User blog comment:Mr. Xemnas/Fin Fang Foom for Iron man 4 WHO'S WITH ME!!/@comment-6496530-20130302053603/@comment-4651179-20130308200258

Well... more like they "re-created" them because the Guardians of the Galaxy where originally a team in an universe set in the future. But I don't think they did it because they thought they were going to make it to the MCU, as it was then cancelled and the cosmic universe forgotten until now.