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Gamora

"I have spent most of my life surrounded by my enemies. I will be grateful to die among my friends."

Species: Enhanced Zehoberei

Affiliation(s): Children of Thanos (formerly), Guardians of the Galaxy

Portrayed By: Zoe Saldaña, Ariana Greenblatt (young)^{Foreign voice actors}Carla Medina (Latin-American Spanish dub, adult), Valentina Rodríguez (Latin-American Spanish dub, child), Olga Velasco (European Spanish dub), Romi Park (Japanese dub), Nathalie Karsenti (French dub), Catherine Proulx-Lemay (Canadian French dub), Priscila Amorim (Brazilian Portuguese dub), Maria Tsvetkova-Ovsyannikova (Russian dub)

Appearances: Guardians of the Galaxy | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 | Avengers: Infinity War

"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 and master assassin in his service.

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• Abusive Parents: 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 raising her as his adoptive daughter. Of course, by "raising", this is in the most abusive and traumatic way possible, as he succeeded in turning her into an assassin. Horrifyingly and tragically, Gamora dies at the very hands of her abusive adoptive father in Infinity War.
• Action Girl: The Training from Hell that Thanos gave to Gamora has made her the deadliest woman in the galaxy.
• Act of True Love: Whether justified or not, in Infinity War she sacrifices everything, including "greater good" (the location of the Soul Stone) and ultimately, her own life for familial love for her sister Nebula.
• Adaptational Modesty: Gamora's costumes in the films are significantly less Stripperiffic than what she usually wears in the comics.
• Adaptational Nice Girl:
  • In the comics, she's known as "The Deadliest 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.
• Adaptation Dye-Job: Her hair colour is black in the comics, and dark red in MCU.
• Affectionate Nickname: Thanos calls Gamora "little one".
• Alien Blood: She bleeds green.
• Almost Kiss: A textbook case with Quill in the first Guardians movie. Although instead of pulling away, or slapping him, she pulls a knife on him.
• Alone with the Psycho: After two and a half movies of successfully escaping her abusive "father", Thanos finally gets his hands on her in Avengers: Infinity War. This ends with a little trip to Vormir and Gamora dying at Thanos's hands as a sacrifice, with no one but Red Skull as a witness.
• Aloof Big Sister: 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.
• Alternate Self: Gamora has three variants; one of whom died much sooner than her.
• Amazing Technicolor Population: Being a Zehoberei, Gamora has green skin.
• Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not Gamora is the Last of Her Kind; her Nova Corps criminal record claims as such, but Thanos claims that Gamora's homeworld has become "a paradise" since he killed half of the population. Neither the planet nor any other Zehoberei are shown in the present day, leaving it unclear if Thanos is being truthful or if the Nova Corps' records are accurate.
• Apocalypse Maiden: By virtue of being the only being that Thanos loves, he needs her in order to obtain the Soul Stone. As is common with the trope, she tries to thwart his plan by quickly whipping out her little double-edged dagger and attempting to stab herself to death with it,, but Thanos prevents it, as it's also common with the trope.
• Armor-Piercing Response: 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.
• As You Know: The trend of Gamora being the one to provide information to the audience in the first film as Ms. Exposition 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.
• Badass Adorable: Right at the end of Guardians of the Galaxy, when she shyly, and awkwardly starts dancing to "Ain't No Mountain High Enough".
• Bad Liar: Gamora's attempts to hide her knowledge of the Orb in Guardians of the Galaxy aren't exactly convincing (immediately after telling Drax that she has no idea what it is, she insists that he put the Orb down, lest he destroy them all), and Avengers: Endgame later confirms that she knew all along that the Orb contained the Power Stone. In Infinity War, Thanos explicitly calls her one after she swears that she doesn't know the location of the Soul Stone (which, of course, she does).
  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.
• The Bait: As badass as she is, she can't survive on a station of inmates that want her dead with guards that won't care enough to stop them. 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.
• Bash Siblings: With Nebula and the other Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Battle Couple: With Peter Quill, after they become an Official Couple.
• Beauty Equals Goodness: 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 Evil Counterpart and sister Nebula, who has no hair and a clearly-mechanical arm and eye. This gets played with a bit in the second Guardians film, when 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.
• Beauty Is Never Tarnished: 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.
• Belligerent Sexual Tension: 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.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: Subverted. She considers Thanos taking her alive to be A Fate Worse Than Death. To the point she makes Peter promise to kill her should it come to pass. 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.
• Beware the Nice Ones: When Gamora and Nebula discover the bones of the children Ego murdered underneath his planet, she angrily confronts Mantis about it by forcing her with a Neck Lift 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 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.
• Big "NO!":
  • In the first Guardians film, when it looks like Nebula is going to fall to her death.
  • She furiously shakes her head when Peter invites her to the dance-off against Ronan. Followed by an actual Big "NO!" when Peter is about to grab the Infinity Stone.
  • In the second film, when she thinks Peter has died in a massive explosion.
• Big Sister Instinct: The Guardians take the job from the Sovereign 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. [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.
• Broken Bird: Her planet was razed and her family murdered in front of her, then she was adopted and raised as an assassin by the one responsible. It's no surprise someone coming out of that would be so cold and emotionally reserved.
• Cain and Abel: With Nebula. There is some genuine affection mingled in with the resentment and bad blood between them, at least enough that 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.
• Casting Gag: This is not the first time Zoe Saldaña plays an Action Girl in space.
• Celebrity Paradox:
  • Avatar and Star Wars exist in the MCU. Zoe Saldaña plays Neytiri in the Avatar films, while Ariana Greenblatt played a young Ahsoka Tano in the Star Wars series Ahsoka.
  • Scooby-Doo was also mentioned by Doctor Strange in Spider-Man: No Way Home. Ariana Greenblatt voiced a young Velma Dinkley in SCOOB!.
• Character Death: Thanos throws her to her death to obtain the Soul Stone, which required him to sacrifice that which is most important to him.
• Cold-Blooded Torture: She is a victim of it, just like her sister Nebula:
  Gamora: When Thanos took my home world, he killed my parents in front of me. He tortured me, turned me into a weapon.
• Combat Pragmatist: Despite normally favoring a sword, she quickly switches to a gun when facing more powerful opponents. This apparently took Peter by surprise. She is also not above such tactics as Groin Attacks or biting her opponents.
