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Nebula
United Front
Notable aliasesCaptain Nebula
Ms. Peale
Abilities
  • Superhuman strength, agility and durability
  • Regeneration
  • Tactical expertise
  • Skilled hand-to-hand combatant
  • Master assassin
  • Weapons specialist
  • Energy blasts via Wrist blasters
  • Bionic enhancement
  • Accelerated probability

Nebula is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by Roger Stern and John Buscema, the character first appeared in The Avengers #257 (July 1985).[1] Originally depicted as a supervillain, Nebula was later depicted as an antihero and member of the Guardians of the Galaxy.

Nebula has appeared in various adaptations of the character in other media, including

television series and video games. Karen Gillan portrayed the character in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Guardians of the Galaxy (2014), Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017), Avengers: Infinity War (2018), Avengers: Endgame (2019), Thor: Love and Thunder (2022), The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special (2022) and Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 (2023) in addition to voicing alternate timeline versions in the Disney+ animated series What If...?
(2021).

Publication history

Nebula was created by writer Roger Stern and artist John Buscema, and first appeared in The Avengers #257 (July 1985).[2]

Fictional character biography

Nebula on the cover of The Avengers #318 (June 1990). Art by Paul Ryan and Tom Palmer.

A brutal space pirate and mercenary, Nebula seized control of Sanctuary II, a massive spaceship previously under the command of

Levan
.

Nebula asked the second

Firelord learned that Nebula had massacred the Xandarians. Eventually Nebula used her space fleet to attack the Skrull space armada and the Avengers.[3]

Nebula then schemed to gain absolute power by using Earth scientist Dr. Harker's atomic compressor to release vast amounts of energy that were absorbed by the Infinity Union. This attempt nearly triggered the end of the universe when the experiment caused a second Big Bang that came close to annihilating everything before a small group of Avengers— Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider-Man and Sersi— were able to escape the destruction and shut down the equipment in time to negate the unmaking of existence. She fought the Avengers, absorbing energies from the Infinity Union through the implant in her brain until Sersi removed the brain implant, depriving her of her powers. Nebula then escaped.[4]

The Infinity Gauntlet

The newly resurrected Thanos was offended by Nebula's claims of kinship. He reclaimed his ship and almost killed her, using the Infinity Gems. He transformed her into a grotesque virtual corpse still barely alive, leaving her as a maimed and seemingly mindless zombie, burned and disfigured by his energy beams.[5]

When he later claimed the

Thor, the Hulk, Firelord, Doctor Doom, and Drax the Destroyer—the only heroes that Strange had been able to locate in the time available to him.[6]

Nebula in interior artwork from Nova: The Human Rocket #1 (May 1999). Art by Joe Bennett.

The group confronted her, and, with Thanos exploiting Nebula's inexperience with wielding the Gauntlet, she was tricked into undoing the events of his godhood and destructive acts. The Cosmic Pantheon (which Thanos had earlier defeated) immediately appeared and battled her. With Nebula distracted, the Surfer and Warlock were able to steal the Gauntlet by disrupting the unity between the Infinity Gems. Nebula was captured by Starfox and returned to Titan for trial, while Adam Warlock claimed the Gauntlet.[7]

Nebula was later confronted by Firelord in the Titanian prison, where the murder of her abusive father was depicted in a flashback, which left her in a catatonic state.[8] Nebula was later freed from prison by her lieutenant Geatar and converted into a cyborg by Doctor Mandibus.[9] She attempted to free her pirate crew from the "Anvil" space prison, but was thwarted by the Silver Surfer and Jack of Hearts. She killed her crew in escaping.[10]

When next seen after escaping imprisonment, Nebula was a showgirl on the party planet of Syllogonia. When she spotted the Silver Surfer and the cosmic hero Genis-Vell there, she feared being discovered and tried to flee. After revealing her true identity to Genis-Vell, she immediately attacked him with the laser batter in her mechanical arm. A brief fight broke out amongst the trio. Nebula tried to distract the Surfer by attacking a cruise ship to facilitate her escape and disguised herself as his contemporary, Genis, to catch the Surfer off guard. All this did was enrage her pursuer; Norrin dismantled her firearm before transmuting her armor into a binding shell to incapacitate her for deliverance to the authorities.[11]

