CAPTAIN MARVEL

Name: Carol Susan Jane Danvers
Alias: Captain Marvel (the artist formerly known as Ms. Marvel)
Age: Early thirties
Gender: Female
Species: Half Kree Human Mutate
Faction: The Avengers
Orientation: Heterosexual
Occupation: Avenger
Play By: Herself



Overall Personality:

Carol’s is a life full of complexities that only serve to make the woman herself more intriguing. She is mostly reticent when it comes to talking about herself, but there are a few things one can glean from her. She is intelligent and witty, a friend and a sounding board to those who might need one; this comes from having once been the editor of a popular women’s magazine – she is more than used to having people bounce their ideas off her. She is very independent and lone-wolflike, but this is a tendency that has been tempered both with age and her teamwork within the Avengers.

She is generally quite warm and easy to approach, friendly and unquestionably loyal to her friends and a true hero to those who need it. One of Carol’s biggest flaws is her pride – she is a devastatingly proud woman who dislikes calling on others for help. With the team it’s different; they know her, they know she hates to be considered ‘weak’ in any way, and they’ll probably help regardless. With others, it’s different. She is a strong woman, but being taken down is a harsh blow to her and so she strives to be the best so that it doesn’t happen and so her pride remains intact.

A closet nerd, Carol enjoys spending her downtime watching movies, reading, working out and gaming. She is interested in a wide range of sports, and supports various teams either casually or in a hardcore way thanks to the influence of her brothers and father. She likes sci-fi movies more than rom-coms, but either will do. She finds it easy to fit in and be one of the guys, proving that she’s not just a pretty face – she can talk football and mechanics with the best of them. She is also a talented strategist in a fight, and is capable of taking on a leadership role if/when it is required.

Carol is used to betrayal and trauma, and it has left her with a bitter edge that she would rather not gaze upon. She doesn’t cope well with people – especially women and children – in bad situations, as it forces her to reflect upon her own problems, which she’d rather not do. Carol is very good at bottling things up, only for them to explode in her face at a later date. She angers easily, especially when provoked or when someone harms a person that she cares about. If there’s one way to describe her, it would be just – Carol is indubitably honest, and seeks to look out for people in need no matter what happens, even at the risk of her own life. She figures she has these abilities for a reason – might as well use them for the power of good.

Overall Appearance:

Carol stands at five feet and eight inches tall, and weighs roughly one hundred and thirty pounds. This gives her a lean, curvy physique with pronounced feminine traits; her hips are fairly wide, her bust is pretty ample, but she is also sleek and svelte. Her skin is fair, and is essentially unmarked aside from a few ragged scars from her years of combat. Her muscle is lean and strong – she keeps herself fit with a constant and unforgiving regime so that she is always prepared to be called on.

Her face is youthful, with large blue eyes and proportionate features – nose, mouth, a defined jawline. Her hair is long and light blonde; Carol is pretty in that typical cheerleader way, even if she is now in sight of her mid-thirties. She usually wears her hair down, as she never has the time to do anything fancy with it – at most it might get pulled into a bun or a ponytail to keep it out of the way, but she’s pretty used to fighting with it loose.

Carol’s costume varies, but the colour stays the same. She favours black and red, with highlights of gold and either a gold lightning bolt or a gold starburst as the central aspect of the costume. The one constant is the mask that frames her eyes – it is in the shape of two connected diamonds, and is black. It doesn’t do much to disguise her identity, but it looks cool at least. On a day-to-day basis, she favours tailored button-up shirts, tees with tight jeans and boots that are worth busting a month’s pay-check on.

Anything else: Nothing of note.

Items: Nothing.



Skills:

Carol is an avid learner of martial arts, and is an expert in both armed and unarmed combat. She pulls techniques from various different styles and mushes them together seamlessly in a fluid, acrobatic style that fits her perfectly. In addition to this, Carol is an experienced pilot, both with airplanes and spaceships. She is able to drive Earth and alien craft with various measures of deftness, including Shi’ar and Kree calibre starships.

