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Don't Expect to See the Black and Yellow Costume in Captain Marvel

Published Fri, 15 Feb 2019 07:45:19 -0600

Last updated Sat, 16 Feb 2019 15:25:02 -0600

Carol Danvers, much like her counterparts in the Avengers, is a character with a lot of history. While fans know all about that history, there are plenty of people that don't. One of the challenges of adaptation is making something jump from one form of media to another. In the case of comic books, that can be streamlining decades of comic book history and molding it into something someone who has never read a comic book can understand. That kind of history still needs to inform the character that is on the big screen and Marvel Mega-Boss Kevin Feige spoke to The Hollywood Reporter about how Carol Danvers is a character who has constantly been held back.

"Carol Danvers … had been held back much of her life from being able to pursue the kinds of things she wanted to pursue," Feige says. "She's constantly being told, 'Girls shouldn't do that,' or, 'It's too dangerous for you, you'll get hurt.' This film is very much about this character learning to not hold back and to not accept the boundaries put in front of her." First introduced in the comics in 1968, predominantly as a love interest for the male Captain Marvel, Carol Danvers evolved to become one of Marvel's earliest feminists — albeit one whose midriff was always exposed — under the name "Ms. Marvel."

That kind of history means that the character has gone through a lot of design changes. The costume that we're getting is far from a classic look for the character, much more recent, and anyone who is a fan of those older looks probably shouldn't them to show up in Captain Marvel.

"If you look at the comics, the further you go back, the less clothes Carol Danvers seems to be wearing," Feige says. "Oftentimes it's a one-piece bathing suit basically, with outrageous comic proportions. … Brie pointed it out on the wall, and we went, 'Yeah … just so you know, that's not what we're doing.' She goes, 'OK. I didn't think so, but I'm glad you said that.' "

That isn't really that surprising. It looks like we are bypassing most of Carol Danvers history as Ms. Marvel as she makes her way to film. So why would we need those old costumes? It wouldn't really make sense. That is bound to annoy some purists but from a storytelling point of view, it makes total sense. Those costumes will live on in animation and in comics.

Summary: Carol Danvers becomes one of the universe's most powerful heroes when Earth is caught in the middle of a galactic war between two alien races.

Captain Marvel, directed by Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck, will also star Brie Larson, Jude Law, Gemma Chan, Djimon Hounsou, Lee Pace, Lashana Lynch, Samuel L. Jackson. The film is set for release on March 8th, 2019.

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