You did not Know This About Nebula From Guardians of the Galaxy

Nebula is a deadly Luphomoid assassin who features in the MCU movies as the Daughter of Thanos and sister of Gamora. But the Nebula of the Marvel comics has a differing past than that of the movies.

Nebula in the comic is an infamous space pirate who may or may not be the granddaughter of Thanos.

Nebula from Marvel Comics

While Nebula played by Karen Gillan in the Avengers and Guardians of the Galaxy movies is an adopted daughter of Thanos who has been upgraded to increase her abilities.

Nebula In Marvel Comics

Nebula first came to prominence in Marvel Comics when she hijacked Sanctuary II which was used by Thanos as a base.

Not much of her life is known before this time. She and her trusted aides teleported Sanctuary II out of the solar system after they had repaired the hyperdrives.

First Appearances Of Nebula

Nebula made her first appearance in Avengers #257 at a point when Thanos was not even in the picture. Although he was not dead, he had been turned to stone and therefore was not causing any problems.

She met Captain Marvel when her minions warped a space ship out of the solar system which just happened to have Captain Marvel onboard. The two met when Nebula joined her minions on this space ship.

The Skrull empire was in chaos after Galactus had destroyed its throne world. Nebula planned to take advantage of this and conquer the empire. Captain Marvel pretended to go along with her plan but actually helped to evacuate the Skrull.

When the rest of the Avengers eventually found Captain Marvel they teamed up with the Skrull in order to defeat Nebula. Starfox was part of this battle and it was at this point that Nebula first mentioned that she was Thanos granddaughter.

As Starfox was the brother of Thanos, then he believed that Nebula was his grand niece.
Nebula eventually escaped from the Avengers when she was teleported out of the Androdema galaxy by Beyonder.

What Race Is Nebula?

Many people assume that Nebula is Kree because of her blue skin but this is not the case. She is part of a race called the Luphomoids. Not many members of this race survive because their planet was destroyed by Galactus.

There have been other Luphomoids that have featured in the Marvel comics and most of them have been villains. However, Nebula is a bit different from the rest of them.

Zorr is an example of one of these villains and his sole aim was to find a new home for his race after their planet was destroyed. Nebula never seemed interested in helping the rest of her species and was content with becoming a space pirate.

Is Nebula Thanos’ Daughter?

In the movies Nebula is a key part of the story because she is Thanos adopted daughter. However, no such connection exists in the comics.

She claims to be his granddaughter but this is nothing that has ever been proven. A common theory is that this was just something she said to Thanos in order to gain an ally.

When Thanos was reborn one of the first things he did was try to reclaim Sanctuary II, which Nebula was in control of at the time.

It is not clear whether Thanos believed she was his granddaughter or not, but he certainly did not treat her well. He torched her body to the point where she was almost dead and and then left her in this state.

Nebula claimed the gauntlet for herself once Thanos had defeated Eternity and used it to restore herself back to life.

Adam Warlock eventually gained the gauntlet from her and once again she was left in a catatonic state. This came to an end when one of her crew rescued her from Titan and she had surgery to return her physical state to what it was before.



You did not Know This About Nebula From Guardians of the Galaxy