James Gunn responds to question about Star Lord not having batteries for his Walkman: “They’ve mastered interplanetary space travel, I think they can figure out batteries”
Commentaires
AceOThorns2025-12-15 01:55
Harbulary batteries.
NeonSherpa2025-12-15 01:56
Anulax batteries
kashmir19742025-12-15 02:04
I love how Peacemaker is just a rated R GoG.
BetterThanOP2025-12-15 02:09
That's what he said. Harbulary.
arkhamtheknight2025-12-15 03:56
That's nothing like what I just said.
Covert_Ruffian2025-12-15 04:16
Zardu Hasselfrau!
arkhamtheknight2025-12-15 04:16
Monsanta_Claus2025-12-15 04:25
Ha. You look like Mary Poppins.
NickDubzz2025-12-15 04:33
Is he cool?
Jimmy03Z2025-12-15 05:14
Hell yeah he’s cool
NickDubzz2025-12-15 05:15
HumbleKnight142025-12-15 01:58
Peter Quill: No, their not! 😆
CactusJack132025-12-15 02:10
Zpiderbyte2025-12-15 02:33
*in Drax's voice
Zealousideal_Leg2132025-12-15 03:30
Who said that? Is someone there?
peepeepoopooman20X62025-12-15 07:36
At the Disney parks they have ant man giant and shrunk items and one of them are giant AAA Harbulary brand batteries. I like to think Drax has seen Peter’s stash of them and that’s why he says that
Heavensrun2025-12-15 16:20
I think any explanation murders the joke like Rhodey murders baby Thanos.
CaptHayfever2025-12-15 15:56
Yep. My immediate thought was "space batteries were literally the macguffin of GotG 2."
Goldman2502025-12-15 01:58
I would have thought the bigger question would be “how is the tape that the Walkman is playing not ruined after 26 years of constant use?”
Azalus12025-12-15 01:59
absherlock2025-12-15 02:03
Space pencil.
KoryCheese332025-12-15 02:03
You've got a intelligence raccoon on your team so use him
Land_Squid_12342025-12-15 02:04
They've mastered interplanetary space travel, I think they can figure out tapes. 😑
Myhtological2025-12-15 02:05
Well, they can’t figure out cars…..
Land_Squid_12342025-12-15 02:06
Open the fucking door
littlebugonreddit2025-12-15 02:09
That could actually be just a lack of handle operated doors tbf
SchwizzySchwas942025-12-15 02:21
To be fair she’s only like half organic being at this point
streakermaximus2025-12-15 02:32
I dunno. She didn't know cars and took like 90 seconds to figure it out.
Burnlan2025-12-15 03:00
I mean, cars to them are like telegraph to you and me. Old tech that we could use, but not without a good lesson first.
Xarionel2025-12-15 03:17
too ancient to them XD
Alarmed_Drop71622025-12-15 16:37
Doubtful. Quill attacks the Kyln guards for even listening to the tape. That’s smeagol behavior, precious.
KubaChaso2025-12-15 02:04
they dont make products like they used to.
IntrinsicGamer2025-12-15 02:08
They mention having clones of the tapes in Vol. 2, so either he could be using clones of it or are capable of restoring it
Heisenburgo2025-12-15 02:27
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 4: Clone Saga
IntrinsicGamer2025-12-15 02:45
Dear god, please no lol
BLAGTIER2025-12-15 02:11
Advanced scanners and nanoparticles.
KetchupGuy12025-12-15 02:56
[deleted]
Goldman2502025-12-15 03:03
Believe it or not mate, I’m not seriously concerned about how the Walkman’s tape is still working. I’m doing this thing called humour, where I make a joke about a silly question someone asked James Gunn.
And besides, I know the real question is about the headphones - old tech like that is fragile, there’s no way the internal wiring didn’t get damaged over the years.
KetchupGuy12025-12-15 03:06
Mobile error sorry lol meant to comment on the actual post not your comment lol
whoswho232025-12-15 03:22
It should have been revealed that it actually had worn out, but Star Lord knows the song so well he can still "hear" them even though it's actually just noise.
