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Thanos (adoptive father),
Nebula (adoptive sister),
Ebony Maw (adoptive brother),
Proxima Midnight (adoptive sister),
Corvus Glaive (adoptive brother),
Black Dwarf (adoptive brother),
Supergiant (adoptive sister)
History
Whatever nightmares the future holds, are dreams compared to what's behind me...
- — Gamora
- — Gamora
Early Years
Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan (born 1979) was one of the last known members of the Zehoberei race after the Mad Titan Thanos had killed half of her race as a part of his ultimate quest to save and stabilize the universe from the brink of collapse caused by conflict and overpopulation. Taken by the Titan under his own wing to be one of his assassins under the Black Order, Gamora served Thanos along with her just as ruthless and merciless adoptive siblings for years before betraying him in an attempt to free herself from his ways. She was hired by her father's ally Ronan the Accuser to steal the Orb from the former Ravager and outlaw Peter Quill (Star-Lord), which led them into becoming involved in the Quest for the Orb, she befriended the other members of the newly-formed Guardians of the Galaxy: the bounty-hunting duos Rocket Raccoon and Groot, and even the once vengeful war criminal Drax the Destroyer. After the Battle of Xandar against Ronan with worked with her adoptive sister and rival Nebula, Gamora left to work with them in her new life as a mercenary and a vigilante with the Guardians exploring the galaxy.
When the Guardians made a deal with the Sovereign to kill the Abilisk, Gamora was able to regain custody of Nebula with the intention of finally bringing her to justice in Xandar. However, her mission to punish Nebula for her crimes was delayed when Gamora and the Guardians came into contact with Ego, an Elder Celestial who claimed to be the long-lost father of Star-Lord. While Ego claimed he simply wanted to bond with his "son," Gamora was suspicious alongside the seemingly redeeming Nebula as they both discovered Ego's unhinged plans to destroy and rebuild the universe. Seeing through Ego's deceptions, the Guardians teamed up to destroy the living planet, succeeding with the help of Ego's servant Mantis, who joined the group. In no time during their following adventures, Gamora eventually confessed that she had romantic feelings for Star-Lord which started an on-again, off-again relationship with him throughout the years.
Kree-Skrull War
The following months after their last mission, Gamora and the Guardians were rehired by the Nova Corps for an undercover mission, whereas they were sent to the planet Hala, in order to infiltrate the secret black market community of the Kree, which had been rumored to be running since the beginning of Kree-Skrull War. During their stay at the home of the Kree Empire, they came to cross paths with the loyal military major Mar-Vell, who was also in suspicion after he first saw the Guardians' "unauthorized" arrival on the Kree city of Rad-Nam. The heroes have only proven themselves truly victorious when Mar-Vell used one the Guardian's most powerful weapon against him, only leading to the villain's humiliating defeat by the very end, in which he was later handed over to the Nova Corps. In the end of the attack on Hala, the Guardians recruited Mar-Vell into their ranks, to which he happily accepted, leaving the Kree Imperial Navy for a short while as he and the Guardians explore the galaxy.
Unfortunate to the Guardians themselves, their cosmic adventures with Major Marvel went short-lived after finding out that the both races of the Skrulls and the Kree were once more have reignited their million-years war on each other. In response, the Guardians were immediately obligated in helping to end the war and restore peace between both races without siding with either. Realizing that they were miserably losing and were on the pinnacle of failing on their mission in ending the war by themselves, Mar-Vell recruited his old friend and ally back on Earth, Carol Danvers, the heroine known then as Ms. Marvel. During the arrival of Danvers and Mar-Vell on Skrullos, that was that very moment where Danvers' immeasurable powers that she never even knew had existed before, had consequently help the rest of the intergalactic heroes put a final end towards the Kree-Skrull War for good.
