History Characters / MCUGamora

** In ''Avengers: Endgame'', [[spoiler:the 2014 timeline version of herself ends up betraying Thanos and joining the heroes after hearing from Nebula that her prime timeline counterpart had a real family in the Guardians of the Galaxy]].

** Also to Vision in ''Infinity War''. [[spoiler:Both are at least partially cybernetic heroes (Gamora has implant markings on her face while Vision is a full-on robot) in a relationship with a human character (Peter Quill and Wanda Maximoff respectively) that's been developing over a few years when the threat of Thanos looms, which leads to them asking their lovers to kill them to stop Thanos from getting an Infinity Stone. And when Peter and Wanda are too hesitant to go through with the promise, it leads to Thanos getting what he wants, albeit with Vision getting killed much quicker than Gamora once he's in his grasp. They also happen to go out in the exact opposite way from how they planned to. Finally, both of their lovers perish after Thanos does his almighty [[TheBadGuyWins snap.]]]]

* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Gamora and Nebula discovers the [[spoiler:bones of children, Ego murdered underneath his planet, she angrily confronts Mantis about it by forcing her with the NeckLift if she's scheming with Ego to manipulate Peter until Drax tells her to put Mantis down and learns about the true story behind Ego's genocidal plot afterwards before immediately rescuing Peter from him.]]

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[[center: [- [[Characters/MarvelCinematicUniverse Main Character Index]] > Heroic Organizations > [[Characters/MCUGuardiansOfTheGalaxy Guardians of the Galaxy]] ([[Characters/MCUStarLord Star-Lord]] | '''Gamora''' | [[Characters/MCURocketRaccoon Rocket Raccoon]] | [[Characters/MCUDraxTheDestroyer Drax the Destroyer]] | [[Characters/MCUYonduUdonta Yondu Udonta]] | [[Characters/MCUThor Thor Odinson]]) -]]]

* BrokenBird: Her family was murdered in front of her and then she was adopted and raised as an assassin by the one responsible for her parents' death. It's no surprise someone coming out of that would be so cold and emotionally reserved.
* CainAndAbel: With Nebula. There is some genuine affection mingled in with the resentment and bad blood between them, at least enough that [[spoiler:Gamora tried to save Nebula after defeating her on the ''Dark Aster''. They reconcile in ''Vol. 2'' and agree to live as sisters instead of the fratricidal weapons Thanos tried to forcibly turn them into.]]
** [[spoiler:This dynamic is ultimately reversed in ''Endgame'' when Nebula, traveling from their future after they reconciled, convinces Gamora they need to work together against Thanos and Nebula's past self]].