• Combat Stilettos: She wears heeled boots most of the time, which don't hinder her fighting abilities in any way.
• The Comically Serious: Her serious attitude clashing with the likes of Peter Quill is good for a laugh on more than a couple of occasions, like when she refused to be taken in by Peter's "pelvic sorcery," or instances of taking metaphors literally.
  Quill: In Footloose, a great hero named Kevin Bacon teaches an entire city full of people with sticks up their butts that dancing, well... it's the greatest thing there is.
  Gamora: [with complete sincerity] Who put the sticks up their butts?
  Quill: What? No, that's just a...
  Gamora: That is cruel.
• Cool Sword: She has a collapsible sword called the Godslayer, which is called that because it can kill an Asgardian.
• Cyborg: Not to the extent of Nebula, but it's stated a couple of 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.
• Daddy's Little Villain: 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 Heel–Face Turn at the beginning of Guardians Of The Galaxy, with Thanos now becoming her Arch Nemesis Dad. Thanos still views her as his favorite daughter, though.
• Dark and Troubled Past: 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 "favorite daughter" in a display of twisted affection. By the time she's incarcerated in the Kyln, she actually regards it as an improvement.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Wears an entirely black outfit and one of the heroes-ish.
• Deader than Dead: 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.)
• Deadpan Snarker: While most of the Guardians have their moments (the MCU is a World of Snark, after all), Gamora, being the Only Sane Woman, probably leads them.
  Gamora: I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.
• Dead Person Conversation: Gamora appears to Thanos in a vision as a child when he finally accomplishes his goal, asking if he did it and what it cost him.
• Death by Adaptation: Gamora died from the Badass Fingersnap in the comic, but dies before that in the Infinity War film so that Thanos can retrieve the Soul Stone.
• A Death in the Limelight: 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's hand.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: 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.
• Disowned Parent: She doesn't get to say it to his face until Avengers: Infinity War, but by Guardians of the Galaxy (2014) Gamora has disowned the Mad Titan as her adoptive father. She goes out of her way to emphasize this dissociation, explicitly mentioning to Drax that she's no family to Thanos (no one has mentioned Thanos; Drax is trying to kill Gamora as an indirect method of getting revenge on Ronan), and sharply backtracks when she makes a Freudian Slip in a conversation with Quill.
  Gamora: My father didn't stress diplomacy.
  Peter: Thanos?
  Gamora: He's not my father.
• Didn't Think This Through: Travelling to Knowhere in Avengers: Infinity War may have given Gamora a good opportunity to kill Thanos, but it gave Thanos an even better opportunity to abduct Gamora to get the Soul Stone's location out of her, especially since she and the other Guardians failed to consider that Thanos might have already taken the Reality Stone from the Collector, which rendered any efforts on their part to defeat or kill him useless.
• Dispense with the Pleasantries: 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.
• The Dragon: In the first Guardians film, Gamora and Nebula are Co-Dragons on loan from Thanos to Ronan, who is himself Thanos's dragon. Gamora betrays all of them early on.
• The Dreaded: Gamora has made a name for herself as a daughter of Thanos and "the deadliest woman in the galaxy".
• Dying Declaration of Love: 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 blast turns into bubbles: the reality has been distorted by the Reality Stone.
• Eating the Eye Candy: Gets quite the eyeful of 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...
• Facial Markings:
  • 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 Stepford Smiler who's Only in It for the Money, Gamora is a brooding Broken Bird who's out for revenge against the madman who raised her; Peter is a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass who gets out of tight situations by thinking on his feet, Gamora is an experienced Professional Killer 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.
• Forced to Watch: In Infinity War, 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.
• Genocide Survivor: It's revealed that Thanos executed half the population of her home planet, including her family. He then adopted (or more accurately, kidnapped) her and raised her to be an assassin.
• Girlish Pigtails: To highlight her youth and innocence, the young Gamora seen in Infinity War has her hair in two braided pigtails.
• Going Commando: During the Lock-and-Load Montage before the Battle of Xandar, she's seen zipping up a Ravagers jacket with no bra underneath.
• Good Cannot Comprehend Evil: Gamora believes that love cannot be in the form of possessive or abusive relationships, and thus assumes her adopted father Thanos, who has abused her and Nebula into killing machines, is incapable of loving anyone. She realizes too late that Thanos does genuinely love her in his own twisted way... just when he needs a loved one to sacrifice for the Soul Stone.
  Gamora: No... This isn't love!
• Green and Mean: Gamora has green skin and used to proudly serve her adoptive father Thanos until she decides to turn a new leaf by joining the Guardians of the Galaxy.
• Green-Skinned Space Babe: Played straight in that she is green-skinned, an alien, hot, and also falling for an Earthman.
• Groin Attack: She's not above it.
  • When she attempts to steal the Orb from Quill on Xandar, she kicks him between the legs twice in a row.
• Guilt by Association:
  • Just being an ally to Ronan (an ex-ally, at that) and Thanos's adoptive daughter 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.
  • Averted in Avengers: Infinity War; after being told that Gamora is Thanos's daughter, Thor advances on her, saying in a seemingly angry tone that Thanos killed his brother... only to put a hand on Gamora's shoulder in empathy and say that he knows family can be rough.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Inverted. Gamora's weapon is her trademark sword, while Peter Quill thinks guns are "his thing". However as a Combat Pragmatist, Gamora will not hesitate to use a gun or other weapon, if need be.
• Hates Their Parent: Gamora loathes her adoptive father, Thanos, betraying him at the earliest possible opportunity and trying to kill him almost immediately the next time they meet. That said, when it appears as though she has killed Thanos, Gamora breaks down in tears, clearly unable to fully rid herself of some feeling for her father despite her hatred for him.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Guardians of the Galaxy, she took the first opportunity to betray Ronan and break away from Thanos.
• Hell-Bent for Leather: Often seen in black leather gear.
• Heroic Suicide: Subverted. Gamora attempts to kill herself once she realizes that 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.
• Hitman with a Heart: She decides to go Anti-Hero, turning against her former compatriots and employers to protect the masses of the galaxy from certain doom.
• Hostage for MacGuffin: 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.
• Human Sacrifice: Her fate in Infinity War. 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.

