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Captain Marvel is the name of several superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe. The current incarnation of the character is Carol Danvers. [2]
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Have you ever seen a little girl run so fast she falls down? There's an instant, a fraction of a second before the world catches hold of her again... a moment when she's outrun every doubt and fear she's ever had about herself and she flies. In that one moment, every little girl flies. I need to find that again. Like taking a car out into the desert to see how fast it can go, I need to find the edge of me... and maybe, if I fly far enough, I'll be able to turn around and look at the world... and see where I belong.
—Carol Danvers as
Carol Danvers is a Human/Kree hybrid and a military warrior known as the high-flying super hero Captain Marvel. With no support from her authoritarian father, a young Danvers took to the sky in the Air Force by herself as a promising cadet, escalating to rank of colonel as an intelligence agent. Eventually, she was tasked to be a head of security at NASA when it was infiltrated by the Kree operative Captain Mar-Vell. Accidentally subjected to the Psyche-Magnitron machine, Danvers was imprinted with energy from Mar-Vell's Kree Nega-Bands, which triggered the manifestation of her mighty abilities.
Initially adopting the name Ms. Marvel, she established herself as a vigilante and joined the Avengers. Her life was extirpated from her control which culminated in her being a target of the mutant terrorist Rogue, who stole her powers, memories and personality away. After a very lengthy process, Danvers recovered her abilities and forged a prominent super hero career on Earth and in outer space, allying herself with the X-Men, the Starjammers, the Avengers, and the Guardians of the Galaxy.
Brave and Mighty
Carol Danvers was born to Joe Danvers Sr., a former U.S. Navy officer and a construction worker, and Mari-Ell, a captain in the Kree Army. Mari-Ell had been sent to Earth on a mission to assimilate with humans and give birth to a hybrid child, but had decided to abandon her former life and cut contact with the Kree. Carol's name came from Car-Ell, meaning "Champion" in Kree. Danvers was raised in Beverly, a suburban community to the north of Boston, Massachusetts, completely unaware that she was not an ordinary human. She also lived with Stevie and Joe Jr., two sons Joe Danvers had had with his previous, late wife. Over the years, her father became increasingly apprehensive for potential retaliation from the Kree for Mari-Ell's desertion, causing him to drink and become abusive. In part due to her Kree heritage, the young Carol dreamed of becoming an astronaut and traveling to distant planets; as a teen she even hitchhiked to Cape Canaveral to watch a rocket launch. Her father, however, could not accept women as men's equals and, due to financial troubles, he supported Steve's career despite Carol's superior grades. Dismissing her need for a college education, he suggested her to find a good husband instead.
Air Force
When Danvers turned eighteen, she turned her back on her father and joined the Air Force to be a pilot and to get a college degree via the military. As a promising cadet, she had the female pilot, flight recordist and war hero Helen Cobb as an inspiration. Eventually, her brother Steve introduced her to a retired Cobb. Steve was tragically killed in military action in Vietnam, which drew Carol back to her family, but she still never felt truly accepted by her father. In the following years, she rose to the top of her Air Force class, adopting the call sign "Cheeseburger," after throwing up her lunch in a gravitational test. Located in the Karshi-Kanabad Air Base in Uzbekistan, Major Danvers was the best pilot of her unit. She was tasked of inaugurating an experimental jet built by Tony Stark, secretly the super hero known as Iron Man. The recon flight was a disaster when she was captured by a terrorist leader named Ghazi Rashid, who tortured her for several days in Afghanistan about the Project: Ascension. Even with a broken leg and serious injuries due to the crash, she managed to escape, execute Rashid and discover he had been in contact with a C.I.A. agent codenamed Vitamin. The injured Danvers made it to a safe house in Mazar-e-Sharif, where she debriefed Colonel Michael Rossi. Not trusting