The Guardians
Gamora
DeadPlayed by Zoe Saldaña
Who they arebeyond the guide
Thanos's adopted daughter, taken as a child from a planet he had halved and rebuilt into the deadliest woman in the galaxy. The Gamora who died on Vormir stays dead; the one alive now is a 2014 version who never met these people.
Original dead on Vormir. The 2014 variant is alive with the Ravagers, no memory of the team
- Appearances
- 5
Along the chronological spine
A life, in order
On screen and off — including the years between films. Tap any entry to read the longer account.
- Turning point— the arc changes direction
- Appears in— on screen, carrying the plot forward
- Death— they die here — permanently or not
- Where it leaves them— the state the guide leaves them in
- 2014Pursued for it, he ends up in a prison with Gamora (Thanos's adopted daughter, defecting), Drax (whose family Thanos's forces killed), Rocket (a genetically and cybernetically tortured raccoon), and Groot (a tree). Nebula, Gamora's sister, mutilated repeatedly by Thanos as a punishment for losing to Gamora in combat, begins a slow turn from villain to one of the most important characters in the saga. In Vol. 2 she's hunting Gamora for revenge, then reconciles when Gamora explains she never wanted their father's contests either — and leaves again to hunt Thanos.Open Guardians of the Galaxy →
- 2014Pursued for it, he ends up in a prison with Gamora (Thanos's adopted daughter, defecting), Drax (whose family Thanos's forces killed), Rocket (a genetically and cybernetically tortured raccoon), and Groot (a tree). Nebula, Gamora's sister, mutilated repeatedly by Thanos as a punishment for losing to Gamora in combat, begins a slow turn from villain to one of the most important characters in the saga. In Vol. 2 she's hunting Gamora for revenge, then reconciles when Gamora explains she never wanted their father's contests either — and leaves again to hunt Thanos.Open Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 →
- 2018The Soul Stone requires the sacrifice of someone the taker loves. Thanos loves her, which is the horror of it. This death is permanent and irreversible.Open Avengers: Infinity War →
- 2018 → 2023She arrives with 2014 Thanos and is left in the present when he is erased. She has no memory of the Guardians, no relationship with Quill, and finds his grief for a version of her she never was intensely irritating. Vol. 3 is largely about Quill accepting that.Open Avengers: Endgame →
- 2023She does not rejoin the team. She goes back to the life the 2014 version was living.Open Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 →