Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 is a 2023 American superhero film about the Guardians who embark on a mission to protect Rocket from the High Evolutionary. It is the sequel to 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, and the 32nd film in the (MCU).
 * Directed and written by James Gunn.

It's time to face the music.

Peter Quill

 * Last night, I had a dream about when we first met. We were criminals. Friends. And then we became the Guardians.
 * I don't need another speech by some impotent whackjob whose mother didn't love him rationalizing why he needs to conquer the universe.
 * It looks like... home. It's like a replica of Earth.
 * (The High Evolutionary: So, you'd like to joust, would you?) Go to hell, you sick son of a bitch. You killed all those people!
 * We were gone for quite a while. But no matter what happens next, the galaxy still needs its guardians.

Rocket

 * We'll all fly away together... one last time... into the forever and beautiful sky.
 * The name's Rocket. Rocket Raccoon.
 * You didn't want to make things perfect. You just hated the way things were.

Nebula

 * DAMN IT, MANTIS! WHY DON'T YOU EVER THINK?!

The High Evolutionary

 * I created you lot as merely an aesthetic experiment; beautiful numbskulls. But your egos have run wild.
 * Find 89P13 and return it to me, or I will destroy your entire civilization, as is my right as your maker!
 * I'm not trying to conquer the universe. I'm perfecting it.
 * BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT, BUT!!! That rancid word.
 * THERE IS NO GOD! THAT'S WHY I STEPPED IN!
 * [mimics Rocket crying] All right, P13! You win the crying contest. Now back in the cage.
 * They will die unless you BRING ME WHAT IS MINE!!!
 * Look what you done to me! For what? All I wanted to do, was to make things perfect.

Adam Warlock

 * Who threw this thing at me?! Baby.
 * Yes! There's something wrong with me! I was stabbed, you extraordinary phallus!
 * It looks sad. I really don't enjoy how that's making me feel, actually.
 * I am the Warlock, mum, and I am done with being ordered around!

Other

 * Mantis: Don't forget where we came from.
 * Groot: I love you guys.
 * Gamora: What are you so afraid of in yourself that I need to be something for you?! I don't give a shit about your Gamora. LIFE MADE ME ME!
 * Mantis: [yelling loudly] EXPLAINING IT, DICKHEAD!
 * Lylla: [last words before her death] Sky...

Dialogue

 * [first lines]
 * Mantis: Come on, Drax. Dance.
 * Drax: Only idiots dance.


 * [Rocket enters the bar, drunk Quill notices Rocket carrying his Zune in his hand]
 * Peter Quill: [drunkenly] Hey! Uh-uh! No! [gets up] I told you a million times, you keep your grimy raccoon hands off my Zune! [snatches his Zune from Rocket]
 * Rocket: [gets a milk drink from the fridge] I told you a million times, I'm not a damn raccoon.
 * [Quill faints, Rocket sips his milk drink]


 * Drax: We'll kill anyone who gets in our way!
 * Peter Quill: No, not kill anyone!
 * Drax: Kill a few people!
 * Peter Quill: Kill no people!
 * Drax: Kill one guy. One stupid guy who no one loves!
 * Peter Quill: Now you're just making it sad.


 * Peter Quill: Why are we always getting involved in everyone else’s troubles?
 * Rocket: Because we’re the freaking Guardians of the Galaxy.


 * Peter Quill: And I miss you, so much. And maybe if you open yourself up to it, there’s a possibility.
 * Gamora: I don’t think so, Quinn.
 * Peter Quill: Quill.
 * Gamora: Quill. I don’t think so.
 * Peter Quill: But what I’m trying to say is…
 * Mantis: Peter, you know this is an open line, right?
 * Peter Quill: What?
 * Mantis: We’re listening to everything you’re saying.
 * Drax: And it is painful.
 * Peter Quill: And you’re just telling me now?!
 * Mantis: We were hoping it would stop on its own.


 * Ayesha: You removed Adam from his cocoon early, My Leige. He is still a child.
 * The High Evolutionary: No, there is something wrong with him even outside all that.
 * Adam: Yes, there's something wrong with me! I was stabbed, you extraordinary phallus--!