YellowB2025-12-15 03:36
I think the bigger question would be "how is the it that he is still listening to that same song over and over every hour of every day for 26 years straight?"
Vinnie_Vegas2025-12-15 03:41
Yeah, how does ~90m of music not get too repetitive to have been long abandoned before it becomes integral to your entire personality.
fdzman2025-12-15 04:18
You say this but my Spotify playlist remains nearly the same in under a decade. I’m assuming the driving force at play here is nostalgia.
romXXII2025-12-15 04:43
He could also have an addictive personality. Some people get addicted to playing the same songs over and over again.
Scorponix2025-12-15 04:31
Helps that the music was the final gift from his dying mother before losing everyone he ever loved and getting whisked away by space pirates.
romXXII2025-12-15 04:42
Buddy wait till you meet a Classical music fan.
Attrm2025-12-15 05:31
The music is deeply connected to a very tragic moment in his life and the only connection he has to his mother and old life while out in space. It became an integral part of his personality the second he left earth. Trauma bonding (*Probably a better word for this, idk?) with music/books/movies changes your tolerance for how much you can replay them.
romXXII2025-12-15 04:40
clearly on the spectrum.
AdditionalMess65462025-12-15 07:35
_steve_rogers_2025-12-15 07:54
Nanomachines, son
WilsonValdro2025-12-15 01:58
Lmao this is funny ngl
BuddhistChrist2025-12-15 01:58
Ikr. So unrealistic.
Fantasia_Fanboy9312025-12-15 02:19
I demand realism from a space movie where a half human saves the galaxy with a green warrior woman, shirtless alien man, talking raccoon, sentient tree, and an infinity stone!
ThePurpleSoul702025-12-15 01:59
Why is anyone putting any stock in something said by a guy called 'The Tipsy Critic'
Responsible_Bar39572025-12-15 02:00
The name sounds… familar
CarnageXB2025-12-15 02:00
Earth is not some place people don’t go. Maybe people import items from earth. Or Peter just retrofitted it with something similar
UchihaSukuna12025-12-15 02:03
[deleted]
Primary_Intention9702025-12-15 02:05
That is on Earth, dipshit
UchihaSukuna12025-12-15 02:06
[deleted]
imlegos2025-12-15 02:16
I'll do you one better, WHO'S Gamora?
jlwinter902025-12-15 02:19
I'll do *you* one better, *WHY* is Gamora?!
That-Rhino-Guy2025-12-15 02:21
I’ll do all of you one greater, when is Gamora!?
DelienShadowsong2025-12-15 03:10
But no one asks how is Gamora :(
arkhamtheknight2025-12-15 03:57
TalkToTheGlyphWitch2025-12-15 05:26
...yeah I'm pretty sure none of yall need to worry about that question any more.
H_Melman2025-12-15 09:38
10/10 need to see this on r/all
pakattack912025-12-15 02:17
What am I supposed to say? Jesus?
Skwonkie_2025-12-15 03:48
That might be my favorite line in all of MCU.
__-_-_--_--_-_---___2025-12-15 05:34
There’s an Earth City, MO
pauloh19982025-12-15 02:06
That's on Earth, dipshit
Sharp_Aide32162025-12-15 02:08
Yeah that's on Earth dipshit
XDFighter642025-12-15 03:39
As someone born and still living in Missouri, it's pronounced **"Misery"**
CurryMustard2025-12-15 05:41
My favorite shirt for a couple years was one that said Missouri loves company, had a picture of the state of Missouri. Im from Florida, never been to Missouri
Popular_Material_4092025-12-15 02:28
Yeah, the movie opens with Yondu literally going to Earth. These aliens know about and have visited Earth
ThePocketTaco22025-12-15 04:21
*Terra
Popular_Material_4092025-12-15 04:28
Exactly. They’ve been visiting Earth so much that they know the Latin word for Earth
LovelyClementine2025-12-15 06:49
I guess they never updated their dictionary.
