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Originally Posted by Pizza
Because $$$
Disney, seeing how crazy successful its Frozen movie was among young girls and the amount of money it brought in, realised they could capitalise on it again with a strong female superhero in the MCU. One that wouldnt take a back seat to the male superheroes
Among all the females in the Marvel comics, Ms. Marvel made sense to them. But then, they changed everything about her. Her look, her story, her powers. They even changed her name to Captain Marvel.
In the comics, she was an Avenger, but wasn't a key player in the Infinity War storyline. Heck, I dont think even Silver Surfer or Sentry in the comics was as strong as the MCU portrayed Captain Marvel to be. If anyone have ever watched the '90s Xmen cartoon, she's as strong as Rogue (as Rogue stole Ms. Marvel's powers and put her in a coma) and Rogue wasnt considered a key member in that series.
So congratulations Disney Execs. They saw this feminist movement and every non comic fan is eating this character up while the Execs rode it's wave to another billion+ dollar franchise in Captain Marvel. Every young girl is buying up her merch and the only thing missing is a catchy "let it go" song
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This isn’t even Nerd Rage correct.
There have been about 10 different iterations of the Captain Marvel character. The first version DC sued because he was too close to Superman. While Carol Daveners aka Ms Marvel in the comics is about the power level you are indicating the Carol Daveners in the Movie has a power level similar to the other Captain Marvels. As the MCU is it’s own independent universe this is a perfectly reasonable interpretation of existing canon
The original Mar-Vell who was Kree and got power from the sun actually defeated Thanos using time travel.
What they did was took part of the Navy back story of Carol Daveners and Part of the Mar-Vell Kree backstory and a few other versions like the one fighting with nova core and build a new character.