Meanwhile Hank Pym's domestic violence will never be retconned.I mean if a character has been around for 40 years and you constantly changing every detail about them on the fly, maybe they just not a good character?
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Marvel Changes Captain Marvel's Origin Story (in the Comics) Ahead of Movie
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Hank Pym only needed fixing if you read one 50 year old out of context page
It doesn't need to be, he owns it and handles mental illness more realistically than comics have any right to.
Most of what he is probably doesn't fall well into family-friendly marketability though.
This coming from a post-Thanos genocide franchise but still.
Just because they side stepped doesn't make him a bad character.
Hell we got what like 3 minutes of Tony being a raging drunk and it was never mentioned again?
They seemed more concerned with his hardware virus than his alcoholism.
The Kara Danvers name was used before the Supergirl TV series and besides, before that Kara Zor-El was Linda Lee Danvers, Carol's name has pretty much been a homage at some level to Supergirl. They seem to just be going in harder on it.
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There's the whole "last survivor of Krypton" vs "half alien born and raised on earth" stuff and how different the situation with the development of their powers are parts of their origins.
That would require creators to want to touch that stuff.
The psyche-magnetron accident always seemed like a dumb way to change her DNA to make her part Kree and give her powers. This seems like the logical retcon to tie her more to the Kree rather than having her story be that of an Earthling with powers that aligns themselves with a race like the Kree. This way she has more skin in the game.
Also, her name has always been a homage/reference to Supergirl and Kree have always had Kryptonian sounding names so I don't see what all the huffing and puffing is about. I'm a total casual comic fan and I see no problem with this.
Also, her name has always been a homage/reference to Supergirl and Kree have always had Kryptonian sounding names so I don't see what all the huffing and puffing is about. I'm a total casual comic fan and I see no problem with this.
Eh. It doesn't retroactively make her a better character, but it does simply her backstory abit. Car-Ell is just the right amount of comics dumb though.
The origin story shift makes sense, I guess, considering the original Captain Marvel isn't relevant anymore, but... The names. Really?
Not like it'll improve sales or anything. Not without fixing the dozen major issues that relegate comic books to a permanently niche industry.
Not like it'll improve sales or anything. Not without fixing the dozen major issues that relegate comic books to a permanently niche industry.
For the love of god if you're gonna fix Carol then fix Carol. Don't make her more bland.
Also, her powers are still an accident (activated by the Psyche-Magnetron) and still a gift (from her mom), so...
Also, her powers are still an accident (activated by the Psyche-Magnetron) and still a gift (from her mom), so...
A stupid decision doesn't stop being stupid just because it happened a long time ago.
They have the same mom, don't they? Teddy has a different mom.
Yup, she basically went from Hal Jordan to Star-Lord.
Not sure this is a good change.
I don't really care much for how this article frames this as empowering a woman. She was plenty empowered on her own and I never saw her as a "knockoff" of a man in various recent runs, and while streamlining her back story makes sense this is pretty boring in execution.
Then again she's also been fairly boring in light of recent runs but I think that has to do with overall direction Marvel has wanted to take her for the last 10 years or so more than anything else. Maybe this was the best way, but it does seem pretty uneventful.
Then again she's also been fairly boring in light of recent runs but I think that has to do with overall direction Marvel has wanted to take her for the last 10 years or so more than anything else. Maybe this was the best way, but it does seem pretty uneventful.
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I get the impression that Marvel only occasionally remembers Sentry exists.
Actually laughed out loud.
THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS A SECOND CHANCE.
Kara Zor-El aka Linda Lee Danvers
Kara (Zor-El aka Linda Lee) Danvers
Kara Danvers
Carol Danvers
She was always "Supergirl plus an Air Force background."
Different framing in the movie. He wasn't a raging drunk for a long period of time, he was dying and doing the Leaving Las Vegas ending. Once he got a wake up call he was able to live his life. We never got close to alcoholics avengernonomous
Carol is just so WEIRD.
Her origin is really complicated, she's got a lot of similarities to Supergirl, her current name was originally that of current Shazam (before her predecessor had it), and she was Warbird and Binary for a long time...
She is the ultimately "we'll throw stuff at the walls to see what sticks" Marvel character. That doesn't mean she's bad, but... she's got so much weird baggage. Do we still pretend her weird lover-baby never happened? I'd like to, but I can't....
How is her powers not being an accident "not female empowrment". What the heck are they talking about
Is Spiderman emasculated because his powers were accidental?? Carol's a whole Air Force pilot instead of a schlub college student
Is Spiderman emasculated because his powers were accidental?? Carol's a whole Air Force pilot instead of a schlub college student
There's no way they're gonna make her a drunk.
She shot the man's dog
What do you think they'll replace that with?