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• I Can't Dance: 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.
• Iconic Sequel Character: Doesn't appear in the MCU until the sixth year.
• I'm Not Hungry: When Thanos offers Gamora a bowl of food after taking her to his base, she angrily throws the bowl across the room.
• Interrupted Suicide: 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.
• Interspecies Romance: With Peter Quill, a human. It's later revealed that he's half-Celestial on his father's side, playing this trope even straighter.
• Irony:
  • Thanos's favored child despises him; Gamora's hatred for her adoptive father is only rivalled by that of Thanos's least favorite child, Nebula.
  • In Infinity War, she 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 for different reasons.
• Institutional Apparel: In Vol.1, she has to wear a yellow sleeveless top and pants in the Kyln Space Prison.
• Killed Off for Real: Her final fate after Thanos throws her to her death — we see her dead body. Endgame confirms that anyone killed to get the Soul Stone stays dead and can't be brought back...
• Klingons Love Shakespeare: 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.
• Lady of War: 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.
• The Lancer: Gamora is this with occasional shades of The Heart. Her ruthless pragmatism contrasts Peter's jokey and well-meaning antics, and she acts as the secondary lead.
• Last of Her Kind: Her rap sheet shows that she is the last of the Zehoberei people. However in Infinity War, it is shown that Thanos has wiped out only half of them. Thanos himself claims that her home 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. During a Q&A The Russo Brothers refused to resolve the contradiction, and replied instead: "Who do you believe? Do you believe Thanos or Gamora?"
• Late to the Realization: Red Skull really shouldn't have needed to explain to her why Thanos was crying.
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Her Heel–Face Turn and Defrosting Ice Queen personality makes her the Light Feminine to the brooding Card-Carrying Villain Nebula's Dark Feminine.
• Lightning Bruiser: Thanks to her cybernetic enhancements, Gamora can tank a lot of damage and keep on going.
• The Lost Lenore: After the Final Battle with Thanos, Quill is visibly still hung-up with her death. In Thor: Love and Thunder, however, he admits that, while he still misses Gamora, he'd rather "feel shitty" about losing her than have never loved her at all.
• Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: Mad Titan and adoptive beautiful daughter on his case.
• Magnetic Hero: While not The Hero Gamora has a strange way with emotionally touching the people around her. She was Thanos's favorite daughter and still is after deserting and betraying him. She was the sister Nebula "hated the least", to the point that Nebula couldn't bring herself to actually kill Gamora. And of course, her relationship with Peter.
• Male Gaze: The camera (and Peter) focus on her shapely butt swaying as she ascends the steps on the Milano.
• Mama Bear: Gamora cares for Groot II like a son.
• Man Bites Man: Or rather, woman bites anthropomorphic raccoon. Gamora does this to Rocket during the Mêlée à Trois in Guardians of the Galaxy, to the latter's outrage. Ironic considering Rocket's rap sheet mentions he himself is prone to biting.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: 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. Avengers: Infinity War shows that Gamora is one of six children adopted by Thanos.
• Mercy Kill Arrangement: She has Star-Lord promise to kill her if Thanos ever captures her. Star-Lord tries to keep his promise, but Thanos intervenes.
• Minidress of Power: Gamora wears one at the end of the first film as her new "Guardian" uniform.
• Mirror Character:
  • To Natasha Romanoff. Both are orphaned at a young age and were taken in by morally dubious people who trained them to become deadly assassins. They also end up joining a heroic team to protect others while also retaining a complicated relationship with their respective adoptive father and sister before ending up dying for the Soul Stone. However, Natasha manages to reconcile with her adoptive father and willingly gives her life to resurrect her adoptive sister. Gamora on the other hand, is still on bad terms with her adoptive father and reveals the location of the Soul Stone to save her adoptive sister, only to be sacrificed against her consent.
  • To 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, 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. 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 (and as of Endgame, are not brought back, alternate timeline versions notwithstanding). Finally, both of their lovers perish after Thanos does his almighty snap.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: 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.
• Morality Pet: She is perhaps the only thing Thanos truly cares about. He sacrifices her for the Soul Stone but is crying the whole time.
• Ms. Exposition: In Vol. 1, she provides an Infodump about Knowhere. In Vol. 2, there are a couple of instances of As You Know involving her. In Infinity War, she explains Thanos's past and motives to Thor and the rest of the Guardians, and even foreshadows the Snap.
• Murder Is the Best Solution: 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 Nebula is involved.
• The Musketeer: She uses her sword the Godslayer in close-quarters combat and uses rifles in long-range.
• My God, What Have I Done?: In Vol. 2, when Nebula calls Gamora out on never letting her win when they were forced to compete by Thanos, who always forced Nebula to undergo Unwilling Roboticisation 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.
