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1. #Original capitan marvel movie#
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3. #Original capitan marvel series#

And then there’s the legacy title - where other characters assume the code name of a hero that they didn’t originate, more recently in play with Captain America and Thor (see: Jane Foster becoming Thor).įor the comic book versions of Monica and Carol, the title of Captain Marvel was actually the source of some discontent between the two, and gave them both feelings of impostor syndrome. Sometimes it describes a personality, like Wolverine. A code name like Storm or Spider-Man can easily describe someone’s superpowers or abilities.

In the world of comic books, code names and titles are important. But there’s one more major tie between Monica and Carol that Captain Marvel doesn’t quite get into: their shared code name. Of course, she does more than just “glow,” like wielding the power and speed of energies on the electromagnetic spectrum. It appears that Fury’s seemingly offhand comment about Monica learning to “glow” is actually a reference to her awesome powers in the comic books.

#Original capitan marvel series#

During Ewing’s run on The Ultimates (2015), a series about a band of superheroes (including Monica and Carol) who are dealing with cosmic threats, Monica manipulates her energy form to actually enter Thanos’s brain to try to kill the Mad Titan: Monica Rambeau in Ultimates No. When it comes to more recent comics, writer Al Ewing has some of the most exciting depictions (including the one above in Mighty Avengers) of just how powerful Monica is and what she’s capable of. These rays have given her the ability to manipulate and transform herself into different wavelengths of energy, which means she can travel at the speed of light and, as Fury puts it, “glow”: Monica using her powers in Mighty Avengers No. It turns out she doesn’t need his help because she has superpowers of her own, granted to her by wayward energy rays from another universe: Monica Rambeau in Amazing Spider-Man Annual No. In that story, Spider-Man notices Monica on the street and tries to help her after she is assaulted by a couple of ruffians. 16, written by Roger Stern and drawn by John Romita Jr. In the comic books, Monica is a grown woman who has existed as a superhero since her first appearance in 1982’s Amazing Spider-Man Annual No.

But it’s curious that Fury is specifically referring to Carol’s “glow,” as opposed to her photon beams or superpowered punches “glowing” is exactly what Monica does in the comic books, indicating that this might be a deliberate choice of words that reference Monica’s comic book life. The “glow” Fury’s referring to is seen in the movie’s third act, when Carol accepts and harnesses her photon powers to become more powerful than she ever thought possible. In one of the film’s final scenes, after she saves the Earth from the Kree bombing raid, Carol has a conversation with the Rambeaus, Skrulls, and Fury about, among other things, how Monica wants to be like her superpowered, fearless “aunt” and go to space to help beings like the Skrulls.įury tells Monica that maybe she will one day “learn to glow like Aunt Carol” - a huge wink to comic book fans. In the comic books, Monica Rambeau “glows” like her aunt Carol And her introduction could easily be Captain Marvel’s next story, because in the comic books, she too is known as Captain Marvel.

#Original capitan marvel movie#

The stark difference between the comic books and the movie is that in Captain Marvel, Monica is still just a child - something Endgame’s 23-year time jump fixes easily. The movie, quickly and briefly, foreshadows Monica’s comic book origins as a superhero capable traveling at the speed of light. What’s coming next in Monica Rambeau’s story is arguably the most intriguing tease in Captain Marvel. And Monica Rambeau, Carol’s adopted niece of sorts (in the film, Monica says that she and her mother were Carol’s family, because Carol had problems with her own family) will no longer be a precocious kid but a grown adult (again, if she survived the snap). Maria Rambeau, Carol’s best friend, will be older (if she hasn’t been dusted by Thanos’s snap). Nick Fury will be gone (she finds out he’s missing in Captain Marvel’s post-credits scene). She’ll no longer have to rely on CD-ROMs, pay phones, or maps to point her where she needs to go.īut, most importantly, the people will be different too. The internet will (thankfully) be much faster. The pager she amps up in the movi e Captain Marvel will look clunkily out of place. Captain Marvel, returns to Earth in next month’s Avengers: Endgame, she’ll be coming back to a different world, in part because it’ll be 23 years older than when she left it in 1995. This post contains spoilers regarding the plot of Captain Marvel.