Arsenic Lullaby Blog- Captain Marvel is not a 20 something, white, blonde, with a flat ass
...You know, I really didn't think this would bother me as much as it is. I didn't think it would bother me at all in fact. I could be it's the continually cold, bleak, gray unending winter suffocating me, making me want to lash out...but THIS (below) is NOT Captain Marvel
THIS is Captain Marvel.
See that up there? That's MY comic book, from when I was a little kid. And THAT is Captain Marvel...a hot black chick with an afro. Who EARNED membership in the Avengers after going through a training program from Captain America...and she ended up becoming the LEADER of the avengers.
Spoiler alert....it was her.
She LEAD Captain American, Thor, She-hulk and Namor. She fought Nebula, Baron Zemo, Dire Wraiths, and I can't even list how many other major bad guys.
This f*cking broad...
has been banging around Marvel comics never amounting to jack squat, since she was crapped onto paper back when comic books were making a half assed effort to get a few girls to read about super heroes.
And notice that the title of that book is MS. Marvel, not Captain Marvel. Because THIS was Captain Marvel
and then THIS was Captain Marvel
That Captain Marvel (directly above) actually had a fleshed out personality, a fleshed out past which explained in a logical fashion how she ended up with her powers and why she was able to maturely deal with having them. And when she go her power...she made a logical, reasonable decision to go find help learning how to use them. Following her story was interesting and exciting.
MS. MARVEL never made a lick of sense one way or the other, lasted about 40 AWFUL issues and then Marvel mercifully had a super villain ( Rouge, who was far more interesting ) steal her powers and dump her in the ocean. This was Avengers Annual no.9 , first appearance of Rouge, cameos by the X-men and Spider-Woman...what?...no YOU'RE a NERD. I've been to jail twice and can rebuild automobile engines from scratch...and I work in the comic book industry...It's my job to know this stuff. ...it also featured the brotherhood of evil mutants.
ANYWAY...
The "character" of Ms. Marvel popped up again over and over with half assed explanations for what the f*ck she is even still doing alive, while never actually mattering to any story she was in or to any sizeable amount of fans at all...ever. ...and I put that "character" in quotations because really all she is, is a costume. Wolverine is a character...you can tell his personality from the person standing next to him, he is unique. Steve Rodgers is a character. Wanda Maximoff is a character. Captain Marvel/Ms.Marvel is a costume. A costume that no one ever gaf about that now for some reason, not only has a movie, but is apparently considered the most powerful character in the MCU.
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Low be it from me to argue with the people making the movies...but I think you might choose your words more carefully. The most powerful character in the MCU is Captain America, with a close second being Thanos. and if you don't understand why that is....you probably don't understand a single page of any history book you ever picked up. BUT, I get it...you meant super power, not actual "power" like being the figurehead people believe in, of an ideology that people will fight and die for. I get what you meant...who can shoot the brightest laser blast.
I'm not sure how you quantify who's got the most powerful super power...but it seems to me that Hela was second only to Odin, and we never actually saw her die. and the Ancient One was arguably more powerful that Odin and she COULD still exist as a spirit or something. Thor became powerful on the level of Odin and Hela by the end of Thor 3. The Scarlet Witch is powerful enough to destroy an infinity stone and hold Thanos at bay for a brief time while doing so. and Hank Pym has the ability to "alter the very fabric of reality"...that old white guy has the power to shrink or grow part or all of any object or entity down to as small as sub atomic and theoretically then, conversely, large enough for the very molecules to break their connection to each other and drift away into nothingness...that's pretty powerful.
So...this version of Captain Marvel is more powerful than all those men and women?
I guess she is, that's what they said...clearly they weren't talking about her charisma.
But y tho
Why? You have all those other powerful characters I listed to work with...wtf throw this D list character into the mix and make her more powerful than the characters you been selling tickets because of for 10 years? Why, after getting your return money by getting people emotionally invested in these characters...would you hint that their fates are actually in the hands of some fcking broad they never heard so much as a whisper about? That's fcking stupid. That's one of the dumbest f*cking things I ever heard of. That would be like the end of "Lost" stupid. That would be like the return of the Jedi ending with a stray comet hitting the death star. The only way this makes any sense is if you are short selling your Marvel Stock and have secretly already signed a deal with DC.
I hope...I HOPE...it wasn't done for the sake of diversity. I hope that wasn't the case...BECAUSE...as far as diversity goes...HAVING A WHITE, BLONDE, YOUNG, AMERICAN, ATTRACTIVE WOMAN, as the lead ISN'T VERY VERY F*CKING DIVERSE. Especially when you glossed over the actual Captain Marvel to do it
AND...you skipped over using Hela ( what? too old?) the Scarlet Witch ( What? no good because she's not American?) and the Ancient One ( too old? not hot enough?) Not to mention that what's her name from Wakanda is pretty science savvy and could have been used to save the day with science. IF this was for the sake of diversity you skipped over the idea of using the original Captain Marvel - a middle aged black woman Scarlet Witch- a eastern European immigrant Hela- a woman in her 50s The Ancient One - also a woman outside the normal age demographic of an action hero. and every other MCU character ...to make the person who saves the day- a white, blonde, attractive American in her 20's
Here's a big golf clap for that idea.
