3.Experiments include pain tolerance, starvation, vivisection, drug trials, transfusions, as well as experiments on babies and pregnant women, and more.
4.To achieve this, director and co-writer James Gunn takes the fail-safe, heartstring-twanging route of placing adorable animals in peril, exploring Rocket the raccoon's traumatic backstory, and touching on some unexpectedly dark themes – eugenics and vivisection – in the process.