Gamora and Nebula are sisters

[shakalooloo]

Guardians of the Galaxy #10 (legacy #190).

Always good to see Gamora and Nebula getting along.










Collin Kelly & Jackson Lanzing: writers; Kev Walker: artist; Matt Hollingsworth: color artist; Cory Petit: letters

Comments

[thehood]

It's a little odd since they weren't sisters in the comics. Nebula's claim was that she was the granddaughter of Thanos.

[beyondthefringe]

I swear, the Nebula we have now bears almost no resemblance to the Nebula we first met leading space pirates as she hijacked Thanos' old ship/home.

And yet I can't really pinpoint a certain moment or appearance where she changed (apart from explicitly being made into a cyborg in the '90s run of Silver Surfer, which has carried over until now). She was a nasty piece of work for such a long time, and any element of sympathy in her character is a really recent development.

I know... MCU synergy.

[coldfury]

It's really striking if you compare her to her Infinity Gauntlet or Avengers' appearances.

She managed to make the creepy Dr. Druid even worse, which was impressive!

[scorntx]

Ah, but that wasn't actually Nebula.
That was Ravonna pretending to be Nebula for... some reason.

[coldfury]

Ugh, time to go wiki diving.

[scorntx]

Best of luck.
If there is an explanation, can't recall seeing it on the Marvel wiki.

[cainofdreaming]

Unofficial Appendix to the rescue: link.

[scorntx]

But it still doesn't explain why she pretended to be Nebula...
So apparently there is no explanation.

[cainofdreaming]

She pretended to be Kang Nebula, because the Council of Cross-Time Kangs was made out of beings that had killed a Kang and assumed his identity. Or at least that's my recollection.

[super_fly]

There was her solo series where she had an experimental piece of technology implanted in her (while holding the child of the surgeon hostage during the procedure, mind) and ended up stranded on a planet with a bit of amnesia where she was starting to be a bit less of an asshole to the people nursing her back to health and protecting them against other bad guys

I don't know if it was ever finished but I assume that was how she was supposed to go from the old Nebula to the new Nebula

[akodo_rokku]

She was also in some kind of group of like, all-femme space monks during the original Annihilation, or maybe Annihilation Conquest? I forget which.

[scorntx]

First Annihilation (Annihilation: Ronan, to be specific). The Graces, and they weren't monks, just marauders.
Also included Cerise from Excalibur. No idea what she was doing in there. Spying, maybe?

[cainofdreaming]

Stellaris too. Because her all-consuming obsession with pursuing and trying to kill Celestials apparently allows for vacations.

[scorntx]

Well, in fairness it was a plot point that Glorian was luring people to that planet to make them fight for his own reasons.
(Not because she'd done something like realise how ridiculous and impossible her goal was.
... if she'd waited a decade or so, she'd have an easier time of it. Celestials these days go down like paper dolls...)

[cainofdreaming]

I've only seen three occurrences of that, actually (some of them repeat occurrences, but hey). Beings that they themselves created, or gave power to, to be able to do that (Beyonders and Kings in Black), the Horde and X-Books.

Two of those I can understand, third I know the reasons for and keep headdesking about.

[thehood]

It never finished, it was one of the books canceled due to covid.

[onsokumaru]

You mean, all those years commiting genocides with a "S" to prove you're worthy to be Thanos' heir?

[scorntx]

Not familiar with Victoria, but, umm... was she this much of a cartoon supervillain before?
(Or did the writers just feel that with Deathbird currently being not evil, someone had to fill the "cartoon space supervillain" slot?)

[lbd_nytetrayn]

Apparent continuity alarm triggers aside, I am enjoying the dynamic between them here.