Carol Danvers, Marvel's first female superhero, is also the most powerful

LOS ANGELES — Carol Danvers — a.k.a. Captain Marvel — won't just be Marvel Studios' first woman to carry a superhero film. She can also kick all the boys' asses.

That's right: Neither Iron Man, nor Captain America, nor Thor, not even the Hulk — pretty much no one in the Marvel Cinematic Universe — would stand a chance going toe-to-toe with Danvers, a former Air Force pilot whose classic powers are more like DC Comics' alpha male (Superman) than anyone else's.

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The version of Danvers we're likely to see onscreen on July 6, 2018, swiftly rose in the Air Force as a combat pilot, but her superior intellect and acumen for espionage found her in the C.I.A. and later working alongside Nick Fury. Later, during her time as security director for NASA, she meets Mar-Vell, the first Captain Marvel, who's a visiting member of the Kree alien race (to which Ronan the Accuser, the bad guy in Guardians of the Galaxy, belongs). Read more...

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