Like every Marvel Studios movie, Guardians of the Galaxy is packed with Easter eggs, references, and trivia. But a lot of these can be easily missed, what with the fast-moving plot and constant barrage of classic jams to distract you. That's why we've compiled all the goodies we found while watching the movie.

Thanos

Infinity Stones

Beta Ray Bill

Yondu Udonta, OG

Nova

This one is super obvious. We see a big purple guy in gold armor named Thanos. That’s the same alien who grinned at the camera at the end of the Avengers movie.We said it was obvious!As explained by The Collector, Thanos is after all the Infinity Stones, or Infinity Gems, as they’re known in the comics. This is a clear reference to the Infinity Gauntlet comic where Thanos attached them all to a glove to achieve godlike power.Our best guess is that the Tesseract is the Space Gem, the Aether is the Power Gem, Loki’s staff has the Mind Gem, and the purple one from Guardians is the Reality Gem [Editor's Note: director James Gunn recently revealed on Twitter that the one in Guardians is the Power Stone]. That leaves the Time Gem and the Soul gem to probably pop up in some future Marvel movies.At the beginning of the movie, Star Lord picks up a horse-like Skeleton. This a nod to the horse-like race of aliens that Beta Ray Bill belongs to. In the comics, Beta Ray Bill at one point replaces Thor.Yondu Udonta is a mercenary in the movie, but in the comics he was actually a founding member of the Guardians of the Galaxy. But the real travesty is that they took away his sweet red mohawk.The Nova Corps are just space police in the movie, but in the comics that’s where the superhero Nova comes from.