12. Egg Ship (Mork and Mindy)
Ego’s egg-shaped spaceship looks more than a little reminiscent of the ship Mork (Robin Williams) uses to get to Earth in the 1978 TV series Mork & Mindy. Peter Quill would be well familiarized with this show, which is possibly why Ego decides to give his ship this particular design. Nostalgia is a powerful tool, after all, and seeing a real life version of something out of his childhood would probably help set Peter’s mind at ease.
Come to think of it, we’re a little surprised the resemblance wasn’t explicitly stated in the film, but perhaps James Gunn thought it would be a bit on the nose for Peter to point this out and trusted audiences to make the connection.
http://marvelcinematicuniverse.wikia.com/wiki/Ego%27s_Ship Source: MCU Wiki
11. North By Northwest Homage?
The sibling rivalry between Gamora and Nebula is one of the best parts of Vol. 2 and we see it come to an explosive head after Nebula finds her sister on Ego’s world and tries to kill her with her ship. The sequence where Negula starts firing on Gamora is framed very similarly to a famous sequence from the classic Hitchcock film North by Northwest. We’re just going to go ahead and assume this was an intentional homage.
http://in.ign.com/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-1/97034/news/guardians-of-the-galaxy-vol-2-zoe-saldana-on-gamora-nebula-a Source: IGN
10. Stan Lee’s Meta Cameo
It’s hardly surprising to see Stan Lee turn up for a cameo in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but what’s interesting is that this may be his most important cameo to date, if that makes any sense. We see Stan the Man sitting on a distant moon, talking to a mysterious race of aliens (more on them in a bit). We hear him discuss the time he was a delivery man, a nod to his cameo appearance in Captain America: Civil War. Funnily enough, this seems to confirm a popular fan theory that the Stan we see in each Marvel movie is actually the same character and not multiple alternate Stans.
This makes sense when you consider who Stan is talking too. Known as The Watchers, these aliens literally watch over the Marvel Universe and although they’re not supposed to interfere, they definitely have on occasion.
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9. Cheers
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 gets very meta with its central “will they/won’t they?” relationship between Gamora and Peter Quill, the later of whom actually points out this trope at one point by stating that they share an unspoken romantic connection similar to one featured on the TV show Cheers. Having never seen Cheers, Gamora fails to understand the reference, but audience members familiar with the classic 80s show likely didn’t.
Cheers actually had two such relationships, the most famous being between Diane (Shelley Long) and Sam (Ted Danson). Some more modern examples include Rachel and Ross on Friends and Jim and Pam from The Office, but having left Earth in the late 80s, Quill would not be aware of either of those.
http://www.avclub.com/article/icheersi-fortune-and-mens-weight-64473 Source: AV Club