Will The Guardians Of The Galaxy Kill On-Screen?

I’m not talking about killing it at the box office, though Marvel is no doubt hoping the Guardians will do just that. I mean will they actually take the lives of other living things.

It’s an interesting question because in the comics, the members of the team have probably combined to rack up quite the body count. Gamora was raised by Thanos to be an assassin. Drax the Destroyer has spent most of his existence trying to kill Thanos, actually succeeding during Annihilation (Thanos got better), and his movie version is often shown with two knives.

Rocket Raccoon has a fondness for large guns and has admitted to some deaths in Rocket Raccoon #1. And Star-Lord killed some Badoon when he was a pre-teen. The only one I’m not sure about is Groot, and asking him does no good because you already know what he’s going to say.

Humans and other living things do die in the Marvel movies — there were probably quite a few people killed in Captain America: The Winter Soldier, for instance — but it’s generally not the heroes getting their hands bloody. Even Black Widow’s dirty deeds are referred to instead of shown, and she and Hawkeye spend a lot of time incapacitating foes instead of terminating them.

There also appear to be some intense space battles in Guardians of the Galaxy, and people and/or aliens do die when ships blow up. I’m not saying any of this is bad, or that Disney and Marvel wouldn’t allow it in a PG-13 movie. It’s just something to keep tucked away in the back of your mind when you watch the movie in a few weeks, and perhaps a whole new front in the age-old “Should super heroes kill?” debate.

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