{"id":161580,"date":"2021-01-07T15:30:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gamerant.com\/james-gunn-fan-theories-stan-lee-cameo\/"},"modified":"2021-01-07T15:30:29","modified_gmt":"2021-01-07T15:30:29","slug":"james-gunn-used-fan-theories-to-create-stan-lee-cameo-in-gotg2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itteacheritfreelance.hk\/wordpress\/index.php\/2021\/01\/07\/james-gunn-used-fan-theories-to-create-stan-lee-cameo-in-gotg2\/","title":{"rendered":"James Gunn Used Fan Theories To Create Stan Lee Cameo In GOTG2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Marvel Studios’ Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em><\/strong><\/a> featured a memorable Stan Lee cameo that confirmed a long-standing fan theory about the characters played by the comic book icon. Now, director James Gunn has confirmed that it was those precise theories that inspired the role he created for Lee in the second chapter of the Guardians of the Galaxy<\/em> franchise.<\/p>\n

After separating from the rest of the team in the first half of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em>, Rocket and Groot find themselves being held captive by a band of Ravagers who rebelled against former leader Yondu. Fortunately, the trio\u00a0was able to destroy the Ravagers’ vessel and commandeer a spacecraft before setting a course to rescue Peter Quill from his father, Ego. Along the way, the group passes by a planet where Stan Lee could be seen in a spacesuit while recounting one of his adventures on Earth to The Watchers<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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In the comics, The Watchers are celestial beings who serve as the monitors of the multiverse. As such, fans had developed a theory suggesting all of the characters played by Lee in Marvel films over the years were actually the same person, who may have been transported to various locations by The Watchers in order to report his findings to them. The aforementioned sequence in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2<\/em> had seemingly confirmed this theory to be true, considering Lee’s character was recalling his time as a\u00a0federal express employee in Captain America: Civil War<\/em><\/a>. In response to a fan Twitter post thanking Gunn for making Lee a canonically recognized informant of The Watchers, the filmmaker confirmed that he stole the idea from those exact fan theories because he thought they were hilarious.<\/p>\n