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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book)
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Captain Marvel is the name of several fictional superheroes appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. Most of these versions exist in Marvel's main shared universe, known as the Marvel Universe.As seen in the Captain Marvel article, that name has been applied to various characters in American Comic Book history. This article is about the ones created by Marvel Comics.During the 1960s, writer Stan Lee noticed that the name's trademark from the Fawcett Comics character was available again and decided that Marvel should own it (Marvel Comics, Captain Marvel... makes sense, right?). So he created a new superhero named that, one quite different from the previous ones. The new character first appeared in "Marvel Super-Heroes" #12 (December, 1967). Given the value of the name to DC and the utter obscurity of the Marvel version of the character (at least nowadays; he was big back in the 70's), you'd think Marvel would cash in and make a mint selling the name back to DC at an enormous profit... except for the fact that he's called "Captain Marvel" and they're called "Marvel Comics" and you just can't let that kind of synchronicity slip away from you.This "Captain Marvel" was an alien (from the Kree, a race that looked exactly like humans except that most of them are blue). His name actually was Mar-Vell and he was a captain in the Kree army. He came to Earth as part of mission to investigate Earth's space technology achievements (later justified by saying that Earth was located near a strategically important space warp). Mar-Vell is sent to Earth while being monitored from orbit by the rest of his crew, which included his girlfriend Una and his superior, Colonel Yon-Rogg. Mar-Vell discovers he's the exact lookalike of an American senator, who has just been murdered, so he takes over his identity to further his mission.However, it turns out that Yon-Rogg secretly hated Mar-Vell, mostly because he wanted Una for himself. So he tries to have Mar-Vell killed. This forces Marvel (who has Super-Strength due to coming from a planet with higher gravity) to fight openly while wearing his Kree uniform, which caused people to mistake him for a new superhero called "Captain Marvel". He also became a target of a larger power struggle within the Kree government.The betrayal from his own people (and the eventual death of Una) leads Mar-Vell to adopt Earth (and the name Captain Marvel) as his own. He had a brief relationship with Carol Danvers, a NASA security agent, who later becomes a superhero herself (and eventually takes on the mantle of Captain Marvel). He gains new powers from an Earth scientist, and later, from The Supreme Intelligence, a supercomputer who is the Kree's true ruler. He also gained his more famous, red-and-blue costume from it.For a period of time, Marvel found himself accidentally "merged" with teenage singer Rick Jones (the same kid who was involved in The Incredible Hulk's origin) so that only one of them could exist in the universe, with the other one stuck in the dimension called the Negative Zone until the one on Earth struck together his "nega-band" bracelets, causing them to switch places. Writer Roy Thomas has admitted that this was done as a nod to the original Captain Marvel, who was a child who could turn into an adult superhero. It was later revealed that this was The Plan of the Supreme Intelligence, who was really a Magnificent Bastard whose ultimate goal was to jumpstart the evolutionary potential of the Kree race via Rick Jones's genes. Eventually, Marvel finds a way to bring back Rick from the Zone and they resume their lives.The "Captain Marvel" magazine lasted for 62 issues (May, 1968-May, 1979). Tragically, Marvel didn't live long after his series was cancelled. In a very rare case of a comic book character being Killed Off for Real, he died from a cancer he got from exposure to nerve gas during one of his adventures. His death was covered The Death Of Captain Marvel (Marvel Graphic Novel #1, April 1982, written and illustrated by Jim Starlin), and Mar-Vell's death is universally considered one of the most touching, well-written and dignified in the history of comics.Despite his death having occurred over thirty years ago and him unusually staying dead (save for a brief return during Avengers vs. X-Men), he and his legacy still exert a powerful influence on the Marvel Universe today. His children Phyla-Vell, Genis-Vell, and Hulkling remain prominent supporting players.And in an age when Jean Grey, Bucky Barnes, Gwen Stacy (sorta) and even Mar-Vell's enemy Thanos have all returned from the dead (and that's only sticking with examples within Marvel), Mar-Vell is still usually considered the last great symbol of death meaning something in comics (aside from Spider-Man's Uncle Ben). There have been a handful of stories where it seems like Mar-Vell has somehow returned to life, only for it to be revealed to be some kind of fake-out.The Ultimate Galactus Trilogy, set in the Ultimate Marvel universe, featured an adaptation of Mar-Vell and the Kree that look more like Starfish Aliens than Human Aliens. The new design proved popular enough that it was also used in the animated series The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes.Mar-Vell appears in the 2019 film Captain Marvel — which features Carol Danvers in the title role, not Mar-Vell — albeit with some significant changes. | |
