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Originally Posted by En Sabah Nerd

The decision to add Iron Man to the team was honestly pretty bad, really because he didn't do anything of note before leaving the team. He was just thrown in to be the butt of a bunch of jokes about how much more advanced different alien species were.

When the book was relaunched the movie hadn't yet come out and nobody thought it would be a hit. Iron Man had become one of Marvel's A-listers so I'm guessing he was added to the team to help boost sales for a team that hadn't been all that popular in the past.

If you'd told people just a few years ago the Guardians would go from being in comic book limbo after a cancelled series to having a mega-hit movie and multiple books they would've laughed in your face.