Question about Guardians o' the Galaxy [View all]

[Orrex]

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Watched the first film again last night and was left wondering a few things:

1. Peter Quill, off Earth since he was a pre-teen in the late 80s, is still attuned to current American slang and pop culture
2. Even more than Star Trek, almost everyone in the galaxy is contemporary American, speaks like a contemporary American, and dresses largely like a contemporary American?
3. An uplifted raccoon can break out of a maximum security gulag in about 45 minutes?
4. The staff and security at a maximum security space prison is a bunch of incompetent doofuses? Doofi?
5. Mom Quill's mix tape thoughtfully includes only well-known songs easily recognizable to a 2014 audience?
6. Why did Mom Quill include The Pina Colada Song about deceit and double attempted infidelity on a mix tape for her preteen son?
7. A cassette tape can survive the rigors of space travel and constant play for twenty years and still sound like top-quality original master recording?
8. Earphone pads likewise last forever?
9. Ditto for Walkmans?
10. The biggest bad-ass in the galaxy looks like a cutscene from a late 90s arcade shooter?
11. So genocide is ok and forgiven if you're pretty and you do a little dance?

T'Challa has a Wakandan accent, Helmut Zemo has a Sakovian accent, but Nova Prime speaks generic American English? Does this mean that a guy in Nebraska can easily chat with the top dog of the Nova Corps but can't talk to a guy in Brazil?

In a superhero-esque movie you obviously have to accept certain conceits (the Hulk's pants don't rip, Tony Stark doesn't pulp himself every time he does his three-point landing at full speed, etc.), but when the story sets a clear and deliberate baseline reality, then divergences from that baseline are conspicuous and must be addressed.

And the issue is larger than whether or not Chris Pratt has sick pecs (spoiler alert: he does); when the Guardians show up in Avengers: Infinity War, will they import their goofy physics and linguistics into the world (generally) based upon our own reality?