Whatever...I have my Avengers Comics with the REAL Captain Marvel in them.
I'll just read those while theaters are running a fraud of a "Captain Marvel" featuring this flat assed cracker in a bmx bike outfit.
Oh..one last thing...where in the blue hell is Spider-Woman??? She's been a key component of just about ever major story line that the MCU took from the comics to use in their movies...where the fuq in SHE?! She was key in Civil War, Secret Invasion, Age of Ultron, she was a Hydra Agent, a Shield agents...fck..she's the one who recused Ms.Marvel from death in the first fcking place.
Is this some right issue and Sony owns her? or did they just forget she exists?
Who knows...I'm sure they get around to ruining her at some point.
Later
!!!!!!UPDATE!!!!!! It just occurred to me, that the MCU already had the Captain Marvel I knew and loved 75% done in Luke Cage. The character of Misty Knight could have easily been turned into Captain Marvel. Although I do understand that Misty Knight is a character of some note in the comics...she is at best a d list character, as opposed to Captain Marvel. Anyhow...my point it that is could have been done the right way.
the tags list on Steemit is generated by code...which puts tags up there based on ONLY popularity of use. You will notice that #comics does not exist there...yet. So I ASK THAT YOU USE #comics ON EVERY COMMENT YOU LEAVE ON MY BLOGS
I held my breath at the title... but I’m glad your rant veered toward wanting to see the Monica Rambeau Captain Marvel in the MCU vs. the garden variety comicsgate trolling the film is enduring already.
Truthfully, I haven’t read much of Captain Marvel/Ms. Marvel but I think a lot of the fresh love and interest in the character comes from her being reshaped in recent years and given a much more solid identity. I know our own resident Captain Marvel fanatic @readingdanvers will disagree with a lot of the “anti Danvers sentiment” espoused here, but would absolutely agree that the character was often horribly written in her history as she’s detailed some of those horrendous plot lines in her blog.
I’m sure if there ever was a decision between possible Captain Marvels, it came down to Danvers having a longer history, much more current comic visibility, and given the “controversy” already stirred up... maybe just wanting to tackle one diversity hurdle at a time.
I haven’t seen the movie yet, but I did see one minor spoiler that a young Monica is introduced. So, we can only hope perhaps the seeds are sown to bring your Captain Marvel to the screen in the future!
That's not much of a spoiler ( I haven't seen the movie) it's been mentioned a lot.
Carol Danvers was always a hollow shell of a character who changes dramatically depending on what's in the coffee and who's writing her than day. Her most important role was getting thrown off a bridge by Rogue, hahaha #comics
Im a lay person so i know nothing of the comic books....... except that Kamala Khan seems a cool character and that she is the current Ms Marvel?
Comic books lore is so deep, maaannnnnnn
Thanks for the edumication~ <3
That black woman captain marvel looks absolutely kick ass tho <3 Wish we had gotten her instead! And also I laughed a little at "Rouge" yes i have stupid sense of humour.
#comics
She was kick ass! She would never have gotten mugged and chucked off of a bridge by Rouge. #comics
@arseniclullaby! You have a duplicate paragraph up there in your post, no. 1, the Ms. Marvel paragraph...
AND I don't follow comic books or anything like that, but did the Superman, Batman and Archie comics in the 60's, so a little familiar with some.
But you had me laughing pretty good about the "old days", but when you said you've been to jail twice and can rebuild an engine from the ground up, dood, you had me ROFL!
You're not a comic book "nerd"!!! Extremely interesting post, and there's another gentleman on steemit that knows this stuff also, who you might already know: @richardfyates! If not, you might check him out.
Thanks for the post!
Fixed the duplicate, thanks for catching that! I follow Richard already!
Cool! Onward and Upward!!! BTW, it was the title that pulled me into the post!
Sup Dork! Enjoy the upvote!!!
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Watch the new movie, it is great. It is after watching this movie, that you may be pleased that the Captain Marvel with an awesome afro that you wish to see may actually save the world in Avengers End Game. This is just a guess or speculation or I am full on starting the rumor right here. But Monica is represented and we will see more, go watch the flick.
#comics
Edit: After I hit the comment I open another tab because I'm honestly surprised it isn't talked about more, but here is at least one other website that is thinking like me https://www.themarysue.com/top-5-actors-grown-up-monica-rambeau-spectrum/ Now after seeing that page I see about the Spectrum thing I honestly did not know, so I hope she would be Captain Marvel first.