#mcu nebula

[ohfugecannada]

Bugborg collage.

[vaspider]

Chapters: 1/? Fandom: Marvel Cinematic Universe Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Nebula & Tony Stark, Nebula & Rocket Raccoon, Nebula & James "Rhodey" Rhodes, Nebula & Morgan Stark (Marvel Cinematic Universe) Characters: Nebula (Marvel), Rocket Raccoon, James "Rhodey" Rhodes Summary:

Twenty-one days in space is a long time. Five years after that is an even longer time. When you weren't given any good examples of how to be a family and you lose even the shitty one you had, you might just grab on to the people who show you the slightest bit of comfort and care.

But you're not an Avenger, so nobody really pays attention to what you lost when Tony saved the universe. Well. Almost nobody.

***

Chapter one (I’m assuming, I don’t think this thing is going to leave me alone) of the thing I said had been rattling around in my brain. Enjoy. Or don’t, I’m not your dad. But if you want more of it, yeah, let me know.

[raccoon-coded]

Just thinking about how Rocket got to fix Nebula's cybernetics in a way that he never got to do for his first friends'.

He helped Nebula heal by removing the visible reminders of her trauma.

There were no longer obvious, unsightly and unnatural implants; evidence of what was done to her, but rather she now looked more like the person she was before she was changed. The one who was innocent and unburdened.

She no longer appeared as a product of someone's design, a product of failure, but as her own person. The person she has chosen to be. Someone very different from the person she was molded to be.

Lylla, Teefs and Floor never got to experience that kind of liberation. They never broke free from under their creator's thumb. And they would always bear the scars of what was done to them.

[unityrain24]

wanting to write a little bit of black order loki gamora nebula stuff to get a little bit of my great yummy yummy ideas out but it's been forever since i've i watched a gotg movie and so i do not feel familiar enough with enough stuff to write anything T^T

[statisticalcats2]

I wonder if Nebula learned how important Peter was to Tony. I bet she did.

[fulcrum-art-fox]

“I’m fine. I just need a drink. And guns. And an arm.” That’d be in order of priority, I presume

[nilnether]

I just saw Karen Gillan talking about her roles to Cinema Therapy guys and she mentions meeting James Cameron at Zoe Saldana's Hollywood Star ceremony. And how she didn't recognize him.

He told her how much he liked her in that "I just wanted a sister" scene and how it moved him to tears.

It made me think - Guardians of the Galaxy 2 was released in May 2017 so Cameron was just about to start filming Avatar 2 and 3 with similar family themes. Behind all the spectacle both series are really about family relationships and how messy they can be. Especially the parts with Spider and Quartich with hate and resentment covering a need to connect (I could so see Spider yelling "I just wanted a father" and not just at Quaritch). Jake telling Lo'ak he sees him sure hit the same cords as Nebula and Gamora's reconciliation hug for me. I wonder if this is why this movie resonated so hard with Cameron too.

This is the interview and it should start playing at that moment

[flurry-bace]

kinda getting back into the MCU but only because Nebula is hot

[burningfudge]

a dysfunctional found family with dark pasts and no brain cells who saved the day with the power of friendship can be so personal

[scottxlogan]

Tony is reunited with Steve and Pepper in Avengers Endgame.

[florida3exclamationpoints]

Marvel + text posts

[pedro-reed]

Karen Gillan as Nebula GUARDIANS OF THE GALAXY VOLUME 3 (2023), directed by James Gunn

[guardianjameslight]

He literally made one of the best superhero trilogies, a sequel/reboot of a failed movie that was better in every way, follow up show that made people like a character they hated, and literally a great start of DCU.

[hurtspideyparker]

Peter: I'm sorry... *dies*

Tony: Yeah you better be sorry, you just turned a brand new 1.2 billion dollar nanotech suit into DUST

Nebula: (0_0;)

[josephmcdingle]

I watched all guardians of the galaxy movies it's peak, I do say

[statisticalcats2]

I was thinking about how Tony invented time travel for Peter (as I do) and something that just connected in my brain about this is... how big a deal Peter is in his relation to Tony when you factor in how fucked over by canon Tony is when it comes to relationships with other characters. It's a common joke that people will be like "how do you expect me to see the Avengers as a found family when I can barely see them as work friends?" and I feel like Tony gets the worst of it.

Looking back over all these movies, with all these characters Tony's been teamed up with, "friends" with, etc, there's literally only four characters that I'm left feeling like have any lasting, genuine care and friendship for Tony and that's Rhodey, Happy, Peter, and Nebula. And the friendship with Nebula is after the Snap, after Peter's already gone. So before her, only three characters like this. Everyone else is always blowing him off, abandoning him, ignoring his pretty explicit cries for help, listening to tabloids over the man himself to make decisions about his character, etc.

He lost so much when he lost Peter. And it makes so much sense that he only agreed to help undo the Snap because it would bring Peter back. He would have done the same if it was Rhodey or Happy. Or Nebula if the series of events were in a different order and their friendship came before the Snap. Tony's surrounded by people but he has so few actual deep connections, and so many of his relationships he cares more about the other person than the other person does about him. The places these four have in his life can't be understated.

Close to zero percent chance it was at all intentional, but it's actually artistically beautiful how one of Tony's few fully reciprocal friends is Nebula, the character introduced as an antagonist and spends one and a half-ish movies seen as Gamora's more violent, villainous sister, and then we find out her past where she dearly wanted to have an actual sister in Gamora and it was Gamora that fostered the hostile relationship between them. Gamora was a child in all this so it's not really the same, she doesn't deserve the blame I'd give to Tony's adult "friends" who constantly mistreated him. But it makes for such an interesting way of seeing Nebula and Tony's friendship. They're more thematically similar than many (even the writers) probably think.