Secret Invasion
Unluckily, however, the heroes themselves found out that the heads of the Skrull Empire secretly commanded the disguised Skrulls hiding on the planet Earth to begin the "next stage," to which they would later explain that despite their conflict with the Kree had already ended, their conflict on conquering Earth has only just begun, and decided to infiltrate and finally invade it after so long. The Guardians of the Galaxy, along with Ms. Marvel and Mar-Vell onboard their ship, immediately travel to Earth after the end of the Kree-Skrull War, warning the heroes of Earth of the threat that's about to occur on the planet, which were the Skrulls themselves who were all currently hiding on the planet at the moment, and were willing to help them fight them and prevent them from invading Earth.
When the stealthy invasion secretly planned by the ruthless Skrull race comes to fruition, the Earth's Ultimates, S.H.I.E.L.D., the Thunderbolts, the Dark Avengers, and most of the Earth's super-powered individuals must unite to stop the conquering villainous extraterrestrial race, aided by the cosmic heroes, the Guardians themselves and the entire Ravager Network. The war costed them the life of their teammate Mar-Vell for sacrificing his life to save Earth from artificial terraformation, but during the end of the fighting, a seemingly reformed Norman Osborn killed the Skrull Queen Veranke, which ended the war and the attempted invasion, once and for all. In the wake of the averted invasion, the Guardians decided to stay on his homeworld for a while, though Gamora would often go off world to assist Earth's heroes in dealing with some threats in space, especially investigating the "one" that desperately droved the Skrull Empire into fear and attempt to invade Earth (besides the Kree Imperium), something that Gamora had a hunch on who it might be.
War of Thanos
Gamora's greatest fear used to be the victory of her adoptive father, Thanos, in his universal mission to wipe out half of all life in the universe
In order to start his search for the Infinity Stones, Gamora's adoptive father Thanos and a portion of his starfleet mercilessly attacked Xandar, notably the Black Order, as a part of his ultimate goal, almost decimating half of its population as he retrieves the Power Stone from the Nova Corps. The Guardians and the Yondu Ravager Clan then answered the repetitive Xandarian distress calls sent by Denarian Rhomann Dey, due to first attacks of Thanos across the capital city of Xandar, to which they immediately responded by going to planet and helping the Nova Corps combat the massive fleet of Thanos and the Order. Despite the hard efforts of the Guardians and the Yondu Clan to stop Thanos and his forces' assault on the planet, Thanos was still proven to be the victor, and was already on his way to the next stone, much to the Guardians' dismay and horror, especially Gamora who had feared such occurrence was inevitable as her father had once told her. In their desperate attempt to avenge the Xandarian people, the Guardians and the Ravagers decided to being a search operation across the galactic communities in search for Thanos himself and his fleet in order to put an end to whatever he may be planning by then.
Thanos had ultimately triumphed over his enemies once he completed the Infinity Gauntlet, using this to finally complete his goal and destroy half of the life within the universe at the snap of his fingers. When Thanos eventually wiped out half of the universal population after completing the Infinity Gauntlet, most of the Guardians amongst the trillions of victims of his conquest, including Gamora and even most of her adoptive siblings, save for Nebula, Ebony Maw, and Supergiant. This ultimate universal "decimation" has heavily devastated the remaining Guardians for losing a lot of their loved ones due to the heroes' ultimate defeat and failure. However, the alliance of the surviving heroes, antiheroes, and several redeemed villains battled Thanos preventing his second universal goal of shredding all of cosmos to the smallest atom and rebuild it in his own image. In the process of the intense battle, he overlooked his adoptive daughter and Gamora's sister Nebula who was able to wrest the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. Her first act was to undo all that has occurred, which inadvertently freed the heroes and the cosmic entities and resurrected most of those who have once withered away into ash by the Titan's snap of changing reality, including the rest of the Guardians themselves. The battle resumed, and in the end it was Adam Warlock who finally possessed the Gauntlet, ending the cosmic conflict for the Infinity Gauntlet, for now.