C.I.A., she chose not to share the intel she had collected. Her alleged amnesia costed her position, and she was no longer cleared for flying. Danvers was trusted by Rossi to be recruited into Air Force Special Operations instead. Rossi assisted Danvers in her recovery, becoming a mentor figure she nicknamed "Ace." They had their first mission together as field operatives in Berlin to follow Vitamin's trail. Led to a tower block, Danvers and Rossi witnessed the apartment being blown up by the freelance agent Rick Mason, who was able to escape and make the investigation go cold. Rossi went on to become Danvers' first love. Though they eventually drifted apart, Danvers always remembered him fondly. Other close friends Danvers made in her time in Air Force was John Jellicoe and his wife Nancy. In the Air Force, Danvers would temporarily be given colonel status to gain access to special information on missions. Working with secret intelligence, Danvers falsely claimed to respond to different agencies when on duty, including C.I.A.. Partnered with Nick Fury, she met the amnesiac mutant named Logan in Washington D.C., when dealing with the combined attacks of Hydra and Sabretooth. Danvers and Logan were reunited when Fury sent them with pilot Ben Grimm on a doomed secret reconnaissance mission over the Soviet Union, encountering the deadly spy Black Widow, who interrupted the ensuing attack. Thanks to Danvers' keen skills on maneuvering airships, the trio of agents could partially accomplish their mission of gathering information on the top secret Red Storm Project. Logan and Danvers served on several missions together, and seemingly nurtured romantic feelings for each other. When Danvers was abandoned by the Air Force and imprisoned in the Lubyanka Building in Moscow, Rossi and Logan disobeyed orders to break her out of prison and smuggle her out of Russia. By the time Danvers investigated the death of her friend and contact Neil Langram, she was reunited with Logan. They were targeted by Sabretooth in Canada, who had been hired to hunt down people who could expose the existence of mutants to the world, including Langram. After outmatching Sabretooth, Danvers and Logan parted ways. As a result of this mission, Danvers informed Senator Robert Kelly about the emergence of mutants on the planet.
Cape Canaveral
Having served ten years as a top field agent for Air Force intelligence, Carol Danvers was appointed security chief at Cape Canaveral on the request of NASA, resigning from the Air Force bumping her to full major at retirement. As a NASA security officer in the Lunar Receiving Laboratory located in Houston, she was involved in Dr. Peter Corbeau's Cavorite project. She was also assigned to watchdog Doctor Kronton's Doomsday Man project in the Pacific Ocean. NASA eventually requested her to transfer for an open position as head of security at the Kennedy Space Center, which she accepted. As head of security in Cape Canaveral, Danvers became embroiled in the schemes of the Kree Empire. Due to a Sentry #459 being deactivated by the Fantastic Four and taken into custody by NASA, a secret Kree operation assigned the spy soldier Captain Mar-Vell to get military revenge against humanity. Sabotaged by his superior Coronel Yon-Rogg, Mar-Vell crossed paths with a plane accident victim who worked at Cape Canaveral, the robotic expert Dr. Walter Lawson. Impersonating Dr. Lawson, Mar-Vell gained access to the installations where the Sentry was kept and that were also guarded by the suspicious Danvers. Yon-Rogg activated the Sentry to destroy Mar-Vell, forcing him to resist in his secret warrior alter-ego Captain Marvel. This fight led Danvers to be intrigued by Mar-Vell's two identities, the eccentric Lawson and the brave Captain Marvel. Ironically, Captain Marvel became a heroic figure in Cape Canaveral, consolidating the admiration Danvers came to have for him after he battled the Super-Skrull and inspiring her to investigate her trusted hero. However, she was still uneasily unsure about Lawson's activities. When spotting Captain Marvel returning to Earth's orbit from Yon-Rogg's Kree warship, Danvers strangely found Lawson instead. Though Mar-Vell denied witnessing anything, Danvers insisted on investigating the landing site, where she became a target for Yon-Rogg. She was saved by Captain Marvel, who she attempted to convince to watch Dr. Lawson. Mar-Vell indeed investigated the life of the strange man