User blog:LoveWaffle/First look at Guardians of the Galaxy's Ronan, Korath, and More!

...as toys!

Hasbro held their annual collectors' (sorry, have to) event this weekend, where toy collectors could get their first look at whatever action figures Hasbro would be producing this year. Among the relevant showcases were their toylines for the upcoming movies Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Guardians of the Galaxy. We already know about everything they showed off regarding the former, but the GotG showcase was a bit different. We still don't know all that much about the movie, so I guess I shouldn't be too surprised that the toyline is where we get our first look at Lee Pace's Ronan, Djimon Hounsou's Korath, and...well, just look

Ronan
Ronan's look is a pretty faithful adaptation from the comics. The only real difference is that he's dressed in black rather than green. Other than that, it's pretty much the same. Same style clothing, same bright-blue skin-color, etc. This image doesn't depict him with his hammer, but other figures (namely his LEGO figurine) has it, so it's safe to say that will be on the movie as well. He may not be Kree anymore, but he still looks like one.

Korath
If Ronan's look is a faithful adaptation, Korath's is about the opposite. It's a radical departure from his look in the comics, ditching his recognizably Kree-like dress and features for something that looks more...I don't know, Lobot if Lobot was a Klingon? Did they not have any money left for blue makeup for Hounsou in the budget? I thought at first that the MCU's Chitauri would just be a stand-in for the villainous races in the comics, including the Kree and the Titans, but now I just don't know. Maybe the Chitauri are instead a collection of alien races all living under Thanos' tyranny or something?

Wha?
Wha?

Zoom in on that, if you will

It's obscured a bit in the picture, but that says "Sakaaran Trooper," right? "Sakaaran" as in "Sakaar," as in Planet Hulk Sakaar? Normally, a toyline for a popular movie would include a number of figures of characters or items that don't appear in that movie, like the Titanium Man figure in the Iron Man 2 toyline. While this might be the case, I doubt it here. Those figures are usually sold individually because the whole reason they exist is to get parents to buy one more toy from that movie their kid likes. But this one's bundled with Groot and Rocket Raccoon.

Also worth noting: The red markings on the Sakaaran's body are similar to the red markings on Ronan's. So maybe Sakaarans are part of that Chitauri amalgam along with the Levianthans, the Kree, and whatever the heck Korath's supposed to be. Or maybe Ronan's a Sakaaran? Who knows? Maybe their inclusion in the movie is where those Planet Hulk movie rumors came from?

I'll stop speculating now...