Read the original article.Marvel delivers its first female centric superhero film with Captain Marvel, a prequel to the Avengers series. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Captain Marvel will also make a highly anticipated appearance in Avengers: Endgame, to be released in April, where she will no doubt square off against cosmic threats. (In the comics, Goose is known as Chewie-Captain Marvel is a huge Star Wars fan.) In the movie, Goose will likely steal a scene or two.Īs the trailers for the film have shown, Captain Marvel will be punching aliens and blowing stuff up and we’ll definitely see why she has the moniker “Earth’s mightiest hero.” The movie is set in 1995, borrowing elements from Roy Thomas’s comic, “Kree-Skrull War” (originally published as Avengers #89–97 in 1971), and follows Danvers as she becomes Captain Marvel.Ĭaptain Marvel is Marvel Studios’s 21st film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe and the first with a female-led superhero. We may also see something special from her cat Goose. Captain Marvel also joined the Guardians of the Galaxy and was part of A-Force, an all-female Avengers.ĭeConnick’s run was poignant and hilarious and if the movie can keep pace, audiences will be in for a treat. She’s chosen her own destiny to become “the stars we were always meant to be.” A poignant and hilarious characterĬaptain Marvel was part of the Ultimates, a mini-series about superheroes preventing cosmic threats (they transform the planet-eating Galactus into a golden fertility god), and became the “boss of space,” taking up residence with Canadian supergroup Alpha Flight on the Alpha Flight Space Station. This gives Captain Marvel’s reboot a compelling edge. Instead of following the 1977 narrative, where she was the victim in an explosion that would give her powers, DeConnick re-writes the narrative as a choice.ĭanvers has the opportunity to prevent the explosion but chooses to let the past unfold in alignment with her current desire to be a superhero. Soon, Danvers is transported back in time and joins the Banshee Squadron, an all-female fighting unit in the Second World War doing battle and using Kree technology to advance the fight.Ĭarol Danvers also winds up being present at the moment of her superhero origin. Readers find out that Captain Marvel has tremendous powers drawn from her half human, half Kree DNA. DeConnick’s comic book narrative begins with a touching tribute to Carol Danvers’s mentor and fellow air force pilot Helen Cobb-stressing the importance of inspiring female role models.
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