• Nice Girl: In Vol. 2 as she's a moral compass, compassionate, selfless, and friendly after she joins Peter as the Guardians Of The Galaxy.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Going with the other Guardians to Knowhere to confront Thanos was, perhaps, the worst possible decision Gamora could have made under the circumstances, as it puts her, the only person who knows where to find the Soul Stone, in a position to be abducted by Thanos, who coerces her into revealing the Stone's location, allowing him to claim it and get one step closer to completing the Infinity Gauntlet.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Thanos exploits her affection for Nebula and 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.
• Not So Above It All: After two movies of not dancing and showing, at best, tolerance for Peter's antics and his music, her first scene in Avengers: Infinity War has her enthusiastically singing along to Peter's mix tape.
• Offing the Offspring: What Thanos does to her, although he did it quite reluctantly. Not that this helps his case at all.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: How Gamora found the Soul Stone's location is never clarified beyond her somehow finding (and destroying) a map to it, but it's impressive considering nobody else in the Universe knows where it is.
• Oh, Crap!:
  • When Peter challenges Ronan to a dance-off, Gamora is left staring in horror, like she thinks he's gone completely insane. Thankfully, Rocket figured out what he needed to do.
  • She has a particularly nasty wake up call in particular during Infinity War 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 not the case and he's painfully forced to make a decision between his love for her and his plan, one which she sadly loses.
• Only One Name: She goes by a single name without any other identifiers.
• Only Sane Woman: 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. She laments the fact that everyone else on the team is completely insane in the frst Guardians film:
  Drax: Cease your yammering and relieve us from this irksome confinement.
  Quill: Yeah, I'll have to agree with the walking thesaurus on that one.
  Drax: Do not ever call me a thesaurus.
  Quill: It's just a metaphor, dude.
  Rocket: His people are completely literal, metaphors are gonna go over his head.
  Drax: Nothing goes over my head. My reflexes are too fast. I would catch it.
  Gamora: ... I'm gonna die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: Of the villainous variety. She was Thanos's favored child, and judging by comments other characters make his most dangerous one — when Ronan cautions her not to fail, she simply replies "have I ever?" And she defects the first chance she gets.
• Parental Favoritism: She is Thanos's favorite daughter to the point where he thought of her as his future heir. Considering this is Thanos, that doesn't say much.
• Patricide: Gamora is willing to murder her adoptive father Thanos to prevent him from wiping out half of all life in the universe, but her emotional breakdown after killing his illusion shows that she might become remorseful about it.
• The Power of Friendship: 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.
• Professional Killer: Was an assassin by trade before she left Thanos, and though she's trying to reform... well, she hasn't lost her touch.
• The Promise: In Infinity War, she extracts one from Peter Quill. 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?
• "The Reason You Suck" Speech: Being the reasonable one, Gamora tends to call others out:
  • Peter and Rocket in Vol. 2, 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.
• Red/Green Contrast: Her appearance utilizes it — red highlights in her hair stand out more against her green skin.
• Red Is Heroic: She wears a red Ravager jacket during the final battle against Ronan.
• Relationship Upgrade: 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 (the film also heavily implies they've been an Official Couple for quite some time prior to these events). And then she gets kidnapped and ultimately killed by Thanos.
• Retractable Weapon: The Godslayer can collapse into a hilt when she's not using it.
• Save the Villain: She tries to save her adopted sister twice:
  • Vol. 1: Defied 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. The two reconcile later.
• The Scapegoat: Everyone in the Kyln hates Gamora, considering her guilty by association due to what Ronan has done. Rocket initially predicts that she'll last a day at most.
• Sexual Karma: Implied. While Peter and Gamora never engage in any sexual activity on-screen (outside of their loving kiss in Infinity War), after getting a Relationship Upgrade with Peter, there are certain moments (such as Star-Lord calling himself a "Titan-killing long-term booty call") that indicate the two had quite an active sex life. And this exchange between Gamora and Peter in Vol. 3 imply it was apparently very good.
  Time Heist!Gamora: [slyly] I bet we were fun.
  Peter: Like you wouldn't believe.
• She-Fu: Her fighting style is very flexible and acrobatic. Shown off in particular detail during her scuffle with Peter at the start of the original film when she manages to match, if not outmatch, him while both are lying next to each other on the ground and she gives him a swift kick in the jaw from the prone position.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: While Peter takes a while to resemble the shape of a Good Man, Gamora is most attracted to him when he proves his nobility of character and his loyalty to his loved ones.
• Slow "NO!":
  • In the climax of Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora screams this during Peter's Desperate Object Catch for the Power Stone blown from Ronan's hammer that must not touch the ground.
