Nebula (Marvel Cinematic Universe)

## Nebula

**Nebula** is one of the secondary antagonists turned major protagonists of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She is one of the the adoptive daughters of the Mad-Titan Thanos and the adoptive sister of Gamora, Corvus Glaive, Cull Obsidian, Ebony Maw and Proxima Midnight. She initially seeks vengeance upon both her sister and her father, but decides to ally with Gamora and the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Nebula is a former member of the Avengers and the Black Order and even joined the Guardians of the Galaxy despite previously rejecting Gamora's offer to join them in the second *Guardians of the Galaxy* movie.

## Background

At a young age, Nebula's parents were killed by Thanos, who stole their child so she would become his personal assassin.

As a child, Nebula saw her sister, Gamora as the only thing she had close to family. However, her views on Gamora changed. As children, Thanos had Nebula and Gamora fight one another. During these battles, Gamora won at everything, never "once refraining". Every time Gamora succeeded and Nebula failed, she would be "upgraded" to become Gamora's equal. However, she never would become Gamora's equal.

In *Guardians of the Galaxy Prelude*, it is revealed that Nebula had several other machinery added to her in order for her to survive.

### 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

### *Guardians of the Galaxy*

In 2014, an outlaw known as Star-Lord stole the orb that contained an Infinity Stone. At first, Nebula was tasked to go to Xandar and retrieve the Orb from Quill. However, her sister, Gamora, had plans of her own. The Zehoberei instead offered to go to Xandar in order and steal the orb from this so called "Star-Lord," knowing that if Nebula failed, they would face their father with a very dreadful punishment. This had made Nebula upset that Gamora was going in her stead and angrily confront her sister. Both attempted to break each other's fingers, while Nebula accused Gamora of attempting to become Ronan's new favorite. She also pointed out that she heard the galaxy could hear victims scream to prove one point: she was a better killer than Gamora. Though angered, Gamora replied it took Nebula too long to kill her victims before going onto the ship to Xandar.

### In between

Nebula, after flying solo attempted to steal the Sovereign People's Anulax batteries. However, it is unknown why she needed the batteries. Whether it was to get revenge on her sister and father, or so she could make a quick buck with how much the batteries are worth is unknown. However, she was arrested by the Sovereign. The latter of the two contacted the Guardians of the Galaxy and offered to hand over Nebula in exchange that they defend the Anulax batteries.

### *Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2*

She was given to her sister and the other Guardians as part of their deal with the Sovereign. However, before the Guardians are able to get Nebula to Xandar, they are suddenlya ttacked by the Sovereign because Rocket Raccoon stole their Anulax Batteries. They were saved by Ego, who left Berhert with Peter, Gamora and Drax.

Nebula helped the Ravagers capture Rocket, Groot and Yondu by tricking Groot into unlocking her restraints and using a gun to blast off Yondu's finn.