Still with me? Cool!
I’ve never been a huge Peter Quill fan. He’s funny, sure, but he’s the ultimate fuckboy. He’ll give you a good night (probably?) and then the next morning, he’ll go off on a space adventure and forget you’re still in his bed. And he’ll forget your name.
But at least he’s funny?
Gamora is everything that is badass. She’s a little snarky, has some serious daddy issues, can murder you skillfully in a hundred different ways, and has a thread of vulnerability because she really does want to be a family with her sister.
Unsurprisingly, I love her like a love song, and I want the best for her.
In the first Guardians of the Galaxy, there’s definitely chemistry between Quill and Gamora, but it’s totally secondary to everything else going on. They’re thrown together because of a twist of fate and that same twist of fate keeps them together through the next movie. Obviously Quill would jump her if given half a chance, but she’s not fling material and so isn’t going to be one of his many.
But sometime between the first and second movie, he starts wearing her down. And I do mean wearing her down. She’s still protesting and they haven’t done anything (probably?), but by the end of the movie, he finally gets her to admit there’s something there.