What God do Gamora and Nebula believe in?
Several times throughout the movie "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" step-siblings Gamora (Zoe Saldana) and Nebula (Karen Gillan) exclaim "Oh my God!" (capitalization from BluRay close captioning), usually when something explodes or collapses around them.
I don't know the Guardians of the Galaxy mythos outside the two movies. I understand if Peter Quill said that (maybe he even did, can't recall), since he does come from Earth and could have been raised if not in then at least around some Christian religion, but which God do they believe in in the Andromeda galaxy?
Or is it just the movie writer's oversight?
Best Answer
It's just an idiom; it doesn't necessarily mean they believe in an actual God.
Indeed, we have no real reason to assume they are speaking English in the first place. We know for a fact that the Kree have their own language (as see in Agents of SHIELD S02E11), yet the Kree in the movie speak English. As seen in this related question, the alien races in the movies have a universal translator. (You can see an implant for this on Peter Quill's "rap sheet" in the first movie).
So, when we hear "On my God!", that's just the universal translator translating whatever idiomatic expression they used in their own language, into it's equivalent in English.
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If they do believe, that's undetermined, but it doesn't have to imply any belief, at all.
"Oh my God" has evolved into a fairly common epithet in modern American English use. When used that way, it does not denote any specific god, or a belief in any god, at all.
Atheists and agnostics will use that phrase, or "Jesus Christ," or "Holy cow," or even more obscure ones ("Odin's beard!" "Wurrukatte's prostate!" ... okay, I made that last one up - though not the name). In the same way, a non-believer can use the word "Damn!" without believing in a nasty place in the afterlife where people go. It's so reflexively polite, people with no belief at all with say "Bless you!" if someone sneezes.
It's merely a way to express, in the strong terms, "Darn" or "Wow". The capitalization use is merely because people who do believe in their own god/God get very offended if it isn't capitalized.
Its common use has, to a certain degree, stripped away the exclusive religious connotation it might have once had.
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