Question 1

Is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 woke?

Accepted Answer

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 has a woke score of 22/100, which means it is not especially woke compared with higher-scoring titles. The movie keeps hammering Rocket's backstory of brutal animal experiments by the eugenics-obsessed High Evolutionary villain the entire runtime. It pushes found family, empathy for flawed misfits, and self-acceptance hard as the core emotional engine. Minor gender swap on Cosmo the dog and black actor cast as the High Evolutionary drew some complaints but nothing else signals forced diversity or identity politics. No activist lectures or modern social justice framing anywhere in the narrative.

Question 2

Is there DEI in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3?

Accepted Answer

The biggest factors in our score are Representation / casting choices, Identity-driven story themes, Institutional / cultural critique. Peter Quill, still reeling from the loss of Gamora, must rally his team around him to defend the universe along with protecting one of their own. A mission that, if not completed successfully, could quite possibly lead to the end of the Guardians as we know them.

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

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