Captain Marvel (Carol Danvers) Appreciation - "Higher, Further, Faster, More!"

[Thirteen]

Old Origin for Carol: Meets Alien. Alien passes on and gives her powers. Was also a pilot at the time. Mimics Hal Jordan.

Carol and Mar-Vell has a reasonable amount of time coexisting as heroes, unlike Hal and Abin-Sur.

[Triniking1234]

Yeah. I was wondering where he got that "old origin" for Carol.

Also as for the hair it was always meant for it to stick up while powered-up but normal while in her civilian form but then they made it stick up permanently and shorter. After Anka left I (personally) haven't seen any artists that can pull it off properly. At least make it look like Avengers Assemble.

[ed2962]

This: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-KT8yBvhc0l...EL-PREVIEW.jpg
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This: https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=...37623561022431

Just to be sure this is what we're talking about.

Anyway, according to this interview of McKelvie, who did Carol's redesign, the hair was actually never short: https://www.newsarama.com/9263-jamie...-redesign.html

Edit: people say a lot of pretty dumb things about the hair. I remembered I saw some comics gate comments about it... terrible

Yes, that's what I was referring to. And to be fair, there's a number of people who didn't like it just on an aesthetic level and that's fine. I realize that not everybody is fighting the "culture wars". But I was bringing it up just to show that folks were having heated debates even before Carol's movie was a thing.

[MadFacedKid]

Carol and Mar-Vell has a reasonable amount of time coexisting as heroes, unlike Hal and Abin-Sur.

Never suggested there wasn't any time spent between Carol and Mar-Vell. He'll I said I'd like to keep tje mentor role as a reason the name is passed.

[Tantalus]

Yes, that's what I was referring to. And to be fair, there's a number of people who didn't like it just on an aesthetic level and that's fine. I realize that not everybody is fighting the "culture wars". But I was bringing it up just to show that folks were having heated debates even before Carol's movie was a thing.

Yep. I get what you're saying, and I know there were many heated discussion about the hair before the movie announcement, just like there were heated discussions when Carol changed her costume and became Captain Marvel, but what I meant was more about the impact of it to newcomers and people who don't read comics.

Anyway, I was checking youtube's numbers today, and the Captain Marvel trailer already has 32 million views. Also, it has more likes than any other Marvel solo trailer (932000). I guess it will polarize people even more than the Black Panther movie.

[Sighphi]

According to some people this is Marvel trying to de-feminize their female characters and further proof of the SJW agenda.

Don't forget that she suddenly had a new body type.

[ed2962]

Don't forget that she suddenly had a new body type.

I disagree somewhat. Allowing for differences in artists' styles, her body type same been mostly the same since the 2012 revamp.



No one was calling her manly during this period.

[ed2962]

She basically has the same body type here more of less. But she gets this haircut and all of a sudden she's manly and it's all about how someone is trying to take away the sexy girls from men.

[Tantalus]

Just adding more images for comparison

Captain Marvel (2016)

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[Tantalus]

Mighty Captain Marvel
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[Tantalus]

Civil War II
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[Mike_Murdock]

Don't forget that she suddenly had a new body type.

Except she didn't. She just didn't have a costume that emphasized it. If you liked at how Anka drew her outside the costume, it wasn't exaggerated, but it was undeniably feminine.

[Hypestyle]

so what type of feats of strength can we expect in the movie. Ms. Larsen has made a casual remark about "she can move planets", but that's more or less Silver Age Superman-style stunts. So, is that what we can expect? Just curious.

[Arsenal]

so what type of feats of strength can we expect in the movie. Ms. Larsen has made a casual remark about "she can move planets", but that's more or less Silver Age Superman-style stunts. So, is that what we can expect? Just curious.

I’ve always interpreted that as meaning “she’s super strong” and not that she can literally move planets.

[GodThor]

so what type of feats of strength can we expect in the movie. Ms. Larsen has made a casual remark about "she can move planets", but that's more or less Silver Age Superman-style stunts. So, is that what we can expect? Just curious.

most likely when she goes Binary.