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I’m your host, Amanda McKnight and welcome to another top 10 list.
Today we are going to be counting down the top 10 characters that Captain Marvel respects.
Some of these characters on this list also happen to be love interests of our masked
crusader which got me wondering, who is your favourite Captain Marvel ship?
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Let’s get counting
10 Rogue
Hold on, hold on.
I know what you’re about to say.
Captain Marvel hates Rogue, can’t stand her.
Amanda, what about their long standing rivalry?
And you’re right, the two of them definitely have had a history of hatred back and forth
for as long at least as long as Rogue has existed in comics.
However more recently, Carol saved Rogue and the two have seemingly decided to kiss and
make up.
Well I mean not literally kiss.
As far as Rogue goes, we all know that would be counterproductive.
Granted this is before the events of Avengers vs X-Men when Rogue tries again drain Carol’s
powers and royally pisses her off.
However the confession Carol makes to Rogue still stands.
After Rogue thanks Carol for saving her and offers to Carol, “You could have killed
me or left me for dead.”
To which Carol respondes, “I am you, sugah.
A part of me will always be.”
She also offers that although she can’t forget their past that she can forgive and
that Rogue has proven herself to be a hero to Carol and is owed that.
And if that isn’t respect a sign of respect, I don’t know what is.
9 Wonder Man
An interesting character to be sure, Wonder Man has also had a turbulent story, similar
to that of Rogue.
In the 1960s Avengers comics he was originally written in as a misguided man, who turns villain
simply because he feels he has no other choice.
After receiving his powers from an experiment, he is threatened into working against the
Avengers.
After working to earn their trust, he find himself unable to betray them.
Instead he decided he would rather die than do so.
After being suspected dead but later resurrected from what was actually an power-metamorphosis
induced coma, he ends up joining the Avengers for good and for most of his history ends
up helping the Avengers.
He is also one of the first to join SHIELD Superhuman Registration Act and it is through
his work here that he gains the respect and later the love of Carol Danvers, who also
firmly believes and fights for the SRA.
The two serve together on the Avengers until the Dark Avengers come about, sending them
both down seperate paths.
Wonder Man’s path involving his creation of the Revengers whose goal it is to put an
end to the Avengers as he later feels have failed the world.
8 Star Lord
Although they haven’t cross paths many times in the comics, Star Lord and Captain Marvel
have always seemed to be on friendly terms.
Both cosmic superheroes have been there when the other needed them.
Star Lord’s team comes to Captain Marvel’s rescue when she her space ship is being attacked
in volume 8 of the Captain Marvel series from 2014 and Star Lord is also there to support
her in Civil War 2 when she and Tony Stark duke it out.
Star Lord has always shown unwavering loyalty and been a good friend to Captain Marvel and
it is for this reason that she respects him.
7 Charles Xavier
When Rogue originally zapped Carol’s memories and left her a shell of her former self, Carol
was able to rely on Charles Xavier to help restore what she had lost.
She was taken in by the mutants and the Professor did his best to restore her memories.
He was able to retrieve most of them though he could not help her retrieve her emotional
connection to these memories.
During this time Carol was known as Binary and she actually took refuge with the X-Men
until Rogue ended up at Xavier’s school which led to Carol feeling betrayed and leaving.
Still despite the fact that she did not side with the X-Men in the Avengers vs. X-Men comic,
she has often fought alongside Xavier’s X-Men and does often seem to think of them
as the X-Men as friends and heroes.
6 Jessica Jones
The two have been friends for a long time and represent two different sides of the same
coin.
Both are superheroes.
Both are super strong, powerful women but both of them approach being a superhero in
a different way.
This is especially highlighted in the comic series, Alias by MAX Comics.
Where the way Jessica Jones is presented is much more similar to her MCU Netflix counterpart.
Jessica is a mess of a superhero, who struggles and never seems to feel like she belongs and
doesn’t always play by the rules wheras Carol Danvers is militaristic, strict and
efficient.
One is considered to be more successful than the other and yet the two complement each
other.
They both are able to provide one another with a different perspective while sharing
in a lot of similar experiences.
They even set each other up on dates.
Although I’m skeptical as to if many of those go well.
5 Ulysses Caine
The Civil War 2 comic book series is basically happened because of the entire relationship
between Captain Marvel and Ulysses Caine.
Ulysses Caine becomes an inhuman after being exposed to Terrigen Mists, released by Black
Bolt, was granted the ability to see into the future.
His visions allowed to predict catastrophic events.
After being taken in by the royal inhuman family, he was trained by inhumans and eventually
gained much control over his powers.
He is able to project his visions into other beings minds and using energy tendrils even
send visions to others from far away.
Though he attempted to use his powers for good and Captain Marvel respected and believed
in Ulysses and his visions, he ultimately created a major divide between Captain Marvel
and Iron Man.
Iron Man believed the visions were not infallible and could not be trusted in stark contrast
with Carol’s beliefs.
4 Spider Man
Captain Marvel and Spidey have served on the Avengers together for a quite a while and
though some would consider Carol to be much more serious than Peter and would probably
think they are less likely to see eye to eye.
Those people would be wrong.
In fact, Captain Marvel and Spiderman get along great, in fact Carol even pined after
him for awhile.
And it has been confirmed that they did in fact date though we have yet to know fully
how or when it ended or if it has fully ended.
Considering the two are constantly saving each other, it does surprise me that they
share mutual respect and even love between them.
He even sides with Captain Marvel in Civil War two.
3 Spider Woman
Ever since Spider Woman, aka Jessica Drew swooped in and saved Carol who at the time
was thought to be a Jane Doe from her death, by pulling her out from under the Brooklyn
Bridge, the two have been best friends.They often fight alongside each other and even
during the events of Civil War one, when they are on opposing sides, Carol still expresses
a regard for Jessica’s safety and attempts to defend her.
No matter how many fights Carol and Jessica get in and how big those fights get, they
always find a way to resolve their issues and move forward.
The best thing about these two is in fact how well they often get along, and all the
amazing and often super cute dialogue that comes with that.
2 War Machine
While I would also like to make an argument that Captain Marvel respects Iron Man as well,
it would be kind of hard in light of the events of Civil War two, which culminated in Captain
Marvel punching Iron Man into a space coma.
Instead I decided to touch on a very close friend of Iron Man’s and of Carol’s, War
Machine.
And comes in at number 3.
Rhodey has been a loyal friend and romantic partner to Carol Danvers.
This could be argued as being Captain Marvel’s most successful romantic partnership to date.
Her respect for him definitely grows even deeper out of his respect for her.
In Volume 8 of Captain Marvel from 2014, when she tells Rhodey she needs some time explore
space and find herself and year off, he clarifies that is what she really wants and then tells
her she has gotta go.
The two have fought alongside one another many times and Rhodey even met his demise
fighting on Captain Marvel’s side in Civil War two.
If there is anyone Carol trusts and respects, War Machine is right up there.
1 Mar-Vell
Who could Carol respect more than the man she adopted the name of, Captain Mar-Vell?
It was due to Mar-Vell’s presence in the golden era that Carol received her powers
and even though we have also now learned that Carol’s half-Kree background is also responsible,
it doesn’t mean that she doesn’t respect Captain Mar-Vell any less.
Mar-Vell to Carol will always be someone who stood up for what was right, who embodied
to her what she strived to be in a hero.
It was in his honour and memory that she finally adopted his name after the events of Avengers
vs X-Men.
Not only does Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers embody Mar-Vell’s power and Kree heritage,
wearing the colours of an honoured Kree warrior, but she also aims to embody his spirit as
well.
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