* ActOfTrueLove: Whether justified or not, in ''Infinity War'' she [[spoiler:sacrifices everything, including "greater good" (the location of the Soul Stone) and ultimately, her own life for familial love for her sister Nebula]].
* AlmostKiss: A textbook case with Quill in the first movie. Although instead of pulling away, or slapping him, she pulls a knife on him.
* ApocalypseMaiden: By virtue of being the only being that [[spoiler:Thanos]] loves, he needs her in order to obtain the [[spoiler:Soul Stone]]. As is common with the trope, she tries to thwart his plan by [[spoiler:[[HeroicSuicide quickly whipping out her little double-edged dagger and attempting to stab herself to death with it,]]]], but [[spoiler:Thanos]] prevents it, as it's also common with the trope.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: Gives one to Peter in the second film:
-->'''Peter:''' I finally found my family! Don't you understand that?\\
'''Gamora:''' ...I thought you already had.
* AsYouKnow: The trend of Gamora being the one to provide information to the audience in the first film as MsExposition continues this way in the second one:
** In the first scene, Gamora exposits that the Guardians were hired by the High Priestess to kill the Abilisk. Maybe she thought Rocket had forgotten, you know, given that he was setting up background music and his known penchant for thievery.
** Later she recaps Peter's childhood excuse of calling David Hasselhoff his father ''to Peter himself''. Downplayed, however, in that Gamora gets some details wrong (e.g., saying Hasselhoff piloted a magical boat rather than a talking car), forcing Peter to correct her so she can tell the rest of the story properly.
* BadassAdorable: Right at the end of the first film, when she shyly, awkwardly starts dancing to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
* BadLiar: Thanos calls her one [[spoiler:after she swears that she doesn't know the location of the Soul Stone.]]
-->'''Thanos:''' You’re strong. Me… You’re generous. Me… But I never taught you to lie. That’s why you’re so bad at it.
* TheBait: Quill convinces Drax and the other inmates to spare Gamora, saying that if she's alive, Ronan — the guy Drax really wants — will eventually come for her.
* BattleCouple: With Peter Quill, after they become the OfficialCouple. [[Until he meets her new timeline counterpart in ''Endgame'', apparently]].
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Downplayed. Gamora gets a few scrapes and scratches, but she isn't marred ''nearly'' as much as logic says she should be. Justified, as she has a healing factor in the comics and an "enhanced regeneration implant" is mentioned in her rap sheet.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her relationship with Star-Lord starts out with them trying to kill each other. Then they start grooving to '80s music and then she puts a knife to his neck for attempting to seduce her.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Subverted. She considers Thanos taking her alive to be AFateWorseThanDeath. To the point she makes Peter promise to kill her should it come to pass. [[spoiler:However this trope is played completely straight when Gamora is shocked to find she's the not just the key to finding the Soul Stone but the sacrifice needed to obtain it. She tries to kill herself to deny Thanos but he robs her of the chance with the Reality Stone.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Gamora and Nebula discovers the [[spoiler:bones of children, Ego murdered underneath his planet, she angrily confronts Mantis about it by forcing her with the NeckLift if she's scheming with Ego to manipulate Peter until Drax tells her to put Mantis down and learns about the true story behind Ego's genocidal plot afterwards before immediately rescuing Peter from him.]]
* {{BFG}}: During the fight with Nebula in the second ''Guardians'' film, she manages to not only jury-rig an entire spaceship cannon made up of ''three [[GatlingGood rotary guns]]'' that's bigger than her, but walk around with it sitting on her shoulder as she fires it at full-auto straight into Nebula's craft said cannon came from.
* BigNo:
** In the first ''Guardians'' film, when it looks like [[spoiler:Nebula is going to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to her death]].]]
** She furiously shakes her head [[spoiler:when Peter invites her to the dance-off against Ronan]]. Followed by an actual BigNo when [[spoiler:Peter is about to grab the Infinity Stone]].
** In the second film, when she thinks Peter has died in a massive explosion.
* BigSisterInstinct: The Guardians take the job from the Sovereigns to get her sister back (though she states they are taking her to prison), who even as she tries to kill her, she is constantly trying to protect and sway her. She also says "hi" and smiles at Groot even in a very tense situation, clearly humoring him in a sisterly way. [[spoiler:Thanos uses this against Gamora in ''Infinity War'' when he tortures Nebula in front of her so she'll tell him the location of the Soul Stone.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Thanos throws her to her death to obtain the Soul Stone, which required him to sacrifice that which is most important to him.]]
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Gamora died from the BadassFingersnap in the comic, but dies before that in the ''Infinity War'' film so that Thanos can retrieve the Soul Stone.]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:''Infinity War'' sees a flashback of Gamora's adoption by Thanos, as well as scenes between her and Thanos culminating in her death by Thanos' hand.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Initially distant to her teammates coming off of serving under Thanos, but starts to open up and care about them as she recognizes them as her friends.
* DispenseWithThePleasantries: In ''Vol.1'' she won't be distracted by them:
-->'''The Collector:''' Oh, my dear Gamora. How wonderful to meet in the flesh.
-->'''Gamora:''' Let's bypass the formalities, Tivan. We have what we discussed.
* TheDragon: In the first ''Guardians'' film, Gamora and Nebula are CoDragons on loan from Thanos to Ronan, who is himself Thanos's dragon. Gamora betrays all of them early on.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:When she is captured by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she asks Quill to honor his promise and kill her. Before he pulls the trigger, Gamora says that she loves him "more than anything". This is not the moment she dies, however, as the bullet turns into bubbles: the reality has been distorted by the Reality Stone.]]
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Gets quite the eyeful of [[MrFanservice Thor]] after the Guardians bring him onboard the ''Benetar''. She even picks up Thor's arm and feels his biceps herself before Quill tells her to stop.
-->'''Gamora:''' It's like his muscles are made of Cotati metal fiber...
* {{Foil}}:
