Captain
Marvel is not a very good or interesting character, in fact I firmly
believe she could be replaced by a brick and not much of any
consequence would change. Mind you, this is a thing that also hold
true for a lot characters when an unskilled or uninterested author
write the story. It boils down to the character being an emotional
black void, yet being the center of attention, love and admiration.
Regardless of how much they deserve it or not. As someone I can not
recall put it, if you’re not trying to break the audiences hearth,
you are doing it wrong. Which is what Captain Marvel unfortunately
failed to do, by being turned into a self insert fan fiction
character, fueled by selfish wish fulfillment fantasy. Combine that
with a boring power set and the lack of a creative use of her
abilities, or any attempt at outwitting the enemy. The way she is
portrait is one that is very popular among teenagers and first time
authors, usually the kind loathed on fanfiction.net.
She is
strong, she can fly, shoot deadly bolts of light, breathe in space
and is very, very durable. To top it of she is revered and fared by
the Kree since they put a lot of resources into brainwashing her and
keeping her power limited. When the mind wipe eventually ends, she
just moves on with her life and nothing of interest occurs
afterwards. If you look away from the fact that the she stopped
hunting Skrull and now they love her. Other than that she is also a
very successful female test pilot in a time where such thing is a
rarity and naturally the men around her is cracking gender jokes.
Eventually she joins up with Nick Fury and eventually helps to
establish S.H.I.E.L.D and finds the teseract collection dust. Oh and
the alien cat that tags along nicks one of Furys eyes and gives him a
device he can use to call her if earth is in peril. An object that
would have worked wonder when Ironman nearly died above New York,
which makes me wonder, where was she when the hole debacle with
Thanos began? I have no idea, nor does the writer and that gives me
no reason to care to write anymore about a very mediocre Hollywood
experience, written by someone that got paid handsomely, that cant
handle criticism and people pointing out plot holes. A long time
favorite pastime of us geeks. I mean seriously, watching a movie with
friends and cracking jokes and debating the story is half the
experience.
What
I’m not entirely sure of is how a successful blonde woman with no
weakness and few emotions, are going to be a good role model for
impressionable kids and marginalized minorities. Especially when the
one iteration of her was apparently Muslim, and the one before that
was black. Which means I should probably bring up whitewashing but
that is another can of maggots and I’ve been rambling for long
enough as it is.
As a
reference point, this is worm a web serial and how to make a story
about heroes interesting, emotional, brilliant and the main character
is a girl, oh and her power is to control insects and crustaceans.
Another
fairly interesting female hero is Lina Inverse from the Slayers
universe, especially the light novels. She is severely and more often
than not pay they price for her actions.
Then
there is always Skulldyggery Gentle to go by as well. Can’t go
wrong with a sorceress having a living skeleton as a mentor.
Zaceron Out!
