Welcome to I Am Your Target Demographic and today we’re covering the basics of Captain
Marvel, the next big franchise to become part of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
We’re going to outline who she is, what she can do, and what her upcoming film might entail.
At the time of making this video, we don’t have a synopsis or trailer or anything, so
this is all just guesswork.
Her real name is Carol Danvers and she dreamt of being an astronaut, so she enlisted in
the Air Force at 18 and rose to the top of her class.
Eventually she was able to make the move into NASA as the head of security, which suddenly
launched her into all sorts of secret adventures she never expected.
It’s at this point that I need to discuss the Kree, one of the most infamous alien races in Marvel Comics.
The Kree are often portrayed as having blue-skin but that doesn’t seem to be always the case.
They are highly advanced and highly militaristic, sweeping through the universe with a massive empire.
We’ve seen the Kree in the Marvel Cinematic Universe in the form of Ronan the Accuser
from Guardians of the Galaxy, as he was a war-minded general who disagreed with a peace
treaty that his people agreed to.
We’ve also seen significant Kree in the television show Agents of SHIELD.
Another war hero in the Kree empire was named Mar-Vell and he appeared almost human, so
he was sent to Earth on an espionage mission where he would pose as a scientist.
Eventually, Mar-Vell would unveil himself as a hero but onlookers misunderstood and
thought Marvel to be a superhero not an alien, first giving him the title of Captain Marvel.
Now, Carol Danvers and Mar-Vell had a bit of romance but she was ultimately used as
bait by a supervillain and she was caught in a radioactive explosion, which caused her
to absorb some of Mar-Vell’s genetic code, making her a hybrid of human and Kree, the
best of both worlds.
As she learned that she now had alien-like superpowers, she took on the mantle of Ms. Marvel for a time.
In terms of powers, Danvers was incredibly strong, on par with beings like Hulk and Thor.
She can withstand bullets and powerful blasts without flinching.
Her body is even capable of absorbing and holding energy, even once stopping a nuclear
explosion by absorbing it.
This energy augments her strength and speed even further and allows her to shoot this
energy from her body as powerful concussive blasts.
She also can fly and can travel through space without any aid or support.
Eventually Danvers joined the Avengers as Ms. Marvel.
For a time, she was powerless however, when she crossed paths with a villain named Rogue,
who would later join the X-Men.
Rogue absorbed Ms. Marvel’s powers and held on for so long that Rogue permanently gained
the ability to fly, superstrength, and enhanced durability.
To gain her powers back, Danvers went through an extensive cosmic adventure and went through
several aliases, including becoming the incredibly powerful Binary, the result of Danvers being
experimented on by an alien race and unlocking the true potential of her Kree genes.
This power allowed her to focus the power of a white hole, control gravity, and control
energy on a massive scale.
She can’t control this power at will, but the potential remains if she were to absorb enough energy.
Eventually Danvers upgraded and took on the mantle of Captain Marvel, once our Kree hero
Mar-Vell had died.
She took on leadership positions within the Avengers and made herself a formidable member
of the team, as one of Earth’s most powerful heroes.
She often fought alongside her ally Monica Rambeau, who in the comics also briefly held
the mantle of Captain Marvel.
Monica was bombarded with energy and now has the ability to change her form into a variety
of energies and has gone by the name Pulsar and Photon, before settling on the name Spectrum.
Now because of Captain Marvel’s incredible powers and her ability to survive in space,
many of her adventures are not on Earth, so she’s often part of large alien wars and
battles on other planets.
This ties into what may a plot point in the Captain Marvel solo film.
The Kree empire has many many conflicts with another alien race called the Skrulls, which
are a shapeshifting species able to infiltrate and take over planets.
This race was featured prominently in a storyline called Secret Invasion in which Skrulls capture
and replace many heroes on Earth.
The Skrulls and Kree have been at war for thousands of years and this may just be the
incident that draws our live-action Captain Marvel to the cosmos for the first time.
So are you excited to see Carol Danvers on the big screen?
Hopefully this helps prepare you for her adventure and we can’t wait to see it ourselves.
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