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Rasputinian Death | |
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Rasputinian Death: Genis-Vell about a year after joining the Thunderbolts as resident Gamebreaker. Baron Zemo ends up cutting him into pieces and scattering those pieces across time itself to ensure Genis-Vell staid dead. | |
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Darker and Edgier | |
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Darker and Edgier: About halfway through Genis's run under the name, his title was retooled from a comical series about the relatively earnest Genis to a dark series in which Genis became a Reality Warper with a god complex. | |
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Graceful Loser | |
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Graceful Loser: When he realises that there's no swaying Entropy from recreating the universe and thus subjecting him to the burden of cosmic awareness once again, Genis willingly helps the entity get started by shooting him in the head. | |
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Mr. Fanservice | |
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Mr. Fanservice: The point of No-Varr as a character was basically to be as sexual as a 13+ comic would allow a character to be depicted. Marvel decided to reverse course when Carol Danverse became Captain Marvel after him, even though she had been a consistent source of fanservice herself as Miss Marvel...if not as Binary. | |
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The Hedonist Genis spent his life gambling and drinking booze before meeting Silver Surfer, who convinced him to continue his father's heroic legacy. Carol Danvers developed a drinking problem until she realized she was no longer capable of reaching escape velocity and sought out help. | |
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With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: The omniscience afforded by Cosmic Awareness has some serious downsides to those who possess it after Mar-Vell himself. | |
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Aborted Arc: Before it was decided that the mysterious Captain Marvel who had been glimpsed during Civil War (2006) was the "returned" Mar-Vell (see Back from the Dead below), it was intended to be the recently introduced character Gravity, who had somehow been given the costume and the role of Earth's protector. One can only assume it would have eventually been revealed just who gave Gravity the costume and the job. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Captain Marvel never met any of his children: Hulkling was kept by the Skrulls, and Genis and Phyla were created using his DNA after his death. | |
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Stranded Invader | |
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Stranded Invader: The superhero Captain Mar-Vell was originally sent to Earth as a spy for the interstellar Kree Empire, but after he got caught on the wrong side of a Kree power struggle, he defected and adopted Earth as his new home. | |
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The Topic of Cancer | |
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The Topic of Cancer: Possibly the classic Marvel Comics example: the death of Captain Mar-Vell. | |
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Misplaced Retribution | |
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Misplaced Retribution: Phyla-Vell wants to kill Gamora for destroying the universe, even though the nature of Marvel's mutliverse means that that was a different universe with a different Gamora — not that 616 Gamora is totally innocent, but she was never that bad. | |
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Distaff Counterpart | |
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Distaff Counterpart: The more popular Ms. Marvel. | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy The original Mar-Vell is often considered this to Thanos, and his cancerverse version retains this animosity. Before Thanos, the archenemy role was occupied by Colonel Yon-Rogg. Monica Rambeau had two attempts to give her one in the forms of former Captain America/Incredible Hulk villain Moonstone, then in the form of woman claiming to be the granddaughter of Thanos named Nebula. Monica didn't stay in prominence long enough for either to stick, however. Phyla-Vell set out to murder adopted daughter of Thanos Gamora before setting her sights on Adam Warlock's Evil Counterpart The Magus and then getting killed trying to stop Thanos. | |
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Death Is Cheap | |
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Death Is Cheap: Notably averted, as Mar-Vell is pretty much the only major Marvel superhero who died and has never been resurrected. This is because everyone seems to agree it would be distasteful to reverse a memorable, touching, and realistically (for superhero comics) depicted cancer death. | |
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The Hero Dies | |
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The Hero Dies: Mar-Vell's life ends in the self-titled The Death of Captain Marvel one-shot. | |
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End-of-Series Awareness | |
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End-of-Series Awareness: During Peter David's run, Rick Jones developed "comics awareness", becoming aware that he's in a comic book and that it's about to be cancelled. The final issue of the series is entirely about the fact that it's the final issue of the series. | |