Having been with the Avengers for several years, Carol is an exceptional leader and an integral part of the team. She is a competent strategist, able to come up with tactics on the fly if necessary. She is multilingual, being fluent in Russian, Kree, Shi’ar, Arabic and English, and having a conversational grasp of German, French, Spanish and Japanese. To add to her linguistic skills, she is also a proven journalist, having once written for a popular women’s magazine. She now freelances regularly to keep up her income when she’s not busy saving the world.

Powers:

Superhuman Strength: Carol is able to lift up to 75 tons without help. Due to her energy absorption, this power can be increased to around one hundred or even more – the true extent of Carol’s superhuman strength has never been actually tested.

Superhuman Stamina: Due to the regulation of fatigue toxins in her body (which she does not produce as many of), Carol can push herself to the max for around twenty-four hours before becoming completely exhausted. Again, her energy absorption and transferral can extend this period.

Superhuman Speed: Carol can run extremely fast for a long time thanks to the extra stamina. She has never actually been officially timed, so her peak speed can only be guessed at.

Superhuman Reflexes and Agility: Carol is naturally more acrobatic than most humans, able to perform feats that even great athletes can only dream of. She is also refined to having near catlike reflexes, and her co-ordination and balance are way above the norm.

Superhuman Durability: Carol is able to take a hell of a lot of punishment. She can survive bullets, great falls, exposure, temperature extremes and more. Her tissue is harder and more resistant to outside forces, thus helping her in this. Used in tandem with her energy absorption/channelling, Carol is even able to survive in space for an extended period of time. This durability, combined with her Kree physiology, has also made her immune to the majority of toxins found on Earth.

Flight: Despite not having wings, Carol can propel herself through the sky for hours on end without tiring. Like her superhuman speed, her top speed is unknown – however, she has flown faster than the speed of sound before, so it’s likely to be extremely quick.

Seventh Sense: Though uncontrolled, Carol can predict her opponent’s moves before they make them, thus making her incredibly difficult to fight.

Photonic Blasts: Carol can fire beams of concussive energy from her fingertips at great force as an attack.

Energy Absorption/Channelling: By absorbing various types of energy (specifically heat, kinetic and nuclear though there are others), Carol can enhance her already superhuman physical traits, making her stronger, more durable, faster and more agile.

Minor Molecular Control: Carol’s costume is a part of her, and she can change into it at will.

Weaknesses:

Superhuman Physiology: (Includes speed/strength/durability/stamina/reflexes/agility) Despite these increases to her superhumanliness, Carol is still essentially human and still essentially killable. She will run out of energy, and there are others out there who can match and surpass her – and she still needs the rest of the team to fall back on when she’s overwhelmed. She has nothing to prevent her from being telepathically controlled or possessed, and (as seen with Rogue) there’s nothing stopping a particularly slick mutant from coming in and taking all her powers.

Flight: After about three to six hours, Carol will tire, and this will happen sooner if she is carrying people or things or concentrating on fighting. She also has to focus at least a little on staying in the air if she’s up especially high, or risk falling out of the sky.

Seventh Sense: As mentioned briefly, Carol’s seventh sense is uncontrollable. Sometimes it will happen and she will be a monster in battle, and sometimes it won’t and she’ll have to rely on what everyone else needs to rely on – survival instinct.

Photonic Blasts: Carol’s concussive energy cannot outright kill someone, though with enough force they can cause serious damage and break bones or rupture organs.

Molecular Control: She can only change into and out of her costume. Nothing else.

Energy Absorption: Carol absorbs energy pretty much constantly, especially if she’s near a source that gives it off as a by product, such as a nuclear power plant. And she can take in too much, which will lead to a burst of uncontrolled power use – particularly her concussive blasts – until she manages to contain the energy again. As such, she almost always needs to be channelling the energy at the same time that she’s absorbing it, which is another process that her mind needs to focus on at least a little bit. It gets worse the closer she is to something that gives out the energy – the Sun for example. Don’t laugh, she can go into space, so it’s a feasible problem.