At an unknown time and date, Nebula would once again escape confinement to gather an armed force geared towards attacking Thanos's home planet, Titan. Norrin would come to his old Defenders compatriot, Doctor Strange, seeking aid in stopping the advancement of her recruitment drive. But the would-be pirate empress anticipated the former herald's arrival, and she lay in wait with her first mate Gaetar to ambush him. After having knocked the surfer out with a synaptic disruptor, she had her old adversary strapped to an extraterrestrial equivalent of a fusion bomb to be sent straight down into the moon's surface. Her idea of sick revenge against the habitable astral body and the Silver Surfer for past slights. But she underestimated the recruitment that her adversary had brought with him; in her overconfidence, she left

Nitro, and Titanium Man.[14]

Annihilation

Nebula has appeared as one of

Stellaris. Ronan triumphed, severely wounding her.[15]

Guardian Team-up

The rogue scion would be contracted by Kindun, a living conduit to the similarly named planet which he inhabited. To bring her adopted sibling Gamora to him seeking to enact retribution for what she and her father/mentor Thanos did in times long past.[16] Nebula herself would enlist an army of Chitauri in pursuit of the Guardians of the Galaxy to accomplish this task, but ran afoul of the heroic Avengers when she and her forces ended up chasing them all the way to Earth.[17]

Thanos Vol. 2

Having been incensed that

Thane, who had arranged it for the purpose of killing his father.[18] Nebula is skeptical until she hears Thane's convincing argument, in which he states they need a special kind of contraband to do the deed. Their goal is to steal precious intel by releasing a special prisoner in Terrax the Terrible's personal gulag, a mercenary who knows a special backdoor entrance into Thanos's old fortress, The Black Quadrant.[19]

While Starfox worked to distract their unsuspecting host Nebula, Tryco and Thane made their way to the ship's brig to ascertain their prize. Much to Tryco and Nebula's horror, however, there was no prisoner within the ship. What was there was a Phoenix Egg. In her shortsighted anger at such deceptions, Nebula shot Thane dead where he stood. Inadvertently unleashing the Phoenix onto its newest host. Realizing how badly they erred in trusting Thane, these odd bedfellows seek out the now crippled and mortal Thanos to enlist his aid in killing his enthralled son.[20]

Although her crew came to the dead, radioactive husk of Titan, seeking out their needed ally, Nebula immediately attacked her former grandsire, seeking to accomplish what she'd initially joined Thane's merry band to accomplish. Starfox and The Champion of the Universe did their best to try and stymie these patricidal tendencies, but were unable to stem the cyborg plunderer's fury. When her granduncle tried using his powers of persuasion on her, Thanos snapped Nebula out of her trance, to which she immediately threatened to feminize him with a razor pointed at his face. She would stymie her own killing rage as Eros explained that their collaboration with the man god whom they initially set out to kill is more out of desperation now that a Phoenix-empowered Thane has been loosed upon the cosmos. After hearing of Thanos's plan to find the Witches of Infinity, Nebula is less than pleased with her former lords cobbling aboard her ship without permission. But she is silenced into reluctant collusion, seeing as she has no real means of killing the all-powerful son of her hated liege. A few amongst their motley crew remain skeptical as to both the whereabouts and existence of this cosmic coven, until they drop out of hyperspace smack in front of the Black Hole, which leads directly into their lair.[21]

