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Joseph Danvers, Sr. (father);
Joseph Danvers, Jr. (brother),
Steve Danvers (brother);
Maria Rambeau (girlfriend),
Monica Rambeau (godchild)
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History
Why does everyone always resort to dares with me?
- — Captain Marvel
- — Captain Marvel
Early Years
Born around the summer of 1975, Carol Susan Jane Danvers grew up as the youngest child of three in a traditional Boston home, with a contractor father who believed in the merits of hard work. When he had built their Cape Cod summer home, Carol insisted on working just as hard, if not a lot harder than her two younger brothers, striving to make herself equal in her father's eyes who had grave misogynistic views and suffered from alcoholism since his wife tried to leave him with their kids years ago, only for her to die in an car accident when she tried to fetch their children in favor of her custody.
As a voracious reader, Carol had dreamt of becoming a pilot and to an extent, an astronaut with the ideal goal of traveling to distant planets with the hopes that she'd meet societies that cherished girls like her that could accomplish things that boys are known to do; as a teen she even hitchhiked to Cape Canaveral to view a launch there. Her bigoted father however, could not accept women as men's equals, and when financial troubles meant he could only send one child to college, he chose the middle child Steve despite Carol's superior grades.
Joining the Air Force
She turned 18 just a few months later, and the following day she turned her back on her father to eventually prove almost everyone who doubted her wrong as she joined the Air Force, intending to be a pilot and to get a college degree via the military. Eventually, she quickly rose to the top of her Air Force class and was recruited into military intelligence (Special Operations) and trained as a spy when she rose through the rank of captain. She accomplished many different missions and worked with other figures such as Colonel (later S.H.I.E.L.D. Director) Nick Fury, and Ben Grimm (later the Thing), while opposing others such as Natalia Romanova (later the Black Widow). Whilst in training and in later military service, Carol met fellow pilot Maria Rambeau, and the two became best friends as they helped each other throughout their training even until afterwards. Later on, the two got close that Carol ended up becoming the godmother of Rambeau's daughter, Monica, whom Carol also developed an aunt & niece relationship with throughout the years as she grew up without a father by her side, thankfully taken over by Carol as her legal guardian.
Recruited by N.A.S.A.
Reaching her late twenties around the late 1990s to early 2000s, N.A.S.A. eventually requested Carol for an open position as head of security which she accepted, resigning from the Air Force bumping her to full Colonel at retirement. Becoming the youngest security captain in N.A.S.A.'s history, she eventually became secretly embroiled in the schemes of the interstellar alien Kree Empire after discovering its secret history and real existence.
Obtaining Powers
It was during this time around late 2005 that Carol met, helped, and eventually befriended the Kree soldier Mar-Vell, who was then under the guise of the recently-deceased scientist Walter Philip Lawson, whose foes would soon be responsible for her future transformation. The next few months were disastrous as she was kidnapped by the cybernetic alien known as Cyberex, but was later rescued by Mar-Vell and subsequently destroying Cyberex. Carol was injured for a few days, but her determination has led her to continue her duties while still recovering. The tyrannical alien Yon-Rogg, then kidnapped her as a subject while she was still concussed and eventually battled Mar-Vell.
During this battle, Carol was knocked into a damaged Kree Psyche-Magnitron, a powerful device powered by various cosmic energies which only the Kree could initially harness until Mar-Vell tried to using the Tesseract (Space Stone) to stabilize it from exploding in a city-wide level, an upgrade to the engine that it becomes a heavenly power capable of jumpstarting and lighting up dozens of dying stars. In the more contained explosion, Carol's genetic structure was altered, effectively making her a half-Kree superhuman. Carol's wish to stand with Mar-Vell as an equal rather than a helpless victim completed the process, and her DNA became a perfect synthesis of Kree and human genes. With Mar-Vell helping cover up the incident for her own safety, Carol was unaware of this change for a days until she discovered her unusual abilities.
Revealing the Truth
Her successful career at N.A.S.A. was severely damaged because of these recent events. Due to her continued inability to control superhuman incursions, she was removed and reassigned to a minor N.A.S.A. facility near Chicago. Later on, she would eventually discover her newly-developed powers as the result of the explosion that unknowingly changed her in the previous month. Finding her powers in the hardest way, she became intriguingly furious at N.A.S.A. for the precious incidents that have occurred, and started having the thoughts of trying to tell-all expose on N.A.S.A.'s deepest, darkest secrets as she tries to resign the controversial organization. Nothing could have ever stepped into her way, that is, until Dr. Lawson decided to stop her immediately from posting the series to articles that she wrote on her private blog, articles that would expose N.A.S.A.'s cover ups on extraterrestrial incidents.
