This August, Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy will present us with the latest in a favorite subgenre of science fiction—the motley crew. These aren’t the professional space-faring crews of the Enterprise or Galactica. Or even the very semi-professional teams helming the Nostromo, Voyager or Andromeda Ascendant. The members of these crews have been brought together through a variety of means: convenient time travel snafus, mishaps in cryogenic preservation, prison meet-cutes and other forms of non-conformist behavior. They’re mismatched, chaotic and funny. And even when they’re saving the galaxy just to have a good laugh at its expense, it’s difficult not to love them.

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