Avengers: Endgame brought quite a lot of firsts into the Marvel Cinematic Universe when it debuted in theaters a little over a month ago — including one pretty specific one. As the Instagram account accurate.mcu points out, and a recent behind-the-scenes photo proves, one of the film’s final sequences includes the first appearance of Drax (Dave Bautista) actually wearing a shirt. As eagle-eyed fans will probably remember, Drax and the other Guardians of the Galaxy were in attendance for the funeral of Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.), which some members of the team appear to have dressed in their best attire for.
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Throughout the four MCU appearances he’s made thus far, Drax has primarily stuck to wearing a pair of pants and no shirt. He did wear a rather infamous nipple-chafing suit of armor in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, but we’re not sure if that technically counts as a shirt.
Although the MCU’s version of Drax has differed in some interesting ways from his comic counterpart, it’s hard to deny that Bautista has embraced those changes wholeheartedly. The wrestler/actor has been pretty candid about the significance of his Guardians of the Galaxy role, and the relationship it helped form between him and writer-director James Gunn.
“We met and I could tell right away he wanted me to be Drax because he was really into it,” Bautista recounted during a recent convention appearance. “He directed me in a few different ways and we were already connecting. James and I connected really fast.”
“Because of where I was at in my life, I say James Gunn changed the direction of my life, not just of my career and this is why I’m so loyal to him,” Bautista added. I connected with him right off the bat but it was months of auditioning and chemistry tests.”
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Captain Marvel and Avengers: Endgame are in theaters now. Spider-Man: Far From Home will land in theaters on July 2nd.
