[Boy Blunder]

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Originally Posted by Nitelife

Well regardless gunns disdain for the cannon ( and mainly my ire at him makin ego quills dad which really just cocks up his entire origin and destroys a really big part of starlords story ) is what bothers me. Perhaps that article said he wasnt gonna use him but there was another one when asked ( mighta been entertainment weekly or a yahoo intview cant remember cause it was a couple years ago so forgive if im misquoting ) why he wouldnt gunn said he never cared for rick rider nova and thus had no desire to use him or even cameo him. And gotg would have really been the place to gove nova a spring board to his solo film ala black panther in civil war.

Thing is, the MCU has already been playing fast and loose with the comics canon, as is a necessity for adaptation - you're streamlining decades worth of continuity, thousands of characters and stories, into something that the GenPop can access easily and enjoy. Will certain elements be cut, for a variety of reasons? Of course they will. Because there's no way any film, tv show, animated series, or anything will be a 'perfect' adaptation of a medium without doing some trimming here and there.

Quill in the MCU is already a lot different from Quill in the comics, even if the comics are being influenced by the films these days. Him having a different origin isn't an affront to the character, since it's a different version. Having Ego be his father rather than J'Son (oh god, that name) provides for a different story that, in the end, may be more entertaining as a movie plot than all the crap with Spartax (personally, I have yet to find anything engaging about the whole Spartax background).

As for Nova, even if Gunn doesn't have any desire (or direct mandate) to use him, that doesn't really mean anything in regards to Ryder's future in the MCU. After all, this is a massive beast of a thing that's gonna keep going for quite a few years yet.