thing I found very funny and interesting is the fact that people thought Stan Lee is a Watcher… and that all of these cameos that he’s doing are part of him being a Watcher. So I thought th⛄at was one of the greatest things the fans came up with. So Stan Lee as a guy who is either a Watcher or probably a guy who is working for the Watchers was something that I thought was fun for the MCU.”

He also admitted that the FedEx reference doesn’t match the MC🅠U’s chronological order, as Guardians 2 is set before Civil War, despite coming out afterwards. But, he said, it’𓃲s an easy plot hole to resolve – Lee probably worked for FedEx more than once.

The Guardians of the Galaxy are returning in their own threequel, and Chris Pratt's Star Lord will also appear in 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Thor: Love and Thunder. Until then, check out everything we know about 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Marvel Phase 4

Molly Edwards
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