Analysis of the Contents of Quill’s backpack
One of the things I’d like to point out is that Peter Quill’s backpack contains a Panthro action figure, which is not only fitting since Thundercats aired from 1985-88 (perfectly fitting in the age bracket for Peter to have seen it from when he was 5-8), but the Thundercats themselves were Alien man-cats; when the scene where Gamora looks through Quill’s backpack transpires the Guardians are on Counter-Earth, which not only sounds a bit like Third Earth but is populated by sapient humanoid animals. Hell, the 2011 iteration of ThunderCats had plans to reveal that it was Mumm-Ra who created the Animals by mixing animal and human DNA in a series of experiments similar to what the High Evolutionary was doing (had the series not been canceled). What I’m trying to say is that James Gunn is a genius (but we already knew that)