Carol Danvers

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Captain Marvel
Aliases:	Captain Marvel Ms. Marvel Warbird Binary Carol Susan Jane Danvers
Continuity:	Marvel Universe
Notability:	Main character
Type:	Superhero
Gender:	Female
Race:	Altered human
Associations:	Avengers Starjammers Ultimates
Status:	Alive
First:	Marvel Super-Heroes #13
Actor:	Brie Larson

Carol Danvers is a fictional comic book superhero and a major character featured in titles published by Marvel Comics. She first appeared in the "Where Stalks the Sentry" story from Marvel Super-Heroes #13 from March, 1968. She has gone by many code names over the years, beginning with Ms. Marvel in Ms. Marvel #1 in January, 1977. Her original costume consisted as a sexed-out version of Mar-Vel's red and blue uniform and included a red sash. The costume went through a slight alteration that covered up her previously exposed stomach in Ms. Marvel #9 in September, 1977. Carol Danvers traded in the red costume for a black costume with a yellow lighting strike across the chest in Ms. Marvel #20 in October, 1978. The character went through a major power shift and took on a new costume and code-name. She became known as Binary in Uncanny X-Men #164 in December, 1982, and became a member of the space-faring troupe of adventurers known as the Starjammers. She eventually returned to a version of her black and yellow Ms. Marvel costume, but was now calling herself Warbird. She became a member of the Avengers in Avengers, Volume 3 #4 in May, 1998. Carol took on the mantle of Captain Marvel in Avenging Spider-Man #9 in September, 2012. The character has also been featured in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. She made her first star-studded appearance in her own feature film, Captain Marvel, in 2019 where she was played by actress Brie Larson. Larson reprised the role of Danvers for the movie Avengers: Endgame, where she established herself as a cornerstone for the next wave of heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Biography[]

Origin[]

Carol Danvers was in the company of Mar-Vell when he was in pitched battle against the renegade Kree soldier, Yon-Rogg. Yon-Rogg had commandeered a device outlawed by the Kree Empire called a Psyche-Magnitron. With the power of this machine, he was able to alter reality. It was his hope to give himself cosmic abilities, but the machine malfunctioned, and Carol was bathed in a wave of radiation. The energy wave awakened her dormant Kree genetics, and she developed the abilities of flight, super-strength and a Seventh Sense that gave her psychokinetic insight into events taking place around her. The incident also had a dramatic affect on her psyche, and she developed partial amnesia, which presented itself as a form of multiple personality disorder, wherein she had two distinctive personas; one life as Carol Danvers, and another as the new costumed superhero, Ms. Marvel. ^[1]^[2]

Powers[]

Energy absorption
Energy projection
Flight
Superhuman agility
Superhuman durability
Superhuman stamina
Superhuman strength: Class 25-75 range.
Toxic immunity

Skills[]

Equipment[]

Weapons[]

TBA

Paraphernalia[]

TBA

Vehicles[]

Transport vessel Harrison

Notes & Trivia[]

The character of Carol Danvers was created by writer Roy Thomas and artist Gene Colan.
Carol's successor, Kamala Khan, had a poster of Carol in her bedroom. ^[3] Carol's pose in the poster is taken from the cover to Captain Marvel, Volume 7 #2.