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Fourth-Wall Observer: Rick Jones, long-time superhero sidekick, developed "comics awareness" as detailed in Captain Marvel #60. | |
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Pietà Plagiarism | |
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Pietà Plagiarism: The cover of The Death of Captain Marvel graphic novel, featuring the Grim Reaper holding the captain's body. Of all the examples of this trope it's the closest to a true imitation of the Michelangelo work, explicitly borrowing the pose of a sitting Mary with her son's body in her arms. | |
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Deadly Gas | |
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Deadly Gas: Nitro's debut was him try to steal some for the Kree, only to be stopped by Mar-Vell — but the canister sprung a leak in the battle and while Mar-Vell did reseal it, the gas was also carcinogenic and resulted in the cancer that would kill Mar-Vell. | |
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Love Hurts | |
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Love Hurts: Mar-Vell lost his first love Una due to his own recklessness, and while he and Carol Danvers had a mutual attraction they were never really able to hash things out between them. He eventually found a new love in the Titan Elysium, to the point he semi-retired to the moon of Titan to be with her and they discussed having children. The cancer would put an end to those plans. | |
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Worthy Opponent | |
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Worthy Opponent: This is part of the reason Earth became a battlefield between various spacefaring empires. Mar-Vell was sent as part of a team to investigate Earth after the defeats of both a Skrull Sentry and Ronan the Accuser at the hands of the Fantastic Four. The Skrull Empire wondered why such a valiant and decorated war hero would be sent to such a backwards world and decided to investigate by sending in the Super-Skrull. After Mar-Vell defeated the Super-Skrull, the Skrull Empire decided that if the Kree Empire sent someone of Mar-Vell's stature to protect Earth, it must be valuable. Later on, the news of Captain Mar-Vell's impending death due to cancer was described as causing mixed feelings among the Skrulls, their happiness at his death being tempered with disappointment and sadness that so great a warrior would die in a sickbed instead of in battle (ideally with the Skrulls themselves). The Skrull Empire eventually sent one of their top generals to visit Mar-Vell and present him with the highest decoration of the Skrull Empire, praising him for his courage and skill before wishing him a swift death and great rewards in the afterlife. Thanos considered Captain Mar-Vell to be this, to the point that he decided to welcome Mar-Vell into death's embrace personally. Later on during the Infinity War, he described Quasar (who had inherited Mar-Vell's role of protector of the universe) as a poor replacement to Mar-Vell. During one of his other brushes with ultimate power Thanos even briefly resurrected Mar-Vell to speak to him, and after the conversation when Mar-Vell asked to be allowed to return to his rest Thanos let him go. | |
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Fake Identity Baggage | |
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Fake Identity Baggage: When Mar-Vell first arrived on Earth as part of his investigation mission note he was part of a team sent by the Kree to Earth to learn more about the planet that had somehow defeated a Kree Sentry as well as Ronan the Accuser, he discovered a crashed plane and the dead body of rocket scientist Walter Lawson. When Mar-Vell noticed his own resemblance to the deceased man and the fact he was en route to a military base that was one of the targets of their mission, Mar-Vell assumed Lawson's identity. He was able to use his own advanced knowledge of technology to aid in his deception (noting that compared to Kree technology, the tech Lawson was working on barely rated as advanced for Kree children). However, what Mar-Vell couldn't have known was that Walter Lawson was also involved with some very shady people, and was naturally caught off-guard when they came calling to demand "Lawson" complete his contract. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | type |
Call to Adventure | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_4c095112 | comment |
Call to Adventure: Downplayed, as Mar-Vell and Monica Rambeau were already service officers, but Captain Mar-Vell never intended to be live a double life as a superhero, but just decided to roll with "Captain Marvel" after being stranded on Earth. Monica Rambeau didn't intend to be a superhero either, but was dubbed the second coming of Captain Marvel by news media, and again decided to roll with it. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b | type |
Downer Ending | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_4e3d253b | comment |
