Everything You Need To Know About Captain Marvel MCU’s Most Powerful Superhero

A film based on Carol Danvers has been in development at Marvel Studios since the early May 2013. Though we only came to know about this by the credits of Avengers Infinity War. Captain Marvel is an upcoming American superhero film based on the Marvel Comics character Carol Danvers/Captain Marvel.

Produced by Marvel Studios and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, it is intended to be the twenty-first film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). Let’s look at what do we know about her from the Comicverse and the leaks we have till now.

Brief on Captain Marvel

The little-known history about Captain Marvel is that the whole of the plot is set in the 1990s, Captain Marvel follows Carol Danvers, a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot. As she turns into one of the galaxy’s mightiest heroes or as latest magazine articles like to put it ‘Most Powerful hero Marvel will see’ and joins Starforce, an elite Kree military team, before returning home with new questions about her past and identity when the earth is caught in the center of an intergalactic conflict between two alien worlds.

Now lets know everything about Captain Marvel in detail.

• Real Name: Carol Susan Jane Danvers
• Current Alias: Captain Marvel
• Citizenship: American
• Occupation: Adventurer and Commander of the Alpha Flight Space Program
• Education: Extensive Military training and espionage techniques
• Gender: Female
• Height: 5′ 11″
• Weight: 56Kgs
• Eyes: Blue
• Hair: Blond
• Universe: Earth-616
• Birthplace: Boston, Massachusetts

Childhood

Carol Danvers AKA Captain Marvel, grew up as the oldest child of three in a trademark Boston home, father who was a contractor believed in the merits of hard work. When he built their Cape Cod summer home, Carol as the only daughter insisted on working as hard as her two younger brothers.

This was a attempt to try to make equal in her father’s eyes.  Her father, however, could not accept women as men’s equals. Later she joins the US air-force as she has to pay off her college fees.

Before becoming Captain Marvel

Before becoming Captian Marvel she worked for U.S. Air force and also as the security chief of NASA. This is where she gained the necessary skills of combat and she fairly accomplished many different missions and not to mention worked with other figures such as Colonel Nick Fury, Logan (Wolverine) and Benjamin Grimm (later the Thing).

She wasn’t just friend with everyone she opposed others such as Victor Creed (later Sabretooth), and Natalia Shostakova (Black Widow). She soon joined NASA An alien Yon-Rogg kidnapped her during a battle, Carol was knocked into damaged Kree Psych-Magnitron, a device which could potentially turn imagination into reality.

Carol’s genetic structure was altered effectively making her a half-Kree superhuman. She was unaware of this change for months.

Powers of Captain Marvel

Nick Fury’s Intel classified Captain Marvel as a power level 8. To put it in perspective professor X was a level 5. She possesses superhuman strengths, sixth sense and can temporarily increase her physical strength to levels similar to that of her time as Binary.

Captain Marvel’s musculature produces considerably less fatigue toxins during physical activity (compared to a human like Iron man) than the musculature of an ordinary human. She is said to absorb energy and channel it to increase her stamina too. The tissues of her body are considerably tougher and more resistant to physical injury than those of us.

She has a set of amazing reflexes which she gained in the US air-force and improved over time. It is needless to say, she doesn’t need a plane to fly. She can fly at three times the speed of sound for several hours.

Weapons of Captain Marvel

Carol can fire powerful beams of Photons. Marvel likes to call it concussion blasts of photons and stellar light energy. She does it from her hands and fingertips.

Now, lets have a look at some of the lesser-known facts about Captain Marvel.

1. Captain Marvel and U.S. Air Force

Captain Marvel i.e Carol Danvers started out in the comics as a United States Air Force fighter pilot. Not to mention she soon became NASA’s security chief. When Carol Danvers was introduced in the late 1960s, it is a know fact that she had no superpowers, but a member of the U.S. Air Force who aided the original Kree Captain Marvel. She joined the military at the age of 18 in order to pay for college.

2. Captain Marvel worked for a woman magazine

She has briefly worked with The Daily Bugle as the editor of their women’s subsidiary, Woman Magazine. kinda overall personality huh?

3. The very first version of her origin story

In the initial version of her origin story, Captain Marvel i.e Carol Danvers took up the moniker of ‘Ms. Marvel’. Well, it is a established fact now that it was derived from ‘Mar-Vell’, the superhero from whom she got her powers.

4. Story behind her costume

Woman superhero’s costumes have always been in controversies. The first edition of Captain Marvel’s costume was immediately met with big ‘No-No’ as the oddly placed cut-out was considered inappropriate and impractical by readers and designers alike.

5. She has been part of the most number of ultra powerful organizations

A superhero of many groups, It is a established fact that, Carol Danvers has worked with a number of superhero organizations, that includes both on planet earth and across the galaxy. She was also a team member and eventual leader of the Mighty Avengers. Ironman fans may go wild here.

6. First Female-led MCU film(ever)

Given Carol Danvers has a history in the world of comics, as one of the pioneering super powered woman, it seems slip right in as the focus of Marvel’s first female-led film. While here original back story is a little twisted. The role of Captain Marvel will be played by Oscar-winner, Brie Larson.

Also read: Brie Larson’s Struggle To Become Strong For The Role Deserves Our Applause

7. She will be rooting for with Iron Man in Civil War but fights him in Civil War 2

While it may seem in the original Civil War, and we are talking about the comics here, Carol Danvers roots for Iron Man on the “pro-registration” side of the superhero divide. However, when there is the second version Civil War II, not only is Captain Marvel rigidly sides against Iron Man.

8. Carol Danvers has already been part of several superhero teams such as S.H.I.E.L.D., Guardians of the Galaxy, The Avengers, The X-Men, Defenders etc.

9. Captain Marvel was once romantically involved with an Air Force officer, James Rhodes

Yes you hear that right James Rhodes aka War Machine.

10. There was also a character in DC named Captain Marvel

DC hero Shazam was initially known as Captain Marvel but a legal dispute between MCU and DC let in alteration of the title.

The movie is set to release in India on March 8, 2019. Check out the trailer of Captain Marvel below.

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