Everything You Need To Know About The Post-Credits Scene In "Guardians Of The Galaxy"



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Foul play, Marvel Studios. Warning: SPOILERS AHEAD!


This post is one big SPOILER for the end of Guardians of the Galaxy. If you haven't seen the movie yet, you will be spoiled!


This post is one big SPOILER for the end of Guardians of the Galaxy . If you haven't seen the movie yet, you will be spoiled!


Benicio Del Toro as Taneleer Tivan


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Ever since Samuel L. Jackson turned up as Nick Fury after the end credits of 2008's Iron Man, Marvel Studios' very first film, the post-credits teaser has become one of the studio's trademarks. Almost all Marvel Studios movies since have included a quick glimpse at what's to come in the studio's subsequent films, including April's Captain America: The Winter Soldier, which teased both The Avengers: Age of Ultron (with first looks at Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch) and Captain America 3 (with Bucky Barnes' Winter Soldier on the loose in Washington D.C.).


Which brings us to the end credits teaser for Marvel's latest film, Guardians of the Galaxy. (Final warning: Those SPOILERS start here.) The camera cuts to the lair of Taneleer Tivan (Benicio Del Toro), aka The Collector, who is nursing both his wounds and a drink, with his precious Collection in shambles after his most recent attendant killed herself by grabbing the Infinity Stone rather than continuing to work as his slave. Then, a dog comes over, wearing some kind of space uniform, and begins to lick Tivan's face.


"What do you let him lick you like that for?" asks a gravelly voice.


Next, the camera cuts to a cartoonish duck, still sitting inside his wrecked container, nursing his own cocktail. "Gross," says the duck.


Wait, what? you ask yourself.



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Bradley Cooper Wasn't The Only Actor Playing The Breakout Character Of "Guardians Of The Galaxy"



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Cooper provided the voice for Rocket Raccoon in the Marvel Studios movie, but a different actor entirely played the role on set: the director’s brother, Sean Gunn.



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Of all the characters in Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, a walking, talking, cursing, bomb-building raccoon named Rocket — featuring the voice of Oscar nominee Bradley Cooper — ranks pretty high on the scale of Things You've Never Seen Before in a Superhero Movie.


There is one crucial element of the character, however, that you definitely won't get to see in Guardians of the Galaxy: Sean Gunn, the actor who actually played Rocket on set, under the direction of co-writer-director James Gunn, Sean's older brother.


Except that you will see Sean Gunn in Guardians of the Galaxy, just as a separate character entirely.


Let's back up a bit. When James Gunn was in the process of casting Guardians last year, he had his younger brother Sean — a character actor best known for playing Kirk on Gilmore Girls — read various roles opposite auditioning actors. "I always had my fingers crossed that I'd be involved in some way," Sean Gunn told BuzzFeed. "But I didn't know what it was or how it was going to work out."


Then, a week before filming was set to begin in London during the summer and fall of 2013, Gunn got the call: He'd been cast as Kraglin, the right-hand man of the morally suspect smuggler Yondu (Michael Rooker). And he would be reading Rocket's lines on set.


"It was like, 'OK, we want you to do this, and this, and can you leave a week from today, for five months?'" Gunn said with a laugh. "On one hand, it was like, Wow, that's crazy, and on the other, it was like, Awesome, yes, I can't wait."


Complicating matters: Gunn, 40, dove into the situation without a full grasp of what, exactly, he would be doing as Rocket. "The way it was explained to me, I was still partially confused by [what I was supposed to do] until I actually got there," he said. "I didn't know if … I was going to be off-camera the whole time, or if I was going to be in the [motion-capture] suit with the balls, or exactly what it was." He chuckled. "I was just kind of like, I'm going to show up for work and whatever it is, that's what I'll do."



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In Defense Of The “Most Desolate, Despairing” Show On Television



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The most recent episode of The Leftovers has some critics quitting the show. But here’s why two BuzzFeed staffers are still riveted.



Justin Theroux as Kevin Garvey on The Leftovers.


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The most recent episode of HBO's The Leftovers began with a particularly horrific murder. It was so brutal, in fact, it lead Entertainment Weekly's Melissa Maerz to pen a piece titled "Enough, already: Why I'm quitting 'The Leftovers.'"


"I don't mean to complain that The Leftovers is too sad. My favorite shows of last year were all fairly dark. But The Leftovers doesn't earn its sadness," she wrote of the series' fifth episode, which centers on the inhabitants of a small town three years after the world experiences a rapture in which 2% of the population disappears. "Brutally killing characters who haven't earned our grief can feel borderline exploitative. It turns your attention away from the human being, and allows you to be dazzled by the sheer salaciousness of the murder." Eventually, she concluded, "For me, The Leftovers is too much of an endurance test."


