Who is Captain Marvel? Everything You Need to Know About Marvel’s First Female Superhero

Touted as one of the most powerful superheroes in the MCU, there’s little we knew about Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel before she appeared as a full blown solo lead.

More than a decade after the Marvel Cinematic Universe launched, we finally get to see its first solo film led by a female character. Captain Marvel as a character did not get much attention outside the comic books, until it was teased in the post-credit scene of Avengers: Infinity War.

Touted as one of the most powerful superheroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, there’s little we know about Carol Danvers aka Captain Marvel. In the comics, she has been referred to by different titles like Ms Marvel, Binary, and Warbird. But it was the moniker Captain Marvel which stuck on and gave the superhero a definitive identity.

Carol Danvers was said to have been born in Beverley, Massachusetts. As a Marvel comic character, she was first introduced in 1968, without any superpowers. She became a consistent supporting character in the Captain Marvel series. It was in lieu of the feminist movement in the US that she became a prominent character. She was made to be projected as a feminist role model who could connect with the readers.

Throughout her life, Carol struggles to break the shackles of stereotypes. Her strict and conformist father believed that women are of the weaker gender and anything beyond homemaking is an unnecessary pursuit. Going against her father’s wishes, she joins the US Air Force and becomes a pilot.

Earning the rank of a colonel, she serves as a pilot, an intelligence officer and a NASA security officer.

During her training as an air force officer she meets Dr. Lawson. Lawson in reality is an undercover fellow of an extraterrestrial race called Kree who is sent on Earth to observe if the planet could be a threat to them.

Who is Captain Marvel? Everything You Need to Know About Marvel’s First Female Superhero

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