whose identity he had usurped, and a thankful Danvers met him with a kiss following a conversation about Lawson. However, becoming closer to Captain Marvel put Danvers in danger. In the hotel room Mar-Vell lived as Lawson, she was abducted by one of the real Lawson's assassin robotic creations, Cyberex. Amidst a fight between Captain Marvel, Cyberex and the Aakon, she was rescued. Lawson's former employers in the Organization then kidnapped Danvers while she accompanied Mar-Vell, who was mistaken for Lawson. Captain Marvel helped Danvers escape one more time, by plotting against the captors alongside her. Captain Marvel's eroded after he was forced to steal a moon rocket from the Cape in order to resist Yon-Rogg's constant attacks and to escape his former Kree brethren, which resulted in him getting arrest warrant placed upon him by the American government, much to Danvers' disappointment. She correlated Captain Marvel's betrayal to Lawson's erratic behavior and gave the order to arrest Lawson as well. Mar-Vell's double life was ruined after this incident. Eventually, he made his way back to Danvers and Cape Canaveral by helping her against the menace known as the Man-Slayer. Danvers still trusted Captain Marvel, but, despite his assistance, the surrounding military treated him as an enemy for the earlier treason charges. Their standoff was broken off prematurely by Iron Man, who had been controlled by the Puppet Master. Following the battle, Carol Danvers was hospitalized and Mar-Vell was forced to leave the planet. Upon awakening in a hospital, an obsessed Danvers fled in order to look for Captain Marvel when FBI agents came to question her about Dr. Lawson. Just outside the hospital, she was kidnapped by Yon-Rogg, who wished for a final revenge against Mar-Vell. Yon-Rogg brought her to an abandoned subterranean Kree outpost that hid a damaged Kree Psyche-Magnitron, a machine able to synthesize pieces of Kree-devised technology. Empowered by the Nega-Bands, Mar-Vell was lured into the secret base. During their battle, Danvers was knocked by Yon-Rogg into the damaged machinery. As the outpost collapsed, Mar-Vell chose to bring only Danvers to safety as Yon-Rogg perished. Unbeknownst to Carol Danvers, her genetic structure was altered by the detonation of the Psyche-Magnitron by unlocking her latent Kree powers. Weeks after the accident, she started to manifest blackouts, having her mind supplanted by the spirit of a Kree military warrior. During one of these incidents, she returned to the cave where the Psyche-Magnitron was located and collected a state-of-the-art costume that mimicked her nascent abilities. Danvers' career at NASA was damaged because of the events from the months prior and she was reassigned to a secret Air Force facility in Indiana, near Chicago. As a result of a raid committed by the superhuman Nitro on the base to steal a nerve gas called Compound 13, Danvers found herself allied with Captain Marvel once again. Nitro, who had been sent by the Lunatic Legion, was defeated, but Captain Marvel was exposed to the carcinogenic element.[100] The Lunatic Legion then ordered the Living Laser to finish Captain Marvel's partner Rick Jones at the hospital. Danvers helped to protect him alongside Hank Pym and the Wasp. Following the crisis, she administered an antidote to Captain Marvel to relieve him from the deadly effects of Compound 13.[101] Demoted to a mere security guard, Danvers was transferred back to Cape Canaveral. There, she was attacked by an alien parasite who possessed Mar-Vell's former lover, medic Una. Fed by Una's jealousy against Danvers, the alien brutally attacked her, but Captain Marvel put an end to its threat.[102]
Powers
Carol Danvers is a Human/Kree Hybrid[517] whose latent genetic makeup and warrior instincts were triggered after being exposed to the Psyche-Magnitron machine fueled by the cosmic Nega-Bands, a process which turned her into a flying powerhouse. Moreover, she was subjected to experiments performed by cruel Brood scientists that physically linked her to primal forces of the universe. Since then, she has been able to absorb, process and rechannel diverse forms of energy.[518] Flight: Captain Marvel is capable of propelling herself through the atmosphere and outer space at tremendous speeds. Her ability to fly has been described as a natural capacity of sailing the planet's electromagnetic field. Although her top speed is unknown, she is capable of interplanetary flight, suggesting, at least, that she can go beyond ultrasonic limits.