** Peter's opposite in personality. Peter is a carefree StepfordSmiler who's OnlyInItForTheMoney, Gamora is a brooding BrokenBird who's out for revenge against the madman who raised her; Peter is a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass who gets out of tight situations by thinking on his feet, Gamora is an experienced ProfessionalKiller whose discipline is her greatest asset, but who is a poor improviser. Both were taken in and raised by someone not of their species to have some degree in fighting. The initial fight between her and Peter, where she displays superior skill and strength but is caught off guard more than once by his resourcefulness, highlights this well.
** Also to [[Characters/MCULoki Loki]] in ''Infinity War''. Both are adopted children who had misguided/callous father figures (Odin and Thanos) and fought against their siblings (Nebula and Thor), albeit Gamora was on the heroic side like Thor and Loki turned to evil like Nebula. Both have reconciled with their siblings before ''Infinity War'', [[spoiler:where both are forced to watch Thanos torture their beloved siblings unless they cough up an Infinity Stone (or the location of one). And they do just that... Which leads to both of their deaths at the hands of Thanos, while Nebula and Thor survive his direct wrath]].
** Also to Vision in ''Infinity War''. [[spoiler:Both are at least partially cybernetic heroes (Gamora has implant markings on her face while Vision is a full-on robot) in a relationship with a human character (Peter Quill and Wanda Maximoff respectively) that's been developing over a few years when the threat of Thanos looms, which leads to them asking their lovers to kill them to stop Thanos from getting an Infinity Stone. And when Peter and Wanda are too hesitant to go through with the promise, it leads to Thanos getting what he wants, albeit with Vision getting killed much quicker than Gamora once he's in his grasp. They also happen to go out in the exact opposite way from how they planned to. Finally, both of their lovers perish after Thanos does his almighty [[TheBadGuyWins snap.]]]]
* ForcedToWatch: In ''Infinity War'', [[spoiler:Thanos forces her to watch her sister Nebula being tortured in front of her. Gamora caves in to Thanos's demands to stop the torture.]]
* GirlishPigtails: To highlight her youth and innocence, the young Gamora seen in ''Infinity War'' has her hair in two braided pigtails.
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[spoiler:Gamora believes that love cannot be in the form of possessive or abusive relationships, and thus assumes her adopted father Thanos, [[AbusiveParent who has abused her and Nebula into killing machines]], is incapable of loving anyone. She [[OhCrap realizes too late]] that Thanos does geninuely love her... just when he needs a loved one to sacrifice for the Soul Stone.]]
-->'''Gamora:''' No... This isn't love!
* GroinAttack: Gamora [[CombatPragmatist is not above it]]. When she attempts to steal the Orb from Quill on Xandar, she kicks him between the legs twice in a row.
* GuiltByAssociation: Just being an ally to Ronan (an ex-ally, at that) is enough to make Gamora widely despised the minute she arrived on the Kyln, and it nearly gets her killed -- first by an angry mob, then by Drax.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:{{Subverted|Trope}}. Gamora attempts to kill herself once she realizes that [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Thanos is crying for her]] to prevent him from completing the ritual for the Soul Stone, but Thanos turns the dagger she uses into bubbles with the Reality Stone.]]
* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:In ''Infinity War'', Thanos gets Gamora to tell him the location of the Soul Stone after threatening to kill Nebula. This ultimately leads to Gamora's own death, but Nebula survives until the end.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Her fate]] in ''Infinity War''. [[spoiler:Thanos sacrifices her for the Soul Stone by throwing her off the cliff in a predetermined location on Vormir that resembles an altar.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Insults Peter by calling him "an honorless thief". This, after she'd double-crossed her former allies and attacked Peter in an attempt to steal the Orb from him and sell it herself.
* ICantDance: She initially can't bring herself to dance. The fact that Peter can coax her into dancing in ''Vol. 2'' showcases how much she has defrosted.
* ImNotHungry: [[spoiler:When Thanos offers Gamora a bowl of food after taking her to his base,]] she angrily throws the bowl across the room.
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Two very, very grim instances in ''Infinity War''. The first time was when she demanded Peter to shoot her after Thanos had taken her hostage but Thanos prevented this by turning his shots and his gun into bubbles. The second is when she realizes that Thanos is going to sacrifice her to obtain the Soul Stone, she grabs the dagger to stab herself but it turns into bubbles as well.]]
* InterspeciesRomance: With Peter Quill, a human.
* {{Irony}}: In ''Infinity War'', she [[spoiler:swears to Thanos on her life that she never found the Soul Stone. While this is technically true, she did find its ''location''. Thanos kills her later in the movie, although [[HumanSacrifice for different reasons]].]]
* InstitutionalApparel: In ''Vol.1,'' she has to wear a yellow sleeveless top and pants in the Kyln Space Prison.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Her final fate after Thanos throws her to her death -- we see her dead body.]]
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Whilst she's not as big an overt fan as Quill (or even Groot), she does express in the first ''Guardians'' film that Quill's music is not displeasing. In the Guardians' introductory scene in ''Infinity War'', she's shown actively singing along to "Rubberband Man" with Quill.
* LateToTheRealization: [[spoiler:Red Skull really shouldn't have needed to explain to her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes why Thanos was crying]].]]
* MaleGaze: The camera ([[EatingTheEyeCandy and Peter]]) focus on her shapely butt swaying as she ascends the steps on the ''Milano''.
* ManBitesMan: Or rather, woman bites anthropomorphic raccoon. Gamora does this to Rocket during the MeleeATrois in the first film, to the latter's outrage. [[{{Irony}} Ironic]] considering Rocket's rap sheet mentions he himself is prone to biting.
* MercyKillArrangement: She has Star-Lord promise to kill her if Thanos ever captures her. Star-Lord tries to keep his promise, but Thanos intervenes.
* MinidressOfPower: Gamora wears one at the end of the first film as her new "Guardian" uniform.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Gamora hates Thanos for killing her family and reshaping her into a weapon to serve him. She betrays him to keep the Power Stone away from him.
* MoralityPet: She is perhaps the only thing Thanos truly cares about. [[spoiler:He sacrifices her for the Soul Stone but is crying the whole time.]]
* MsExposition: In ''Vol. 1'', she provides an {{Infodump}} about Knowhere. In ''Vol. 2'', there are a couple of instances of AsYouKnow involving her. In ''Infinity War'', she explains Thanos's past and motives to Thor and the rest of the Guardians, and even foreshadows [[spoiler:the Snap]].
* MulticoloredHair: Dark brown hair with a purplish red ombre.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She tells Peter to check to make sure Ego is his father and reassures him that if he turns out to be a scammer or otherwise evil then they can just kill him. On the other hand, this is never an acceptable solution when [[BigSisterInstinct Nebula is involved]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In ''Vol. 2'', when Nebula [[spoiler:calls Gamora out on never letting her win when they were forced to compete by Thanos, who always forced Nebula to undergo UnwillingRoboticisation for losing, Gamora is genuinely ashamed to have failed her sister so badly for so many years. Though she does point out that she was a scared child focused on survival just like Nebula when they were young, and it wasn't fair of Nebula to expect so much from her that young.]]