  • In Infinity War, when she slowly falls to her death after Thanos throws her off the cliff on snowy Vormir as a sacrifice for the Soul Stone.
• The Smurfette Principle: She's the only female on the team in the first Guardians. She loses this status in the second film because Mantis joins, along with Nebula in a temporary fashion.
• Spock Speak: Speaks this way through most of Guardians of the Galaxy. It's gone by Vol. 2.
  Gamora: I know who you are, Peter Quill, and I am not some starry eyed waif here to succumb to your... pelvic sorcery!
• The Stoic: Bordering on Emotionless Girl. Always focused and serious (aside from truly deadpan snark), and as evidenced by the way she interacts with the smitten Peter Quill pre-Infinity War, she even avoids having feelings.
• Straight Man: She's the most levelheaded member of the Guardians, with very few personality quirks, unlike Star-Lord, Drax, Groot, and Rocket.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: She has a tough and emotionless exterior due to her upbringing, but she's nice and kind-hearted once she starts to open up.
• Super-Strength: 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 mounted on spaceships, which was easily over one ton. This also includes 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.
• Surrounded by Idiots: Her initial impression of her teammates.
  Gamora: I'm going to die surrounded by the biggest idiots in the galaxy.
• Supermodel Strut: She's shown to walk with a confident strut several times. Notably, one scene has Peter (and the camera) staring at her swaying hips as she climbs the stairs.
• Strong as They Need to Be: 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.
• Take My Hand!: She says this a couple of times:
  • To Nebula in the first film when the latter is about to perform a Disney Villain Death. 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.
• Team Mom: As her teammates are a bunch of man-children she's the Only Sane Woman and can be a supportive figure when she wants. It becomes even more blatant in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 where she's very motherly to Baby Groot and Mantis.
• Time-Shifted Actor: Ariana Greenblatt plays young Gamora in Infinity War, while Zoe Saldaña 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.
• Tyke-Bomb: Kidnapped and raised as an assassin from a young age by the man who murdered her family.
• Unreliable Expositor: In Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora claims that Thanos killed her parents "right in front of [her]", but when the event is shown in Avengers: Infinity War, it's shown that Thanos actually shielded her from seeing the massacre (which he didn't even carry out personally, instead having Ebony Maw signal the Chitauri to open fire). Possibly justified, as Gamora despises Thanos, doesn't recognise or acknowledge any positive traits he may have, and was only a child at the time, which may have resulted in an imperfect recollection.
• Unresolved Sexual Tension: With Peter. 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 she's aware of his reputation. She refuses to acknowledge their "unspoken thing", as Peter calls it, in the second film until the end. By Infinity War, they are an Official Couple, although this does not carry over into Endgame.
• Uptight Loves Wild: Gamora is hardened and has a no-nonsense demeanor while Quill is cocky, immature, and frequently cracks jokes yet the two are very much in love with each other.
• Was It Really Worth It?: When Thanos succeeds in killing half the universe, a spiritual representation of Gamora as a child asks what he had to sacrifice to achieve his goal. Thanos's answer? Everything.
• White Sheep: She's this for her adoptive family, The Black Order, as seen in Guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers: Infinity War; she's only the truly compassionate child of Thanos and the first to defect from him. Ironically, Gamora is still Thanos's favorite daughter despite betraying him outright.
• Will They or Won't They?: Gamora resists going into a full blown relationship with Peter Quill for almost two films. In the end, they get together...only for this Gamora to die, and another one to take her place.
• Women Are Wiser: Is generally more level-headed than her male teammates.
• X-Ray Sparks: 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.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: The first two Guardians movies are this for Gamora as she had escaped her abusive father and found a true family with the Guardians. She even patches up her relationship with Nebula and finds love with Quill. Which makes it all the more tragic when Thanos catches up to her and kills her on Vormir.
• You Killed My Father: Gamora resents Thanos, her adoptive father, for ordering the deaths of both of her biological parents and half of her people.
• You're Insane!: Gamora's reply to Thanos when he tells her that he genuinely believes that he helped her planet by slaughtering half of its people.
• You're Not My Father:
  • By Vol. 1, she has disowned the Mad Titan as her adoptive father. She goes out of her way to emphasize this dissociation, explicitly mentioning to Drax that she's no family to Thanos (no one has mentioned Thanos; Drax is trying to kill Gamora as an indirect method of getting revenge on Ronan), and sharply backtracks when she makes a Freudian Slip in a conversation with Quill.
    Gamora: My father didn't stress diplomacy.
    Peter: Thanos?
    Gamora: He's not my father.
  • She finally gets to say it to his face in Infinity War, when he repeatedly calls her his daughter:
    Gamora: Everything I hate about myself... you taught me.

