"I AM GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!"

"... We're all gonna die,"

xD 

Fact #361
Dave Bautista's Drax makeup took only ninety minutes to apply, down from four hours for the first film. However, he would have to sit in a sauna at the end of the day to get the makeup off. 

Fact #362
According to the VFX artists, Ego's planet VFX comprises a trillion polygons, and is considered to be the biggest visual effect ever made. 

Fact #363
According to Chris Pratt, the film's script helped him come to terms with the death of his father. 

Fact #364
As Groot only communicates with the phrase, "I am Groot," in different inflections, James Gunn created a "Groot Version" of the script for himself and Vin Diesel, which contains each of Groot's lines in English. 

Fact #365
Prop master Russell Bobbitt had difficulty finding the cassette decks used in the first film and all of the Sony Walkman headphones they found were broken. Bobbitt contacted Sony to see if they had any available for filming, which they did not, so he eventually created six from scratch. 

Fact #366
Prop master Russell Bobbitt created a 1:1 scale model of the 10-inch (25 cm) Baby Groot for filming to use as a lighting reference, and sometimes puppeteered against the actors during the filming. 

Fact #367
In the Guardians of the Galaxy comics, Taserface is a warrior from the cybernetically enhanced race known as The Stark. The Stark are a race that found Iron Man technology that accidentally crashed on their home world and as a result, worship Tony Stark as their god.

Fact #368
Chris Pratt said that he found the workout regimen for his shirtless scene much easier compared to the first film, because he was already in great shape going into the film. For Guardians of the Galaxy, Pratt was sixty pounds overweight when he started working out. For this film, however, he said he had maintained his buff physique acquired from the first film. 

Fact #369
Director James Gunn revealed that he and Kevin Feige wanted David Bowie to appear in a cameo before his death on January 10, 2016. 

Fact #370
After many rumors, Karen Gillan reprised her role as Nebula without shaving her head.

Fact #371
In the comics, Mantis is human, and acquired her skills by living with the Kree. James Gunn chose to make her an alien in the film because he wanted Peter Quill to be the only one of the main characters to come from Earth.

Fact #372
Gary Oldman, Viggo Mortensen, Christoph Waltz, Christopher Plummer, Max von Sydow, and Liam Neeson were considered for the role of Ego.

Fact #373
James Gunn choreographed and served as the motion-capture model for Groot's dance during the opening credits sequence. It took the visual effects team nearly two years to complete the CG rendering of the scene for the final film.

Fact #374
Baby Groot says, "I am Groot," thirteen times in this film.

Fact #375
Chris Pratt said that he thought Michael Rooker has the best shirtless scene in the film because he said Rooker's shirtless scene is actually about showing vulnerability and developing Yondu's character, you learn something about him in the moment but his own scene was just to show off his body and did not really add to anything to Peter Quill.

Fact #376
The sensor that Peter Quill looks at when detecting the extra-dimensional creature is actually a 1977 Mattel handheld electronic football game. 

Fact #377
Laura Haddock who plays the character Meredith Quill, Peter Quill's mother, also appeared in Captain America: The First Avenger as a fan of Captain America.

Fact #378
Chris Sullivan's Taserface makeup took two and a half to three and a half hours to apply.

Fact #379
In the comics, Mantis is half-German and half-Vietnamese. She is portrayed in the film by Pom Klementieff, who has a South Korean mother and a French-Russian father.

Fact #380
Yondu has a larger head fin in this film than in Volume 1, bringing the character's look closer to his comic counterpart. 

Fact #381
Director James Gunn went on record in an interview that he wants to give Nebula her own spin-off movie.

Fact #382
The stinkbug that gets eaten in the film was actually made of chocolate and black honey.

Fact #383
This film was shipped to cinemas under the pseudonym "Level Up." 

Fact #384
Ego's name is Greek for "I am." The Hebrew name for God, Yahweh, also means "I am," and God identifies himself as such in the Book of Exodus.

Fact #385
Benicio Del Toro, who portrayed the Collector in the first film, expressed interest in portraying the character again despite Marvel not contacting him about the sequel. 

Fact #386
Vin Diesel recorded Groot's voice for sixteen foreign-language releases of the film, up from six in the first film.

Fact #387
Kurt Russell has appeared in many Disney films over the past fifty-one years. This will be his first Disney film and superhero film since filming Sky High.

Fact #388
The ironic thing about Gamora not enjoying dancing is actress Zoe Saldana actually has a deep background in dancing, with Ballet being her first passion.

Fact #389
To make the Ravagers' belts, prop master Russell Bobbitt had his team cut the leather themselves rather than buying existing belts, and then parts from different electronic devices such as radios and cell phones were glued together to make each belt "a unique piece of art".

Fact #390
Mantis compares the idea of Ego's planet form having people settle on him as like inviting fleas to live on your body. This is a reference to Rocket Raccoon #6 published in 2014, where Rocket takes a job exterminating giant fleas that have settled on Ego.

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did! *insert Hooked On A Feeling here*