Independence: Carol is brutally independent to the point of stupidity. She has a tendency to rush off on her own initiative and not tell the others where she is going, and if she needs help, it’s incredibly unlikely that she will ever actually ask for it.

Betrayal: Carol absolutely cannot stand betrayal in any form. She still has her own trust issues from when the other Avengers, her ‘friends’ let Immortus hypnotise and assault her to impregnate her with himself. As such, any sign of someone turning on her will cause Carol to turn on them pre-emptively so that she doesn’t get hurt – physically or emotionally.

Trust Issues: As mentioned above, Carol has issues trusting people. She’s good hearted and friendly, but it takes time to become an actual ‘friend’. She is always wary of being stabbed in the back or being isolated by others, so it takes a good while to earn her loyalty.

Women and Children: Perhaps a little sexist, but Carol can’t abide women and children being hurt. Women, because of her own experience with rape, and children because they can’t generally defend themselves. This isn’t so much in a fighting position as it is that she will defend them when nobody else will, regardless of the circumstances – the best way to get Carol to stand down is to threaten someone she cares about and won’t risk the life of.

Pride: Carol is a proud creature, and any blow to her dignity will have her sneaking away to lick her wounds in private. When her pride is wounded, she is very likely to lash out, even towards those who have the best intentions towards her. Unfortunately, her history has provided her with an alarming amount of events that others could use against her.

Father: Joseph Danvers
Mother: Marie Danvers
Other family:
Joseph Danvers, Jr. – Brother
Steve Danvers – Brother (deceased)
Marcus Immortus/Danvers – ‘Son’ (deceased)

Chewbacca ‘Chewie’ – Cat

History:

Carol Susan Jane Danvers was born as the eldest child of Joseph and Marie Danvers, and their only daughter, in Boston, Massachusetts. Her father was a contractor, who built her birth home with his own hands, and later built their summer house in Cape Cod with his own hands too. Since her father valued hard work above everything else, young Carol tried valiantly to please him. He did not see women as equal to men, however, and no matter how much she read and showed off what she learned, he couldn’t accept it.

Though she had big dreams of becoming an astronaut, her family hit a troubling time financially which meant that Joseph could only afford to send one of his children to college – this child ended up being Carol’s younger brother Steve. Though Carol’s grades were better and she graduated high school at the top of her class, she went straight into a sales job at the age of seventeen. When she turned eighteen shortly after, she had a huge argument with her father and joined the USAF. She knew they would send her to college and she could be a pilot.

She did well in the Air Force and was hand picked for special operations. She was trained as a spy and worked with dozens of other well known figures in the community like Logan Howlett (before he was Wolverine) and Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow).

After years working in intelligence, her dream job came up; NASA personally requested her to become their head of security. She accepted, retired from the military as a Colonel and went to work for the space agency. She soon became involved in the machinations of the Kree Empire, meeting Kree soldier Mar-Vell and later becoming good friends with him. She was kidnapped by the AI Cyberex and incapacitated by a possessed Iron Man when she returned to Cape Cod to visit her family.

It all came to a head when she was kidnapped during her hospitalisation by Mar-Vell’s archenemy Yon-Rogg. During the ensuing fight with Mar-Vell, she fell into a Kree Psyche-Magnitron that permanently altered her genetic makeup. Though she had no idea what had happened, her career at NASA was essentially ruined. She could not stop aliens from invading, and this had her demoted and relocated to Chicago and then demoted completely to a simple security guard. Oh, how the mighty had fallen. She resigned soon after.

