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Other Characters: Freya Mikaelson, Drizella Tremaine

Character Name: Carol Danvers
Series: MCU
Timeline: Post-Infinity War, after she gets the page from Fury.
Canon Resource Link: Carol Danvers @ the MCU wiki

Character History:

Carol Danvers grew up on Earth where she was constantly told that she couldn’t do things. As a result, she tended to just do the thing harder. Even when she was a child, she pushed faster and played harder, if only to prove that she could do it. She noticed when people like her father treated her differently because she was a girl, and opted mostly to shove that double standard in their faces, which lead to frayed relationships with most of her family. As a result, she made her own family, with her best friend Maria Rambeau and her daughter, Monica, and continued to pursue her dreams of being an Air Force pilot. Since women were not allowed to fly in combat in 1989, however, Carol and Maria found their way into a covert government operation called Pegasus, testing planes for a woman named Wendy Lawson.

Dr. Lawson was trying to build a light speed engine and gave Carol and Maria the opportunity to test fly planes that she toted were going to change the face of war as they knew it – and more specifically, would end them. She was one of the first people in a position of power in Carol’s life to put faith in her abilities first, regardless of her gender, and Carol held a great deal of respect for her as a result. One morning, Carol and Maria arrived at the Pegasus testing site to find an agitated Dr. Lawson getting talking about there being trouble coming, how things weren’t moving fast enough and there were lives at risk. Lawson was about to go up in the plane on her own, when Carol volunteered to fly with her – if lives were at risk, she wanted to be able to help.

They take off to head to Lawson’s lab when they were attacked from above. Carol did her best to try and outmaneuver the ship, but in the end she was no match for a space craft and she and Lawson were shot down and crashed not far from the hangar they flew from. Carol seemed mostly intact, save for some bumps and bruises, but Lawson was in worse shape. As Carol climbed out of the plane to try and assist her mentor, she noticed that Lawson was bleeding blue blood. It’s soon revealed that Lawson’s name was not in fact Wendy Lawson but Mar-Vell, a member of a race called the Kree. She makes Carol promise to remember the coordinates she gave her, and finish what she started.

When Mar-Vell goes to try and destroy the core, she’s fatally shot by another Kree named Yon-Rogg. Carol takes Mar-Vell’s blaster, doing her best to try and talk her way out of the situation against a force she doesn’t entirely understand. All she knows is that she can’t let Yon-Rogg take the engine core, so she shoots it to destroy it, causing a massive explosion. The radiation of the core overwhelms her, her body somehow managing to absorb it, but knocking her unconscious on the edge of the crater. Yon-Rogg, seeing the potential of the situation, takes the unconscious Carol with him back to Hala, the capital of the Kree civilization. There Carol was given a blood transfusion, making her a Kree-Human hybrid, had a device implanted to suppress her powers, and had her memories wiped.

When we initially meet Carol six years later, she’s no longer Carol Danvers but Vers, a member of the Kree Starforce and apprenticed under Yon-Rogg. Haunted by nightmares of the day Mar-Vell died, Vers substitutes sleep for sparring and one on one combat with her mentor, just to avoid her dreams as best she can. While an excellent fighter, Vers struggles to get the upper hand against her mentor, and he chides her for not being able to control her emotions in order to become the superior fighter. Vers, who has never taken well to chiding, retaliates faster and harder, leading to her “losing control” of her photon blast and blowing him across the room.

As a result, she’s sent to commune with the Supreme Intelligence, the leader of the Kree people, an AI that takes the form of the person you most admire. Here, Vers is taunted with the image of Mar-Vell, a woman she does not remember, but clearly meant something to her. They have a conversation about control, and after a chiding reminder about how what’s given can be taken away, meaning her photon blasts, she is told that she’s being given a mission. The team with Yon-Rogg as the leader, are to head to a planet called Torfa to rescue a spy who had been implanted among the Skrulls, a shapeshifter race who Vers is told infiltrated and destroyed civilizations across the galaxy. The Kree and the Skrulls had been at war for years, and if they didn’t manage to recover their spy, Soh-Larr, three years worth of intelligence would be lost.

This mission turns out to be an ambush, designed so that the Skrull general, Talos, can get his hands on Vers and finds out what she knows about Mar-Vell. They manage to successfully capture Vers, using their memory technology to dig past the blocks that the Kree had placed in her mind to find the woman they were looking for – Dr. Wendy Lawson, who happens to be on planet C-53, or Earth. The Skrulls set their course for Earth and Talos gives the order to keep digging in Vers’ head and Vers …wants none of that. Using a combination of her photon blasts and brute force she manages to decimate the Skrull forces on the ship, partially aided by just … blowing a giant hole in the hull. Subtlety, thy name is not Vers. Through the chaos, she manages to both get on an escape pod and crash land through the roof of a Blockbuster.

