People Could Find Themselves Getting Stabbed Where They'd Rather Not Be

So the Guardians of the Galaxy have kind of fallen apart. Understandable, since they all believe Starlord had Mantis mess with their minds to join in the first place*. They can't trust that they actually believe in the mission, so they might as well leave. If it weren't for the fact the solicitations have revealed Starlord's going to have other concerns, I'd suggest he watch his back. Gamora and Drax may have both walked away earlier, but I'm not sure either one of them is going to forget or forgive this. Then it occurred to me: Would Gamora blame Nova as well?

Actually, my first thought was if Mantis tried to nudge Rich to convince him to convince Gamora. But I imagine the Worldmind would have warned Richard if she tried to get inside his head**, so that wouldn't have worked. Besides, Nova was worried about Gamora, so I can see him choosing to ask her to join of his own volition. Again, though, does she know that?

I don't think it takes much for Gamora to conclude that Nova was in on it with Starlord. Nova was the one working so hard to get her to at least talk to Starlord, and it's likely that when she did, Mantis pushed her to agree. She could perceive that as Nova taking advantage of her opening up to him in Nova #10, as well as her trust in him. She wouldn't expect trearchy or deceit from him, when he appears sincere. Which would probably only rile her even more if she felt he manipulated her.

I think that'd be entertaining, Gamora showing up on Earth, after Nova's head for messing with her, Nova not having a clue what she's going on about, everyone else simply having to get out of the way. Even better, if the two of them start fighting, the Thunderbolts might show up and try and arrest them. Certainly be lots of fighting, and most of it would involve the T'Bolts getting stomped into the mud, which is a bonus as afar as I'm concerned. Added bonus, it might promote a sense of connection between Marvel's two ongoing space titles, which can't hurt. I imagine they have roughly the same audience***, but it could be a nice little piece of shared universe.

* Would Mantis have had to give all of them a push? Phyla seemed down with it, and Adam's the one who seemed to be guiding them where to go, with his talking about fissures in space-time. I wouldn't think they'd need much convincing.

** See Nova's initial encounter with the Harrow in Nova #13.

*** Their sales are pretty similar. Guardians was 6 spots above Nova in September, listed at about 5,000 more sales. If we want to remove the effects of Secret Invasion, we can look at July's sales, where Guardians is 3 spots and 5,000 sales ahead of Nova. Sales tend to drop slowly as a title continues - barring new creative teams, variant covers, and tie-ins - so we can probably chalk the gap up to Nova having been published for about a year longer then Guardians of the Galaxy.