GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY Holiday Special Breakdown | Easter Eggs, Ending Explained & Reaction/Review

welcome to the heavy spoilers show I'm your host Paul aka the guy who's got those ho ho hoes and this video we're breaking down the Guardians of the Galaxy holiday special the 40-minute entry is packed with Easter eggs a big twist and lots of hidden details that set up Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3. James gonna said that this is something you need to see before checking out the upcoming movie and whether that's true or not there are still some things here that will likely be picked up down the line we're going to be theorizing it all and there will be heavy spoilers here so if you haven't had a chance to check it out then check out now hit the thumbs up button to spread that Christmas cheer and make sure you subscribe to get gifts from my sack giveaway at the end of the video as usual and with that out the way let's get into the breakdown foreign special starts off with us hearing the song fairy tale of New York by the band The Pogues the Marvel Studios logo then fades in and we see several panels from Christmas themed Comics we see the thing wearing a Santa's hat from his Christmas special Thor flying up and dug this strange turning a Venus flytrap into a Christmas tree this is from the Christmas estrange comic and it's accompanied by the time Carol Danvers Met Center in the story she was captured by Grace Valentine and also toxidoxy who kidnapped her along with a homeless man they were carrying out human experiments and Carol Broke Free to take them on the homeless man was actually revealed to be sent there and he aided Carol in taking down the bad guys in the Marvel Universe Santa is actually a mutant which explains a lot and this was confirmed further in this issue next we get a turkey and a storefront window followed by the time that she Hulk Met Center She-Hulk was told she needed to find evidence in order to convict the Killer and she went to private investigator Nixon Christopher which is the name Santa was going going on there next we get is what I believe the cover of Hulk issue 378 Hulk looks green here whereas that he's greater than a Christmas Day in England however the jaw shape is exactly the same as is the position of Santa on top of this we also get a quick cut of X-Men holiday special one and this is accompanied by Moon girl and devil dinosaur issue 37 devil dinosaur wait you don't think now there's some other flashes before we pull out to the typical Marvel Studios character Poppins which are now covered in snowfall every time there's a new show of film these always get updated and She-Hulk has been added to the letter A I think this is the first time she's appeared in the titles as the one for wakanda forever was dedicated Chadwick Boseman she carries out a Thunderclap and we see that the Marvel Studios logo now has Christmas lights surrounding it I love the way they've darkened parts of the red to give it a real nighttime feel and the shadows and lighter bits reflecting the kind of lights that a Christmas tree gives off from here we go to The Eclectic AKA yondu ship used by the ravages this became a home for Peter when he was younger and along with craglin he held a Terran Christmas these flashback scenes are animated to look like his 70s and 80s cartoon and by the looks of it they're using a technique called rotoscoping this involved the scenes actually being filmed for real using actors and then animators would Trace over the top of them it helped give a more fluid style of Animation to the characters and because of the this they move more like real people would than if they'd been drawn wide LF played the young quill in the Guardians movie but here he's voiced by Luke Klein Aloha the star in the tree is basically an alarm light and we see that yondu doesn't take too kindly to handouts and Gifts he thinks Christmas is mushy and that sentimentality will get you killed out in space he says that if they don't get rid of the tree then they'll be cleaning the latrine for a year and kraglan says but that's Jeff's favorite job you talking back now cragland have you ever someone you'll recognize from Guardians 2 and dear me what a disgusting hobby you have now your new smashes the tree like it's a like button and we learned that Cracklin is telling this story he says and that's how yondu ruined Christmas which I think might be a play on the title How the Grinch Stole Christmas he also brings up the multi-calendar which is something that I don't think we've heard about before he says it's almost Christmas time on Earth so my guess is that it works like a calendar across my multiple planets see I figured it out you wouldn't get that on another breakdown now yeah on Earth is of course a different length to a year on another planet so they would need something like that to keep this all in check as of making this video which is Wednesday morning because we get it sent early and Kevin flagy has you blocked see a chump the timeline is a bit unclear Hawkeye in the end of no way home both took place during the same week of Christmas and it's possible that this