Nebula

Nebula is a Marvel Comics character who is the adopted daughter of Thanos, and adoptive sister of Gamora. She is also a founding member of the original Guardians of the Galaxy team.
Nebula was created by Roger Stern and John Buscema.
==Background==
Like Ebony Maw, Proxima Midnight, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, and Gamora, Nebula was taken from her homeworld, an unnamed planet home to the Luphomoids, when Thanos massacred half of its population.
===Personality===
Nebula appears to be the photo-negative of her sister: cruel, evil, and considered by men as strong as the Ravagers as the galaxy's biggest sadist. Despite turning against Thanos, she was still a criminal whose primary focus was what supported her in the moment (not unlike Loki). However, she has become more mellow and heroic in recent years, showing a selfless and heroic side as she willingly participates in the Infinity War.
Nebula is intelligent, but she appears not to be very good at creating strategies. For instance, she deserted Ronan when he was (currently) her only hope against Thanos, and she damaged her own ship attempting to shoot down Gamora.
Prior to the Infinity War, Nebula appeared to be very disloyal, as she ultimately betrays everyone and works for her own ends. Her exploits after the Battle of Xandar have been a journey of renewal for her as she begins to determine her own ideas of good and evil.
===Physical appearance===
Nebula is a tall, slender, athletic, curvy, and beautiful blue-skinned humanoid cyborg woman with an oval head and black eyes. She is also bald (whether this is natural for Luphomoids, or the result of her cybernetic implants, is unclear). She has a robotic prosthetic arm and metallic implants around her left eye. She is clad in a black-and-purple jumpsuit that allows her complete freedom of movement while still keeping her completely modest. Her gloves, belt, and boots are all black and appear to be made of plastic. Following her help in Taserface's takeover of the Ravagers, Nebula changes her costume to a red leather one similar to that worn by the said gang. Her cybernetics, whilst given to her as a punishment, have proved to be an advantage: she can fix her body if she is injured using her cybernetics, as shown when Drax blasted her with the Hadron Enforcer, which was capable of destroying entire moons, and she plummeted an undisclosed amount of feet and rose to fight and nearly overpower Gamora moments after she landed.
==Appearances==
===Marvel Cinematic Universe===
====Guardians of the Galaxy====
Nebula is first seen aboard Ronan the Accuser's starship, asking to be put on the mission to retrieve the Orb, but shows some hostility when Gamora is chosen in her place. They tracked her to the Kyln, but as Gamora had already escaped, Nebula and Ronan massacred its residents together.
She is later seen in the raid on Knowhere, and chases Gamora's pod into the outer atmosphere where she destroys the pod. When Ronan decides to betray Thanos, Nebula asks him if he's going to kill his father, Ronan thinks she is going to oppose but instead she is allied with him promising if he kills Thanos she would help him to destroy thousands of planets.
Once the Guardians enter on Ronan's ship in Xandar, Nebula battles Gamora but escapes on a space pod, realizing that Ronan has lost the battle and has gone insane with power.
====Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2====
Nebula proceeds to live as a criminal until she is captured and placed in the custody of the Guardians of the Galaxy. Thanks to Baby Groot, she eventually escapes and makes a deal with Taserface. Afterwards, she vows to kill Gamora and proceed to kill Thanos. She finds Gamora on Ego's Planet and attacks her, but after Gamora shows her mercy and saves her life, the two create an unlikely and temporary alliance against Ego after Nebula reveals that all she ever wanted was to have a sister and to be loved. Before Nebula leaves to go after Thanos, Gamora reconciles with her by giving her a hug and telling her that she will always be her sister.
====Avengers: Infinity War====
Nebula is tortured by Thanos as her father wants to force Gamora to relent and tell him where the Soul Stone can be found. Nebula later escapes and helps the Avengers and Guardians fight him, but they ultimately lose. Nebula realizes what has happened when all the Guardians turn to dust except for Rocket.
