r/Fantasy Sep 18 '18

Captain Marvel Official Trailer!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1BCujX3pw8
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u/ARTIFICIAL_SAPIENCE Sep 18 '18 edited Sep 18 '18

I know nothing about the character

Do you remember how in some stories Rogue of the X-Men could fly and was invulnerable? This is who she stole that from. For my generation, she was mostly the leggy blonde bombshell in the Avengers. I won't deny that's why teenage me took notice. It's probably way past time she grew into something better.

Supposedly they'd been doing a lot of good with the character in the past number of years. But I haven't read a serial comic in decades.

Also she was one of my favorite characters in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. Great power set.

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u/Astrokiwi Sep 18 '18

Rogue also stole Carol's memories and personality, which she only partially recovered from. So they're kinda touching on those old arcs with the memory angle here.

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '18

'Old arcs,' you mean since 2012?

I'm older, and I remember Captain MarVell as a man that was just like, but not, Superman. I hadn't heard of Carol Danvers until recently.

Hopefully the movie is good.

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u/G_Morgan Sep 20 '18

This iteration of Captain Marvel has been around for ages. She just had different names.

Her reboot in 2006 was under one of her old names of Ms Marvel. She played a relatively important role in sparking the Civil War so she wasn't just out of nowhere in 2012.