The series — co-created by former Lost showrunner Damon Lindelof and Tom Perrotta, the author of the book upon which the series is based — has gotten similar feedback since it screened for critics in January. "The Leftovers is all bleakness all the time," Vulture's Matt Zoller Seitz wrote. "Parts of it feel as though the show is emotionally blackmailing you into watching: What, don't you care about these poor, miserable people? Well, go ahead and change the channel then, you monster." John Lopez at Grantland called the series the "prestige television equivalent of a cilice" and Todd VanDerWerff of The A.V. Club said it was "some of the most desolate, despairing television on air."


But the physical brutality of The Leftovers' fifth episode seems on par with the violence we've seen on similar cable fare, from Game of Thrones to Breaking Bad, and it's not even the show's speciality. Instead, The Leftovers offers emotional torture and that's perhaps what some critics and audience members have most struggled with.


Below, BuzzFeed's deputy entertainment editor, Jaimie Etkin, and film critic, Alison Willmore — who was previously IndieWire's television critic — both fans of The Leftovers, discuss why the series has been shunned for capturing the pain of loss and mourning, while other television brutality gets a pass.



The Guilty Remnants in The Leftovers.


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Alison Willmore: So I'll confess — when The Leftovers premiered, I was actually taken by surprise by the apparent consensus that it's a gruelingly depressing show. I sure as hell wouldn't describe it as cheerful, though it's sometimes darkly funny, but watching the first few episodes handed out to the press, I honestly didn't think it was any grimmer than so many other series, cable or otherwise, that are currently on TV.


"Bleak" has pretty much become the default mode of the quality drama, from Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead's repeated killing off of major characters to the loneliness and quietly self-destructive tendencies of the folks on Mad Men. Then there are all those shows that use murder as their narrative engine — like True Detective, The Bridge, and The Killing. Death or thoughts about it are a constant in so much of our critically acclaimed TV, to the point where it can feel numbing, all those corpses like so much sad set dressing.


One of the things I like about The Leftovers is that it tries to do something that most of those shows, despite their body counts, don't have time for. It deals with grief and what life is like in the wake of something terrible instead of as it's happening. The Leftovers is set three years after The Sudden Departure, and everyone's dealing with it in different ways, at different paces. Jaimie, do you think this process is somehow harder for people to watch than actual violence?


Jaimie Etkin: I absolutely do. This week's episode aside (RIP Gladys), The Leftovers is largely not a violent show — save for the dogs, and I'm not discounting those scenes, because my heart is actually aching as I merely type about them.


But when we watch a graphically violent scene on one of the shows you previously mentioned, we can cringe or partially shield our eyes until it's over. And we have the assurance that it will be over soon. But with The Leftovers, we don't know when (or if) there will be relief for us as viewers and for those suffering in Mapleton.


I think it's more challenging to watch someone grapple with emotional pain rather than the physical, and with many cable dramas, the most violent scenes come at the end of the episode (oh hai, Red Wedding), and then when the series picks up the following week, we've missed most of the grieving that comes along with those scenes.


On The Leftovers, we have no choice but to sit along with the Garveys and the rest of the Mapleton folk as they struggle years later to come to terms with the loss that resulted from this supernatural-y event that wasn't exactly violent, but was certainly horrific. What's so interesting to me about the show is that the entire series is based on this rapture that we, as the audience, much like the people of Mapleton, will probably never get an explanation about. And I'm OK with that, because that's not what this show is about. It's actually the anti-Lost in that regard. We're not waiting for answers because we know we'll never get them. And that's reality.




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"Once Upon A Time" Unveils Its "Frozen" Cast



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ABC released the first official photos from Season 4, featuring Frozen ‘s Elsa, Kristoff, and Sven!



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ABC's Once Upon a Time will get Frozen this September when characters inspired by the Oscar-winning Disney film arrive in Storybrooke, and the network has today revealed six new photos from the fourth season premiere, titled "A Tale of Two Sisters."


Anna is played by Fringe alum Georgina Haig, while Kristoff is played by Greek's Scott Michael Foster. (Anna, who is not featured in the images, is played by newcomer Elizabeth Lail.)


While the OUAT creators have been very tight-lipped about how the Frozen foursome (yes, we're counting Sven the reindeer) fit into the ABC drama, a clip from the premiere episode that screened at San Diego Comic-Con featured Elsa telling Anna, "I have a wedding present for you," while standing at their parents' graves.


It looks like a lavish celebration is on the horizon. Although, given that no one has truly received a "Happily Ever After" yet on this show, one never knows...


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Kristoff doesn't have long hair. Why doesn't Kristoff have long hair?


Kristoff doesn't have long hair. Why doesn't Kristoff have long hair?


