One of the most anticipated MCU films in the near future is Captain Marvel.
After what went down in Infinity War, and what happened in the post credit scene with
Nick Fury’s distress call, it’s inevitable that the hero will have a very big role to
play in the MCU.
So in the meantime, we here at Top 10 Nerd are diving into all things Captain Marvel,
including the character’s alternate versions we’ve witnessed over the years.
Note that we’re avoiding talking about versions of Captain Marvel who officially held the
title on Earth 616, and we’ll be primarily looking at Mar-Vell and Carol Danvers and
the alternates that they’ve had over the years.
So with that in mind, let’s jump into our list of the top 10 alternate versions of Captain
Marvel.
10 Carol Danvers of Earth 1298 Earth 1298 is known as the Mutant X-verse.
It’s the reality that Havok travels to when he swapped psyches with an alternate earth
version of himself.
On this earth, Carol Danvers was depowered and put into a coma after an encounter with
X-Woman Rogue.
Once she was out of the coma, the character joined the Starjammers like she does in the
regular timeline, except she never gets her cosmic Binary powers.
But she’s still got some pretty useful skills, and is an expert in hand to hand combat, espionage
and marksmanship.
She also managed to retain her half-Kree physiology despite losing all of her powers.
This gives her enhanced physical abilities.
9 Mar-Vell of Earth 33 1/3 Earth thirty three and a third was created
for Marvel UK, an imprint of Marvel comics that debuted in 1972.
It was a comic by Tim Quinn and Dicky Howett, and featured silly versions of Marvel characters
doing mundane things, like waking up in the morning to lighting a cigar.
Mar-Vell makes an appearance in one strip, where he attempts to tell jokes.
His panels read, Want to hear the latest Kree Joke?
To which he then says two incomprehensible sentences in Kree, and begins to laugh histerically.
8 Mar-Vell (Earth 71912) Keeping it silly, let’s take a look at Mar-Vell
from Earth 71912 – the world of the Baby Avengers.
This world features characters of the Avengers and the X-Men as babies, and follows the story
of the two teams going head to head after Cyclops steals Captain American’s teddy
bear, Bucky Bear.
Mar-Vell’s appearance is pretty short, but he’s still adorable nonetheless.
7 Captain Mahr-Vehll – Ultimate Marvel From Earth 1610, Mahr-Vell appeared in the
Ultimate Secret miniseries, and had been surgically altered to look like a human.
He was sent to Earth from Gah Lak Tus, but ends up choosing to aid Earthlings instead
of destroy them.
He wears a special combat suit activated by a watch, and takes on the civilian identity
of Dr Philip Lawson, a scientist working in a space program.
6 Mar-Vell of Earth 9591 From the 1995 series Ruins written by Warren
Ellis and illustrated with paintings by Terese Nielsen, this comic is a parody of the Marvels
series, set in a dystopian version of the Marvel Universe.
This Mar-Vell’s story starts with him as the reluctant leader of the Kree Liberation
Force, sent to Earth to liberate humans.
He stumbles upon the Silver Surfer’s corpse on his way there, and the Power Cosmic, which
revealed Mar-Vell and his fleet to the humans.
Earth launched a nuclear attack, many Kree were killed and the rest captured, all of
whom contracted cancer because of the radiation.
Philip Sheldon, a former Daily Bugle reporter and the protagonist of Ruins, meets with him
to hear his story, but can offer no answers to explain humanity’s cruelty towards Mar-Vell
and his race.
5 Lady Marvel (Earth 398) One of the many aliases Carol Danvers has
taken on over the years is Binary.
In this version of the character, she’s become Binary, but has been altered by Morgan
Le Fay’s reality distortion wave.
This alters time to take place during the medieval age, and all of the Avengers involved
in the change believed that they were part of the Queen’s elite guard, called the Queen’s
Vengeance.
Lady Marvel becomes an adventurer, has red skin and white eyes with no pupils.
4 Captain Marvel In perhaps the cheekiest amalgamation name
for a Marvel and DC amalgam comic, here we have Captain Marvel – a combination of Captain
Marvel (specifically Mar-Vell) of the Marvel Universe, and Captain Marvel aka Shazam of
the DC Universe.
The character goes by the civilian name of William Billy Mar-Vell, and appears in two
issues of JLX.
He wears the DC version’s costume but with the Marvel one’s colours.
3 Martin & Marvin Ellwood (Earth 2301) From Marvel Mangaverse issue #1 in 2002, Martin
Ellwood was the first Captain Marvel who was a Kree Guardian that arrived on Earth.
He fell in love with a woman named Alice, and they had a son named Marvin, who would
inherit his father’s powers at the age of 13 and become Captain Marvel himself after
Martin passed away.
Marvin worked alongside the Fantastic Four to take down Galactus.
2 Age of Apocalypse (Earth 295) Carol Danvers of Earth 295 is a total bad
ass.
In Weapon X #3 and 4, when Apocalypse takes over North America, Carol joins the Human
Resistance League, and is tasked with protecting a powerful teleporter by the name of Gateway.
Weapon X aka Logan comes to her seeking Gateway’s help in aiding with a nuclear strike against
Apocalypse, but before that can happen, the trio are tracked by Donald Pierce’s Reavers,
and Carol sacrifices herself to prevent them from getting Gateway.
Pierce takes Carol’s mangled body and builds her into a cyborg.
She fights against Logan, who manages to break through Pierce’s control, but Pierce kills
her.
Logan ends up killing him to avenge her.
1 MCU Carol Danvers The most recent version of Danvers, fans are
super excited to see how her origin story pans out.
Interviews with the filmmakers and screenwriters have hinted to giving this Carol a very different
origin story than what we’re used to.
According to Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige, Captain Marvel is I quote “the most
powerful superhero we’ve ever introduced and what I think is one of the most unique
and inspiring origin stories.”
In addition to this, the character’s origin story is said to better sync up with that
of the five issue limited series The Life of Captain Marvel, written by Margaret Stohl,
which pulls “together all of the strands of Carol’s backstroy to craft a tale that
will no doubt become a seminal story about the character, and set her in place for her
role in Avengers and elsewhere thought the Marvel Universe.”
There we have it friends!
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