A child taken by the man who had just killed half her people and raised as his weapon, who spent twenty years becoming what he wanted before deciding to sell him out.
Gamora is introduced as the most dangerous person in the room and spends the film failing to convince anyone she has changed sides. The problem is not that she is lying. It is that she was raised in public as Thanos’ favourite, and the galaxy has receipts.
Her origin is one line of dialogue that the films then take completely seriously: Thanos killed half of the population of her world, including her mother, and adopted her out of the survivors. Everything she is good at, he taught her. The films are careful never to describe this as a bond.
The relationship the run actually invests in is with Nebula. They were raised as competitors by a man who rebuilt the loser after every fight, and getting them to a place where they can sit in the same room takes four films.
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The Gamora who dies on Vormir in Avengers: Infinity War does not come back. The one who appears in Avengers: Endgame and afterwards is a version pulled out of 2014 by time travel, who has not met Peter Quill, has not left Thanos, and owes none of these people anything.
The reference article structures itself around that split, giving separate first and last appearances for the original and the alternate. This catalogue keeps them in one entry because the article counts one filmography, but the boundary is clean if it ever needs separating: original from Guardians of the Galaxy to Avengers: Infinity War, alternate from Avengers: Endgame onward.