Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

Nebula is a superhero and former supervillain of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is the adoptive granddaughter of A'Lars, the adoptive daughter of Thanos, and the adoptive younger sister of Gamora.
Nebula is portrayed by , who also portrays Amy Pond in Doctor Who and Ruby Roundhouse in Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle and Jumanji: The Next Level, and voices Eyes in Spies in Disguise.
==Biography==
=== Early life===
Nebula was born on the planet Luphom to unnamed parents. However, Thanos killed her parents in front of her and took Nebula. Since her childhood, Nebula was molded into being a weapon and one of Thanos' personal assassins. When she was young, Nebula at first relied upon Gamora, as she was the only one who could give Nebula what she always wanted: a sister when facing Thanos. However, the two sisters were forced to battle one another in training with Thanos watching with glee. Nebula came to resent Gamora, as she was all the family she had left, but Gamora turned away from her. The grudge would last for many years.
===Guardians of the Galaxy===
Nebula first appears alongside Ronan, her former master. She witnessed the death of The Other, before her meeting with Thanos, her father. When Thanos wanted to obtain the Orb for unrevealed reasons, Ronan sent Gamora to retrieve the orb, but Peter Quill (a.k.a. Star-Lord) interferes with Gamora, both ending up in prison. Eventually, Gamora joined the Guardians, which left Nebula as Ronan's only enforcer (with the exception of Korath).
Sometime later, Drax, one of the Guardians, contacted Ronan while insane, in which Ronan quickly came to Knowhere to search the one who made the call. When Ronan found out it was Drax, he dealt with him while Nebula was in search of the Orb. She made an attempt to kill Gamora, but Star-Lord saved her in time. Nebula was able to retrieve the Orb. They eventually learned that the Orb held an Infinity Stone, Ronan was going to give it to Thanos, but instead, he betrays Thanos by keeping it to himself, intending to use it to destroy Xandar himself before destroying Thanos himself. Out of spite against Thanos for favoring Gamora, Nebula offers to help Ronan destroy a thousand planets in exchange for killing Thanos.
Nebula was still following orders from Ronan to destroy Xandar, which they were planning to destroy with Ronan's behemoth ship. The Guardians, with the help of the Nova Corps, eventually stormed through Ronan's ship and dealt with Korath, who was killed by Drax. Gamora was sent to open a door, but Nebula was sent to defend. Gamora and Nebula had a swordfight during when Ronan was trying to annihilate Xandar. Gamora got the winning hand and cornered Nebula to a cliff on Ronan's ship. Nebula let go and fell to her presumed death. Nebula, however, landed on one of the Ravager attack quads and tried to attack. She then escaped the war and left Ronan's side. She was never seen again in the film.
===Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2===
Prior to the movie, Nebula attempted to steal Anulax batteries from the Sovereign. However, she was immediately captured and offered to the Guardians of the Galaxy if they destroyed a creature called the Abilisk, then she would take in custody by her hated sister Gamora and the Guardians who want to take her in prison when will be possible for them, Nebula is handcuffed in the ship and being left unable to move away or escaping during the battle with the Sovereign and the crush on the alien planet Ego, ruled by the human form Ego that is the biological father of Quill and he reunites with his son and meets them.
Quill, Drax, and Gamora go for a weekend to stay with Ego with Rocket that repairs the damages to the ship Milano and take care of Groot when he making himself sure that Nebula will not escape.
However when Rocket, after fighting and killed various Ravagers, being captured Nebula tricks Groot (that now, after he died in the first film, is regenerated and is currently in his baby form despite he remember everything but it's now ingénue) convincing him to free her lying to him on she would save Rocket, Groot free her and Nebula capture Groot making him prisoner in a cage and she escapes from the crashed ship and she captures Rocket and Yondu Udonta for the mutineer's Ravagers making an alliance with the criminals.
Later Nebula has his money as her recompense and she plots to kill Thanos to avenge of all the pain physically and emotional that he has done to her, then she goes to Ego to kill Gamora. There she attacks her hated sister with the guns of her escape pod, then the two sisters continue to fight each other until Gamora saves Nebula when her ship crash and the two sisters definitely reconcile, then Nebula and Gamora finds out that Ego killed all his sons and Gamora runs to save Quill.