* NiceGirl: In ''Vol. 2'' as she's a moral compass, compassionate, selfless, and friendly after she joins Peter as the Guardians Of The Galaxy.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Thanos exploits her [[LoveIsaWeakness affection for Nebula]] and [[spoiler:offers sparing her life in exchange for an Infinity Stone's location. Even with Nebula telling her not to relent, she tells Thanos where to find the Soul Stone to save her sister. This sets in motion the events that led directly to her death and the murder of half the population of the universe.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: After two movies of not dancing and showing, at best, tolerance for Peter's antics and his music, her first scene in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has her enthusiastically singing along to Peter's mix tape.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: What Thanos does to her, although he did it quite reluctantly. Not that this helps his case any]].
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: How Gamora [[spoiler:found the Soul Stone's location]] is never clarified, but it's impressive considering nobody else in the Universe knows where it is.
* OhCrap:
** When Peter [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext challenges Ronan to a dance-off]]]], Gamora is left staring in horror, like she thinks he's gone completely insane.
** Has a particularly nasty wake up call in particular during ''Infinity War'' [[spoiler:where, despite her insistence and long-held belief that Thanos is a monster who cares nothing about her or ''anyone'' for that matter, she finds out that's definitely '''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes not]]''' the case and he's painfully forced to [[SadisticChoice make a decision between his love for her and his plan]], [[ShootTheDog one which she sadly loses]].]]
* ThePowerOfFriendship: [[spoiler:The first of the Guardians to think of grabbing Peter during the first movie's climax and splitting the Infinity Stone's power enough to help him survive it.]]
-->'''Gamora:''' I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die surrounded by my friends.
* ThePromise: In ''Infinity War,'' she extracts one from Peter Quill. [[spoiler:Acting upon it is a major breaking point for him:]]
-->'''Gamora:''' If things go wrong… If Thanos gets me… I want you to promise me… you'll kill me.
-->'''Peter:''' ''...What?''
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: being the reasonable one, Gamora tends to call others out:
** Peter and Rocket in the second film after they barely survive the encounter with the Sovereign fleet. Gamora states that either of them could have easily evaded their pursuers had they not let their arrogance and need to outdo each other get in the way.
** Nebula after their fight on Ego. Gamora points out her one-dimensional obsession with killing her, even continuing to attack even after Gamora saved her life.
* RelationshipUpgrade: During the first two ''Guardians'' films, she and Peter are clearly attracted to each other on some level, but neither are willing to state it. Then in ''Infinity War'' they mutually confess their love and share a kiss. [[spoiler:And then she gets kidnapped and ultimately killed by Thanos.]]
* SaveTheVillain: She tries to save her adopted sister twice:
** ''Vol. 1'': {{Defied|Trope}} when Nebula is hanging on her cybernetic hand, and Gamora reaches out to help her only for Nebula to cut off the hand and fall down.
** ''Vol. 2'': Played straight when Gamora pulls Nebula from an exploding space shuttle only moments after the latter attempted to kill her. [[spoiler:The two reconcile later.]]
* TheScapegoat: Everyone in the prison hates Gamora, considering her guilty by association due to what Ronan has done. Rocket initially predicts that she'll last a day at most.
* SlowNo:
** In the climax of the first film, Gamora screams this during Peter's DesperateObjectCatch for the Space Stone blown from Ronan's hammer that must not touch the ground.
** In ''Infinity War'', [[spoiler:when she [[SlowMotionFall slowly falls]] to her death after Thanos throws her off the cliff on [[SnowMeansDeath snowy]] Vormir as a sacrifice for the Soul Stone.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female on the team in the first film. She loses this status in the second film because Mantis [[spoiler:and temporarily Nebula]] joins.
* StraightMan: She's the most levelheaded member of the Guardians, with very few personality quirks, unlike [[LovableRogue Star-Lord]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Drax]], [[DumbMuscle Groot]], and [[TriggerHappy Rocket]].
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Gamora is distraught when she thinks she's killed Thanos, to the latter's surprise as she's made no secret of her hatred for him. Despite his troops murdering her parents along with half her planet, Thanos ''was'' a father to her.]]
* TheStoic: Bordering on EmotionlessGirl. Always focused and serious (aside from truly deadpan snark), and as noted under UnresolvedSexualTension, even avoids having feelings.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She has a tough and emotionless exterior due to her upbringing, but she's nice and kind-hearted once she starts to open up.
* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Arguably. [[spoiler: On one hand, her death was the tragic end to her character arc long defined by her attempts to escape Thanos's abuse. On the other hand, the main emphasis of her death was Thanos's grief over it - Thanos, that guy who only ''abused her for most of her life'' - plus she died in Vormir's cold, icy, [[VisualPun refrigerator-like]] environment. And on the third hand, some incarnation of her exists in present, even though it's not the same Gamora who died on Vormir.]]
* SuperStrength: Although she rarely has cause to use it due to her general badassery, she is strong enough to perform incredibly impressive feats of strength, for example using a {{BFG}} designed to be [[UpToEleven mounted on spaceships]], which was easily over one ton. This also includes [[InASingleBound the ability to leap tremendous distances,]] such as bouncing off the Abelisk's tentacle and landing her sword into its cut high on its neck.
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her initial impression of her teammates.
-->'''Gamora:''' I'm going to die surrounded by the ''biggest idiots'' in the galaxy.
* TakeMyHand: She says this a couple of times:
** to Nebula in the first film when the latter is about to perform a DisneyVillainDeath. Nebula rejects the offer.
** to Peter in the same film when he is about to be overwhelmed by the Power Stone. He does take her hand after a brief flashback of his dying mother asking him the same thing.
* TimeshiftedActor: Ariana Greenblatt plays young Gamora in ''Infinity War'', while Zoe Saldana plays her adult counterpart.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A towards Peter, ''especially'' in ''Vol. 2''. She's ''very'' adamant that there is no "unspoken thing" between the two of them, despite the blindingly obvious attraction they share.