After Thanos and Eros vacate the witches' domain, Tryco and Nebula grow rather restless during the wait, so they consummate their passions to pass the time. The moments after their fornication are soon beset by the arrival of Thanos's mad son Thane, who chases them partway across the universe even after a hyperspace jump, to which they crash land on an uncharted planet in the middle of nowhere. Just as they are about to be eviscerated by Phoenix Thane, they are saved by the untimely arrival of Thanos, who, having been reinvigorated by the God Quarry, engages in an epic battle of cosmic proportions with his wayward spawn. Nebula and Champion are caught in the backlash of their cosmic conflagration, seeking space suits on her downed ship to escape the planet they are on. Nebula is knocked out by flying debris. She awakens to find herself in the arms of Tryco, whom she cuffs for carrying her, only to be caught in the resultant explosion from when Thanos smashed his son into the planet they were fighting on during a desperate escape. As the fighting escalated, the two were dragged into the realm of the Stygian Witches by the contrail of the father–son conflict. Nebula was reawakened in the God Quarry by its caretaker after traversing the Black Hole, knocking her unconscious again. While waking up Tryco, the duo trades questionings about where they are and what all is going on, only to find Eros laying on the floor semi-conscious and half beaten to death. After the battle had been won and Thane was cast into the quarry, Thanos turned his attention to his compatriots, only to rebuke a lot of them and leave everyone stranded in the witches' domain with no way out. Nebula finds herself exasperated less by the fact that Thanos abandoned her again but more by the fact that she is stuck there with her granduncle and her onetime fling.[22]

Asgardians of the Galaxy

Seeing no real way out the undaunted Nebula would partake of the witches' challenge and set foot within the Quarry herself. Coming out of her own desired fulfillment she would emerge from the petrification effect now capable of surviving the airless environment of the elderly watchers abode. Eager to vacate the premise Nebula is dismayed to find that Thanos has been long dead in her absence, by the hand of her hated sibling Gamorra no less. But the Cosmic Coven also inform her that there is another way for her acquire that which she truly desires, assuming she follows in the footsteps of her rival in getting it.[23]

Following the Three-as-One's advice, Nebula sets out to capture a dwarven enclave to coerce one of their master blacksmiths into both making for her a mighty cleaver through which she can shorten distances across the universe and refurbish an artifact of biblical proportions through which she can regain her title as deadliest woman in the galaxy.[24]

To that end, she would have the rest of the Dwarves tortured and ritually sacrificed by removing their fingernails before casting them out in chains to the cold and unforgiving void of space where they all froze to death. While touching down on Draeketh, planet of Temples; she and her surviving dwarven ward accompanied by an army of cutthroats, would go in search of said potent relic of Asgardian make which would enable her to claim Thanos's throne. The Naglefar Beacon, a device with which to call forth the divine cadavers boarding an armada of Norse ferries catered to the apocalyptic horns blow. As the Asgardians of the Galaxy moved in to preempt her latest genocidal schemes, Nebula waylayed Angela long enough to make her escape. Making her way to the planet Netredeen; she would submit the beacon to trial running by summoning the natives' childlike gods to slaughter their worshipers, having decided on such as a tactical measure to occupy her pursuers before heading off to the Shi'ar throneworld. Where she would confront Gladiator and the Imperial Guard as yet another test of the necro god callers world-ending power. Thoroughly satisfied with her latest conquest, Nebula departs the ravaged crown city of Chandilar with a swing of her axe right as the Asgardian spacefarers touched down to apprehend her.[25]

Having secretly made her way to the Sol System, Nebula's first order of business was to incapacitate Thor right before calling the Naglefar Armada down on Earth. As the Asgardians of the Galaxy managed to briefly intercept the fleet of dead deities, Nebula recognizes she'd been trapped in an illusion set by kid Loki as his associates are all seemingly cut down with relative ease. Realizing too little too late she had been distracted long enough for the real thing to board her ship. After a brief skirmish Nebula is finally bested when the beacon is taken off her hands as she lays trapped in an illusion of losing out to Gamora. After her Dwarf thrall fixes her war hatchet she teleports away again, not realizing its warp capabilities had been tampered with.[26]

Working with the Dark Guardians

In the aftermath of the "Infinity Wars" storyline, Nebula was present at Thanos' funeral. Starfox showed all the guests a recording of Thanos stating that he uploaded his consciousness into a new body before his death. The funeral was attacked by the Black Order, who stole Thanos's body and ripped open a hole in space, sending everyone into the rip.[27] Everyone was saved by the arrival of Gladiator and the Shi'ar Empire. Nebula was among those who joined up with Starfox's Dark Guardians.[28] The Dark Guardians found Nova and ambushed him, wounding him enough to crash land onto a planet. When the group argues about Wraith's motives, Nova takes the chance to fly off. The team plans to track her down again.[29]

Powers and abilities

Nebula is an athletic woman, and an excellent armed and unarmed combatant. She possesses a gifted intellect and is a brilliant battle strategist.[12]

Nebula uses blasters worn on her wrists that fire concussive blasts of unknown energy or heat blasts that can incinerate a human being almost instantly. She also apparently wears a device that enables her to disguise her appearance, either through illusion-casting or through actual molecular rearrangement of her body and clothing.