Variants

Time Heist's Gamora

Gamora

"We can stop him."

Species: Enhanced Zehoberei

Affiliation(s): Children of Thanos (formerly), The Ravagers

Appearances: Avengers: Endgame | Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

"Whoever it was that you were in love with, it wasn’t me."

In Endgame, the Thanos of 2013 comes to the year 2023 to conquer and destroy the Earth, and his Gamora comes with him. With a bit of encouragement from the 2023 Nebula, who tells her she and the original Gamora of 2023 became true sisters eventually, Gamora turns on Thanos and helps the heroes save the universe. After this she goes off on her own and joins the Ravagers. Because she never joined up with the Guardians of the Galaxy, this Gamora is quite different in personality and is very definitely not a Replacement Goldfish.

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• Acquired Situational Narcissism: Between Endgame and Vol 3, she's spent three years running with the Ravagers, and its made her a lot more violent and mean. Nebula implies she was always like this, but even compared to the first Guardians of the Galaxy, Gamora is a lot nastier than she was there, especially when Peter expresses his attraction to her.
• Almost Kiss: Mirroring the first time they nearly kissed in her original timeline, the first meeting between this Gamora and Quill in Endgame results in her kneeing him in the groin twice.
• Big "NO!": She lets one out when 2014 Nebula tries to kill her. 2023 Nebula then kills her alternate past self.
• Big Sister Instinct: Much like her alternate counterpart, Gamora loves Nebula and needs no convincing from Peter to help him rescue her from the High Evolutionary when she gets captured.
• Cain and Abel:
  • Has this with Nebula. 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.
  • Inverted in Vol. 3. Nebula, now a full-fledged hero, is the Abel to Gamora's money-hungry and violent Cain. When the others show disdain for how awful she's become, Nebula actually says this is how she always was when they were young and daughters of Thanos. It takes a lot of the movie for Gamora to begin developing into the hero she once was.
• Co-Dragons: With 2014 Nebula in Endgame, until she has a Heel–Face Turn.
• Contrasting Replacement Character: This Gamora's differences from her dead Sacred Timeline self are emphasized in Vol. 3; while the previous Gamora was empathetic and heroic despite her rougher edges, this one is a ruthless pirate who has no qualms about threatening or harming people if it's convenient. Also, while the previous Gamora was one of the driving forces for the Guardians coming together in the first place and fell in love with Peter Quill, this one has no interest in joining the team at all and won't give Quill the time of day.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: 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's from a time before she formed the Guardians of the Galaxy, she is completely confused about her future self's situation and runs off after the climax of the film.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Much of her arc in Vol. 3 is her overcoming her more selfish and violent side and learning to adapt the same mindset as the Guardians have (and re-establish a relationship - romantic or not - with Peter). She eventually begins showing some of her more positive traits as the movie goes on.
• The Dragon: In Endgame, she was plucked from the timeline where she's still serving as one for Thanos until the main Nebula convinces her to defect.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Despite having her prime timeline self's resentment of Thanos, Gamora is still shocked to see the footage of his execution at Thor's hands.
  • She's initially dismissive of Rocket's critical condition and is all too happy to give him over to the High Evolutionary for the money, but once she sees how much the Guardians love him and the effect he has on Nebula, she begins to take a more active role in protecting him. She is also horrified watching recordings of the High Evolutionary's experiments on Rocket, which Nebula comments are worse than what Thanos did to herself.
  • She's absolutely horrified when the High Evolutionary destroys Counter-Earth and everyone in it (many of them right in front of her as she desperately tries to get Rocket to safety). She even straight-up asks Peter how someone could be cruel enough to do such a thing. It partially motivates her to stand against him.
• Failed a Spot Check: When calling her fellow Ravagers for a ride in Vol. 3, Gamora fails to notice that the "Ravager" on the other line (Ayesha) is a total stranger, not to mention a woman, answering a male Ravager's comm.
• Family of Choice: While she doesn’t take the place of the Guardian’s Gamora and it’s made clear that she can’t, has found a loving family with the Ravagers who lovingly and happily welcome her back home at the end of Vol 3.
• Fish out of Temporal Water: She's from 2014 who stayed in 2023 after her defection from Thanos.
• Groin Attack: She does this to Peter Quill after he hugs her since she is from a time before they became a Battle Couple.
• Guest-Star Party Member: Unlike her Sacred Timeline counterpart, this Gamora never joins the Guardians of the Galaxy. She fights alongside the Guardians in Endgame, but after that, departs alone. This remains true in Vol. 3; she teams up with the Guardians as both a favor to Nebula and because she was promised a sizable chunk of cash, and is subsequently forced to stick around when the Guardians continue on their plan to save Rocket. After seeing the horrors that the High Evolutionary is capable of, however, she throws her lot in with the team to bring him down, but when all is said and done, she leaves again, having found a true home with the Ravagers.
• Have We Met Yet?:
  • Seeing how she's yet to meet and fall in love with Peter Quill, she gives him a Groin Attack after he hugs her, thinking she's the same Gamora he loved resurrected.
  • Played more tragically in Vol. 3 as she's not only unfamiliar with Star-Lord, she actively doesn't want to be around him, despite how much he still loves her.
• Heel–Face Turn: In Avengers: Endgame, 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 and that the two of them eventually became friends and sisters. In spite of this, she disappears after the Battle of Earth.