--->'''Gamora:''' Everything I hate about myself...you taught me.

* AlmostKiss: Mirroring the first time they nearly kiss her original timeline, the first meeting between them in ''Endgame'' results in her [[GroinAttack kneeing him in the groin]] ''twice''.

* DeadAlternateCounterpart: By the end of ''Endgame'', the Gamora who died in ''Infinity War'' exists as this to the Gamora pulled from the past into the present. As she was from a time before she formed the Guardians of the Galaxy, she is completely confused about her future self's situation and ran off after the climax of the film.

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* StuffedIntoTheFridge: Arguably. [[spoiler: On one hand, her death was the tragic end to her character arc long defined by her attempts to escape Thanos's abuse. On the other hand, the main emphasis of her death was Thanos's grief over it - Thanos, that guy who only ''abused her for most of her life'' - plus that she died on cold icy Vormir seems very... [[BuffySpeak fridge-ish]]. And on the third hand, some incarnation of her exists in present, even though it's not the same Gamora who died on Vormir.]]

* AbusiveParents: Or rather, adoptive father, in Gamora's case. Though even "adoptive" is too kind a word... Thanos ''kidnapped'' her from her home planet after slaughtering half the people there (including her family) and raised her as his adoptive daughter. Of course, by "raised", this is in the most abusive and traumatic way possible, as he succeeded in turning her into an assassin. [[spoiler: Horrifyingly and tragically, Gamora dies at the very hands of her abusive adoptive father in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'']].]]

!! Spoilers for all works set prior to ''Avengers: Infinity War'' and ''Avengers: Endgame'' are unmarked.

* AlmostKiss: [[spoiler:Mirroring the first time they nearly kiss her original timeline, the first meeting between them in ''Endgame'' results in her [[GroinAttack kneeing him in the groin]] ''twice'']].
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:In ''Avengers: Endgame'', her 2014 self from an alternate timeline replaces her dead self in the prime timeline.]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Endgame'', the Gamora who died in ''Infinity War'' exists as this to the Gamora pulled from the past into the present. As she was from a time before she formed the Guardians of the Galaxy, she is completely confused about her future self's situation and ran off after the climax of the film.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Though she's seen during the final battle in ''Endgame'', Gamora apparently disappears without a trace once it's all over without explanation as well as not shown on-screen to be killed alongside Thanos's force. Star-Lord is later seen searching for her on his map display, suggesting she's still alive and sticking around in the present day/her future]].

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Though she's seen during the final battle in ''Endgame'', Gamora apparently disappears without a trace once it's all over without explanation. Star-Lord is later seen searching for her on his map display, suggesting she's sticking around in the present day/her future]].

* AlmostKiss: [[spoiler: Mirroring the first time they nearly kiss her original timeline, the first meeting between them in ''Endgame'' results in her [[GroinAttack kneeing him in the groin]] ''twice'']].
* AlternateSelf: [[spoiler:In ''Avengers: Endgame'', her 2014 self from an alternate timeline replaces her dead self in the prime timeline.]]
* DeadAlternateCounterpart: [[spoiler:By the end of ''Endgame'', the Gamora who died in ''Infinity War'' exists as this to the Gamora pulled from the past into the present. As she was from a time before she formed the Guardians of the Galaxy, she is completely confused about her future self's situation and ran off after the climax of the film.]]
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler:Though she's seen during the final battle in ''Endgame'', Gamora apparently disappears without a trace once it's all over without explanation. Star-Lord is later seen searching for her on his map display, suggesting she's sticking around in the present day/her future]].

