A Bunch of A-holes: Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer

It's apparently the week for Guardians of the Galaxy news and it was heralded by the first trailer. Check it out...



Yeah, that's the stuff. Seriously though, Guardians is going to be Marvel's toughest sell to mainstream audiences yet and this trailer does exactly what it needs to, introduce the characters and tone. Nobody outside of hardcore comics fans knows the Guardians so the line-up format they've got going here works well to tell newbies just who these weirdoes are. And it's amazing how much characterization in the few seconds they're on screen.

The heroes of Star Wars: Rebels are the Artful Dodger and your weed dealer

Chopper.
No, not the reindeer.

There's still no release date for Star Wars: Rebels but Lucas Animation has been steadily releasing information about the show's characters for the last few months. Their first announcement was of the series' main droid Chopper. He looks a bit like an orange R2-D2 model somebody built in their garage and has the acerbic personality to match. But aside from providing comic relief and being a jerk robot in the tradition of Aaron Stack and Marvin the Paranoid Android, Chopper doesn't really tell us much about what the dynamic of the show is going to be.

Thankfully the next two character reveals gave us a better idea of what this is going to be like narratively. So who are our protagonists? A Jedi with a surfer haircut and a 12-year-old con artist.

Okay, I kid. The characters do have some potential and they give some idea of how Rebels is going to work.

I'll elaborate below,