Lamentation_Lost2025-12-16 00:06
They respect the Roman Empire
Icybubba2025-12-16 22:01
I'm head canning that the Roman Empire went interstellar.
diamondisunbreakable2025-12-15 13:15
I've also been to earth. Interesting place.
LegendaryOutlaw2025-12-15 03:50
I’m certain Rocket could install a micro fusion battery the size of a quarter that could easily power the Walkman for 50,000 years.
hoffenone2025-12-15 06:58
I am more surprised he managed to not break it after all those years. I mean he brings it along to pretty much all kinds of missions and shit. How has it not been dropped or gotten hit by something? Even in the opening scene it is raining heavily with water all over the place and he keeps it on his belt on the outside.
Trinitykill2025-12-15 14:26
Then again, in GOT2 there's a scene where Rocket is repairing their spaceship by just spraying some kind of nanotech onto it. If the Walkman got destroyed it would probably be trivial to rebuild it.
jerslan2025-12-15 15:14
Doesn’t it get destroyed at some point? And replaced with a Zune?
Sere12025-12-15 15:36
Yup, Ego crushes the Walkman from movie 1 in movie 2. At the end of movie 2, Kraglin gives Peter a Zune that apparently Yondu had gotten a hold of and was planning on giving it to Peter at some point.
BeardPhile2025-12-15 21:19
Walkman of Theseus
scuac2025-12-16 00:20
Even without that spray, I think repairing a walkman would be mind numbingly easy for Rocket.
Kumomeme2025-12-15 04:09
or he unconciously power up the walkman using his hidden ability/power.
joe_devola2025-12-15 05:23
It just needs ~5 volts of direct electric current. That is not necessarily an earth invention and something that could exist anywhere in the universe
WatchingInSilence2025-12-15 07:13
All those alien abductions are just aliens probing human minds to see what the latest fashion and tech trends are.
drstrangelove752025-12-15 08:15
True, Yondu and his ravagers clearly have been to earth numerous times to collect kids and also to collect artifacts like the Zune. Plus Starlord has a built in cassette deck on his ship. And the High Evolutionary also went to earth and has taken animals from there.
Earth is considered backwater and prior to the events of Captain Marvel and later the Avengers, most extraterrestrials don’t really care to visit the planet. Even the ones that have a stake in the planet like the Kree, the Celestials, the Asgardians, Ego and Skrulls mostly went for missions and asylum.
In a way it makes sense: Earth is viewed as a backward mud ball filled with outdated technology centuries behind most of the galaxy and people who are violent, depraved and act weird compared to other intergalactic civilizations. Some of the most powerful empires and civilizations use the planet as their own playground to carry out affairs or create life or ruling over it from afar. So unless you’re crazy enough to smuggle goods out of there, why risk going there?
FoxMeadow72025-12-15 14:30
I doubt Ego would've 'sired' more kids than Peter for Ravagers like Yondu to collect tho; at the very least his first visit as Meredith's 'angel' might've also been when when he planted his expansion seed. And the Ravager code to my knowledge specifically prohibited such wanton collection of children... Technology certainly seems to be a fair game tho as evidence with the Zune from early 00s.
Diortheking2025-12-15 02:02
Better question is did quill bring some life changing technology from space like the med packs that heal bones in seconds
Lutzelien2025-12-15 02:03
He must be so damn tired of all these dumbass questions lmao
sable-king2025-12-15 02:27
It's because people have just completely lost the ability to infer things. They need the characters to look into the camera and explain every insignificant detail, because their brains just CANNOT fill in the blanks.
Lord_Phoenix952025-12-15 03:57
It's funny when people are like "how can they all speak English when they're clearly aliens?" and everyone in to Sci-Fi would've at least known about universal translators. It's just Sci-Fi basics.
drstrangelove752025-12-15 07:46
I know this is more general but I think in Guardians 1 there’s a scene where Quill is being scanned by the Nova Corps and it says he has a universal translator installed in his body.
romXXII2025-12-15 04:44
Cinema Sins was a mistake. Yeah you can make the argument that it was all for fun and laughs, but all it's done it teach a generation of people that "critical thinking" equates to nitpicking anything that doesn't immediately make sense or is not essential to the story being told.