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* WalkingSpoiler: In ''Avengers: Endgame''. [[spoiler:The original Gamora stays dead, and a new version from an alternate timeline replaces her.]]

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!!''ComicBook/{{Gamora}}''
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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."'']]

!!! '''Species:''' Zehoberei
!!! '''Portrayed by:''' Creator/ZoeSaldana, Ariana Greenblatt (Child)
!!! '''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)
!!! '''Appearances:''' ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' | ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxyVol2'' | ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' | ''[[Film/Avengers4 Untitled Avengers Sequel]]''

->''"Gamora: soldier, assassin, wanted on over a dozen counts of murder."''
-->-- '''Rhomann Dey'''

A Zehoberei woman taken in and modified by Thanos to be a warrior in his service.
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[[folder:Tropes A to H]]
* ActionGirl: She's a renowned assassin, after all.
* ActOfTrueLove: Whether justified or not, in ''Infinity War'' she [[spoiler: sacrifices everything, including "greater good" (the location of the Soul Stone) and ultimately, her own life for familial love for her sister Nebula]].
* AdaptationDyeJob: Her hair colour is black in the comics, and dark red in MCU.
* AdaptationalHeroism: In the comics, she's known as [[RedBaron "The Most Dangerous Woman in the Galaxy"]], rather amoral, and is generally on the side of the good guys more out of spite, boredom, or self-preservation than any real desire to make the universe a safer place. Here, she's the most moral of the group, quickly connects emotionally with the team, serves as the moral compass early in the film, and is the first to stand by Peter.
* AdaptationalModesty: Gamora's costumes in the films are significantly less {{Stripperiffic}} than what she usually wears in the comics.
* AffectionateNickname: Thanos calls Gamora "little one".
* AlmostKiss: A textbook case with Quill in the first movie. Although instead of pulling away, or slapping him, she pulls a knife on him.
* AloofBigSister: It's revealed that part of the reason Nebula hates Gamora is because of this. While we don't know who is actually older, Nebula feels younger here. When the two were pitted against each other, Gamora never held back or showed any concern over Thanos's abuse. Gamora was focused on survival. As Nebula put it, "You were all I had. But you just needed to win." Nebula always wanted Gamora to be her sister or show some concern for her.
* ApocalypseMaiden: By virtue of being the only being that [[spoiler:Thanos]] loves, he needs her in order to obtain the [[spoiler:Soul Stone]]. As is common with the trope, she tries to thwart his plan by [[spoiler:performing a HeroicSuicide]], but [[spoiler:Thanos]] prevents it, as it's also common with the trope.
* ArmorPiercingResponse: She delivers one in the second film:
-->'''Peter:''' Don't you understand I've finally found my family?\\
'''Gamora:''' I thought you already had.
* AsYouKnow: The trend of Gamora being the one to provide information to the audience in the first film as MsExposition continues this way in the second one:
** In the first scene, Gamora exposits that the Guardians were hired by the High Priestess to kill the Abilisk. Maybe she thought Rocket had forgotten, you know, given that he was setting up background music and his known penchant for thievery.
** Later she recaps Peter's childhood excuse of calling David Hasselhoff his father ''to Peter himself''. Downplayed, however, in that Gamora gets some details wrong (e.g., saying Hasselhoff piloted a magical boat rather than a talking car), forcing Peter to correct her so she can tell the rest of the story properly.
* BadassAdorable: Right at the end of the first film, when she shyly, awkwardly starts dancing to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
* BadLiar: Thanos calls her one [[spoiler:after she swears that she doesn't know the location of the Soul Stone.]]
-->'''Thanos:''' You’re strong. Me… You’re generous. Me… But I never taught you to lie. That’s why you’re so bad at it.
* TheBait: Quill convinces Drax and the other inmates to spare Gamora, saying that if she's alive, Ronan — the guy Drax really wants — will eventually come for her.
* BattleCouple: With Peter Quill, after they become the OfficialCouple.
* BeautyEqualsGoodness: Supposedly she's a cyborg, but all that shows on the outside is some slight ridging on her face (unless that's her natural bone structure). Compare her EvilCounterpart and sister Nebula, who has no hair and a clearly-mechanical arm and eye. This gets played with a bit in the second film, when [[spoiler:Nebula says that Thanos would pit the sisters against each other, and add more cybernetics to the loser. Nebula always lost; she points out that Gamora could have let her win every once in a while to spare her, but she never did.]]
* BeautyIsNeverTarnished: Downplayed. Gamora gets a few scrapes and scratches, but she isn't marred ''nearly'' as much as logic says she should be. Justified, as she has a healing factor in the comics and an "enhanced regeneration implant" is mentioned in her rap sheet.
* BelligerentSexualTension: Her relationship with Star-Lord starts out with them trying to kill each other. Then they start grooving to '80s music and then she puts a knife to his neck for attempting to seduce her.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: Subverted. She considers Thanos taking her alive to be AFateWorseThanDeath. To the point she makes Peter promise to kill her should it come to pass. [[spoiler:However this trope is played completely straight when Gamora is shocked to find she's the not just the key to finding the Soul Stone but the sacrifice needed to obtain it. She tries to kill herself to deny Thanos but he robs her of the chance with the Reality Stone.]]
* BewareTheNiceOnes: When Gamora and Nebula discovers the [[spoiler:bones of children, Ego murdered underneath his planet, she angrily confronts Mantis about it by forcing her with the NeckLift if she's scheming with Ego to manipulate Peter until Drax tells her to put Mantis down and learns about the true story behind Ego's genocidal plot afterwards before immediately rescuing Peter from him.]]
* {{BFG}}: During the fight with Nebula in the second film, she manages to not only jury-rig an entire spaceship cannon made up of ''three [[GatlingGood rotary guns]]'' that's bigger than her, but walk around with it sitting on her shoulder as she fires it at full-auto straight into Nebula's craft said cannon came from.
* BigNo:
** In the first film, when it looks like [[spoiler:Nebula is going to [[DisneyVillainDeath fall to her death]].]]
** She furiously shakes her head [[spoiler:when Peter invites her to the dance-off against Ronan]]. Followed by an actual BigNo when [[spoiler:Peter is about to grab the Infinity Stone]].
** In the second film, when she thinks Peter has died in a massive explosion.
* BigSisterInstinct: The Guardians take the job from the Sovereigns to get her sister back (though she states they are taking her to prison), who even as she tries to kill her, she is constantly trying to protect and sway her. She also says "hi" and smiles at Groot even in a very tense situation, clearly humoring him in a sisterly way. [[spoiler:Thanos uses this against Gamora when he tortures Nebula in front of so she'll tell him the location of the Soul Stone.]]
* BrokenBird: Her family was murdered in front of her and then she was adopted and raised as an assassin by the one responsible for her parents' death. It's no surprise someone coming out of that would be so cold and emotionally reserved.
* CainAndAbel: With Nebula. There seems to be some genuine affection mingled in with the resentment and bad blood between them, at least enough that [[spoiler:Gamora tried to save Nebula after defeating her on the ''Dark Aster''. They reconcile in ''Vol. 2'' and agree to live as sisters instead of the fratricidal weapons Thanos tried to forcibly turn them into.]]
* CharacterDeath: [[spoiler:Thanos throws her to her death to obtain the Soul Stone, which required him to sacrifice that which is most important to him.]]
* CombatPragmatism: Despite normally favoring a sword, she quickly switches to a gun when facing more powerful opponents. This apparently took [[BunnyEarsLawyer Peter]] by surprise. She is also not above such tactics as {{Groin Attack}}s or [[ManBitesMan biting]] her opponents.
* CombatStilettos: She wears heeled boots most of the time, which don't seem to hinder her fighting abilities in any way.
* TheComicallySerious: Her serious attitude is good for a laugh on more than a couple of occasions, like when she [[LiteralMinded took the expression "sticks up their butts" literally]] or when she refused to be taken in by Peter's "pelvic sorcery."
* {{Cyborg}}: Not to the extent of Nebula, but it's stated a couple times that her body has been augmented several times by Thanos. It's even counted as the reason she can spend several minutes in a vacuum before it kills her.