Downer Ending: Genis-Vell ends his adventure by experiencing an extreme bout of madness twice, has the whole galaxy hate and fear him, suffers torture at the hands of his family to pacify him by beating him and nearly tearing his limbs off, goes to see a future that only becomes more and more dystopian, watches his own future son get corrupted by The Magus who goes on to slaughter 5 star systems and threatened the whole galaxy to free his master, forced himself to erase his son in the timeline by promising to smother his son in the crib, watches Rick and Marlo leave him behind and later dies himself via interdimensional dismemberment due to meddling from Helmut Zemo that causes him to become a threat to the universe with few mourning his passing or remembering him at all. The only bright spot is Eulogy being proven wrong that Genis’ fans didn't want or need him anymore when the phone rings for Genis after he had left, implying there’s people who still want Genis even after his adventure is over.]] | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_55eaf38d | type |
Time Travel Escape | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_55eaf38d | comment |
Time Travel Escape: Mar-Vell's death has been sidestepped this way to bring him back without actually ressurecting him, but not really. This "time displaced" Captain Marvel was really a skrull imposter brainwashed to believe he was Captain Marvel until the Skrulls wanted him to strike. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | type |
Fantastic Racism | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_57b80b45 | comment |
Fantastic Racism: Most Kree are blue-skinned, but some like Mar-Vell have pink skin (i.e., like that of northern Europeans) and are treated as inferior by the blue-skinned Kree. The extent to which this applies to Mar-Vell (and his status as a hero or a traitor to the Kree) depends on the writer. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_62cbb836 | type |
Mid-Season Upgrade | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_62cbb836 | comment |
Mid-Season Upgrade: Mar-Vell receiving the Cosmic Awareness from Eon during the battle against Thanos. Before that, he received his more well-known blue and red uniform (previously having worn his Kree military uniform) from the Kree Supreme Intelligence as a reward for his help in thwarting a coup. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6455e8e | type |
Life Will Kill You | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6455e8e | comment |
Life Will Kill You: While the cause was mildly fantastic, his death from cancer was played realistically and affectingly, which may be related to his never having been resurrected. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6860368a | type |
Mook Horror Show | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6860368a | comment |
The original Genis-Vell run was a light, fairly low stakes, comedic affair, but got turned into a Mook Horror Show where the "mooks" were everything else living in the marvel universe, all at the mercy of what was functionally a Mad God. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6ca5a8c2 | type |
Master Computer | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6ca5a8c2 | comment |
The original series underwent a few as it struggled to find its identity. Mar-Vell went from alien stranded on Earth, to an alien taking missions from a secretly despotic Master Computer to an alien tasked with defending the universe by a Cosmic Entity that granted him Cosmic Awareness. The latter was Mar-Vell's best received run. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6d7026fa | type |
Punny Name | |
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Punny Name: "Phyla-Vell" is a taxonomical pun off of "Genis-Vell" ("phylum" and "genus", respectively) | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6d7cd3e | type |
Dead Person Impersonation | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6d7cd3e | comment |
Dead Person Impersonation: For a time, Mar-Vell posed as a deceased scientist named Walter Lawson, and a Not Quite Dead Walter Lawson returned the favor in the 2019 series Marvel Team-Up. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6ee10e0 | type |
My Greatest Failure | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_6ee10e0 | comment |
My Greatest Failure: Mar-Vell never really forgave himself for Una's death, even when he found new loves. Part of this is because during the battle that eventually claimed her life she was badly wounded in the crossfire between the Kree under Colonel Yon-Rogg and a force of alien enemies Yon-Rogg lured in to kill Mar-Vell for him. An enraged Mar-Vell directly attacked Yon-Rogg before coming to his senses and desperately taking Una off the field, to the point he stole a rocket from the Earthlings who'd come to see him as a hero. Alas, she succumbed to her wounds en route to their orbiting spaceship where the advanced healing tech could've saved her. Mar-Vell would often wonder if he could've saved her if he hadn't been so blinded by rage. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_74e4a889 | type |
Cosmic Motifs | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_74e4a889 | comment |
Cosmic Motifs: Stars tend to feature somewhere on the Captain Marvel costume. Genis-Vell tends to be the overachiever in most Captain Marvel tropes to the point he's gained the nicknames "Star Face" and "Space Face". | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_77cd64fa | type |
Abled in the Adaptation | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_77cd64fa | comment |
Abled in the Adaptation: The Ultimate version of Mar-Vell had all his run, including his death, without cancer being mentioned at all. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_7aa989ea | type |
