I really hope the Guardians reach a point where they are healed so far that they can joke about some of their dangerous experiences and laugh together about them like inside jokes.
Gamora and Peter carefully and loosely holding hands while everybody else is busy with themselves, and Rocket catches sight of it, immediately commenting, “Now that’s a terrible idea.”
“What?”
“Rocket…”
“I’m just saying! Last time you held Star Munch’s hand, you almost died, I mean, that’s not the best thing to start off from.”
“Oh, shut your muzzle, before I start holding your hand, too,” Peter shoots back while Gamora laughs next to him.
Or somebody calling Groot a “twig” and everybody just, freezes.
“He did not call him that.”
“I think ‘e did.”
“Uh-oh.”
“Preach for that poor guy.”
And there is just a loud, growled “I. Am. Groot!” and then the screams of the fools who were dumb enough to call Groot by a nickname they had no right to call him by.
And, last but not least, Peter crash-landing – no, let’s be honest, it’s just crashing – the ship into an enemy and when Gamora snaps “Peter!” afterwards he calls back, “What?! I’m honoring a family tradition here!”
“That is not why you did it, and we both know it – Rocket, you stop laughing right now!”
Just, them to be so far healed that they can deal with that stuff, instead of swallowing it down until they break, you get my meaning?
And some happy, dorky family moments on top of it.