gamora – i'll apple your turnover

Avengers: infinity war (2018)

gamora: peter, we need to talk about your professionalism.

peter, standing on a chair: those are mighty brave words for a woman standing in lava.

radicles-art:

Now that it’s said and we both understand

Let’s say our goodbyes before it gets out of hand

Bye bye, baby I’d really like to stay

But we’ll remember the best time in our lives

Silver – Wham Bam Shang A Lang. (Guardians of the Galaxy) Vol. 2

bb8s:

bb8s:

so is anyone else losing sleep at night because, after a lifetime of living with enemies, gamora believed it would be an honor to die amongst her friends, but instead she died alone and scared, at the hands of the man she hated most in the world

even worse, her abusive father figure insists he loves her, and that the very act of murdering her is one of love…and it works. this shit is HAUNTING me

ink-splotch:

I feel very naive. Infinty War started rolling along and I got so excited– they were finally giving me the Gamora arc I’d been waiting for! Her backstory! Her complicated emotions about her upbringing! Her desire to live but also her absolute willingness to die to protect the universe! Nebula! This is what I wanted.

And then we got to that scene on that cliff and I could just feel it all sinking in my gut

Because that whole time, they hadn’t been writing that arc for Gamora’s sake, they’d been writing it for Thanos.

And you know how you can tell? Beyond just that her end was to further his plot, beyond just that she was fridged at the bottom of a long fall for Thanos’s grief and Quill’s rage, it’s this–

The Soul Stone asks you to give up that you love most. If this scene was about Thanos then it reads like this: he did. He made that trade, sure-footed but heavy-hearted. It’s a scene intended to complicate him, to humanize him, and to show his utter devotion to his goal. It makes him a more comprehensible but also more powerful villain.

But if it was a scene about Gamora AND IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN, then it reads like this, and this is what proves it was never about her journey:

Gamora turned to her toxic, abusive father and told him no, this isn’t love, and the narrative murdered her to prove her wrong.

petiteallemande:

This isn’t love.

iconicbane:

anyone else think it’s really interesting how when thor found out that gamora was the daughter of the man who killed half of his people, his brother, his best friend, he simply patted her on the shoulder and told her that family can be rough sometimes? like instead of acting in anger or grief, thor immediately tried to empathize and comfort gamora. he lost everything, but he didn’t even think for a second to be mad at gamora for her father’s actions. it just goes to show you how good thor is.