Later Nebula together the Guardians reunites with her former enemies Rocket, Groot and Yondu that had escapes from the Ravagers's ship and killed all of the evil mutineers, then Nebula initially join them in the battle against Ego only for have a secure passage but later she have a change of heart and help them to defeat the evil father of Quill with Groot who pose a bomb on the brain of Ego to making explode the planet and to kill Ego.
Later after Nebula and all the Guardians except for Quill and Yondu escapes from Ego that being destroyed killing Ego once for all, however Quill and Yondu escapes before the destruction but Yondu sadly sacrifice himself to save Quill showing how much he cares for him while he's dying, giving a Hugh to his beloved adoptive son.
Later the completely redeemed Nebula and the Guardians cry in Yondu's funeral in particular Quill, then Nebula and Gamora are completely reconciled with Nebula is now a new official member of the Guardians of the Galaxy despite Nebula decide to leave temporarily the team to kill Thanos to impeding to him to kidnap and torture other innocent kids.
===Avengers: Infinity War===
Nebula prior the events of the movie had attacked Thanos' ship and tried to kill Thanos and despite she almost succeeded, Thanos captures her and tortured her. Then when Nebula first appears, Thanos threatens Gamora to tell him where the Soul Stone is or he's gonna kill Nebula due to Gamora refusing to tell him as Thanos wants to use all the Infinity Stones to erase half of the universe from existence, specially innocent people. Gamora can't see her sister be in agony and saves her by telling Thanos that the Soul Stone is on Vormir and the two go to the alien planet with Nebula being repaired after the torture finished. However after being repaired, Nebula killed one of Thanos' henchmen and she escapes to reunite with her old teammates, the Guardians of the Galaxy, sending a message to Mantis and tells them to meet her on Titan and she steals Thanos' ship, taking command to go to Titan.
Then after she arrives on Titan, she join the Earth's most powerful heroes, the Avengers, and the Guardians, in the battle against Thanos debuting in the battle, beating Thanos first crushing him with a part of his own ship and then beating him one time with her laser sword, However she is beaten away from Thanos who fight with the Avengers and the Guardians that trap him, making him unconscious with Mantis making him sleep, with Iron Man and Spider-Man try to steal the Infinity Gauntlet from Thanos' hand. However, Quill asks Thanos where is Gamora, but Nebula reveals that Thanos had apparently killed Gamora to have the Soul Stone, then Quill loses his calm and, despite Tony says to him to calm, violently beat Thanos crying for Gamora's apparent death, accidentally waking Thanos who beat all of them away and he even easily defeat the Guardians Nebula compressed.
After Thanos had escaped from the planet with the Time Stone acquired, he snap his fingers with all the Infinity Stones erasing half of the life forms of the universe from existence, on Titan, Tony, Parker, Quill, Nebula, Drax and Mantis are reprising from the battle starting to walk away to stop Thanos, but on that moment, Mantis, Drax, Quill and Doctor Strange disappears from existence leaving dust, then Parker started to realize that him too was disappearing from existence, so Tony desperately Hugh his son figure and protégé with Parker crying, saying to his mentor that he don't want to go before he sadly apologizes to Tony for failing, before he too disappears. Tony Stark and Nebula remain on Titan, with Nebula saying to Tony that Thanos did it, then the two watch terrified and sadly their friends disappear.
===Avengers: Endgame===
Following the events of Infinity War, Nebula and Tony Stark piloted the Benatar to leave Titan and set a course to Earth. However, they are stranded in deep space with the ship suddenly halted due to its power distribution cells being severely damaged during the battle on Titan. Fortunately, they were rescued by Captain Marvel, who brought their ship back to Earth.
Upon hearing of Thanos' current location in an uninhabited planet and sensing that he used the Stones again, Nebula tagged along with the Avengers to confront Thanos in hope of retrieving the Stones and reverse the death wave. However, Thanos taunted them by confessing that he actually destroyed the Stones (which nearly kills him) prior to their arrival so that no one can reverse what he did. The other Avengers reluctantly refused to believe this and accuses him of lying, but Nebula points out that Thanos isn't a liar in spite of his notorious crimes. Thanos thanks Nebula for pointing that out and admits that he was wrong to be too harsh on her, but this provoked an angry Thor to decapitate him. In spite of her hatred towards Thanos, Nebula was touched by Thanos' last words and mourns for him by closing his eyelids out of respect.
