zoe saldana played gamora on guardians of the galaxy.
zoe saldana played gamora on guardians of the galaxy.
who played gamora on guardians of the galaxy?
zoe saldana
in 2014, saldana played gamora in the hit film "guardians of the galaxy". saldana said that she became gamora through make-up rather than computer generated imagery (cgi) or performance capture. the film became the third highest-grossing film in the marvel cinematic universe, behind "the avengers" and "iron man 3". it was the third highest-grossing 2014 film (behind "" and "", and the highest-grossing superhero film of 2014.
zoe saldana
in the films, thanos meets gamora while he is murdering half the population of her homeworld. he adopts her and raises her to be an assassin. part of her training is to fight nebula, a foster sister adopted by thanos who holds a mutual rivalry with her. as an adult, gamora plans to rebel against thanos when he sends her to aid ronan the accuser, a kree fanatic who wants to destroy the planet xandar. she is caught and imprisoned by xandarian police. in prison, she joins the other guardians of the galaxy (star-lord, drax, rocket raccoon, and groot) in an escape and they save xandar from ronan. because of her heroic actions, gamora is cleared of her previous crimes. when nebula also rebels against thanos, the two sisters reconcile. meanwhile, star-lord and gamora begin to develop a mutual romantic attraction. thanos later abducts and emotionally manipulates gamora into revealing the location of the soul stone. he confides that he truly saw her as a daughter, and it is in his sacrifice of her life that he is able to retrieve the stone. because gamora died before thanos used the infinity gauntlet to erase half the population of the universe, gamora remains dead even after the avengers reverse thanos' action. however, the younger version of gamora still allied with thanos travels to the present day and is eventually convinced by the present day version of nebula to fight alongside the avengers against thanos. quill is astonished and relieved at her apparent return, but her younger self has no memory of their previous adventures and relationship with him. when tony stark successfully defeats thanos by using the infinity stones against him, the past version of gamora survived, but slipped away from the battlefield. as the guardians of the galaxy prepare to leave earth, star-lord is shown to be attempting to find gamora, hoping that she may still be alive and out there somewhere.
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