I_Want_Dat_Knife2025-12-15 05:21
Nah man every modern day movie is just garbage and little Timmy two dicks on r/movies is the only one smart enough to point out all these plot holes.
slunksoma2025-12-15 10:34
TWO DICKS???
_Valisk2025-12-15 05:27
It started as a fun bit of satire, but it grew into bullshit nitpicking.
dr_mannhatten2025-12-15 14:30
It did lead to it's counterpart channel "CinemaWins" being created though. "Every movie is someones favorite movie" is his mantra, so its a lot more positive.
DroidLord2025-12-15 06:24
I think it's more so people who can't enjoy movies without nitpicking every single detail. They don't even watch the movie, they just jump from one dumb "plot hole" to the next.
lugitik_2025-12-15 09:32
The fact The Avengers already possess tech that can materialise specialised suits and weaponry out of practically nothing should already shift one's perspective of what's possible in this universe.
EugenesMullet2025-12-15 04:11
If a detail isn’t directly addressed on screen, it’s an immersion-ending plot hole and the whole thing is trash - according to people on the internet with piss poor media literacy skills, anyway.
kuahara2025-12-15 05:46
Reply with just a picture of Rocket's face. The guy finds a solution to everything. In the same vein as Gunn, I'm sure he can figure out how to power a Walkman.
He just needs that guy's prosthetic hand.
9000mhz2025-12-15 02:05
Quantum batteries
curmudgeon_andy2025-12-15 02:06
My headcanon has always been that part of the benefit of being half Ego is that technology works for him. Tapes don't wear out, batteries last longer than they should, battering that shouldn't work do, devices work as intended.
ohfishell2025-12-15 02:06
It’s not that type of movie, kid
flumphit2025-12-15 02:12
Best and only answer
your_mind_aches2025-12-15 03:19
Except this has a very simple answer. They have advanced technology and universal translators. They can figure out how to deliver three volts to a little device
Lord_Phoenix952025-12-15 03:55
Yeah it's not like they need a nuclear reactor to power it. Any of the Alien Species that are above Earth technology could probably give it an unlimited battery.
romXXII2025-12-15 04:46
Hell, here on Earth we already have rechargeable battery packs meant to replace the typical 2xAA battery array. If Chinese manufacturing can accomplish it, why not a civilization that can warp space and time?
myslead2025-12-15 02:07
through God all things are possible so jot that down
BLAGTIER2025-12-15 02:09
A Walkman would have 2 AA batteries. They each provide 1.5 volts. So all Star Lord would need is someone to make something that provides two lots of 1.5 volts and fits in the battery tray. It would have be so pathetically easy to find/buy/order such a thing in the middle of space empires.
DogHogDJs2025-12-15 02:09
“Why are there screws in the wall in Andor?! This is so unrealistic!” *complaining about screws in a show that has laser swords, space travel, and laser guns*
spderweb2025-12-15 02:14
Wait, somebody complained about screws???? Why wouldn't they use screws???
Popular_Material_4092025-12-15 02:31
Screws and bricks. As if in the technologically advanced Star Wars universe screwing and heating clay are just too far out there
CaptHayfever2025-12-15 02:40
All the houses on Tatooine are freaking clay, ever since the first movie. People complained about that in Andor!?
alex4942025-12-15 03:36
Man just wait until they find out about the syringe in A New Hope that says "British Made" on it in English.
morphballganon2025-12-15 02:59
They're probably not even screws. They're probably bolts.
_Levitated_Shield_2025-12-15 03:38
Screws? How tf do they think droids are made? 💀
romXXII2025-12-15 04:47
That's so dumb. What _else_ should they use to stick two things together? It's not like space makes screws unfeasible.
Katharinemaddison2025-12-15 02:16
Yondu sorted out batteries for him. The soft bastard. He probably hated himself for it, and Peter probably never realised.
Early_Magician_28472025-12-15 05:20
The deep analysis we love
Someoneoverthere422025-12-15 02:24
The AA battery, clearly an irreproducible technology.