====Avengers: Endgame====
Nebula joins the rest of the heroes in traveling back in time to retrieve the Infinity Stones and the Infinity Gauntlet. They succeeded, and Hulk/Bruce Banner uses the Infinity Gauntlet to undo the snap and bring everyone back to life. However, the heroes are noticed by the 2014 versions of Thanos and Nebula, who travel forwards in time to 2023 to attack Avengers Headquarters in retaliation. 2023 Nebula joins the fight alongside the other heroes. 2014 Nebula and Thanos are killed, and 2023 Nebula joins Rocket Racoon, Thor, Drax, Mantis and Star-Lord in the new incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
====What If...?====
===== Season 1 =====
The alternate Nebula appears in "What If... T'Challa Became a Star-Lord?". Due to Thanos giving up his plan of wiping out half of life's population, she's never fully robotized and have a very good relationship with her adoptive father. She meets up with Star-Lord and the Ravagers at Contraxia to plan a heist to steal the Embers of Genesis from the Collector.
Another alternate version of Nebula appears in "What If... Thor Were an Only Child?".
===== Season 2 =====
The third version of her appeared in "What if... Nebula Joined the Nova Corps?" as the main character. She joined the Nova Corps after her father's death at the hands of Ronan.
====The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special====
In December 2025, Nebula and the Guardians are operating from their new headquarters, Knowhwere, and are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together. Nebula and the Guardians notice how low and depressed Star-Lord has been ever since returning from the blip and without Gamora so try to cheer him up by getting the perfect Christmas gift: Kevin Bacon, whom they kidnap much to Quill's horror. However, Kevin Bacon decides to perform a concert for the Guardians before returning to earth and Nebula somehow manages to retrieve Bucky Barnes' vibranium arm as a gift for Rocket. 
====Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3====
In 2026, Nebula and the Guardians are still on Knowhere, living peacefully while also tending to Star-Lord, whom is still grieving and depressed over losing Gamora. When Quill is passed out, Nebula carries him to his room and looks after him. However, soon after, Knowehere is ambushed by the arrival of Adam Warlock who attacks Rocket Raccoon. Seeing her friend in trouble, Nebula, with the Guardians, fight Warlock and she stabs him from behind, causing him to stop and fall to the ground.
After realising Rocket is in a critical condition, the Guardians realise they must go to Orgoscope to find the cure that should save Rocket's life. When they arrive, Nebula mentions to the Ravengers that they have an appointment with Gamora, much to Quill's shock. She tells him she has been speaking with Gamora the last few months, but hasn't told Peter, thinking he wouldn't be able to handle it. 
The Guardians then end up in space and arrive on Orgoscope to space pod and split up, with Gamora, Nebula and Quill trying to get Rocket's file. While listening to Peter trying to get alternate Gamora to remember their relationship, Nebula listens, feeling uncomfortable until Gamora mentions that the alternate version of her that Peter loved sounds like Nebula. Nebula and Quill awkwardly deny anything until she notices him starting to flirt with her, much to Nebula's disgust and tells Quill to "knock it off". 
Later on their ship, with Rocket's file, the Guardians watch footage of the raccoon's past and find out he was experimented on by the High Evolutionary. They soon travel to Counter Earth to find someone who can get information on the High Evolutionary. Nebula goes with Quill in a car to a felicity, which she has to wait outside of with Mantis and Gamora. 
While fighting the High Evolutionary, Nebula finds the star children and rescues them while Quill and the other Guardians face off with the villain, who threatens to kill them if he is not given Rocket. A while later, Rocket's life is saved and Nebula hugs him with Groot and Quill. Following Rocket's revival, the Guardians decide to go their separate ways, while he is made the new captain with a new team. Nebula decides to also leave to protect Knowehere with Drax. Nebula is last seen celebrating on Knowehere with others, dancing and expressing joy, something she has never experienced before.
==Gallery==
==Trivia==
*Gal Gadot revealed that she was up for the role of Nebula, before it went to Karen Gillan.
*Zoë Saldaña (Gamora's actress) has said that the relationship between Gamora and Nebula is her favorite aspect of Guardians of the Galaxy, and hits close to home for her, having sisters of her own.
*James Gunn confirmed that Nebula had developed romantic feelings towards Star Lord by the time of Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, but doesn't confess them due to her being unable to process them emotionally.
*In the comics, Nebula used to have long black hair and wears a pink suit.
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