Watch: Gamora’s Origin Story From The ‘Guardians Of The Galaxy’ Animated Series
For the past month, Disney XD has been teasing its upcomingGuardians of the Galaxyanimated series with origin story shorts focused on each of the Guardians. First we sawStar-Lord’s, thenGroot’s,Rocket’s, andDrax’s. And now, last but certainly not least we have Gamora’s.
If you saw James Gunn’s movie, you already know her history in broad strokes: She’s the adopted daughter of Thanos, who killed the rest of her race, and she eventually decides to betray him. But the animated Gamora origin story adds more detail to that biography, and even includes a fun cameo by another Guardian. Watch the video after the jump.
Marvel unveiled the Gamora origin story onYouTube.
As we’ve noted before, these animated shorts are not part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. That said, there’s still a lot we don’t know about Gamora and these videos fill in some of those blanks in a satisfying way. We get a better sense of what Gamora’s relationship to her adopted family might have been like before the events of the film, and what specifically may have inspired her to betray them. All this new info is interesting to consider, even if it’s nottechnicallyMCU canon.
Disney XD’s animatedGuardians of the Galaxyseries premieresSeptember 26. The voice cast includesWill Friedle(Star-Lord),Trevor Devall(Rocket Raccoon),Kevin Michael Richardson(Groot),Vanessa Marshall(Gamora),David Sobolov(Drax the Destroyer), andJames Arnold Taylor(Yondu).
Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy follows the newly-formed team who finds a strange artifact keyed only to the DNA of Peter Quill. Upon opening it, Quill unleashes a treasure map leading to a powerful weapon known as the Cosmic Seed which is capable of giving birth to the next universe. It’s up to the Guardians to find, protect and ultimately destroy the Cosmic Seed in order to keep it out of the hands of those who would abuse its power, from galactic big boss Thanos, to the conniving brothers the Collector and the Grandmaster, to a resurrected Ronan, to the ultimate trickster, Loki, in order to save the universe.
