On May 3, 2023, “Guardians of the Galaxy 3” will mark the return of all the heroes of James Gunn’s Marvel trilogy. Including Gamora (Zoe Saldana), yet dead in “Avengers: Infinity War”. Explanations or reminder shot.
Announced as the last part of the James Gunn trilogy in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Guardians of the Galaxy 3 could see certain characters die (including Drax, Nebula and / or Rocket, if we trust the first images). And this while a dead will be back.
It is indeed Gamora, still played by Zoe Saldana. Adopted daughter of Thanos, she had however been sacrificed by the latter in Avengers: Infinity War, so that he could recover the Stone of the Soul on the planet Vormir. How can she be alive?
If not really simple, the answer is in Avengers: Endgame. And it appeals to the conception of time travel and the multiverse at the heart of the Russo Brothers film. Unlike a Back to the Future, where every action in the past has direct consequences for the future, the actions of Marvel heroes give rise to alternate realities.
In order to retrieve the Stone of Power, War Machine (Don Cheadle) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) travel back in time to 2014, the year in which the first installment of Guardians of the Galaxy takes place. When Gamora was still very much alive.
The Walt Disney Pictures Gamora during the final fight of “Avengers Endgame”
Let’s skip over the details that may complicate the whole thing, but remember that this action has the consequence, among other things, of colliding the past and the present of the story, when the 2014 Thanos uses the hero machine to land in 2023 with his own. Including her two adopted daughters: Gamora and another version of Nebula, who will be killed in the final fight.
Meanwhile, Gamora runs away after her adoptive father fails, much to Star-Lord’s (Chris Pratt) chagrin. And one of the challenges of Guardians of the Galaxy 3 will be, for the fine team, to find her. Knowing that this isn’t the dead young woman who came back to life, like the victims of Thanos’ snapping his fingers, but rather an alternate version who has yet to meet her future partners when she arrives in 2023.
An image of the trailer unveiled this December 1 in the United States shows her in the company of Drax, Mantis (Pom Klementieff) and Star-Lord. So the question is not so much whether she will find the heroes as how the reunion will go. And if its links with the characters will be different than in the two previous opuses. Answer on May 3 at the cinema.