After blowing the existence of aliens to a local security guard, she gets directed to the nearest Radio Shack in search of communication equipment. After cannibalizing some of the items and doing the best she can with our measly Earth technology, Vers manages to contact Yon-Rogg and relay what she can about the situation. He tells her to remain where she is, despite her protests to the contrary about what could happen if the Skrulls get their hands on a light speed engine. Before she has the chance to negotiate, the call goes dead, because apparently there is no long distance provider that can reach the Kree civilization.

In the time that she was making use of Radio Shack, the security guard had called in her unceremonious landing and summoned two agents of SHIELD, Phil Coulson and Nick Fury, to assess the situation. While Coulson goes to investigate the shop itself, Fury moves to interrogate Vers. Vers gives him a hard time, seeing herself as being above the law enforcement on this primitive planet, but over the course of the conversation, they are attacked by a Skrull from above. Carol fires back a photon blast in return and gives chase when the Skrull tries to flee, with Fury close behind. What follows is a long extended chase scene where she horrifies a commuter train of people by trying to beat up what they thought was a little old lady, even if that old lady had mad ninja skills. Vers loses the Skrull in the process, and is back at square one in terms of finding Lawson.

Relying on the patchy memories that Talos had awakened in her mind, she tries to track down anything that might help her find Wendy Lawson. She manages to google a bar that had flashed in her mind during the memory extraction, where she happens to run into Fury again. He tries to convince her to let him help her, and after a brief interrogation to determine neither of them are Skrulls, which ends in fun toast facts and the destruction of a local bar’s jukebox. Fury agrees to take her to Pegasus, and they hit the road, doing a little buddy cop bonding on the way.

When they arrive at Pegasus, they are given the cold shoulder by the security team, and are forced to get creative in getting down to the records room. They discover the Lawson is dead, died when her prototype crashed and she took the pilot with her. However, in going through the files they also learn that Lawson was Kree, and that Vers could have potentially been the pilot that she took down in the process. After being ambushed by SHIELD agents, with Talos posing as their leader, Fury and Vers escape in one of the experimental planes and head towards Louisiana to talk to the only witness to the crash, Maria Rambeau, only this time they have a stowaway, Lawson’s cat, Goose.

Arriving at Maria’s is a bit of a roller coaster in terms of emotions, as Maria tries to piece together what she remembers of the day of the crash with what Vers patchy memory believes her to be. What she does confirm is that Vers real name is Carol Danvers, and that she is the pilot that supposedly died. It also confirms that she had a life before Vers, one that was taken from her. That point is only driven further home when Talos appears, bearing the black box from the crash. As she listens to her own voice recounting the situation they’re in, the floodgates open – at least on that particular moment – and she remembers in vivid detail not only the death of Mar-Vell, but the fact that it was Yon-Rogg, her mentor, who caused all of this to happen.

As Carol grapples with this newfound information, Talos also reveals that the Skrulls, depicted as terrorists to the Kree, are actually refugees, who’s planet was destroyed because they wouldn’t submit to the Kree. Mar-Vell had discovered that she was on the wrong side of an unjust war and had offered her help to the Skrulls, trying to build them an engine so that they could find a new home. Talos pleads with Carol to help him find the ship, to help him get revenge against the people who had taken everything from them, and after an impassioned speech from Maria, because female friendships are literally everything, Carol agrees, revealing that the coordinates Mar-Vell gave her were actually space vectors, and the lab that Talos has been looking for has been in orbit all along. They upgrade the ship they stole from Pegasus, and prepare to make their assent into space, including Goose, much to Talos’s chagrin.

He keeps calling her a Flerken. None of the dumb Earthings actually believe him and are convinced she’s just a cat. Also before they leave, Carol gets Monica to redo the colors on her suit to match that of the US Air Force because they had to get the comics colors in there somehow, and as a symbol of her breaking free from the Kree assholes who manipulated her.

And with that they go to space! Where they discover that the core that was powering the engines of Lawson’s planes – and in turn powering Carol – is an infinity stone called the Tesseract, which Carol and Maria promptly remove and store in a The Fonz lunchbox which is somehow made of tougher stuff than the planes that Red Skull built in the First Avenger that the Tesseract just melted right through but do what you want Marvel continuity. They also discover that it isn’t the core that Talos was after – it was his family and other Skrull civilians who had been trapped on the ship for six years, waiting for word from Mar-Vell. There’s a touching family reunion that is then rudely interrupted by Yon-Rogg and his team charging onto the bridge, where they use Carol’s implant to suppress her powers, take the Skrull civilians prisoner and take the Tesseract for themselves.

While the prisoners, including Fury, Maria and Goose, are escorted elsewhere on the ship, Carol is forced to commune with the Supreme Intelligence so that the Kree can reinforce their brainwashing and get Carol’s formidable powers back under their control. To that idea, Carol says fuck you and the horse you rode in on by reclaiming her own identity, overwhelming the conduit connecting her to the Supreme Intelligence, destroying her power suppressor and proceeding to beat the holy hell out of everything that gets in her way.

It’s very cathartic.

