Starmora

Starmora is the het ship between Peter Quill and Gamora from the Marvel Cinematic Universe fandom.

Guardians of the Galaxy
Gamora met Quill on Xandar when she was looking for the Orb. She waited for Quill to finish his meeting with the Broker. After he got out of the shop, Gamora asked him what happened. Quill complained that the Broker backed out of a deal on him, claiming to hate a man without integrity. He introduced himself afterwards, and Gamora told him he had the bearing of a man of honor. When Quill became completely distracted with bragging about himself and throwing the orb up and down in his hand, Gamora suddenly grabbed the Orb and ran away.

Gamora and Quill fought, being engaged in a brief hand-to-hand combat on the ground, which was also being intervened by Rocket and Groot. After both of them being engaged in another fight, eventually, Quill managed to put his Jet Boot Attachments on Gamora. This led to her being hoisted up in the air. Groot and Rocket caught Quill in a bag but then Gamora attacked Groot with her sword. She opened the bag but Quill shot his gun and she was being pushed away. Suddenly, the Nova Corps appeared and arrested them for endangerment to life and the destruction of property.

Following the arrest, Gamora and Quill alongside Rocket and Groot were imprisoned in The Kyln, High Security Prison. Quill tried to ask Gamora about the orb, however Gamora refused to tell him. Gamora admitted that she was not retrieving the orb for Ronan because she was betraying him and she already had an agreement to sell it to a third party.

Drax planned to kill Gamora due to her links to Ronan, but Quill stopped him, claiming that killing Gamora wouldn't be the best way for Drax. Drax was confused because he learned of Quill as the man Gamora attempted to kill. Quill shrugged it off, saying that Gamora was hardly the first woman to try and do that to him. Quill assured Drax that Gamora was indeed betraying Ronan. Later on, Quill explained that he stopped Drax from killing Gamora because she knew where to sell the Orb.

After they completed their escape from The Kyln and headed to Knowhere, Quill tried to persuade Gamora to trust him a little bit. Gamora asked Quill how much he trusted her, to which he replied that he would trust her a lot more if she told him what the Orb was. However, Gamora claimed not to know about it due to her distrust of them.

On Knowhere, while waiting for to meet the Collector, Gamora and Quill had a conversation. Quill claimed to have specialty on negotiation tactics, and naming Gamora's tactics as 'stab, stab, those are my terms'. Gamora smiled at the comment, stating that his father did not stress on diplomacy. Quill questioning whether the father she mentioned was Thanos prompted Gamora to tell him about the story of her past with Thanos, but she cut it off by asking Quill instead about the Walkman. Quill, in turn, told her about his story with his mother.

Interested with the Walkman, Gamora asked Quill about what he usually did with it. Quill answered that the Walkman was something to be listened to, adding that she could also dance with it. Gamora dismissed the idea of dancing due to the fact that she was a warrior and an assassin. Quill further told her about a 'legend' called "Footloose" on Earth about teaching a city to dance, then he put the Walkman headphones onto Gamora's head. Gamora listened to the music and remarked that the melody is pleasant. Peter held her hand and leaned in to kiss her, but Gamora put a knife to his throat, claiming that she was not 'some starry-eyed waif' to succumb to his 'pelvic sorcery'.

Avengers: Endgame
The 2014 version of Gamora managed to go on time travel with Thanos to the present time and encountered Quill. Quill was astonished to see her as he thought that Gamora had died, not aware that she was not the Gamora he knew. He touched her hair, telling her that he thought he had lost her; but Gamora grabbed his hand off her hair and kicked him twice while warning him not to touch her, making him fall as she wiped her face with disgust. Gamora expressed her disbelief that Quill was the one she would end up with. Nebula responded by telling her that her choice had been Quill or a tree.

In the end of the movie, Quill was searching for Gamora on a screen before closing it as Thor walks in.

Fanon
Starmora is the main ship of Guardians of the Galaxy franchise. Fans like the dynamic due to the conflicting personalities of the duo. They also have some similarities as both have lost their families. Gamora had lived her life as an assassin with notable trust issues with people, that's why it became a defining moment when Quill gained her trust and, eventually, love. Quill, on the other side, was a player. Although his flirtations with Gamora was shallow, his feelings subsequently developed and deepened for her. Fans are very touched by the way Quill was willing to sacrifice Gamora for the greater good. Though most fans are unhappy with how Quill ruined the plan to kill Thanos due to being enraged upon learning Gamora's death, some defended him and calling it was rational when taking his losses, and his initial will to sacrifice Gamora, into account.

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