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> Drax: You, Quill, are my friend. This dumb tree is my friend. And this green whore is now my...
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> Gamora: You must stop!
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Drax's statement seems incongruous with reality and his character.

* There isn't so much as single kiss in the entire movie, including involving Gamora.
* Drax's speech is precise and literal.
* Drax isn't generally disrespectful toward women
* Gamora resists Peter's advances, saying that she isn't one of the dumb girls he seduces.
* While Gamora's attire is not entirely modest, it is not out of the norm either. (Drax himself is half-naked throughout the entire movie.)
* At the time he says this, Drax has no motivation to disparage Gamora. His only intention could be honesty.
* In jail, Rocket suggests Gamora work out an "exchange" with the guards for a control device, since they find her attractive. Gamora says, "You must be joking."

Why did Drax call Gamora a whore?

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### Because the prisoners were calling Gamora a "green whore" when she first entered the prison yard, and Drax is incredibly literal. He has no clue they were using it as an insult; he thinks that's what she actually was.

* The problem is if you weren't really listening it was easy to miss,there was a lot going on in that scene.
* When Drax says it again later in the scene you mention, it is far away enough from the initial event, it may not even register as part of a running gag and can come off extremely insensitive to Gamora (and movie viewers who watched her).

**Writer/director James Gunn has answered this question:**

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> **[Gunn on Drax calling Gamora a whore](http://www.comicbookresources.com/?page=article&id=58710):** I know some of you don't like Drax calling Gamora a whore. But he heard people saying that to her in the Kyln. So don't blame him, blame me... Because that's what they called her in the Kyln and that's what he thinks she is.
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> [Definition of WHORE](http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/whore)
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> 1 : A woman who engages in sexual acts for money : prostitute ; also : a promiscuous or immoral woman  
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> 2 : A male who engages in sexual acts for money  
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> 3 : A venal or unscrupulous person  
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If Drax does truly say things literally he would have said it in the third definition of this word. He believed that she was a venal or unscrupulous person

In reference to her background, how many she has killed, who raised her, it would all make sense that it fits the third definition.