Rise of Ms. Marvel
Dr. Lawson then convinced Carol that keeping all those incidents away from the public would be the best choice to keep them safe from the dangerous truth. Despite what Walter did to Carol, he also told her that they're on the same side, since he didn't trust N.A.S.A. as well as much as she did. Walter the told Carol that the main reason for convincing her to not exposing N.A.S.A. was an act to protect his secret identity, causing for Walter to reveal himself to Carol as the Kree by the real name of Mar-Vell.
Carol was shocked and was surprise by this revelation, however, Mar-Vell calmed her down, to which he told her all about where he came from, and honestly told her that he's on her side, on the humanity's side. Afterwards, he told Carol that he had accidentally crashed into Earth and has been trying to figure out a way home ever since, and as long as he was on Earth, he vowed to protect it from the offenses of his own tyrannical empire. Carol intimately trusted Mar-Vell, marking another large step into their friendship, and promised him to never exposed the true identity of her close friend. In the wake of finding out her uncontrollable powers and abilities, Carol began training herself into using these powers with the help of Dr. Lawson, whom she treated as a really great friend and mentor, seeing his sincerity into helping her improve her secret training.
Eventually finding trust and help from newfound ally, S.H.I.E.L.D. director Nick Fury, agent Phil Coulson, and her best friend Maria Rambeau, Carol and Mar-Vell would discover that Yon-Rogg and the Kree Empire had been spying on Earth for a few years since Mar-Vell had crashed and Carol had obtained her powers, learning from Talos was merely a Skrull whose sector was decimated and displaced, stripped of a home by the Kree Empire. With this information, Danvers defeated the attempted Kree invasion of Earth led by Ronan the Accuser as she tapped into her once undiscovered powers. Saving Earth from destructive invasion, Mar-Vell would set off out to the far reaches of the galaxy to help Talos' group find a new home, with Fury and S.H.I.E.L.D. fulfilling a promise to Carol to keep the incident mostly off the records and exclusive for the director and a few trusted operatives to access while also offering her assistance whenever they could help out each other.
Meeting the Avengers
Danvers on her very first time being the heroic figure, Ms. Marvel
Around the summer of 2012, after working several cases with S.H.I.E.L.D. — Carol's old allies — the newly-formed Avengers during their hunt against several Kree resistance fighters which were led by now Major General Yon-Rogg, Ms. Marvel herself finally accepted the heroes' invitation and volunteered to join the Earth's Mightiest Heroes two years after the major events of the Chitauri Invasion's Battle of New York. Despite Mar-Vell's little of concerns, he let her joined the courageous alliance, after realizing and seeing that she's already done with her long training, and is finally ready to be herself as the marvelous and wonderful hero, Ms. Marvel, and soon established herself as a powerful superhero in her own right, hoping to make up for the lost years wherein she could've save more lives and joined other heroes fight evil with this opportunity, as the world was now introduced to both extraterrestrial wonders and threats.
Eventually days after Carol became the new member of the Earth's mightiest heroes, with her first mission as an Avenger was defeating helping the team what's left of several Hydra bases across the world, her fellow ally, good friend, and leader Tony Stark, helped Mar-Vell in fixing his wrecked spacecraft, and afterwards, Mar-Vell was able to say his warm farewell to Danvers and a few of the Earth's heroes, before successfully launching into space and leaving Earth for the very first time, at least for now. Along the way, she became the closest of friends with Jessica Drew, the Spider-Woman, whom she considered to be a sister-like figure, reminding of the days where she still a had moment to spend a time with a family member.
The Kree-Skrull War
In early 2014, only weeks prior to the events of the Nimrod Invasion, and few months prior to Ultimate War, Danvers decided to leave the Avengers for a while, due to reasons relating with Carol having doubts not having full control over her powers. During her leave of absence as a hero, she decided to hitchhike back to Cape Canaveral, the very place where she first began to started dreaming about her future. There, she began contemplating her own being, along with a regretful phase where she questioned her existence and true purpose in this life. During her brief introspection and existential crisis, her moment was abruptly ended, when she suddenly saw another spacecraft, crashing as it lands far into the distance.
