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The Secret Darth Vader / Star-Lord Connection!

There was nearly a Star Wars / Guardians Of The Galaxy link that would have changed everything!

This is Peter Quill, aka Star-Lord, from Guardians of the Galaxy!

He's a handsome, charming, swashbuckling space adventurer, who careers around the universe quipping his way through danger

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And this is Darth Vader, aka Anakin Skywalker, from Star Wars!

He's an evil, heartless, murdering space rotter, who builds giant death machines and spreads fear throughout the galaxy

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They're very different (other than the space thing) but they were nearly connected!

When Marvel were making the Guardians Of The Galaxy movie they had an idea involving Lord Vader

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Remember Star-Lord's Walkman containing the tape of his Mum's favourite songs?

It was what led to the movie having such an awesome soundtrack

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Instead of that, the thing he brought with him from Earth was going to be a Darth Vader figure

It makes sense – Darth Vader is pretty cool, even in action figure form!

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That would have led to him teaching aliens, like Rocket and Groot, about Star Wars!

Layers upon layers! Madness!

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They decided to go with a Walkman and music instead though, which was a great choice...

Because without it, we wouldn't have had DANCING BABY GROOT! 

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