is a similar situation too with it happening roughly around those events however it could be Christmas of the following year but let me know below if they've come out and specified when this is anyway here we find the team on nowhere and learn that the group bought it from The Collector this was announced in the build-up to the project you can even see the eye hole in the top left corner giving away the location The Collector loves rare and mysterious gifts and I love the idea that he'd collect a Celestial head and then use it as his home this would mean he's surrounded in his own collection and it's a really nice touch now this was destroyed in Infinity War and the collectors have was blown up before that in Guardians of the Galaxy that freed Cosmo the space dog who appeared at the end in the post-credits scene having his home and nowhere destroyed clearly made The Collector up sticks and we actually saw his ship at the start of the Loki finale as we traveled through space it blue past the camera showing that he's out there somewhere we just don't know where I don't know where thanks I'm here all week and the Guardians are fixing it up to make the place livable once more and nebula agrees that hashtag yondu was right they don't have time for frivolous things like Christmas at this point oh we get a little joke from Drax I like the part where yandu kicked over the tree guys nipples must have hardened over the airs as he of course used to complain about how sensitive they were why aren't you wearing one of Rocket's Arrow rigs it hurts I have sensitive nibbles anyway back on the ground we see Cosmo levitating panels in real life space dogs were used by the Soviets in the 50s and 60s to see if it was possible for life to travel in space on November 3rd 1957 Sputnik 2 was launched and on board was the dog like air she became the first animal to orbit the Earth but sadly she died within five to seven hours of the flight from overheating the actual cause of death wasn't made public until 2002 with officials saying beforehand that she died due to lack of oxygen in 1998 olegazenko Express remorse saying that he didn't learn enough from the mission to justify like his death Soviets actually launched several of these missions into space and unlike Leica most of the dogs did return Cosmo polls from the comics and in those the dog has telekinetic abilities which we see being demonstrated here boys by Maria bakalowa you might recognize her voice for playing borat's daughter back all over Bora 2. you know anyway nice little scene with rocket and another Earth animal interacting well I say Earth animal we don't know fully what's going on with rocket but rumors surrounding Guardians 3 have said that we will see his backstory in the film he was of course taken and experimented on and this will be by the high evolutionary he was unveiled to the public at Comic-Con the teaser trailer was shown there too and though he can't play it here young rocket was shown in it so maybe he discovers his pass with Cosmo both were experimented on and I'm expecting them to realize they've got a lot of things in common the next time we see them Peter walks around and he meets rap Miller a guitarist who writes a song about Christmas without knowing what it's actually about this band is actually the old 97s and we can even see the band member Murray Hammond wearing his classic glasses this starts off a Christmas jig with us getting the classic sort of title style that comes with Christmas specials we also see Groot who's grown up a lot since we last saw him he was a teen but now he's bulked up and he's a bit of a meter also you can see a head symbol on Peter's t-shirt which is also on a stand by the side guessing this represents nowhere and the Newfound culture that's there but let me know below if you think it has a different meaning the song bombs pretty bad with it talking about how Mrs Claus works the pole and how the elves will rise up and stab out Santa's eyes I quite like the song mind and Christmas specials in general are of course littered with songs like this Jon Bon Jovi even wrote A Star Wars themed Christmas album with songs like R2D2 We wish you a Merry Christmas and lots of like that and at this point we get a big reveal by mantis I feel like I should do something why because of you know that you ate the entire bowl of zargonauts in the commissary other secret that your cool sister what drag say when trying to remain invisible but beyond that mantis being Peter's sister is a pretty big deal I had to talk about the zognets first though now as we know from Guardians 2 ego had a lot of children and nurse this makes mantis's half-sister there was actually a lot of things floating around in the lead up too and aftermath of Guardians 2 that actually spoiled this twist in 2017 actress Jennifer Shaw posted out a picture of her working with Kurt Russell whilst she was wearing a mantis costume is because she was actually playing her mother foreshadowing this reveal Geneva's scene was cut from the movie but there were remnants of it left behind when ego walks Peter through his true plan amongst all the people he had kids with we can see at the back mantis's