When walking out of James Gunn’s 2014 film “Guardians-of-the-Galaxy-2015-movie-posters/”>Guardians of the Galaxy,” the 10th film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this author heard several other audiences members talking about the film’s post-credits stinger.
In the epilogue, the vaguely villainous Collector (Benicio Del Toro) sat destitute among the ruins of his collection or rare cosmic antiquities.
Only a few of his beloved baubles has survived a cosmic blast, including a dog from Earth.
The dog, wearing a Soviet space suit, was clearly salvaged from the 1960s Russian space program wherein canines were sent up in rockets to test their safety.
The dog in “Guardians” is not Laika, but a fictional dog named Cosmo.
The Collector had been keeping it in a cage on a distant planet for decades.As Cosmo gives the Collector a sympathetic lick, a voice from off-screen (Seth Green) immediately points out how gross the dog is.
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