Guardians of the Galaxy Trailer: Easter Eggs and Marvel Comics References

With Guardians of the Galaxy, Marvel has an entirely new property to set up–one that isn’t based on comics everyone and their brother has already heard of or read, and one that has a deep, rich connection to the part of the Marvel Universe that hasn’t yet made it to the cinematic side.We got our first glimpse of Guardians last night, along with our first glimpse at the “cosmic” end of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Generally, the Internet has agreed that it was awesome.Besides the obvious, in-your-face ones like introducing the team and spending a bunch of time with the Nova Corps, what did we notice? Well, read on…Peter Jason Quill and the Raiders of the Space ArkWhile it could just be a similar sensibility in this kind of pulp-inspired adventure movie, it’s hard to imagine that with a child of the ’80s like Peter Quill as your main character, the similarities between the first five or so seconds of the film and the famous scene with Indiana Jones stealing the idol in Raiders of the Lost Ark are unintentional. You can check out the Raiders scene in question below to judge for yourself…