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 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 caused her to be 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. 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, naming Gamora's tactics as 'stab, stab, those are my terms'. Gamora smiled at the comment, stating that her 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, answered by telling 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 was 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'.

They eventually got the chance to demonstrate the Orb to the Collector. However, before the group received the payment, Carina attempted to grab the Stone and caused a massive explosion. Eventually, Gamora decided to return the Orb to Xandar instead but Ronan and Nebula arrived and she became engaged in a fight with Nebula. Nebula blew up Gamora's ship, leaving her floating in space and took the Orb. After Quill watched Gamora's body floating in the atmosphere, he decided to save her. He called Yondu and told him his location, then he left the pod. He held Gamora's body and took off his mask. Although Rocket reminded Quill that he would die immediately, Peter proceeded to put his mask onto Gamora's head, allowing her to breathe.

Yondu's ship arrived and took them, then Gamora regained her consciousness. When Gamora asked Quill what happened, Quill elaborated all the details. He told her that he had seen her out there and he did not know what came over him, but he could not let her die, that he found something inside of himself which he bragged as 'something incredibly heroic'. Gamora sighed at his bragging and asked about the Orb instead, to which Quill replied that Nebula got the Orb. On Yondu's ship, Yondu beat Peter for betraying him and stealing his money. Gamora, witnessing this, told him to stop and tried to convince him to get the Orb back from Xandar to prevent the murder of billions of people. Yondu remarked that Gamora had been filling Quill's head with 'sentiment'. Eventually, Yondu agreed to help them, then Gamora and Quill reunited with Rocket, Groot, and Drax. When Quill and Rocket got into an argument about stopping Ronan due to the high possibility of getting killed, Gamora told Quill that she has lived most of her life surrounded by her enemies, and she would be grateful to die among her friends.

They joined in Battle of Xandar and when Quill shot dozens of Sakaarans with the guns of the ship, Gamora told him that they were just like Kevin Bacon. Confronting Ronan, Quill challenged him to a dance-off. He even tried to get Gamora to join the dance, but she refused. After the Infinity Stone was freed thanks to Rocket and Drax destroying Ronan's Cosmi-Rod, Quill grabbed the stone and it began to destroy him. Gamora came to Quill's aid and ask him to take her hand, which made Quill hallucinate about his dying mother. Gamora asked once again, snapping him out of his hallucination. Quill took her hand with tears in his eyes, causing Gamora to be affected by the energy of the Power Stone.

After defeating Ronan, Yondu asked Quill to give the Orb. Quill gave him a container containing a Troll doll, which fooled Yondu. When Quill remarked that Yondu would be so irritated when he found out, Gamora mentioned that Yondu was going to kill him. Quill responded by saying that Yondu was the only family he had, but Gamora disagreed, implying that the Guardians of the Galaxy was his family too. They continued their journey as Guardians of the Galaxy, with Gamora telling him they'll follow his lead and calling him Star-Lord.

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.

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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. Gamora, keeping Quill at arm's length, allowed the relationship to grow unhurriedly. Although his flirtations with Gamora was shallow, Quill's feelings subsequently developed and deepened for her. While Quill taught Gamora to enjoy more things in life, Gamora taught Quill to grow up. 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, calling it rational when taking his losses, and his initial will to sacrifice Gamora, into account.

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