mother and ego has stood there setting up this reveal a while back I've always thought the ego thing in the second movie was similar to the reveal with Darth Vader and Empire and Leia was of course revealed to be Luke's sister in Return of the Jedi so it's sort of like poetry they rhyme with mantis now they decide to travel to earth they kidnapped Kevin Bacon who quill is of course completely obsessed with he brought up the legend of Footloose to Gamora and Guardians 1 and used to dance off as the way to defeat Ronan in Infinity War he asked if Footloose was still the greatest movie ever and he's looked up to bacon since he was a kid now at this point we see Drax and mantis traveling out in a new ship this wasn't in Thor 11 thunder so my guess is that they picked it up from nowhere has lots of seats for them so who knows what's going on Guardians 3 was meant to release before Thor so maybe they had something mess up in production but that's highly unlikely as they were still in the scripting process now he watches they travel through a hex point and these have of course appeared in several other MCU movies his ways for characters to quickly travel across space now over at our merch website we're having a big Black Friday sale where you can buy any heavy spoilers item and get an additional 25 off something else in case you don't know I made this company with real Rejects and Screen Crush to bring you a nerdy way to support our channels and also get some sick merchandise out of it we've taken a lot of time to make sure the material on the shirts and how are top quality and have a ton of different designs we just launched this size Matters Ant-Man one and you can get some stuff a house to the dragon see your chump and even through time one link to that'll be in the description and I really appreciate the support thanks anyway back to the special we get a quick scene with Kevin Bacon who's listening to dead by Christmas by Hanoi Rocks who watches durantists jump across multiple hex points and also get another Niche song James Gunn is flexing his full musical knowledge here and while some specials will just go with the more cliche hit he uses I wish it was Christmas by Julian Casablancas this is actually a cover song and you might recognize the original from SNL also nice to see mantis flying might come up in the next film but just something that that might also be a throwaway now they talk about aquilis hyped Kevin Bacon up and to them he must be the leader of all people on Earth due to all the stories Peter told I love how there's a woman panicking as she sees the ship roll in and after all the stuff that people in the MCU have gone through you can totally see why they'd have this reaction Drax has forgot to put on the cloaking device but he turns it on and the power land at the Hollywood Sign before they head up La in the background we can also hear the song is this Christmas by the band The wombat they go to the Chinese Theater which is popped up in the MC before during Iron Man 3 this is where an extremist explosion went off and it put Happy in hospital it's a far more happy occasion for the happy holidays though and we watch as they go on the Hollywood Walk of Fame public seem unaware of who Drax and mantis are but they had people cosplaying as them at Avengers economies Marvel so what the hell's going on Kevin what the bro can't even keep stupid pedantic details like this consistent across 36 films and shows the anyway we see someone dressed as Zorro Jack Sparrow and also someone as psycho from the Transformers Drax ends up beating this guy up as mantis says that GoBots killed his cousin GoBots exist in the Transformers Universe and does does this mean it's a it's all connected there's also some of the Avengers too along with Ant-Man Captain Marvel and Captain America there's black widow too and in the background we can see a movie poster for Kingo if you cast your mind back to the eternals then you'll probably remember he had a full spy film franchise making him basically a Bollywood bond this is what we see here too with a poster advertising a spy adventure for him later on we catch another bit of promo for the character only this time it's advertising a Christmas movie Kingo of course had an apparent acting Dynasty even though it was just him pretending to be his own son so that he could live forever without drawing too much suspicion there's also a living statue and if you look above him you'll see a poster for hackson 3. hackson 2 was actually a movie in the Marvel universe that was starring Simon Williams he was played by Nathan Fillion but unfortunately Kingo ended up replacing Simon from hackson 3 onwards a family take a photo with them and we're here with the God of War Drax is of course bald and he has red marks on his face making him look similar to Kratos God of War Ragnarok is a game in which you fight Thor and Thor Ragnarok showed that it's all connected like a pizza and saying it for months now they take photos with several people and it's very similar to selfie scene that happened in Miss Marvel at one point we can actually also see the arm of Thor behind Drax as he takes a pick with a hen party next there's a guy in alphies who we see taking photos with them in Captain Marvel he's got ears like that and is still taking the photo so I'm thinking that he might even be an elf from you as God they obviously have vacations on Earth and we had a light elf in rooner who too traveled out to L.A in She-Hulk