* DarkAndTroubledPast: The man who murdered her family and slaughtered half her species kidnapped her, surgically modified her, trained her as an assassin, and forced her to kill on his behalf, all while considering her his "favourite daughter" in a display of twisted affection. By the time she's incarcerated in the Kyln, she actually regards it as an improvement.
* DarkIsNotEvil: Wears an entirely black outfit and one of the heroes-[[AntiHeroTeam ish]].
* DeadpanSnarker: While most of the Guardians have their moments (the MCU is a WorldOfSnark, after all), but Gamora, being the OnlySaneWoman, probably leads them. ("I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.")
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Gamora died from the BadassFingersnap in the comic, but dies before that in the ''Infinity War'' film so that Thanos can retrieve the Soul Stone.]]
* ADeathInTheLimelight: [[spoiler:''Infinity War'' sees a flashback of Gamora's adoption by Thanos, as well as scenes between her and Thanos culminating in her death by Thanos' hand.]]
* DefrostingIceQueen: Initially distant to her teammates, but starts to open up and care about them as she recognizes them as her friends.
* TheDragon: Gamora and Nebula are CoDragons on loan from Thanos to Ronan, who is himself Thanos's dragon. Gamora betrays all of them early on.
* DyingDeclarationOfLove: [[spoiler:When she is captured by Thanos in ''Infinity War'', she asks Quill to honor his promise and kill her. Before he pulls the trigger, Gamora says that she loves him "more than anything". This is not the moment she dies, however, as the bullet turns into bubbles: the reality has been distorted by the Reality Stone.]]
* EatingTheEyeCandy: Thor surely catches her eye the first time she sees him. She even picks up Thor's arm and feels his biceps herself before Quill tells her to stop.
* FacialMarkings:
** She has several marks on her face, a result of her cybernetics showing through her skin.
** She also has the same yellow "spots" around her eyes as her comic incarnation, though they're far less noticeable, and could be mistaken for simple eye-shadow.
* {{Foil}}: Peter's opposite in personality. Peter is a carefree StepfordSmiler who's OnlyInItForTheMoney, Gamora is a brooding BrokenBird who's out for revenge against the madman who raised her; Peter is a CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass who gets out of tight situations by thinking on his feet, Gamora is an experienced ProfessionalKiller whose discipline is her greatest asset, but who is a poor improviser. Both were taken in and raised by someone not of their species to have some degree in fighting. The initial fight between her and Peter, where she displays superior skill and strength but is caught off guard more than once by his resourcefulness, highlights this well.
* ForcedToWatch: In ''Infinty War'', [[spoiler:Thanos forces her to watch her sister Nebula being tortured in front of her. Gamora caves in to Thanos's demands to stop the torture.]]
* GoodCannotComprehendEvil: [[spoiler:Gamora believes that love cannot be in the form of possessive or abusive relationships, and thus assumes her adopted father Thanos, [[AbusiveParent who has abused her and Nebula into killing machines]], is incapable of loving anyone. She realizes too late that Thanos does geninuely love her... just when he needs a loved one to sacrifice for the Soul Stone.]]
-->'''Gamora:''' No. This isn't love.
* GreenSkinnedSpaceBabe: Played straight in that she is green skinned, an alien, and falling for an Earthman.
* GroinAttack: Gamora [[CombatPragmatist is not above it]]. When she attempts to steal the Orb from Quill on Xandar, she kicks him between the legs twice in a row.
* GuiltByAssociation: Just being an ally to Ronan (an ex-ally, at that) is enough to make Gamora widely despised the minute she arrived on the Kyln, and it nearly gets her killed -- first by an angry mob, then by Drax.
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inverted. Gamora's WeaponOfChoice is her trademark sword, while Peter Quill thinks guns are "his thing". However as a CombatPragmatist, Gamora will not hesitate to use a gun or other weapon, if need be.
* HeelFaceTurn: She took the first opportunity to betray Ronan and break away from [[AbusiveParents Thanos]].
* HellBentForLeather: she is fond of black leather gear.
* HeroicSuicide: [[spoiler:Gamora attempts to kill herself once she realizes [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes Thanos's conflict]] to prevent him from completing the ritual for the Soul Stone, [[SubvertedTrope but sadly Thanos prevents her from being able to]].]]
* HitmanWithAHeart: Decides to go AntiHero, turning against her former compatriots and employers to protect the masses of the galaxy from certain doom.
* HostageForMacGuffin: [[spoiler:In ''Infinity War'', Thanos gets Gamora to tell him the location of the Soul Stone after threatening to kill Nebula. This ultimately leads to Gamora's own death, but Nebula survives until the end.]]
* HumanSacrifice: [[spoiler:Her fate]] in ''Infinity War''. [[spoiler:Thanos sacrifices her for the Soul Stone by throwing her off the cliff in a predetermined location on Vormir that resembles an altar.]]
* {{Hypocrite}}: Insults Peter by calling him "an honourless thief". This, after she'd double-crossed her former allies and attacked Peter in an attempt to steal the Orb from him and sell it herself.
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* ICantDance: She initially can't bring herself to dance. The fact that Peter can coax her into dancing in ''Vol. 2'' showcases how much she has defrosted.
* ImNotHungry: [[spoiler:When Thanos offers Gamora a bowl of food after taking her to his base,]] she angrily throws the bowl across the room.
* InterruptedSuicide: [[spoiler:Twice in ''Infinity War''. The first time was when she demanded Peter to shoot her after Thanos had taken her hostage but Thanos prevented this by turning his shots and his gun into bubbles. The second is when she realizes that Thanos is going to sacrifice her to obtain the Soul Stone, she grabs the dagger to stab herself but it turns into bubbles as well.]]
* KlingonsLoveShakespeare: Whilst she's not as big an overt fan as Quill (or even Groot), she does express in the first ''Guardians'' film that Quill's music is not displeasing. In the Guardians' introductory scene in ''Infinity War'', she's shown actively singing along to "Rubberband Man" with Quill.
* KnifeNut: She loves her blades almost as much as Drax loves his.
* LadyOfWar: She's impeccably graceful both in and out of combat, relies far more on skill as compared to strength or big guns, and is frighteningly deadly either with or without a weapon. There's a reason she's the most wanted (and most dangerous) assassin in the galaxy.
* TheLancer: Gamora is this with occasional shades of TheHeart. Her ruthless pragmatism contrasts Peter's jokey and well-meaning antics, and she acts as the secondary lead.
* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Her rap sheet shows that she is the last of the Zen Whoberi people. Apparently retconned in ''Infinity War'', where it's stated that Thanos wipes out ''half'' the population of every world he invades. Thanos himself claims that the world has managed to do better due to there being fewer people to take up the resources. Given she was there during the massacre, Gamora isn't impressed.
* LateToTheRealization: [[spoiler:Red Skull really shouldn't have needed to explain to her [[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes why Thanos was crying]].]]
* LightFeminineDarkFeminine: Her HeelFaceTurn and DefrostingIceQueen personality makes her the Light Feminine to the brooding CardCarryingVillain Nebula's Dark Feminine.
* MadScientistsBeautifulDaughter: Mad ''Titan'' and ''adoptive'' beautiful daughter on his case.
* MagneticHero: While not TheHero Gamora has a strange way with emotionally touching the people around her. She was Thanos's favorite daughter, [[spoiler: and still was after deserting and betraying him]]. She was the sister Nebula "hated the least", [[spoiler: to the point that Nebula couldn't bring herself to actually kill Gamora]]. And of course, [[OppositesAttract her relationship with Peter]].
* MaleGaze: The camera ([[EatingTheEyeCandy and Peter]]) focus on her shapely butt swaying as she ascends the steps on the ''Milano''.
* ManBitesMan: Or rather, woman bites anthropomorphic raccoon. Gamora does this to Rocket during the MeleeATrois in the first film, to the latter's outrage. [[{{Irony}} Ironic]] considering Rocket's rap sheet mentions he himself is prone to biting.
* MassiveNumberedSiblings: Aside from Nebula, it's stated that she has other adopted siblings, all of whom were experimented on by Thanos to create his own band of assassin children. Gamora is apparently the one that Nebula hates the least.
* MinidressOfPower: Gamora wears one at the end of the first film as her new "Guardian" uniform.
