WARNING: SPOILERS AHEAD.
There are spoilers from Captain Marvel the movie in the following post. Please do not read any further if you don’t want to be spoiled by awesome analysis of what happens in the film.
Welcome! This post is part of my Most Interesting Questions series, which means I’ll be answering the most interesting questions I can find or think of on Captain Marvel.
Q #1: How is Captain Marvel #1 movie in the world?
A: It’s obviously #1 because it rocks! Captain Marvel is riding high on the trend of superhero films. And the movie has a female lead, which is becoming less rare in superhero movies, but historically has been uncommon. Overall, however, it’s the #1 movie because it’s a great film, with an engaging plot, lots of funny bits, and it was marketed very well.
Q #2: What’s a Flerken?
A: The Flerken are an alien species that resemble a human cat. As we saw in the movie, according to the Kree, the Flerken have a high threat-level. They can shoot tentacles out of their mouth, and are capable of using those tentacles to pull anything they want back into their mouths, even the Tesseract or a person. Also, in the comics, they are apparently able to lay up to 117 eggs, though we have yet to see them lay eggs in the movies. Here is some additional information about what a Flerken is: https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Flerken
Q #3: Who would win, Mewtwo or Captain Marvel?
A: This is a really interesting idea for a fight! Mewtwo and Captain Marvel both have superhuman powers. In Mewtwo’s case, it comes from being a Pokemon, and a cloned and enhanced copy of Mew at that. In Captain Marvel’s case, she absorbed the power of an engine powered by the Tesseract. They can also both fly. Mewtwo does have an advantage in that he can heal himself; we didn’t see that ability from Captain Marvel in the movie, though it wouldn’t surprise me if she had that ability. Captain Marvel, on the other hand, has the advantage of being much faster than Mewtwo. Mewtwo’s attacks seem to take a few seconds to power up, while Captain Marvel, once her full powers are released, can blast someone in an instant. Because of this, I don’t think Mewtwo would stand a chance. Captain Marvel would easily use her superior speed to dodge his attacks, and hit him until he fainted, not giving him time to heal. Not to mention, up close, she would be much more strong physically than he is – Mewtwo is strong fighting at a distance.
Q #4: How would you rate Brie Larson’s performance in the Captain Marvel movie?
A: I’d give Brie Larson an A+. I thought she did great acting in the movie, any notes I have on the movie as a whole are minimal, and none of them had to do with the acting. It was a great film and she was great in it.
Q #5: Who would win in an arm wrestle, Thor or Captain Marvel?
A: Even if Captain Marvel’s not using her powers to heat things up and burn Thor’s hand, I think she wins. Some people point out how Thor opened up the iris of a neutron star, but Captain Marvel had her own superpowered moment. She not only grabbed and stopped a missile speeding towards earth from space, but she had enough strength to throw that missile back at other incoming missiles and blow them all up before they hit earth. So obviously she’d be a match for Thor in an arm wrestle, and I think she’d win.
Q #6) Do you think Captain Marvel has the power of one of the Infinity Stones (space travel stone)?
A: Not exactly. But sort of. Her power is explained in the movie – her power comes from the Tesseract, which is also supposedly the cube in which the space stone was formerly held. Thus, it stands to reason that the space stone transferred some of its power to the Tesseract, and then the Tesseract transferred some of that power to Captain Marvel.
Q #7: Is Captain Marvel/Carol Danvers a “Mary Sue”?
A: I would say no. She’s a strong character, but she does have flaws. Something that the movie points out is a flaw is that she has trouble with obeying authority and sticking to a plan. It doesn’t seem like a flaw in this movie, because the authority and the plans that are made are from the bad guys, the Kree, so it’s good to disobey them. However, this could get her in trouble in another movie, in particular I’m thinking about Avengers: Endgame where she will have to work with a large team. Also, this trouble with obeying authority is what got her in the airplane crash that gave her powers in the first place.
Q #8: If Captain Marvel is pretty much made from the Tesseract, how is she meant to be more powerful than Thor with the Stormbreaker?
A: Because the power of the Tesseract is within her, and not just in a weapon she’s wielding. Also the Tesseract is powerful, much more powerful in my opinion than a weapon powered by a star, if used in the right hands.
Q #9: How does Captain Marvel breathe in space?
A: This is a tricky question, and it’s not completely clear. At first, Captain Marvel is shown to have the ability to press a button and activate a helmet on her suit so that she can breathe. However, later, and after her full powers are activated, she goes into space without the full helmet. The only explanation I can think of is that her powers give her some ability to breathe in space, or else perhaps her powers make it so that she doesn’t need to breathe to stay alive.
Q #10: Is Goose (Captain Marvel’s cat) relevant in the movie?
A: Yes. Goose is absolutely relevant, and has some great scenes. Though to be honest, one wouldn’t know it to be Captain Marvel’s cat in the movie. Fury takes more of a liking to Goose than Carol Danvers does. The only complaint I might have with Goose is the way in which they encountered the cat/Flerken. It was just standing in the middle of a hallway randomly. However, the creature more than made up for that when Captain Marvel told Fury to grab the Tesseract, then Fury said, while holding Goose, something like: “you can’t seriously expect me to touch that thing” and then Goose opened their mouth and tentacles shot out and grabbed the Tesseract. It was just so ironic because he was holding a Flerken and scared of touching the Tesseract. A Flerken’s much freakier.
Q #11: Did the Captain Marvel movie live up to the hype? If not, what made you feel like it didn’t?
A: Yes, I think it absolutely did! My main critique is that I feel it dragged at the beginning, before Captain Marvel got to Earth. It wasn’t totally clear why she was fighting, and what exactly motivated her. Once she got to Earth, those problems disappeared, because suddenly she needed to get home, and we also got to see her hilariously interacting with 90s technology. I think the movie could have gotten her to Earth faster, or else spent more effort in identifying what her life was like as a Kree and what she cared about, though that may have been difficult to do without giving away that she had only been living with the Kree for the last six years.
Q #12: Who would win, Yoda or Captain Marvel?
A: Yoda versus Captain Marvel would be a great fight. Yoda has the advantage of being small, so hard to hit, as well as being quick and agile, he might even be able to match her speed. With his lightsaber, he can probably block Captain Marvel’s photon blasts, and he can use the power of the force, which is kind of a wildcard in this given it takes some time, even for him, to connect with the force and use it to move objects. Any fight with Captain Marvel is bound to be fast-paced, so he might not have time to use the force very much, unless he distracts her. Captain Marvel ultimately does have the upper-hand, however. She can fly, and up close, Yoda would be no match for Captain Marvel. All she would need is a single punch to eliminate him, and due to her superspeed she’d able to dodge his lightsaber up close. So she would win.
Thanks for reading! Now I invite you to check out more MIQ posts below, or my book Sand and Smoke. If you enjoy reading epic fantasy, with lots of action and lovable characters, it could be a great fit for you.
By the way, if you’re wondering about who I am, I’m an author from Portland, OR. I write epic fantasy and have dabbled in children’s science fiction.
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