• Hitman with a Heart: In Endgame, future Nebula tapping to her noble side is what successfully convinces her to defect from Thanos.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: For much of Vol. 3, Gamora is ruthless, ill-tempered, and selfish, but as the film goes on, she shows that the same nobility that motivated her Sacred Timeline counterpart is still a part of her. She starts the film with little fondness for any of the Guardians, with even Nebula getting a bitter "screw you" for choosing Rocket's health over Gamora's convenience, but as she comes to realize how much Rocket means to the Guardians, she treats him with greater respect, and when she throws in with the Guardians to fight the monstrous High Evolutionary, she proves that she's willing to save innocent lives. Her reunion with the Ravagers at the end of the film also shows that she does have a sense of friendship and camaraderie, even if it's not directed at the same people that her Sacred Timeline self loved.
• Journey to Find Oneself: Heavily implied to be the reason why she goes missing after the Final Battle with Thanos.
• Last of Her Kind: A double example. Assuming that she is indeed the last Zehoberei (as was stated in Guardians 1), she's now also the last survivor of the alternate 2014 timeline to exist in the main timeline. Infinity War calls into question her status as the last of her species, however, as Thanos claims that half of her species still lives.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: She's ultimately the one who defeats The High Evolutionary for good in Vol. 3, not Rocket or Peter.
• Only in It for the Money: Downplayed. She agrees to help the Guardians because Nebula asked her to, but she also states that the hefty reward units she'll get is definitely a big motivator as well. She also expresses a desire to sell Rocket more than once, but the Guardians flatly refuse her.
• Paradox Person: She's originally from 2014, living on in the main timeline from 2023 onwards (in which her prime timeline counterpart has been dead since 2018).
• Pay Evil unto Evil: After she stabs the High Evolutionary in the stomach, Gamora slowly peels off the mask hiding his ravaged, skinless face, clearly taking no small amount of satisfaction in the monstrous Mad Scientist's suffering.
• Redemption Earns Life: Gamora makes a Heel–Face Turn right before the final battle and fights on the side of the heroes. As revealed in a deleted scene, she's the only member of Thanos's army spared from Tony's Snap.
• Replacement Goldfish:
  • To the Gamora that died in Infinity War, although she's noticeably different due to missing out on all of her dead counterpart's Character Development across three movies.
  • Deconstructed and Reconstructed in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. 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 have 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.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: Unlike the other heroes of the Battle of Earth, she absconded from the battlefield and didn't bother to pay respects to Iron Man's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Ship Tease: Despite how coldly she treats him, Gamora still gets a few heartfelt moments with Peter in Vol. 3, and the movie ends with them flirting a little bit, leaving it a very real possibility they may find their way back to each other one day.
• Sole Survivor: Given that 2014 Nebula was shot dead by prime timeline Nebula, and that Thanos and his entire army was dusted by Iron Man, and that Captain America returning the Power and Soul Stones to that version of 2014 put everything in that timeline back on course, the 2014 version of Gamora is the only surviving character that traveled from that alternate universe to the 2023 in the Prime Timeline. Judging by what happened with Iron Man's snap, the only reason that she was spared was that she was no longer working with Thanos.
• Token Evil Teammate: For the Guardians in Vol. 3; this Gamora, having undergone virtually none of the Character Development of her other self, is ruthless and brutal, quickly resorting to violence, hostage taking, and death threats if the situation gets at all dicey.
• Token Good Teammate: The only non-malicious member of Thanos's forces in 2014.
• Took a Level in Jerkass:
  • Slightly, compared to the version that died in 2018. Due to missing out on her alternate counterpart's Character Development and bonding with the Guardians, she's closer in nature to being "The Deadliest Woman in the Galaxy" than the Team Mom, acts hostile to Peter Quill when he's clearly just happy to see her, and she notably ghosts on the team after the Battle of Earth. However, she still commits to a Heel–Face Turn and accepts 2023 Nebula as her sister.
  • Becomes more prominent in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 as she's now leader of the Ravagers and displays the same callous and selfish nature that Nebula once had. She's also very dismissive of Peter and quite willing to leave Rocket to his fate. She does get better though.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Despite behaving very coldly throughout much of the movie, towards the end she does begin to show traits of the Sacred Timeline Gamora, going out of her way to protect Rocket and taking an active stand against the High Evolutionary, despite knowing how dangerous he is.
• Truer to the Text: Compared to her Sacred Timeline self, this Gamora remains much more like her comics counterpart of being a ruthless mercenary who's Only in It for the Money and cares primarily about her own interests above everything else, and on top of that she hails from an alternate timeline much like her mainline comic counterpart. 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.
• Uptight Loves Wild: Gamora does show shades of this much like her original counterpart. As a high-ranking member of the Ravagers, she's much more serious and lacking in patience to the point she threatens to kill pretty much anyone who gets in her way. Even so, when Peter shows off not only his noble qualities, but his daring, impulsive and risk-taking side, she warms up to him and shows a more receptive aspect to herself.
• Walking Spoiler: Explanations for her existence require viewing of both Infinity War and Endgame.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: 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. This is also shown during a deleted scene when she quietly leaves as all the other heroes are kneeling in out of respect for Tony Stark's Heroic Sacrifice.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: Her existence is one for Peter Quill in Avengers: Endgame. Sure, he knows that Gamora's alive after believing that he'd never see her again... But she has absolutely no memory of their relationship, or of her camaraderie with the other Guardians, with only Nebula's word to go off. Her deserting the team after the battle only twists the knife further.
• You Killed My Father: Averted. Gamora does not hold a grudge against the Avengers despite being initially horrified after seeing them decapitating the Sacred Timeline Thanos and having the Thanos of her timeline reduced to dust.

