“I don’t feel like her story is over at all,” she told Fandom during a recent interview. “If anything, I feel like her story might just be beginning. We found her in a really broken, vulnerable place and over the course of the movies, she’s had to face the source of all of her abuse. She’s just had this huge, cathartic experience and the source of the abuse has been eliminated, so what happens next?”

That’s something that I think is incredibly interesting,” Gillan continued. “The healing can start but that’s not going to be easy and it’s not going to be immediate either.”

There’s a strong chance that we’ll next see Nebula in Thor: Love and Thunder, but the villain turned hero will almost certainly return in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3. As for how Gillan is planning for that, she explained that she’s hoping to delve into how the character will recover after what she’s been through.

“First of all, I want to read a lot of psychology essays on people recovering from abuse,” she explained. “And second of all, I can’t wait to kind of channel that into Nebula but also have fun with her at the same time. I feel like we’re really going to start to define who she is without Thanos looming over her.”

Regardless of what comes next for Nebula, she’s definitely in good hands with Gillan as the actress clearly cares a lot about doing this member of the Guardians justice on the big screen.

Are you guys excited to see where Nebula goes next?