Replace The Avengers with The Guardians of the Galaxy for the Chitauri Invasion of NYC at the end of the first Avengers...

Replace The Avengers with The Guardians of the Galaxy for the Chitauri Invasion of NYC at the end of the first Avengers movie; is the Earth more or less fucked? (MCU only)

Guardians would still save the day but probably with more casualties

More. The Avengers have more raw firepower that was important to repelling the Chitauri. However the Guardians would close the portal faster.

It is, indeed, more or less fucked.

>no Norse god
>no gamma-enhanced, possibly invulnerable monster
What do you think

Are we including Yondu with the Guardians in this?

Because if you give Yondu his GOTG2 Finn and stick him on top of the Empire State Building or something, he'd probably be able to hold off about half the Chitauri himself.

Well, for about 20 minutes of GOTG2, the team was

>Quill
>Gamora
>Drax
>Rocket
>Groot
>Yondu
>Mantis
>Kraglin

I'll consider that Full-Strength Guardians, so assume that. I could also be argued into adding Nebula.

What's Starlord's Power Level when he's on Ego?

Less. And less angst in the sequel

Give Rocket a Ravager fighter or the Milano and he'll clean up a lot of the flyers himself. Gamora is a reasonable substitute for Cap, Groot can sub for the Hulk reasonably well, Quill is as useful as Hawkeye and Drax is immensely tough and can clean up some of the ground troops. They don't have anyone as out and out powerful as Thor or the Hulk but they do have a purpose-build tech supergenius who can probably figure out how to take the portal out faster than the Avengers did.

So, more casualties, but they might be able to handle it.

Does anyone else share an aura of apprehension for Infinity War? I have almost no desire to see the Guardians and the Avengers meet up because those films are so tonally different even though they both exist in the MCU. I enjoyed the first Avengers movie but it was Joss Whedon funny and quippy, like in the same way you crack a smile when you see a reaction image of Yugi correctly guessing his 5 which is a totally, and all earth based MCU film tend to stay in this lane of comedy. On the other hand the GoTG films are, in my opinion, much funnier than the Avengers films, and the humor there is James Gunn-esque and there's a lot of back and forth banter and ridiculous situation.

Idk I'm probably just a retard

I was always curious, could Ronan have taken on an Asgardian like Loki with the staff or Thor?

>I was always curious, could Ronan have taken on an Asgardian like Loki with the staff or Thor?
Looking at the updated power of Gamora and durability of Drax in GotG2, and then assume that they would lose to Ronan one on one, and it is clear that Ronan can also certainly beat Loki. Thing is Loki would run away before he actually loses. Ronan would still lose to a full power Thor though.

Good one.

assuming that it is still a pitched battle in the middle of new york

>star lord v cap
the addition of laser guns might make things easier, but he would have tired out faster and would have been less likely to have survive shots from their guns without super toughness or the shield

his unconventional tactics are a rough approximation of caps battle mastery

roughly equal

>rocket vs iron man
rocket has more fire power, but lacks flight and computer assistance as well as armor

>gamora vs black widow
gamora is superior for the task

>drax vs thor
thor is far superior

>hulk vs groot
groot is more versatile, but the hulk is far stronger
could work either way depending on deployment
>hawkeye vs yondu
yondu is far, far superior for combat
but hawkeye was used for recon, not combat
however, the avengers were not lacking heavy hitters so hawkeyes firepower was not important, the guardians would need a good spotter

>quinjet vs milano
milano is a space ship and automatically superior

the guardians woul actually have a good showing, they might even win

but the avengers are much better at a straight fight
thw guardians would only outperform the guardians if they significantly altered how the final battle was fought, like not having a final face to face show of force

They got BTFO by a bunch of drones
They have no chance against the Chitauri

You forgot about Yondu's OP Yaka arrow.

That shit could win galactic wars if he allowed himself to do that.

The Guardians aren't going to focus on collateral damage as much, so more initial property damage/casualties. But they'd be considered an offworld threat, and something actually warranting a change to tactics, and would probably draw more soldiers off of the main attack to deal with them. The only real wildcards are Loki and multiple behemoths.

Using your Roster:

Rocket, Kraglin, and Mantis stay with the main Ravager ship and focus on the breach itself. Firing the large plasma cloud thing at the barrier doesn't plug it up, but it causes the large behemoths to divert. Eventually Rocket decides Kraglin can pilot the ship by himself and bails to work on the portal generator.

Yondu takes Hawkeyes place, except he's taking an exterior position on the ship to defend it against the Chitauri attackers since he doesn't have a crew to man the ships defenses.

The rest of the Guardians - Peter, Gamora, Drax, and Groot, take flightvests down towards the portal generator. Gamora is carrying Drax, due to his sensitivity, and Groot is nervously following in a hastily made custom conversion. On approach to Stark tower they get attacked, causing Drax to be dropped through the penthouse window and Groot to fall all the way down to street level, where he rampages around. While Quill and Gamora fly around in an awesome dogfighting sequence, Drax shakes himself awake and comes face to face with a bemused Asgardian who wasn't expecting any of this.

The Loki v. Drax scepter to knives vs knifes fight would be amazing. Drax would have the upper hand in the first exchange, then Loki's illusions would trick Drax into ruining Starks office (including a running gag where Loki makes sure to deface every Stark logo/image) until Drax is on his knees. After Loki stabs Drax, gloating about how its almost no contest against the only warrior dumber than Thor, Drax gets ahold of Loki's stabbing arm, starts laughing again, and starts beating on the surprised God.

Gamora buys time for Quill to land at the generator and shock Selvig out of his daze with an 80's non sequitur. After learning they need the scepter, Quill tells everyone to keep an eye out for whatever a Loki is and for Rocket to get down here to see if he can disable it and is interrupted by Drax trying to show off his shiny new battle trophy.

Rocket arrives just after the portal is deactivated, doubly annoyed that he hurried for no reason and that Drax figured it out before everyone. Gamora lands after taking out her pursuers from before. Yondu arrives on a smaller transport platform with Groot, having been shouting at them that his ship was taking too much damage (and for Kraglin to take off if it got too shot up). Before they board Yondu's skiff, Quill, Drax, and Rocket argue over whether Drax can keep his new scepter and whether they can decide that on the way when Kraglin bails.

The Guardians + Yondu look at the surrounding Chitauri, organized and ready to reactivate the generator, crack wise, then mow down their attackers in one of Marvels favorite combined shots.

While waiting for Kraglin to limp back with their ride, Rocket fends off a stream of inappropriate questions from Selvig, who is facinated with the racoon-like thing to the point of ignoring the other aliens around him. Iron Man flies up in his busted up suit, not sure what to make of the technicolor posse on his roof who fought off an alien invasion. When asked if they prevented an alien invasion, Quill demures, Gamora and Rocket give him shit, and Drax brags about fighting Loki. Kraglin arrives to interrupt Starks other questions, Quill namedropping the team as they fly off. Stark takes off in his busted suit to chase them down and force an answer, but when he gets close Rocket slaps a makeshift gizmo that lets him puppet Stark around. They regroup with Kraglin and take off, more quips about how Earth sucks since even Peter doesn't want to stay.

What would be playing from Quill's mixtape during the fight, and how could any choice possibly top The Chain when it plays for the second time?

It would have to be Live to Rise.

10/10 would watch