A funny thing has been happening on Twitter between Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 writer/director James Gunn and, em, ALF.
ALF, for all you non-80s TV fans, was an alien – A.L.F stood for Alien.Life.Form – who was stranded on earth and was funny, sarcastic, cool with a penchant for eating cats and being hairy (I still have a massive cuddly ALF in my attic somewhere, I’m sure of it) and while he was a big TV character, he also had a surprisingly long life in comics too.
Oh, and his real name was Gordon Shumway and he hailed from the planet Melmac before living on earth with a family here on earth.
But now Gunn has been interacting with ALF’s official Twitter page and has us wondering… are we getting an ALF cameo in Guardians Vol 3? I mean, we got Howard the Duck in Vol 2, so nothing is impossible.
When one fan put it to Gunn and ALF that a crossover could be coming, ALF responded “can’t two celebrities be best friends without it being a promotion?” before tagging several news outlets.
Now, we ordinarily would just laugh this off, but ALF’s comic series was published by Marvel, below, and he even was part of the Marvel crossover event Evolutionary War, with the villainous High Revolutionary, who wanted to destroy the human race by forcing them to evolve, even appeared in the ALF comic, left, and you can read all about that here.
On top of this, Gunn famously brought Howard the Duck into the MCU in his second Guardians movie and he’s just as silly a character as ALF, so we’re certainly not ruling out his appearance in the third movie.
Totally coincidentally, I have started watching Mr Robot recently and ALF actually appears in a second season episode when Rami Malek’s character, Elliott, is in a coma and dreams of ALF, so he’s still in the public eye.
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 3 is due on May 5th, 2023, and will star Chris Pratt as Star-Lord, Zoe Saldaña as Gamora, Dave Bautista as Drax, Vin Diesel as Groot, and Bradley Cooper as Rocket Racoon along with new cast member Will Poulter as Adam Warlock.
You can check out the tweets that sparked our imaginations below:
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