Guardians of the Galaxy Fan Plays the Long Game in James Gunn's DMs

| September 28, 2021 |

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Guardians of the Galaxy poster starring...a ferret — *Photograph: Curiosity Studios (edited)*

Persistence is a virtue. And thankfully one anonymous hero on Instagram has been fighting the practiced fight for years to give the people what they desire: a ferret in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 .

Perchance some explanation is necessary. Filmmaker James Gunn, of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy franchise, DC'southward The Suicide Squad , and upcoming HBO Max series Peacemaker , took to Twitter yesterday to written report on some strange goings on in his Instagram direct messages.

Unless Gunn went through the trouble of fabricating these messages as some kind of weird and wholly unnecessary publicity stunt for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (and to be clear: he definitely does not have the fourth dimension for that), a dedicated Instagram user has been messaging him the exact aforementioned message multiple times per week for more than than 2 years, without fail.

The bulletin reads: "And then volition u put a FERRET in GOTG3? (I KNOW You SAW THIS) 😊 I'm from STL too, exercise it for the HOMIES !"

This anonymous Instagram messenger is presumably seeking a literal anthropomorphic ferret companion for Rocket Raccoon in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. iii . Sadly, no such ferret exists in the electric current Marvel canon. There is, however, Dennis Piper a.k.a. The Ferret – a detective so named for his power to "ferret" out criminals. Including him in GOTG3 would arguably be stranger than including an bodily ferret though.

Is it possible that this message is some kind of secret code? If y'all remove all punctuation and the "iii" from it, you are left with 23 letters. According to highly expert online anagram algorithms, 22 of those letters can be rearranged into xl different word combinations. "Aiguillettes uptorn frow" has some hope but it's probably not what we're looking for.

The only logical conclusion to depict is that this commenter really just wants to see a ferret in a picture. If and so, quibble about the spelling or grammar all you want, just this is a fundamentally perfect statement for putting a ferret in Guardians of the Milky way 3 . Get-go of all, "FERRET" is in all caps so y'all know Gunn won't miss it. In fact, the message immediately acknowledges that in that location'south no way Gunn missed it "(I KNOW Y'all SAW THIS)" and Gunn confirmed as much past posting this to his followers.

Then at that place'south the appeal to Gunn'southward hometown, which is a masterstroke. If someone slid into my DMs, said they were from Northeast Ohio, then added "practice it for the HOMIES !" I would photoshop a ferret into whatever film they asked. In this 23-letter message alone, the argument appeals to iii of the half dozen most common persuasion techniques: Authority (capitalized words), Commitment and Consistency (sending it several times a week), and Liking ("do it for the HOMIES !).

Gunn doesn't say if the letters hogtie him to really include a ferret in Guardians of the Milky way Vol. 3 . I guess nosotros won't find out until the pic is released on May 5, 2023.

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