DoktorTakt2025-12-15 02:30
Repeat to yourself, “it’s just a show, I should really just relax.”
remlapj2025-12-15 02:34
The batteries would be an easy fix.
How does the tape last that long?
eriverside2025-12-15 02:43
Who says they do? If we can record audio so easily, surely advanced civilizations should be able to as well.
iEatMashedPotatoes2025-12-15 02:35
It's dumb. Like complaining the coolant in the shaving cream cam Newman uses to smuggle dinosaur embryos out of Jurassic park is comically small and in no way would be able to support the embryos safely to the boat, much less during the boat ride.
Which it was.
Maximus3612025-12-15 02:46
They also could have figured out cds, mp3s or streaming too.
Witty-C2025-12-15 02:50
It ain’t that kind of movie kid.
xanderholland2025-12-15 02:54
Apparently Earth stuff ends up in space one way or another so someone probably figured out low voltage batteries before Peter needed to ask.
nebojowim2025-12-15 02:58
And they have Rocket who can invent almost anything
Smooth_Lead49952025-12-15 03:00
I wonder if that nano repair wand thing that was used to repair the Benatar in the second movie could be used on something small and delicate like a Walkman.
ZeppyWeppyBoi2025-12-15 03:03
Yeah it’s not like a Walkman needs some exotic power.
KetchupGuy12025-12-15 03:07
This is such a stupid post and even more ridiculous question. Like who cares, are you going to ask how does he travel around so much if we never see him stop at a gas station like wtf are you on about
Markus28222025-12-15 03:15
That have perfectly fit in and don’t overpower a Walkman and are available enough for him to have found as a kid? Because there’s no way Yondu would’ve gotten him them imo.
Yea no, this is absolute BS Gunn. The correct response is “It’s a movie, get over it”
He needs to stop trying to poorly explain things that don’t need explaining and he’s making them worse. This just doesn’t make sense
ProtectMyExcalibur2025-12-15 03:15
I mean even if their technology is totally different, surely alien scientists can use basic chemistry to create batteries to fit in it. Reminds me of breaking bad, when Walt created a battery to start the RV
your_mind_aches2025-12-15 03:19
It's just about delivering a small current at 3V or 6V. Yes all that alien tech can do that
Captriker2025-12-15 03:22
Slow day at the AI factory I guess.
_Levitated_Shield_2025-12-15 03:36
Al factory?
Unhappy_Rub_99822025-12-15 03:33
Quill has the most everlasting batteries across the galaxies😅
Kumomeme2025-12-15 03:35
or Star Lord actually unconciously unknownly power up the Walkman using his Ego-inherited power.
ItsChris_8776_2025-12-15 03:48
He’s right. People need to take 5 seconds to use their heads instead of expecting the movie to answer every single tiny question they have.
DavyJonesRocker2025-12-15 03:51
What about the belts though?
Samaritan_Pr1me2025-12-15 04:03
What I want to know is how many aliens are hooked on music from the 70s and 80s because of Peter Quill.
Commentaires
And besides, I know the real question is about the headphones - old tech like that is fragile, there’s no way the internal wiring didn’t get damaged over the years.
Earth is considered backwater and prior to the events of Captain Marvel and later the Avengers, most extraterrestrials don’t really care to visit the planet. Even the ones that have a stake in the planet like the Kree, the Celestials, the Asgardians, Ego and Skrulls mostly went for missions and asylum.
In a way it makes sense: Earth is viewed as a backward mud ball filled with outdated technology centuries behind most of the galaxy and people who are violent, depraved and act weird compared to other intergalactic civilizations. Some of the most powerful empires and civilizations use the planet as their own playground to carry out affairs or create life or ruling over it from afar. So unless you’re crazy enough to smuggle goods out of there, why risk going there?
He just needs that guy's prosthetic hand.
How does the tape last that long?
Which it was.
Yea no, this is absolute BS Gunn. The correct response is “It’s a movie, get over it”
He needs to stop trying to poorly explain things that don’t need explaining and he’s making them worse. This just doesn’t make sense