Token Evil Teammate | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_7aa989ea | comment |
Token Evil Teammate: Noh-Varr among his original crew who embodied the very best of the Kree's "zen facist" doctrine while he was a wrathful skeptic they were trying to turn around into being a hero like them. Him being their ship's sole survivor winds up being a major headache for just about everybody during his series. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | type |
Eldritch Abomination | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8774fb47 | comment |
Eldritch Abomination: Eon from Jim Starlin's run is a rare benevolent example, being far more on the eldritch side, barely resembling a floating head with reduplicative organs and a decidely inhuman thought process. All the same, Eon has done its best to understand Kree and help Mar-Vell best assist them, as well as prepare Mar-Vell against the threat of Thanos. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | type |
Back from the Dead | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8967e17f | comment |
Back from the Dead: Mar-Vell has been teased to be brought back to life several times. But never really has. At most his shade has been summoned for a chat with Thanos before being sent back to wherever it came from, and his living body has been brought back as a zombie to destroy The Avengers, Monica Rambeau in particular, be he never passed from undead to simply not dead and returned to fully dead. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | type |
Reed Richards Is Useless | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8b221a63 | comment |
Reed Richards Is Useless: A variant: Rick Jones comes to Reed and the other superintelligent superheroes of the era and asks them to use their great minds to cure Mar-Vell's cancer. They come to the uncomfortable realization that they could have been doing that for everyone in the world the entire time. However, when their efforts fail to bear fruit in time to save Mar-Vell, they just stop trying. Nevermind that other people might be helped in the future, nope, it was "save Mar" or nothing. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8d6bb79b | type |
The Good Captain | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_8d6bb79b | comment |
The Good Captain: Mar has always been unusually altruistic for a Kree military officer. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb | type |
Beware the Superman | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_953c92eb | comment |
Beware the Superman: A darkly comical version of this story played out in Genis-Vell's second run, partly driven by his deciding to become a Straw Nihilist. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_989e2092 | type |
Swap Teleportation | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_989e2092 | comment |
Swap Teleportation: For a time, Captain Mar-Vell was trapped in the Negative Zone, and could only leave when Rick Jones struck together a pair of "Nega-Bands" he wore on his wrists, causing the two to switch places. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | type |
Evil Counterpart | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_9b54d536 | comment |
Evil Counterpart: A post-mortem one. In the Cancerverse, Mar-Vell made a pact with a pantheon of Eldritch Abominations on his deathbed. Not only did he live, he obliterated death in that universe and turned the Avengers into Lovecraftian horrors under his command. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_9fc04a54 | type |
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today? | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_9fc04a54 | comment |
Have I Mentioned I Am Heterosexual Today?: Prior to Seduction Of The Innocent and the resulting comics code Marvel Comics made a great deal of their money on romance stories, a legacy that can still be felt with the Captain Marvels in particular where romance and or sex tends to be a recurring topic, especially with Genis. The sole exception is Phyla, and only because Phyla is gay. | |
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Affirmative-Action Legacy | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_a30a44fc | comment |
Affirmative-Action Legacy: Monica Rambeau and Phyla-Vell. Carol Danvers claimed the title for herself, becoming the third to use the moniker. The openly-gay Teddy Altman is the new Captain Marvel in the Bad Future seen in Avengers: The Children's Crusade. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_aa42306e | type |
Totally Radical | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_aa42306e | comment |
Totally Radical: Genis's characterisation in the nineties was to be as "hip" as possible, right down to his speach patterns. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_acd94aa3 | type |
Superheroes in Space | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_acd94aa3 | comment |
Superheroes in Space: Most holders of the Captain Marvel title end up heavily involved in spaceborne and cosmic conflicts. Mar-Vell, Genis-Vell, Phyla-Vell, Noh-Var and the Skrull impersonator don't even originate on Earth, though they all end up making there way there and Carol Danverse started as Mar-Vell's side kick, joined the Star Jammers space pirate crew and even had the ability to traverse the solar system at will as Binary. Monica Rambeau is the one least suited to space travel and still ended up stranded far from Earth thanks to Nebula, and has been a member of a few "cosmic" teams thanks to the fact she still has Story-Breaker Power in her own ways. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | type |