Infinity Watch
Defeated after losing the Infinity Gauntlet against the heroes, Thanos consequently faked his own death after Warlock himself made it look like the Mad Titan has fallen into demise, across the intergalactic community and chose to have himself exiled and secluded at a distant planet far across the galaxy, away from everything that he had accomplished, including his allies, and everyone had been against. Believing that the Titan was still capable of changing his unethical and unrighteous ways, Warlock made Thanos a member of the Infinity Watch, giving him the Reality Stone, one of the Infinity Stones which Adam Warlock and the Watch guarded, which now included the utmost skeptic Gamora who was recruited by Warlock to inform her of her foster father's true fate. Despite seeing her father as unforgivable at first, Gamora considered Warlock's consideration and watched over her father as they reconcile along the way and suppressed her grudgeful urges to try and kill him as a way to pay for his countless acts of violence and transgressions.
When Adam Warlock's evil and notorious side, whom was dubbed by his followers as the Magus, had unexpectedly separated from his own body thanks to the Universal Church of Truth, his oldest radical followers, and started his own personal crusade to reassemble the recently-dismantled Infinity Gauntlet. In his process, Magus created doppelgangers of Earth's heroes, and even Thanos' own duplicate, as a part of his plan to recreate the universe into his own image, a universe of eternal and infinite wickedness, feeding on the greatest sorrow and regret of all living things. Gamora was one of the notable targets who fell into the whispers of the Magus, promising her that their reality-shifting cause would bring back her late family, who were killed by Thanos. Throughout the first half of this ordeal, Gamora's emotions were coerced into siding with the Church into helping their Matriarch fulfill the Magus' bidding, even almost killing Thanos in the process. However, Gamora would snap out when she realized that their leader was merely an orphan who had her emotions enslaved with false promises, and in no time she deduced the fact that the real name of the new Matriarch is Kamaria, Drax's daughter who was thought to be long dead.
In the very end of the conflict, Gamora and the rest of the Infinity Watch would successfully defeat the Magus and dismantle the Church through the help of their internal ally, the Goddess (Warlock's good and noble portion) who momentarily bonded with a liberated Kamaria, putting the Magus in a catatonic state after he was finally imprisoned inside the Soul Stone's realm, the Soulworld, before parting ways as Warlock disbands the Infinity Watch in the meantime and Gamora finally returned to her fellow Guardians. While she was constantly doubting the possibility that Thanos could end up on the path of becoming a changed man after all that he has done across the universe, deep down in her heart, she somewhat hoped that he was indeed not beyond redemption.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Artificially Enhanced Physiology: Gamora is a Zehoberi who received treatments from Thanos that enhanced her physiology. Thanos augmented her with advanced cybernetic implants including cybernetic appendages granting her enhanced strength and reflexes, ocular and respiratory implants, and enhanced neurobiological system providing her with enhanced durability and rapid healing.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Agility
- Enhanced Vision
- Enhanced Reflexes
- Enhanced Durability
- Regenerative Healing Factor
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Abilities
- Most Dangerous Woman in the Universe
- Master Martial Artist
- Weapons Master
- Expert Marksman
- Master Tactician
- Master Strategist
- Master Acrobat
- Expert Pilot
Strength level
Class 45+
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Cybernetic Skeleton
- Ocular and Respiratory Implants
Transportation:
- Benatar
- Milano (formerly; destroyed)
- Sanctuary II (formerly)
Weapons:
- Vast Weaponry
- Godslayer
- Gamora's Switchblade
- Plasma Rifle
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Guardians of the Galaxy Vol 1 17
Trivia
- Nebula stated that she hated Gamora the least out of all of their siblings, collectively the Black Order. In addition, she was mostly respected by the rest of her siblings as a formidable fighter, and was often admired by Supergiant only to be conflicted by her loyalty to Thanos.
- Gamora was thought to be the last survivor of the Zen-Whoberi people, only for Gamora herself to find out later in her time with the Infinity Watch that most among the half her people whom Thanos had spared had ventured across different sectors in the farthest known regions of the universe for the sake of their survival.
- Gamora would encounter her people when the Universal Church of Truth: consisting the combined powers of the Matriarch and the Magus had brainwashed the Zen-Whoberis among their "believers" across the galaxy, as she would come to the rescue to save them from subjugation to either conversion or extermination.
See Also
- Appearances of Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Gamora Zen Whoberi Ben Titan (Earth-61615)
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Links and References
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