For the next five years, Nebula helped the Avengers in maintaining control throughout the universe, despite the surviving half of the populace being unable to move on due to their losses caused by Thanos. However, Ant-Man returns from the Quantum Realm and revealed that it took him five hours to get out after he entered the Quantum Realm prior to the death wave. Upon learning this, the Avengers realized that they could use the Quantum Realm to create a time machine to travel back in time to retrieve the Infinity Stones and use them to reverse the death wave for good.
Nebula was tasked alongside War Machine to go back in 2014 Morag, where they would have to steal the Power Stone. Though they were successful in gaining the Power Stone, Nebula soon discovered to her horror that her cybernetic implants are interfacing with those of her past self, prevent herself from returning to the present. Through the interfaces, the 2014 Thanos soon learned about the Avengers' current plot to reverse the death wave and captured the present Nebula before sending the past Nebula in her place.
With that in mind, the past Nebula travels to the present, where she witnessed the Avengers creating a new Infinity Gauntlet to hold all the Stones before using them to reverse the death wave, reviving those who have perished. While they do so, the past Nebula takes control of the time machine, allowing herself to transport the 2014 Thanos and the Black Order, and their vast armies of Chitauri soldiers, Leviathans, and Sakaaran Mercenaries. Thanos then laid down an attack at the Avengers HQ, and the past Nebula spots Hawkeye retrieving the Gauntlet. The past Nebula takes the Gauntlet from Hawkeye and intends to deliver it to Thanos, only to be confronted by the present Nebula, who has been freed by the 2014 Gamora. Both Nebula and the 2014 Gamora then tried to convince the 2014 Nebula to sever her ties with Thanos and do the right thing, but the 2014 Nebula refuses and tries to shoot the 2014 Gamora. This forces Nebula to take action by shooting down her 2014 self, saving the 2014 Gamora. Nebula and Gamora would later help the other revived heroes in warding off Thanos and his forces.
Following the deaths of the 2014 Thanos and his remaining forces, Nebula (along with the other revived Guardians of the Galaxy) attended Stark's funeral (as Stark sacrificed himself to use the Stones to defeat Thanos and his forces). She would later join up with the Guardians (and Thor) in hopes of finding the 2014 Gamora.
=== Thor: Love and Thunder ===
With Thor, Korg and Kraglin Obfonteri joining the Guardians, Nebula participates in their adventures such as helping the god of thunder lose weight. After helping Thor fight the Booskans on Indigarr, they answered the distress call of Sif, informing the group that Gorr the God Butcher was killing gods across the galaxy. Learning this, Thor and Korg left the team, having a farewell with the Guardians before departing.
=== The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special ===
In 2025, Nebula and the Guardians buy Knowhere from the Collector, as well as gaining a new member, Cosmo the Spacedog. Nebula then helps the team to refurbish it following the attack it had endured.
In December, Nebula listened to Kraglin Obfonteri's story about Peter Quill's first Christmas in space. As Mantisspoke about celebrating Christmas to cheer up Peter Quill, Nebula stated that they had no time for trivialities like Christmas since they were too busy fixing Knowhere. However, Nebula's opinion soon changed as she took a trip to Earth to obtain a present for Rocket Raccoon. Locating Bucky Barnes, she fought the super soldier and stole his vibranium arm from him.
Returning to Knowhere, she helped Mantis, who had got Kevin Bacon from Earth. Nebula helped set up Knowhere and decorate it. When Quill came out, Nebula lifted a lever which turned the Christmas lights on. Quill was amazed until he saw that they kidnapped Bacon. When Mantis released the mind control, Bacon ran. Quill told Mantis to get him and she was already on it. Quill told her to not kill him.
When they got Bacon back, he wanted to go home, but changed his mind and instead celebrated with the Guardians of the Galaxy. During the celebration, Nebula wrapped Barnes' arm and dropped it at Rocket Raccoon's feet. When he saw the arm, he was amazed what she did for him. Later, Groot gave Nebula a gift. She opened it to find a wood carving of her witnessing Quill opening up his present. In the end, they all hugged Bacon. As he left, Nebula remarked that not all actors were horrible people.
=== Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 ===
Nebula still resides on Knowhere with the other Guardians, as they are attacked by Adam Warlock, who wants to kidnap Rocket to bring him to the High Evolutionary. He critically injures Rocket, before Nebula can stab him in his back and force him to retreat. The Guardians can’t operate Rocket, because he has an implanted kill switch, that would kill him. Nebula finds out that the implants are made by Orgocorp, so she contacts Gamora from the Ravagers, to help them break into the headquarter of Orgocorp and find out how they can disable the kill switch.
The Guardians successfully steal the file of „89P13“, Orgocorp’s codename for Rocket, but Theel deleted the kill switch a short time before and uploaded it into the implant on his head. So the Guardians follow him to the planet Counter-Earth. Mantis, Drax and Gamora stay at the ship to watch over Rocket, while Nebula, Peter and Groot go to the Arête Laboratories, the ship of the High Evolutionary, the leader of Orgocorp. The guards don’t let Nebula in, because her cybernetic arm is a weapon, so she waits outside while Peter and Groot go to meet with the High Evolutionary.
The Arête suddenly starts, because the High Evolutionary has decided to destroy Counter-Earth and kill all people on it. At the same time, Mantis and Drax arrive at the ship, because Drax had a bad feeling about the situation and he tricked Mantis to join him. Together they jump on the Arête just in time and Drax forces the door open. Now they are surrounded by cages with the Star Children locked inside, which the High Evolutionary has created as the new perfect species. Peter calls them and says that they escaped from Counter-Earth and were able to save Rocket’s live. Nebula, Drax and Mantis are discovered by the High Evolutionary and thrown into a pit.
The High Evolutionary orders to open the pit and three Abilisks appear, but Mantis can tame them with her empathic power and together they escape the pit with their help. They reunite with Peter, Rocket, Groot and Gamora, who have broken into the ship to save them and tell them about the children. Together they defeat the henchmen of the High Evolutionary, Nebula then connects the ship with Knowhere, so that the other Guardians can save the children. Rocket stays behind to also save the caged animals, but is attacked by the High Evolutionary. The Guardians come to his aid and together they defeat the High Evolutionary and save the animals and the three abilisks too.
In the end, Nebula decides to lead Knowhere and make it the home she never had. With the help of Drax, she raises the Star Children and builds a new society.
==Personality==
To be added
==Powers and Abilities==
===Powers===
*Cybernetic Enhancements: Nebula's body has been systematically torn apart and replaced with machinery. Much of her skeletal structure includes some degree of technology supporting her musculature, and her left arm is almost entirely robotic. Nebula's voice is also rendered in a synthetic quality.
**Superhuman Strength: To be added
**Superhuman Speed: To be added
**Superhuman Durability: The mechanisms supporting Nebula's limbs and jaw can realign these body parts in the event of severe damage. Multiple internal fractures or dislocations appear to be restored to a fully functional state in a matter of seconds when compromised.
**Superhuman Agility: To be added
**Superhuman Stamina: To be added
**Superhuman Reflexes: To be added
**Superhuman Senses: To be added
**Enhanced Vision: To be added
**Accelerated Healing Factor: To be added
**Light Emission: To be added
**Image Projection: To be added
**Electronic Hacking: To be added
**Concussive Energy Blast Generation: To be added
===Abilities===
*Master Combatant: Nebula is highly trained in many forms of combat, capable of besting most people that she comes across.