Sanity Has Advantages | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_ae1723af | comment |
Sanity Has Advantages: As a Kree, Genis had the ability to simply shutoff Moonstone's(Meteorite's) gravity stones even before he gained cosmic awareness, which should have let him identify the devices even sooner. But by the time they had any confrontations he was too detached from reality to settle on a simple solution. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b219ac90 | type |
ReTool | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b219ac90 | comment |
Retool The original series underwent a few as it struggled to find its identity. Mar-Vell went from alien stranded on Earth, to an alien taking missions from a secretly despotic Master Computer to an alien tasked with defending the universe by a Cosmic Entity that granted him Cosmic Awareness. The latter was Mar-Vell's best received run. The original Genis-Vell run was a light, fairly low stakes, comedic affair, but got turned into a Mook Horror Show where the "mooks" were everything else living in the marvel universe, all at the mercy of what was functionally a Mad God. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab | type |
Obfuscating Insanity | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b4fce1ab | comment |
Obfuscating Insanity: After rebooting the universe he destroyed with the help of Entropy, Genis was cured of his insanity after being subsumed by the lucid new version of him. Still haunted the spectre of his past failures, he chose to maintain a demented persona to ward off anyone expecting to much from him. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b5b4b077 | type |
The Ace | |
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The Ace: Handsome, heroic, powerful, and possessing the willpower necessary to utilise Cosmic Awareness without being driven mad by the ability. In life and death, Mar-Vell won the respect of many of his universe's greatest heroes, some of its vilest villains, and a number of the sublime abstracts who lord above all. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | type |
Twofer Token Minority | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_b6ec7566 | comment |
Twofer Token Minority: The second Captain Marvel, a black woman named Monica Rambeau. Done as a pretty earnest attempt to create a strong Twofer superhero. Phyla counts as on as well, being a lesbian. | |
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Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_beb9a361 | type |
Anti-Hero | |
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Anti-Hero: Every Marvel Comics Captain Marvel is an anti hero in the abrasive, headstrong and violent manner, to some degree or another. Mar-Vell, Monica Rambeau and The skrull imposter were mostly by the book law enforcers turned order preserving vigilantes who would try to prevent escalating situations too far, but would fry a target dead if pushed to it. Genis-Vell was an utterly insane Terror Hero who once let a serial killer run unopposed to prove a point. Phyla-Vell was unambiguously heroic but more willing to kill than her father to the point she ended up regularly carrying a sword while on a mission from Oblivion to kill the avatar of life itself. Noh-Varr was a straight up fascist villain, but one who didn't realize what he was doing was wrong and was quick to make amends once it finally sank in he was the bad guy. Carol Danverse has extra helpings of Ironman level self loathing and alcoholism to mix this with classical antihero, but has twice pushed for extrajudicial sentencings and backed a movement to start a war to garner support for a proposed bill. | |
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Really Gets Around | |
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Really Gets Around: Musclebound and square-jawed with a crewcut, Genis-Vell is the only Captain Marvel thus far that has slept with women all across the galaxy. Helps that he's got a lot of swagger and charisma. This image◊ really sells that. | |
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Killed Off for Real | |
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Killed Off for Real: One of the comic book examples that actually stays, unlike the other Cap. | |
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Cerebus Syndrome | |
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Cerebus Syndrome: The second half of Peter David's run. See Darker and Edgier below. | |
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Hyper-Awareness | |
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Hyper-Awareness: Cosmic Awareness eventually becomes the signature super power of 616 Captain Marvel, and every person who bares the title eventually develops some form of at least better than hamanly possible awareness. Mar-Vell had the original, purest intended form of cosmic awareness that made him privvy to events across time and space. Monica Rambeau had the ability to see in multiple spectrums of light that eventually developed into the ability to detect radio activity and all sorts of other phenomenon that affect the electro magnetic spectrum. Cosmic Awareness infmaously drove Genis-Vell insane. Phyla-Vell had general energy absorption abilities that eventually extended to energy detection that was then amplified by the quatum bands. Noh-Varr has been genetically altered to have the awareness of various insects, giving him the least impressive instance of this, but he's still far more aware of his surroundings than the average human, or kree. Carol Danvers of course has her "Seventh-Sense" which alerts her to danger even when her senses otherwise shouldn't. Even the Skrull Imposter of Marvel had a degree of it, though his was psionically Skrull based in nature. Even characters who are simply strongly associated with Mar-Vell like Silver Surfer end up with cosmic awareness, to the point it is paroidied with Rick Jones getting "Comics Awareness". | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard | |
