Captain Marvel Won’t Actually Be An Origin Story

Kaylee Kuah
Sep 7, 2018 · 2 min read

Film fans know Carol Danvers only as the mysterious person paged by Nick Fury in the last scene of Avengers: Infinity War, and she’ll appear in the still-untitled Avengers 4, presumably to help beat up on Thanos. But before that, she’s got her own story to tell in her own Captain Marvel film coming early next year.

While Marvel‘s next movie will be the first time we are introduced to a major character, it turns out we won’t get a traditional origin story. While we would expect that the first act of the Captain Marvel movie would deal with how Carol Danvers received her superpowers, we now know that when the new movie opens, Danvers will not only already have her powers, but she’ll already have left Earth and have joined a Kree military organization called Starforce. To check out all of Captain Marvel’s powers read our article here.


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