[339][341] After first losing her Binary-level powers, Danvers proved incapable of achieving orbit or surviving unaided in space, though she was highly intoxicated when she attempted to do so which may have hampered her progress.[162] She has since proved capable of surviving and fighting in the vacuum of space. Enhanced Physiology: Carol Danvers' organism was cellularly rebuilt to transform her into a perfect amalgamation of the Kree and the human genomes. Even unable to access her special powers, her body condition and functions remained significantly above those of an average human being. As Captain Marvel, she displays incredible physical capacities which can be further boosted by external energy she may absorb.[238] •Superhuman Strength: Captain Marvel is superhumanly strong thanks both to her hybrid organism and to her ability of enhancing her physique by absorbing energy.[238] The specific level of strength has varied over the years and is dependant on how empowered she is. Originally, she was described to have the strength of ten Kree soldiers.[104] After becoming Binary, her strength levels were deemed to be potentially unlimited;[141] although these levels were significantly reduced, she remained incredibly strong in comparison to other superhumans. However, since she is able to absorb and manipulate various types of energy, she can use this redirected energy to temporarily increase her physical strength even further.[259] Currently, her strength level at its resting rate allows her to support well over one hundred tons, as she was able to support the weight of a dead Celestial as one fell to Earth.[443] As a demonstration of her unlimited potential, when boosted by the energies of a nuclear explosion, she was able to knock the near-omnipotent Sentry out.[238] •Superhuman Durability and Stamina: The tissues of Carol Danvers' body are considerably harder and more resistant to physical injury than those of an ordinary human. She is capable of withstanding high caliber bullets, great impact forces, falls from great heights, exposure to temperature and pressure extremes, and powerful energy blasts without sustaining any injury. Her organism produces considerably less fatigue than an ordinary human during physical activity. While channeling the energy she has absorbed, her body's resilience and endurance gets extended to an even greater degree.[158][222] •Superhuman Agility and Reflexes: Danvers' agility, balance, and bodily coordination were enhanced to levels significantly beyond the natural limits of the human body. Her reflexes were heightened to the point of being virtually instantaneous. •Healing: Captain Marvel boasts a healing ability which she can consciously push to an extant, boasting a healing factor supplemented by absorbing energy.[519] Energy Absorption and Manipulation: After being experimented on by the Brood, Carol Danvers gained the ability to process various types of energy, in the form of light, heat, radiation, and gravity. Although severed from her unlimited source of power,[155] she can still control, absorb, process and manipulate various types of external energy to be discharged however she sees fit.[222] Her body is capable of absorbing various types of energy for the purpose of temporarily enhancing her own physical attributes. For instance, she can augment her strength and energy projection up to the force of an exploding nuclear weapon.[238] •Photon Blasts: One of the main manifestations of Carol Danvers' energy processing abilities is the capacity to fire powerful concussion blasts of photon and stellar light energy from her body. The photon blasts have enormous destructive potential. She usually channels the energy beams through her fists.[158] She can also redirect the blasts through her eyes, but possesses little control of them, being unable to see out through her optics when doing so.[234][488] •Binary Form: If Carol Danvers is given access to a vast source of energy, she can temporarily manifest the power levels she wielded as Binary. The first time the absorption of a large amount of energy triggered the transformation occurred when she entered in contact with the Collective. Besides the obvious change in her appearance, the main consequence of the transformation comprises augmented strength, resilience, durability as well as stronger photonic blasts.