drax's face is hilarious throughout with him just standing there looking completely expressionless as people Pine around him they clean up money-wise and then head to the bar yavos this is a possible reference to yarvo who directed The Inferno music video for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 2. yet the bartender is played by fluerborg who also worked with gun on suicide squad he played the character Javelin and we get some other cameos when we get the star maps that mantis takes after she robs someone legit like robbed all their money and this includes Margot Robbie and also John Cena who too worked with guns Suicide Squad or is it the suicide squad can't remember a bit stupid calling two movies the same thing but basically moving on there's also Queen Latifah Arnie someone got no idea who that is we are Kevin spoiler's office we thought it might be Zach from Saved by the Bell but let me know below if you know who it is lastly we go to Kevin Bacons and in a little bit of meta commentary we see that he's watching the 1964 film Santa Claus Conquers the Martians this was about Santa meeting aliens much like what's going on here when they enter the house we also hear the song I want an alien for Christmas by Fountains of Wayne they of course sang the song Ryan's mom has got it going on and it two ties in with the aliens chasing bacon through the house no I know it's Stacy's mom but it's crap joke I'm sorry now Bacon's house number is 1988 which is the same yeah that quill was kidnapped and it's also the air that I was born Drax throws mantis over the gate and they knock on the door directly also bacon has a guitar in his living room which sort of sets up the end making Girls on the Run and we watch mantis jump through the house after him similar how a praying mantis moves bacon makes it to the street where the police show up this is the first time I've seen the pigs protecting bacon and we actually get some similar music to Danny elfman's Batman Returns score tracks but it just tickles mantis puts the offices to sleep and this is a similar move to what she carried out on ego in Guardians of the Galaxy 2. they messed the police up as badly as Riri Williams did amantis uses her powers to make bacon want to go with them they ask about the Fonz who quill has also told them about and mention Kevin's character in Friday the 13th quill said that he killed Jason Voorhees but in reality he was killed by Jason's mother Pamela who stabbed him through the neck with an arrow slowly they come to realize that Kevin Bacon is actually an actor which as we all know sucks worst people of all time after influences and of course YouTubers now I'm kind of wondering how Kevin Bacon being in the MCU works because he played Sebastian Shaw in X-Men first Class X-Men first Class had a young Professor X and Professor X popped up in Multiverse of Madness Wolverine and Deadpool are coming in too so maybe this is like a Ralph bonus situation where they're different people with the same face in different universes I don't know shut up for a second because because they also mentioned this hello I'm the Batman and I mean Hello I'm Bruce Wayne who's Bruce Wayne now Batman and Bruce Wayne are both mentioned coupling this with the eternals in which there was also a name drop alongside Superman I think that in the MCU DZ Comics might be the comics that they read and this is why they're superheroes in their own pop culture back in nowhere we see Peter and a bar by himself and he's lured outside by crude who along with the others has thrown a surprise party no air lights up covered in Christmas lights and we also hear the song Christmas time has come by the Smashing Pumpkins bakes Noah's created to make it feel like a Terran Christmas and everyone there is wearing Christmas jumpers I love how draxus has a cat shooting lasers out of his eyes and they sort of create a Times Square and have a big concert there bacon is put in a box like a supermarket and he and he's unveiled like a stripper and a cake mantis lifts her control and bacon makes a Mad Dash for it which ends in kraglan taking him to the ship he says what what what's that on your head uh that is a device for controlling a Flying Arrow and quick at the hang of it yet at the end of Guardians 2 so I'm practicing trying to make yondu's fly seems like he hasn't got the hang of it yet and I also wonder what happened to his wife Levin Thunder had him coming off the back of getting hitched and he might have just humped and dumped like the genius he is he also talks about how the hero that inspired the hero that is Peter Quill is Kevin Bacon Kevin gets a call from his wife and he got reception out there because he's been using ee the UK's number one network he could go home but in the end he decides to stay and teach people about Christmas this leads into bacon singing a song whilst the gifts