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16 Gifts "Sharknado 2" Gave The World



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14 Horrifically Gory Moments On TV



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Series like FX’s The Strain are upping the ante on television violence. But there are plenty of other gruesome examples of televised gore. Warning: Potential spoilers ahead!


The Strain: Gabriel Bolivar loses a penis.


The Strain : Gabriel Bolivar loses a penis.


And then he just...flushes it? Because I guess what else are you supposed to do? Listen, this entire series is gory and revolting. Rest assured, there are way more gross-out moments to come.


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Hemlock Grove: The werewolf transformation


Hemlock Grove : The werewolf transformation


There is nothing not ridiculously disturbing about the way Hemlock Grove does a werewolf transformation. I mean, falling eyeballs? Kudos. And also, WHY.


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Hannibal: Mason Verger eats his own nose.


Hannibal : Mason Verger eats his own nose.


That is, of course, after feeding scraps of his face to a dog. Fans of the Hannibal Lecter book series and films knew this moment was coming, but seeing Mason Verger (Michael Pitt) graphically self-mutilate was (sorry) tough to swallow.


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Breaking Bad: A partially dissolved body falls through the ceiling.


Breaking Bad : A partially dissolved body falls through the ceiling.


See, this is why you always follow Walt's (Bryan Cranston) instructions carefully. Now you have to deal with a bloody mess and a giant hole in the ceiling.


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The First "Into The Woods" Trailer Is Here!



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But, um … why isn’t anyone singing?


The first trailer for Disney's highly anticipated adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's beloved musical Into The Woods has finally dropped and it looks gorgeous, from the elaborate and ornate sets to the lavish fairytale-inspired costumes.


Into The Woods is set in an alternate universe, filled with various characters from Grimm's fairy tales (Jack and The Beanstalk, Little Red Riding Hood, and Cinderella are just a few) interacting with one another. Disney's version stars Meryl Streep (as a rapping witch!), Emily Blunt, Anna Kendrick, Chris Pine, Johnny Depp (who plays The Wold and goes unseen in the trailer), Christine Baranski, and James Corden.


But, this is a musical, sooooo... Why isn't ANYONE singing?!?



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The 38 Most Absolutely Absurd Things That Happen In "Sharknado 2"



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It was a hard list to trim down.



Sharknado 2: The Second One, which premiered on Syfy on July 30, opens on Fin Shepard (Ian Ziering) and April Wexler (Tara Reid), newly re-engaged after having survived a Sharknado in Los Angeles, and en route to New York City where April will be signing copies of her book How To Survive A Sharknado when their plane flies right into a sharknado.


And the ridiculousness had only just begun.


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Shonda Rhimes Held The Power Meeting Of All Power Meetings With Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo And Viola Davis



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The leading ladies of Rhimes’ three shows — Grey’s Anatomy , Scandal , and How To Get Away With Murder — tried to find out what’s in store for their characters.



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This "Game Of Thrones" Actress Had The Most Perfect Reaction To Being Replaced



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Aimee Richardson may no longer be Myrcella Baratheon, but she wins this game.


Remember Myrcella Baratheon, the only daughter of Cersei Lannister who got shipped off to Dorne by her uncle Tyrion?


Remember Myrcella Baratheon, the only daughter of Cersei Lannister who got shipped off to Dorne by her uncle Tyrion?


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Well, with a bunch of Dorne characters set to appear on next season of Game of Thrones, Myrcella will also be back. But the actress who played her, Aimee Richardson, won't.


Well, with a bunch of Dorne characters set to appear on next season of Game of Thrones , Myrcella will also be back. But the actress who played her, Aimee Richardson, won't.


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The role has been recast and Myrcella will now be played by Nell Tiger Free.


The role has been recast and Myrcella will now be played by Nell Tiger Free.


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Aimee, who has a history of being awesome on social media, reacted in the best way possible: with humour.



"Well, this is embarrassing."


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Chris Pratt Tried To Make A Sexy Mixtape For Anna Faris... And Failed



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“I put in some C&C Music Factory… get the job done .”



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In Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, which hits theaters Aug. 1, Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) is given a mixtape from his mom complete with late '60s and early '70s classics — from Jackson 5's "I Want You Back" to Redbone's "Come and Get Your Love" to Mark James' "Hooked on a Feeling" — that he carries with him everywhere.


And at BuzzFeed Brews with CBS This Morning on Wednesday, Pratt said he made a CD for his brother and sister called the "I Guess You Had To Be There" mix, and he also tried to make a "sexy, lovemaking mix" for him and his wife, actress Anna Faris, with Al Green and the like. "But like, three minutes into the song, we were like, 'OK, this shit is just corny.'"


Pratt said they tried to use the tape once, but "Anna was the one who was like, 'Uh, it's nice and stuff, but maybe we could try something else.'"