Thankfully, she had her savings to fall back on. She wrote a book about her time with NASA that made her a minor celebrity and had her working for various high end magazines. Not too long after this, she started to have regular blackouts, which were the first sign of her Kree physiology manifesting as a split personality. After she became aware of them, she took on the name Ms. Marvel as a tribute to her friend Mar-Vell and sought help for her instability.

After a period of recovery, she became one of New York’s premier superheroes, and began to work with the Avengers. During Scarlet Witch’s temporary leave, she was officially extended an invitation to join and did exceedingly well in the team until she met Marcus.
Marcus was the son of the villain Immortus, and he hypnotised Carol into thinking that she loved him, raped her, impregnated her and took her back to his homeworld in Limbo. Carol gave birth to a son who turned out to be… Marcus.

It got weird, but she managed to work out how to use Marcus’ time travelling tech against him and returned to Earth. When she got there, she promptly confronted her former friends and team about what had happened, and why they hadn’t tried to stop it. When all they could offer were excuses, she cut her ties with them and left for San Francisco. It was here that she first battled Rogue and lost all of her powers and almost her life at the hands of the young mutant.

She was rescued by Jessica Drew (Spider-Woman) and taken to the X-Mansion to see if her memories could be restored, as they had also been stolen by Rogue. However, nothing could be done, and all Professor X could do was restore the emotional connection she had to the people she knew – thus, she cared about them, but she couldn’t work out why.

She was later kidnapped by the Brood and put into an evolutionary ray that forced her latent potential to trigger, causing her to become Binary, essentially an alien entity. Away from Earth, she decided to fulfil her childhood dream and become a space traveller with the team known as the Starjammers. All was not safe, however, as whilst Binary was in space, Carol’s identity surfaced within Rogue on Earth, driving the latter insane. Rogue and Carol were eventually physically split into two (whilst Binary Carol was out surfing the stars) and the Earth based Carol was killed by Magneto to stop her from killing Rogue.

Spacefaring Carol returned to Earth not long after, and expended her powers as Binary to save the sun. She returned to the Avengers mansion, still uneasy around her former team, and took the name Warbird. Eventually, she reconciled with them, though not without becoming an alcoholic first. They staged an intervention, resulting in a court martial. It didn’t last very long; of her own volition, Carol soon left to work for Homeland Security until Scarlet Witch had her freak out and House of M happened.

During the House of M crisis, Carol became the most popular superhero in the world, despite the fact that she wasn’t actually a mutant (like most others). In that reality, Mar-Vell died, and passed onto her the banner of Captain Marvel. Under this title, she was found by Emma Frost and Layla Miller and woke from the delusion that House of M had caused, and helped to restore the planet to its former state.

When the Registration Act became a real threat, Carol sided with Iron Man and the government for mutant registration. The Civil War began – she partnered with Wonder Man throughout it. After the war, she was promoted into leadership over New York’s Mighty Avengers, presiding over Iron Man, Ares and Wonder Man to stop the Hulk and the Warbound. She became the leader of an even smaller unit following this known as Operation: Lightning Storm for the bolt emblazoned on her body.

She helped fight the Skrull Invasion but was injured by Nick Fury in the fighting who thought she was a fake. Nevertheless, she recovered and lived to fight another day. After the Skrull, she joined the New Avengers, though she was invited to the Dark Avengers (leading Moonstone to replace her in the ranks). Osbourne failed to assassinate her so that Moonstone could become the one true Ms. Marvel, resulting in a fight between Carol and Moonstone. Carol won, but allowed Moonstone space to redeem herself.

She remained a member of the New Avengers throughout, and harboured a secret crush on Spider-Man. Not so long afterwards, the Phoenix Force started its invasion of Earth. She was sent as part of the strike team to take it out before it arrived, and encountered Captain Marvel. He had been resurrected by the Kree to protect the empire against the Phoenix Force. This resurrection didn’t last, as he sacrificed himself to stop the Phoenix Force. Carol thus took his title and his legacy as Captain Marvel.

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