![]() ![]() Captain Marvel embodies the latter.Īm I reading too much into this? Maybe, but I doubt it. (For more on this topic, please see Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad.) Empowerment has not one but two definitions: to be given power by someone or something, and to realize one's own potential, to empower oneself. ![]() That wasn't true, it was just that everyone was afraid of her might. Like witches, and suffragettes, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Captain Marvel was told that her anger in a fight was too much, that it would get her in trouble. Carol Danvers isn't told to control herself because she has no agency over her Ms. Out of any of them, maybe the Hulk is the only one who has to control himself, but the Big Guy is basically Bruce Banner's other personality, not his own. Steve Rogers got jacked by science and was handed a shield. Tony Stark doesn't hesitate to build stronger Iron Man suits. Hank Pym told Scott Lang how to use the Ant-Man suit and Scott pretty much did with it what he wanted. They crank them to 11 and aren't shy about it. I say this is an unconventional origin story because, let's be blunt: Dude Avengers acquire, or are born with, their powers and rarely are told to reel them in. But when a rescue mission to extract a Kree operative from the Skrulls goes awry, Vers (as she's known on Hala) lands in Los Angeles in 1995 and slowly realizes the Kree-Skrull war isn't what she'd been told and that her strength is greater than she knew. If it's not channeled, she's told, things could go bad. She's on the planet Hala and sparring with Yon-Rogg (Jude Law), another Kree warrior who encourages her to restrain, to control, the force that can shoot from her hands. Her discovery of that toughness is at the core of the movie, a female-specific origin story that challenges so many of those that came before it.Īs Captain Marvel begins, Carol Danvers (Brie Larson) is fighting with a man. (It also becomes very clear that Thanos is about to get his purple ass handed to him in Avengers: Endgame.) Because of the source of her strength (I won't spoil it), the half-human, half-Kree warrior can pretty much take on any villain, any weapon. Yes, by the end of Captain Marvel it becomes clear why its titular character is talked about as the most powerful superhero in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. ![]()
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