are given out group gets a Game Boy this actually took me back to my own Christmases as a kid rocker gets given Bucky's arm and he of course wanted to back in Infinity war and even asked him about it no idea what my man is doing now or or how nebula even got this but let's just not ask any questions Cosmo brings crackling the dead animal which is a nice way to show they have a bond and I forgot to mention earlier that the dog is probably using a universal translator which is how it can talk mantis gives Drax an elf and this ties back to him wanting to go back to Bacon's house to get the one he took similar sort of style and we see that grudas created wooden dioramas retelling the special it's the group standing on the balcony chasing bacon and flipping the cop car over along with bacon in the Box lastly is kraglan holding his own craglin who just so happens to be holding his own craglin finally the people of nowhere understand Christmas and there's a lot of similarities here to nightmare before Christmas that was all about the people of Halloweentown learning what Christmas was all about much in the same vein of what this special is too lastly mantis reveals that she's Quill's sister which is the best Christmas gift of all the man who lost his mother and realized his father was a dead now has someone who's part of his actual family and it's such a nice little tale Peter also tells mantis how the yondu story actually ended and we see him digging his own present out of the trash here he has a little figure which actually showed up in Guardians Volume 2 alongside the others in his collection volume on also shot him getting a little troll from Peter as a little troll and we Now understand why it meant so much to him you also see a present for a taser face and there quill is given his iconic Guns by yondu these are called quad blasters and element guns in the comics which is something that the character has brandished in both the pair right up into the skies together and they write Merry Christmas and happy holidays to all from here we get the credits which are in red and green to hammer home that holiday wholeness the credit scene has screwed as a tree but he can't keep his arms up and because he ruined Christmas they're gonna have to have another special not sure if that's gonna happen though as gun is now over at DC running thing so it is kind of unlikely for the foreseeable future that he's gonna go back to Marvel maybe they'll have another character getting a special o which will tie in with the holiday next year so that ends the special and what a load of that was I'm just kidding I actually had a lot of fun with it and now I I doubt I'm gonna watch it again this was a nice little trip back to the MCU in the vein of Classic Hollywood specials it's always nice being back with the Guardians and both Drax and mantis are absolutely hilarious with Dave Batista especially making me laugh out loud a couple of times the whole inclusion of Kevin Bacon was great too and I love the thing being built around its appearance Six Degrees of Separation just got a lot easier due to the MCU and the songs added a nice touch to it I probably won't remember it this time tomorrow but it was a nice bit of content for the holidays to just keep us chugging along until the next thing I do kind of feel like all the projects the MCU are doing now have really oversaturated the brand it'll be interesting to see what viewership for this is like I don't think it's necessary to see volume 3 and it's just another stop Gap to see what characters are doing rather than to see where the story is going so yeah fun little thing to watch in the morning with some nice little Easter eggs in it beyond that though not that deep but you know it's a it's a holiday special so you're just gonna get songs you're gonna get some laughs and just some things to to keep you watching for the 40 minutes that it's on anyway so great glowing review there and I'd love to hear your thoughts if you're watching this James Gunn I did enjoy it you know I'm just gonna say that the positives and negatives of trying to be balanced and I'm still I'm still a shello and because of that I'd love to hear your thoughts chill as well and also let us know if there's anything we missed did it ruin Christmas was it okay or did it make that holiday special thank you for any competition right now giving away three copies of House of the Dragons season one on the 15th of December just in time for Christmas and all you have to do to be on the chance of winning is like the video make sure you subscribe the notifications on and drop a comment below with your thoughts on the special let me pick the comments at random on the 15th and the winners of the last one are on screen right now save that to you then message me on tour out heavy spoilers if you want something else to watch we've got a breakdown of the Andor finale on screen right now so definitely go head over there right after this by the way thanks for sticking to the video I've been poor you take ASAP and I'll see you next 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2022-11-29 16:03

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