 * Lylla: When sire moves us to the new world, we’re going to need names. I mean, 89Q12, it’s not really a name. So, I would like my name to be Lylla.
 * Rocket: That’s a pretty name, Lylla.
 * Lylla: Thank you.


 * The High Evolutionary: I visited your planet many years ago.
 * Peter Quill: Earth hasn’t been my planet in a long time.
 * The High Evolutionary: Your people had wonderful spirit. The art, and music, and literature were some of the finest in the universe. Earth would be a fabulous place where it not for the ignorance and bigotry.
 * Peter Quill: Okay.
 * The High Evolutionary: It inspired me to create Counter-Earth.
 * Peter Quill: [exasperated] I don’t care!
 * The High Evolutionary: All of the good and none of the bad.
 * Peter Quill: I don't need to hear another speech by some impotent whack-job whose mother didn't love him rationalizing why he needs to conquer the universe!


 * Peter Quill: [as Nebula tries to open the car door] Push down on it!
 * Nebula: What?
 * Peter Quill: Push it down.
 * Nebula: I am pushing down on it.
 * Peter Quill: Push the button. It looks like you’re pushing the keyhole.
 * Nebula: The what?
 * Peter Quill: There’s a button under the handle! Press that in.
 * Nebula: Okay. Now what?
 * Peter Quill: Open the fucking door!
 * Nebula: [as she opens the door] That is a stupid design. And your instructions were very unclear.


 * Mantis: [arguing with Nebula] I know you need to find fault in everyone else to make yourself feel okay... so find it in me!
 * Nebula: Oh, GO TO HELL, MANTIS!
 * Mantis: But you don't have the right to push him (Drax)! [near tears] It's not his fault he's stupid!
 * [Drax looks hurt by Mantis' statement.]
 * Nebula: He's a liability.
 * Mantis: He makes us laugh and he loves us! How is that a liability?? All you care about is INTELLIGENCE and... and COMPETENCE!
 * Drax: Not sure I appreciate this defense...
 * Mantis: He has sadness... but he's the only one of you who doesn't hate himself. So I don't care if he's stupid.
 * Drax: ...You think I'm stupid?
 * Mantis: [beat] Yes.


 * The High Evolutionary: YOU! [violently and aggressively throws Rocket across the room] You thought you could escape me?! NO! [violently and aggressively throws him up the ceiling] You think you have some worth in and of yourself without me?! NO! YOU ARE AN ABOMINATION!!! NOTHING MORE THAN A STEP ON MY PATH, YOU FREAKISH LITTLE MONSTER!! HOW DARE YOU THINK YOU ARE MORE, 8-9-P-1-3?!!!
 * Rocket: [breaks free and draws his gun] The name's Rocket. Rocket Raccoon. [shoots the High Evolutionary]


 * Drax: [after Gamora peels off the High Evolutionary's mask as he falls on his back, revealing his disfigured face] His face came off!
 * Rocket: It's a mask.
 * The High Evolutionary: Look what you did to me! For what? All I wanted to do was to make things perfect.
 * Rocket: You didn't want to make things perfect. You just hated the way things were.


 * [last lines; Quill is having breakfast with his grandfather he reunited with]
 * Peter Quill: I mean, if she needs help mowing her lawn, I'll do it, but I kinda feel like her son should help. He's gonna sit on the porch and watch me do it. Like he's a 45-year-old man, able-bodied, and I'm mowing his lawn. It just feels weird.
 * Jason Quill: Don't get me started.
 * Peter Quill: Oh, really? Now I kind of want to know.

Ending tags

 * The legendary Star-Lord will return.

Cast

 * Chris Pratt — Peter Quill
 * Zoë Saldaña — Gamora
 * Dave Bautista — Drax
 * Karen Gillan — Nebula
 * Pom Klementieff — Mantis
 * Vin Diesel — Voice of Groot
 * Bradley Cooper — Voice of Rocket
 * Sean Gunn — Kraglin, On-Set Rocket
 * Chukwudi Iwuji — The High Evolutionary
 * Will Poulter — Adam
 * Elizabeth Debicki — Ayesha
 * Sylvester Stallone — Stakar
 * Linda Cardellini — Voice of Lylla
 * Gregg Henry — Quill's Grandpa