Infinity Ultron's Gamora

Gamora

Species: Enhanced Zehoberei

Affiliation(s): Guardians of the Galaxy

Appearances: What If...?

The Gamora of Earth-29929, who is killed during Ultron's genocidal quest for peace.

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• Continuity Snarl: The fact she lives long enough to be killed by Ultron is this as Thanos is depicted as having the Soul Stone which he killed Gamora to obtain in the Sacred Timeline. Of course, it's theoretically possible he sacrificed Nebula or one of his other Children.
• Dead Alternate Counterpart: She gets killed by a hoard of Ultron Sentries, making her this to her 2014 and Slayer of Thanos counterparts.
• Death by Adaptation: She dies a few years earlier than her Sacred Timeline counterpart.
• Dies Differently in Adaptation: Instead of being murdered by her own father, she's killed by an endless wave of Ultron drones.
• The Voiceless: She doesn't have any lines whatsoever.

Gamora, Slayer of Thanos

Gamora

Species: Enhanced Zehoberei

Affiliation(s): Guardians of the Multiverse

Voiced By: Cynthia McWilliams

Appearances: What If...?

A Variant of Gamora who killed her father Thanos and allied with Iron Man in a quest to destroy the Infinity Stones.

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• Advertised Extra: She was featured in a good chunk of the marketing for Season 1, but due to the episode that was supposed to establish her background being delayed into Season 2 due to COVID-19 interfering with production, she only appeared in Season 1’s finale, and in a minimal supporting role at that.
• Alternate Universe Reed Richards Is Awesome: To the Gamora of the Sacred Timeline, coming from a universe where she killed her father Thanos.
• Bling of War: She's taken up both Thanos's double-bladed sword and even fashioned his armor to fit her smaller proportions, which makes her look far more formidable than her other Variants.
• Cool Sword: She has a replica of Thanos' double-edged sword that's smaller than the original to fit her size and strength.
• Double Weapon: She wields a smaller version of Thanos's double-edged sword.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: She wears a version of Thanos' golden armor resized to fit her measurements.
• Noodle Incident: Subverted. The episode explaining her backstory exists, but due to COVID-19 causing production setbacks, said episode was pushed into Season 2. As a result, whatever caused her to gain her father's armor and sword, and why she's working with Tony Stark and Eitri isn't explained before the Watcher comes to recruit her to fight Infinity Ultron.
• Out of Focus: Due to her episode being pushed back to Season 2, we're given almost no information about Gamora's Alternate Universe, 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 kill him 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.
• Remember the New Guy?: Every Guardian of the Multiverse received a focus episode before uniting to defeat Infinity Ultron, except her due to her episode being pushed back so Season 2. As such she just kind of shows up, with no elaboration regarding her backstory or why Uatu chose her specifically.

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"All my life, I dreamed of a day... a moment when you would get what you deserved. And I was always so disappointed."