Marvel"s First F-Bomb Was Used At The Wrong Time In Guardians Of The Galaxy 3
Warning! This article contains spoilers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
James Gunn's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 holds the honor of having the Marvel Cinematic Universe's first F-bomb, but there's a better place they could have used the word for greater emotional impact. Although all MCU movies have been rated PG-13, which means they're each allowed one use of the F-word, Marvel Studios has refrained from including that particular swear word. Other, less severe curse words have been used, leading to Captain America's "Language!" joke in Avengers: Age of Ultron, but never the F-word.
That changes in Gunn's trilogy capper, which sees Peter Quill aka Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) drop the MCU's first F-bomb. In one scene, Nebula (Karen Gillan) is struggling to open the door of a car so she, Star-Lord and Groot (voiced by Vin Diesel) can find the High Evolutionary (Chukwudi Iwuji), Pratt's character gives her instructions, getting more and more exasperated. Finally, Star-Lord tells Nebula, "Open the f-cking door." According to Gunn, the swear word wasn't scripted but, while filming, he told Pratt to add it and they ended up keeping it. However, there's a point in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ending where the F-word would've perhaps been better used.