#55: Guardians of the Galaxy: Language Limits
The Guardians of the Galaxy movies manage to straddle that line where, one minute, they are making you laugh hysterically, and the next, you’re bawling your eyes out. One of the most heart-wrenching elements of the show is that, at the tender age of 8, Peter Quill experienced a forcible separation from his family and his entire world. He never managed to fully recover from the profound loss.
But here’s one aspect of that storyline that I never thought of before: maybe that explains why the language stays PG-13. Now, of course, the real reason is that Marvel had decided they wanted to keep it a PG-13 movie. But it’s fun to imagine in-universe reasons for it.