Carol immediately approaches the scene to investigate the unfortunate occurrence, but she was too surprised to see that the pilot was in fact her long-time ally Mar-Vell, whom she reminisced with once again. As she helps Mar-Vell leave the damaged craft, she looked upon him, only to notice that he was extremely somber and traumatized, as if he barely escaped a war or a battle so chaotic, and so destructive, that he could have never handled it on his own. Mar-Vell then warned Danvers that he came back to her, all because "they" would be desperately needing her help. Answering Danvers' question on why he would be needing her help, he briefly responded, telling her that her ultimate godly powers would be the final key into ending the galactic war that he and the rest of his allies and teammates had always been fighting for hundreds of years even before he existed, once and for all.
Essence Emerged
Danvers, finally wearing her new special combat uniform, returning back in action as the legendary Ms. Marvel in helping Mar-Vell end the unending battles of the Kree-Skrull War
With the help of Captain Marvel's psychological method in order to make Carol tap into unlocking some more of her powers' capabilities, Carol discovers and unleashes her newfound cosmic abilities, most importantly her new powers of cosmically flying through the vacuums of space as Mar-Vell helps her get off the planet's orbit, that she would also be coming with him to the planet Skrullos, the last known warzone between the Krees and the Skrulls, as well as the latter's homeland. Now fully unleashed, Carol suits up in her new special uniform and finally flew off the Earth's surface, leaving the planet as she travels with Mar-Vell at the speed of light to the violent planet of Skrullos, since she was destined and obligated to help a friend in need, along with a galaxy hopelessly in need of salvation from the deadly hands of the Kree, Mar-Vell's ruthless race capable of destroying a fleet effortlessly, and the Skrulls, a bloodthirsty race of shape-shifting conquerors.
Ending the War
Upon their arrival at the planet, the two safely crashed in the barren parts of Skrullos' desert, an area far away from the city of the Skrulls, where the ongoing war between the two empires was still occurring. Witnessing another massive explosion at the city, Mar-Vell and Danvers swiftly flied towards the havoc being wreaked across the entire battlefield. As they promptly fly towards the warzone, Danvers sees the Accuser Huran trying to trigger another quantum explosive device, but in this case, hurling it directly towards the Guardians of the Galaxy, closest to an unconscious Gamora, in the arms of Star-Lord. Thanks to Danvers' ultrasonic speed, she was able to catch the explosive in time, where she embraces it with her own body, surprising the rest of her allies. Due to Danvers' action, the explosion of the quantum explosive was fully minimized. Suddenly, Carol emerged from the explosion's crater, unknowingly aware that she had discovered her new cosmic power to regenerate at an accelerating rate through absorbing the explosive's energy.
As it followed, Ms. Marvel finally joined the heroes' cause in winning this final battle, battling both the forces of the Skrulls and the Kree, in order to truly end the Kree-Skrull War once and for all. During the battle of Skrullos, Danvers easily overpowered and effortlessly obliterated both hostile forces, along with Mar-Vell defeating his former superior-turned-rival, Yon-Rogg and the rest of the Kree forces, and the Guardians and the Nova Corps apprehending most of the surviving Skrull fleet. As several hours went by, it was announced and declared by the Nova Corps to the entire galactic community that the war that lasted for hundreds of thousands of years has finally ended with a peace treaty between the two races.
Secret Invasion
Unluckily, however, the heroes themselves found out that the heads of the Skrull Empire secretly commanded the disguised Skrulls hiding on the planet Earth to begin the "next stage," to their mysterious plan known as the "Earth Protocol," to which they would later explain that despite their conflict with the Kree had already ended, their conflict on conquering Earth has only just begun, and decided to infiltrate and finally invade it after so long. The Guardians of the Galaxy, along with Ms. Marvel and Mar-Vell onboard their ship, immediately travel to Earth after the end of the Kree-Skrull War, warning the heroes of Earth of the threat that's about to occur on the planet, which were the Skrulls themselves who were all currently hiding on the planet at the moment, and were willing to help them fight them and prevent them from ever invading Earth.