[224] She has gone Binary on multiple occasions, either accidentally[148][258][329][520] or by purposedly empowering herself with an external source.[306][369][481] •Energy Duplicate: In order to escape a tailormade prison constructed by Vox Supreme, Captain Marvel was inspired by Monica Rambeau's abilities to project her essence into an energy form. Her energy duplicate was able ghost through forms of binding and incarceration standing against it and could fire energy blasts before being reincorporated.[490] Empowered in a planet touched by the Phoenix Force and Mar-Vell's mortal remains, Captain Marvel's energy duplicate gained sentience and independence, and eventually adopted the identity of Binary.[491] •Self Sustenance: Captain Marvel can survive without having to eat, sleep, breath or rest by thriving the ambient energies within her surroundings. She is capable of thriving perfectly within the cold recesses of deep space with little to no discomfort.[306][339] She is also capable of surviving underwater.[521][485] Former Powers Flash Precognition (a.k.a. "Seventh Sense"): As Ms. Marvel, Danvers had an involuntary capacity of experiencing dangerous events related to her future activities. She was able to subconsciously to anticipate the moves of her opponents as well as have precognitive dreams of afflictions that would occur. This power activated randomly and uncontrollably, being unreliable. Dubbed a "seventh sense," Ms. Marvel's visions triggered her transformation from civilian to Kree warrior. After having her powers robbed by Rogue, she was subsequently transformed into Binary, but did not manifest her "seventh sense" any longer. White Hole Connection: As Binary, Carol Danvers was once linked to the power of a White hole and had unlimited access to generate heat, light, radiation and access all other forms of energy along the electromagnetic spectrum on a stellar scale. She also had control over gravitational fields, could survive in space and travel at the speed of light.[148] The constant connection she once had with the white hole was permanently severed, therefore she can no longer access the limitless energies she once could.[155] However, Carol Danvers's body still retains the potential of wielding the powers she once had[224] and can temporarily connect with white holes when in direct contact with them.[306] Cru Symbiosis: After destroying the alien creature Cru on Earth's orbit,[228] her remains secretly bonded with Ms. Marvel's organism.[256] A genetic scrambled created by A.I.M. triggered a transformation in Ms. Marvel's body, awakening new abilities derived from Cru's systems.[252] •Biomass Alteration: In life-threatening conditions, Ms. Marvel would optimize her physiological structure to adapt to danger, manifesting enhanced size, mass, density, strength and resilience towards physical injury than she normally showcases at regular physical levels. The transformation caused Ms. Marvel to shift her appearance into the blue hue of her extraterrestrial partner.[252] Even with her original abilities disabled, Ms. Marvel had the physical prowess enough to dismember Brood warriors barehanded.[258] •Regeneration: When merged with Cru, Ms. Marvel's genetic makeup could completely reconstruct itself after being obliterated.[255] This facility also bolstered the potency of her metabolism, allowing her to quickly regenerate from catastrophic wounds such as nuclear detonation, genetic disruption and even Brood infection.[259] Beast brought up how the healing abilities put those of Wolverine to shame, stating that her regenerative powers could maintain Danvers in her prime forever.[256]
Abilities
Master Pilot: Carol Danvers is an accomplished pilot. In the Air Force, she was considered to be the best flier of her base. She has extensive experience with military planes as well as with Kree, Shi'ar,[139] and other alien starships. Master Combatant: Carol Danvers is a skilled fighter. She was provided with extensive training in armed and unarmed combat through military combatives in the Air Force[281] and in NASA.[105] After being transformed by the Psyche-Magnitron, Danvers' mind was infused with memories and skills of a Kree military warrior. As such, she is well versed in the combat ways of the Kree Empire as well. As a super hero, she also had additional fight training with the Starjammers and the Avengers. As a flier, she is an expert aerial maneuverer, being a specialist in physical confrontations in the air.