MCU What If...? - 9 Biggest Takeaways From Episode 2
4. Where Was Gamora?
Thanos was one of the biggest surprises of this episode of What If…? After a conversation with T’Challa, The Mad Titan was big enough to admit that maybe mass genocide wasn’t the best thing for the universe, so he abandoned his quest.
However, he still had a relationship with Nebula as his adopted daughter. It was a very different relationship from what has been portrayed in the MCU so far, but still, he had obviously adopted her before he was convinced to join the Ravagers. Though this was shown in this episode, one character that was ominously absent was Gamora.
If Thanos had already adopted Nebula, had he not already taken Gamora too? Based on the flashback in Infinity War, Thanos took his favourite daughter from Zen-Whoberi when she was a child, so what came of her in this universe?
The What If…? promotional material has shown a glimpse of Gamora wearing her father’s armour and wielding the double sided blade that he did in Endgame. Could this version of Gamora, where she steps up in the absence of Thanos and The Collector, come from the same universe as this episode, fuelled by both Thanos giving up his quest and never meeting Peter Quill?