Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is the high-stakes final chapter of James Gunn’s beloved trilogy, focusing on the team’s mission to save Rocket Raccoon from his creator, the High Evolutionary.

As he reached for it, alarms sang. The mural of the laughing fox flickered, becoming a stern-faced archivist: Kutty, the site’s enigmatic curator, flickered into view on the barge’s central holoscreen. Kutty’s avatar had a calm, weary smile. “You really think you can take what belongs to the people?” the avatar asked in Tamil-accented trade-speech, translated by the barge’s speakers.

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Before Rocket could pocket the stone, a squad of black-suited enforcers dropped from the deck above—mercs for a corporate syndicate that had been buying the illegal streams to scrub dissenters’ histories. A firefight erupted: sparks, witty quips, Groot’s branches swinging like a verdant wrecking ball. Drax ran a gauntlet of mercs, naming each with ecstatic violence. Gamora moved like water, precise and lethal. Rocket improvised explosives that bent the barge’s interior into impossible geometry.