He couldn't help but agree. "The sentiment was nice, but the music was a little weird and off-putting."


And here's why.



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"Guardians Of The Galaxy" Is The Most Winningly Weird Superhero Movie Of The Summer



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Marvel’s oddball adaptation is one of its more obscure properties, but it turns out to be an incredibly good time.



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Guardians Of The Galaxy, based on a comic book most civilians have never heard of, is set almost entirely in space and features a talking raccoon and a sentient tree. In short, it's easily the most bizarre superhero movie you'll see this summer.


It's goofy, self-aware, and, even though it's also about larger-than-life characters saving the universe, it feels nothing like its fellow Marvel films. And that turns out to be a good thing — Guardians Of The Galaxy, which opens this Friday, Aug. 1, is a giddy blast of fresh air, an exercise in unfettered glee that leaves behind all the angst and self-seriousness to revel in just how freakin' cool the adventures it's chronicling are.


Here's why it works so well.


It doesn't have to worry about fitting into a larger story.


It doesn't have to worry about fitting into a larger story.


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Meet The Woman Who Made History With Marvel’s “Guardians Of The Galaxy”



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Nicole Perlman was tired of hearing she couldn’t write “masculine” movies, and now she’s the first female writer credited on a Marvel Studios film.



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The Guardians of the Galaxy


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When Nicole Perlman was an imaginative, nerdy kid growing up in Boulder, Colo., in the 1990s, her childhood hero was Ray Bradbury. She even met the science-fiction legend once, as a special present for her 12th birthday; he signed her copy of Dandelion Wine. With Bradbury's inspiration and her father's encouragement, Perlman entered some writing contests for aspiring sci-fi authors. "I think when I was in sixth or seventh grade, I won," she told BuzzFeed earlier this month at the bustling Los Angeles coffee shop Shaky Alibi. "The prize was going to Space Camp. I didn't get to because I had to have jaw surgery that summer." Laughing to herself, she shook her fist to the sky: "Still, to this day, I'm like, 'Spaaaaace Caaaaaamp!'"


Last summer, Perlman finally got to go to outer space — or, at least, pretend to — when she visited the set of Marvel Studios' Guardians of the Galaxy, which opens in theaters on Friday. She was instantly transported to a sci-fi world in a far-flung corner of the cosmos. "There was 600 people on set, making alien prosthetics, and … the alien swords and the ray guns and all that," she said. "That was pretty cool."


What made it even cooler: Before James Gunn (Slither, Super) signed on to direct and co-write the movie, and certainly before Chris Pratt (Zero Dark Thirty), Zoe Saldana (Avatar), and WWE fighter Dave Bautista signed up to be its live-action stars, Perlman was toiling away for two and a half years, trying to figure out how to assemble the Guardians onto the big screen.


If it wasn't for her, the movie may not have existed at all.




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51 Reasons We Should All Strive To Be Like Phoebe Buffay



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If you’re a girl, go by “Phoebe.” If you’re a boy, go by “Phoebo.”


She's full of wisdom.


She's full of wisdom.


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And isn't afraid to ask the important questions.


And isn't afraid to ask the important questions.


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Allison Williams Is Playing Peter Pan In NBC's Live Production



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From Brooklyn to Neverland.


Girls star Allison Williams has been cast as the lead in NBC's telecast of Peter Pan Live!


Girls star Allison Williams has been cast as the lead in NBC's telecast of Peter Pan Live!


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In a statement, Williams, who said she has wanted play Peter Pan since she was three years old, called the casting "a dream come true."



"Thrilled to be playing Peter Pan live on NBC in December," the actress posted to Instagram. "I've been rehearsing for a REALLY long time."


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She will star opposite Christopher Walken, who was recently cast as Captain Hook.


She will star opposite Christopher Walken , who was recently cast as Captain Hook.


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Williams graduated from Yale in 2010, where she was a member of a College Musical, a group that would create theatrical clips for YouTube. She covered "Breaking Free" from High School Musical with a friend.



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The "Outlander" Stars Will Make You Swoon



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Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe, the leads in Starz’s new drama based on the bestselling books, on first impressions, sexual chemistry, and rug burns.


Since the first of the now eight-volume Outlander series was published in 1991, Diana Gabaldon's novels have captivated the hearts — and ovaries — of millions. With Starz's adaptation — from executive producer Ronald D. Moore (Battlestar Galactica) — set to begin Aug. 9, the adoration bestowed upon the main characters, Jamie and Claire, has transferred to the actors portraying them: Sam Heughan and Caitriona Balfe.


After Outlander's standing-room-only panel at San Diego Comic-Con, BuzzFeed sat down with Heughan and Balfe for a game requiring rapid-fire responses. Their enthusiasm, much like their chemistry, was palpable.



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