Beyond Guardians: Four Cosmic Super-Teams We Want To See On The Big Screen
After Guardians, things could really get weird.
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Starjammers
Twentieth Century Fox has already revitalized the X-Men franchise with Days of Future Past, and X-Men: Apocalypse due in 2016. Once that’s done, why not pull a Guardians and expand the big-screen mutants’ universe into space with the Starjammers? First introduced in October 1977 the Starjammers are a band of space pirates who, much like the Guardians, have an abducted Earthling as their leader — in this case it’s Christopher Summers, the father of the X-Men known as Cyclops and Havok. Long story short (ish), Christopher and his wife Katherine were abducted by an alien race called the Shi’ar, Katherine was killed, and Christopher was imprisoned in a mining camp. There Christopher teamed up with several other colorful characters to steal a starship, stage an escape, and begin fighting against the Shi’ar under the name of Corsair and the Starjammers.
The Starjammers lineup has changed many times over the years, and eventually saw Christopher reunited with both of his sons, with Scott (Cyclops) and Alex (Havok) serving stints on the team. Carol Danvers, who eventually became Ms. Marvel, was on the roster under the name of Binary, but since the screen rights to that character belong to Marvel Cinematic Universe, we shouldn’t expect to see her in an X-Men spinoff. What’s more intriguing, however, is that the Starjammers have ties to the Phoenix Force, the entity at the heart of one of the best X-Men story arcs of all time. That story was adapted shittily in Brent Ratner’s X-Men: The Last Stand, but since Days of Future Past essentially retconned the events of the earlier movies, introducing the Starjammers could open the door to retelling that story properly, something director Brian Singer had wanted to do before he jumped ship to make Superman Returns.
Rocket-Style Potential Breakout Character: Well, continuing those Guardians parallels, the ‘jammers have Ch’od and Cr’eee, a big-ass reptilian bruiser and his furry companion, who only Ch’od can understand. That could lead moviegoers to think they’re just a Groot/Rocket ripoff, whether that’s fair or not. So I’m going to pick Hepzibah, Corsair’s love interest who vowed eternal loyalty to Christopher Summers after he rescued her. A badass in her own right, Hepzibah also brings a little Guardians-esque quirk to the table: her true name isn’t verbal, but rather consists of a series of scents. So Corsair nicknames her “Hepzibah” after a character from the comic strip Pogo…a skunk. Which might seem rude except for the fact that, well, she does actually look like a skunk.
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