History Characters / MCUGamora

-->-- '''Gamora'''

[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have spent most of my life surrounded by my enemies.\\
I will be grateful to die among my friends."'']]

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[[caption-width-right:350:''"I have spent most of my life surrounded by my enemies.\\

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[[caption-width-right:300:''"I have spent most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I will be grateful to die among my friends."'']]

* StrongasTheyNeedtoBe: In ''Vol. 2'', Gamora survived an exceptionally large fall alongside Mantis and Drax, landing safely with no injuries, while in ''Infinity War'', Gamora died to a smaller cliff, although this could be explained with the Vormir cliff being magic, due to the infinity stone.

!!! '''Portrayed By:''' Creator/ZoeSaldana, Creator/ArianaGreenblatt (young)
!!! '''Voiced By:''' Carla Medina (Latin-American Spanish dub, adult), Valentina Rodríguez (Latin-American Spanish dub, child), Olga Velasco (European Spanish dub), Creator/RomiPark (Japanese dub), Nathalie Karsenti (French dub), Catherine Proulx-Lemay (Canadian French dub), Priscila Amorim (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Maria Tsvetkova-Ovsyannikova (Russian dub)

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* DaddysLittleVillain: Subverted. She is raised by Thanos as "adoptive daughter" after he wiped out half of her home planet, teached by her in his own beliefs and trained to be a deadly assassin. While she does act as such for him for a while, she pulls off a HeelFaceTurn at the beginning of ''GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'', with Thanos now becoming her ArchNemesisDad. Thanos still views her as his favorite daughter, though.

* OutOfFocus: Due to her episode being pushed back to Season 2, we're given almost no information about Gamora's AlternateUniverse, making her the Guardian of the Multiverse with the least amount of focus. Come the actual Season 2 episode and we see what happened: she managed to track a lost Tony Stark to Sakaar, intending to take him to her father Thanos for foiling the Chitauri invasion on New York until Tony talks her out of it, encouraging her to break free from her dad's shadow and eventually work together to quickly end the Mad Titan's threat on the universe.

* OutOfFocus: Due to her episode being pushed back to Season 2, we're given almost no information about Gamora's AlternateUniverse, making her the Guardian of the Multiverse with the least amount of focus.

* DeaderThanDead: Touched upon when Thanos sacrifices her for the Soul Stone. This is expanded upon with Hulk trying to resurrect Black Widow, who sacrificed herself to Gamora's fate, along with everybody else Thanos snapped away]], but doesn't come back, as the trade is irreversible, even with the collective power of the Infinity Stones. (Undoing it may simply be "against the rules," because Soul requiring a sacrifice would be meaningless if it can be undone.)

!!!'''Voiced By:''' N/A

->''"I tried to kill you. Several times. But eventually, we become close, we become friends. We become sisters."''
-->-- '''Nebula'''

In an alternate timeline, Gamora, still a Child of Thanos, would join her father in attempting to conquer Earth in 2023.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: Downplayed. While she has more traits in common with the original comic book version, she has a pretty clear turn to heroism after a little bit of convincing from prime timeline Nebula.

[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > [[Characters/MCUGuardiansOfTheGalaxy Guardians of the Galaxy]] > [[Characters/MCUPeterQuill Peter Quill]] | '''Gamora''' | [[Characters/MCUDrax Drax]] | [[Characters/MCUGroot Groot]] | [[Characters/MCURocketRaccoon Rocket Raccoon]] | [[Characters/MCUYonduUdonta Yondu Udonta]] | [[Characters/MCUNebula Nebula]]-]]]

* TruerToTheText: Compared to her Sacred Timeline self, this Gamora remains much more like her comics counterpart of being a ruthless mercenary who's OnlyInItForTheMoney and cares primarily about her own interests above everything else. She does still show some compassion for her counterpart’s teammates over the course of the film, but she is ultimately the Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy above all else.

** Deconstructed and Reconstructed in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol3''. [[spoiler:Gamora is not the Guardian that the others knew and loved (to the point Drax says she is no longer family to them), but both Peter and Nebula still have deep love for her and Peter can never truly bring himself to forget the years he spent with her, even if she doesn’t any of these memories. She's dismissive and callous towards Peter because of this and sees him as an annoyance, but as the movie continues and she sees his resourcefulness, quick-thinking, compassion, bravery and skills (traits that attracted her to him in the first place), she ''does'' begin to warm up to him and even though Gamora insists that she will never be the woman he knew her as, he states who she is now is good enough for him and the two part on quite flirtatious terms, implying a romance between them isn't off the table. Whether it happens or not, their bond is never truly broken.]]

* CelebrityParadox: ''Franchise/{{Avatar}}'' and ''Franchise/StarWars'' exist in the MCU. Creator/ZoeSaldana plays Neytiri in the ''Avatar'' films, while Creator/ArianaGreenblatt played a young Ahsoka Tano in the ''Star Wars'' series ''Series/{{Ahsoka}}''.