*Master Martial Artist: To be added
*Master Pilot: To be added
*Marksmanship: To be added
*Master Assassin: To be added
==Relationships==
===Relatives===
*Thanos † - Adoptive Father, Arch-Enemy, Torturer, Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer
*Gamora † - Adoptive Older Sister - Arch-Enemy, Arch-Rival, Attempted Victim and Attempted Killer turned Savior, Ally and Rescuee turned Best Friend and Teammate
*Black Order - Adoptive Siblings and Former Allies
**Ebony Maw † - Adoptive Older Brother
**Proxima Midnight † - Adoptive Older Sister
**Cull Obsidion † - Adoptive Older Brother
**Corvus Glaive † - Adoptive Older Brother
===Allies===
*Ronan the Accuser + - Former Master and Former Ally
*Guardians of the Galaxy - Former Enemies, Former Teammates and Close Friends
**Peter Quill/Star-Lord - Former Enemy and Leader
**Drax the Destroyer - Former Enemy
**Groot - Former Enemy
**Rocket Raccoon - Former Enemy
**Mantis
**Yondu Udonta † - Former Enemy and Attempted Victim
**Kraglin Obfonteri
**Cosmo
**Adam Warlock - Former Attempted Killer
*Avengers
**Tony Stark/Iron Man † - Friend
**Peter Parker/Spider-Man
**Steve Rogers/Captain America
**Bruce Banner/Hulk
**Thor
**Natasha Romanoff/Black Widow †
**Clint Barton/Hawkeye
**James Rhodes/War Machine
**Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel
**Scott Lang/Ant-Man
**Sam Wilson/Falcon
**Wanda Maximoff/Scarlet Witch
**Pepper Potts/Rescue
***Masters of the Mystic Arts
****Stephen Strange/Doctor Strange
****Wong
***Golden Tribe
****T'Challa/Black Panther †
****Shuri
***Dora Milaje
****Okoye
***Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier
***Brunnhilde/Valkyrie
***Hope van Dyne/Wasp
***Korg
***Miek
***Howard the Duck
*Gamora (2014 timeline) - Alternate Adoptive Sister
*Yakan
*Glenda
*Kevin Bacon
===Enemies===
*Ego † - Enemy, Attempted Killer and Indirect Victim
*Black Order
**Proxima Midnight †
**Corvus Glaive † 
**Ebony Maw †
**Cull Obsidian †
*Nebula (2014 timeline) † - Victim
*Outriders (2014 timeline)
*Sakarrans (2014 timeline)
*Chitauri (2014 timeline)
**Leviathans (2014 timeline)
**Chitauri Gorillas (2014 timeline)
*Habooska the Horrible †
*OrgoCorp
**High Evolutionary
*Bucky Barnes/Winter Soldier (Briefly)
==Gallery==
===Images===
Nebula-GOTG.jpg|Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy.
Nebula-GOTG-2.png|Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2.
Nebula AIW Profile.jpg|Nebula in Avengers: Infinity War.
Nebula Endgame Textless.jpg|Nebula in Avengers: Endgame.
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GOTG Vol. 3 Character Poster 05.jpg|Nebula in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
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Nebula Lose.jpg|"He did it..."
Rocket Raccoon & Nebula.png|Nebula with Rocket.
Nebula Close Eyes.jpg|Despite her bitterness towards him, Nebula closes the eyes of the late Thanos.
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The Avengers-Endgame.png|Nebula with The Avengers.
Avengers (Endgame).png|Ditto, with Hulk and Thor.
The-Avengers-Advanced-Tech-Suit.png|Nebula preparing for the time heist.
Past&Future Nebula.jpg|Nebula facing the Nebula from 2014.
Nebula Emotive.jpg|"I tried to kill you. Several times. But eventually, we become friends. We become sisters."
Nebula kills Herself.jpg|Nebula kills her past counterpart.
Nebula Opinion.jpg|"Your choices were him or a tree."
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Guardians of the Galaxy Funeral.png|The Guardians of the Galaxy attend Stark's funeral.
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==Trivia==
*Nebula's appearance in the movie seems to be based more on her second incarnation from the comics.
*Despite showing mostly loyal to Thanos the entire time, Nebula in truth despises him for torturing her, has turned her into a cyborg and using her as a weapon. Her 2014 counterpart, on the other hand, was loyal to Thanos and refused to betray him and did not despise him, which led to her demise by her present self.
*Nebula and Gamora's relationship in Guardians of the Galaxy was similar to Loki and Thor's in the Thor films.
*Nebula is the only known servant of Thanos (former or current, albeit in her case it's the former) to survive.
*Lupita Nyong'o was considered for the role before Karen Gillian was cast.
**Nyong'o was later cast as Nakia in the MCU.
*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.James Gunn Addresses Possibility Of Nebula & Star-Lord Relationship
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