While it is easy to peg the fan favorites from the first movie being Rocket and Groot, there wasn't much backstory for these two characters. But could both of them get their history a little more fleshed out with the sequel and create some new villains for the gang to face?

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Comic Book Resource speculated on Wednesday some villains that could pop up in the next Guardians of the Galaxy movie, and a set of them could play a major role in the development of Rocket and Groot.

The site outlined Lord Dyvyne, Judson Jakes and Blackjack O'Hare as a potential team of villains that the gang could face. The three are most directly linked with Rocket Raccoon's miniseries of comics that were released in the mid-80's.

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According to the site, in the comics, Dyvyne and Jakes were business rivals who ran mega-powerful corporations and tried to kidnap Rocket's lady love, Lynx, an heiress to another powerful conglomerate. The anthropomorphic despots hired Blackjack O'Hare and his Black Bunny Brigade to do the deed, starting a major rivalry with everyone's favorite space raccoon.

While Marvel recently retconned these characters into false memories implanted in Rocket's brain, there's little reason that Rocket (and Howard the Duck! And Cosmo!) has to be the only talking animal in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Thanks to Mantlo and Mignola, Marvel has a rich world comprised of cool space critters which would be perfect to enrich Rocket's movie back story.

It seems like this could be a possibility with maybe these characters showing up as more side villains, like Nebula in the first one, and could become bigger later on. Either way, they could lay the groundwork for future diving into the psyche of Rocket, if we really want that.

Guardians 2 is set to open in theaters on July 28, 2017.

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