After reclaiming the Tesseract, Carol catches up with Fury, Maria and Goose. She tells them to take the Tesseract but leave her with the lunchbox so that she can distract the Starforce members while Fury and Maria help the Skrulls escape. When both of the humans refuse to touch the Tesseract with their bare hands, Goose comes to the rescue by unleashing her tentacles and swallowing the damn thing whole because turns out she totally was a flerken this whole time. Who knew.

Carol heads back to the bowls of the ship with the lunchbox, and there’s a knockdown drag out between her and the members of the Starforce team. As she fights them off, she plays around with the new limits on her powers, learning about things like how you could drop an entire column on her and she’ll probably be just fine, and how she could maybe even fly if she had enough space to figure it out. While she seems to be holding her own for a while, eventually Yon-Rogg gets the upper hand, finds out about the diversion with the Tesseract, and leaves to catch up with the Skrulls who are making their escape.

When the refugees manage to make their escape, Yon-Rogg and Minn-Erva turn it into a dog fight. Minn-Erva is taken out by Maria, while Carol takes Yon-Rogg out of the sky. Before she can truly confront her old mentor, however, the Accusers, who are essentially who the Kree call in to scorch earth on any given planet, show up to do just that to Earth. Carol, however, has other ideas, and she … basically destroys them. All by herself. She even flies through a few ships to prove a point, and Ronan the Accuser sees the value of a strategic retreat when it doesn’t mean him dying in the vacuum of space. As Carol return to Earth, Yon-Rogg tries to goad her into a fight to prove herself, convinced he can still take her if they take her powers out of the equation, but Carol refuses to play his game, telling him that she has nothing to prove to him. She puts him back in his ship to send him back to Hala, with a message for the Supreme Intelligence that Carol would be coming to burn all of their shit down.

She didn’t use those words, but that was basically the message.

Once things settled down, and they had their small victory feast in Maria’s tiny kitchen in Louisiana, Carol offers to finish what Mar-Vell started in helping the Skrulls find a home. Before she leaves Earth, she gives Fury an upgraded two-way pager, so he would be able to reach her in case of an emergency. With that bit of business done, she takes off, heading into space with Talos following in Mar-Vell’s lab, in search of a safe space for her new Skrull friends.

And then, twenty five years later, that pager goes off, and Carol finds herself on the way back to Earth. Its in this moment that she will find herself in Wonderland.

Abilities/Special Powers:

Carol is the child of an infinity stone meaning she was exposed to the radiation of the Tesseract, her body absorbed it, and as a result, she got powers. She generates photon blasts from her hands that can do massive amounts of damage to any given property or person in the area, and she tends to use them with zero hesitation. She can also use this energy generated to fly. With these powers comes a certain degree of invulnerability as she’s been shown to have fallen from very, very great heights and taken minimal if any damage, never mind … literally flying through entire ships as a means of destroying them and not slowly down at all. She has also shown some degree of enhanced strength.

Third-Person Sample:

The thing about flying through space versus flying through the atmosphere of a planet is resistance.

Space is a vacuum, a swimming mess of gravitational forces from various planets that results in a very delicate balance you don’t really want to mess with. When you’re a very tiny object, flying through space, you can usually manage to avoid being sucked into them if you’re careful and can generate enough propulsion. Meanwhile, when you’re flying through the atmosphere on a planet, you’re dealing with one gravitational force – the planet’s – and there being an atmosphere to begin with means you have some friction to contend with, but you don’t have to work nearly as hard to keep yourself moving.

All this to say, Carol Danvers had been speeding her way through space at a fairly solid clip, needing to make it back to Earth in order to help Fury with whatever fresh hell had him calling her back to Earth after a quarter of a century. She is now blasting her way through Wonderland, a planet with atmosphere, friction and gravity and is going way too fast which leads to her crashing in a large divot in the middle of one of the gardens.

She pops herself up with a huff, dusting off her red, blue and gold suit, and after she extracts herself from it, it seems as though the garden is more bothered by this turn of events than she is. She huffs a breath, blowing a stray strand of hair out of her face and puts her hands on her hips to survey the situation. There’s a mansion. There’s gardens. A weird chessboard looking thing, and a beach. A beach means an ocean, an ocean means open space to fly and the sooner she course corrects to get back on the road to C-53, the sooner she can make sure Fury’s okay.

So she tries that. That doesn’t work.

Okay, maybe she tries it more than a couple of times when she keeps hitting invisible walls. No one ever said she wasn’t stubborn.

After it finally sinks in how pointless this particular avenue of thought is, she course corrects. Instead of avoiding the mansion, she makes her way inside. There seem to be a lot of people living in one place, hallways that never seem to stop, and closets with an endless supply of anything she could ever think of. It’s almost disorienting how this maze of rooms and doors is willing to give her anything she could want except the one thing she actually does. So instead of dwelling on that, she decides to start talking to the locals.

“Hi,” she greets with a casual, no-nonsense demeanor. “Carol Danvers. Can you point me at who’s in charge?”

First-Person Sample: A top level from the TDM