[158] Scientific Knowledge: Having been given memories equivalent to a Kree Captain by the Psyche-Magnitron, Carol Danvers has extensive knowledge of the technologically advanced machinery, vehicles and devices of the Kree Empire similar to Mar-Vell. This allowed her to develop a serum that momentarily transformed her into a water breather, for instance.[115] She also has an understanding of aerodynamics from her pilot training and education.[318] Talented Writer: Carol Danvers is a talented best-selling book author as well as a journalist excelling as a freelance writer and magazine editor. She built a career by exposing her military experiences in NASA and her adventures as an intergalactic traveller. She has published several books.[148] Experienced Spy: Carol Danvers is an experienced spy, having worked various undercover operations for Air Force Intelligence.[281] •Multilingual: Carol Danvers is fluent in English, Russian,[522] Chinese,[523] Arabic, French,[524] as well as alien languages, like Kree and both common and Imperial Shi'ar.[151] She speaks passable Rajaki and has a limited vocabulary in several other languages.[525]
Equipment
Captain Marvel Uniform: As Captain Marvel, Danvers first wore a full-bodied military-like uniform made out of Stark-designed impermeable fabric. The costume also featured a retractable helmet that was activated for outer space solo flight and echoed those of the Kree Militia Uniforms. Recently, she updated her costume and, despite still having the same red and blue color scheme with a golden Hala Star on the chest area, it is now short-sleeved with a matching jacket.[514] Nega-Bands: In a one-time occasion, Carol Danvers was gifted with a pair of Earth-made Nega-Bands which functioned similarly to those of Kree fabrication.[262] She used them to sync with the Nega-Bands of the impostor Mar-Vell, in order to shift positions with him between the regular universe and the Negative Zone.[526] Recently, she began wearing another pair of Nega-bands, that she uses to trade places with Yuna Yang.[514] Former Equipment Ms. Marvel's Suit: As Ms. Marvel, Danvers used to wear a costume created by the Psyche-Magnitron that mimicked her abilities to facilitate her genomic transfiguration. After this costume was destroyed, she wore a new version made of Unstable Molecules.[120]
Weapons
Former Weapons Universal Weapon: After nearly sacrificing herself to save the Alliance from the Cotati infection, Captain Marvel was granted Ronan the Accuser's Universal Weapon and became the honorable leader of the Accuser Corps. The Universal Weapon immensely boosted Captain Marvel's natural abilities. She wielded it to act as a hero and a judge for the Alliance.[471] Danvers eventually passed the hammer on to her sister Lauri-Ell, who became the new Accuser.[472]
Transportation
Avengers Quinjet;[537] formerly Alpha Flight Squadron Jet, Cool Interstellar Travel Travelship, Harrison,[519] Flying Motorcycle,[519], Helen Cobb's T6 Warship,[538] Personal Airplane, S.H.I.E.L.D. Helicarrier, Starjammer, Z'Reee Shar,[132] Blackbird[131]
Former Air Force pilot and intelligence agent Carol Danvers pursued her dream of space exploration as a NASA employee, but her life forever changed when she was accidentally transformed into a human-Kree hybrid with extraordinary powers. Now, Carol is the latest warrior to embrace the mantle of Captain Marvel, and she has taken her place as one ...
Captain Marvel (real name: Mar-Vell; Earth alias Walter Lawson) is a character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Created by writer-editor Stan Lee and designed by artist Gene Colan, the character first appeared in Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (December 1967).
- Marvel Super-Heroes #12 (December 1967)
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Captain Marvel. Aliases. Affiliation and Relationships. Physical Characteristics [56] Origin and Living Status. Personal Information. Creators and Appearances. Stan Lee, Gene Colan. First. Death. Marvel Super-Heroes #12. ( October, 1967) Secret Avengers #28. ( June, 2012) To those who dwell on Earth, the name Captain Marvel is that of a hero!
Jan 14, 2019 · Learn how Carol Danvers became a super hero from a security chief, a writer, a Binary, a Warbird and a Captain Marvel. Explore her origins, adventures, allies and enemies in this comprehensive guide.
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