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Hoist by His Own Petard: Mar-Vell's nega bands, which granted him many of his powers, also included a healing factor that kept the cancer that would eventually kill him in check. Unfortunately, the cancer eventually mutated to the point where the nega bands could no longer stop it, and made Mar-Vell reliant on them to the point he would die in a matter of hours without them. Worse, the mutated cancer was now linked to the nega bands, meaning that a cure would not only have to overcome the cancer itself but the bands as well. Unfortunately that led to Mar-Vell's death. | |
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Writing Around Trademarks | |
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Writing Around Trademarks: The reason why Marvel Comics makes sure to publish a comic with a character named Captain Marvel in it at least once every few years. | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: Multiple: A common trait among those that take "Marvel" in their title, outside of the original Mar-Vell himself, is that they will eventually have to change their alias at some point. Monica Rambeau's been hit with this so many times it's a running gag. She lost the Captain Marvel moniker to Genis-Vell, and took the name Photon. Then Genis-Vell changed his name to Photon, having forgotten that Monica was using it; so she changed her name to Pulsar. In at least one storyline she just went by Monica, but has since adopted the name Spectrum. | |
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Adaptation Name Change | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_dc057cf3 | comment |
Adaptation Name Change: The character in the Ultimate Marvel universe is called "Mahr Vehl", but the mispronuntiation as "Captain Marvel" stays the same. | |
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A God Am I | |
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A God Am I: Genis-Vell during his crazy period onced tresspassed into Asgard to prove he was God. | |
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Bad Future | |
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The openly-gay Teddy Altman is the new Captain Marvel in the Bad Future seen in Avengers: The Children's Crusade. | |
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Hero Killer | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_e16fb8ca | comment |
Hero Killer: Nitro's debut also is also the incident that'd cause Mar-Vell's death. | |
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Exact Words | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_e9e35e8f | comment |
Exact Words: In a case of a cover doing this, the cover to issue 34 of Mar-Vell's introduced Nitro and boasted he'd be "the man who killed Captain Marvel." It just didn't say when he'd die, as while Mar-Vell was still alive at the end of the issue, the events of it (more specifically, being exposed to the Deadly Gas Nitro was trying to steal) would indeed be the cause of the cancer that claimed Mar-Vell. | |
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Naïve Newcomer | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_ed05cfee | comment |
Naïve Newcomer: Noh-Varr both to the Dark Avengers (he didn't even know he was in a team full of villains until Moonstone let it slip) and to the true Avengers. | |
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Spider-Sense | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_f1c860c4 | comment |
Spider-Sense: Cosmic Awareness. Once appointed Protector of the Universe, Mar-Vell seems to control it well enough that whenever universal threats or changes occurr that relate to him he can but perceive them. When Genis takes the power on, it drives him crazy because he can't fully control it and keeps getting more information then he needs on possible outcomes. | |
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Captain Superhero | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_fe3c5f16 | comment |
Captain Superhero: A superhero named Captain Mar-Vell. He actually did hold a Kree military rank equivalent to captain before being exiled to Earth. Monica Rambeau was also a cargo ship captain, but she couldn't rise above the rank of lieutenant in the Harbor Patrol...though lieutenants are equivalent to captains in enough navies that no one would really know if she didn't make a stink about it. | |
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Sucksessor | |
Captain Marvel (Marvel Comics) (Comic Book) / int_ff20bc04 | comment |
Sucksessor: Those who have attempted to take on the Captain Marvel name after the original have all met with immense hardship with some even outright dying as they tried to live up to his daunting legacy while others simply suffer through the misfortune the title seems to bring. | |
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