Who is the most marvelous Captain Marvel from Marvel comics?
Six Captains Marvel fight it out, who is most likely to come out on top?
The Captain Marvels:
Carol Danvers, the current Captain Marvel!
Mar-Vell, the original Captain Marvel. He wasn't super creative in terms of names.
Monica Rambeau, who wore the title while with the Avengers after the news media labelled her as such.
Genis-Vell, son of Mar-Vell and normally crazy alien hero.
Phyla-Vell, daughter of Mar-Vell and possessor of the title for a bit.
Noh-Varr, who was Captain Marvel for the Dark Avengers.
-
Round 1: All characters fight as they were when they were Captain Marvel.
-
Round 2: All fighters fight at peak ability, no matter what their title was at the time.
Publication History
The history of Mar-Vell is intertwined with a slew of legal battles across multiple companies in the comics industry, dating back to the 1950’s. From 1940 to 1953, Fawcett Comics (now defunct), published comics featuring the character Captain Marvel (better known as DC’s “Shazam” today), and thus owned the trademark to the name “Captain Marvel”. After a 12-year case with National Comics (now DC) concerning Captain Marvel being an infringement on Superman (the longest-running legal battle in comic book history), Fawcett Comics cancelled all of its superhero-related publications, including Captain Marvel, resulting in a lapse of the trademark. Taking advantage of the situation, Marvel Comics debuted their own Captain Marvel in 1967 and quickly trademarked the character name. Another company, M.F. Enterprises, also released a short-lived Captain Marvel series of their own in 1966, but due to the title containing its company name, Marvel Comics convinced M.F. to cease their publication of the title after agreeing to a settlement. DC obtained all the rights to Fawcett Comics publications, including their Captain Marvel, but due to Marvel Comics’ new trademark, had to publish the character as Shazam.
Marvel’s version of Captain Marvel debuted as the lead feature in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 in December 1967, written by Stan Lee and illustrated by Gene Colan (who hated the original design for the character). Shortly after, Captain Marvel was given his own series in May 1968, establishing “Mar-Vell” as an alien of the Kree race who had come to earth as a spy before coming to identify with humans. When the series didn’t gain the popularity the company had hoped for, the character was revamped with a new uniform in issue #17 by writer Roy Thomas and illustrator Gil Kane. This change was not successful either, and the series was canceled with issue #21 in August 1970. Mar-Vell did however appear in the Kree-Skrull War storyline in Avengers from June 1971-March 1972.
In September 1972, the Captain Marvel series recommenced with issue #22, and by issue #25, the character was revamped yet again by writer/artist Jim Starlin in a story that also featured the first major arc with the villain Thanos. Starlin’s involvement gave Captain Marvel, as well as the cosmic character Warlock, their first cult following. A spin-off series, Ms. Marvel (featuring Carol Danvers) was launched in 1977, and ran until it was canceled in 1979. The *
... keep reading on reddit ➡
To be honest, I haven't read the latest comics, only the first four volumes of Captain Marvel: Earth's Mightiest Hero Trade Paperbacks. I heard that lately they changed Carol Danver's origins where they make her half-human and half-kree instead of having the involvement of Mar-Vell who played a role of how Carol got her powers like what was known and established.
These Found these guys in my cosmic reading that was recommended to me and i wondered what good stories featured these 2. Thanks.
So... as we all know, Marvel is changing Captain Marvel's origin story.
Additionally, Marvel likes to play it pretty close to the comic books when they're putting together scripts. Sometimes Sharon Carter gets Cap's dialogue from Civil War and delivers it to him and sometimes one character gets another character's origin.
Anyway, I have a hunch that Marvel's doing this with Carol Danvers. Looking at the trailer, I can't help but think that the scene where Carol crash lands on Earth reminds me a lot of Mar-Vell's origin. If Carol were to steal a pod and escape the Kree for some reason, she might somehow find her way back to Earth and crash land there.
In other words, I'm betting that Jude Law is just Yon-Rogg, nothing more, and Carol is basically a female version of the character Mar-Vell. Which is fine by me, honestly, because by just combining the two characters, you've got a lot more juicy story to work with.
Thoughts?
I just read the coolest theory about Captain Marvel and it makes soooo much sense!
Actress Annette Bening spilled out on Jimmy Kimmel that she might have fight scenes in the movie. What if the Kree spy that was sent to Earth but gained compassion for the humans and turned against the Kree was Marie Danvers. Marie-Vell. Mar-Vell. And her Kree uniform was the one with the red parts.
Jude Law would be playing Yon-Rogg who may have been acquainted with Marie/was her commander/had feelings for her etc.
The device that blows up in Carol's face in the trailer could have unlocked something in her Kree DNA and she manifested powers that her mother may have had. Yon-Rogg would see this as the perfect opportunity to recruit to his Starforce another warrior as powerful as Mar-Vell to serve the will of the Kree. He kidnaps Carol, wipes her memory and makes her believe that she has always lived on Hala.
The spy that Starforce has to capture on the planet Torfa could turn out to be an old friend of Mar-Vell that sees the resemblance with her in Carol and from there on the latter starts questioning where she came from.
Back on Earth when she starts remembering her life there she may discover from SHIELD files or her brother (because there are an older and a younger actor cast to play one of Carol's brothers) who her mother really is. She may have died already or not (from cancer maybe). But one thing is for sure - that Carol will don her mother's uniform with the red parts in the final battle (with Yon-Rogg maybe) in honor of her mother who wore that uniform when she decided not to fight for the Kree anymore.
The Black Knight Satellite is an object of conspiracy. It is, according to the conspiracy, an object of unknown composition and purpose that is supposedly orbiting Earth. There are pictures that "prove" that it exists (I'm not claiming it does or doesn't), and these pictures show a black object that is, I feel, very similar in shape to how Mar'Vell's laboratory looks in the film and maybe the comics? Never read the comics. I'm wondering if maybe this is just some subtle nod by the creators or if maybe this is actually explained as lore in the comics?
Here is a "real" pic of the Black Knight Satellite via it's Wikipedia article
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b7/Black_Knight_Satellite_%28cropped%29.jpg/540px-Black_Knight_Satellite_%28cropped%29.jpg
)