In the end of the secret skirmish, the joint alliance of both heroes on Earth and heroes from the reaches of the galaxy was able to prevent the Skrull Empire from invading the human planet, albeit at the cost of, including Carol's great mentor, soldier-at-arms, and close friend, Mar-Vell after giving up his own life to completely disrupt the Skrull armada's greatest weapon which was an artificial and unstable Tesseract meant to terraform the Earth until his sacrifice. Carol, along with the Guardians, were greatly dismayed losing their comrade that they decided to stay on Earth for a while to drink, cry, and "live in the moment" to his memory. As a way to personally honor her great friend's memory, Carol herself would finally change her heroic identity from Ms. Marvel into one of Mar-Vell's former title, Captain Marvel, which took to Carol's liking when Mar-Vell himself first suggested it to be Carol's next codename a few years before his death.
Since her return to Earth, Carol and the Guardians have stayed on her home planet for a while, wherein she reconnected with her fellow heroic allies, and her loved ones, especially her best friend Maria Rambeau and her grown-up godchild Monica. Spending enough time with the Rambeaus since forever, Carol and Maria's rekindling somehow sparked a romantic attraction between each other, something that Maria confessed feeling during Carol's absence venturing into the stars. Carol was initially dumbfounded and overwhelmed by her best friends affection, to which she told her that she would have to think about it, otherwise their long years of friendship would be in jeopardy had things don't work out. Moments before returning to space with the Guardians in the meantime to settle things against the Kree and Skrull Empire to keep their tensions as low as possible, Carol hoped that Maria waits for her answer, to which the latter responded that she had always been waiting for her anyways. As Carol begins to feel the same way for her best friend, the two passionately kissed in a brief moment, before flying off Earth with her cosmic allies, back to space, for now.
Powers and Abilities
Powers
Kree-Human Hybrid Physiology/Cosmic Enhancement: The moment she got exposed to the various extraterrestrial powers, mainly the Tesseract, via the destruction of a heavily-modified Kree engine known as the Psyche-Magnitron, Carol acquired the ability to produce and channel cosmic energies to no measurable bounds, manipulating them to her needs. Finding out that the Psyche-Magnitron was experimented by the Starforce as a means to replicate Mar-Vell's extraordinary powers, her exposure to the engine also granted Carol superhuman strength, speed, endurance, reflexes, and advanced longevity, essentially turning Carol Danvers into a Kree-Human hybrid. She was also trained in the arts of battle by the Kree which had been practiced for years and began to rely solely on her fighting skills, strength, and photon blasts.
- Superhuman Strength
- Superhuman Speed
- Superhuman Stamina
- Superhuman Durability
- Superhuman Agility
- Superhuman Reflexes
- Flight
- Levitation
- Space Flight
- Flash Precognition
- Cosmic Awareness
- Hyper-Cosmic Awareness
- Contaminant Immunity
- Photonic Blasts
- Energy Absorption
- Regenerative Healing Factor
- Minor Molecular Control
- Advanced Longevity
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Abilities
- Experienced Spy
- Multilingual
- Master Pilot
- Master Combatant
- Talented Journalist
Strength level
Class 100+
Weaknesses
None known.
Paraphernalia
Equipment:
- Captain Marvel's Suit
Transportation:
- Flight
Weapons: None known.
Notes
- No special notes.
- ↑ Modern Comics: Avengers 1 50
Trivia
- Carol is a fan of music bands including Guns N' Roses, The Runaways, No Doubt, Nirvana, Pixies, and Lita Ford. In some of her cosmic adventures, she would bond with Star-Lord and the Guardians of the Galaxy over their collection of old and classic songs.
- Carol is an avid enthusiast of the Boston Red Sox, having grew up watching and attending their games with her two brothers, even sometimes catching up with their present games around the late 2010s when she returned to Earth often.
- During and after the second Fault, Carol adopted a runaway Flerken named Chewie, a species resembling Earth cats in appearance and behavior, albeit their distinction resides with them having tentacles that can extend from their mouths as well as their bodies being pocket realities.
- Carol is openly bisexual, having found attraction and formed relationships in both men and women, not just on Earth, but also across everyone she has meet in her adventures across the intergalactic community.
- Despite being in a committed relationship with Maria Rambeau, the two would often change the nature of their relationship into a more open and flexible one, at least while the both of them are galaxies apart.
See Also
- Appearances of Carol Danvers (Earth-61615)
- Character Gallery: Carol Danvers (Earth-61615)
- Quotations by Carol Danvers (Earth-61615)
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