Nebula briefly possessed the Infinity Union, a combination of three devices that together could channel all forms of ambient energy into her, infusing her with vast power. Enabling her to grow in size, be immune to physical harm, invert the Vision's intangibility, teleport, kill and recreate the Stranger, cause the universe to blink in and out of existence, project her consciousness as televised broadcasts or an energy form, and technoform any/all inorganic matter into anything she saw fit.[4] She also briefly possessed the Infinity Gauntlet, which held all six "Infinity Gems" of limitless raw might, apparently giving her absolute control of reality while she possessed them. However, her short-sightedness meant that she often made crucial errors in judgment when wielding the power, like undoing the events of Thanos's godhood without realizing that this would revert her to her near-death state and free the imprisoned Cosmic Pantheon whom Thanos had recently defeated.[7]

Nebula was later converted by Doctor Mandibus into a cyborg.[9] She was given an artificial left eye, left arm, and left shoulder. The left upper quarter of her head and part of her right hip are sheathed in metal. Her bionic limb can stretch to nearly twice its length and has a potent energy cannon in the palm. Nebula's optic receiver had been augmented with the addition of an accelerated probability generator implanted into her systems, giving her detailed understanding and analyzing of effective given variables related to an end goal by calculating the differing course of action one can take to achieve the best possible outcome geared towards reaching it.[30]

Having won out the trial beset by the God Quarry Nebula had not only regained her freedom but came out with the benefit of pseudo divinity as her prize, enabling her to breathe in a cold vacuum without need of a space suit and physically match godlike adversaries.[23]

For a short while Nebula wielded Asgardian weapons of incredible power in her latest scheme for conquest and recognition. Having coerced the Dwarf blacksmith Urzuul into crafting for her a battle ax with trans-spatial warping capabilities rivaling those of the

Executioner's own weapon, allowing her to teleport over long distances and back at will.[24]

Another relic she possessed crafted by the trickster god Loki was the Naglefar Beacon, a diabolical horn which controlled the as named by ships teaming with the waiting and resentful cadavers of countless dead divinities stretching along numerous pantheons.[31] Each and everyone of whom representing the leftover remains of gods present after every Ragnarok Cycle where their souls reincarnated into fresh bodies while their old corporeal vessels linger on in perpetual agony. All of whom patiently awaited the horns blow to beset any unsuspecting worlds with their spiteful fury at the reliquaries beck and call.[32]

Reception

Accolades

  • In 2020, Scary Mommy included Nebula in their "Looking For A Role Model? These 195+ Marvel Female Characters Are Truly Heroic" list.[33]
  • In 2022,
    CBR.com ranked Nebula 4th in their "Thanos' Most Powerful Children" list.[34]

In other media

Television

Marvel Cinematic Universe

Guardians of the Galaxy,[40] and works with the Avengers to stop Thanos.[41]

Additionally, Gillan voices alternate timeline versions of Nebula in the Disney+ animated series What If...?[42] and reprises her role in the live-action special The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special.[43][44][45]

Video games

References

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  2. ^ The Avengers #257, 260
  3. ^ a b The Avengers #311–312, 314, 316–318
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  10. ^ Silver Surfer vol. 3 #110
  11. ^ a b The Secret Defenders #9
  12. ^ The Secret Defenders #10
  13. ^ The Secret Defenders #14
  14. ^ Annihilation: Ronan #2
  15. ^ Guardians Team-Up #2
  16. ^ Guardians Team-Up #1
  17. ^ Thanos vol. 2 #1
  18. ^ Thanos vol. 2 #2
  19. ^ Thanos vol. 2 #5–7
  20. ^ Thanos vol. 2 #8–9
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