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| Death by knife or gun, tough choice... |
Gamora, the deadliest woman alive,
or so she claims. Personally I think that Jean Grey with Phoenix power takes
the top spot by far. When the very use of your powers causes future organisms
to never be, it’s kind of hard for anyone else to measure up. And even if you
take Dark Phoenix Jean off, Laura Kinney, Wolverine’s clone/daughter, could
give Gamora a run for her money. I’m not saying she isn’t tough, but come on
Gamora, don’t let your mouth write checks that you can’t cash.
Background, she’s is the sole
survivor of the Zen-Whoberi species. Her kind was wiped out by another alien
species called the Badoon. Thanos, being a watchful sociopath, decided she
could be of use to him. Gamora was trained from her earliest days to destroy
Thanos’ enemies, chiefly the Magus, an evil version of a future GotG teammate
Adam Warlock (who I don’t think is in the movie) from an alternate time line. Since Magus wiped out Gamora's people in his timeline, it probably wasn't a tough sell.
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| The cape doesn't do much, besides adding to her overall awesome. |
It was from this training that she got her, in my opinion, inaccurate title as
the deadliest woman alive. She completed her mission, with the help of Thanos
and the current timeline's Adam Warlock, and then realized Thanos is the bigger
threat. Realizing your boss is one of the evilest beings ever to be born in this universe will do that to a person. She joined with various heroes to put the mad Titan down. She later
joined the second and third incarnation of the Guardians of the Galaxy.
She is a master of hand-to-hand
combat and a number of melee weapons. Basically if you can use it to kill
people she has trained with it, mastered it, and figured out a new way to kill
someone with it. Her alien physiology combined with her harsh training under
Thanos greatly enhanced her strength, durability, and speed. Later issues
reveal she also has had extensive cybernetic and chemical enhancements via
Thanos’ orders. She is really, really good at making people dead.
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| She could use a cape. |
Like the previous three members,
she has few appearances in Marvel greater universe. And, like most of her
teammates she is played up her few comedic elements. Since they most likely won’t
go into her history with Magus and the greater Marvel-verse (which hasn’t
happened yet in the movies) it’ll be interesting to see how they tell her story
without those elements. Not saying it can’t be done, but it’ll be a little
harder, unless they can think up another reason for her leaving Thanos’
service, other than she suddenly developed a conscience.Not that that is unheard of, I just think it's lazy writing.
I think that Zoe Saldana will make
for an excellent Gamora. She proved in the Star Trek movies that she can kick a
little booty. Trailers have shown her fighting ability is believable, and she
still looks good doing it. And given what I’ve seen from Star Trek and Avatar
(she was Neytiri, the female lead) she can defiantly do the dramatic bits well
too, so long as they don’t have her interrupt an important mission to yell at
her boyfriend. Like Drax she’s probably going to be a bit more stoic then her
comrades, and will hopefully add a little more seriousness into the movie. Next,
we’ll go with the team leader Peter Quill aka Star-Lord.
http://www.comicvine.com/forums/battles-7/gamora-vs-wonder-woman-lady-shiva-1582435/
http://thedailybugle.wikia.com/wiki/Gamora
http://g4geek.com/new-photo-zoe-saldana-chris-pratt-in-guardians-of-the-galaxy/
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