somethingsomethingmeh

The quiet scandal of this scene is that Tony Stark gave Nebula a moment of genuine human warmth in just 22 days that the Guardians rarely gave her throughout their years together. Peter Quill, Rocket, and Drax often treated Nebula as a dangerous enemy or an unwanted prisoner, someone they had to tolerate because of her connection to Gamora. Her relationship with the Guardians was complicated, but it's hard not to notice how rarely anyone simply treated her like a person who deserved kindness. Then comes Tony Stark. Stranded with a dying Earth engineer who had every reason to be miserable, Nebula gets something she probably wasn't used to: a simple game, a fair chance to win, a handshake, and someone genuinely asking if she had fun. Tony didn't magically heal years of abuse, but that little moment revealed just how much ordinary kindness had been missing from Nebula's life.