As Brie Larson's Carol Danvers prepares to return in The Marvels, we take a look back at how she became Captain Marvel—and changed Marvel Comics forever.
Captain Marvel was dead, to begin with. More than one Captain Marvel, if we want to be perfectly accurate about it. By 2012, the Marvel Comics hero that bore the company name had been relaunched in no fewer than six different series, and seen a total of three separate characters take on the name.
“I say military man, and there are a whole bunch of different visions that might spring to mind. There’s a lot of different routes that are pretty easy shorthand to communicate. We don’t have that for women. If I say ‘military woman,” for the most part people are going to go to Margaret Houlihan . And in the beginning, she’s a caricature and a fun-wrecker, and someone nobody wants to cheer for… “I wanted to have some swagger, and something that made her somebody I could root for.
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