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Gamora hates Thanos for killing her family and reshaping her into a weapon to serve him. She betrays him to keep the Power Stone away from him.
* MoralityPet: She is perhaps the only thing Thanos truly cares about. [[spoiler:He sacrifices her for the Soul Stone but is crying the whole time.]]
* MsExposition: In the first film, she provides an {{Infodump}} about Knowhere.
* MulticoloredHair: Dark brown hair with a purplish red ombre.
* MurderIsTheBestSolution: She tells Peter to check to make sure Ego is his father and reassures him that if he turns out to be a scammer or otherwise evil then they can just kill him. On the other hand, this is never an acceptable solution when [[BigSisterInstinct Nebula is involved]].
* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: In ''Vol. 2'', when Nebula [[spoiler:calls Gamora out on never letting her win when they were forced to compete by Thanos, who always forced Nebula to undergo UnwillingRoboticisation for losing, Gamora is genuinely ashamed to have failed her sister so badly for so many years. Though she does point out that she was a scared child focused on survival just like Nebula when they were young, and it wasn't fair of Nebula to expect so much from her that young.]]
* NiceGirl: In ''Vol. 2'' as she's a moral compass, compassionate, selfless, and friendly after she joins Peter as the Guardians Of The Galaxy.
* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Thanos exploits her [[LoveIsaWeakness affection for Nebula]] and [[spoiler:offers sparing her life in exchange for an Infinity Stone's location. Even with Nebula telling her not to relent, she tells Thanos where to find the Soul Stone to save her sister. This sets in motion the events that led directly to her death and the murder of half the population of the universe.]]
* NotSoAboveItAll: After two movies of not dancing and showing, at best, tolerance for Peter's antics and his music, her first scene in ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'' has her enthusiastically singing along to Peter's mix tape.
* OffscreenMomentOfAwesome: How Gamora [[spoiler:found the Soul Stone's location]] is never clarified, but it's impressive considering nobody else in the Universe knows where it is.
* OhCrap:
** When Peter [[spoiler:[[ItMakesSenseInContext challenges Ronan to a dance-off]]]], Gamora is left staring in horror, like she thinks he's gone completely insane.
** Has a particularly nasty wake up call in particular during ''Infinity War'' [[spoiler:where, despite her insistence and long-held belief that Thanos is a monster who cares nothing about her or ''anyone'' for that matter, she finds out that's definitely '''[[EvenEvilHasLovedOnes not]]''' the case and he's painfully forced to [[SadisticChoice make a decision between his love for her and his plan]], [[ShootTheDog one which she sadly loses]].]]
* OnlySaneWoman: Considering the rest of the team and her own motives, she's the only one who realizes how dangerous the first movie's stakes really are and decides that the Orb should really belong with the Nova Corps. She also refuses to be distracted by Peter's advances, though her actual ''reaction'' suggests this might be more a case of being flustered than mission focused.
* ParentalFavoritism: She is Thanos' favorite daughter to the point where he thought of her as his future heir. Considering this is ''Thanos'', that doesn't say much.
* ThePowerOfFriendship: [[spoiler:The first of the Guardians to think of grabbing Peter during the first movie's climax and splitting the Infinity Stone's power enough to help him survive it.]]
-->'''Gamora:''' I have lived most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I would be grateful to die surrounded by my friends.
* ProfessionalKiller: Was an assassin by trade before she left Thanos, and though she's trying to reform... well, she hasn't lost her touch.
* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: being the reasonable one, Gamora tends to call others out:
** Peter and Rocket in the second film after they barely survive the encounter with the Sovereign fleet. Gamora states that either of them could have easily evaded their pursuers had they not let their arrogance and need to outdo each other get in the way.
** Nebula after their fight on Ego. Gamora points out her one-dimensional obsession with killing her, even continuing to attack even after Gamora saved her life.
* RelationshipUpgrade: During the first two ''Guardians'' films, she and Peter are clearly attracted to each other on some level, but neither are willing to state it. Then in ''Infinity War'' they mutually confess their love and share a kiss. [[spoiler:And then she gets kidnapped and ultimately killed by Thanos.]]
* SaveTheVillain: In the second film, Gamora pulls Nebula from an exploding space shuttle only moments after the latter attempted to kill her.
* TheScapegoat: Everyone in the prison hates Gamora, considering her guilty by association due to what Ronan has done. Rocket initially predicts that she'll last a day at most.
* SexyWalk: Shown off by several MaleGaze camera shots of her leather-clad butt.
* SlowNo:
** In the climax of the first film, Gamora screams this during Peter's DesperateObjectCatch for the Space Stone blown from Ronan's hammer that must not touch the ground.
** In ''Infinity War'', [[spoiler:when she [[SlowMotionFall slowly falls]] to her death after Thanos throws her off the cliff on [[SnowMeansDeath snowy]] Vormir as a sacrifice for the Soul Stone.]]
* TheSmurfettePrinciple: She's the only female on the team in the first film. She loses this status in the second film because Mantis [[spoiler:and temporarily Nebula]] joins.
* StraightMan: She's the most levelheaded member of the Guardians, with very few personality quirks, unlike [[LovableRogue Star-Lord]], [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Drax]], [[DumbMuscle Groot]], and [[TriggerHappy Rocket]].
* StockholmSyndrome: [[spoiler:Gamora is distraught when she thinks she's killed Thanos, to the latter's surprise as she's made no secret of her hatred for him. Despite his troops murdering her parents along with half her planet, Thanos ''was'' a father to her.]]
* TheStoic: Bordering on EmotionlessGirl. Always focused and serious (aside from truly deadpan snark), and as noted under UnresolvedSexualTension, even avoids having feelings.
* SugarAndIcePersonality: She has a tough and emotionless exterior due to her upbringing, but she's nice and kind-hearted once she starts to open up.
* SuperStrength: Although she rarely has cause to use it due to her general badassery, she is strong enough to perform incredibly impressive feats of strength, for example using a {{BFG}} designed to be [[UpToEleven mounted on spaceships]], which was easily over one ton. This also includes [[InASingleBound the ability to leap tremendous distances.]]
* SurroundedByIdiots: Her initial impression of her teammates.
-->'''Gamora:''' I'm going to die surrounded by the ''biggest idiots'' in the galaxy.
* TakeMyHand: She says this a couple of times:
** to Nebula in the first film when the latter is about to perform a DisneyVillainDeath. Nebula rejects the offer.
** to Peter in the same film when he is about to be overwhelmed by the Power Stone. He does take her hand after a brief flashback of his dying mother asking him the same thing.
* {{Tsundere}}: Type A towards Peter, ''especially'' in ''Vol. 2''. She's ''very'' adamant that there is no "unspoken thing" between the two of them, despite the blindingly obvious attraction they share.
* {{Tykebomb}}: Kidnapped and raised as an assassin from a young age by the man who murdered her family.
* UnresolvedSexualTension: With Peter. [[MomentKiller They get interrupted]] every time they start to get intimate, and the one time they ''don't'' Gamora shoots Peter down (and presses a knife to his throat) because [[TheCasanova she's aware of his reputation]]. She refuses to acknowledge their "unspoken thing", as Peter calls it, in the second film [[spoiler:until the end. By ''Infinity War'', they are an OfficialCouple.]]
* WasItReallyWorthIt: [[spoiler:When Thanos succeeds in killing half the universe, a vision of Gamora as a child asks what he had to sacrifice to achieve his goal. Thanos's answer? ''Everything''.]]
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Gamora resists going into a full blown relationship with Peter Quill for almost two films. [[spoiler:In the end, TheyDo.]]
* WomenAreWiser: Is generally more level-headed than her male teammates.
* XRaySparks: In the fight between Gamora and Nebula in the first film, Gamora's skull and skeleton flicker into visibility when she's painfully shocked by Nebula's electric staff.
* YoureInsane: Gamora's reply, [[spoiler:when Thanos tells her that he genuinely believes that he helped her planet by slaughtering half of its people.]]
* YoureNotMyFather: Gamora to Thanos, when he repeatedly calls her his daughter.
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* YoureNotMyFather: Gamora to Thanos, when he repeatedly calls her his daughter.